Anyone who has worked in the animation industry for a year knows that the director's work every day is only a one-word meeting!

Unlike live-action film directors, who need to form a crew and shoot on set, and with the advancement of technology, computer production technology has become more and more advanced, and the time for directors to hold meetings has been greatly reduced.

There are several tasks in the preparation stage of animation production: determining the concept, series composition, character setting, color setting, art setting, and object setting.

At this time, in a production room in the Dream Factory, the painting masters of the entire company were gathered, and Li Zhifan was called up for a meeting, in this nearly 500 square production room, more than 20 soul painters were painting, while listening to Li Zhifan's proposal.

In fact, this is only a part of all the painters, in fact, the whole team is currently expected, there will be more than 100 painters alone, and these more than 100 people are divided into five groups according to storyboards, figures, colors, art, and objects, among which the painters in this group are the most.

In the middle of the hall, there is a large screen of nearly 300k, and the characters, compositions, scenes, and objects drawn by the painter can be displayed on the screen.

What is currently going on is the second phase of this animation, the production of storyboards.

The first stage is the script, but there are only simple stage directions and character lines, and there is almost no mention of the picture.

The storyboard is the main part of determining the general direction, but Li Zhifan doesn't need to draw it, he just needs to put forward the concept and let the storyboard painter complete it.

At this time, he sat in front of the screen, staring at each page of storyboard material that appeared on the screen, although it was a storyboard, but in this link, it was necessary to roughly determine the image of the characters, especially the main characters, otherwise it would be very difficult for the painters in the next stage.

"Change this place!

"The hair here is a little more curly. ”

"No, what I want is a richer image......"

In fact, most American painters have the same style, and the surprise of style can only be distinguished between countries or regions.

For example, the Japanese animation goes to the wind, the Hong Kong version is the same as the Hong Kong manga, there are many lines, and the animation in Chinese mainland is another style, with a more artistic texture and strong Chinese style.

The style of American animation is that the texture is strong, and the characters are designed according to the image of the Americans themselves, and the cheekbones, chin and nose will look particularly large, and the figure is as good as the American people fantasize in their hearts.

Of course, this is just the feeling of ordinary audiences, and when it comes to actual animation production, professionals must have a different understanding.

Originally, everyone thought that Li Zhifan would ask to make an animation that conformed to the aesthetics of the Chinese, but they did not expect that the requirements put forward were all European and American departments, and some people couldn't help but think in their hearts: Does Li Zhifan like Yanmar?

In addition to the painter who draws the characters, there are also scenes that are drawn.

When there are more than 24 images per second, the human eye will appear to be a continuous image.

So when making an animation, you need to have 24 pictures in a second, usually one is called a frame, or a frame.

Basically, all Hollywood animations have 24 pictures in 1 second, and each one is drawn, and the final effect is what everyone sees in the movie, and the workload is quite large.

However, the level of Fantasy Factory has advanced to a new level, and technology has changed the world and replaced the work of many painters.

How advanced is animation technology today?

It is like playing a somatosensory game, design the scene, and then embed the characters into the scene, you can complete a frame of drawing, in the same scene, only need to embed different character shapes instantly, and do not need to hand-draw the whole picture.

Dubbing is even better, an animation is produced, there is no mouth shape, and when the voice actor is dubbing, the mouth shape will change with the prominent words of the voice actor, and in the final film, the mouth shape and lines are exactly the same.

This set of design can be easily formulated into the languages of various countries, and this set of technology is currently only available in Dreamworks, and other companies are also developing it, but the maturity is not as good as Dreamworks, so DreamWorks has a lot of orders every year, all of which are to help other animation companies produce related projects.

But it's not there yet, but the character design and scenography of "Dream Quest" are already in progress.

Although Li Zhifan doesn't understand many details of the animation, he can still grasp the overall situation, and he has the original version of this animation in his head, and he only needs to ask for many details, and there will be painters to help him complete them.

