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

He understood the subtext in an instant, breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly followed the back that Mochizuki Nanae left for him.

Although there is a subtext to the words, there is no hidden rule in the purpose of entering the office. The only thing is to give Sato Yu, who has been demoted from the studio's top original artist to a beast of burden, a heavy task that is enough to make him vomit blood.

As the production manager, Miki Sugino had a record of each original artist's responsibilities for the shots, so she followed along.

"I haven't trusted you again, nor have I forgiven you."

Click. The moment Sugino Miki came in and closed the door, Mochizuki Nanae turned around, with a piercing chill in her clear eyes, and stared at Sato Yu's face and said coldly.

"A guy like you who chickened out at the last minute shouldn't be welcomed by any production team anymore. But due to the tight deadline and the serious shortage of candidates, I had no choice but to re-employ you.

If you run away again this time, and if the animation cannot be released as scheduled because of the mistake you made, then, even if you run to the ends of the earth, I will definitely find you and catch you!

And then, and then…”

She must have wanted to say something harsh, but it seemed that she was too well-educated and had hardly said a vulgar word in more than 20 years. At this moment, her tone was cold enough and the atmosphere was set, but Mochizuki Nanae was stuck.

Then, then what? Miss JK Supervisor, please give me some words!

Seeing this stuck, even Sugino Miki, who was watching, broke out in a cold sweat, and Sato Yu, who was being scolded, even wanted to add a few harsh words to her.

She must have realized how embarrassing her current situation was, and her face turned red. Under the gaze of the two, Mochizuki Nanae finally stomped her feet viciously, pointed at Sato Yuu's nose and cursed -

"Anyway, I won't let you go! I will, I will make you pay the price!"

"puff......."

Sato Yu wanted to laugh, but he held it back in the end. His body trembled and only a tiny tremor leaked out.

Although it was a very lame rebuke, he could feel that Nanae Mochizuki, the supervisor with a youthful appearance like a high school girl, was serious.

Nanae Mochizuki can tolerate his betrayal and escape once, but if he returns to the production team with nice words but then becomes passive and even says he will escape again, which then leads to the failure of the animation production...

Mochizuki Nanae will definitely not let him off easily, and who knows, she might do something out of line.

After all, she is fundamentally different from Sato Yu, who has been making animations just for her sister from beginning to end, whether in the past or now. Mochizuki Nanae is a pure animator who entered the animation industry for romance and sentiment, with a dream in her heart, and is determined to create works that make her happy from the bottom of her heart and have a clear conscience.

For animation, she can really give everything, and has given everything, even if she is supervising an extremely bad drama.

"I understand. Please distribute the lenses to me. How many cards are left to be distributed?"

Having understood Nanae Mochizuki's stubbornness and finally obtained some forgiveness, Sato Yuu tried to ask for his first job in rescuing his sister.

but......

"...Thirty cards."

"How many?"

Hearing the overly shocking answer, Sato Yu couldn't help but scream out in surprise, and Mochizuki Nanae, who had been so aggressive and determined to not give up, suddenly became smaller in both momentum and voice.

She lowered her head and gritted her teeth, then opened her mouth with difficulty.

"And thirty cards."

The so-called "card" means a shot, which can be understood as a small segment in the animation. It is also the smallest working unit of the original artists in general. Each card drawn is paid for.

Generally speaking, the number of cards used to produce an episode of animation is around 300 to 350. However, the production schedule and budget for "I Like Little Sisters, Not Little Sisters" were too tight. Adhering to the core idea that audience reviews don't matter, as long as it's dynamic, a good animation is good, Nanae Mochizuki used various methods, including but not limited to PPT presentations, to reduce the number of cards to 277.

However, even so, with the third episode of Sister Not Sister about to be released and the fourth episode to be broadcast in nine days, there are still thirty cards of footage that have not started production and no one can be found to produce it!

A cup of tea, a pack of cigarettes, and a camera lens to paint for a day.

One card shot usually requires dozens of original drawings, and a skilled original artist takes about half an hour to draw one original drawing. It is common to spend several hours to draw one original drawing when encountering difficult scenes.

Many times, the original artist starts working at seven in the morning and may not finish drawing a shot until two or three in the morning.

Because the series "Sister Not Sister" does not pursue picture accuracy or action smoothness, the number of original drawings is much less than that of general works, and the work difficulty is correspondingly lower.

But even if they only pursue speed and not quality, working intensively for sixteen hours a day, being able to finish one and a half cards is already the limit for most original artists.

