Chapter 287. Body Swap
While "Yes Ye's Court" is being produced in a intensive manner, the animation movie "Your Name" on Xu Rui is also preparing for it.
After completing the script and discussing it, it is the most basic character design work.
In late March, the weather became warmer, but Lin Shuyi did not feel the breath of spring, but instead shrank in her own position and thought with a pen.
In front of her was a computer and a digital tablet. Compared to the older generation of original painters who liked to paint on paper, Lin Shuyi was more adaptable to digital creation.
At this moment, a girl with long hair was shown on her computer screen, who looked quite heroic.
"The performance of the two personalities is indeed a bit troublesome, how should I do it..."
Lin Shuyi put the pen on her lips, which was her subconscious action when she was thinking.
She looked at the script next to her again and carefully read the description.
To be honest, Lin Shuyi was shocked when she first saw the script.
Because the script of "Yan Ye's Court" is close to reality, delicate and restrained, she initially thought that "Your Name" was also a story about young and teenagers' love. However, when she saw the beginning, this impression was completely overturned.
“Swap body???”
The male protagonist of the story is a high school student living in Ningjiang, while the female protagonist Ye is a student from a country town. By chance, the two will exchange bodies regularly. Long will enter Ye's body and spend a leisurely life in the countryside. Ye can also control Long's body and play in a metropolis like Ningjiang.
There are naturally some jokes and differences, and there are occasions where problems can be solved by relying on different thinking between the two sides.
Lin Shuyi has seen comics with similar settings, but they are basically simple comedy types. No one will worry about why two people can exchange bodies and only watch the plot after accepting this setting.
But using this setting in an animated movie is indeed unprecedented.
What Lin Shuyi is now worried about is how to express the different personalities of the male and female protagonists in a character.
Although it can be used to match the original painting's actions and the interpretation of the voice actors to make two personalities appear on a face, Lin Shuyi still wants to make a distinction in the character stage, so that people can feel that they can tell which personality that occupies the body now at a glance.
"Ye has a straightforward personality. His father is the mayor and his family is a big family responsible for local festivals. He should be relatively mature. Well, add a little more girlish feeling?"
In the story setting, the city where the heroine Ye is located is located in Sichuan and Shu, which has many basins in this area. The town where the heroine lives is located next to a lake, and there is a basin plain between mountains nearby. Since ancient times, there have been many mysterious legends here, and the heroine Ye's family is an ancient family responsible for the rituals.
The god worshipped in this festival is not an ordinary Buddha Taoist lord, but an unknown little god. It is said that in ancient times, gods descended to the town and brought this lake to the arid town. The body of the god fell in the basin plain, which also became the place where the heroine's family guarded for generations.
It is precisely because of this that the heroine's character is not only wearing school uniforms and casual clothes, but also wearing gorgeous clothes and holding festivals. For this reason, Lin Shuyi has referenced many myths and rumors and folk customs in Sichuan and Shu area, and combined with the design of the story, so that these characters are well prepared.
After thinking for a while, Lin Shuyi turned her gaze to the side, trying to find inspiration from the people around her.
"Clothing, makeup? Well, boys probably don't know how to put on makeup, but this is difficult to reflect from the personality..."
She bit the pen and thought hard.
At this time, Wu Hongyan, the newcomer Lin Shuyi was in charge, came back from the bathroom. Lin Shuyi looked at the young girl and was immediately confused.
"Hey, Hongyan, why do you feel different from usual?"
She looked at the girl up and down. Although the clothes were no different from usual, for some reason, Lin Shuyi looked a little different.
After thinking for a while, Lin Shuyi realized that Wu Hongyan's hair was usually tied with small braids and tied up behind her head, but now she just tied a ponytail. Although she didn't look so delicate, she had a little more vitality.
"I see!!!"
Lin Shuyi stood up all of a sudden, scaring Wu Hongyan almost fell off the chair.
"Look, what do you understand?"
Wu Hongyan subconsciously glanced at the other side of the office, but Yi Qianqian's location is now empty, as if Xu Rui had taken to the hospital for examination.
"I thought about how to distinguish whether it is the hero or the heroine now."
Lin Shuyi didn't say it too clearly, but excitedly picked up the pen and created it on the tablet.
More than an hour later, two heroines appeared on Lin Shuyi's computer screen.
In one of the images, her hair was carefully tied into several small braids and tied with a red hairband, while the other image was simply tied with a ponytail. Although both were on the same face and even had no changes in expression, the overall feeling was completely different.
This is exactly the original heroine and the male protagonist who controlled the heroine's body after exchanging her body.
As for the boys, Lin Shuyi also tried to make some designs, but the effect was not ideal. However, considering that the differences in behavior between men and women themselves would be more obvious in the male protagonist, there is no need to force changes in image.
After completing her character design, Lin Shuyi felt relieved. She moved her neck and stood up, wanting to pour a cup of coffee in the tea room to relieve her fatigue.
It was a weekday afternoon, and the tea room was empty, with only two people sitting at a round table, as if discussing something.
Lin Shuyi poured a cup of coffee in the coffee machine, added a considerable amount of sugar cube and milk, and then took a sip slowly, preparing to return to the position to continue working.
But when they passed by those two, Lin Shuyi heard some sentences that made her curious.
"...I think both of these designs are good, but it feels a bit too realistic. Should we use 2D to render it to see the effect?"
"Is 3D rendering 2D? I can go back and try it. The main thing I have done before is this realistic style, and I suddenly couldn't change it."
"Well, it's mainly a matter of material, and you may need to choose from several alternatives."
Lin Shuyi saw that the two were Holofei, the head of Hatsune Games, and Guo Weiren, who had already transferred to Hatsune Games to engage in game art design.
The few pieces of paper they were holding were printed with characters that Lin Shuyi had never seen before.
That was a little man with a green hat.
Chapter completed!