Best wishes for animation production

Gu Xue took a copy of the script for the eleventh episode of "Invasion" and several design drawings, left Misawahiro's office and returned to his position.

Miss Mihara went to arrange the schedule and notify other personnel.

In the end, it was decided that the storyboards for the first half of the eleventh episode of "Invasion" would be drawn by Hiroshi Misawa, while the second half would be left free for Gu Xue to perform freely according to the script, and all the original paintings would be done by Gu Xue alone.

Gu Xue's task is not easy.

So as soon as Gu Xue returned to her seat, she took out her mobile phone and watched the previously aired episodes of "Invasion" to familiarize herself with the story and the overall style of the work.

After spending about an hour, Gu Xue put down her phone.

In fact, the story of "Invasion" is not complicated. It is nothing more than the invasion of extraterrestrial creatures from outside the universe. Human beings invented mechas that only specific people can adapt to drive, and then the protagonist, a high school student, was selected...

It's almost a spoiled plot.

The previously aired episodes mainly talked about the small-scale invasion of extraterrestrial creatures, the protagonist's team training to fight against the extraterrestrial creatures, and the story of love.

Although the quality is good, the whole story feels seriously fragmented, and there is even a swimsuit episode...

Please, the planet is going to die and you still have to go sightseeing. Are you big-hearted or are the high-level humans in the story big-hearted?

When Gu Xue watched it, she really complained about the work from beginning to end.

But these are things she can't change. She is only responsible for the eleventh episode and is only the original animator. The animator does not need to consider the overall story. Gu Xue only cares about the story because she is well-informed. .

The eleventh episode of "Invasion" may be coming to an end. It has changed from the previous style that was worth complaining, and the story has become much more serious.

It is roughly about the protagonist receiving a mission to rescue civilians in a dangerous area, and then discovers that the alien creatures hiding in the dangerous area have come to the conclusion that "human beings are not a big threat", and gives the mother queen of alien creatures far away in space A signal was sent, and the Queen Mother who received the signal led tens of thousands of extraterrestrial creatures to begin a large-scale landing.

I’m not messing around, it’s a very serious exaggerated story before the war. It is estimated that the final chapter will be the battle between the protagonist and the Mother Queen. Maybe a few people will die, but in the end, the high school protagonist will definitely be able to kill the Mother Queen, save the planet, and then welcome the beautiful world. ending.

It's too cliché.

But Gu Xue had no grudges in her heart when it came to painting.

If extraterrestrial creatures were about to invade on a large scale, Gu Xue would feel uncomfortable if the protagonist and the heroine were still flirting with each other.

After all...the planet is going to die! !

After reading the script carefully, Gu Xue already had some ideas and pictures in her mind. However, it was a combat movie after all. In addition to the script, she had to read the design draft before speaking.

In a combat movie, in addition to character design, the most important thing is mechanical design.

After seeing it, Gu Xue had to sigh...the robot is so handsomely designed.

Although the plot is hard to describe in one word.

Gu Xue just watched the animation and felt that the robot design was very good, but after all, it was drawn by other animators, and the TV animation project was on a tight schedule and the budget should not be exaggerated. There were too many corners cut.

The complete form of the robot is perfectly displayed in the mechanical design draft.

The protagonist is driving a huge streamlined robot. There are rough data next to the design draft for reference in the original painting. The robot is nearly 80 meters tall and weighs 2,000 tons. The description states that it has strong speed and fighting ability. The overall appearance is a bit like Pacific Rim. The Wanderer in the movie is very handsome.

The robots in the other supporting roles are also very handsome.

The people who designed these machines must be very capable.

The moment Gu Xue saw it, she lost her resistance.

She said she likes carrot slices and giant robots, no joke...

Despite her current identity and gender, saying she likes this kind of thing is a bit nonsensical and inexplicable.

But she doesn't care about other people's eyes.

Huge robot.

Gu Xue couldn't put it down and looked at the mechanical design draft in her hand, turning it over and over. As for the other design drawings, she looked at them once and threw them aside.

That kind of thing is fine no matter what.

The more she looked at the mechanical design draft, the more Gu Xue had ideas. In the end, she almost couldn't help but start drawing, but luckily her reason stopped her.

Robot drawing is difficult.

Not to mention the difficulty of expressing the robot's hugeness and metallic feel, the complexity of the robot's structure alone was a headache.

For example, you draw an egg on paper and roll it in a circle, draw the trajectory, and roll it to another position. It's very simple, right?

A few circles are all it takes, and with a little practice, anyone can draw it.

What about someone with hands and feet? The difficulty will increase exponentially. What if it is a robot? huge! The structure is more complex than that of humans! It also needs to express a sense of hugeness and metal! That is simply not something that ordinary people can draw. Even people with experience in this field cannot say how well or how fast they can draw.

This is also the reason why there are fewer and fewer hand-drawn combat films.

Although Gu Xue had planned to draw the eleventh episode of "Invasion" according to the standards of EVA, Tianyuan Breakthrough, and Gundam before leaving Misawa Hiroshi's office, teaching the boss how to be a good person, and letting them remember that whether outsourcing is good or not depends on it. This is a double-edged sword.

But after thinking about it calmly, Gu Xue felt that this was also a trick to herself...

Moreover, it was a bit unreasonable to be angry at the turnkey company. The person Gu Xue should be angry with the most was the senior management of his company.

Leaning back in the chair, Gu Xue wanted to convince herself to draw an ordinary storyboard and create an ordinary scene, but it didn't work.

Although she thought she shouldn't blame the turnkey company, Gu Xue still wanted to do a good job...

Out of love for radish slices.

After thinking about it for a while, Gu Xue decided not to care.

If they have the ability, the animation production company of "Invasion" will take over and watch it. If they don't, they will be prepared to welcome the end with the dull expressions of the audience.

You dare to outsource the entire episode of a combat movie, so in addition to being mentally prepared for the other party to do shit, you also need to be mentally prepared for the other party to do better than you.

Have you ever heard that water can carry and capsize a boat?

Little Gu Xue, the logic genius, convinced herself, put down the design draft, and thought about it for a while. Instead of immediately taking out the storyboards and starting to conceive of the storyboards, she planned to draw some scenes in her mind on the original drawing paper with reference to the script, and then Slowly let the story of the second half of the eleventh episode of "Invasion" come together.

After all, the grid on the storyboard is too small, and the huge robot is drawn on the small grid, which is difficult to express. Moreover, Gu Xue is the original artist, so some habits are difficult to change.

Pulling out a small stack of original drawing paper and placing it on the workbench, Gu Xue began to flip through the script while sorting out the stories and pictures in her mind.

After a while.

Gu Xue put down the script.

I glanced at the original drawing paper on the workbench, and I felt no fluctuation in my heart. I even wanted to draw a circus.