Best wishes for animation production

Five minutes have passed in the conference room.

But Gu Xue, who was holding the pencil, still felt that her head was blank. She took a deep breath, dropped the pencil, leaned on the back of the chair, and said to herself: "I won't draw anymore."

"What's wrong?" Miss Mihara, who had been watching her, stood up with her hands on the table, walked around behind Gu Xue, hesitated for a moment, mustered up the courage to put her hand on Gu Xue's shoulder, and pressed it gently.

"You disturbed my mind." Gu Xue turned to glare at her.

Chisa Mihara paused and said softly: "Then I'll go out for a while and come back later to bring you something to drink."

After saying that, she was leaving.

"Eh..." Gu Xue had an expression like "I'm just telling you, you really want to leave."

But Miss Mihara is really gone.

Gu Xue looked at the figure disappearing from the door and sighed.

Although it was not disturbing the mind, the atmosphere between the two of them was a bit strange just now. The main reason was that Miss Mihara's way of expressing her gratitude was so strange that Gu Xue felt a little strange and uncomfortable.

After Miss Mihara left, Gu Xue's brain cooled down.

Although Miss Mihara's way of thanking her was strange, Gu Xue breathed a sigh of relief when she was sure that the other party just had an awkward personality and had no other thoughts.

I can finally get along with Miss Mihara with peace of mind, I can enjoy her beautiful photos with peace of mind, I have no scruples when I see her that is different, and I no longer have to worry about other problems.

You can kiss, hug, and lift her up at any time... Just lift it up high, for fear of falling her.

This is probably what Gu Xue thinks.

He breathed a sigh of relief and felt a little happy.

Although Miss Mihara noticed Gu Xue's thoughts at the critical moment and told a little lie, it seemed to push Gu Xue further away.

But this is not something Gu Xue should worry about.

After Chisa Mihara left, Gu Xue began to organize her thoughts and prepared to continue painting the original design.

The original proposal does not refer to the script, but to the initial setting or early story outline. Because the story has not yet been approved and truly finalized, it is only made for other creators to see and discuss, so it does not need to be well drawn.

To use a more understandable word, it’s probably the original work, script.

Because it was Gu Xue who proposed this story, she needs to make it clear to the creators what kind of story it is about. After discussion, it may need to be changed.

For animation production, you definitely need a formal script to draw storyboards.

Gu Xue is the original painting, so Misawa just asked her to draw it.

Similarly, character design also has the term "original draft". For example, in comics and light revisions, cartoonists or illustrators generally complete the original character design, and then change the animation character design into a character design suitable for animation painting, because the animation construction period is very long. It's important to reduce lines as much as possible. To put it bluntly, it means making it easier to draw, and improving and adding various settings.

The characters in Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress are beautiful, right? That is the credit of Mikimoto Haruhiko, the original character designer, and the character design of the animation has tried its best to retain and restore her style.

However, not all character designs are restoration-based, and there are some examples where the stylization is so serious that the original character design will be drastically changed to the point where even his mother doesn’t recognize it.

Of course, Gu Xue is not worried about others drastically changing her characters, because she is responsible for the character design. The reason why the characters she drew are called original designs or first drafts is just because they have not yet been recognized and discussed with other creators. Maybe some details need to be modified.

As for the purpose of character design... it is actually the standard for the next project. After all, the original painting was not painted by Gu Xue alone. Many people participated. Others may have drawn it due to issues such as style and their own painting habits. The characters will be biased. If you give them a character design draft and refer to the character setting draft, such problems will be less likely to occur.

Of course, this is not necessarily 100% the same, so there is the position of painting supervisor. One of the tasks of the supervisor is to correct the differences from the standard, such as the face and the design draft, and the contours and lines are different. The place will be corrected.

The chief painting supervisor is responsible for the entire work and corrects any differences in the entire work.

Only in this way can the characters and body lines of an episode or an animation be consistent, so that the audience will not think that this person is still the protagonist one second, and then raise questions about who he is the next second.

In fact, many animations make people feel that they are broken. This is because there is no time to repair them due to the deadline, or the level of supervision of the animation is low and unreliable.

As for the original painting of "This Uncle" that Gu Xue was responsible for before, the face is so handsome and it doesn't match the whole picture at all. Why hasn't it been edited?

First, this was a requirement of the performance. Misawa had many ideas and convinced others, so he went on.

Second, maybe all viewers think that Gu Xue made the protagonist handsome, but in fact... the number of cards Gu Xue was responsible for was drawn with reference to the character design draft, which is also the closest to the character design. It is not so much that Gu Xue made the protagonist handsome. It's better to say that other people's paintings collapsed...

What a sad story...

In animation production, in addition to character design, different works may also include positions such as mechanical design, weapon design, prop design, etc.

For example, the staff that Gu Xue is currently drawing is the cold weapon held by the protagonist Akko in "Little Witch Academia" and feels like it can kill people. Logically speaking, she would not be allowed to draw it. Generally speaking, TV animations , there is a high probability that there will be a prop designer specifically responsible for this work.

But even with this position, Gu Xue probably wouldn't let others draw these props. In fact, don't underestimate these props, they are very important. If they don't match the style of the work, it will easily cause drama.

As the person most familiar with this work, Gu Xue still accepted all the design work honestly and acquiesced. Although there was no extra money, it was just a matter of convenience. She was referring to the memory painting and did not need her to consult information or conceive and imagine.

Gu Xue also drew other designs such as brooms and other witches' ordinary staffs.

Gu Xue's hand holding the pencil became faster and faster, and she became more and more involved. The original drawing papers filled with characters or props were put aside and accumulated thicker and thicker.

When it comes to the protagonist Akko, Gu Xue can no longer control her right hand.

When it comes to character design, the most important thing is not only the body shape, but also the facial makeup, which is the expression of the character. You need to draw some for the reference of the original animators below, such as happy, angry, frustrated, etc., usually in a few numbers. indivual.

As for Gu Xue, when she painted the protagonist Akko, she drew a total of twenty facial masks and two original drawing papers.

It’s like drawing emoticons.

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