Super entertainment red envelope

Chapter 706 The cottage is here again!
Anyone who has worked in the animation industry for a year knows that the daily work of a director is only one word—meetings!
Unlike live-action film directors, they need to set up a crew and set up scenes for shooting. Moreover, with the advancement of technology, computer production technology has become more and more advanced, and the director's meeting time has been greatly reduced.

There are several tasks in the preparatory stage of animation production: concept determination, series composition, character setting, color setting, art setting, and object setting.

At this time, in a production room in DreamWorks, the painters of the entire company were gathered, and they were called by Li Zhifan for a meeting. In this nearly 20-square-meter production room, more than [-] soul painters were drawing while listening to the painting. Li Zhifan's proposal.

In fact, this is only a part of all painters. In fact, the entire team is currently expected to have more than 100 painters alone. These more than 100 people are divided into five groups according to storyboards, characters, colors, art, and objects. This group has the most painters.

There is a nearly 300K large screen in the middle of the hall, and the characters, compositions, scenes, objects, etc. drawn by hand can be displayed on the screen.

What is currently going on is the second stage of this animation, the production of storyboards.

The first stage is the script, but there are only very simple stage instructions and character lines, and there is almost no mention of anything about the picture.

The storyboard is the main part to determine the general direction, but it doesn't need to be drawn by Li Zhifan, he just needs to come up with the concept and let the storyboard artist complete it.

Li Zhifan will read the materials produced by these artists page by page. At this time, he is sitting in front of the screen, staring at each page of storyboard materials that appear on the screen. It is very difficult to determine the image of the characters, especially the main characters, otherwise it will be very difficult for the painters in the next stage.

"Change this place! Make your chin sharper!"

"A little more curl here."

"This won't work, what I want is a more plump image..."

In fact, most painters in the United States have the same style, and the strangeness of style can only be distinguished between countries or regions.

For example, the Japanese animation is in a Japanese style, while the Hong Kong version is the same as the Hong Kong manga style, with many lines. The animation in mainland China is another style, with a more artistic texture and a strong Chinese style.

The style of American animation has a strong metallic texture, and the characters are designed according to the image of Americans. The cheekbones, chin and nose will appear particularly large, and the figure is as good as the fantasy of the American people.

Of course, this is just the feeling of ordinary audiences, and when it comes to actual animation production, professionals must have a different understanding.

At first everyone thought that Li Zhifan would ask to make an animation in line with Chinese aesthetics, but they didn't expect that the request was all European and American. Some people couldn't help thinking in their hearts: Does Li Zhifan like Dayang horses?
In addition to the painters who draw characters, there are also painters who draw scenes.

When there are more than 24 pictures in one second, it will appear as continuous images to the naked eye.

Therefore, when making an animation, there are 24 pictures in one second. Generally, one picture is called a frame, or a frame.

Basically, all animations in Hollywood have 1 frames per second, and each frame is drawn, and the final effect is just like what you see in movies, and the workload is quite heavy.

However, the level of DreamWorks has advanced to a new level. Technology has changed the world and replaced the work of many painters.

How advanced is the current animation technology?

Just like playing a somatosensory game, design the scene, and then embed the characters into the scene to complete a frame of picture. In the same scene, you only need to embed different character shapes immediately, and you don’t need to hand-paint the whole picture.

The dubbing is even better. When an animation is produced, there is no mouth shape. When the dubbing staff is dubbing, the mouth shape will change with the words highlighted by the dubbing staff. In the final produced film, the mouth shape and lines are exactly the same.

This set of designs can be easily prepared with languages ​​​​of various countries. This set of technology is currently only available in DreamWorks. Other companies are also developing it, but their maturity is not as good as DreamWorks. Therefore, DreamWorks receives many orders every year. It is to help other animation companies. The company produces related projects.

But it has not reached this point yet, but the character design and scene design of "Coco" are already in progress.

Although Li Zhifan doesn't know many details of the animation, he can still grasp the overall situation, and he has the original version of the animation in his mind. He only needs to ask for many details, and there will be painters to help him complete them.

