From White Box To Supervision

But now, the most important thing is to consider the candidates for the original painting at this stage. Although Zhang Beichuan can do the job himself, the workload is a bit heavy at present, so let's forget it.

He was afraid that he would be killed by his liver while working on the original painting, or that being bald would be unbearable.

At this stage, I still start looking for people in the network circle.

The words of the original artist... Zhang Beichuan knows a lot, but when it comes to the candidates for the show...

Immediately, Zhang Beichuan picked up the phone and dialed it out.

"Mosimoxi."

"Abe-kun, I'm Beichuan."

"Kikawa-kun, what's the matter, is there something?" Abe stopped working on his phone and laughed.

"Ah Bu-kun, you are still a freelance original artist, right? Do you have an original painting job now?" Zhang Beichuan's tone was fast.

"Well, I took a bit of original painting work from UFO Club."

"UFO Club." Zhang Beichuan was taken aback for a moment, then sighed: "It's the UFO Club." (UFO Club, Ghost Slayer Production Company)

"What's wrong?" Abe asked.

"I originally wanted to entrust some of our Musashino's original painting work to you, because some of the cards involved fighting scenes, so I thought of you."

"I see." Abe Wang smiled lightly when he heard the words: "It's okay, just leave this matter to me."

"Can you?" Zhang Beichuan was taken aback when he heard the words: "Aren't you also responsible for the original UFO painting?"

"They didn't give me too many tasks, and I can do it with some original paintings."

Zhang Beichuan was overjoyed, "Thank you very much. I will let my company's production here go to you right away."

"Is it "Magic Circle"?" Abe asked.

"you know?"

"Well, I pay attention to the new show every season. Knowing this work you are supervising, I am also quite interested in the original painting of your work."

"By the way, Abe, you are good at drawing fight dramas, so do you know other people who are very good at fighting dramas? When I make fighting animations in the future, if you have a job, you can ask others." Zhang Beichuan said.

"I think about it, in fact, sometimes I don't know much about this. After all, I don't know what other people are good at, but I have a friend who is from the Bones Club. Let me introduce you to him. His fighting scenes are really good. of."

Zhang Beichuan was overjoyed: "That's great, thank you, Abe."

"fine."

Hanging up the phone, Zhang Beichuan felt relieved, it was a matter of settlement.

This kind of thing still has to rely on acquaintances. Fortunately, Huang Chengxi took him to the original painting conference and met a lot of people, otherwise he would have had a headache this time.

But at this time, Musashino welcomed a guest.

"Haicheng, welcome to our Musashino." Zhang Beichuan smiled lightly.

"Beichuan, long time no see." Xin Haicheng, who was not strong, slowly came to Zhang Beichuan.

"Why did you think of looking for me today?"

"I went out to collect materials today, and I came to Musashino by the way, so I came to see you."

"Collection?" Zhang Beichuan said, "Where did you get the material?"

Makoto Shinkai smiled: "Just around Tokyo, the photos taken with the camera, do you want to come and see?"

"certainly."

In the album, all the scenes in Tokyo are shot.

"Are you going to use this as a background?"

"Yes." Makoto Shinkai said, "Tokyo is my largest material library, and it can be used to make animation scenes. Even if it is not used, it will be used later."

Zhang Beichuan was interested: "Give me some."

Xin Haicheng squinted at him: "You can shoot it yourself."

"I don't have time or time."

"Time is all squeezed out, and when I'm making a new work, isn't it also squeezed out of time? But..." Xin Haicheng changed the topic: "You want to help me draw some of the original paintings, but I can take my time. Materials for you to use."

Zhang Beichuan's face collapsed: "Your requirements are too high, I don't have time for myself."

"Haha, I knew it." Makoto Shinkai laughed.

"Why don't I make the next work, you can help me."

"Tsk tsk, you've made up my mind. You haven't finished this new work, so you're planning the next step. You want to bring me in. What position are you going to give me, supervisor?" Zhang Beichuan joked.

"Well, it's good to give you a errand position."

"Go! Go! Go."

Makoto Shinkai smiled and said sternly: "Stop talking, Beichuan, let me tell you one thing, Studio Ghibli expects to recruit several 3D animators to make a short animation after this year, do you have any? I am interested in visiting Ghibli, the supervisor is Hayao Miyazaki." Makoto Shinkai said.

"Ghibli? Short story, 3D? How did you know?"

"My dad has a friend who works at Ghibli. Because Miyazaki is planning to experiment with novel 3D integration animation effects, he wants to recruit a few 3D animators to learn."

