Best wishes for animation production

Facing Gu Xue’s question.

Misawa said awkwardly: "You should know that for the future animation project, in principle, the animation company needs to provide some active main original artists as the backbone original artists to guide newcomers, prevent accidents, clean up messes, etc. Back then, you were still drawing When I was drawing the final episode of "This Uncle", I took it upon myself to include your name..."

"So I have to participate even if I don't participate?" Gu Xue was not too angry. Misawahiro wanted him to join this project, and Miss Mihara must have known about it.

Gu Xue believed that Miss Mihara would not cheat her, and maybe she had her own considerations in this regard.

Moreover, at the shopping mall yesterday, Miss Mihara had already extended an invitation, and Gu Xue was always ready to be really fragrant. She did not resist participating in the planning. The reason why she raised the question just now was because she was a little confused about what position she held and what she did. That’s all.

The future animation plan has requirements on the subject matter of the work. Since it is only OVA-level in length, the story must be original. It can be based on early fairy tales or short stories, but it needs to be written by a supervisor or a story created by a collective. Now three However, Zeguang asked her to write the original design drawings, and he almost didn’t ask her to write the storyboards directly. What kind of collective creation is this? Who is the supervisor...

Misawa Guang didn't know what Gu Xue was thinking, so he replied: "No, when I brought it up, your name was rejected... At that time, the chief executive thought you were from the back door... No, you are too young. , not very suitable.”

Gu Xue: "..."

"However, after the final episode of "Uncle" was broadcast, it caused a lot of discussion. The sales of the original work skyrocketed, and the sales of BD also rebounded. The most important thing is that the producers on the production committee are very satisfied. Our company is The reputation of the industry has also recovered..."

"When I saw that the final chapter I was responsible for had a good reputation, I found the specialist again with an uneasy feeling, and then..."

Misawa smiled bitterly, "There are no more five main original animators who were going to participate in this project. Now there are only two, because the company's other project "You Are My Hero" is two quarters, half a year, and there is no split broadcast. , something went wrong now, the construction period is indeed a bit tight, and I got caught in the crossfire. If I hadn’t argued hard, there might not have been one, and the executive even thought it was okay for you to be alone."

The original words of the executive at Snakehead Animation Production Company at that time were: That, that, that Miss JK you mentioned last time, wasn’t she very good at drawing? I think she'll be fine on her own.

Misawa Hiroshi was really a black line at that time.

Who said last time that she was unreliable by going through the back door...

"……so?"

Gu Xue was speechless for a while when she heard Misawa Guang's words.

"Please be sure to participate in this project. As the animation director, if possible, please also take over the character design work."

Misawa stood up and bowed quickly.

The attitude should be as sincere as possible.

It made people feel that if Gu Xue refused, he would kneel down.

"I'm sorry." Chisa Mihara also bowed her head and apologized.

Gu Xue sighed and said weakly: "There's no need to apologize."

She had originally decided to participate in this project, and thinking on the bright side, she even got promoted. Within three years of joining the industry, she became the painting supervisor and character designer. She was already on a rocket ship.

However, thinking about the worst, she will have to work harder. After all, this is not a TV animation, but a project to train new people. As the person in charge of painting, the animation director is almost equivalent to a mentor for the new people, and has to bear more teaching responsibilities. It will be quite hard.

Gu Xue couldn't be happy when she thought of this.

The only thing that makes her happy is that after completing this project, her qualifications have been increased, and the future will be easier.

After all, the end point of the promotion and development of original painters is almost the production supervision and character design. The general painting supervision is not much different from the former. If this project is successful, Gu Xue has the ability and the resume here, in the future, as long as Gu Xue is not discontinued I can do the original painting by hand, and if invited by the production team, I can also do the supervision and character design.

As for going further, Gu Xue is very interested in performance assignments, but she is only interested. As for supervision, Gu Xue has no idea for the time being.

Because of her sister Gu Rou, Gu Xue does not have much pressure in life. Now that she is working as an original painter, she just wants to do a job that she is familiar with and likes and does not let herself waste her time.

Although she understands the supervision work, she has never done it before, so Gu Xue doesn't want to waste her energy on making "the animation she wants". Isn't it more comfortable to watch the animation made by others and point fingers than to do it yourself...

If, if one day, her sister Gu Rou goes bankrupt, maybe Gu Xue will have the idea of ​​climbing up the ladder, and then she will come up with the idea of ​​​​being a supervisor and produce good works in order to get more salary and make money to support the family.

But how is it possible.

Misawa, who bowed at 90 degrees, straightened up and looked at Gu Xue, who was showing a lack of interest and a wandering mind. He also knew that he was a little pushy. He hesitated for a moment and said: "Originally, I wanted to find the other two main original painters in the agency. As an animation supervisor, I thought about it for a while and gave up. The reason is probably that I felt that it would be quite hard for me to communicate with them. If someone like me is a supervisor, some people will be unconvinced, but my thoughts on the work are different. It's quite a lot, so... I know my request is very random, but please, I will find a way to convince one of the main original artists in the agency to serve as an assistant animation supervisor, although it is a bit difficult to convince them to assist you as a newcomer... "

Since they can participate in this project and serve as the backbone original painters, there is no doubt about the ability of the other two main original painters in the agency. The problem of seniority is more or less present in every company. If we really want to be serious, Gu Xue might as well call them seniors, so it was indeed a bit troublesome to convince them to assist a newcomer who had only been in the industry for less than three years.

Gu Xue also knew this clearly.

So she didn't care much whether there was a painting supervisor or not.

She was more curious about another thing.

"Then why don't you also serve as the animation supervisor yourself?" Gu Xue looked at Misawa Hiroshi, "You seem to have a background in original animation, right? According to your personality, the task of being the supervisor of an OVA-level animation should be just casual in your mind. You can finish it with a lot of effort, right? Then why don't you just be the animation supervisor yourself and I'll help you, since you're pretty good at painting anyway."

In the last episode of "This Man", the card where the Demon King and the Hero collide and explode was painted by Hiro Misawa. It was really good. The explosion scene of such things flying around, smoke, soil, gravel, fire, etc. were painted in several layers of original paintings. , I have to draw nearly a hundred original paintings at random, and not just anyone can draw it well.

"..." After hearing Gu Xue's words, Misawa was silent for a moment, showing an expression of reminiscing about the past, and said softly: "When I first started doing line drawing and cutting work in this company, I thought the explosion scene was particularly cool. I feel that art is explosion, so I devoted myself to the field of hand-painted special effects. I was able to succeed in the exam to be promoted to original painter because I was good at painting explosion special effects. I was very young at the time and didn’t even know what balanced development was, and the two blossomed... "

"I've been doing original painting for so many years, but I haven't learned anything. I can't even draw characters very well. I just know how to explode, explode, explode, explode, and then..."

Misawa lowered his head slightly and showed the Mediterranean Sea above his head to Chisa Mihara and Gu Xue, with a look of despair on his face: "My own hair exploded."

Gu Xue: "..."

Chisa Mihara: "..."