Best wishes for animation production

Miss Mihara quickly brought original drawing paper and pencils.

After Gu Xue took it, she thought about it for a while, lowered her head and started to draw.

Just talking to Misawa Hiro, Gu Xue felt that it was unclear. Although magical girls could barely be regarded as witches, the witch-themed animation proposed by Gu Xue, "Little Witch Academia", one of the representative works of Earth Trigger Club, was not the same as magic. Girls are completely different.

The character design of "Little Witch Academia" is more in the style of American comics, and the style is also very American. At first glance, it feels like a Japanese animation from Europe and the United States, but it also has a strong flavor of Japanese animation. , the two styles are blended together. Before you get used to it, it will feel very awkward.

This is why Trigger Club’s works are called cute filters.

Misawa felt very awkward. He looked at the characters that were quickly formed in Gu Xue's paintings and whispered: "This style... it feels too American... Is this a witch?"

What Gu Xue is drawing is Akko, the protagonist of "Little Witch Academia", and her two roommates Lottie and Suzy.

The three of them were wearing tall conical hats and college-style robes, each holding a broomstick and standing together. Because the characters’ faces and hair lines looked relatively simple, it did look very American and comic-style. At first, I didn’t notice. Habits are natural.

Gu Xue, who was drawing the outline of the college on the paper, raised her head and glanced at him, "You can call her a witch. Anyway, the character is based on the old woman with a hooked nose in Western fairy tales. I just made it a little cuter..."

"Eh..." Misawa Hiro said with an expression of "Is it really okay to do this?"

In his impression, shouldn't a witch be the kind of girl with an innocent character who can transform into a gorgeous and fancy-looking girl just by shouting? It's based on what a witch is...

Gu Xue also understood Misawa Hiroshi's concerns and chuckled: "In fact, it is no different from magical girls. They are all stories about girls who can use magic. It's just that the background of this story is different from the magical girl animations on the market. Different, similar to Harry..."

Gu Xue originally wanted to say that "Little Witch Academia" is a magical fantasy theme similar to Harry Potter, but at the critical moment she remembered, where did Harry Potter come from in this world...

Gu Xue paused for a while and couldn't think of any similar animations or movies and TV series on the market. He simply said directly: "...You can simply understand that what I want to tell is a Western fantasy-themed story. ”

"...What exactly are you talking about?" Misawa asked.

Gu Xue was silent for a moment, pointed at the Gothic-style building on the paper, and said, "You know about campus-themed animations, right?"

"Um."

"You know magic, right?"

"Um."

"You also understand the dragon, right?"

"Um."

"What about dungeons in RPG games?"

"……Um."

"This story is about a group of little witches living happily in a prestigious school that trains witches. But one day when they went to explore the dungeon, something went wrong. A student accidentally released an ancient dragon, and the school was in crisis. Then the heroine at the end of the crane destroys the dragon and saves the story of the academy.”

Gu Xue finished speaking in one breath, and then proudly put on a "just keep it simple" expression.

What a genius at...summarizing.

"...The story is too simple! But there are so many elements!" Misawa couldn't help complaining.

Chisa Mihara said nothing after listening to Gu Xue's story. If it were Hiroshi Misawa, she would have said that if she wanted to make a witch theme, it would be better to just make a magical girl that is common on the market, and it would be easier for the audience to accept it. Please be careful. She considered this, but it was Gu Xue who proposed this idea, and she subconsciously felt that it was quite reliable...

Fortunately, Misawa Hiroshi didn't know what she was thinking, otherwise it would be a lemon again...

"I know what you want to do." Gu Xue saw the troubled look on Misawa's face and said amusedly, "Is it the kind of animation that is deep, full of character, and preferably also a metaphor?"

Misawa Hiroyuki was told what he was thinking and smiled, feeling a little embarrassed.

It was as if someone else had discovered that he was a chuunibyou.

"Although I don't object to you making this type of animation, you have to know that it only lasts for more than 20 minutes. How do you express the story in your mind in this limited time? It's a simple truth, like If you want to make a space mecha war movie, you should always introduce the background, right? After all, who knows what the space in your story is about. You should also introduce mechas, right? After all, ordinary audiences generally don’t have too specific ideas about mechas. The concepts, characters, etc., these settings that the audience is not familiar with at all, if you throw them out one by one, maybe people won’t want to watch it.”

"When it comes to animation, it is also a great thing to make a pure animation that makes people happy. Blindly pursuing artistry is simply putting the cart before the horse, and it cannot be said that it is putting the cart before the horse... But, I think, at least for now You don’t have the ability to create the animation you want. Although what I say is a bit harsh, you should know very well that you really have no experience.”

"At this time, choose some elements that the audience is familiar with, such as dragons, magic, and academies. Things that others can get a general idea of ​​almost as soon as they are mentioned, and make a good movie that most audiences can accept, and Wouldn’t it be better if you can quickly get into the story and simply think that the animation is great after watching it?”

Gu Xue said a lot in one breath.

She has met many people like Hiroshi Misawa before. These people think too much but do not have the ability to match it. If they are self-aware, they will choose to take a step back and compromise a little. If not, then you have to hit the south wall and get slightly injured before you wake up.

Misawa was silent for a long time, smiled bitterly, and said: "...I was convinced by you, but I still want to think about it. I am not rejecting your suggestion, but can you tell the story about the witch in more detail? For example, write a rough original plan or draw more setting pictures, but I don’t have a specific concept of what you just said in a few words.”

"...Okay." Gu Xue nodded.

After all, he is the supervisor, and he still needs his consent to do anything specific.

Gu Xue lowered her head and continued to draw, but just before she drew much, she thought of something very important. She raised her head and asked suspiciously: "By the way, why should I do all this work?"

Misawa Hiro: "..."

Chisa Mihara: "..."

"I'm here to discuss whether to join this project, right? Why did it suddenly become the subject of discussion and I wrote the original proposal?" The more Gu Xue thought about it, the more uncomfortable she became, "By the way, I haven't agreed to participate in this project yet, right?"

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