The Creator of the Second Dimension

While "The Garden of Words" is under intense production, Xu Rui's animation film "Your Name" is also in preparation.

After completing the script and discussing it, it is the most basic work of character design.

In late March, the weather became warmer, but Lin Shuyi did not feel the breath of spring, but huddled in her place, thinking with a pen.

In front of her are computers and digital boards. Compared with the older generation of original painters who like to paint on paper, Lin Shuyi is more suitable for digital creation.

At this moment, what was displayed on her computer screen was a girl with long hair, who looked quite heroic.

"The expression of the two personalities is really troublesome, what should I do?"

Lin Shuyi put the pen on her lips, which was a subconscious action when she was thinking.

She looked at the script on the side again, and carefully read the description in it.

To be honest, Lin Shuyi was shocked when she saw the script for the first time.

Since the script of "The Garden of Words" is close to reality, delicate and introverted, she initially thought that "Your Name" was also a story about the youthful love of teenagers. However, when she saw the beginning, the impression was that was completely overturned.

"Exchange bodies???"

The hero of the story, Long, is a high school student living in Ningjiang, while the heroine, Ye, is a student in a small town in the country. By accident, the two will exchange bodies regularly, and Long will enter Ye's body to save time. Live a leisurely life in the countryside, and Ye can also control Long's body to play in a metropolis like Ningjiang.

Naturally, there were some jokes, some disagreements, and occasions where problems were resolved by relying on the different thinking of the two parties.

Lin Shuyi has seen comics with similar settings, but they are basically pure comedy types. No one will worry about why two people can switch bodies, and only watch the interpretation of the plot after accepting this setting.

But using this setting in an animated film is indeed unprecedented.

What Lin Shuyi is worrying about now is how to express the different personalities of the hero and heroine in one character.

Although it is possible to make two personalities appear on one face in the later stage, in conjunction with the movements of the original painting and the interpretation of the voice actors, Lin Shuyi still wants to make a distinction at the stage of character design, so that people can know the current occupation at a glance. A sense of which personality the body is.

"Ye's personality is relatively straightforward. His father is the mayor of the town, and his family is a big family in charge of local festivals. He should be relatively mature, um, add a little girlishness?"

In the setting of the story, the city where the heroine Ye is located is located in Sichuan and Shu, and there are many basins in this area, while the town where the heroine lives is located next to a lake, and there is a basin plain between mountains nearby. There are many mysterious legends, and the family of the heroine Ye is an ancient family in charge of the festival.

The gods worshiped in this ceremony are not ordinary Buddhas and Taoists, but an unknown little god. It is said that in ancient times, the gods came to the town and brought this lake to the dry town, and the remains of the gods fell on the In the basin plain, it has also become a place guarded by the heroine's family for generations.

It is precisely because of this that in addition to the appearance of the heroine wearing school uniforms and casual clothes, she also wears Chinese clothes and holds a ceremony. For this reason, Lin Shuyi referred to many myths, rumors and folk customs in the Sichuan and Shu areas to match the design of the story. Just made these characters.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Shuyi turned her eyes to the side, trying to find inspiration from the people around her.

"Clothes, make-up? Well, boys probably don't know much about make-up, but it's hard to reflect this from the persona."

She bit her pen, thinking hard.

At this time, Wu Hongyan, the newcomer that Lin Shuyi was in charge of, came back from the bathroom. Lin Shuyi looked at this young girl and was a little puzzled.

"Hey, Hongyan, why do you feel that you are different from usual?"

She looked the girl up and down, although the clothes and the like were the same as usual, but for some reason, Lin Shuyi looked a little different.

After thinking for a while, Lin Shuyi realized that usually Wu Hongyan's hair was carefully tied into small braids and tied behind her head, but now it was simply tied into a ponytail. Although it didn't look so delicate, it had a little more vitality .

"I see!!!"

Lin Shuyi stood up all of a sudden, so frightened that Wu Hongyan almost fell off the chair.

"Ming, understand what?"

Wu Hongyan subconsciously glanced at the other side of the office, but Yi Qianqian's place was now empty, and it seemed that Xu Rui took her to the hospital for an examination.

"I thought about how to distinguish whether the current consciousness is the hero's or the heroine's."

Lin Shuyi didn't explain too clearly, but excitedly picked up the pen and created wildly on the digital board.

After more than an hour, two heroines appeared on Lin Shuyi's computer screen.

In one image, her hair is carefully tied into several small braids and tied with a red headband, while in the other image, she is simply tied into a ponytail, although both have the same face, and even the expression has not changed much , but the overall feeling is quite different.

This is the original heroine and the male protagonist who controls the heroine's body after switching bodies.

As for the boys, Lin Shuyi also tried some designs, but the results were not satisfactory. However, considering that the differences in the behaviors of men and women will be more obvious in the male protagonist, there is no need to insist on some differences in the image. changed.

After completing the character design, Lin Shuyi felt relieved. She moved her neck, stood up, and wanted to go to the tea room to pour a cup of coffee to relieve her fatigue.

It was a weekday afternoon, the tea room was empty, only two people were sitting at a round table, seeming to be discussing something.

Lin Shuyi poured a cup of coffee into the coffee machine, added a considerable amount of cube sugar and milk, and then took a sip slowly, ready to go back to her seat and continue working.

But when passing by those two people, Lin Shuyi heard some words that made her curious.

".I think these two designs are good, but they feel a bit too realistic. Should we use 2D rendering to see the effect?"

"Can 3D render 2D? I can go back and try it out. The main thing is that the previous works were all in such a realistic style, and suddenly I can't change it."

"Well, it's mainly a matter of materials. It may take a few more options to choose from."

Lin Shuyi saw that the two were Huo Luofei, the person in charge of Hatsune Games, and Guo Weiren, who had transferred to Hatsune Games to engage in game art design.

On the sheets of paper they held in their hands were printed characters that Lin Shuyi had never seen before.

It was a little man with a green hat.