The Strongest Animator [Rebirth]

There are many works about Sherlock Holmes.

After a brief understanding of related novels, live-action films, animations, and even games, Shepherd Star finally focused on the most original and classic original novel, Conan Doyle's "Detective Sherlock Holmes" Collection".

[I thought you would choose a work with a wider audience like "Detective Conan". 】

When the system said this, Mu Suxing was having a headache for how to transform the original author's text description into a specific character design. He was thinking about how to express the character's characteristics in the form of painting without raising his head. Reminder: "Don't forget, Kudo Shinichi is an out-and-out Sherlock Holmes fan. Even the name 'Conan' comes from 'Conan Doyle'."

You should know that in the comic "Detective Conan", "Sherlock Holmes" is the number one idol of the protagonist Kudo Shinichi, and his sense of existence is quite strong, and there are many related stalks in the comics. In the case of Sherlock Holmes, it may be difficult to truly feel and understand Shinichi's so-called dream of "becoming Sherlock Holmes in the Reiwa era".

As for the video comics...

In fact, as early as when he returned from the "Baiyun Comics" magazine, Mu Suxing had the idea of ​​​​establishing a comic magazine under Huaying.

To say that the closest to animation in all entertainment, and the easiest to adapt, must be comics.As Huaying grows bigger and has more and more employees, the animations it produces will not and cannot be limited to the system mall.On the other hand, as Shepherd Xing said to the media not long ago - not all animations can show their charm in the first few episodes.

Under such circumstances, let this type of animation appear as a manga first, and then animate it after it has accumulated enough popularity. Obviously, it will be much smoother than making animation directly.

"His name is Sherlock Holmes, and he is the protagonist of this reasoning comic."

Dai Yuyan paused.

She carefully read the manga character set pushed to her by Mu Su Xing, and neither said it was good nor bad.In the past two years, although Huaying has gradually become what a serious company should be, the decision-making of the general direction has always given priority to the personal will of Shepherd Xing.

As the backbone of the company who has worked with the Shepherd Star for a long time, Dai Yuyan has long been used to trusting and obeying any decision made by the Shepherd Star.

If he thinks it's time for Huaying to try to go deeper into comic magazines, then what they have to do is to do so, and recruit as many comic editors and comic authors as possible within the time stipulated by Shepherd Star. This is a manga on the subject of reasoning, as the masterpiece of "Hua Ying Manga" from the first issue, so just do what the other party says.

Therefore, at this moment, Dai Yuyan seriously read the drawing of the character, and she didn't talk about it, questioning the subject matter or the meaning of the decision. The ability and possibility of sales of Huaying Manga, but naturally asked: "What about the time? If you are responsible for the main writer of the serial comics and animation at the same time, will the time be too tight?"

In fact, this is one of the reasons why the Shepherd star chose "The Collection of Sherlock Holmes".

"Although it is a reasoning comic, strictly speaking, it is actually a series of reasoning comics with Sherlock Holmes as the main character," Shepherd Xing explained: "The original novel has 4 novels and 56 short stories. Sometimes, it will come one by one according to the novels, it will not be serialized every week like the orthodox long comics, and there will be a certain 'empty window period' in the middle."

In this way, although the time is still very tight, considering the manga assistant and the break period when a single short story ends, judging from the current drawing speed of Shepherd Star, it is not too difficult.

Dai Yuyan nodded.

Now that Shepherd Xing himself said it was okay, she no longer entangled or bothered about what was there, and simply transitioned to the next itinerary:

"The preparations for the production of the second season of Magic Card have been completed. In addition, considering the high sales volume of Magic Circle, Director Wei wants to know whether the company has the idea of ​​shooting a sequel or a theatrical version of Magic Circle, and..."

It was rare to catch Mu Su Xing himself, so Dai Yuyan simply threw out some of the questions that she had been undecided for a while.

Mu Juxing thought about it and said: "Magic card can come according to the original plan. As for the magic circle, a sequel movie version should be produced and released in theaters. I will print out the animation script before next week. The director has not yet been decided. This weekend I should be able to spare a little time, please tell me that if you are interested in directing the theater version of the magic circle, come and chat with me on weekends."

After all, the magic circle has a special style. Urobuchi Gen’s script can be exchanged and printed out through the system mall at any time, but whether the director who takes over can perform the script well is another question, and it is natural to be cautious in this regard.

"As for the animation..."

