Best wishes for animation production

Chapter 13 Do you need me to hug you?

"Gentleness?" Misawa's mouth twitched, "I've never heard of it."

"You entered the industry late and have been working in this company. Of course you have never heard of it." Shinichi Abe touched the sparse hair on the top of his head and said with a smile: "Don't look at Miss Mihara who is so young. If I remember correctly, She should be 27 years old this year, but her appearance has not changed much. In a sense, she is a real childlike face..."

Abe Shinichi was about to utter the last two words when he suddenly remembered that Gu Xue was also here. After a pause, he silently put away the increasingly lustful smile on his face, swallowed the last two words, and coughed dryly, "...Mihara She just looks very young. In fact, she has been in the industry for a long time. To be honest, this year is already her 8th year. In terms of experience in producing TV animations, few in your company can match her. of."

Snakehead Animation Company has only been established for six years. Although there are some experienced veterans in the company who have been in the industry for a long time, most of them are still newcomers.

"I've known Ms. Mihara for a long time. When 3.C Picture Company invited me to supervise a certain work, that one was Clover... have you seen it?" Shinichi Abe suddenly asked.

Misawa Hiroshi nodded. That is Shinichi Abe's masterpiece, and it is also his only successful work in recent years...

Abe Shinichi showed a nostalgic expression and said: "At that time, Ms. Mihara was a person involved in the production of that animation. She was responsible for the production of the first episode, the fifth episode, and the tenth episode respectively, and I was responsible for the first episode as the supervisor. I have had contact with him for the storyboards and performances.”

"At that time, she was a very gentle producer, soft-spoken, and very bad at rejecting the creators' requests. Even if the request was random, she would accept it after struggling for a while. And her work ability was extremely good, and not only that , probably because she was young and beautiful, and basically no one would refuse to get to know such a girl. She had only been in the industry for three years at that time, and her connections were very scary. Thanks to her, the four-leaf clover at that time, as long as it was The quality of the episodes she was responsible for was very good, and I am still grateful to her to this day.”

It was okay that Abe Shinichi didn't talk about the past. When he talked about the past, Misawa Hirono thought of the incident where he was almost speechless by Chisa Mihara, and he became even more depressed. "You said this because you wanted to tell me." , is it a dead end if the animation changes the character? Or do you want to tell me that Chisa Mihara actually hates me?"

Gu Xue, who had been listening, also stopped drawing storyboards, picked up the pencil and turned it around, also feeling a little depressed.

"Neither of the two, she looks like that to everyone now. She used to be a soft girl, but since last year, a familiar freelance animator has called her Miejue Shitai." Abe Shinichi said with a bitter smile.

Misawa laughed at himself: "That's just doing animation to change the character, which is a dead end."

"There are also reasons for this, but I don't think the main reason is this." Shinichi Abe knocked on the table, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "You should have noticed that animation, especially TV animation, if no one restricts us, It is actually a very dangerous thing for us to mess around. When it comes to creation, people with little control over it can easily overestimate their own or other people's abilities and mess around for some pursuits. On the opposite side is laziness, production The relevant positions are things other than managing the daily budget and so on, so that we can make animations on time. If the person who manages the process is easy to talk to, I will naturally feel happy, but this is definitely not a good thing."

"Have you ever watched 3.C Picture's "Falling Feathers" three years ago? It was an animation directed by the famous director Kei Narita."

Misawa Hiroshi said in surprise: "No way... Is that also related to Mihara Chisa?"

"She was involved in the production of the last episode. As you know, what was originally a very good work was ruined. After the final episode was broadcast, the Internet was full of comments criticizing the animation production team. The original author expressed it very directly They were dissatisfied, and some fans even went to the 3.C PICTURE company to parade, which was very scary.”

"The reason why this happened is because Miss Mihara didn't know how to refuse, or she let Narita Keiran do it too much. In a daily series, for the sake of so-called expressiveness, she forcibly added scenes of mechas transforming into battles, and also He refused to use 3D and had to draw it by hand. After the original painting was colored many times and he was not satisfied, it was returned to redrawing. Kei Narita, who was already hot-headed at the time, would only say one sentence every time he messed up: Mihara, remember to remind me, please. There is no trace of it. With the approaching death line in mind, I don’t know whether I trust Miss Mihara too much or the animators below.”

"Ms. Mihara was young and energetic at the time. Although she realized that the problem was serious, she still did not discuss it with the production director or producer. It was not until the day before the delivery to the TV station that her two immediate superiors learned about it. But it’s all over, it’s too late.”

"The animation caused an uproar when it was broadcast. The original animation was one of the pillars of Ohashi Publishing House at the time, and the producer on the committee, Miyamoto P, who was also the director of Ohashi Publishing House, liked the original work very much. 3 .C PICTURE had done such a thing, which made her very angry. When she heard about it that night, she called the president of 3.C PICTURE and scolded her. The next day, she rushed directly to his company and asked Inquiry is irresponsible."

