My Animation Era

It turns out.

Wanbao's national competition championship reward standards are very attractive to both students and the school.

The school wanted a classroom building.

The students want to carve their names on the merit monument in the teaching building, so that the students can admire their "great achievements" at any time.

So...

After the schedule and reward standards of the Wanbao Cup National Middle School Tennis Competition were announced, it quickly received strong support from various schools, and students also actively signed up to prepare for the competition.

So enthusiastic!

In just two days, more than 400 schools and teams from all over the country have signed up to participate, which is really scary.

This is the result of Gu Miao trying to control the quota as much as possible to avoid the game becoming stinky and long.

If the threshold is lowered, it is estimated that the number of schools that sign up to participate can easily exceed thousands. Even if they are divided into each province and city, there will be a dozen or even dozens of schools participating.

Never doubt...

After all, it is a weekend activity, which does not take up normal teaching time, and the return travel expenses are guaranteed. There are also generous rewards and a quota to enter the "East China/South China/North China/West China Competition". It would be strange not to be active.

But then again.

Although there are many teams and players who have signed up for the competition, Gu Miao does not think that there are a large number of young people with outstanding tennis talents among them.

Most are "tennis lovers."

What is a fan?

He knows some rules and likes to play tennis, but if you want to say how good he is at playing, that's pure nonsense.

Geniuses are always in the minority.

Like the animated "Prince of Tennis", a large number of talented teenagers emerged at the same time, which can be called the golden generation. The probability of this happening in reality is too low.

Maybe this is why "Prince of Tennis" is dubbed as a "bizarre fantasy" animation!

…

The Prince of Tennis has been questioned. There are a lot of unreasonable and even "surreal" parts in its plot and even its setting background.

Netizens are talking a lot about this matter.

At first, it was just snake shots and outswing serves. The name sounds scary, but the actual effect is just that ordinary skills. Although it cannot be imitated, the audience can accept it.

Zhouzhu's triple counterattack skills, such as flying swallows returning to their nests, etc., at most made everyone frown...

However, with the gradual emergence of "unscientific" skills such as the field and the ultimate limit, more and more viewers have complained about the animated "Prince of Tennis".

The focus of the complaint is naturally that as the plot progresses, the skills in the animated "Prince of Tennis" become more and more wrong.

Some viewers often went to Gu Miao and even Wanbao's official WeChat account to call on the production team to stop this "exaggerated exaggeration" and let tennis return to its most authentic appearance.

Their suggestions are not unreasonable.

"Prince of Tennis" is a very passionate and youthful sports drama, which has been very popular among young audiences since its broadcast.

Tennis is played more and more outrageously, and has even evolved into "fantasy tennis", which will definitely cause dissatisfaction among some viewers...

But!

Gu Miao's view is different from that of this audience.

He admitted that killer tennis and fantasy tennis are indeed ridiculous, and the change from sports to fantasy also broke the hearts of many people.

But this is also done to make the animation more passionate!

Completely realistic, that is unrealistic. What’s the point of making animations based on real tennis matches? Will casual viewers be interested?

This is a question of trade-offs.

The emergence of skills such as field, flawless, tempered, and five senses are essentially to please "passerby fans" rather than "tennis enthusiasts."

The number of passerby fans is definitely more than that of tennis fans.

Therefore, this change, as well as the dissatisfaction and complaints from some viewers, are completely acceptable from the perspective of Gu Miao, the director and producer.

Ask him to change it back?

terribly sorry!

Gu Miao can clearly distinguish between the important and the important, who is the audience he should retain and win over, and who is the audience he can give up and ignore.

"But the reputation has dropped."

Ma Kui said distressedly: "When "The Prince of Tennis" first aired, its word-of-mouth ratings were quite high. But once it got to the East China competition, the ratings dropped instantly."

"It doesn't matter, it will still fall."

Gu Miao said calmly.

What is the use of ratings? It can neither be used as food nor exchanged for money. If it falls, it falls!

not to mention.

Judging from the reputation trend of the original "Prince of Tennis" animation, it is normal for the ratings to drop.

Originally, the best part of the Prince of Tennis was before the Kanto Tournament. After the Kanto Competition, National Competition, and even the Invitational Tournament and the U17 World Cup, the reputation showed a clear downward trend.

"Forget it, don't talk about this."

Gu Miao didn't want to talk about these bad things. After all, it was of no use, and the reputation score couldn't rise out of thin air.

Instead of letting this self-pity go, let’s think about how we should shoot this year’s Lunar New Year zodiac movie “Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf”?

It’s already October!

This year's Lunar New Year, not surprisingly, will be in mid-February next year. Counting the days, there are only five months left.

The Year of the Horse Zodiac Movie was moved from the Spring Festival to the summer vacation of the following year because Gu Miao's wife's due date was approaching and he had no time to worry about it.

Movies made in the Year of the Sheep must not be done like this.

Still have to go to the Spring Festival stall!

Based on this premise, Gu Miao called Du Hao, Ma Kui, Lao Zhang and others in advance to discuss who should make the movie for the Year of the Sheep? How to shoot?

"Mr. Gu, do it yourself!"

Lao Zhang joked: "Last year it was my wife who gave birth to the baby. Don't tell me that this year my son is one year old, so you don't have time?"

"I have time."

"But I have a good plan here, and I plan to take this time to think about it."

"Do you have any new plans?"

Ma Kui wondered: "Isn't there a national competition chapter for the animated "Prince of Tennis"? Are you not going to continue filming?"

"The national competition chapter can be done next year. Besides, you should all know that I don't really like making TV sequels..."

This is true.

After all the years since Wanbao Animation was established, Mr. Gu seems to have never made any TV sequels. Usually I leave it to others and come up with original new works myself.

Regarding this point, everyone is still quite speechless.

No one knows what Mr. Gu is thinking. Anyway, his attitude towards sequels is very repulsive. No matter how successful or popular the work is, he will treat them equally.

If you can’t figure it out, just stop thinking about it.

Since Mr. Gu has his arrangements, he will have to find another director for the Year of the Sheep movie.

Putting aside Huang Kun and Guo Hongwei, Wanbao Animation's idle directors include Director Wang, Du Hao, Ma Kui and others.

Among them, Gu Miao likes Ma Kui.