Tokyo life starting with painting

The next day, Saturday, was originally considered a rest day, but because the promotional video had just been released, many people came over and took the initiative to make up the extra work - mainly because they wanted to see the reviews of the three-minute film on the Internet.

Except for a few original animators who really couldn't get away and had appointments outside, basically everyone came.

This scene made Shanxia Qianxia, ​​who came in advance with her bag, stunned. She had never seen such a scene.

It’s not during working hours, so there are so many people taking the initiative to come to work.

Shanxia Qianxia was a little stunned, but quickly greeted these seniors one by one.

Just when she was about to walk to her workbench, someone took the initiative to stop her: "Miss Yamayama, Director Yano went to get the projector and said that everyone would watch the promotional video together later."

"I see."

No wonder everyone is sitting here chatting, waiting for the projector.

Shanxia Qianxia suddenly realized.

She also put down her bag and chatted with several original animators around her and her two former original animator apprentices.

Chinatsu Yamayama is a working woman who is better at dealing with interpersonal relationships. Even if she alone received preferential treatment from Higashinoji in advance, she was able to coax the other two original animator apprentices into not having any objections to this.

Soon Yano Ryuichi came out with a projector and connected the output port. After the image appeared on the white screen, he clicked on the Tono Studio page on the computer.

The logo of Higashino Studio is a simple black and white paintbrush. The paintbrush's LOGO hangs on the empty and simple studio website. If you scroll down, you will find the three-minute promotional video posted yesterday and a small comment area below.

Beyond that there is nothing.

Yes.

This is considered to be crude to the point of being crude.

But no one cared.

No matter how shiny the website is, it is of no use. The most important thing is the results. Without the results, everything is useless.

Everyone turns to real-time click statistics.

Then--

A burst of cheers erupted inside Dongye Studio. Although it was not the kind of excited chest-beating seen in TV and movies, the happy look on everyone's face could be seen - "The Winner Is Justice" directly won More than 100,000 hits.

You must know that this is just a promotional video. The promotional videos produced by several other animation production companies only have tens of thousands of hits at most. "The Winner is Right" surpassed them five or six times, and it can be obtained in just one night. This achievement really surprised them all.

Even Shanxia Chinatsu's mood was aroused by the atmosphere of the group. She became happy without realizing it and started discussing with a few people around her.

Higashinoji, who was watching the result on the other side, nodded with satisfaction. The results of "The Winner is Justice" were not particularly ugly after all.

As for the atmosphere of such unity and unity in his team, this also made Higashino think about it for a moment and felt that this was actually normal.

What makes a team more cohesive?

This question can be answered without even thinking about it - it is a common difficulty encountered by the team.

And "The Winner is Right" plays such a difficult role.

The four-month construction period, a lot of problems, and insufficient manpower. These past few months have been an extremely difficult time for the entire Dongye Studio.

Now that the haze has been finally cleared away, the members in the studio will certainly be very happy.

Even Ryuichi Yano, who is next to Higashinoji, has a look of emotion on his face. He has been a well-deserved contributor to Higashino Studio in the past few months. He has been running around to make contacts and review the dubbing actors, and his hair has fallen out a lot because of it. Few, but only at this moment did he feel that the loss of his hair was valuable.

The studio members were noisy like this for a while, and then Yano Ryuichi turned to look at Higashinoji next to him. After finding that his expression had not changed much, he asked curiously: "Teacher Higashino, what's wrong? Don't you know? Are you too satisfied with this result?"

After hearing Yano Ryuichi's words, the entire Tono Studio became quiet for some reason. The members inside, including Chinatsu Yamayama, all looked at Higashino Tsukasa.

After two months of getting along, many people have come to understand the power of Teacher Higashino who likes to smile with squinted eyes. Especially when he squints his eyes and curls up the corners of his eyes, someone will always suffer and be scolded.

The key point is that he is not the kind of direct insult, but talks in a roundabout way, making you feel guilty and sorry.

