The Creator of the Second Dimension

No one could have imagined that "Monster Hunter" would become the champion of the number of online games during the Spring Festival with just a trial version, just as if no one could have guessed that "A Bite of China" would be so popular before the broadcast.

This documentary filmed by the national TV station, with its own solid content, relied on the broadcast effect of prime time, word of mouth, even surpassed the weather forecast, and became the most watched program during the Spring Festival.

On Hatsune Video Network, until the seventh episode "Our Field" was broadcast, the total number of views of "A Bite of China" exceeded 100 million, and the number of views of the first episode exceeded 20 million, and this number is still growing .

The overseas version of Hatsune Video Network has also been played tens of millions of times. In places where the website is influential, many people have developed a great interest in Chinese food, and the restaurants in Chinatown are full.

Food anchors like Tom Granger also uploaded a video of making tofu, which received millions of hits.

At the end of the Spring Festival holiday, Fantastic Animation's work "White Box" also entered the second half of the story.

In the first twelve episodes, Phantom Animation in the animation completed the original animation "Magical Girl Xiao Fang" and achieved success. After that, the company received a task of adaptation. The adapted comic work is "The Fourth Flying Girl" involving airplanes "Team", but the responsible editor of this work is unwilling to let the production team meet the original author. Under many contradictions, the protagonist Xiaokui followed the animation company manager to the office building of the old fantasy animation.

This is an older building with only two floors that has been turned into a warehouse.

Xiaokui looked at all of this curiously, the bulging file bag, the old projector, the mottled walls, the tattered table, and the long-stopped wall clock.

She saw a piece of transparent paper, the paint on it had faded, and only an outline could be vaguely seen.

"What's this?"

Xiaokui picked up the paper and asked.

"This is the original painting of "Andes Chachi", I really miss it."

The manager replied, making Xiaokui look at it several times before finally seeing the image of the character from the color and outline.

"Really."

"Sometimes, the lines of charcoal will disappear after a long time, but the paint and background can be preserved for a long time. The cut bag is very heavy, and it takes a lot of time to wait for the paint to dry completely. If it is not handled carefully, the material will be damaged. , There will be halos when taking pictures, celluloid is troublesome to use, compared with that time, the current technology has improved a lot.”

The manager is already an amiable old man, he explained with emotion.

But after listening to the manager's explanation, Xiaokui couldn't be happy. The fantasy animation "Fourth Flying Girls" is struggling to create due to various contradictions, which makes Xiaokui feel that the future is bleak.

"Is this really progress? Is it really still making interesting animations? What I think about now is not how to make interesting things, but how to solve the immediate problems. I haven't made a good animation at all. The idea of ​​the work."

She muttered to herself.

"I think the era of being able to make a masterpiece slowly and carefully is much better than now."

"The production of "Chachi" was not so slow and meticulous. At that time, I was facing various troubles and the time was very tight. Haha, it should be said that I was looking for trouble, but I was really happy at that time."

Listening to the manager's words, Xiaokui fell into thought, but suddenly heard a roar.

"Hey, what are you doing in executive production!"

Xiaokui turned her head, but found that the voice was not calling herself.

"Hey, executive production, how do you set the test screening time for tomorrow's first issue?"

"I'm confirming."

Xiaokui saw that the manager, who was decades younger, was holding a microphone on the phone.

"Tomorrow's first test screening starts at 17:00."

On the wall, the stagnant clock started to run again.

Xiaokui stared blankly at all this.

I pinch the stopwatch to draw the storyboard performance, wear gloves, slowly apply the paint with a pen, and use the old-fashioned projector to confirm the inspection of the film and the screen bit by bit.

The young manager came out with a casserole and asked everyone to have a supper together. It was already late at night.

Several people were noisy, chatting about work and eating.

At this time, the manager took out a background picture and showed it to the director.

"What is this? Art background?"

"What a bold color."

"I've never seen a blizzard in this color."

"Who drew this kind of picture without authorization? This is completely different from the blizzard in episode 38."

cried the art director.

The manager called out the person who drew this background picture. This is a professional background production master that Xiaokui found through hard work when he was making "The Fourth Flying Girls Team". Entering young people.

He said that he once wandered and saw a desperate blizzard, and based on this impression, he drew it into the background map.

After some quarrels, everyone finally agreed on the idea of ​​changing the art background. Although it would take more labor and more time, in order to improve the quality of the work, everyone worked together to complete the work.

Here, the animation suddenly switches to the clip of "Andes Chucky". In the old-style picture, the characters in "Andes Chucky" are struggling in the snowstorm, hiding in the cave to keep warm, and talking about their worries about the future.

As we talked, the characters became the expectations of each production staff for the future.

Finally, the wind and snow subsided, and the animals saw the sun again.

At this time, when the camera turned, Xiao Kui was already in tears. She had just finished watching "Andes Chucky" which was shown on an old-fashioned projector.

Seeing this scene, Menmenmen was also quite emotional.

He is considered to be a generation who grew up watching animations. Nowadays, there are more and more animations every year, but there are fewer and fewer ones that move everyone.

It is precisely because of this that he began to be picky, began to mock the industry, and began to find fault with every work. It seems that in this way, the producers can find that the animations they make are no longer interesting. It seems that in this way, the animation industry can return to to that golden age.

Thinking about it carefully, Menmenmen suddenly realized that the animations that seemed to make him feel good in the past few years were almost all produced by fantasy animation, of course, this "White Box" was also included.

"At least in terms of animation production, I can still trust Xu Rui."

Menmenmen smiled wryly, at this moment, this episode of animation came to an end.

Surprisingly, the original ending song did not sound, but the singing of the work "Andes Chachi" appeared.

Accompanied by songs with a sense of the times, Chucky and his partners ran down the mountain, into the forest, towards the place where the sun rises.

Looking at this scene door by door, the corners of his eyes were a little moist.