Therefore, when a set of storyboards is completed, the painters of character design and scene design can be completed immediately, without waiting for all the shots to be completed, and after the first group of storyboards is determined, the follow-up storyboard drawing will be very easy to unfold, and there is no need for Li Zhifan to supervise, and his focus has shifted to character drawing and scene drawing.

More than 100 artists were working on the drawings at the same time, which was probably the largest investment in the history of animation production.

Because an animation often only needs a dozen painters, each responsible for one or more elements, especially the character, the main painter is generally responsible for the protagonist.

But the difference this time is that all the elements are being drawn at the same time, and after the protagonist determines the image, Li Zhifan arranges five painters to draw it, and in different scenes, the protagonist also has different images.

Even if you are a mature artist, the same character will not necessarily be the same every time, and it is very common for an animation to change the artist in production, as long as the main team is not changed, the style will not be changed.

The main team for the production of "Dream Travel" this time is Matthew's people, with his assistance, plus Ankos will put forward his own suggestions from time to time, everything is smooth and orderly.

Li Zhifan's job is to change between the tables and discuss every detail with different groups of painters.

At the same time, he also needs to strictly supervise the parts that have been completed, especially the original painting part, if it doesn't work, he will have to make revisions, and Ancos, as the producer, will also share the workload for Li Zhifan.

……

Domestic.

Tang Feifei, who has been on the hot search for several days, suddenly became dumb.

Soon, the news of her breakup with her boyfriend came out, and netizens were surprised to call it: the shortest love in the entertainment industry.

After the breakup, Tang Feifei had even less news, and the water army that brushed up topics for her suddenly disappeared, which was Huayi's direct stop to this work, and Huayi is now caught in the vortex of shareholder withdrawal and capital trap, and is no longer able to pay the fees of the water army company.

However, Huayi also did a big thing at the same time, and established "Walt Disney China (Xiangjiang) Co., Ltd." in Xiangjiang, which is a leather bag company with a registered capital of only 20,000 Hong Kong dollars.

After Tang Feifei became popular, Zhang Mi and Tang Ting quickly grabbed the headlines of the hot search, but for the heroine of "Mulan" that they competed for, both of them seemed to be a little powerless.

Because of the fake news of Huayi's cooperation with Disney, it really scared them.

But well-informed insiders still think that this may be a smoke bomb released by Huayi, because Disney has not announced any news related to "Mulan", or even the news of cooperation with Huayi, these deep-water people in the entertainment industry know that everything is unknown before Disney has an official announcement.

However, just when these entertainment companies were speculating, the Oriental Group suddenly announced an important news: Li Zhifan has served as the general manager of the American branch of the Oriental Entertainment Business Group, and is fully responsible for all the businesses of the Oriental Entertainment Business Group in the United States, including all the companies acquired, and the official position is the general manager of William Entertainment.

When this news came out, there was an uproar in the industry, and netizens were surprised.

The uproar in the industry comes from Li Zhifan's right to be in charge from now on, that is to say, any domestic entertainment company that wants to cooperate with those Hollywood companies acquired by Dongfang only needs Li Zhifan's words.

The surprise of netizens is the change in Li Zhifan's identity, he originally only controlled a company in Timeline, and most of the timeline company is serving Li Zhifan alone, and those artists under it rely on Li Zhifan to walk in the entertainment industry.

Huayi.

Zhao Xiajun had known the news for a long time, but when the news was exposed, his heart was still very heavy, because it meant that the fake news of the cooperation between "Huayi and Disney" was about to be exposed.

Sure enough, just after the shareholders' meeting in the morning, the fourth time to discuss the news of the withdrawal of the company's third largest shareholder, the second largest shareholder Yuntian Capital sent an email, announcing that it would sell all the shares of Huayi in its hands.

Withdrawing from the two major shareholders at one time, Zhao Xiajun was like a grasshopper roasted on fire, which was worse than the ants on the hot pot before.

You have to fool other capital to join!

Zhao Xiajun made a quick decision, even if he lowered the stock price and lowered his profile, he had to absorb external capital, otherwise he would be only one step away from bankruptcy.

