My Animation Era

That Rabbit Season 2 has 24 episodes.

Originally there were only 12 feature episodes, the same number as the first season. But the TV station said that 12 episodes was too few and they hoped to increase it slightly.

This is easy to understand.

After all, the second season of "That Year of the Rabbit" is an animation broadcast on a TV platform. If there are only 12 episodes, it will be gone in less than a week.

Therefore.

After repeated studies by the production team, it was finally decided to extend the script of the second season of the animation and expand the 12-episode feature film to 24 episodes.

This is actually a good thing.

Because after the previous episode was split into two episodes, first of all, the length is more abundant, and the story can be told more completely.

Any shortcomings...

If there is any shortcoming, it would probably be that this season's "That Rabbit That Year" is not as funny.

The lines have reduced the frequency of many "Internet buzzwords", and there is no special character "Ma Snake" in the plot.

What should I say?

This season of Natu animation produced by Guo Hongwei pays more attention to how to tell the story well. All lines, characters and backgrounds serve the plot.

Everything that has nothing to do with the plot of the animation has been deleted from the main film.

“Tell stories, tell good stories.”

Guo Hongwei explained: "I don't deny that the use of some Internet buzzwords and popular memes can make animations more funny and interesting."

"But it ruins the atmosphere!"

The sense of atmosphere and immersion are very important. Blindly piling up bad memes on the Internet, the final effect will only be as disgusting as a Spring Festival Gala sketch.

He's right.

Gu Miao agrees with Guo Hongwei's theory and supports the reduction of the use of various Internet buzzwords in the second season of "That Year of the Rabbit".

Of course, support is support.

After all, Natu is an animation born out of the "military fans" group. Some insider jokes that can make military fans smile can still be played.

Don’t forget your roots!

You can't just abandon the military fans who originally supported this animation just because the Natu animation became popular and its influence has broken out, right?

That would be too arrogant...

After a comprehensive inspection of the production team, Gu Miao was very satisfied with the work results of his apprentice Guo Hongwei, and encouraged everyone to guard against arrogance and impetuosity, and to calm down and polish the work seriously.

Although Natu is an animation that does not make any money, almost all of Wanbao's proceeds are donated.

But...

For Wanbao Animation, and even the entire Wanbao Group, the animation "Those Things About That Rabbit That Year" is a "significant" work.

This meaning has nothing to do with money, but more of a spiritual sense of satisfaction and achievement, as well as praise and praise from people from all walks of life.

To put it bluntly, this is face!

Producing such animation may not necessarily make Wanbao a lot of money, but it will definitely improve Wanbao's evaluation in the eyes of ordinary viewers.

So Gu Miao attaches great importance to it.

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The production progress of the second season of the animation "That Year of the Rabbit" is quite good, but on the other side of Dimension Studio, the situation is a little bad.

The "Super Beast Arms" project encountered a serious "overturn" incident before it even started to set sail.

The 3D modeling team responsible for designing the super beast warriors and super beast armed forms received sharp criticism from director Huang Kun when they submitted the first version of the 3D model at the production meeting.

"Your robots and mechas are so handsome and cool, but why are your character models so rough and ugly?"

Armored mechas are better looking than characters?

After Huang Kun pointed out the problem, the entire Dimension Studio fell into deep thought, and no one spoke to refute it for nearly ten minutes.

Hard-spoken?

There’s no way to be tough!

After all, the modeling is here. As long as you are not blind, you can see that the character model is indeed too rough compared to the mechanical armor part.

This is an old problem of Dimension Studio. From the very beginning "Pig Man" to now, there has been no progress.

Why hasn't anyone mentioned it before?

Because in previous 3D animations, there were very few human protagonists. Characters like Pig Man and the Three Jelly Musketeers are not human beings!

Pushing back further, in 3D animations such as "Japanese Soldiers of Maoershan", the characters are all "comedy-like" dolls with big heads and short bodies, and there is no visible effect.

As a result, something bad happened in "Super Beast Arms"!

The characters armed with super beasts are all humanoid creatures with correct body proportions, not jelly men or pig-headed men...

Under this premise.

The shortcomings of Dimension Studio's lack of experience and technical accumulation in character models were immediately exposed.

It's okay to say that there is no comparison. If there is no modeling reference object, it doesn't matter if the character model is rough. It won't be deeply felt anyway.

But I am afraid of comparison in everything...

In the first version of the 3D modeling provided by the modeling team, Huang Kun can intuitively feel that the modeling of mechanical mechas such as the Phantom Arms, the Phantom Beast, and the Phantom God are much more refined and beautiful than the character models. .

"This doesn't work, take it back and modify it."

As the chief director of the project team, Huang Kun is responsible for the quality of the work.

He is very satisfied with the mechanical armor part. Whether it is a single super beast form or a super beast god combined form, they are all so handsome that they have no friends.

However, he felt that the character models of Huo Linfei, Tianyu, Long Jian and other characters were not worthy of the super beast armed form, which was a bit of a hindrance...

What is this?

The armor model is obviously so cool and handsome, but why is the character model so stretched out at the hips?

What a disgrace!

It is also a domestic 3D animation, and Huang Kun has never seen rougher character modeling than this. Dimension Studio's performance disappointed him so much.

"Inexperience is like this..."

Gu Miao, who came after hearing the news, smiled and explained: "I don't feel ashamed if I have shortcomings, as long as I am willing to make progress and slowly make up for my shortcomings."

"Don't be too angry. Give them a little more time. I believe they will hand over an answer that satisfies you!"

"I know, but I'm anxious!"

Huang Kun said with a grimace: "All the preparations were done, but I got stuck at the character modeling level. I have never been so speechless in my life."

That was indeed quite speechless.

To be honest, when Gu Miao learned about this matter, her behavior was similar to Huang Kun.

Dimension Studio!

Wanbao Animation's ace studio, one of the giants in the field of domestic 3D animation, has such an obvious shortcoming that it can't even model "humanoid creatures" well?

At first he didn't believe it.

He even doubted whether Huang Kun's vision was too high? The modeling is obviously good, but it must be said that it is too rough to be used?

But when he saw the 3D modeling of characters such as Huo Linfei and Long Jian in the first edition, he also fell silent.

This stuff is really fun...

It’s not that it’s bad or unusable, it’s just that compared to the handsome and cool mecha armors in the animation, these character models seem too low-grade.

To use an analogy.

Assuming that the 3D modeling of the Super Beast Arms is "extreme color", then the 3D character modeling of the Super Beast Warriors is "simple lines", completely unlike the same animation.