"On that day, Miyamoto P made it clear that her company's works would never be given to 3.C PICTURE in the future, and she also refused to pay the production fee that should have been paid. Even if it was part of the staff's salary that had been paid, it would not be paid. To get it back, she also filed a lawsuit against 3.C PICTURE in court. She believed that the 3.C PICTURE production company had the intention of deliberately discrediting the original work and had engaged in unfair behavior, and should compensate the members of the production committee..."

Misawa swallowed softly, "Is it so big..."

Even just listening to it made Misawa feel chills on his back. This was a disaster, and it triggered almost all the minefields in animation production.

Original author, funder, audience.

People who are a bit more conceited might even jump off a building.

"It's just such a big statement, but it's just not publicized." Abe Shinichi smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Although the lawsuit was settled in the end, Miyamoto P, the general manager of Ohashi Publishing House, really did what he said. After the incident, I have not given any plans to 3.C PICTURE so far, even if the president of 3.C PICTURE personally apologized many times, it was of no use."

"What about Mihara Chisa?" Misawa Hiroshi scratched his head. Although he guessed it, he still asked.

"Do you think Kei Narita is a famous supervisor or a director of 3.C PICTURE Animation Company? If you compare him with a producer, which one is more credible... No, you can't say that. It should be, you think that person is more credible. The right to speak?" Abe Shinichi twitched the corner of his mouth.

"Supervisor Kei Narita completely shied away the responsibility, or he believed that he was not at fault."

"First there was a meeting in the planning department of 3.C PICTURE. The producer in the agency scolded Ms. Mihara. Then there was an inquiry meeting in the agency. I heard that Ms. Mihara stood there for six hours and was also scolded. It lasted six hours, during which I had a few confrontations with Kei Narita because I couldn't stand it anymore, and the final result was that I was slapped twice."

"'If you don't have the ability, just find someone to marry. If you can only shirk responsibility, what else do you need to do? The salary in the company is so small, wouldn't you make more if you are suppressed by a man!?' This is the famous supervisor Ogami Mihara Many people have heard and written down the original words he said when he was a young lady, and they are absolutely true, but as his reputation grows, not many people dare to mention them."

Abe Shinichi leaned back in his chair and said with a sarcastic smile: "Although it is very frustrating when there is a problem with the work. The company has offended Ohashi Publishing House, which is a huge loss and very troublesome, but it is still too much to say this, right? ?”

Misawa Hiro: "..."

Gu Xue: "..."

"Well, it's useless what we said. The incident ended with Miss Mihara bowing her head and admitting her mistake and accepting the punishment. If she didn't have a lot of connections, she would have been fired on the spot."

"After that incident, the gentle Miss Mihara disappeared, and her personality became quite tough. Although she stayed at 3.C PICTURE, due to some sequelae, her stay at 3.C PICTURE did not go well and she only made it to one group. As the production director, this is because she has excellent abilities and some connections, but the company doesn’t want to let her go, otherwise she might still be just a production manager.”

"The reason why she stayed, I heard, was just to prove herself, but the company didn't give her a chance. She ran away this time and came to your company. It seems she gave up..."

"Well, it can't be said that he gave up. I heard that the famous "big supervisor", I don't know if it was 'love out of hate' or something. Even though the incident has passed, he still frequently goes to see Miss Mihara. , he called Miss Mihara into his office a few days ago, and the two had a quarrel. I heard that in the end, when the chief supervisor cursed and drove Miss Mihara away, he also said something like, "If you don't know the truth, you will never think about it." You should know exactly what happened, after all, Miss Mihara..."

Misawa's face looked like he was constipated, "No way, you mean..."

"Ahem." Abe Shinichi coughed, glanced at Gu Xue, and interrupted Misawa Hiro.

As expected, Misawahiro shut up.

Gu Xue stood up in a flash, picked up the storyboard, placed it in front of the two of them, and said: "Keep talking, isn't it the supervisor who wants to introduce Mihara Chisa to a business that he says makes more money?" "Work", if the other party doesn't accept it, it's not like I don't understand anything."

"But, since you already know that messing around will have serious consequences, please discuss it with others before changing the storyboard next time. Unless you have successfully found someone to draw such messy original paintings, you are like this now, What’s the difference between him and the so-called big supervisor?”

Gu Xue glared at the two of them and left these words. She turned around, shook her ponytail, opened the door of the conference room and was about to go out.

Unexpectedly, he ran into a "soft wall" head on.

Originally, Gu Xue was slightly taller than the opponent, so this situation would not happen, but Gu Xue lowered his head...

Gu Xue raised her head and looked at the expressionless Chisa Mihara. Her mind became hot and she said directly: "Do you need me to hug you?"