In a week, excluding subsequent animation, coloring, photography and editing processes, there may only be five days left for painting.

Thirty cards in five days, even if the quality is not important, it would require at least four senior original artists to work non-stop to complete. But at this time, there are still so many cards left unfinished, which means that Mochizuki Nanae can't find anyone who can take on this heavy task.

By the way, what kind of mistake did the JK supervisor Nanae Mochizuki make in coordinating manpower to cause such a major construction accident? This is not in line with her rigorous and serious personality.

Just as he cast a suspicious look at Nanae Mochizuki who was hanging her head with a heavy heart, the production manager Miki Sugino who was standing aside spoke at the right time.

"Because of the popularity of the animation, an individual original artist returned the card he was responsible for, and then... and yesterday, Mr. Matsusaka and Mr. Kuki also submitted their resignations."

Putting aside the loss of my original painting, yesterday...

Matsusaka and Hisagi, two senior original artists in the production team, handed in their resignations yesterday, rather than earlier or later. They were already wavering in their thoughts of escaping, and someone happened to set an example for them, so they took the opportunity to get away.

So, who is the person who sets an example?

It was definitely him, the him of the past.

So--

Personal original painting, one; role model, one; resigned, two.

One plus one plus two is exactly four people.

Wow! That's exactly the number of people who can barely finish 30 animation cards in a week!

One person's resignation actually has a chain reaction...

Sato Yu smiled bitterly, it was really because of "him" that the animation production was brought into the abyss of darkness and despair.

So, to make up for this mistake.

The bitter smile faded, and Sato Yu's eyes suddenly became sharp.

Only he can turn the tide.

Volume 13: Chapter Chapter . This is the confession of love!

There aren't any standout cards.

Looking through the storyboard, Sato Yupin frowned.

Compared to those unreliable outsourcing companies outside, the painting skills of Sato Yu, an excellent newcomer, are naturally much better.

Therefore, the remaining thirty cards must be selected by Sato Yu first, including the cards that are suitable for him and that he wants to draw. After that, the remaining cards will be entrusted to individual original artists outside the production team or to outsourcing companies.

However, after carefully looking through the remaining thirty storyboards, Sato Yu was somewhat dissatisfied.

The JK director Nanae Mochizuki is indeed a genius who can adapt to the situation. Knowing clearly that she is at a disadvantage of being short of manpower, she completely threw away her dignity. Not only did she drastically cut the number of cards per episode, she also made the storyboards of each card as simple as possible.

In animation, one second consists of twenty-four frames. If each original picture stays for one frame, it is called one beat one, if it stays for two frames, it is called one beat two, and so on.

Generally speaking, one beat two is considered smooth, and one beat three can achieve the minimum continuity of the movements, so most animations are based on one beat two and one beat three.

But in the storyboard of "Mei Fei Mei", while one-shot three is the mainstream, there are also a lot of one-shot four, which will make the audience feel stuck, and there are even still images as long as five or six seconds.

To put it bluntly, any director with a little ability in the industry would not hesitate to call the 30-card storyboard in Sato Yu's hand a piece of rubbish. Those with a more irritable temper would even directly curse, "Which BYD drew this kind of shitty storyboard? I really want to kill her with a knife."

Such a rubbish shot could be drawn with Sato Yu's ability, but it would be meaningless.

He didn't come back to make animations, he came back to accumulate fame and heal his sister.

The fame value required for the first task released by the system is 50,000, but Sato Yu's fame value is only 271. He now has only a little fame in the animation industry, and the majority of the audience has no impression of him as an unknown new artist.

The time limit for the task is two months, which happens to be the time when most of the new episodes of this quarter are finished broadcasting. That is to say, since he has chosen the track of the "Sister, Not Sister" production team, Sato Yu must use the animation he makes in these two months to shine and leave a deep impression on the audience.

Not a single minute or a second can be wasted, and every original painting and every card must be produced with all our efforts to amaze the audience!

It is better to have nothing than to have something excessive. On the way to work, Sato Yu had already formulated a plan for his next actions.

"I remember there was a scene in episode 4 where the younger sister Ryoka dressed up beautifully and left home for a date with the protagonist. I wanted to draw that part."

As a production staff member, in the past, Sato Yuya had carefully read the original novel of the animation "I Like You in the Novel", "I Like You in the Novel".

