My Animation Era

Chapter 1093: The dog is blessed and prosperous

 Master Cao deserves the name of a master!

Gu Miao's performance in the recording studio was already disastrous, but even so, Master Cao still saved him.

 “Is this really what I sang?”

After listening to the demo of the theme song, Gu Miao said with surprise on her face: "Damn it! I didn't even realize it was my voice even if you didn't tell me. It's so amazing!"

 That’s awesome!

This kind of technology can no longer be described by millions of tuners. On the Internet, it must be at least the level of tens of millions of tuners.

 The revised theme song of "Martin's Morning" has all the original flaws and shortcomings covered, replaced by Gu Miao's lively and lively voice.

 Yes, lively and lively!

Gu Miao himself didn't realize that it turned out that he had such a feeling when singing. No wonder Master Cao said that he was actually very good at singing, but he just liked to go out of tune.

This is really not a joke...

 If Gu Miao improves his musicality, stops being out of tune, and shocks the world when he sings, it will not be a big problem to dominate the KTV in the urban-rural fringe area.

"How to say?"

Master Cao joked: "Go and sign up for a further training class at the Conservatory of Music?"

"forget it…"

“Everyone has a so-called absolute sense of pitch. With my basic skills and talent, it’s useless to study further.” Gu Miao shook her head.

The premise that hard work can make up for your shortcomings is that you are at least not weaker than others in terms of talent, but you just lack the time to improve yourself.

obviously!

 Gu Miao is a type of person who has no talent or a huge gap in talent on the road of music.

The idea that hard work can make up for failure does not apply to him, and he has no intention of making any achievements in music. He just wants to have fun and study.

 It’s a good thing to know yourself!

Gu Miao’s talent is almost all in the aspect of market acumen. Instead of doing music without doing his job, it is better to create greater glory in his old profession.

 The theme song and soundtrack of the animation "Martin's Morning" are almost completed with the help of Master Cao.

at the same time.

Just in time for Christmas, Gu Miao also forwarded a heartbreaking obituary to her fans.

On the eve of the upcoming Christmas Eve, an original animator who once worked at Wolfsburg Studio and participated in the production of many Wanbao high-quality animations died of cancer.

The obituary read so.

“…No one may know his name, but the characters he drew have supported the childhoods of countless people.”

“Beautiful Yangyang, Sweetheart Superman…all the classic screen characters represent his great contribution to Wanbao Animation! All colleagues at Wanbao Animation express our deep condolences for his passing!”

This is really bad news.

No one expected that a colleague who was so young, whose children had not yet entered junior high school, and who worked so hard, would suddenly leave us all at once.

 The most distressing thing is that before this colleague was diagnosed with the disease, he readily accepted Mr. Gu’s invitation and decided to join the production team of "Martin's Morning".

 Because he is extremely good at drawing female characters, Rona’s first original character line drawing was drawn by him...

  Unfortunately, not long after he finished the first line drawing, he was diagnosed with a terminal illness and was admitted to the hospital for treatment.

 Gu Miao also took his colleagues to visit him during the trip. At that time, everyone encouraged him and said that everyone in the production team would wait for his return to witness the premiere of the "Martin's Morning" animation.

 That is a wonderful wish!

 Unfortunately, he failed to survive the test in the end, and as his condition deteriorated rapidly, he collapsed on the night before Christmas.

 This was a big blow to Gu Miao.

This original painter can be regarded as an old brother who has been with him for six or seven years. I saw him pass away due to illness with my own eyes. It is impossible to say that he was not touched in my heart.

 “As usual…”

Gu Miao said with a somewhat hoarse voice: "Add a framed name to the credits at the end of the animation "Martin's Morning"!"

 The framed name.

This is an extremely rare practice in the credits at the end of animation credits, and it also has extremely special meanings in industries such as film, television, animation, and publishing games.

The special thing is that whenever a "framed" person's name appears in the production list, it means that this person has passed away.

 An animation, from project establishment to completion, may not take too short a time.

 There may also be changes in the middle, resulting in the death of a production staff member. In order to express respect and memory for these people, it is usually customary to add a rectangular frame to his name.

For example, when the TV series "The Three-Body Problem" premiered, I believe many eagle-eyed viewers noticed that the name of the chief producer Lynch was framed.

  And this means the same thing.

Wanbao Animation has released dozens of animation works so far, but there is no precedent of framing the names of the producers.

