My Animation Era

Wanbao Animation's 3D business started a little late. At least compared to the first batch of 3D companies in Guoman, Wanbao is considered a new player.

But new players ≠ poor skills!

Although Dimension Studio, a subsidiary of Wanbao Animation, started 3D relatively late and the studio was only established a few years ago, its technical strength has already become the top in the country.

This is all due to Gu Miao's long-standing style of "breaking things with money".

Throw money and that's it!

Gu Miao has always been convinced that in the field of 3D animation, any technical gap is empty, and financial resources are the only criterion for measuring technology.

This is different from 2D.

Although 2D requires spending money, the level of 2D animation in China is too low. Even if you spend money, you may not have the right manpower.

3D animation technology is definitely among the best in the world in China. In terms of CG special effects, even Hollywood has close cooperation.

Technically there is no problem.

Then what you can do and what you want to do depends on how deep your wallet is?

There is a misunderstanding here.

Money-laundering 3D animations such as "The Story of XX" and "Three-Body", which claim to be big investments but have poor actual effects, are emerging one after another, leading the audience to mistakenly think that this is the technical level of "National Comics 3D".

You really can’t generalize!

Guoman has accumulated a lot of experience in 3D animation, and its technical capabilities are also quite high. The reason why we didn’t do a good job is that we didn’t give enough money.

Why do you recommend 3D animation?

Use a model until death to save money! But there are also 3D animations that are expensive and exquisite. The commercials broadcast by Dayun Motors in the past few years are still killing all the 3D special effects of Chinese comics. So whose problem is that?

These things cannot be dwelled upon.

Anyway, Gu Miao adheres to an attitude, that is, Wanbao does not allow such low-quality and rough 3D animations with eye-catching practical effects.

The same goes for "Super Beast Arms".

If you want to do 3D, then do your best. It doesn’t matter if you spend more money. You must present the best visual effect and leave no shame or dark history.

certainly!

It's true to say that, but when it comes to actual production, everyone can still save as much as possible and don't want to spend more money.

There is no way, ideal and reality are always so full of separation...

This situation is commonly known as: double standards!

Gu Miao does not deny the ugly face of his double standards, but he has high hopes for the animation "Super Beast Arms", which is not false.

Unfortunately.

Although Huang Kun wanted to start the animation production of "Super Beast Arms" as soon as possible, Dimension Studio received an outsourcing order for a 3D animation from a friend and was temporarily unable to make it.

I guess I'll have to wait a while.

…

And while Gu Miao continued to play with "Little Guoding's Bizarre Adventure", a piece of news suddenly came from the puppet studio that had been silent for many days.

After "The Story of Afanti", another puppet animation they produced is finally coming to everyone after many days.

"No, no, no, Mr. Gu!"

After learning that Mr. Gu had misunderstood the new work of the Puppet Studio, Liang Xiaodong explained with laughter and tears: "You misunderstood, this time is not puppet animation, we are doing clay animation!"

"ah?"

Gu Miao opened her mouth wide, her face seemed to be filled with question marks.

Claymation?

Aren't you a puppet studio? Puppet Studio doesn't do puppet animation? And what the hell is this clay animation? Why haven't you heard of it before?

"Uh! What should I say?"

Liang Xiaodong spoke for a moment, and finally gave a relatively simple and easy-to-understand explanation: "Clay animation is actually the same as puppet animation. They both belong to the category of stop-motion animation and are usually produced by shooting frame by frame."

"This kind of animation emphasizes hand-made production. You can understand that animation is just a carrier and presentation method of hand-made art..."

Liang Xiaodong said.

Puppet Studio has been exploring the future of puppet animation or stop-motion animation.

It happened that someone in the studio mentioned that clay animation is also a part of stop-motion animation. Everyone was wondering, could we combine the advantages and strengths of clay animation to create a unique puppet animation?

"So, this is still a puppet animation? It's just covered in a clay animation skin?" Gu Miao asked doubtfully.

"no."

Liang Xiaodong shook his head and said: "Combining clay animation with puppet animation is what we will do next."

"The animation work we are producing now is pure clay animation. It can be regarded as our attempt to make clay animation."

"OK! OK!"

Gu Miao listened in a daze and didn't bother to think about what Liang Xiaodong's so-called "artistic combination" was.

He just wants to know what story this puppet... clay animation called "Chicken Run" tells?

"Oh! The plot is very simple."

"It mainly tells the story of a group of chickens in a chicken factory who were unwilling to be made into fried chicken nuggets and struggled to escape." Liang Xiaodong introduced.

Gu Miao: "..."

Is it really that outrageous?

Gu Miao, who always felt that this story seemed a bit sloppy and outrageous, asked, "What's next?"

"What's next?"

Liang Xiaodong wondered: "The story is over! The chickens tried to escape again and again but failed, and finally escaped again. This is the summary of the story."

"Well!"

Gu Miao, who didn't expect the story to be that simple, had a series of black lines hanging on his forehead, as if there were crows flying above his head.

"Just this little story, you tell me it took you so long to get it right?"

"yes!"

Liang Xiaodong nodded and said: "Mr. Gu, this is difficult! You don't know that the feathers of those chicks are all drawn by hand..."

What a waste of time!

In Liang Xiaodong's words, this was their first time coming into contact with clay animation. They had to learn a lot of things while doing it, and the production process was particularly painful.

It would be nice to be able to make it.

Originally, Puppet Studio originally wanted to make it into a TV animation, with about 20/30 episodes.

But then as they were doing it, everyone realized something was wrong.

If it were to be made into a TV animation with twenty or thirty episodes, I'm afraid the hair that everyone has left would really be lost.

For the hair!

Everyone simply deleted the duration again and again, until in the end there was only 80 minutes left, and they managed to make it into a short animated film for broadcast.

Impressed!

What I did for a long time was not puppet animation, but clay animation. Not a TV animation, but an animated movie...

Gu Miao, who finally figured out the details of the animation "Chicken Run", couldn't help but complain: "Then what do you think? Since it is an animated movie, why not broadcast it in theaters?"

"No."

Liang Xiaodong shook his head and said: "We don't have much confidence. We think most people won't buy tickets, so let's broadcast it online for free!"

Humble, so humble.

Because he was afraid that after the movie was released, the audience would be unfamiliar with clay animation and therefore refused to buy tickets to watch the movie, so it was broadcast to the audience for free.

As an audience, I was almost moved to tears when I encountered such a conscientious animation studio.

All right……

As the boss of this Shabi studio, Gu Miao is really crying now, and she is so angry at this group of people.

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