My Animation Era

   As for the "Quick Shooter", Gu Miao actually doesn't have much opinion, because he himself is a recognized director of Quick Shooter.

   But not fast for the sake of fast!

  Animation production, especially the production of a commercial animation is a complex professional project with many processes, and there are many links in the middle that need attention.

  If some links are neglected in the production process in pursuit of speed, it may lead to the failure of the entire work.

   I won’t talk about the storyboard plot.

  Just say a small detail that is easy to be overlooked, but is extremely important to an animation work, and it is also often overlooked in order to meet the deadline.

   Screen Brightness!

   Isn’t it very inconspicuous?

   But this cannot be easily ignored. The brightness of the picture may seem unimportant, but it is indeed a part that affects many viewers' direct viewing experience.

   Well known.

  Gu Miao used to make live-action dramas, or the director of those goofy dramas.

  He is particularly sensitive to this link, because when shooting a live-action drama, especially when shooting outside, the light will directly determine the shooting effect of this group of shots.

  The sun is very good, so hurry up and organize the actors to take more shots, and keep a few more shots.

   Poor sunlight? Or there is no sun at all, so you have to consider whether to wait for the sky to clear, or ask the lighting engineer to find a way to fill in the light, at least to make the picture look clear and bright.

Trivia!

  Lighting engineers with similar roles not only exist in the crew of live-action film and television dramas, but also formal professional animation production teams generally have the same lighting engineers as standard.

  Of course, animation is not a live-action film and television drama after all, and there are naturally some differences in the workflow and work content of lighting engineers.

   But the goal is the same.

  Maintain the brightness of the picture and the vivid value of the color, so as to meet the director's needs for the scene and the shot, and improve the viewing experience of the audience.

  Different animations have different requirements for color and brightness.

for example.

  Guo Hongwei is working on an animation like "The Adventures of Little Carp", the picture needs to be brighter and the colors should be brighter.

   And works like "Super Cool Cat" produced by Gu Miao, because the plot mainly follows the "dark fairy tale" route, so the picture will not be so bright, and the colors will not be so bright and eye-catching.

   "We need to pay attention to the weather!"

   "If it's Kule getting along with grandparents, a more soothing daily plot, then the sky must be a cloudless and sunny day."

  Gu Miao explained patiently: "But if it's an accident, when Yinghua Town encounters a big crisis, the weather will have to be slightly overcast, creating the feeling of dense clouds."

"Ok, I see."

  The staff in charge of scene creation nodded, and then asked: "Mr. Gu, should the overall structure of Yinghua Town be made old or new?"

  The story background is different.

  The original Super Cool Cats took place in Neon, and the Neon economy had stagnated for years, so even street scenes from many years ago looked pretty much the same as they do now.

   But Wanbao’s version of “Super Cool Cat” is set in Jiangchuan. The development of Jiangchuan over the years can be described as rapid, the economic growth rate is astonishing, and the appearance of the city is changing day by day.

   This brings up a problem.

  The streets where grandparents and Kule live are mainly in the new urban area or in the old urban area?

  The new urban area is closer to reality.

  The old town is more lively!

   Faced with this choice, Gu Miao hardly hesitated, and decided to ask the set designer to make Yinghua Town into the old appearance of Jiangchuan ten or twenty years ago.

   Do the old but not the new!

  The new high-rise buildings, spacious roads and traffic light billboards do look very grand and futuristic, but this is too out of the animation background.

  It is still an old city street, the strong breath of life and full of memories are more eye-catching.

  People can't always live in the past, but they can remember the vivid scenes of childhood through animation.

  …

   Regarding the animation "Super Cool Cat", Gu Miao needs to pay attention to a lot of points, and even invited foreign aid for the core fighting scene.

   That's right!

   Several experts from the animation "Dragon Ball" came to guide the fighting scenes of "Super Cool Cat" on the grounds of technical poverty alleviation.

   Don’t really say…

   People who have worked on top-notch comics like "Dragon Ball" are indeed understanding concepts, which is many levels ahead of everyone.

  With the help of this group of foreign aid, the fighting scene of Kulemao has been upgraded from "toe stepping" to "Tathagata palm" level in one fell swoop.

   It's on fire!

   It is obviously a cat fighting with a group of aliens and another group of cats, but it gives people a wonderful illusion of watching "Dragon Ball".

   This is a mouthful, this is a mouthful!

  Gu Miao is very satisfied with the new version of the fighting depiction, especially the Gatling cannon in Kule's hand that emits blue flames and shoots wildly. It's simply too cool.

   "Still almost mean..."

   "After all, it's a mechanical cat who doesn't know martial arts and is good at indiscriminate bombing with hot weapons. It doesn't have any specific tricks."

  The foreign aid expert heard Gu Miao's words, and said with emotion: "If this cat can release such moves as Kaiwang Fist and Kamehae Qigong like Wukong, then the fighting scene will be even more shocking."

   "Enough, don't be too outrageous!"

  Gu Miao was in a cold sweat.

   What about Kaiwangquan and Kamehae Qigong? Kule is just a cat, or a mechanical cat on the mechanical side. As for using the Upper Realm King Fist?

  If this is the case, don’t call the animation “Super Cool Cat”, just change the name to “Super Saiyan Cat”.

not to mention!

  Ku Le's strength is already strong enough, placed in the three-acre area of ​​Yinghua Town, it is already a cat with outstanding destructive power.

   If you give him some perverted trick or skill, the corresponding destructive power can't blow up Yinghua Town into a cherry blossom pit, and directly wipe this town off the map?

  Shenluo Tianzheng, right?

  The more she thought about it, the more speechless Gu Miao was, she was already very satisfied with the current Ku Le.

  The only shortcoming, which can also be called a slot, is probably the limbs of Kulemao, which are still as thin as chopsticks.

Trivia!

  Kole's palms and feet have always been nicknamed "Mouse Hand" and "Mouse Foot".

  Where did this nickname come from?

  The main reason is that Kule's hands and feet are too much like a mouse, and his limbs are so thin that they look like a mouse's power cord from a distance.

   Hence the nickname.

   This shape is very classic, but it is also very irritating. When Gu Miao designed the image of Ku Le, he planned to change it for him and slightly thicken his limbs.

  After the modification, I found that such cool music is not "cool" at all, but has a strange "iron and simple" feeling.

   Then what to do?

  In order to match the word "ku" in Kule's name and make him look cooler, of course he returned to the original state and continued to use the mouse hand and mouse foot.

  The weirdness is a bit weird.

   But I have to admit that the mouse hands and feet are really cool and distinctive...