"Martin's Morning" became the first work to have the names of the production staff framed. For everyone on the production team, including director Gu Miao, the mood was undoubtedly heavy.

 No one wants to see this scene, but since it has happened, they can only accept it.

 “The dead are gone, but the living are strong!”

After comforting the colleague’s relatives, wife and daughter, Gu Miao turned to comfort other colleagues in the production team who were feeling depressed.

“I think Lao Yang doesn’t want to see everyone like this. We must cheer up and help Lao Yang complete the unfinished posthumous work "Martin's Morning"."

"come on!"

Everyone shouted "Come on" in unison, and their eyes seemed to be much firmer.

Thinking that Lao Yang was in the hospital and still caring about the character Lorna in "Martin's Morning", everyone became more motivated to fight.

The same goes for Gu Miao.

As an animation director, it is necessary for him to fulfill Lao Yang’s last wish, so that the character of "Lona" can shine brightly in his hands and live up to Lao Yang’s spirit in the sky.

 …

The death of Rona's original animator made everyone on the production team turn their grief into motivation and work harder to produce the animation of "Martin's Morning".

Sometimes, Gu Miao even wanted to persuade everyone not to work so hard, but looking at the empty workstation that used to belong to Lao Yang, he couldn't say anything.

 Forget it, let them be.

However, Lao Yang's incident still gave Gu Miao a wake-up call. After discussions between him and the company's management, he finally decided to cooperate with the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangchuan Medical University to conduct regular physical examinations for its employees twice a year.

 This matter really requires the company to come forward.

If the company doesn't come forward, given the personalities of otakus like Wanbao, I'm afraid they won't even go to the hospital for a physical examination until they die. It's too troublesome!

Similarly, if the company does not reimburse the cost of physical examination, these guys will not be willing to spend the money. They will only regret it when they get sick.

 Physical examination is quite necessary.

For example, Gu Miao didn't know there was something wrong with his cervical spine without a physical examination. Well, he had noticed it usually, but he always thought it was because he was too tired and didn't take it seriously.

There is also Lao Zhang, this guy actually has kidney deficiency, which is something he never expected. As soon as the physical examination report came out, he hid the report in his pocket like a thief, for fear of being seen by others, and then he would not be able to hold his head high in the company.

 Unfortunately, he underestimated Ma Kui’s curiosity.

This guy has always disliked Lao Zhang. When he saw him looking sneaky after taking the report, he immediately guessed that there must be a secret in it, so he took away the physical examination report while he was not paying attention.

 Then...

How can Ma Kui, a big mouth, keep a secret? Within half a day, news of CEO Lao Zhang's kidney failure spread throughout the company.

　　“I’m going to kill you, surnamed Ma!”

"calm down!"

Gu Miao quickly stopped Lao Zhang, fearing that he would actually chop Ma Kui with a knife out of anger.

Although Ma Kui does deserve to die, this guy is a black sheep and his death is not a pity, but CEO Zhang Tangtang, it’s not worth it to trade one life with Ma Kui!

 Besides, kidney deficiency is nothing.

Gu Miao comforted her kindly: "It's okay. Nowadays, medical technology is so advanced, your weakness is not serious, and you will be able to make up for it sooner or later!"

 “You still mention it, you still mention it…”

Lao Zhang's face turned green when he heard this. Didn't he agree not to mention this? How come Mr. Gu is smiling happier than anyone else?

"OK OK!"

Worried that Lao Zhang would fall out if the conversation continued, Gu Miao stopped in time and said: "Instead of talking about this, let's talk about the two movies that will be released at the end of the year!"

 “Two parts?”

 “Where did the two movies come from?”

When it came to business, Lao Zhang returned to seriousness and said: "Didn't you say that there is only a big movie about the Pleasant Goat and the Year of the Dog?"

 “There are also Dragon Balls!”

“Have you forgotten? There is also a Dragon Ball movie over at the Neon Branch, which will be released around the Spring Festival.”

Gu Miao explained: "Dragon Ball The Movie is expected to premiere on Neon first, and then be released in other countries."

 You can ignore this for now.

After all, Neon is so far across the river, and the release date is later, so there is not much point in discussing this. You just need to know that it exists.

 The focus is on the big zodiac movie for the Year of the Dog!

As the first film released by Wanbao Pictures after its establishment, although the production team is the same as the original team of "The Golden Rooster", only one director has been changed.