In addition, Higashinoji is already capable and works as hard as them, which makes them unable to refute sometimes.

If you are capable, you can scold others, and you will work with them without taking any credit. Likewise, you will not treat them badly and are willing to pay them for overtime. Many companies or animation production companies in Japan do not pay overtime, which naturally makes people like Chinatsu Yamayama. In that way, it became a form of respecting Higashino Tsukasa.

Higashinoji was thinking about something when he heard Yano Ryuichi speak and noticed everyone was looking at him, so he subconsciously smiled and the corners of his eyes curled up - this smile was very hearty, but it made a group of Higashino studio employees feel a little nervous. .

Oops! Teacher Higashino is going to eat people!

They took a step back, fearing that Toyoji would find them.

"The results achieved this time are very good. You have worked hard these past few months. As a celebration, Mr. Yano will take you to dinner tonight. The accounts will be recorded in the studio's finance department." Higashino announced with a smile.

This made the studio members below sigh in relief, and at the same time they began to discuss with soft smiles again.

Seeing this scene, Higashinoji didn't say much. But to be honest, just the number of clicks on the promotional video doesn't mean anything. Even if the viewers applaud in the comment area, it will be in vain if they can't achieve good results by then.

Therefore, Higashinoji's mood is not particularly exciting. Even if he is really happy and excited, he has to wait until the sales of Blu-ray discs are released.

After calming them down, Higashinoji didn't stand still, but called four supervisors, one of whom was Hosokawa Koharu who was invited to help out as a favor.

Although they have achieved good results, they must not be complacent like ordinary painters and special effects artists in the studio. Instead, they need to hold a meeting to discuss it carefully.

This discussion is not complicated. It is mainly about where the high number of hits on "The Winner Is Justice" comes from.

Soon, Higashinoji and the others came to a conclusion.

First of all, "The Winner is Justified" is different from other animation production companies. They did not disclose the details of the animation at all. However, Tono Studio directly released the finished film, and the quality was amazing, so it attracted a lot of attention. There was no discussion among the audience, and they expressed their appreciation for Higashino Studio's behavior of not covering up and directly releasing the film.

After all, it's a mule or a horse. You can only tell if it's taken out for a walk.

The second point may be that Higashinoji specially asked them to add a small button to share the copy link under the video before the promotional video was released. Higashinoji was trying to learn from the practice of sharing videos on some websites in previous lives, so he let them They made a copy button by the way.

The result was unexpectedly amazing.

Many people shared links to "The Winner Is Justice", and it was also spread that Higashino Studio directly released the three-minute film.

Higashinoji didn't expect that this casual sharing would have such a good effect. This was completely unintentional.

Although Yano Ryuichi and the others were happy, they were not dazzled by this moment of joy. After figuring out the reason, they began to prepare the next publicity plan.

The "Winner Is Justice" promotional video is just a means of publicity.

In addition, there are other methods such as putting up posters. However, in Japan in 2004, animation promotion could only be done on trams or subways. In this era, Akihabara, known as the holy land of comics and animation, was just a relatively ordinary street. It's just an electronics street, but recently Akihabara seems to have introduced some comics and animations. Maybe it will become a holy place like the comics tour in the previous life.

But no matter what, Dongye Studio won the first battle, and then it depends on how the competitors in the same period take over.

Higashino Studio is happy, but on the other side, MIC Animation Production Company, which is also headquartered in Tokyo, is stunned by the combination of punches from Higashino Studio, which has been silent.

MIC is also a company that produces animations for October this time. Their production of "Takagi-kun Next Door" received a large amount of production funds and is a strong competitor for the animation hegemony this October.

In other words, they are also an animation production company that wants to compete with Tono Studio.

At this time, a group of animation production team members from MIC Animation Production Company were sitting next to the projector, looking up at the three-minute promotional video released by Higashino Studio.