"That's it." Zhang Beichuan is also a little vague about the prospects of animation production now. Hayao Miyazaki is an animation master who "sticks to hand-painting". Generally, in his works, hand-painting work is carried out uniformly. I didn't expect that a master like him also started Going to experiment with 3d.

"How is it, do you have time? Go there and observe it."

Zhang Beichuan smiled and asked: "Let's not talk about me, what's your opinion? Do you want to go? I remember you know more about 3D than I do."

"I don't care, I'm not interested."

Zhang Beichuan replied, "I'm not particularly good at 3D. They recruited technology well, so it's useless for me to go there. It's better to stay here quietly in Musashino and make good animations."

Zhang Beichuan and Xin Haicheng are both supervisors. Although they respect Ghibli where Master Hayao Miyazaki is located, they are not determined to go anyway.

In terms of learning, this short animation is based on 3D, and Ghibli is the best at 2D.

But when it comes to Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki is the only one who supports it. To say something disrespectful, after Hayao Miyazaki's death, Ghibli is likely to decline, because Ghibli has no successor after Hayao Miyazaki at all. Decent supervisory successor.

"I just mentioned it casually." Xin Haicheng was not surprised by Zhang Beichuan's decision.

Xin Haicheng chatted casually with Zhang Beichuan again, received a call from the studio, and left in a hurry.

Zhang Beichuan is still busy with his own production. Now, Madoka's episodes 11 and 12 of "Magic Girl" have already started.

The further back, whether it is a literary drama or a fighting drama, Zhang Beichuan's requirements are higher, which also leads to many original paintings being reworked and rebuilt.

These are mostly details.

However, the painting department and performance of the original artists of Musashino seem to know that Zhang Beichuan likes the scene of turning his head 45 degrees very much. Therefore, even if Zhang Beichuan does not ask for the scene and the picture, they will still be harmless. , add this 45 degree lens.

Zhang Beichuan also knew about it, but he had no objection.

As long as it is not in some places or important shots, Zhang Beichuan can allow the production staff to play freely in some innocuous places.

This kind of free play is actually a good thing.

......

A week has passed, and the second episode of "Madoka" has been broadcast.

The plot of the second episode is used to set the stage, and it is a story about the world view. The early stage is biased towards daily life. After saving Madoka and the others, Ms. Ba Mamei unfolds the world of magical girls to them. Among them, the most common The magic routine is different. In the world, "Madoka" lays out the settings of soul gems and seeds of lamentation.

It's quite innovative.

In this episode and the battle with the Witch, Ba Mami's fighting style was shown to the audience.

The popularity of "Madoka" is maintained at the middle and upper level, but many people can feel that this season's animation is somewhat deadly.

In the list of animations, "Steel FA" has ended from being a crushing level of popularity in terms of word of mouth and popularity, and has the reputation of a masterpiece without bad reviews.

However, after the end of "Steel FA", in October, almost no animation of this season can hold the banner of this season.

This season's animation "I went from a handsome guy to a waste house" is a little dark horse, UU reading www.uukanshu.com is the most popular, and it is a sand sculpture, but if you talk about monthly hegemony, it is really a little less meaningful.

And "The Magic of Another World is Too Backward" is ranked second in the popularity list by virtue of the advantage of having a large crowd in another world, but the downside is that the plot is too lacking in novelty.

And "Magic Girl Madoka" was in fifth place.

It's not that the quality is bad, it's that... the publicity is too bad.

Musashino was able to come up with works with very little funds to promote the works. Therefore, it caused a lack of popularity. This is thanks to the previous work "AngelBeats!". .

In the eyes of a small number of narrow-minded competitors, Musashino maintains a schadenfreude attitude.

Schadenfreude fails.

Ryota Fujiki is one of them.

He belongs to the production director of the animation company "Da Yu", and his position is the task of fighting for the production of works for the company, but he is a little narrow-minded, and the only thing he hates is "Falcon Watanabe".

Before the "Three Girls" project, he was responsible for fighting for his company, but it was snatched by Musashino who was in charge of 'Watanabe Hayabusa', and "Three Girls" has a good reputation in the industry. Hayabusa and the Musashino he brought with him became disgusted.

In fact, it is very normal for the company to have success or failure in the production plan. After all, the right to choose is in the hands of the original creator, not the animation company.

Even if the plan really reaches your company, the animation will be popular? After all, this also depends on many aspects such as the luck of the finished product.

But he didn't think so.

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