How can I let go of the matter of saving my stepsister?

She spoke without thinking, even saying something like kissing him. Was her reaction a bit too extreme?

With her head buried in the drawing, she was too ashamed to dare raise it again. Mochizuki Nanae reviewed herself in this way, but quickly excused herself.

What else can we do?

[Two original cards, I have finished drawing them and put them on the table. 】

Before, she didn't believe that anyone could guarantee the quality and complete the two-card original drawings within eight hours. When Sato Yu left work on time without caring about the deadline and made such a nonchalant joke, she was so furious.

But who could have thought that the other party really accomplished all of this, and completed it so delicately, with just one original painting, the shy and introverted beauty of the younger sister, and the sour feelings of a girl in unrequited love were fully displayed.

The gap between imagination and reality is like a chasm. Her mood instantly crossed the long distance from hell to heaven. How could she control herself?

She had been completely controlled by Sato Yu's original painting. At that moment when her consciousness had not yet floated out of the painting and her thoughts had not yet calmed down, she could only use such extraordinary words to express her inner ecstasy.

Until this moment, the draft is still flipping through my mind, and the heroine Ryoka's perfect head-tilting performance is still playing in my mind non-stop.

It turns out that her "I Like My Sister But Not My Sister" is also capable of such eye-catching, top-notch animation clips that are memorable for a long time.

This terrible animation project cannot be saved even with such exquisite scenes, but...

"Whoo~"

Mochizuki Nanae let out a long, lasting sigh of relief and felt that she was saved.

During those two nightmarish months of exhausting herself just to make the animation move, running around without a moment's leisure to polish her drawings, she regained some of her original motivation for making animations for the first time.

However, there is still no change, and her job is still to make the animation move smoothly.

But it always provides one more reason to maintain this bad plan and prevent it from collapsing.

"Don't look at it, just draw the original painting you have."

Her reaction had already declared Sato Yu innocent, so there was no need to worry about someone actually chasing him out and dragging him into a dark alley.

As she spoke, she dispelled everyone's inquiring gazes, pushed away the original painter Hamanishi Ryunosuke who was standing in front of her, and holding the original painting tightly in her arms as if it were a treasure, Mochizuki Nanae lowered her head and returned to her office.

She was eager to see the remaining second card.

One, two, three, four, four consecutive “exactly the same” original paintings.

There needs to be feedback in the rivalry. If the heroine tilts her head in a cute way, there must be changes in the hero's expression and movements to give feedback in order to push the picture and the plot forward. This is a basic idea of ​​storyboard depiction.

After one card's exquisite shot of the heroine, the next card focuses on depicting the various reactions of the hero, Nagami Yuu. The two cards complement each other to achieve a better visual effect.

Mochizuki Nanae expected Sato Yuya to draw exquisite and smooth action scenes for the male protagonist Nagami Yuu, but if you flip through the original drawings, after four consecutive drawings, the image of the male protagonist has hardly changed.

Only the pupils were changing subtly, first widening, then shrinking, then returning to normal, and finally tilting towards the ground, towards a place where the heroine Ryoka's line of sight would not meet.

This was completely different from the storyboard she had drawn, so she frowned and pursed her lips.

In the storyboard she drew, at this moment, the male protagonist Nagami Yuu should have been stunned, then showed a look of surprise, and when he reacted, he immediately turned his head away with a red face, mumbled "I understand, I'll leave it to you tomorrow", and then quickly opened the door and fled.

But in these four "still pictures", the protagonist Yong Jianyou immediately adjusted his expression, agreed with his sister to implement the plan, walked out of the door calmly, but blushed at the moment of closing the door, and squatted on the ground with his hands covering his head and breathing heavily...

“It was just improvisation.”

There was no plot in the original work at all, and it was a scene that had never appeared in her storyboard. That guy Sato Yu had tampered with her storyboard without telling her!

"You really don't take me seriously!"

For a supervisor, storyboards are the dignity that should be defended to the death. They are the ultimate picture that is not allowed to be changed without permission. Sato Yu's behavior of not only changing the storyboards but also changing them beyond recognition is a contempt for her as a supervisor and a trampling on her dignity!

This is simply unforgivable, and it really makes people angry...

Angry, Mochizuki Nanae picked up the storyboard and read it again.

But it's great.

But he draws really well!

