The Creator of the Second Dimension

Wu Yi's interview, together with his manifesto, immediately spread throughout the entire circle.

Most people read this interview in the middle of the night and the next morning. At this time, Chengkong Video Network has already released the trailers of "Soul Eater: Zero" and several other animations.

Seeing Xu Rui praised by Wu Yi in the interview, people naturally searched for Voice of the Stars, and then learned from other news that Xu Rui is working on a new animation.

Soon, the animated trailer for "Soul Eater: Zero" surpassed 200,000 views.

Perhaps because of director Wu Yi's high evaluation, people naturally have a lot of expectations for Xu Rui. Therefore, this slightly ordinary trailer is a bit disappointing.

At noon, when Xu Rui was still accompanying Yi Qianqian to browse some indescribable small books involving men's wrestling skills in the manga exhibition, there were already several questions about "Soul Eater: Zero".

Under the answer with the most comments, entitled "How to evaluate the "Soul Eater: Zero" trailer", there were several highly praised comments.

[Erlang]: An ordinary trailer. Judging from the clips, it looks like a normal royal battle. There is nothing outstanding in the painting. To be honest, I don't believe that this is the work of a director who can make "Voice of the Stars". , Maybe we have too many expectations for Xu Rui, after all, he is just a student who just graduated from university.

[Menmenmen]: After seeing the trailer, I did a little research on the relevant information, and finally came to the following conclusion: the mediocre third-rate original work + rookie editors + fledgling new directors + a group of people who were overwhelmed by the times The production team of the abandoned old man = "Soul Eater: Zero", I see the trailer is the most essential part of the whole film.

[The past is like smoke]: The sales of the original comic book of "Soul Eater" were less than 100,000 last year. Even in "Monthly Teenage Frontline", it is just an ordinary work. It is impossible for the magazine to invest heavily in such a work. Coupled with the fact that it is the exclusive broadcast of New Frontline Media's own Chengkong Video Network, it is really unreasonable to have expectations for animation.

[Remy Remy]: xswl, what year is it and this kind of old-fashioned animation, are you trying to laugh at me to inherit my mortgage? Let me put it here, the sales of this animation can reach 2,000, I will buy three sets of CDs to support it, and change the avatar to the word "soul eater".

After the insinuating renderings of the big Vs in the question, many people in the question already think that Xu Rui is probably a lucky newcomer. In addition, the animation preview of "Soul Eater: Zero" does not look like a fire animation. They naturally listened to what the big V said, and thought that Xu Rui's animation was probably a hot chicken animation.

Human psychology is so strange. If you don't have any expectations at the beginning, or even have a slightly bad first impression, then an average work will still make you satisfied.

If you have high expectations from the beginning, even if you meet the passing line, it will be considered inferior.

Xu Rui didn't know about Wenhu. He accompanied Yi Qianqian to the comic exhibition for a day. After returning home, he was already exhausted, so he took a shower and lay down to rest.

Early the next morning, Xu Rui woke up Yi Qianqian, and after breakfast, the two of them took the subway to Fantastic Animation and started a new day's work.

According to the cycle of animation production, Xu Rui should be in the storyboard drawing stage of the fourth episode, and the storyboard inspection of the first episode has been completed. This week, a processing meeting will be held to determine the processing methods of the painting, performance, background and other materials. After the meeting is confirmed, the drawing of the design draft will be carried out.

The design draft will determine the rough storyboard draft of the characters, including the exact positional relationship of the characters, the content of the background, the expression of the characters, how the actions are connected, the movement of the camera, etc. With the design draft, the original artist can follow the design draft to draw the original painting.

In the first episode, a part of the discussion has already been carried out when making the trailer, so there are no major changes in the performance and painting, except for a slight difference.

"Although the motorcycle scene was drawn in CG to save time, wouldn't it be better to use hand-painted in the actual broadcast?"

Yasuhara is the painting supervisor and the first original artist of the first episode. After resigning from Lao Huantian, he went to Jingping's Ai Craft. He worked as an original artist for several years and has been fighting on the front line.

He was referring to the scene in the first episode where the heroine (fake) drives a motorcycle to fight the evil spirits. In the trailer, this scene is made with CG animation. You only need to design the model of the motorcycle to complete the scene quickly. However, if it is switched to hand-painted, a lot of reference painting is required, and the workload will also increase.

"Since it has already been made with CG, otherwise, you can just continue to use it, and it can also reduce your workload, Brother Anyuan."

Deng Shixin, who is in charge of 3D, said that he completed the modeling of the motorcycle by himself. Deng Shixin has been interested in cars, warships and aircraft since he was a child. His family is full of various models, and he is extremely proficient in one piece.

"My workload doesn't matter, but can the current CG technology really achieve that effect? ​​To be honest, I think the pictures in the trailer lack some impact, and the model made by CG is still too rigid."

An Yuan insisted.

"But in this case, the production cycle of the first episode will be a little tight"

Deng Shixin glanced at Xu Rui. After all, he is the director and performer, and Xu Rui has the final say.

"Well, let's see how the specific CG performance looks this afternoon before making a decision. Do you think it's okay?"

Xu Rui did not directly make a decision, but made a suggestion.

"Okay, I'll go back and find that paragraph right away."

Deng Shixin nodded and took notes in his notebook.

Yasuhara didn't say anything, just turned over a page of the minutes of the meeting.

There are no differences in other parts, and the production policy of the first episode has been determined, and the time has come to noon.

After the meeting ended, Yasuhara stood up. He brought his own lunch, heated it up in the tea room, and then returned to his seat to eat slowly.

Deng Shixin ordered takeaway. Braised yellow chicken was cheap and affordable, but he would get tired if he ate too much. After he finished eating, he went back to confirm the CG to be shown in the afternoon.

Xu Rui helped Yi Qianqian and himself heat up the food, and put it in the tea room.

Before Yi Qianqian came over, Xu Rui saw Li Ruoxuan approaching with a lunch box in his hand.

She attended the handling meeting in the morning. Xu Rui thought she would go back to the editorial department, but unexpectedly she stayed.

"Hee hee, I see that you bring your own food every day, so I tried to make it myself."

She sat on the seat on Xu Rui's left, and opened her pink lid, a lunch box with a cute puppy pattern.

Ordinary rice, tomato scrambled eggs, potato cakes with irregular shapes, and boiled broccoli.

"Want to try it?"

Li Ruoxuan pushed the lunch box in front of Xu Rui and asked.

"Then I won't be polite."

Xu Rui picked up the chopsticks, picked up some tomato scrambled eggs and put them in his mouth.

The next moment, his face turned livid, and he looked at Li Ruoxuan in disbelief.

Xu Rui couldn't imagine why Li Ruoxuan, who looked cute, had such an indescribable taste in the normal-looking dish in his hand.

There seemed to be whispers of the ancient gods in his ears, and he was babbling unknown words.

After a long time, Xu Rui suppressed the instinctive urge to vomit and swallowed scrambled eggs with tomatoes, glanced at Li Ruoxuan who was looking forward to him, and spoke hesitantly.

"Uh, it tastes like ordinary tomato scrambled eggs."