my animation era

Chapter 658 Tom's Fur Color (for Subscription)
Second weekend of October.

At home, Gu Miao met Dave Smith, the head of the North American branch who came to Jiangchuan to report to him, and his colleagues in a very low-key manner.

It has been two and a half months since the establishment of the North American branch of Wanbao.

In the past two months, Dave Smith and the "Oscar-level" animation production team he led have been busy with the same thing.

Determine the character image!

That's right!

In nearly three months, if it is the fast gunners at the headquarters, it is estimated that they can shoot a 12-episode short TV animation.But Dave and his colleagues haven't even finalized their characters.

It's really slow work and careful work...

Fortunately, Gu Miao had stated in advance that there was no time limit for the "Tom and Jerry" project, as long as Dave was not pregnant, Dave could do whatever he wanted.

Because of this, Gu Miao was not angry that Dave's team took more than two months to draw the first version of "Tom and Jerry" character sketches.

What's the use of being angry?
The working attitude of this group of ghosts is just like that, and they are not the domestic social animals who are desperately infiltrating. It is really easy for them to go to work.

Unless they are fired and replaced by a group of domestic social animals who are good at introverting and working overtime, Gu Miao has nothing to do with them.

But after firing these people, where should he find the next "Oscar-level" animation production team?

Endure it!

Let's take a look first, Dave and others spent two and a half months drawing the sketches of the characters of Tom and Jerry.

"Hmm! This cat..."

Gu Miao stared at the gray British shorthair domestic cat on the sketch, her eyebrows frowned involuntarily.

Is Tom this color?

It seems that the early Tom is indeed gray.Three years later, it was changed to light blue, which is familiar to the audience, and it was changed to the classic blue-gray later.

Among the three fur-colored Toms, the most familiar ones should be "light blue" and "blue-gray" Toms. After all, they are Tom's ultimate skins, which can be called endless.

As for Gray Tom...

It's not that Gu Miao is prejudiced or discriminatory, it's just that he's used to the light blue and blue-gray Tom, and looking at this gray Tom, it's really uncomfortable.

The ultimate leather is too classic!
Gray Tom is actually pretty good-looking, and has more wild characteristics of "cat", but in terms of familiarity, it is definitely not as classic as blue gray and light blue in the later period.

"Add some blue?"

After listening to what his boss said, Dave stroked his chin and thought: "It feels good, we will try it later."

"OK!"

Gu Miao's English is not very good, and his communication is very lame, so he can only make a long story short: "There are still ears! Don't you think it's too mellow?"

"what?"

Dave heard the words, looked down at the original sketch, and couldn't help asking: "This is the part we copied based on the physical appearance of 147 British short cats..."

"Stop, stop, stop!"

147 cats, you can do it!
Gu Miao hurriedly waved her hand to stop Dave's introduction and said, "I'm not denying your efforts, I just think this cat doesn't look anime enough, do you understand me?"

Not anime enough!
This is the primary problem that Gu Miao discovered based on the first draft of the character image.

Dave and the others did a great job. This cat looks like a real cat. If you look at it from a distance, you might think it is alive!

But that's exactly the problem.

Too realistic, too real, but not enough anime.Doing animation is not like taking photos, and the more realistic and realistic the better, the better.

It is still necessary to "exaggerate" animation a little bit, after all, it is a virtual character.

……

Gu Miao and Dave communicated at home for two hours, discussing many details about the character's image.

Of course, he is only responsible for picking the thorns.

Gu Miao can't guarantee that she has a better vision than Dave.It's just that he has seen the original version of "Tom and Jerry", so he will unconsciously compare it with the original version.

With this comparison, he will find many inconsistent or even inappropriate details, and then tell Dave.

Dave also took notes one by one.

Because the original artist who drew the sketch of the character image did not come to Jiangchuan with him to visit the boss, so he had to write down the boss's suggestion, and then bring it back to North America to the original artist.

"Can't we communicate on the phone?"

"It's really not possible, can we communicate face-to-face through a video?" Ma Kui wondered, "Why do you have to take notes and take them back to tell the story?"

"You don't understand, this is called rigor!"

Gu Miao curled her lips and said, "So he is a seven-time Oscar winner, but you struggled to win a Golden Sparrow Award. This is the difference between the two of you."

Ma Kui: "..."

Does this have anything to do with rigor?
Fortunately, Dave had already flown back overnight, otherwise Ma Kui would have to ask him: Do you work without a mobile phone or a computer at all?

"Okay, understand."

Gu Miao said indifferently: "The people in Dave's team are old after all, and their ability to accept new things is not as strong as ours."

As long as you can make animations and make good-looking animations, then let him go!

not to mention.

Where is this?The first version of the character image has not been finalized, and it has to be revised several times later, even if there are any problems, there is still time to remedy them.

Compared to this, Gu Miao was more concerned about the progress of the "Crayon Shinchan" project officially announced by Xiaoqiu and Konjac Studio.

Especially the script and characters.

Crayon Shin-chan is an anime with a lot of dirty jokes. When Gu Miao introduced the project to Mr. Qiu, he also focused on this part.

In fact, this is not a hidden danger.

The nasty jokes of the original "Crayon Shin-chan" are more concentrated in the plots of the first two seasons, but in the third season, the plots pay more attention to shaping and describing the relationship between the family.

So his suggestion to Xiaoqiu at the time was that if the dirty jokes couldn't be integrated, or if they faced "vulgar" accusations that made it difficult to pass the trial, they could consider deleting them.

Xiao Qiu told him.

In this regard, he will ask other people for their opinions and views on the review.

After determining the red line, consider the scale of dirty jokes or writing scripts.

It's been so long.

Gu Miao, who hadn't heard from Xiaoqiu for a long time, was very concerned about this matter, wanting to know what he had found out, and how he planned to deal with this scale.

"I know this!"

Ma Kui, as the head of the eunuchs of the Wanbao Dynasty, not only heard about this matter, but even participated in it himself.

According to him.

Xiaoqiu and Konjac Studio visited and consulted many people in the industry. From their mouths and side-by-side listening, one thing was confirmed.

That's driving, as long as it's not too obvious that the wheels run over people's faces, then it doesn't matter.

Meat jokes can also be used.

But there can't be any sexual hints, let alone say it too bluntly, it can be a little more subtle, and it's right to be a joke.

　Sung Wook, my nephew's name.Accompanying my brother to apply for a birth certificate today, I was delayed on the way and came back late...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)