Therefore, when a group of shots is completed, the painters of character design and scene design can immediately complete the work, without waiting for all the shots to be completed, and after the first group of shots are determined, the follow-up storyboards will be drawn It was easy to unfold, and Li Zhifan didn't even need to supervise, and his focus shifted to character drawing and scene drawing.

More than 100 painters draw at the same time, which is probably the largest investment in the history of animation production.

Because an animation often only needs a dozen painters, each responsible for one or more elements, especially for the characters. Generally, the main painter is responsible for one protagonist.

But this time the difference is that all the elements are drawn at the same time. After the main character is determined, Li Zhifan arranges five painters to draw it. In different scenes, the main character also has a different image.

Even for mature painters, the same characters are not necessarily the same every time, and it is very common to change painters during the production of an animation. As long as the main team is not changed, the style will not change.

The main team for the production of "Coco" this time is Matthew's people, with his assistance, plus Ankos will put forward his own suggestions from time to time, everything went smoothly and in an orderly manner.

Li Zhifan's job is to switch back and forth in front of each conference table, and hold meetings with painters in different groups to discuss every detail.

At the same time, he also needs to strictly supervise the completed parts, especially the original painting part. If it doesn't work, he will have to modify it. As the producer, Angkos will also share the workload for Li Zhifan.

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domestic.

Tang Feifei, who had been trending for several days, suddenly fell silent.

Soon, news broke that she and her boyfriend had broken up, and netizens were surprised to call it: the shortest love affair in the entertainment industry.

After the breakup, there were fewer news about Tang Feifei, and those trolls who made up topics for her suddenly disappeared. This is because Huayi directly stopped this work, and Huayi is now caught in the vortex of shareholder withdrawal and financial difficulties. Among them, it is no longer able to pay the expenses of the navy company.

However, Huayi also did a big thing at the same time. It established "Walt Disney China (Xiangjiang) Co., Ltd." in Xiangjiang. This is a leather bag company with a registered capital of only 2 Hong Kong dollars. "This item.

After Tang Feifei misfired, Zhang Mi and Tang Ting quickly grabbed the headlines of the hot search, but they seemed to be a little powerless about the heroine of "Mulan" they were competing for.

Because the fake news of the cooperation between Huayi and Disney really scared them.

However, well-informed insiders still feel that this may be a smoke bomb released by Huayi, because Disney has not announced any news related to "Mulan", or even the news of cooperation with Huayi. Everyone knows that until Disney makes an official announcement, everything is unknown.

However, when these entertainment companies were speculating, Dongfang Group suddenly announced an important news - Li Zhifan has served as the general manager of the American branch of the Oriental Entertainment Business Group, and is fully responsible for all the business of the Oriental Entertainment Business Group in the United States, including acquisitions. All companies, the official position is the general manager of William Entertainment.

When the news came out, the industry was in an uproar, and netizens were surprised.

The uproar in the industry came from the fact that Li Zhifan would be in charge from now on, that is to say, any domestic entertainment company that wanted to cooperate with the Hollywood companies acquired by Dongfang could do as long as Li Zhifan said a word.

Netizens were surprised because of the change of Li Zhifan's identity. In the past, he only controlled Timeline, and most of Timeline was serving Li Zhifan alone. Walk in circles.

Huayi.

Zhao Xiajun knew about this news a long time ago, but when the news broke out, he still felt very heavy, because it meant that the false news about the cooperation between "Huayi and Disney" would soon be exposed.

Sure enough, just after the shareholder meeting in the morning, and the fourth time to discuss the news of the withdrawal of the company's third largest shareholder, the second largest shareholder, Yuntian Capital, sent an email announcing that it would sell all the shares in Huayi.

Withdrawing from the two major shareholders at once, Zhao Xiajun is like a grasshopper roasted on fire, worse than the ants on the hot pot before.

You have to fool other capital to join!
Zhao Xiajun hastily made a decision that even if the stock price is lowered and the attitude is lowered, he must absorb external capital, otherwise he will only be one step away from bankruptcy.

