My Animation Era

Not just a bald guy...

In fact, many characters in domestic animation have problems with their head-to-body ratio. It can be said that children have grown up watching "big-headed dolls".

Is there anything wrong with this aesthetic?

The answer is, no problem!

The aesthetic similar to big-headed dolls has been around for a long time. As early as in ancient times, many clay sculptures and porcelain dolls and other handicrafts had a little bit of the characteristics of "big heads and small bodies".

Among the people, there are folk prop performances named "big-headed dolls".

To put it simply, it is a folk performance in which a person wears a huge "doll helmet", wears various festive and colorful costumes, holds a cattail fan or a whisk, and performs to drive away ghosts and pray for a good harvest and good health.

Let’s take another example.

In many New Year paintings, aren't there images of boys and girls holding carps or "gold and silver ingots" often drawn?

As for the image of a child holding a carp or a gold ingot, the head-to-body ratio is also wrong. The head is usually very large and conspicuous.

There is no point in tracing the origin.

What Gu Miao wants to say is not about whether the origin of the big-headed doll has a good or bad meaning.

He simply feels that animated characters with exaggerated head-to-body ratios will subtly influence many children and cause them to misjudge normal human figures.

This does not mean that animation must refer to real human proportions.

It can be appropriately "exaggerated".

But it shouldn’t be too exaggerated, completely distorting the body proportions of a normal human character.

In Gu Miao's opinion, the Wanbao version of Bald Qiang's 3D model is not a normal human being. The neck is as thin as a pair of chopsticks, but the head is ridiculously big.

This should be fine-tuned.

He does not advocate distorted aesthetics. He believes that the animated characters created in an animated work should conform to the cognition of most people.

If you have a big-headed doll today, will you have to create a squinty-eyed boy tomorrow?

Never!

Gu Miao really couldn't accept it. A strange aesthetic that was divorced from the mass base was destined to be a heretic and not accepted by the general public.

It would be nice to be normal.

Bald Qiang is destined to have nothing to do with handsomeness, and his character image does not need to be modified too much. Just change the head-to-body ratio to make it look more coordinated and pleasing to the eye.

The planning seminar has almost ended here.

The remaining work is nothing more than revising or filling in the content that has been discussed and concluded, and finally creating animations according to the plan and script.

After Gu Miao packed up her things, she went straight to the Dimension Studio.

The animation "Bear Infested" is an out-and-out 3D animation, and its production requires the efforts of Dimension Studio.

only……

Dimension Studio is currently busy producing the "Super Beast Arms" animation. Whether they can squeeze out time and manpower depends on the progress of Huang Kun's project.

…

"Mr. Gu, please sit down for a while."

Huang Kun, who learned that Mr. Gu had come to inspect the work, couldn't wait to entertain him. After all, he was currently busy directing the special effects synthesis for "Super Beast Arms"!

Gu Miao leaned over and took a look.

What he is currently working on is the special effects for the summoning, transformation or fusion of the animation "Super Beast Arms". He doesn't know much about this aspect, but he only thinks the special effects are quite handsome and gorgeous.

Especially the ability lock to summon super beasts.

The name of the power lock is actually very problematic, because the power lock is not a "lock" at all, but a key?

A tool to stimulate different energy in the body?

All right!

With this explanation, it seems that the meaning of the power lock is more complicated. But the meaning is the same, this thing is not a "lock", don't be misled by the name.

Maybe at this time, some smart people will say, what a bullshit superpower lock, isn't it the "transformer" or "summoner" in the tokusatsu drama?

wrong! Big mistake!

Regarding this point, Gu Miao, who is one of the super luxurious screenwriting team of "Super Beast Arms", actually knows the truth.

Superpower Lock, on the surface, is a summoner used by super beast warriors like Huo Linfei to summon super beasts to complete their transformation, but it is really not a summoner.

Think about the logic first...

The function of the super power lock is to stimulate and release super energy, and super energy is the key to summoning super beasts, or in other words, improving combat effectiveness.

Therefore, in the animation setting of "Super Beast Arms", even if there is no super power lock, with strong belief and stimulating supernatural energy, the super beast warrior can still summon super beasts.

"What's the use of the superpower lock?"

"Forehead!"

Hearing Huang Kun's joking inquiry, Gu Miao pondered for a moment and gave her own answer: "Buying educational mathematical toys for children?"

It’s not an educational toy!

Before children learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, or the multiplication table, they should first use this educational toy to familiarize themselves with the logic and methods of mathematical operations.

When children have learned addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and multiplication tables, what use is this mathematical educational toy?

The same goes for superpower locks.

When the super beast warriors are not yet familiar with the method of stimulating and releasing supernatural energy and do not have strong faith, they should first use this to practice.

Now that my faith is strong and I know what super powers are, who still uses super power locks to summon transformations?

"Hahaha!"

"This is an interesting statement..."

Huang Kun poured a cup of coffee for Mr. Gu, invited him to sit on the sofa aside, and said with a smile: "Does that mean that even those who get the power lock may not necessarily become a super beast warrior?" Woolen cloth?"

"That's right."

"Power Locks are not linked to Super Beast Warriors. The threshold for becoming a Super Beast Warrior is not having or using Power Locks."

Gu Miao said with emotion: "The reason why the strong are strong is not because the tools they use are powerful, but because the people who use the tools are powerful... Uh! What are you doing?"

In the middle of speaking, he suddenly saw Huang Kun picking up a pen and paper and Gu Miao, who seemed to be memorizing something, with a very puzzled expression.

"Write it down!"

"That's a good sentence, very Pluto-like. I'll write it down first and see if I can use it later."

Huang Kun looked at Gu Miao with relish, blinked and said, "Keep talking, I like to hear it!"

Gu Miao: "..."

Talk about hammer!

Gu Miao, who originally wanted to say something emotional, was left speechless by his actions, and for a moment she forgot how to answer the question.

Hades...oh yes!

After reorganizing his thoughts, Gu Miao raised his head and asked Huang Kun: "You just mentioned Pluto, and I forgot to ask you. Have you finished writing Pluto's lines?"

"It's finished!"

Huang Kun stood up and walked to the workbench, rummaging through a large pile of documents. He quickly found what he wanted and handed it to Gu Miao.

Gu Miao took it and took a look.

After just a few glances, without even taking a closer look, his expression immediately became unbearable.

Really do it!

Is this Pluto or Nietzsche?

He just asked Huang Kun and the screenwriting team to refer to philosophy books, but he didn't ask them to directly excerpt famous quotes!

This is too preachy...