Best wishes for animation production

snakehead animation company, one o'clock in the morning.

"My uncle's right leg is missing a big toe, but it's not a toe, but a holy sword" Episode 6 Storyboard and Performance Misawa Hiroshi returned to his seat and slumped in the chair, looking like he was about to die.

In animation production, storyboarding is easy to understand. It is to draw the sketches of the shots one by one according to the requirements of the script and animation supervisor. As for the responsibilities of the performance, the first thing that needs to be completed is the drawing meeting, which involves storyboarding hundreds of cards. Distribute it to the original painters, and at the same time explain in detail the clothing, mood, etc. of the characters in the storyboard, and convey the desired effects to the original painters.

The first step in checking the original painting is also the performance. The main thing is to check whether the performance of the original painting meets expectations. For example, if you want to show anger, is the angry character drawn well? Do you need to redraw it or let the painting supervisor make corrections? If it is really not up to standard. Those will be returned for repair or directly redone, probably to confirm their "acting skills".

Basically, I will participate in all the content and performances in the later stage.

To put it in understandable terms, the performance is the director of a single episode.

So does it feel good to be a performer for an animation production team with a tight schedule and a small budget?

Misawa Hiroshi said that it was so exciting. He also served as a storyboard. From the moment he got the script and saw the name, he wanted to leave on the spot.

What the hell is this plan?

However, "Fuck your job! Stop doing it!" will eventually turn into "Making money is important, making money is important."

Even if he is dissatisfied with this animation project, he still has to continue with it. He encounters many, many problems.

The construction schedule was too tight, there was not enough time for work, and it was impossible to find a good original painting. There was no experience in the original painting, and the quality was like shit.

Misawa Hiroshi was constrained from the beginning of drawing storyboards, and he couldn't even think about difficult shots because there was really no good original animator.

But even so, there are so many problems, and the deadline is getting closer and closer. Misawa Hiroshi's mentality has changed, and there is no time to check whether the original painting symbols are not in line with expectations. As long as they are not messed up and can be seen, it is almost the same. , always sign with your eyes closed and then give it to the painting supervisor.

Tonight is the time to make a decision between "Let me change the junk original painting!" and "Forget it."

Misawa picked up a card of original paintings on the table and began to examine it.

Although due to the construction period, he chose to relax the standards and close his eyes to sign when he looked past, there are standards for relaxing the standards, and those who are too messy will definitely not pass.

After checking the three cards in one go, Misawa was a little confused. Generally speaking, the paintings were average and the performance was not very satisfactory. He wanted to go back, but there was not much time left for him.

As mentioned before, generally speaking, animation production is carried out at the same time as the assembly line. For example, if the first episode is broadcast, the third episode of the animation should be almost completed, and the storyboard of the eighth episode has been drawn.

Of course, this is an ideal situation.

Now the fourth episode of the "Uncle" animation has been aired, and the sixth episode is still in the drawing stage, and the progress has been greatly delayed.

If it's too late, the filming will be canceled and the production will be postponed.

So Misawa Hiroshi struggled for a while, and finally gave it to those three cards. Although the performance was very poor, at least it was done, and there wasn't much damage, right...

Continue checking next.

Soon it was Gu Xue's turn to be responsible for the original paintings of the two cards.

When Misawa picked up one of the cards, he was stunned for a moment when he saw the name.

He was deeply impressed by these two cards, because they were cards in which the protagonist required strenuous exercise to be cool, and no one in the company was willing to take it, or no one could draw it. The people who could draw it were in another project, which was a thigh comic adaptation, and the entire company The focus is on it.

You can only go to an original artist outside the company to draw it.

The first original artist, Hiroshi Misawa, has inspected it, and to be honest, there are many problems, such as a perfunctory attitude, mediocre action design and performance, extensive use of teleportation and camera cuts, and some original animation movements that are slightly deformed, etc.

