The World Series of Esports is fun, but not everyone is paying attention to it.

It can even be said that in addition to the fans of the game world, the number of people who follow this game is only a minority.

But it is undeniable that with the progress of this game, people have gradually understood that the "World E-sports Championship" is an "Olympics" in the game industry and a grand event in the game industry.

This is something that even a large eastern country on the other side of the Pacific Ocean is very well known for.

It can even be said that there are many people in this country who are concerned about this game.

This is a "world-class" competition!

At this moment, a certain eastern power is not a certain eastern power twenty years later, they have no confidence in the world, after learning that there are Chinese people on their side to participate, this "world-class" event, is really very eye-catching.

"Ah Cheng, your mud-bombarded White Lily team has won again!"

"I don't want to be the president, so I have to come out to do animation" Makoto Shinkai,After just coming to Shangmeiying,I heard the discussion here.。

After Shangmei Film was acquired and restructured, a lot of young people were introduced, and a lot of foreign aid was invited, and Makoto Shinkai is one of them, he is helping to do "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" here, according to the meaning of Senxia's side, after he finishes this work, he will also let him do new works alone, and may even set up a special studio for him, and it is okay to let him do animation independently in the future.

But today, as soon as he came to work, he heard this group of young people discussing related things, and after learning two sentences of Chinese, he could barely understand what everyone was saying.

He didn't know much about the match, but when it came to the "White Lily Team", or "White Lily Women's University", he did know a little.

Although it is the same earth, the world line is different, but the story is different for different world lines.

White Lily Women's University is the property of the Tianhai family on this world line, and Makoto Shinkai also happens to know some about it.

"Ah, it's the team that Mr. Xia Sen's sister is on! That's what he thinks.

But unlike this calm neon gold, these young people from a large eastern country have a lively discussion.

And at this time, another "crooked nut" came here again.

Although he is an Asian face, he is a veritable lighthouser.

He was Monte Um.

Like Makoto Shinkai, the other party is also a "foreign aid" who came over. But unlike Makoto Shinkai, Monte um has a very good grasp of movement, and that kind of unusual talent can really make people ignore his youth.

He was over there not long ago, responsible for designing the movements for the magical girl Naye, and now the work there has come to an end for the time being, so he was invited to come over again to do the action design for "Three Kingdoms".

Although it is also foreign aid, there is no special friendship between the two people, everyone is neon gold, a father is a countryman, one likes literature and art, and one likes action, in all senses, everyone can't say that they go together.

But when he came over today, he found Makoto Shinkai at once, and then asked, "Are you free after work?"

The other party spoke English.

"Well, there is. ”

This is in Japanese English.

"Magical girl Naye is going to play tonight.,When I came over, I brought a copy of the first episode with me.,The boss said let's take a look at it with the premiere.。 Monte um waved the disc in his hand.

"Ah, yes, thank you very much. Makoto Shinkai also nodded, "I'll get over." ”

Monte nodded and continued, "The place is in Screening Hall One. ”

After that, he went on to inform the others.

"Is it Musashino's new work?" After Monte left, the same guy who had told Makoto Shinkai about the White Lily team also came over.

Mont nodded, then said, "Well, that's right. ”

Most of Musashino's current equity has been collected by Company A, so the current Musashino and Kamimiying can be said to be brother companies under Company A, and there are indeed many actions to assist each other between the two sides.

Of course, it's usually Musashino who gives technical guidance to Mikage, and Mikage outsources to Musashino, and occasionally Mikage will have its own technical feedback to that side, but most of it is there to support here.

There's no way.,Although you can do animation like "Baolian Lantern" here.,But when it comes to "limited animation",Mud Bombardment is a leader.,In fact,The current animations are all "limited animations".,As for the "full animation",,It's long gone.。

The so-called limited animation, also known as limited animation, is the difference between limited animation and full animation is whether the action content is complete.

For example, when speaking, the full animation will have a complete change of demeanor, muscle contraction, and throat agitation, but in the limited animation, the only thing that can move is a mouth.

To put it more simply, full animation refers to full-motion animation, while finite animation refers to action omitting limited action.

And the difference between finite animation and full animation is ...... Cost.

Yes, most of the support from Musashino's side is to teach Meiying to save money.

The advantage of mud bombing animation is that they can make the film shoot very beautifully and save money at the same time, and on the side of a large eastern country, once the funds go down, the quality of the film will be completely ruined.

After all, people used to be a national system, as long as you think about making animations, you don't have to worry about anything else. All they have to do is work of art.

But now, times have changed.

How to save money is the key.

Of course, it's not just to save money, the technology on the side of Meiying has indeed begun to decline, and many animators with ideals have left here in the past decade. So, sometimes these people need a certain amount of stimulation to do it.

Makoto Shinkai looked at the disc in his hand.

Although he hasn't seen the above yet, he knows that this "Magical Girl Naye" is a show-off production of Musashino Animation.

A new lens language, a new shooting method, a new coloring technique, a new photography technique, all the technologies are new, but in a large eastern country, even the mud bombardment, there are few such radical animation companies.

But how to say it...... People have money.

If you have money, you can do whatever you want.

So, "Magical Girl Naye" was born.

"It seems that this war will affect even a certain eastern power......" Makoto Shinkai sighed.

Makoto Shinkai thought of the previous "Rim of the Sky".

When "The Sky of Edge" was screened, Shangmei Film also organized a wave of internal broadcasts, allowing the backbone to watch this animation through this channel.

I have to say that the superb technology shown in "The Sky of Edge" is really outstanding.

Afterwards, there was an internal meeting here to discuss the film.

Makoto Shinkai also attended the meeting at the time, and although he didn't understand much, during the meeting, he found that everyone here had very serious faces on their faces.

