my animation era

"...I have noticed that there are 12 yuan charms in the animation settings, and each piece of charm has a unique magical power?"

"Yes!"

Gu Miao explained: "The design inspiration of this 12-yuan charm comes from the twelve zodiac signs. The origin of the whole story also starts with the plot of searching for the twelve zodiac signs."

"Then, wouldn't it be better to design the shape of the twelve talismans as a regular dodecagon?" Huang Kun asked curiously.

Ah this...

Gu Miao picked up the planning document at hand, turned to the page of the twelve spells, and looked down at it carefully.

The design in the project is an octagon, and the front of each talisman is engraved with patterns of zodiac animals in different colors. This is the approximate appearance he restored based on the original design.

When restoring, he was busy drawing different zodiac patterns, but he didn't think about the shape of the talisman itself...

Octagon, dodecagon?

Both are "nearly circular" patterns, the difference is that the dodecagon seems to be closer to a "complete circle" than the octagon.

From a distance, the regular dodecagonal charm looks more like a round coin.

"I don't know why you designed it into an octagon, Mr. Gu, but my idea is that since there are twelve talismans and symbolize the twelve zodiac signs, it is obviously more in line with the setting to use a twelve-sided shape." Huang Kun said very Seriously.

"no problem!"

After some explanations from him, Gu Miao also believed that the dodecagon is indeed more suitable for the setting of "Twelve Zodiac Charms".

Zodiac, dodecagon!
This is indeed a small detail that is easily overlooked, and the audience may not care about it. Anyway, octagons and dodecagons are all spells, as long as they can be used.

But to Gu Miao, it doesn't matter whether the audience will find this detail, what is important is that since he found out, he must change it to a more suitable dodecagonal shape.

Speaking of Twelve Charms...

Huang Kun probably made a good start, and other people also put forward some useful and useless suggestions around the design of the Twelve Talismans.

Such as the pattern of a spell.

Because in the animation setting, the charm is just a small piece, probably only a little bigger than a one-dollar coin.

With such a small area, if the finer zodiac patterns are engraved on the front, it will be hard to see clearly.

Therefore, many people are in favor of the "simplification" of the front zodiac pattern, trying to make the zodiac more intuitive to identify, so as to avoid looking at it for a long time and not being able to see what the pattern is.

But there are also a few people who think that there is nothing wrong with finer patterns.It is easy to distinguish if it is too simplified, but it also loses its soul. The dragon charm does not draw whiskers and claws. How is it different from the snake charm?
Gu Miao has her own ideas.

He felt that what was said on both sides made sense. The front of the talisman was too small, and the engraved patterns were too fine to see clearly.

But it is too simplified, causing each zodiac to lose its exclusive characteristics, which is not suitable.

"Then put it together." After thinking for a moment, Gu Miao said slowly, "The frontal patterns of some charms can be a little more detailed. For example, the dragon charm must have dragon whiskers and dragon claws."

"For the other spells, the pattern can be simplified appropriately, as long as you can recognize what kind of animal it is at a glance."

"Okay, I don't mind."

Gu Miao's decision was unanimously approved by everyone, and it was indeed the best solution.

In addition to spells, everyone also discussed and researched the background setting and character setting of the story.

On background setting...

Because Uncle Long, the leading actor, is more active in Hollywood now, so the background of the story is also in Chinatown in North America.

This is not only to accommodate Uncle Long, but also to avoid some embarrassment. After all, there are scenes such as gangsters and gun battles in the plot, so it is difficult for this to happen in China.

of course!

Although the background of the story has been moved overseas, this does not affect the character setting. Xiaoyu is still Xiaoyu, and Daddy is still Daddy. It is impossible to change to a blond foreigner because of this.

But then again.

Because Mr. Xiong and Mr. Tan specifically asked them to show their faces in the story, Wa Long, who was supposed to be the villain, was forced to change to Wa Xiong, and Sergeant Blake became Sergeant Tan sir!

Well, it doesn't matter!
Anyway, whether it is Black or Wallon, these two names are all "transliterated names" translated according to the English pronunciation after the original "Jackie Chan's Adventures" was introduced into China.

To put it bluntly, people's original names are not called this, but they were given this name according to the pronunciation when the dubbing was introduced in China.

The roles of these two roles are not bad, they are very suitable for Mr. Xiong and Mr. Tan to show their faces, and they are worthy of the money they give...

"Mr. Gu, what about you?"

Hou Bin was very puzzled. It stands to reason that since this project is a fun project between Mr. Gu and Uncle Long and others, then everyone else has shown their faces. It is impossible for Mr. Gu to not show his face, right?

"Me? I have a role!"

Gu Miao laughed and said, "You don't have to worry about me, I have an exclusive role in this animation."

"Ah? Is there any?"

When everyone heard the words, they all looked at the project proposal in their hands. After flipping through several pages, they still didn't see the so-called "exclusive role" by Mr. Gu.

"Don't look for it, I said there is one!" Gu Miao pretended to be mysterious, "But I am different from them. They seek to show their faces. I prefer to hide my identity and keep a low profile, you understand?"

Hiding your identity, keeping a low profile? !

Thinking over Mr. Gu's words, everyone fell into deep thought. What exactly does this mean?Did Mr. Gu show his face?
"It can't be... umm!"

Ma Kui, who had the best brain, was the first to react, and was about to express his guess, but Gu Miao covered his mouth with his backhand.

Gu Miao gave him a look.

In this look, Ma Kui seemed to see the scene where he was sadly unemployed, holding a cardboard box and walking away from the company under the welcome of his colleagues.

He's cowardly!

Under the eyes of everyone "tell me quickly", Ma Kui shook his head and said, "Don't look at me, I don't know!"

It's no wonder you don't know!

Although everyone rolled their eyes and expressed disdain for Ma Kui's lie, they didn't continue to question him, after all, it was useless to ask.

Mr. Gu was staring at him, and he didn't dare to say it out of Ma Kui's courage at this time...

never mind!

Whether Gu Miao showed his face in the animation is not the focus of everyone's concern. The focus is on this animation. The investment of hundreds of millions in the first season alone can definitely be called a big production.

There are only 26 episodes in the first season!

One hundred million, maybe more than one hundred million, was used to produce 26 episodes of animation, and the average single-episode budget was as high as 385 million yuan.

Fog grass!

After a little calculation, everyone in the conference room fell silent.

With a production budget of nearly 400 million for a single episode, what kind of fairy animation is this?With such a sufficient budget, it's no wonder Mr. Gu is so excited.

With his style, at least half of this budget should be stolen by embezzlement, right?

Tan sir is not playing tricks, mainly to avoid sensitive job titles with the word "police", you know...