My Animation Era

  Chapter 287 Pikachu's "Weight Loss" Notes (Subscribe)

   "Pleasant Goat, Beautiful Goat..."

   "Don't look at me as a sheep!"

  Just as the third season of the animation "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" "A Happy Year for Sheep and Goat" continued to hit the air and sparked a frenzy of discussions about the characters in the animation plot, Gu Miao came to Feiyang Studio.

  Hou Bin called him.

  On the phone, Director Hou expressed joyfully that the production progress of the animation "Pokémon" was gratifying, and everyone in the studio was looking forward to Mr. Gu's coming to see the results.

  By the way...

   Guide the next stage of work!

  Gu Miao was too embarrassed to refute the invitation. Even with the recent incident of "The Chef Liu Maoxing" and the energy involved in "The Snake Comes Around", he still found time to come.

   "Mr. Gu, look at this!"

  As soon as she stepped into Feiyang's studio, Gu Miao was dragged by the enthusiastic Hou Bin to the interior of the studio and watched the latest film.

   "Hmm! It's okay...wait!"

   At first glance, Gu Miao didn't realize the problem, but when he took a few more glances, he couldn't help frowning.

   Something is wrong with this frame rate!

  At first glance, he thought it was a traditional standard 24-frame animation, but after a few more glances, he realized that this number of frames is definitely not 24 frames.

   And there is one more point, why does the coloring method of this line draft look more and more like flat painting "celluloid"?

  So, he tentatively asked.

   "Celluloid?"

"Ok!"

  Hou Bin nodded and said: "Sellulu's picture style is concise and strong, and the most important point is that the coloring is more efficient!"

  High EQ: Efficient!

  Low EQ: save money!

   Gu Miao has no opinion on Hou Bin's use of "celluloid" in the production of the animation "Pokémon".

  Although celluloid is a relatively primitive and "old-fashioned" animation production method, it can be described in an abstract way, which is probably: artificial PS layer, or shadow puppetry.

   That's right!

  In the wild period of animation that has not yet entered the "digital age", there is no such portable "computer software" to use today.

  The animation producer, in order to minimize the workload of hand-painting and coloring and save costs as much as possible, thus "Celluloid" was born!

certainly!

  The original celluloid actually refers to a kind of resin material, which has nothing to do with "animation production".

  But it doesn’t matter, anyway, after so many years, everyone is used to the name “Cellulu”.

   Celluloid has a signature feature!

   Heavy line draft!

   As the saying goes, "The line draft is not good enough, return it and redo it", this is nothing new in the industry.

  After stepping into the digital age...

  Celluloid has gradually evolved from an "old-school animation production method" to "illustration style and painting method", and a new genre has emerged as the times require.

  Hou Bin’s method is actually to draw the line draft first, and then paint and fill in the exquisite line draft. He pays more attention to the "exaggerated" expressiveness of the line draft shape, and the color matching is bold and vivid.

   What are the benefits of doing this?

  On the one hand, there is the consideration of "saving" production costs, and on the other hand, it is because the celluloid style is actually very popular with the "audience".

   That's right!

   Gu Miao doesn't know much about the illustration world and the manga world. Anyway, in the animation world, Celulu's set is quite popular.

  Hou Bin has his own ideas.

  According to him, he also played the Pokémon game. Most of the original paintings or illustrations that appear in the "Pokémon" game are in this style.

  He wants to stay in tune with the game!

   This will allow gamers to fall in love with the animation at a glance and improve the "reduction" of the animation.

"sure, no problem."

  Gu Miao nodded, not surprised by it.

very few people know.

  The earliest unprinted chapter of the animation "Pokémon", which is the first season of the animation adaptation, is actually made of "celluloid" film.

  After entering the 21st century, new animations have been converted to "digital" production, and celluloid film has never been used...

  So, why does the Muyin chapter look so cool? Because it is celluloid film, purely hand-painted!

   "Mr. Gu, look at this again..."

  After showing the finished film, Hou Bin used the computer to call up an original painting of "Pikachu", and explained it carefully to Gu Miao.

   "Aiming at the shape of Pikachu, we also made some fine-tuning in the animation!"

   "Ouch!"

  When Gu Miao saw this Pikachu, he froze immediately.

what?

  Pi Shen is going to the gym and got a membership card, right? I haven't seen it for a few days, and the weight loss effect is obvious!

   "In the game, Pikachu's shape is too fat! It is undeniable that many players think that it is more cute and charming."

  Hou Bin shrugged and said: "But this is because the game screen is not high-definition enough, there is a kind of fuzzy beauty. If the animation shape is the same, it is obvious that Pikachu will become very bloated and fat."

   "That's right, that's right!"

  Gu Miao nodded frantically.

  He wanted to complain a long time ago, plump and round, these are of course "cute" labels, but were the early Pikachu too "fat"?

   That's exactly a "ball"!

  The Pokémon IP has been in operation for more than 20 years. As the classic Pokémon characters, Pikachu and Pishen's "shape" have also undergone multiple rounds of update iterations.

  Many people only know the current Pikachu. Let them see the old version and the Pikachu made by the original designer. They probably can’t believe it...

   Is this fat yellow-skinned mouse really my skin god? Don't make trouble! How could Pishen be so fat?

   Slander!

   Pure slander!

  Pikachu sent a lawyer's letter to warn...

  No matter how you say it, Gu Miao, who is used to the "slim version" of Pikachu, really can't accept it. The original version was plump and round Pikachu.

   That thing is really awesome!

  If Hou Bin didn’t mention this, he would have almost forgotten that Pikachu still has such an unbearable experience of “fitness and weight loss”.

   It’s not too late to think about it now.

  At the very least, he can correct the mistakes from the beginning, so that Pikachu can always maintain a slender figure in the animation.

  No more fat!

   If she keeps gaining weight, she might lose all her female fans. Fitness and weight loss is the right way, serious Pokémon, how can there be a precedent for getting fat into a ball?

What?

   You said Charizard is also fat?

  Fat is fat, but that is "Teacher Big Spray", understandable.

  After all, the professional Pokémon career of Mr. Daxie has long been concluded. He slept until he retired, and he couldn't answer the question "What kind of skin do you have?", a typical bad guy.

   Isn’t that just Pokémon stains?

Well…

  Although the two are similar in size, but carefully measuring the results of the competition, Gu Miao immediately felt that it seemed a bit insulting to compare the stains with the big spray teacher.

In general.

  The shape of Pokémon is not static.

   Just as Pikachu has also experienced "fitness and weight loss", the appearance of many Pokémon has changed.

  So Gu Miao did not object to Hou Bin's weight loss for Pikachu, and even raised his hands and feet in favor.

  (end of this chapter)