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Chapter 717 Jerry and Cheese (Subscribe)
The day before New Year's Eve, the news that "Tom and Jerry" won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film quickly spread across the country.

Major media have reported.

This breaking news also set off a round of heated discussions on the Internet.

Apart from congratulating Wanbao and being proud of Wanbao, netizens are also discussing the reason why "Tom and Jerry" is so powerful.

not to mention...

Under the frame-by-frame analysis of netizens, they really dig out many details that were previously overlooked from the first episode of "Tom and Jerry".

There seems to be a hot question.

[How do you think the first episode of "Tom and Jerry" won the Best Animated Short Film at the 87th Academy Awards? 】

Thousands of answers were added to the question in just one day, and the answer with the highest number of likes came from a senior animator.

In his answer, he carefully analyzed the small details in the first episode of "Tom and Jerry" that are easily overlooked by the audience.

For example, Tom's hair.

The animator said that as a common pet, "cat" is not uncommon in major animation works.

But there are few animations that can be portrayed so vividly and vividly like Tom in "Tom and Mouse", even the details of hair and beard are handled perfectly.

And then there's the soundtrack.

In the first episode, Tom chases Jerry. This exciting chase scene uses a piece of classical music that fits the atmosphere.

And this piece of music, usually you can only hear it at a concert...

The analysis of Gao Zan's answer shocked many viewers who didn't know the truth.

Before that, they only thought "Tom and Jerry" was wonderful and beautiful.But no one noticed that "Tom and Jerry" actually did such a good job in details.

Even the soundtrack is so classy and elegant!

No wonder it won an Oscar!The details are so well done, if you still can't win the Oscar, it's a joke, right?
Regarding these remarks, there were voices praising "Tom and Jerry", of course Gu Miao also saw it.

only……

His attitude was very disdainful.

Maybe this is the so-called, when you succeed, your farts are also delicious!

It's not that "Tom and Jerry" isn't good enough to deserve all the praise and adulation.It's just that these people didn't say anything before, and they jumped out to brag when "Tom and Jerry" won the award, which is really disgusting.

Of course, it doesn't matter.

Anyway, Gu Miao's plan came to fruition. With the help of the Oscar-winning popularity and traffic, everyone remembered "Tom and Jerry".

The second episode is about to air.

According to Dave, with the efforts of him and his team, the second episode of the animation "Tom and Jerry" is coming to an end, and it will be broadcast after a year.

Gu Miao was looking forward to it.

Before that, he had already watched the clips of the second episode "Midnight Dim Sum", and he was full of confidence in the performance of this episode.

The story of the second episode is quite simple. Jerry steals cheese at midnight and is discovered by Tom.

Then Tom played with Jerry and asked him to put the cheese in the refrigerator, but he opened the refrigerator to eat, but was discovered by the owner, and the witty Tom chose to throw the pot to Jerry.

Jerry was not reconciled, and the cat and the mouse fought in the kitchen for several rounds, making the kitchen a mess...

The plot of this episode is actually simpler than that of the first episode.

But this episode left a deeper impression on Gu Miao than the first episode.Especially the original version, which was just silent with a smile on its face.

why?
Because the original "Tom and Jerry" was born in the 50s and [-]s, and in the animation, the refrigerator is filled with all kinds of cheese, sausage, ham, jelly...

That was 80 years ago!

Sometimes it’s hard to think about it while watching animation, because the more you think about it, the easier it is for people to realize the cruelty of reality.

That aside, this episode also created Tom and Jerry as a cheese-loving character.

Cheese is an old supporting role!

Cheese can be seen in many classic episodes of "Tom and Jerry". As a mouse, Jerry especially likes cheese, which has formed a stereotype.

This directly led to the fact that when Gu Miao thought of mice, he would think of Jerry, and when he thought of Jerry, he would think of cheese...

It's different from the first episode.

From the second episode of "Tom and Jerry", it has adopted a broadcast strategy of "network update" as the main and TV broadcast as the supplement.

This is mainly because the current number of "Tom and Jerry" animation series is too small, so few that TV stations buy them back, and it is even difficult to arrange a schedule.

So Gu Miao decided to start broadcasting animations on the Wanbao video website from the second episode of "Midnight Dim Sum".

When will it be broadcast?
It lasted until the number of episodes of "Tom and Jerry", about 20-30 episodes, began to package and transfer the copyright to the TV platform.

"That's not 30 to [-] years?"

Lao Zhang wondered: "With the current production speed of "Tom and Jerry", it will take at least ten years to make 20 episodes?"

"How is it possible!" Gu Miao shook her head, "The production was slow at the beginning, that's because designing and drawing the characters in the scene will delay more time and energy."

"Go back and do a few more episodes. If you have enough material and experience, the production progress will be faster."

That's exactly what Dave said.

At the beginning, it really took a lot of effort to rebuild the scenes and characters.But the further back you go, the smoother and faster it gets to make.

It took half a year for the first episode, and two and a half months for the second episode, which has made great progress!

In the later stage, it may only take half a month or even a week to make an episode of "Tom and Jerry".

Gu Miao's deadline for "sharpening a sword in three years" is not for Dave to "sharpen an episode for three years", but for him to spend three years polishing a complete animation work.

"Actually, to be honest..."

"I'm not very worried about "Tom and Jerry", after all, Dave, the eight-time Oscar winner, is in charge. On the contrary, it's the movie "Sheep Elated", which makes me even more worried."

Lao Zhang understood: "Are you worried about poor box office results?"

"There is a strong enemy this year!"

Gu Miao said with a headache: "We didn't meet any decent opponents during the Spring Festival in the past two years. But this year there are a few blockbuster movies, and the schedule probably took them all."

Well known.

If a movie wants to achieve results and get a high box office, it must ensure the health of two data, one is the attendance rate and the other is the film scheduling rate.

Gu Miao is not worried about attendance.

"Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" has generally had a high attendance rate for major movies of all dynasties.Those parents who take their children to the movies buy two or three tickets.

But the filming rate is really uncontrollable.

There are no strong competitors in the same period, but as long as the theaters are not blind, they will always increase the screening rate for films with high attendance rates.

But if there are blockbuster films released at the same time, or an absolute dark horse appears, the film rate will be overwhelmed, and there will be no results.

(End of this chapter)