First, the author relies on the changes in the pupils to portray the male protagonist's severe mental fluctuations in a short period of time.

Afterwards, he pretended to be calm, but immediately showed a look of defeat when he went out. This portrayed his contradictory psychology of relying on his status as an elder brother and refusing to face his true feelings, but unable to help but be attracted to the heroine, vividly and perfectly.

It is both delicate and ingenious, completely surpassing the original light novel's treatment in this regard, and even far surpassing her storyboards.

This is what the protagonist Nagami Yuu's true inner feelings should be like, and this scene should be like this.

To be fair, Sato Yu handled it better.

"But he is trampling on my dignity."

Slapping her face, making loud slapping sounds, Mochizuki Nanae muttered to herself dejectedly.

I was going to be really angry, in my heart, and I was going to make a phone call to criticize Sato Yu and curse him, but as I looked at it, I was involuntarily convinced by the original painting in front of me, and I began to agree with his way of painting in my heart...

"Mum~"

Lying on the table, Mochizuki Nanae poked her fingers on the drawing paper, stroking the changing pupils of the male host Nagami Yuu, with a melancholy expression.

She should be angry, but she really can't be angry.

The quality of this card is so good, and the performance quality is completely predictable and superb. Although the unauthorized modification of the storyboard touches her bottom line as a supervisor, but...

"Trample it, then trample it."

After a long silence, she suddenly pouted and spoke in a sound of aggrievedness, so that others would think she was about to lose her little pearl.

In fact, it almost fell.

That bastard Sato Yu must have known what this move meant, but he was not worried at all and did it without any hesitation.

This was simply testing her bottom line, but she relaxed her bottom line so easily.

What a shame.

It was embarrassing but happy, but I was happy from the bottom of my heart. I was ready to modify the storyboard according to his original painting, inform the voice actor, and inform the color, background, performance and other post-production personnel to cooperate in changing the work content.

what is this?

Isn't this completely under the control of that guy Sato Yu?

"How despicable!"

She slapped the manuscript on her face and bit her lower lip even deeper.

For the first time, she felt like such a lowly woman.

Volume 19: Chapter Chapter . Despicable indeed

"It's getting late. Why don't we just not send it to the coloring place today?"

In addition to storyboards, original drawings are the most critical part, but they are only one part of animation production.

When the original artist finishes the original painting, it only means the end of this process. After the second original is cleaned, there are still steps such as line drawing and coloring, background integration, performance shooting, and sound and picture synthesis.

The schedule for the Sister Not Sister project was very tight, and there was not much time left for the post-production staff. In order to ensure that the final animation could be completed, whenever the completed cards on hand accumulated to a certain number, production manager Miki Sugino would immediately send them over in order to complete the work as quickly as possible.

She ticked the two cards that Sato Yu was responsible for on the schedule, and wanted to take the manuscript bag from her JK supervisor, but unexpectedly found that the other party was holding it tightly with both hands and refused to let go. Just as she was wondering, she heard Mochizuki Nanae say this.

"It's okay. It's only about six o'clock. I can deliver the original painting and buy some Taiyaki on the way. Supervisor, you like to eat super spicy food, right?"

Not only are the original paintings outsourced, but the coloring of Mei Fei Mei's original paintings, the backgrounds, etc. are also outsourced. It takes an hour to drive there and back from the studio, so delivering the original paintings every day is a small chore.

She thought that this lovely but cold-blooded supervisor was considerate of her for the first time in her life, which made her feel sweet to her heart and even more happy. Miki Shano patted her chest to show that she was fine, but she didn't expect that Nanae Mochizuki was not thinking about this at all.

"I remember there are a lot of unfinished cards over there, so give them a day."

"How can this be possible? There are only a few days left and there are still so many cards that have not been recycled. Even if there is a backlog, we have to hand them over to them to ensure that the coloring process can continue without stopping..."

He was halfway through his words when he saw Mochizuki Nanae's increasingly awkward expression before he finally came to his senses. The moment he let go of the original painting in his hand, he saw her breathe a sigh of relief. Sugino Miki finally understood what this JK director was being so proud of.

"I won't accept these two cards from Sato today. I'll be responsible for delivering the other cards. Um, the perverted spicy Taiyaki will be delivered back."

"Thank you, you always work hard."

"Tell Sato-kun this tomorrow, maybe he'll be willing to work overtime."