"Boom boom boom!"

There was a knock on the office door.

"Enter!"

Zhao Xiajun yelled, the company COO came in.

"Mr. Zhao, it's not good. The China Securities Regulatory Commission has issued a notice to us. There is a problem with our stock trading, and our funds are not enough to make up for the vacancy, so we are going to suspend trading!"

"Huh? Suspension?"

Zhao Xiajun stood up all of a sudden. He knew that the Securities Regulatory Commission had received the news, worried that Huayi's stock would plummet, or even go bankrupt, and those retail investors would suffer serious losses, so they asked them to suspend trading.

Only after they find a major recapitalization can they resume trading.

"Yes! The notification has been sent!"

The COO said, "Mr. Zhao, hurry up and find a way! Why don't you go to the China Securities Regulatory Commission and explain it to them?"

"I see!"

Zhao Xiajun supported the table, but did not sit down, wondering who should he ask for help?
……

Dongyang Huahua.

"Oops, it's actually Li Zhifan? If we shoot a copycat version, he will definitely make moves!"

"That's right! He's from the industry. He's different from those capitalists. He pays more attention to copyright."

"I don't think it's okay. Let's change the name to something similar, wouldn't it be fine?"

"what name?"

"For example... "Mulan Love"? "Mulan Biography"?"

"And we can adapt the plot! What happened when Hua Mulan came back from the army? Entered the palace as a concubine, and fought in the harem?"

"Great idea! Anyway, Hua Mulan's authenticity has yet to be verified. No one knows what she did afterwards. Only the song "Mulan Ci" can only show that she served in the army for her father!"

"I think it's better to call it "The Song of Mulan"!"

"Right! Good idea!"

……

Aowei Entertainment.

"It's over! Li Zhifan never chooses a role based on popularity. If he leads the "Mulan" shooting plan, we will definitely have no chance!"

"Oh, what should I do?"

"Should we...should we cooperate with other film and television companies and think of a way?"

"Didn't Huayi cooperate with Disney? Although they are promoting Tang Feifei, we can also take advantage of it? Or else it's okay for the second female and the third female."

"That's fake news, who will believe it?"

"I heard that Dongyang Duoduo is planning to shoot a domestic version, should we get in touch?"

"Oh, that's the only way to go. Dongyang Duoduo doesn't have any capable actresses, so they must look outside."

……

On the second day after Li Zhifan was announced as the general director of Oriental Entertainment North America, two companies simultaneously announced plans to start filming.

Dongyang Huahua first announced the plan to shoot the TV series "Mulan Love" and the big movie "Mulan Song", and selected Zhang Mi and Tang Ting of Aowei Film and Television as the heroines respectively.

As soon as the news came out, netizens complained in unison.

"Have you come to play the cottage?"

"Damn it, two such big film and television companies actually play this game?"

"Shame!"

"Zhang Mi and Tang Ting are playing Mulan at the same time? These two are probably going to be torn apart on the Internet again!"

"Haha, the sisterhood is going to break up, isn't it? At that time, the draft will definitely compare the two, but don't forget the big robbery, and the Disney version of Mulan, who will join the battle?"

"Just wait and see! Since Li Zhifan has accepted the American business of Oriental Entertainment, he will definitely be responsible for the Disney movie."

"Too!"

Immediately afterwards, within three hours, Huayi also announced the shooting plan, and the draft was still cooperating with Disney, but this Disney, in the detailed news, became: Walt Disney China (Xiangjiang) Co., Ltd.

Only the title simply says "Disney" to confuse people.

Ordinary people who eat melons know that Xiangjiang also has a Disneyland, and they thought it was the same thing, but after a little digging, they discovered the clues-this Disney company in Xiangjiang was registered a few days ago?
If it is registered for cooperation, why not in the Shanghai stock market?

You must know that Disney's headquarters in Asia has been moved from Xiangjiang to Shanghai five years ago.

(End of this chapter)