Now that the magic circle has been successfully completed, according to the plan of Shepherd Xing, he plans to continue the production of the short animation "Mulan" while adapting the original novel of Sherlock Holmes.

The process was not smooth.

For "Mulan", Shepherd Xing selfishly wanted to create a more special art style that was more in line with the background of the story, which is why he has been visiting museums since a long time ago.But neither the understanding of history nor the cognition of antique patterns can be mastered in just a few months.

Mu Suxing pondered for a while, and then said: "You ask Du Yutang to help me contact Professor Zhong Wenhuazhong from the History Department of Shayi University, and take the script of "Mulan" with you, and ask him to be the director of this animation. The historical consultant, and Professor Tan Qingyi Tan from the Animation Department of Huaijiang University of Fine Arts..."

Before he finished speaking, he seemed to think of something again, and changed his words: "Forget it, just contact Professor Zhong Wenhua. I will visit Professor Tan in two days."

Speaking of which, getting acquainted with Professor Tan and others was already the time when "The Gift of the Magi" won the Best Animated Short Film Award. Later, he was busy with work. Although there were contacts in the middle, they were mainly based on intermittent phone calls. , now that I can spare a little time, I should naturally pay a visit in person.

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This is a small conference room.

As a newly established comics department under Huaying, the work area assigned to Huaying comics is only a small area on the third floor near the south—but Qiu Fengmao doesn't care about this.

He is not a fledgling rookie editor, on the contrary, before he was moved by Huaying and took over this comic magazine that had not even been officially established, Qiu Fengmao was a well-known comic editor in the Blue Star comics industry—he could always write in Find the one with the most potential among a bunch of mediocre cartoon authors, and use your keen market sense to help the other party complete the leap from being unknown to becoming famous.

During this process, he has reviewed various comics and encountered various problems. He is confident that no matter what kind of situation he encounters, he can face it calmly and solve it.

— including now.

Qiu Fengmao raised his head and looked at the young man opposite him.

Since he would give up his original position in "Baiyun Comics" and come to "Huaying Comics" with an uncertain future, he naturally took a fancy to Huaying's potential. The young people Huaying has brought to the pinnacle of the industry are naturally part of the potential.

It was also because of this that Qiu Fengmao didn't immediately refute when the other party couldn't help but declare that the main comic of the first issue of "Huaying Comics" would be a reasoning comic written by him himself.

He didn't speak, but that doesn't mean no other editors did.After a brief silence, there was a low chirping like a bird:

"Inference manga?"

"At first, our magazine didn't attract any real big hands. Now is the critical period when high-quality works are needed to retain readers. This is too..."

Shepherds understand what these editors mean.

For a long time, whether in novels, comics, animation or TV series, suspense reasoning has always been an out-and-out cold subject, especially in the field of novels and comics, it can be said that reasoning is the second coldest, only science fiction Dare to be the number one.And most reasoning fans will be more inclined to traditional reasoning novels that can make them think quietly. The overlap between its audience and Huaying's original audience is almost negligible.

At this point, it is no longer a matter of quality, but of subject matter.

No matter how high-quality suspense reasoning comics are, their influence and audience can hardly be compared with popular themes.Of course, as long as the manga itself is good enough, there will be no problem serializing it in a manga magazine——

But the problem is that "Huaying Comics" is not an old-fashioned comic magazine, but a newly established Xiaomengxin.

What it needs most at the moment is not serious, slow but wonderful reasoning comics, but comics that can quickly attract readers' attention at the beginning and make people want to buy.

And these are obviously not something a reasoning comic can do.

silence.

After a full 10 minutes of silence, Qiu Fengmao finally spoke. Instead of questioning directly, he asked calmly: "If I understand correctly, this will be a reasoning based on the past of Beipu Province. comics?"

In fact, although Blue Star has achieved global unification many years ago, the original cultural barriers have not disappeared. This is why the sales volume of the animation produced by Huaying has never exceeded the 100 million mark. reason.

So far, the market that Huaying Animation has been targeting is, after all, dominated by oriental regions and audiences. From character design to plot, its animation works are all in line with the preferences of oriental audiences.However, the manga that Mu Suxing produced right now is obviously completely different, westernized works.

There is an invisible "wall" in comics in different cultures.

So what about this reasoning comic now?

As a kind of comic theme that cannot be colder, can it really break down the barriers between different cultures and help the fledgling "Huaying Comics" gain a place in the industry?