She made a sarcastic remark, and before Mochizuki Nanae could raise her eyebrows, Sugino Miki had already run out of the office empty-handed and could no longer be found.

"what's wrong with me?"

She was really stupid to want to keep the original painting with her for a little longer instead of arguing with Miki Sugino and wasting her homework time.

But there's nothing we can do about it, since the original paintings of these two cards are so incredibly beautiful.

But now, I should focus on the original painting at hand.

"Ugh."

After working for nearly an hour and finishing the last stroke of the original painting, I looked up and saw a thick stack of storyboards in front of me.

Unable to hold back, Mochizuki Nanae sighed softly.

The gap in the original painting is still large.

Her own network of contacts had already been used up in the previous production process, and other experienced original artists in the group felt sorry for her and had to ask others for help so that the production could continue.

However, there was no one willing to take the 30 cards that were vacant this time, so she had no choice but to use her financial power to pay double the price out of her own pocket to give five cards to each of the two personal original artists who had free time.

Even so, we released it without any requirements on quality, as long as it can be barely functional.

I have tried every possible means, and there are only twenty cards left. I am afraid I can only digest them myself.

Working day and night, and drawing ten cards before the deadline, this is the goal that Mochizuki Nanae set for herself.

As for the storyboard problem which has obviously been delayed in subsequent episodes, we can only deal with it after overcoming the current difficulties and maintaining the project.

But there are still ten cards?

Do we have to change the storyboard and reduce the number of cards again at this juncture?

No, it's absolutely not possible. Two hundred and seventy cards is already the limit of compression. Any less and even the integrity of the story cannot be guaranteed.

The current ratings of "Sister Fei Mei" are completely supported by the terrible graphics and the fairly interesting plot. If even the plot has no beginning or end, I'm afraid that only the tiny bit of fun will be left.

You can't purify the audience like this!

But apart from her as the supervisor, who else inside has the energy to process the remaining cards?

She frowned and thought, even stopping the paintbrush in her hand temporarily. Mochizuki Nanae's eyes almost uncontrollably drifted towards the two original drawings of Sato Yuu on the table.

Then he took the original painting out of the bag and looked at it again.

Exquisite, perfect, completely the work of a master, she couldn't help but envy and longing for it. Even though she reminded herself countless times that she shouldn't, she still couldn't help but be jealous.

He is only nineteen years old, and has only been in the industry for two years. This is the first time he has been promoted to be an original artist. I used to think that it was rare for him to be able to draw those erotic paintings well, but I didn't expect that he actually has a "genius" that has not been truly revealed until now.

Being so young and yet so outstanding, he ruthlessly trampled all her pride and the complacency buried deep in her heart into the dirt.

But now is not the time to be jealous, and we should not be jealous. We should just catch up with him and lower our heads to ask for advice.

Mochizuki Nanae tried hard to remove her selfish thoughts from her mind, but she could not stop other selfish thoughts from sneaking in.

【Maybe Sato-kun will be willing to work overtime. 】

The teasing that Miki Shanno said before she left echoed in her mind and could not be shaken off.

It's so fast and so good. If Sato Yu can work overtime and leave the company at 10 or 11 pm like everyone else...

How can you think like that?!

Everyone gets off work late because they need enough time to draw enough original paintings. Only by increasing their working hours can they complete the tasks at hand and adapt to the overly tight schedule of Meifeimei.

The workload assigned to Sato Yu is similar to that assigned to others. In fact, because it is a series of shots that require more continuity and fluency, the actual workload is even higher than that of others.

Sato Yuu didn't work overtime only because he was extremely capable and could draw two cards of high-quality shots in eight hours. If we impose new tasks on him now...

He has completed the work he should have done, but just because he is capable, he deserves to do more work and work overtime like everyone else. Is this unreasonable?

Do good people deserve to be pointed at gunpoint? Do capable people deserve to be forced to do twice as much work?

Makes no sense.

But......

However, he was the only person I could think of.

Mochizuki Nanae had never felt so embarrassed before, not even when she ran to someone's door and squatted there, pestered them when she saw them go out, begged them desperately, bowed and threw away her self-esteem to beg them to accept the storyboard cards, she had never felt so embarrassed.

When one is at the end of one's rope, Sato Yuu is the only life-saving straw in sight.

"Sure enough!"

Mochizuki Nanae spat at herself, but her trembling hands still reached for her phone.