My Animation Era

  Chapter 658 Tom's fur color (for subscription)

  Second weekend of October.

  Gu Miao was at home and met Dave Smith, the head of the North American branch who came to Jiangchuan to report to him, and his colleagues in a very low-key manner.

  It has been two and a half months since the establishment of the North American branch of Wanbao.

  In the past two months, Dave Smith and the "Oscar-level" animation production team he led have been busy with the same thing.

   Determine the character image!

   That's right!

   Nearly three months, if it is the fast gunners from the headquarters, it is estimated that they can shoot a 12-episode short TV animation. But Dave and his colleagues haven't even finalized their characters.

   Really slow work and meticulous work...

   Fortunately, Gu Miao stated in advance that there is no time limit for the "Tom and Jerry" project. As long as he is not pregnant with Nezha, Dave can do whatever he wants.

  Because of this, Gu Miao was not angry that Dave's team took more than two months to draw the first version of the "Tom and Jerry" character sketch.

  What's the use of being angry?

  The working attitude of this group of ghosts is like this, and they are not the domestic social animals who are desperately infiltrating. It is really easy for them to go to work.

   Unless they are fired and replaced by a group of domestic social animals who are good at introverting and working overtime, Gu Miao has nothing to do with them.

  If these people can be fired, where should he find the next "Oscar-level" animation production team?

   Endure it!

  Let’s take a look first. Dave and others spent two and a half months drawing the sketches of the characters of Tom and Jerry.

   "Hmm! This cat..."

  Gu Miao stared at the gray British shorthair cat on the sketch, her eyebrows could not help but frowned.

  Is Tom this coat color?

  Like the early Tom, it is indeed gray. Three years later, it was changed to light blue, which is familiar to the audience, and it was changed to the classic blue-gray later.

  Among the three fur-colored Toms, the most familiar ones should be "light blue" and "blue-gray" Toms. After all, they are Tom's ultimate skin, which can be said to be endless.

   As for Gray Tom...

   It's not that Gu Miao is prejudiced or discriminatory, it's just that he's used to the light blue and blue-gray Tom, and looking at this gray Tom, it's really uncomfortable.

  ZhiZhen leather is too classic!

  Gray Tom is actually pretty good-looking, and has more wild characteristics of a "cat", but in terms of familiarity, it is definitely not as classic as blue-gray and light blue in the later period.

   "Add some blue?"

  After listening to what his boss said, Dave stroked his chin and thought: "It feels good, we will try it later."

   "OK!"

  Gu Miao's English is not very good, and his communication is very lame, so he can only make a long story short: "There are ears! Don't you think it's too mellow?"

"what?"

  Dave heard the words, looked down at the original sketch, and couldn't help asking: "This is the part we copied based on the physical appearance of 147 British short cats..."

   "Stop, stop, stop!"

  147 cats, you can do it!

  Gu Miao hurriedly waved her hand, stopped Dave's introduction and said, "I'm not denying your efforts, I just think this cat doesn't look anime enough, do you understand me?"

   Not anime enough!

   This is the first problem that Gu Miao discovered based on the first draft of the character image.

  Dave and the others have done a good job. The cat’s expression is no different from that of a real cat. If you look at it from a distance, you might think it’s alive!

   But that's exactly the problem.

  Too realistic, too real, but not enough animation. Doing animation is not like taking photos, and the more realistic and realistic the better, the better.

   It is still necessary to "exaggerate" animation a little bit, after all, it is a virtual character.

  …

  Gu Miao and Dave communicated at home for two hours, discussing many details about the character's image.

  Of course, he is only responsible for picking.

  Gu Miao can't guarantee that she has a better vision than Dave. It's just that he has seen the original version of "Tom and Jerry", so he will unconsciously compare it with the original version.

   This comparison, he will find a lot of inconsistent or even inappropriate details, and then tell Dave.

  Dave also wrote down one by one.

  Because the original artist who drew the sketch of the character image did not come to Jiangchuan with him to visit the boss, so he had to write down the boss's suggestion, and then bring it back to North America to the original artist.

   "Isn't it okay to communicate on the phone?"

   "It's really not possible, can you communicate face to face by opening a video?" Ma Kui wondered, "Why do you have to take notes and take them back to pass on?"

   "You don't understand, this is called rigor!"

  Gu Miao curled her lips and said, "So he is a seven-time Oscar winner, but you struggled to win a Golden Sparrow Award. This is the gap between the two of you."

   Ma Kui: "..."

   Does this have anything to do with rigor?

  Fortunately, Dave had already flown back overnight, otherwise Ma Kui would have to ask him: Do you work without a mobile phone or a computer at all?

   "Okay, let's understand."

  Gu Miao said indifferently: "The people in Dave's team are old after all, and their ability to accept new things is not as strong as ours."

  As long as you can make animations and make good-looking animations, then let him go!

not to mention.

  Where is this going? The first version of the character image has not been finalized, and it has to be revised several times later, even if there are any problems, there is still time to remedy them.

  Compared to this, Gu Miao is more concerned about the progress of the "Crayon Shinchan" project officially announced by Xiaoqiu and Konjac Studio.

  Especially the script and character design.

  Crayon Shin-chan is an anime with a lot of dirty jokes. When Gu Miao introduced the project to Mr. Qiu, he also focused on this part.

   Actually, this is not a hidden danger.

  The dirty jokes of the original "Crayon Shin-chan" are more concentrated in the plots of the first two seasons, but in the third season, the plots pay more attention to the shaping and description of a family's relationship.

  So his suggestion to Xiaoqiu at the time was that if the pornographic jokes could not be integrated, or if they were faced with "vulgar" accusations that made it difficult to pass the trial, they could consider deleting them.

  Xiao Qiu told him.

   In this regard, he will ask other people for their opinions and opinions on the review.

  After determining the red line, consider the scale of dirty jokes or writing scripts.

   It’s been so long in a flash.

   Gu Miao, who hadn't heard from Xiaoqiu for a long time, was very concerned about this matter, wanting to know what he had found out, and how he planned to deal with this scale.

"I know this!"

   As the head of the eunuchs of the Wanbao Dynasty, Ma Kui not only heard about this matter, but even participated in it himself.

   According to him.

  Xiaoqiu and Konjac Studio visited and consulted many people in the industry. From their mouths and side-by-side listening, one thing was confirmed.

   That’s driving, as long as it’s not too obvious that the wheels are running over people’s faces, then it’s fine.

   Meat jokes can also be used.

   But there should be no sexual hints, let alone be too blunt. It can be a little more subtle, just like a joke.

   Sung Wook, my nephew's name. Accompanying my brother to apply for a birth certificate today, I was delayed on the way and came back late...

  (end of this chapter)