Machiko Dai's realistic portrayal, Kensuke Komemon's indifference to truth and justice, Tsubokura's eyes like a murderer's

This gave them a feeling of goosebumps all over their bodies.

"The quality of the finished film is really outstanding."

Someone in the production team whispered something.

There is no way. Although Tono Studio is about to compete with them, they can't just say "No, it just won't work" without conscience, and then turn off the video as if to escape, right?

"Is there such a scene in our new work "Takagi-kun Next Door"?"

Looking at the exquisite painting, each frame of screenshot can be used as the background of the computer desktop, one of the original painters asked a colleague in a low voice.

The original animator who was asked did not speak, but was a little speechless and said: "No. Is it better to say that Dongye Studio is going too far?"

Yes, Higashino Studio is going too far.

Even when the sun sets inside, the radiant and dynamic look on the face of the heroine Machiko Dai is not caused by special effects artists or rough coloring in post-production, but it really feels like shadows are floating.

They could tell at a glance that this effect was hand-painted by Tono Studio. Because the computer special effects in 2004 were very rigid, it was impossible to really create that floating feeling of light.

This is simply a malicious display of skills!

It's really too much!

But the most they can do is talk here. Higashino Studio is willing to put in so much effort to create such exquisite pictures, so they are unlikely to criticize each other.

After all, the industry is so big, and the bad things they say now may spread to Higashino Studio and others.

It's easy to make enemies, so you definitely can't say it casually.

And the most important thing is

Didn’t I say before that there are few people in Dongye Studio? How did you create such outstanding work?

Weren’t all the original drawings from PW Animation Production Company burned down in a fire? What is this situation? How could you produce such an outstanding work in such a difficult situation?

It’s no wonder that Higashino Studio dared to release the feature film directly. After all, this three-minute feature film can already explain a lot of things.

Similarly, no one said such naive words as "Did Tono Studio specially select the most well-produced three minutes and take them out to make this promotional video?"

After all, most animation production companies only come up with this kind of 'nuclear bomb' at the bottom of the box. Toye Studio has the confidence to directly come out with this kind of 'nuclear bomb', which only shows that they have many other things on hand that are not weak. The 'nuke' of this clip.

As Kensuke Komemon's cold and mocking tone fell, the animation supervisor responsible for the production of "Takagi-kun Next Door" turned off the promotional video of "The Winner is Justice": "Okay, I specially called everyone here to show this. This promotional video does not mean to discourage you, but simply wants you to know how powerful our opponent is this time."

He encouraged himself: "Although the production of Higashino Studio is excellent, it does not mean that our "Takagi-kun Next Door" will lose. After all, we have two months longer than theirs in the production period. This is an advantage that cannot be ignored! Even if these three minutes are outstanding, so what? It will still have to be tested by the audience at that time, so please don’t have unnecessary worries and burdens.”

The words of the animation director of "The Takagi-kun Next Door" made many people nod.

It does make sense.

They have two months more production time than Higashino Studio. This is their advantage.

There is no need to be afraid or intimidated by a mere three-minute film.

We don’t know whether it’s a mule or a horse until we fight against it.

They regained their energy and began to discuss quietly.

Only the animation director who just spoke breathed out softly, his expression a bit melancholy despite what he just said.

But that was just a mere scene talk.

The three-minute film produced directly by Higashino Studio is indeed like a nuclear bomb. It is a great threat to them and they have to guard against it.

"I originally thought that Higashino-sensei was going to stumble on his own work this time, but I didn't expect it." The director of "Takagi-kun Next Door" exhaled heavily. He didn't expect that he would suddenly appear when competing for the October hegemony animation. Such a dark horse comes.

And it's the kind that would crush your face with a horse's hooves.

(This is the update tonight.) Thanks to Fissioner, Leaf Lemon Juice, Fifty-One Stone, People in the Forest, and Tian Wenchen Xin for their rewards! Thank you so much!