"Knock knock!"

There was a knock on the office door.

"Enter!"

Zhao Xiajun shouted, and it was the company's COO who came in outside.

"Mr. Zhao, no, the China Securities Regulatory Commission has issued a notice to us that there are problems with our stock trading, and our funds are not enough to make up for the vacancy, so we are ready to suspend trading!"

"Huh?

Zhao Xiajun stood up suddenly, he knew that the China Securities Regulatory Commission had received the news, and he was worried that Huayi's shares would plummet and even go bankrupt directly, and those retail shareholders would receive serious losses, so they were asked to suspend trading.

And after they find a major recapitalization, the resumption of trading.

"Yes! The notice has been sent!"

The COO said, "Mr. Zhao, hurry up and find a way! Why don't you go to the CSRC and explain it to them?"

"I see!"

Zhao Xiajun held the table, but did not sit down, thinking in his heart, who should he ask for help?

……

The other side.

Several major entertainment companies are in a meeting.

Hydrangea flowers.

"Oops, it's Li Zhifan, if we start filming a copycat version, he will definitely make a move!"

"Yes, he is an insider, different from those capitalists, and pays more attention to copyright. ”

"I don't think it's okay, let's change the name to a similar one, wouldn't it be fine?"

"What's the name?"

"For example...... "Mulan Love"? "The Legend of Mulan"?"

"And we can adapt the plot! What happened when Mulan returned from the army?

The uproar in the industry comes from Li Zhifan's right to be in charge from now on, that is to say, any domestic entertainment company that wants to cooperate with those Hollywood companies acquired by Dongfang only needs Li Zhifan's words.

The surprise of netizens is the change in Li Zhifan's identity, he originally only controlled a company in Timeline, and most of the timeline company is serving Li Zhifan alone, and those artists under it rely on Li Zhifan to walk in the entertainment industry.

Huayi.

Zhao Xiajun had known the news for a long time, but when the news was exposed, his heart was still very heavy, because it meant that the fake news of the cooperation between "Huayi and Disney" was about to be exposed.

Sure enough, just after the shareholders' meeting in the morning, the fourth time to discuss the news of the withdrawal of the company's third largest shareholder, the second largest shareholder Yuntian Capital sent an email, announcing that it would sell all the shares of Huayi in its hands.

Withdrawing from the two major shareholders at one time, Zhao Xiajun was like a grasshopper roasted on fire, which was worse than the ants on the hot pot before.

You have to fool other capital to join!

Zhao Xiajun made a quick decision, even if he lowered the stock price and lowered his profile, he had to absorb external capital, otherwise he would be only one step away from bankruptcy.

"Knock knock!"

There was a knock on the office door.

"Enter!"

Zhao Xiajun shouted, and it was the company's COO who came in outside.

"Mr. Zhao, no, the China Securities Regulatory Commission has issued a notice to us that there are problems with our stock trading, and our funds are not enough to make up for the vacancy, so we are ready to suspend trading!"

"Huh?

Zhao Xiajun stood up suddenly, he knew that the China Securities Regulatory Commission had received the news, and he was worried that Huayi's shares would plummet and even go bankrupt directly, and those retail shareholders would receive serious losses, so they were asked to suspend trading.

And after they find a major recapitalization, the resumption of trading.

"Yes! The notice has been sent!"

The COO said, "Mr. Zhao, hurry up and find a way! Why don't you go to the CSRC and explain it to them?"

"I see!"

Zhao Xiajun held the table, but did not sit down, thinking in his heart, who should he ask for help?

……

The other side.

Several major entertainment companies are in a meeting.

Hydrangea flowers.

"Oops, it's Li Zhifan, if we start filming a copycat version, he will definitely make a move!"

"Yes, he is an insider, different from those capitalists, and pays more attention to copyright. ”

"I don't think it's okay, let's change the name to a similar one, wouldn't it be fine?"

"And we can adapt the plot! What happened when Mulan returned from the army?