Chapter 046. CG and hand-painted
Wu Yi's interview and his declaration spread throughout the circle at the first time.
Most people saw this interview late at night and the next morning. At this time, Chengkong Video Network had already launched trailers for "Soul Devouring: Zero" and several other animations.
When people saw Xu Rui, who was praised so much by Wu Yi in the interview, they naturally searched for the voice of Stars, and then learned through other news that Xu Rui was working on a new animation.
Soon, the animation trailer for "Soul Devour: Zero" was played more than 200,000 times.
Perhaps because of the high praise from the martial arts director, people naturally had a lot of expectations for Seo Rui, so this slightly ordinary trailer was a bit disappointing.
At noon, when Xu Rui was still accompanying Yi Qianqian to visit some indescribable small books involving male wrestling skills at the comic exhibition, several questions about "Soul Devouring: Zero" had already appeared.
Under the answer with the largest number of comments, titled "How to evaluate the trailer of "Soul-Devouring: Zero", several highly praised comments appeared.
[Erlang]: The ordinary trailer, from the clip, looks like a general kingly battle, and there is no outstanding content in the painting. To be honest, I don’t really believe that this is the work of the director of "The Voice of Stars". Perhaps we have too many expectations for Xu Rui, after all, he is just a student who has just graduated from college.
[Domes and Doors]: Seeing the trailer, I checked the relevant information a little, and the final conclusion was as follows: The ordinary third-rate floppy original work rookie newcomer editor, a group of old men abandoned by the times, a production team of old men who were abandoned by the times = "Soul Devourer: Zero". I watched the trailer, which is the most important part of the whole film.
[Past events are like smoke]: The original comic book of "Soul-Devouring" sold less than 100,000 last year. Even in "Monthly Boys Frontline", it was just an ordinary work. The magazine would definitely not be able to make such a big investment in the production of such works. In addition, it is exclusively broadcast by New Frontline Media's Chengkong Video Network, so it is really unreasonable to have expectations for animation.
[Remiremi]: xswl, what era is it? There is still such an old-fashioned animation. Do you want to laugh so hard that I inherit my mortgage? I will put it here. The sales of this animation can be 2,000 yuan. I will buy three CDs to support it and change the avatar to the word "Soul Devouring".
After asking the big Vs indirectly, many people who asked the big Vs already thought that Seo Rui was probably a lucky newcomer. In addition, the animation trailer of "Soul Devouring: Zero" does not look like a big-name animation, so they naturally heard the big Vs' statement, thinking that Seo Rui's animation is probably a hot chicken animation.
People’s psychology is so strange. If you don’t have any expectations at the beginning, or even have a slightly bad first impression, then the average level of works will be satisfied.
If you have high expectations from the beginning, even if you reach the passing line, you will be considered inferior.
Xu Rui didn't know what he asked about. He accompanied Yi Qianqian to visit the comic exhibition for a day. After returning home, he was already exhausted. He took a shower and lay down to rest.
The next morning, Xu Rui woke up Yi Qianqian. After breakfast, the two took the subway to Fantasy Electronics to start their new day's work.
According to the animation production cycle, Xu Rui should now be in the storyboard drawing stage of the fourth episode. At the same time, the storyboard inspection of the first episode has been completed. This week, a processing meeting will be held to determine the processing methods of painting, performance, background and other materials. After the meeting is confirmed, the design draft will be drawn.
The design draft will determine the rough character storyboard, including the exact position relationship of the character, the background content, the expression of the character, how the movements are connected, the way the lens moves, etc. With the design draft, the original painter can draw the original painting based on the design draft.
Since part of the discussion was already held in the first episode when the trailer was produced, there was no major change in the performance painting, and there were only a little differences.
"Although the motorcycle scene was drawn in CG to save time at that time, wouldn't it be better to use hand-drawn when actually broadcasting?"
An Yuan is the painting supervisor and the first original painting in the first episode. After resigning from Lao Huandian, he went to Jingping's love craftsmanship. He worked as an original painter for several years and has been fighting on the front line.
He refers to the scene where the heroine (fake) drives a motorcycle and fights with evil spirits in the first episode. In the trailer, it is made using CG animation. You only need to design a motorcycle model to quickly complete the scene. If it is replaced with hand-painted, it requires a lot of reference painting and the workload will also increase.
"Since you have already made it with CG, otherwise you can just use it, which can also reduce your workload for Brother Anyuan."
Deng Shixin, who is in charge of 3D, said that he completed the modeling of the motorcycle. Deng Shixin has been interested in cars and warships since he was a child. He has all kinds of models at home, and can be said to be very proficient in the same area.
"My workload is okay, but can CG technology now really achieve such an effect? To be honest, I think the trailer picture is less impactful, and the model made by CG is still too stiff."
Anyuan insisted on the way.
"But in this case, the production cycle of the first episode will be a little nervous..."
Deng Shixin took a look at Xu Rui. After all, he was the director and the performance, so Xu Rui had the final say.
"Let's do this, let's see how the specific CG performance will be like this afternoon before making a decision. Do you think it's OK?"
Xu Rui did not make a decision directly, but made a suggestion.
"Okay, I'll go back and find that section immediately."
Deng Shixin nodded and made records in his notebook.
An Yuan didn't say anything, but only turned the meeting minutes one page.
There was no disagreement in the other parts, and the production policy for the first episode was determined, and it was noon.
After the meeting, Anyuan stood up, brought his own lunch, and after it was heated in the tea room, he returned to his seat and ate slowly.
Deng Shixin ordered takeout, braised chicken was cheap and affordable, but he would get tired of eating too much. After eating it every few minutes, he went back to confirm the CG to be displayed in the afternoon.
Xu Rui helped Yi Qianqian and herself to heat up the meal and put it in the tea room.
Before Yi Qianqian came over, Xu Rui saw Li Ruoxuan touching her with a lunch box in her hand.
She attended the meeting in the morning. Xu Rui thought she would go back to the editorial department, but she didn't expect to stay.
"Hehe, I see you bring your own meals every day, so I tried to make them by yourself."
She sat down to Xu Rui's left hand and opened her pink lid, a lunch box with a cute puppy pattern.
Ordinary rice, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, potato cakes with not very neat shapes, and boiled broccoli.
"Do you want to try it?"
Li Ruoxuan pushed the lunch box in front of Xu Rui and asked.
"Then I'm not polite."
Xu Rui picked up the chopsticks, picked up a little scrambled eggs with tomatoes and put them in his mouth.
The next moment, his face turned ashen and he looked at Li Ruoxuan with some disbelief.
Xu Rui could not imagine why Li Ruoxuan, who looked quite cute, looked quite normal in her hands, showed such an indescribable smell.
It seemed that the whisper of an ancient god appeared in his ear, muttering unknown words.
After a long time, Xu Rui suppressed his instinctive urge to vomit and swallowed the scrambled eggs of tomatoes into his stomach. He glanced at Li Ruoxuan who was looking at him with anticipation, and said hesitantly.
"Uh, it's just the taste of ordinary tomato scrambled eggs."
Chapter completed!