Best wishes for animation production

Many things that cannot be figured out at the moment may just lack an opportunity.

In the last scene of the first episode of "Embracing a Better Tomorrow", Gu Xue caught some inspiration and determined what style of music to use. Then other shots could be extended based on this to roughly determine the style.

"Cycle progression, drum beat, blank space, lines, background."

"Light music, sorrow."

"The sound of rain, stillness and movement."

"..."

Gu Xue picked up the pencil and wrote a few words on a blank piece of original drawing paper that only she could understand for the time being.

She did this to prevent herself from forgetting.

Gu Xue not only considered the first episode, but also took into consideration the musical style of the entire work.

I wrote down my current thoughts.

Gu Xue didn't think of anything else to add for the time being, so she continued to draw the storyboards.

【Arthur! Stop! 】

This is the line spoken by the heroine Alice.

Gu Xue wrote it next to the camera and read it softly. While calculating the time, she also imagined a suitable sound.

Um……

"I don't know any voice actors at all..." Gu Xue thought about it, but the voices that rang in her head were still the voices of those people she usually saw.

Miss Mihara, Sato Ei, etc., it is impossible for them to be suitable.

Gu Xue gave up.

She painted all the way, sometimes thinking about something else, and occasionally stopping to modify the previous shot.

Gu Xue's state was either bending over holding a pencil, or leaning on the back of a chair holding a stopwatch. This had been the case for several hours.

It wasn't until about eleven o'clock in the night that Gu Xue put down the stopwatch and pencil and breathed a sigh of relief.

Currently, most of the storyboarding progress for the first episode has been completed...

this……

Gu Xue, Gu Xue... felt that they were cheating.

This is not a copy of some animation. Although Gu Xue has read the comics, most of the scenes have little to do with the comics. It took several hours to finish most of the painting. If Gu Xue hadn't looked through it herself to make sure it was correct, she wouldn't have believed it herself...

After all, even Hiroyuki Imaishi, who is famous for his scrawled storyboards, said that he had never tried to draw a storyboard within two weeks...

A bit fantasy.

Gu Xue looked at the storyboard. After being silent for a long time, she suddenly glanced around like a thief. After making sure that there was no one in the aisle, she raised her head and said shyly in a very small voice: "System?"

Ding--

Gu Xue shrank her shoulders and was startled.

But the sound was not a system prompt, but came from Gu Xue's mobile phone on the table.

Gu Xue picked up her phone, woke up the screen and took a look.

Gu Rou: "Xiaoxue, I finally came back early... Please go home quickly! If you come back after twelve o'clock today, I will never let you leave the bed and the room tomorrow! Keep your word!"

Gu Xue: "..."

I was almost scared to death...

…

The day after outsmarting my sister or being unilaterally crushed by her...

Gu Xue did not go to YUKI Studio, but went directly to the CDD Animation Workshop, and continued last night's work by drawing the storyboards.

Fantasy is just fantasy, and it’s not a bad thing to paint well in one go.

With this idea in mind, Gu Xue went all out, but she didn't draw a few shots and was interrupted.

Takeda P, the internal producer of CDD Animation Studio, found her and asked her to meet with the sound supervisor and composer, as well as the producer on the production committee who was responsible for music production and CD product sales.

It was a headache to be interrupted, but Gu Xue knew that it was her job and didn't say anything. She picked up what she had written down yesterday, got up and followed him to the conference room.

Takeda P is in front and Gu Xue is in the back.

We walked leisurely all the way to the conference room.

Takeda pushed open the door of the conference room. Before Gu Xue had time to see clearly who was in the conference room, Takeda, who had been silent in front of Gu Xue, shouted enthusiastically, showing a funa-shin smile that Gu Xue had never seen before, and began I became friends with a middle-aged man who was probably in his early thirties and had a strong bookish attitude...

The bookish middle-aged man dealt with Takeda with a wry smile, a little helpless, and seemed a little irritated. When he looked past Takeda and saw Gu Xue, his expression changed a little.

His eyes lit up and he nodded towards Gu Xue.

Gu Xue: "..."

So realistic.

Reality here. Gu Xue was not referring to the middle-aged man whose name she still knew for the time being, but Takeda P.

But that's not his fault.

The bookish middle-aged man is the producer of Abred Company.

abred.

To put it in a more understandable way, it is the alternate world version of ANIPLEX.

That's right, it's the ANIPLEX owned by Sony, the ANIPLEX that has premiered many well-known cartoons, and the ANIPLEX that has planned and released famous works such as "Fate/Zero", "Puella Magi Madoka Magica", and "Bake Monogatari", referred to as ANIPLEX.

abred can be compared with Dad A from Earth, so you can imagine how powerful he is.

In fact, this company is about the same size as Dad A.

It is really not an exaggeration to say that it is a different world version of Father A.

This time, abred is responsible for the music production and CD production sales of "Embrace a Better Tomorrow", and is the publisher of this animation.

It is understandable that Takeda P went to please the producer of abred. A company of this size has the ability to independently plan and finance. It is a big boss of the publisher and will not be ignored by the producers of every animation production company.

But Gu Xue is still a little unhappy...

In front of me, you look as sullen as a broken chrysanthemum, but in front of others, you smile like a sunflower...

So realistic.

I grumbled a little bit in my heart.

There was no strange expression on Gu Xue's face. She bowed slightly to the people in the conference room.

Then came the mutual introductions and embarrassments.

Regardless of whether she recognizes you or not, Gu Xue said that she is very happy to meet you, and there is nothing wrong with her...

It took a lot of effort to introduce each other and make fun of each other.

Gu Xue finally sat down.

The bookish middle-aged man was tired of facing Takeda P's attentiveness while looking at Gu Xue, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he did not speak.

Gu Xue didn't care and began to discuss the direction of the music with the sound supervisor and composer.

This aspect is also difficult.

It is always difficult to describe something like music with words. Gu Xue could only try his best to describe the style of the music list, and then let the other party play freely.

However, Gu Xue can let the other party play freely for most of the music, but not the background music that will appear at the end of the first episode. Gu Xue is quite concerned about this background music, and this background music exists on earth and can be used as a reference.

Gu Xue thought for a while and planned to hum the melody.

"There is a piece of background music, and I have some vague ideas. It feels like this..."

Gu Xue glanced at the composer, then looked around at the other people in the conference room, and started to hum with a slightly red face.

"Ding~ding~ding~ding~ding~ding..."

Gu Xue's voice is very ethereal and quite pleasant.

But the composer opposite had a strange expression.

And the more he listened, the weirder he got. When Gu Xue finally finished humming, he said cautiously: "Well...it's not good to use children's songs as background music, right?"

Gu Xue: "..."