My Animation Era

  Chapter 1051 Jiang Liu'er is just playing for fun, the real chess master has to be AlphaGo!

  Most domestic animations are 3D.

  As the mainstream choice of domestic animation nowadays, animations adapted from web texts are naturally mostly 3D, and there are few works made in 2D.

  There must be some...

   But this kind of 2D production is more used in the modern context, and the story theme is close to the funny animation of light novels.

   90% of popular themes such as fantasy and fairy tales are produced in 3D.

Why is this so?

  On the one hand, 3D production has become the mainstream choice, probably because the strength and main development direction of domestic animation lies in the 3D field, which is what everyone is best at.

   On the other hand, the saving of 3D animation is also the main reason why most animation production companies choose 3D.

  Take character modeling as an example.

  As long as one character modeling is done well, the animations of dozens or even hundreds of episodes can be used all the time. This undoubtedly saves a lot of time and energy for a long-form web text reform project.

and.

  These animation companies in China basically grasp the preferences and tastes of the audience, know what they want to watch, and know what their strengths are.

  So, every female character who is as beautiful as a fairy was born...

   "To put it bluntly, there are two main points of interest in the current web adaptation animation, one is a cool story, and the other is to satisfy the audience's fantasies about the second-dimensional wife."

  Gu Miao lightly tapped the solid wood table with her fingers, her expression was a little solemn: "If you do these two things well, even if the overall production is a mess, many audiences will still pay for it."

   "Exactly!"

   Chen Hu quite agreed.

   This is indeed a kind of strange image of the web-based animations nowadays. The importance of character modeling has been infinitely exaggerated. The female characters in the original novel are modeled more and more enchanting roast chickens.

  The cloth on the body is also less than one, giving people the feeling that this kind of character is not designed to serve the plot, but to simply sell meat and please certain groups of people...

   It's weird!

  Zui Son-in-law Immortal King is not a mainstream 3D production, which means that there is no so-called roast chicken character modeling in the animation, and there are not even a few female characters.

   So here comes the problem.

   Audiences who like to watch animations adapted from web texts mostly like the **** 3D female character modeling. Will they like this kind of 2D plot-oriented adaptation?

"This is also what I'm most worried about!" Chen Hu rubbed his brows, and said with a helpless expression, "The original book of Zuo Son Immortal King only has one heroine, not as many as other novels, and the presence of the heroine is almost as strong as that of other novels." none!"

   "..."

  Gu Miao also frowned.

  This is indeed a big problem, after all, novels are different from animations.

  For novels, it’s enough to pretend to be aggressive to make everyone enjoy watching. It doesn’t matter whether there is a heroine or not. Readers even hope that the role of the heroine will be reduced.

   But animation can't do that.

  Because among the audience watching animation, especially those young male audiences who are not very old, nine out of ten have the idea of ​​"finding a wife".

   It’s okay to have a small number of female characters in your animation, but how many scenes are there? Where can you find your two-dimensional wife?

"never mind!"

   "Single heroine is a single heroine, and no one stipulates that you must have a harem."

  Gu Miao sighed: "As for the heroine's role is too small and the sense of existence is not high, I will say that I am loyal to the original work, and fans of the original work will help us defend it."

  Maybe such an adaptation may not be very friendly to passers-by audiences, but for fans who have read the original novel of Zuo Son-in-law Immortal King, it is definitely a great restoration and a great conscience!

what?

  The original book is written in this way, you think it is not good, may I ask you?

  …

   As time goes by, the movie "Wolf Warrior 2" has become a new social phenomenon.

  Take Gu Miao as an example.

  Even those friends who don’t like to watch movies, or usually don’t have time to watch movies, have heard about "Wolf Warrior 2", and then took the time to watch it.

   This is quite a scary thing.

   After all, these people, to put it bluntly, are those who don’t watch movies, let alone go to movie theaters.

  But this summer, "Wolf Warrior 2" successfully made this group of people walk into the cinema, and it was the first time they tried to buy movie tickets after many years. This is indeed an amazing achievement.

   Gu Miao doesn't know if others are convinced or not, but he admires it anyway.

   He couldn't do that after all.

  Let’s not talk about him, there are so many people in Wanbao Animation, no one can do the same thing.

   No wonder the box office is so high!

  Even people who don’t usually watch movies are abducted into movie theaters, and they have to watch "Wolf Warrior 2" by name. Under this premise, it is not too normal to have a box office of several billion.

   But then again...

  Fortunately, "Bears of the Lost Treasure" has been released. If it continues to be screened in theaters, I don't know how compressed the screening rate will be at the moment.