- Actually, not to mention the side of a certain eastern country, even the mud bombardment side, when I saw "The Sky of Fate", I was extremely surprised.

There are many fans who chant about the "invincible" of the sky of fate - this cheer will probably continue until the release of Spirited Away next year.

As far as Makoto Shinkai knows, the technique of the edge of the void is indeed unprecedented, and the new type of painting style used in this work has almost raised the standard of the entire animation industry to a higher level, and many animations that were originally to be broadcast have even chosen to postpone them, just to make themselves outdated after "The Void of Edge".

But after all, the edge of the sky is a theatrical version of the animation.,But the magical girl in front of me, Naye.,It's the TV version of the animation.。

The picture of the TV version of the animation should be consistent with the theatrical version, which is definitely super money-burning.

The reason why Musashino did this was not only because they had "streamlined" the original special effects and expressions, but also because they had sufficient funds and more time-saving painting techniques.

When I think of this, Makoto Shinkai thinks of Mori Xia, who advocates the use of computers and digital painting. In fact, the emptiness of the edge is a work made in this state.

It's not that celluloid hand-drawn animation is bad, in fact, hand-drawn animation is theoretically capable of doing all special effects techniques, if you are willing to burn money, even in the 80s, you can even make a special effects work thirty or fifty years later.

Not to mention anything else, the 84-year Macross theatrical version has ever remembered love, and after 30 years, it was all about beating a scumbag, crushing a group of masterpieces, and overlooking a group of bigwigs.

The number of paintings and the quality of paintings are simply so high that there are no friends.

But the key is to be willing to spend money.

It's not that Mori Xia has a lot of money, but because after changing the technique, Mori Xia's use of money is higher, and Musashino Animation can use less energy and money to achieve better results, while hand-drawn animation with the same amount of money can't do it.

It's like playing a game, a computer-animated character is a character with a level cap of 100 and requires 1,000 XP for each level, while a hand-drawn animation is a character who is in the top 200 levels but requires 5,000 XP for each level.

Of course, it is still difficult to do pure computer hand-drawing, and the texture of hand-drawing, computer graphics is also difficult to do, so the method used here is a mixed mode, similar to post-photography color grading, etc., which is basically done by computer.

Makoto Shinkai also advocates this approach, and even more extremely, thinking about a method that uses photo manipulation and then applies it directly to the frame.

The technique used in "The Sky of Edge" is to take a physical photo first, and then rotoscope, and the magical girl Naye is the same, and they even use 3D modeling and then rotoscoping.

Compared with hand-drawing, this method saves time and effort, and is really easy to use. However, Makoto Shinkai had in mind a technique that could be processed with a photo and applied directly to the background.

Not to mention, Makoto Shinkai found that this method was actually quite effective, and after his own processing, he found that he was even able to process some of the pictures better than the hand-drawn effect.

However, this technique is not mature, but it is still quite good to use.

But Makoto Shinkai was not satisfied.

Although the background he is dealing with now has been praised by the production team, he himself is not satisfied, and Makoto Shinkai said: I don't paint backgrounds!

Yes, I'm the one who wants to animate!

People are like this, it's easy to go off topic when you think about it, and the same is true for Makoto Shinkai.

And at this time, he thought of an independent animation he was doing.

Yes, Makoto Shinkai doesn't just work here, he also prepares his own works.

This piece is called "She and Her Cat".

It's a skit like a sketch, but Makoto Shinkai likes it very much.

"Ah Cheng, have you seen the blue cat?" At this time, the person next to him came over again, and when he looked again, it turned out that it was already time for a lunch break at noon.

The theatrical version of the blue cat is also made by Shangmei Film, and it will be released during the Spring Festival next year.

Makoto Shinkai was responsible for some of the background production.

Speaking of which, the story of the "cat" that Makoto Shinkai wanted to write was also because he saw the blue cat.

However, Makoto Shinkai was only inspired by the element of "cat", and what he wanted to write was a story about a lonely girl and a lonely cat, not an anthropomorphic story.

"I've seen a little bit. ”

There is no dubbing and special effects version, Makoto Shinkai has already seen it, and after that, it is necessary to add dubbing, replace part of the original painting, and then complete the special effects, and the work is considered complete.

"I've heard from them that the quality of the theatrical version is very high, and adults have no problem watching it. It seems to be completely different from the TV version.,TV also wanted to improve its quality some time ago.,It turns out that it can't hold it at all.。 ”

Isn't that nonsense?

Makoto Shinkai complained in his heart.

The TV version of the blue cat is a daily animation,The amount of animation homework every day is already very stretched,Improve the quality of some paintings...... It's really hard to do.

"My nephew is quite fond of blue cats. He added, "I think it's good, too." ”

"Popular science is good. After thinking about it for a long time, Makoto Shinkai came to such a conclusion.

There's no way, because he can't get the laughter of a certain oriental country in the plot, but some of the popular science knowledge in it is really good.

"By the way, the magical girl Naye over here, what kind of animation is it?"

Because I'm going to watch the animation at night.,So I asked here, too.。

"It's a new work of Musashino, and it was released at the same time as the game...... Well, the story of a magical girl. ”

Because I haven't seen the relationship, Makoto Shinkai has no way to describe it, so I can only say it simply.

The other side suddenly realized, he muttered as he stood up and walked towards the toilet: "Oh, oh, it turned out to be a magical girl, why do you do some children's animation......"

......

In reality, Makoto Shinkai does have a unique photo processing technique.

In fact, there is a super easy way to create a two-dimensional background: PS a sky background of Makoto Shinkai, and then enhance the green of the picture, and then add a filter, and it's done......

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