Luo Yuan: "......"

Although he guessed that Tang Xun, the helmsman of Solomon, had enough vision to distinguish that "Spirited Away" was a good story worth investing in, he didn't expect the other party to agree so decisively, and he didn't expect the other party to have such high expectations for this story, which made Luo Yuan feel pressure, after all, he is not Miyazaki, Miyazaki's picture is not something that anyone can control, even if you know all the plots, you can't say that you can make it.

Hayao Miyazaki is a director with a craftsman spirit.

For example, in "The Goldfish on the Cliff", there is a jellyfish surfacing in just 12 seconds, who can guess how many drawings are used?

The answer is: 1613!

According to 24 frames per second, we need to draw 24 pictures for one second of animation, and a movie needs 144,000 original drawings for 100 minutes, and the entire "Goldfish on the Cliff" is participated by 70 employees, and 170,000 original drawings are drawn, not including discarded manuscripts!

A short 4-second animated movie needs to be hand-drawn for more than 1 year.

Because Miyazaki believes that piecework wages will only produce industrial products and obedient, assembly-line animation, and will not create real works of art, the latter can achieve such great success in the field of animated films, and even in the Chinese people who have always disliked devils, they praise it, thinking that they are real masters, which shows what kind of character Miyazaki is, which is why Luo Yuan has never made movies like "Spirited Away".

Because the picture is too demanding.

Island animation used to be mainly hand-drawn line drawings plus celluloid coloring and hand-painted backgrounds, which can be said to be pure hand-drawn, with the advancement of technology, and later switched to hand-drawn line drawings and computer coloring, and began to be dominated by CG backgrounds, even the works of Hayao Miyazaki and his Studio Ghibli are no exception, after entering the new century, they switched to computer coloring and synthesis, but the background is still hand-painted, that is, hand-drawn line drawings plus computer coloring plus hand-painted backgrounds.

It looks like it's just a difference in background.

But Ghibli maintains a consistent style, so the feeling of pure hand-drawn animation is still there, Luo Yuan wants to do "Spirited Away", he must find a background that can control this style of painting, and draw enough things for the audience to admire every frame, and even one is not enough, two, three, dozens, dozens, hundreds of people.

It's a big project.

Luo Yuan has always had respect for these works, so every time he shoots a classic movie in his previous life, he has very high requirements for himself and the crew, because he feels that if these works are disgraced because of his own reasons, it will be his own shame, so he hates perfunctory, at least in this regard, Luo Yuan has always been serious and obvious to all, otherwise he would not be considered by some people to be an alternative "tyrant on the set".

"Okay. ”

In the end, Luo Yuan agreed to Tang Xun.

This means that he will strictly control the quality of "Spirited Away", not to mention the perfect copy of the version of the previous life, after all, the background of the previous life is in the island country, this time it will be changed to Huaxia, but it is still necessary to show its charm, standing on the shoulders of giants to paint, itself is already a very generous creative environment-

It's just that the animated film department is going to be dismantled next.

It stands to reason that the animated film department should be reluctant to disassemble, after all, this team is together, and has honed a considerable tacit understanding with three animated films, and has also won numerous honors, but the personnel of this animated film department are actually a little bloated, for example, there are a few guys who are good at background, and every time they argue about whose finished product is used in the background, they can only rely on Luo Yuan's adjustment to maintain balance.

Well now.

Pull out half of these people and throw them into the project of "Spirited Away", so that there will be no quarrels because of the background, of course, in the handling of this matter, Luo Yuan is still relatively democratic, he did not forcibly disassemble everyone, but gave everyone the space to choose freely.

“...... There are two works next. ”

At the plenary meeting of the Scarlet Animation Film Department, Luo Yuan explained in detail the purpose of his actions: "The two works will be two different styles, one will still follow the exaggerated route of "Kung Fu Panda", which is the style we rely on to survive and are very familiar with, and the other style is like this......"

Luo Yuan showed several sketches.

The characters in this sketch are all very classic, they are the characters in "Spirited Away", the heroes and heroines of "Five Centimeters per Second" and the promotional poster of "Your Name", it took Luo Yuan a long time to draw the feeling of the original......

"This style ......"

"The characters seem to be similar to ...... teen manga"

Everyone in the department was discussing, Luo Yuan watched quietly, it was obvious that someone would want to join the "Spirited Away" project, but the number of people would not be large, because it was a new style, it was not certain whether it could be successful or not, and the style of "Kung Fu Panda" had already proved its market appreciability.

But it doesn't matter.

Luo Yuan didn't expect many people to join the "Spirited Away" project, because the original team was good at animated films in the style of "Kung Fu Panda", and it was easy to cause problems if it was too scattered, and this democracy sounds good, in fact, it will still follow the plan, if it feels that the result of democracy is beyond the plan, then the leader will talk to the team members.

So what should I do if "Spirited Away" is short of people?

It's simple, recruiting, the Crimson Mansion is big enough to accommodate more heads.

After the plenary meeting, Luo Yuan did not let everyone make a choice immediately, but gave everyone sufficient time to prepare: "If you are interested in the new project of "Spirited Away", you can apply with your own leaders afterwards, and then the project team of "Spirited Away" will set up the No. 2 animation department, and the old team that began to take shape during the "Kung Fu Panda" period will be renamed the No. 1 animation department. ”

"Is there still a three?"

Ai Xiaoai on the side couldn't help but smile.

Luo Yuan nodded: "Didn't you say that the company took over the acquisition of an animation company, then the personnel of this animation company will form the No. 3 animation department, they are responsible for youth cartoons, and the seniors of the No. 1 animation department remember to take care of it." ”

Ai Xiao Ai Waner.

I didn't expect Crimson to really have the No. 3 animation department, but looking at Luo Yuan's lack of concern, it was obvious that his energy was now focused on the No. 1 and No. 2 departments, and after thinking about it, Ai Xiaoai said: "Since the No. 2 department is in charge of "Spirited Away", what should the No. 1 department be responsible for?"

"Number One's Words ......"

Luo Yuan thought for a while and said, "Take a vacation for a while, don't you think you need to rest after you just finished "Despicable Me", in this way, after the "Despicable Me" project is over, I will provide you with the script, and then everyone will discuss the new project plan." ”

The crowd laughed.

Luo Yuan, the boss, likes the most thing to do is to provide salted fish time for everyone after completing a project, which is probably related to the boss himself liking salted fish for a long time every time he finishes a movie.