But what can he do? He is also desperate. The budget is so small. It is difficult to find an original artist who is willing to draw. It is basically no problem. The construction schedule is so tight, there is no time to rework.

Anyway, it is a light modification of garbage. If the requirements for certain cards or two are so high, the overall garbage atmosphere will not disappear.

So Misawa Hiroshi gave it up happily.

He remembered that he had finished clearing the draft for the second original painting the day before yesterday, and he just brought it over today. It must have been too slow.

But when he saw the name of the second original painting, he felt relieved.

It turns out to be that JK...

It seems that he came in through the back door, and there seems to be some connection. The animator was promoted to original animator after working for half a year. The person in charge of the examination and promotion must have let it go, because when Misawa Hiroshi was in charge of a single episode of a certain animation last year, he was also promoted. The card was given to Gu Xue, but Gu Xue was inexperienced and unskilled. Her drawing was so slow and poor that she failed at all. In the end, someone else finished it for her.

This year, Misawa Hiroshi didn't give her any more cards. When the painting meeting was held, because she didn't get a card, she sat in the corner with her head bowed, which was very distressing.

This time, I gave her the second original drawings of 221 and 222 cards, mainly because there was no one available, and it was quite troublesome to clear the draft, but the technical content was not high, so it suited her.

"It's too slow." Misawa sighed, unfolded the rhythm table, took out the original painting, and began to check.

"..."

The first second after seeing the original painting, Misawa's breath froze, he stood up suddenly and threw it on the table.

"This is not a clear draft at all!"

"What's wrong?" Kojima Taira, one of the animation supervisors of the sixth episode, happened to come over to see Hiro Misawa and wanted to get some tea. As soon as he arrived at the door of the office, he heard Hiro Misawa yelling and was startled. .

Misawa turned around and glanced at Kojimaira, with a confused look on his face: "Miss JK went on strike, and maybe she even ran away from the production."

In fact, Gu Xue is quite famous in the company. Because she is too young, many people call her Miss JK in private...

As for why the production was still underway, it was because Gu Xue threw the original painting directly on the performance table...

"ha?"

Misawa raised the two cards of original paintings in his hand and gave Kojima Ping a look.

"Holy shit." Kojima Ping was also shocked, "Is it too late? Find someone else to clean the manuscript?"

"It's too late or not." Misawa slumped down on the chair again, suddenly feeling very tired.

Of course he was angry, but this situation is actually not uncommon. The pressure of animation production is so high that it is normal for one or two original animators to suddenly leave or the production progress to fall behind.

It's normal...

The painting stage is the most prone to problems, and Misawa Hiroshi has experienced all problems, big and small.

"So if you don't have the energy, why would you take on a project like this?" Misawa threw aside the two cards of original paintings that had no clear draft at all, rubbed his brows, and couldn't help but complain.

"This is not something you would say. You have been doing it for so many years. Don't you know the current situation of animation production?" Kojima smiled, picked up the tea leaves on Misawa Hiroshi's table, and poured some on his own on the cup, and joked to him by the way.

"Ah~ Pills in the industry." Misawa scratched his hair, sighed, and then... continued to check the next card.

Not to mention the industry's pills, even if the world ends, he will finish the work first, and then check whether the production is running smoothly.

However, as soon as he saw the first original painting of the next card, he was stunned. It always felt familiar and a little strange...

Continue to turn to the next one, um...

After taking a look at the whole thing, Misawa's eyes lit up and he immediately picked up the next card.

After reading it in its entirety again, he looked at the name of the original artist.

On the other side, Kojima Ping finished pouring the tea, glanced at Misawa Hiroshi who was holding the original painting with a serious expression, smiled and shook his head, not bothering him anymore, and prepared to leave quietly.

But he had just reached the door.

"Fuck!!" Misawa suddenly stood up from the chair and shouted loudly.

Kojima's shoulders shrank, turned around and asked, "What happened again? Someone ran away again?"

"No." Misawa said confusedly, holding a card of original paintings, "Miss JK is back again."