Best wishes for animation production

Animation cannot be produced within a production company.

Original painting, animation, background, coloring, editing, photography, etc...

With so many processes, it is certainly impossible to complete them all in our own company.

Many small companies do not have this capability. Some animation production companies even only have a painting department and a planning department. Other work such as coloring, animation line cutting and even original painting will be outsourced, or part of it will be outsourced.

Even large companies have outsourcing to some extent.

This is the same as on Earth. In a true sense, KyoAni is the only company that has the ability and confidence to take over all animation production processes, and can all be completed within its own company. Everyone is familiar with it.

Of course, some companies choose to outsource because they are unable to set up these departments, but many companies are able but unwilling to set up these departments.

For example, in the coloring department, the work is tedious but the difficulty is low. If you give me a coloring book, you can probably find someone to practice with for a period of time. If you really think you can do it, you can do it.

Outsourcing this process to countries with lower labor costs will save a lot of costs.

Otherwise, it will be overwhelmed. After several new shows are released in a quarter, the company does not have so many original animators to draw the original paintings, and there are not so many animators to draw lines, so some can only be outsourced.

For an animation episode, if all the individual painting parts are outsourced, it is called painting outsourcing, and if all the individual coloring parts are outsourced, it is called coloring outsourcing.

There is another kind of outsourcing situation that is quite special, that is, turnkey outsourcing.

Turnkey contracting means that the animation production company that accepts the project knows very clearly the scale of its company and cannot bear the production of the entire animation, so it divides the entire animation, such as the 12-episode animation, into a few episodes, such as the second and third episodes. To do it for another company, and the company that accepts the job must be responsible for all the animation production of the second and third episodes.

Since there is a turnkey contractor, there must be a subcontractor who accepts turnkey packages...

"The company accepted the commission from CDD Animation Studio to help produce the eleventh episode of "Invasion"."

Seeing that Gu Xue just seemed to be a little excited, Misawa Hiroshi lowered his voice a lot. He awkwardly picked up a script from the table, sighed and said:

"After our company completed the production of "Uncle", except for the comic adaptation "You Are My Hero" which is still in production for half a year, we did not receive any new projects. There was a gap period and some staff were temporarily out of work. , I don’t know how it happened. Maybe the superiors felt that we were too idle, or they felt that the animators below who were forcibly promoted have matured after experiencing the experience of "Uncle", or maybe they watched "Uncle" In the end, I did a good job... Anyway, the company took over the outsourcing job, and Ms. Mihara was still responsible for the production and execution, while I was responsible for the performance."

"..." Gu Xue's face looked very ugly.

Of course she has heard of turnkey contracting. The turnkey contractor is also called Yuanqing, and the company that accepts turnkey contracting is called Xiaqing. It is not unusual. Many cartoons have production cooperation written at the end, followed by the name of an animation production company. , that is, outsourcing.

Outsourcing is divided into reliable and unreliable ones. Reliable outsourcing is basically at the same level as the animation produced by the animation production company. Many people don't pay attention and won't realize that it is outsourcing.

The unreliable ones are those who accept turnkey contracting and will continue to outsource, that is, the grandson will be hired. If it is more unreliable, the great-grandson may be hired, and the great-great-grandson may be hired...

If you are brave enough, you can also do animation.

Shit.

Gu Xue really doesn't like this method of outsourcing, but he has to admit that this is indeed the only way for many small animation companies.

The newly established animation company accepted outsourcing work to gain experience. After building a team, it began to accept animation projects. After accepting the project, it was unable to undertake the production of the entire animation, so it was outsourced... until it was truly capable of independently producing animations.

Many animation production companies have come this way.

But Snakehead Animation Production Company, where Gu Xue works, has already passed this stage, and it still accepts outsourcing. Even if it accepts outsourcing, it still depends on the time. The future animation project has just started not long ago, and "Uncle" has just finished. After all, many people don’t even take a few days off. If they accept outsourcing at this time, they are crazy about money, or they are mentally retarded.

After watching Gu Xue remain silent for a long time, Misawa smiled bitterly and said: "I'm just telling you that the future animation plans will be pushed back a little, and I don't force you to help us complete this outsourcing work, although the other party's requirements are quite strict... …”

Gu Xue interrupted him and finally spoke, but her tone was not very good.

"Even if I have finished the storyboards and characters of "Little Witch Academia", you are not going to modify it. I have a month and a half to spare, but are you sure there will be no problems in the future? Even if the animation is in the future If there is no problem with the planning, will there be no problem with the production of the eleventh episode of "Invasion" you just mentioned? Can it really be produced in one and a half months? What if it can't be produced? Should we push "Little Witch Academia" back again? Then we use the construction period of ordinary TV animation to train new people? Do we really not take the government’s plans to heart?”

"Although these words are a bit too arrogant for me to say, I am the producer of "Little Witch Academia". Since you entrust me to take over the work, I must be responsible for my own work."

"……Feel sorry."

Misawa was silent for a long time, and then said softly: "But this is an animation production company. Often, before one project is completed, another project begins to be prepared. A company like ours that is neither good nor bad cannot afford the risk and cannot enter the production The committee can only get a small amount of production fees, and if you don’t accept projects, you really won’t be able to survive.”

"Although I was asked to outsource one episode at the very beginning of the animation future project, and it was really annoying to take advantage of every opportunity, but I really couldn't refuse, because this is the style of our company."

"..." Miss Mihara did not refute what Misawa said, but remained silent.

She has been in the industry for so many years, she has seen everything.

The high degree of commercialization of animation production has brought many projects to animation production companies, but at the same time, it has also put animation production companies into a bottleneck and even pushed them into an abyss.

"Ah..." Gu Xue sighed after listening to Misawa Hiroshi's words. She was not a newbie. Although she had selectively forgotten many things in the past, her experience was comparable to what she had seen. There are many Zeguang and Miss Mihara, but I have never seen such a weird one. There is no one else who can work at every opportunity during the preparation stage of a project.

However, after Gu Xue calmed down, she also knew that there was no point in blaming Misawa Hiro.

"Tell me, what's going on with that "Invasion" you're talking about."

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