  Anyway, as far as Gu Miao knows, the movie theater in Jiangchuan Animation Industrial Park is full of "Wolf Warrior 2" movies from morning to night all day long. Want to watch other movies? Sorry there is no show!

   This cannot be said to be crushing.

  The other new films that were released at the same time completely disappeared under the suppression of "Wolf Warrior 2" before they even had time to meet the audience.

Gu Miao was fortunate that "Bears of the Lost Treasure" was released early and was not affected by the AOE damage. She was also full of expectations for the next box office trend of "Wolf Warrior 2", wondering if the film would eventually break through. Original record.

   According to the current situation.

  This version of Wolf Warrior 2 may not exceed 5 billion at the box office, and it is very hopeful to break through 6 billion. As for 7 billion...it is not impossible!

  Just as Gu Miao was eating sunflower seeds and observing the box office trend of summer movies, Xiao Ke came.

  Just after participating in the competition, Xiao Ke, the Go world champion who won the quarter-finals, was warmly welcomed by Gu Miao, and joined the newly established "Go Boy" animation production team.

   It's not just Xiao Ke.

  The same chess player who was invited by Wanbao to provide professional guidance for "Youth Go" also has another professional 9-dan professional Liu Lao.

  One old and one young, respectively representing the past and present of the Go world, and jointly serve as professional consultants for "Youth Go".

   The reason for such a combination is also very simple.

  Although Xiao Ke is the world champion and the No. 1 Go player in the world in name, he is at this age after all, and high chess ability does not mean that he knows a lot.

  Although Mr. Liu is getting old and his chess power has declined seriously compared to his peak period, he was born in a Go family and started playing chess from his grandfather's generation. He knows more about Go than Xiao Ke, especially the history.

  The two have a clear division of labor.

  Xiao Ke is the three-dimensional incarnation of Jiang Liuer. He will provide the most suitable chess record to the animation production team based on the opinions of Mr. Liu.

   And Mr. Liu is responsible for providing some secret and unpopular information about the Weiqi world in the late Ming Dynasty, and checking the plot by the way to see if there are any omissions or mistakes.

  Is Jiang Liuer a fictional character?

Yes!

   It’s not just Jiang Liuer, most of the players with names and surnames in the animation "Go Boys" are fictional characters.

   But these characters are not completely original, but refer to some historical celebrities in the Go world.

  Jiang Liuer did not exist in history.

  But at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was indeed a 15-year-old young player with the same surname Jiang who became well-known locally in the Go world.

   This is what Mr. Liu told Gu Miao.

  Gu Miao was very surprised when she learned about it. He thought Jiang Liuer was just a character created in the original animation, but he didn't expect that there was a real prototype.

  In fact, Elder Liu was also surprised.

  When he saw the project "Go Youth", he thought that Gu Miao adapted it based on the experience of that chess player, but he never expected that Gu Miao didn't know that chess player in the late Ming Dynasty at all.

   I'm embarrassed now.

   Gu Miao couldn't tell Mr. Liu the truth, so he could only use the idea provided by a screenwriter of Wanbao, not the plan written by him to fool the past.

  Fortunately, Mr. Liu didn't delve too deeply into it. He just used this topic to give Gu Miao a brief introduction to the chess player surnamed Jiang who lived in the late Ming Dynasty.

  Xiao Ke also joined in.

  Although he is young and doesn't know much about these things, he has also studied many ancient chess records, so he is not ignorant.

   Chatting and chatting, it was getting dark.

  As the host, Gu Miao ordered a table of Jiangchuan's special dishes for the two of them, adhering to the principle of visiting from afar.

   At the dinner table, Xiao Ke asked Gu Miao a very important question, that is, the direction of the game record selection.

   "Jiang Liu'er lived in the late Ming Dynasty, and the chess he played must be ancient chess. When it comes to choosing chess records, I prefer famous games from famous players." Gu Miao mused.

  This is also the most criticized point of the animation of "Youth Go" in the previous life, that is, the choice of chess records is not very good.

   Looking at the "Soul of Chess" next door, most of the choices are famous games.

  Although there are some people complaining, insinuating that "Soul of Chess" is suspected of abusing the famous game, after all, it is a famous game at random, which is too outrageous.

  But one thing that must be admitted is that the reason why a famous game is a famous game is that it is indeed better than a regular game in terms of game viewing and chess shape aesthetics.

certainly!

  This is in consideration of professionalism.

  For ordinary audiences, they can’t understand Go anyway. There is no difference between regular game records and famous games.