However, the film's performance and performance still made Gu Miao and Lao Zhang very worried, fearing that if one of them failed, it would become the last film in the Zodiac series.

Hou Bin has done a good job of keeping confidentiality.

Except for Gu Miao who knows some inside information, no one within the company, including the CEO Lao Zhang, actually knows much about the Year of the Dog movie, let alone outsiders.

 “The movie is called "The Dog Lai Fu Wang"!"

Considering that Lao Zhang was not an outsider, Gu Miao introduced him to some of the information she knew.

The movie "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Dog Laifuwang" is a Chinese New Year film for the Year of the Dog, and the story background remains the same as the previous films.

　　Mainly tells the story of the Big Big Wolf family, who one day met a "fellow wolf" who was wandering in the Qingqing Grassland and had a strange cry.

 Big Gray Wolf calls himself the Wolf King, but he is never recognized by his peers.

 On the contrary, this little wolf of the same race that he picked up was very enthusiastic about him and was happy to address him as the Wolf King.

Hence, Big Big Wolf also took good care of this little brother of the same race. Not only did he take in the homeless man, he also took him out to hunt with him.

 Actually!



 But how does Gray Wolf know anything about hunting?

He couldn't even catch a frog, so he accidentally fell into the river and was chased and bitten by piranhas, which almost cost him his life.

The embarrassment of Gray Wolf sent this little brother of the same race to hunt by himself. As a result, this guy was so lucky that he encountered frogs that came to his door while walking on the road, and rabbits that hit trees by themselves...

 “Is this actually a dog?”

Before Lao Zhang finished listening, he made his own judgment and said: "Because dogs and wolves are distant relatives, that's why Big Big Wolf didn't realize that this was actually a dog."

"right!"

“The story the movie is about to tell is actually a funny story about a dog who accidentally got mixed up with a pack of wolves, and through his incredible luck, won the respect of countless wolf tribes, and was successfully elected as the wolf king.”

As he spoke, Gu Miao couldn't help but smile: "According to Hou Bin, the screenwriter who wrote this script was originally inspired by a piece of news he saw on the Internet."

“It is said that in a certain zoo, a mother dog not only mixed in with the wolves, but also adopted several wolf babies..."

“You should have seen that emoticon, which is a husky and a wolf standing together. The husky is confused by that picture.”

 “Haha! I’ve seen this too.”

 Lao Zhang was overjoyed and said: "If that's the case, it would be quite interesting. A dog mixed into a pack of wolves and ended up becoming the wolf king?"

 Why do you want to be anti-customer?

Everyone howling is echo, just you scream and scream, it is not the same style of painting!

 After laughing, Lao Zhang immediately asked: "So the main theme of this movie is a reverse comedy? Is it based on relaxed humor?"

 “That’s right!”

Gu Miao nodded.

This is also Hou Bin’s idea. The Year of the Dog movie focuses on light humor, making all the viewers who have watched the movie laugh out loud.

Maybe this kind of movie has no nutrition and just makes everyone laugh, but it must be admitted that movies with this kind of atmosphere during the Spring Festival are more popular than other movies.

Just imagine.

During the Chinese New Year, you took your family out to relax and have some fun, and then you watched a movie about bitterness and hatred, which made everyone a bit reticent. Is that in line with the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival?

 On the contrary, it is a movie like the Year of the Dog that does not involve long and cumbersome preaching, but simply makes everyone laugh, so that everyone can watch it happily during the Spring Festival and always maintain a good mood. This kind of atmosphere is correct.

But then again.

 This can only be done during the Spring Festival. If it had been any other time, making such a light-hearted and funny film with no nutritional value, I am afraid the effect would not be very good.

　　　“Let’s give something and get something.”

 Lao Zhang doesn’t think there is anything wrong with Hou Bin doing this. After all, the Pleasant Goat Zodiac series is deeply tied to the Spring Festival, so it is right to take this festive and funny route.

　　Perhaps the reputation will decline compared to the previous film, but at least it has stabilized the box office market and will not fall too much.

that's enough!

 How can there be so many good things that bring fame and fortune? The Zodiac series has been baptized by so many movies, and the audience has long been tired of watching it.

 Even if the style remains consistent with the previous work "The Golden Rooster", its reputation will still decline.

Since the reputation is destined to decline, why not choose a style that has a higher box office and is more in line with the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival?

 (End of this chapter)