As the plot progresses, the fourth episode happens to depict the scene of the sister dating the protagonist. In Sato Yu's expectation, that is the most essential part of the entire episode. If the superb painting skills can be combined with the wonderful plot, it will surely leave the deepest impression on the audience. If it can be done well, the popularity will surely increase significantly.

"Designated card?!"

Sato Yu had his own reasons for making this request, but it was extremely rude in any sense.

Because that is not a scene among the thirty cards that have not been released yet, if Sato Yu wants to draw it, the current artist must stop, hand over the original painting in his hand, and then choose other cards to start drawing again.

For original artists who make a living by painting skills and regard it as their highest belief, this is undoubtedly extremely insulting and is simply denying the meaning of their existence as original artists.

Although she was shocked by Sato Yu's rude request, since he said so, production manager Sugino Miki still took a look at the production schedule.

"Regarding that scene, let me see, the producer is..."

As she flipped through the pages and muttered to herself, her apricot eyes suddenly widened, and the producer Sugino Miki's body suddenly trembled and her voice became hoarse.

Trembling, she looked up and met the fiery eyes of the supervisor Mochizuki Nanae, who was emitting anger and staring at Sato Yu like a ferocious beast, as if she wanted to tear him to pieces.

Nanae Mochizuki. This is the name filled in the column of the person who drew the mirror in that group on the production table.

"Sato Yu, you know what you are talking about, right?"

She tried hard to suppress the grimace on her facial features, but her voice was still filled with anger. She was smiling but not smiling. As she spoke, Mochizuki Nanae clenched her fists.

Depending on Sato Yu's answer, she will choose whether to punch this bastard who came back just to "tease" her.

This is best just a misunderstanding.

But in fact it is not.

The overall badness cannot be saved, but at least the most critical parts of each episode were painted brilliantly with her own hands, leaving a little trace. This was the final persistence of Nanae Mochizuki as the original artist.

Before asking for this series of shots, Sato Yu had actually guessed that it was the part that Mochizuki Nanae was responsible for, but he still went ahead without hesitation.

Mochizuki Nanae wants to retain her last dignity as an original artist, and Sato Yu wants to save the life of her sister Sato Kyon.

If the demands cannot be reconciled, then there will only be conflict, and there will be no chance of compromise!

"Sato-kun, the director was in charge of that scene, please apologize quickly..."

"Last night, my sister and I watched the animation Sister is Not Sister."

Ignoring the pull of his arm by producer Sugino Miki and instead of talking about the current dispute, Sato Yuu started talking about what happened last night.

“?”×2

What does this have to do with your sister? Question marks popped up above the heads of Mochizuki Nanae and Sugino Miki at the same time.

This sudden doubt also reduced the anger emanating from Mochizuki Nanae, making her more willing to listen to explanations. Pursing her lips, Sato Yu continued.

“My sister commented that the animation was [not very exciting], but I couldn’t say anything to her at that time, I just kept silent.

Moreover, when my sister asked me which part of the shots I was responsible for, I lied and said that the part drawn by Director Mochizuki was drawn by me.

After all, you shouldn't say to your sister that "the brother is responsible for the pornographic pictures in the animation, those bad pictures that make you scream and feel ashamed."

But if the animation continues, such a lie will be easily exposed, and I don’t want it to remain a lie forever.”

As he spoke, he lowered his eyes and let out a light breath as if to let out all the depression in his heart, and Sato You whispered again.

"So I came back to become Supervisor Mochizuki."

"I want to take all the achievements of Supervisor Mochizuki for myself, and I want to hold my head high in front of my sister. I came back just for this."

Because Director Mochizuki, you draw very well, and because that was the only scene that I could show to my sister, I lied, so now I need to snatch the shot from you and turn the lie into reality.

What kind of arrogant, selfish, disgusting bullshit excuse is this?

But at the same time, the affirmation of Nanae Mochizuki, the talent of Nanae Mochizuki as an original artist, the admiration and joy for her are all contained in it.

Such words, such a serious and earnest look...

It's almost like a confession.

——I like your original drawings directed by Mochizuki.

It’s not that I like you as a person, but that I like your paintings.

Listen to this bullshit...

Suddenly, Mochizuki Nanae's cheeks turned red.

Volume 14: Chapter Chapter . The so-called optimal solution

For aspiring original artists, original paintings are like their second life.

And for a sincere woman as extremely pure and rare as Mochizuki Nanae, perhaps one hard to find among hundreds of thousands of people, the meaning of the original painting may be even greater.

If you express your love to her sincerely, this ice beauty may just turn her down.