   This is something Gu Miao has considered.

   To put it simply, there must be a famous game, but it cannot be abused like in "Soul of Chess".

   Next!

  "Go Boy" is a cartoon, not a so-called documentary. Appropriate artistic processing is inevitable, and it is impossible to be completely real.

   "Isn't it totally true?"

  Xiao Ke and Mr. Liu looked at each other, but they could understand Gu Miao's thoughts.

   Go animation should be exciting and beautiful, so it is bound to add some other elements into it. Pure Go, children may get sleepy after watching it for a few minutes.

   "So what do you think?"

   "Trick!"

  Gu Miao said with a smile: "I hope you can customize one or more special moves for the protagonist."

   "This kind of trick can be a certain formula, or it can be a special way of playing or solving chess ideas. In short, the principle doesn't matter. The key point is that the name must be cool."

  The Hand of God is too conservative.

  What a vulgar hand and skillful hand, it sounds very boring. It is secondary to give children too professional terms for science popularization, and the main reason is that they are not handsome enough!

   Really need a few tricks.

  Although these tricks are essentially Go routines or special moves that everyone can use, but the children don’t know Go, so it’s enough to look cool and handsome.

   "I roughly understand."

   Although Xiao Ke has won many world championships, he is actually not very old, almost ten years younger than Gu Miao.

  Because of his young age and the fact that he often surfs the Internet, he can keep up with Gu Miao's thoughts and understand his thoughts.

  As for Mr. Liu...

  I haven’t figured it out yet, it’s the first time I’ve heard of the so-called tricks in Go at such an old age.

   This is too abstract!

  When Gu Miao said that when Jiang Liuer played chess, there would be vortices and air currents on the chessboard, the chess pieces would emit dazzling golden light, and two dragons, one black and one white, were fighting fiercely above the chessboard, Mr. Liu was stunned.

  What the hell?

   Since when did chess have so many special effects? This is too gimmicky!

   There is also the saying that Dalong vomited blood immediately after being killed by a chess player, which made him feel that he was really old and could no longer keep up with the way of thinking of young people today.

  Old Liu muttered to himself, but Gu Miao didn't know.

  Because he found that Xiao Ke seemed to be very interested in the glowing Go, so he led him to discuss various special effects of playing chess.

   "If you don't shine when playing chess, is it still called playing chess?"

  Gu Miao winked and said, "This is the same as the egg fried rice made by Xiaodangjia. If it doesn't shine, can you still eat it?"

   "Makes sense."

  Xiao Ke agreed deeply: "I can't shine even when I play chess. My world champion is a joke. I don't feel as good as...Jiang Liuer."

"Hahaha!"

   His self-joking made both Mr. Liu and Gu Miao laugh out loud.

  You kid is playing embarrassingly, right?

  World champion is no joke. After all, the times are developing and Go is constantly improving. No matter how amazing Jiang Liuer is in the animation, it is difficult to defeat Xiao Ke in reality.

  This is not a bragging, but a fact.

  Since AI ended Go, the current Go has changed a lot. No matter how amazing Jiang Liuer is, he may not be able to beat amateur players now.

   After all, no matter how amateurish he is, he has also learned a few tricks from AI. Jiang Liuer, who has never touched this kind of thing, might overturn.

   "AI..."

  Talking about Jiang Liuer’s ability to create another glories when he came to the present, the three of them all thought of the shadow that hangs over the entire Go world—AI!

   This thing is no longer something that can be defeated by manpower.

   It’s not easy to open and hang, after all, your open and hang, maybe it’s not as high as other AlphaGo’s computing power.

  Unless there is a particularly violent hang, such as a super intelligent brain in the brain, defeating magic with magic, let AI also taste the feeling of being hanged.

   "So, our animation is still too conservative!"

  Gu Miao shook her head: "Which kind of chess master is Jiang Liu'er? A true chess master, to suppress the entire chess world by himself, he has to be an alpha dog!"

  Be reasonable.

  If it wasn't for the consideration of rationality, Gu Miao would have wanted Jiang Liu'er to leave and replace AlphaGo as the protagonist of the animation.

   After all, how fierce is AlphaGo! Invincible, suppressing the entire chess world with one's own strength, isn't this much more powerful than Jiang Liu'er?

Unfortunately…

  Let AlphaGo appear at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and then go to play Go, this idea is still too bold and abstract.

  Lend him a hundred guts, and he wouldn't dare to act like this.

   Sorry, it rained heavily and I came back late without an umbrella

  (end of this chapter)