My Animation Era

After dealing with the issue of animation ending production, time has come to a new year and a new January.

Saturday, January 1, 2012.

This day is not only the statutory holiday New Year's Day, but also the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month and the traditional holiday Laba Festival.

According to regulations, there will be a holiday on New Year's Day!

Not just today, including Saturday and Sunday, the entire New Year's Day holiday adds up to a total of three days, and I don't start working until January 4th.

But this is normal...

For Wanbao Group, especially Wanbao Animation, although New Year's Day is a legal holiday and most employees can take a day off, there are still some people who stick to their posts.

For example, Wolfsburg Studio, led by silly apprentice Xiao Guo, is responsible for producing the third season TV animation of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf".

And led by Hou Bin, Feiyang Studio, formerly known as Feiyang Animation...

Do not misunderstand!

This wasn't Gu Miao forcing or threatening them to work overtime. In fact, since the company established the "studio" system, he has rarely intervened in management affairs.

Xiao Guo and Hou Bin voluntarily work overtime.

As the Spring Festival approaches, time is already very tight. In addition, the animation production process is complicated, and the projects the two of them are responsible for are very important, so they cannot be delayed.

It's just a New Year's Day holiday...

If it weren't for taking care of the feelings of other members of the studio, they probably both wanted to send a notice saying that the studio would not be on holiday during the Spring Festival this year.

"That's not okay."

Gu Miao shook her head in denial and said: "We still have to take a holiday during the New Year! If we don't have a holiday during the New Year, what do you want the employees under you to think?"

Isn’t that a pure cow and horse?

Workers also have their own bottom line. After working hard outside for a year, who doesn’t look forward to going home for the New Year? If there is no holiday during the Chinese New Year, it is estimated that a large number of employees will leave next year.

"I'll just say it casually."

Xiao Guo nodded and said: "There will definitely be a holiday during the Chinese New Year. I just want to seize the time to complete a few more episodes of the film before the Spring Festival holiday."

More than twenty episodes have been completed.

For the third season of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf TV "A Happy Year of Sheep", which has a total of 100 episodes, this progress is not too fast.

That's why Xiao Guo is so anxious.

You must know that the annual meeting is coming soon. After the annual meeting, it is the Spring Festival holiday. After the Spring Festival holiday, we will go to February.

According to the original plan...

The third season of Pleasant Goat animation is planned to be broadcast in the beginning of this year’s school year and will be given to children as a “school gift”.

But judging from the current progress, it may be a bit difficult to catch up with the start of the spring semester.

It’s not that Xiao Guo and Wolfsburg Studio didn’t work hard enough, it’s simply that the style change in the third season of Pleasant Goat was a bit drastic, making it difficult for the production team to control, which is why the progress seems so slow.

To know……

During the production of the first season of Pleasant Goat, Gu Miao set a peak record of "ten episodes in one day". During the production of the second season of "Sheep and Sheep Games", although the progress slowed down a lot, it still maintained the progress of one episode a day, or one episode every two days at most.

Season 3 was too slow in comparison.

This kind of slowness is not the slowness of "slow work makes careful work", but the slowness caused by hesitation.

"Season three is a period of transition."

Gu Miao saw the silly disciple's worries and comforted her: "I know you must be hesitant now, but it doesn't matter, just do what you think is right."

"You think the wolf catching the sheep is the right direction, OK! Then continue to implement this route in the third season, and don't consider the script."

"No! I didn't mean that..."

Xiao Guo shook his head.

In fact, after receiving the script, he privately considered the future direction of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf".

Wolf Catch Sheep has been filming for two seasons!

To be precise, the first season has 530 episodes, the second season has 60 episodes, and the third season also has 60-70 episodes that fall into this category, which adds up to six to seven hundred episodes.

This article is already very long.

Looking at it now, the children who still love "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" are actually fans of "Wolf Catches Sheep".

He rashly changed the story line and style, trying to make wolves and sheep coexist peacefully.

To put it harshly!

This is a backstab to those fans who have always supported and loved "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf".

But if you don't do this, after watching "Wolf Catching Sheep" for so long, the plot will no longer be "fresh", and a large number of viewers will be lost.

So Xiao Guo looked very painful.

He knows that the master is right, there is no "future" for the wolf to catch the sheep.

What the third season of the TV animation has to do is very simple, that is, to give "each other" a step forward, to completely correct the "wolf-sheep cooperation", to bid farewell to the old viewers, and to welcome the new viewers.

But he still wanted to struggle.

"Pointless!"

Gu Miao shook her head and expressed her disapproval: "You have to remember one thing, animated characters will not grow up, but animation audiences will grow up!"

Pleasant Goat is about to turn three years old.

After three years of ups and downs, the children who were once in the first grade of junior high school will soon graduate from junior high school and enter high school.

Time will change a person!

Perhaps when he was in the first grade of junior high school, he liked watching the Pleasant Goat very much. Every day he watched the Big Big Wolf trying various ways to catch the sheep, and he laughed from ear to ear.

But will he still be as obsessed with Pleasant Goat as he was in the third year of junior high school, or even after he enters high school?

Not anymore!

Just as the victorious team member in Ultraman Tiga said to Obik, the old village will never come back again!

Obik, who is obsessed with the past and refuses to face reality, is he not a true portrayal of animators like Gu Miao and Xiao Guo?

Pleasant goats will not grow up...

Big Big Wolf will not grow old. Animation producers can maintain their original intentions and continue to provide everyone with the joy of meeting them for the first time.

But the audience will grow up!

Gu Miao has already seen that Xiao Guo's current mentality is the same as that of Obik who believes that "the village will change back to its original state".

He feels that there is still hope for "the wolf catching the sheep"!

As long as it maintains the style of the first two seasons and continues to tell everyone the story of "the wolf catching the sheep", Pleasant Goat can still capture everyone and gain everyone's love.

But this is impossible.

No matter how wonderful a story is, it will become boring after being told a thousand times. No matter how beautiful the words of love are, they will feel hypocritical even after hearing them a thousand times.

The wolf's mission to catch the sheep is over.

"This is not about backstabbing old viewers, but about surviving by cutting off the tail! Let the IP of Pleasant Goat take off its burden, and we can go further and create more possibilities..."

Gu Miao patted Xiao Guo on the shoulder, regardless of whether he heard it or not, turned around and said as he walked: "The decision is in your hands!"

"No matter what you choose, as a master I will support you! I just hope you can be more mature. If you want to be an excellent animator, you have to face this."

Shit the blame? put pressure on?

Not really!

Whether the third season of Pleasant Goat will receive rave reviews or be ridiculed for being "younger" and becoming increasingly ugly depends entirely on Xiao Guo's own choice.

He was just making a suggestion!