My Animation Era

  Chapter 905 Plot speed bump (for subscription)

   There is a recognized "card player" within the Wanbao Group, who once scored among the top 100 players in the world in "Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Frontline".

  His name is Xu Hong!

   After finishing a series of award-giving activities, Gu Miao, who returned to the company, was still curious about what happened to the domestic players of "Yu-Gi-Oh." So she asked Xu Hong to inquire.

  Xu Hong is recognized as the number one card player in Wanbao. He is not only good at poker, but also knows many dueling masters in the circle.

  After his narration, Gu Miao barely figured out the reason why domestic players failed in various competitions of "Yu-Gi-Oh" this year.

simply put.

  Domestic players were strong in the first two years, and the champion of the competition was soft, mainly because of the version bonus. Relying on the understanding of the "Shan Hai Jing" and "Hua Guo Myth" series of monster cards, many black technology card groups have been developed.

  But since the second half of last year, "Yu-Gi-Oh" has officially entered the era of great integration. A series of fusion cards launched by Yu-Gi-Oh GX are difficult to integrate into the previous Shan Hai Jing and Hua Guo Myth decks.

   To put it bluntly, in this era of great integration, domestic players can only grit their teeth and abandon their original mainstream decks, and build a deck that matches the version from scratch.

   This process is painful.

   Card guys, everyone has their own favorite cards. It is emotionally reluctant to let them give up these cards and only choose cards with strong versions.

   "To put it bluntly, most of the fusion monsters are not from the Shan Hai Jing and Hua Guo myth systems, so the domestic players are confused?"

"right!"

  Xu Hong explained: "The new cards recently released by "Yu-Gi-Oh" rarely include the Shan Hai Jing and Hua Guo Myth series. For those who love these two series, it is very troublesome to build a card group."

"Okay, I know."

  After learning the reason, Gu Miao immediately made a decision to ask Wanbao Toys to print a few more fusion monster cards of the Classic of Mountains and Seas and Huaguo Mythology.

   This is actually not difficult to do.

  The Fusion Monster Cards of Huaguo Mythology and Shanhaijing series, if you really want to design them, it is easy to come by.

  Fusion of Seven Fairies, Empress of Seven Stars!

  The fusion of thunder, lightning, and mother, nine heavens respond to the sound of thunder and universalize Tianzun!

  As long as you have a big brain, you don’t have to worry about not having fusion cards. Whether it is the Huaguo mythology system or the Shanhaijing system, there are so many characters and beasts that can be used, and dozens of monster cards can be designed casually.

   However, the printed card belongs to the printed card.

  The strength of these cards, it’s better not to get too crazy, a hundred flowers bloom is the best duel environment, otherwise everyone is rushing to use the same deck, it’s meaningless.

  …

  The animations "Hell Girl" and "Super Cool Cat" were broadcast hot, and various competitions were held smoothly. Gu Miao, who was rarely free, went to Feiyang studio.

   Here, he spot-checked the "Little Carp Adventures" project supervised by Guo Hongwei.

no problem!

  The animation has been preliminarily completed. Judging from the current performance, it is indeed worthy of the money Gu Miao invested, and it is not disappointing.

   Just…

  While watching the demo, Gu Miao keenly noticed a problem.

   "Will the pressure brought by the mangy snake to the protagonist group cause the atmosphere of the animation to be too depressing?"

  The middle and late stages of the animation are better, but in the middle and early stages, especially at the beginning of the animation plot, the overall atmosphere is a bit depressing and sad.

  This can be seen from the titles of the first few episodes of the animation.

  The first episode is called Bubble Trouble, the second episode is called Dragon Palace Adventure, the third episode is called Difficulty, and the fourth episode is called Tears Farewell to Relatives...

to be honest.

  Gu Miao is not the kind of person who is sentimental and has a particularly well-developed tear gland, and her psychological endurance is not bad.

   But even so, when watching the samples, he would still feel very depressed and his mood would be affected when he saw Bubble causing trouble and being targeted by the mangy snake in various ways.

   "Suppress first and then raise!"

  Guo Hongwei shook his head and explained: ""The Adventures of Little Carp" is an inspirational animation. Without the tempering and growth in the early stage, how can there be inspirational transformation?"

  In online novels, the protagonist’s status or status is very miserable at the beginning, either being divorced, or recognized as a waste material, poor and poor, and ridiculed by the people around him.

  Why is it designed this way?

  Isn’t it okay to give the protagonist a genius and rich second-generation status at the beginning?

  This is actually to create a contrast, as the saying goes, the lower the starting point, the higher the achievement!

  The waste material protagonist went out to pick up treasures and became a genius, which made everyone look at him with admiration...

  The genius protagonist went out to pick up treasures, his status and identity have not changed at all, but he has become more genius and monstrous, and everyone still praises him the same.

   Bubbles are the same.

  The mangy snake put so much pressure on him in front, which can also be called tempering. Although it looks uncomfortable, but after Bubble grows up and defeats the mangy snake, a sense of inspiration comes out immediately.

  If Bubbles has golden dragon scales at the beginning of the game, beating the mangy snake to the ground, what kind of "inspirational" animation is this? Where is the inspirational element?

   "What you said makes sense."

  Gu Miao nodded to express her approval. Although it is old-fashioned and vulgar, it is indeed a good way to arrange the plot.

  However, there is a limit to suppressing first and then raising. You can't stay in a depressed state for a long time, and you can't let the villain continue to be arrogant.

   "There are still problems with the plot."

  Gu Miao pointed out the key point: "You patronized to sharpen and suppress Bubble and his partners, but you didn't give them a chance to show themselves."

  In an animation with 52 episodes, the main character can't be held back for a full 50 episodes until the last two episodes, right?

   This will definitely not work!

  Suppressing first and then raising is not the way to play, you have to give the audience some hope, you can't hold back, the audience can't stand it and run away.

   "Then what do you say?"

"Simple!"

  After thinking for a while, Gu Miao gave her own understanding and said: "In the process of fighting against the mangy snake, the protagonist group can't always run away or lose, and occasionally have to let the mangy snake suffer."

   No one likes to watch the crushing game.

  If the mangy snake has a big advantage in the whole process, and finally gathers the five elements of dragon scales and is turned over by Bubble and others, the plot is not very good to be honest.

   What they want is to have back and forth, and the weaker Bubble Aku and others can occasionally play tricks on the mangy snake and his subordinates, and even make them deflated.

  This kind of bridge is not necessarily frequent.

  But every time such a plot occurs, the audience who have been depressed for a long time will welcome a moment of relaxation and smile along with the plot.

   Speed ​​bumps, do you understand?

   What Gu Miao asked his apprentice Xiao Guo to add was actually to relieve the audience's mood and reduce the speed bump of depression.

With this speed bump, the overall look and feel of the animation "The Adventures of Little Carp" will be improved, and at the same time, it will be able to retain more viewers, luring them to see the end and achieve the effect that an "inspirational" animation should have .

  The plot of Little Carp Adventures comes from the folklore of a carp jumping over the Dragon Gate!

  The carp jumping over the dragon's gate symbolizes the fighting spirit of going against the current and making progress. This is also the deep meaning that the animation wants to express, and it is also the core value of the story.

   I was scratched by an electric car while walking on the road, and my arm was scratched. In the end, the guy didn't ask any questions, and just ran away on the car, really speechless...

  (end of this chapter)