You must know that Black Sail Animation Studio has just been established, and everyone present is eager for the first work to be a hit, and no one expected Li Xiaole to come up with such a risky plan.

Looking at the changing comic pictures, Wu Wei also opened his mouth slightly and asked, "The boss said to make a Japanese animated movie?" ”

"Why not?" Li Xiaole grinned and said to everyone: "Of course, I just put forward a general direction, and I still have to listen to the opinions of you technicians." ”

Although he is the chairman of the board of directors and has direct decision-making power, if everything is "I have the final say", the sense of participation of others will be greatly reduced, and when the time comes, it will not be a shot in the foot, any decision must have sufficient reasons, to be able to at least convince others to agree, he has authority in the emotional and artistic level of the work, but for these technical talents, he must use the actual business and technical perspective to let them recognize the rationality of the plan.

"Since we are going to practice the motion capture system, compared to those animal cartoons that Hollywood is good at, this character-based theme of Japanese comics will be more suitable, and they have a very good sense of picture, basically we don't need to create much, many themes can be directly used." Li Xiaole analyzed and explained to everyone, and asked the secretary to bring the three of them an iPad that had not yet been put on the market, which recorded all the comic materials, so that they could read the slides and read the corresponding comics to watch them in detail.

In addition to Wu Wei, Apple's animation design director Ed Wilkes, and motion capture technician Chris Webber are all Americans in their forties...... In their minds, although Japanese comics are popular all over the world, the biggest problem is that they are too young, the characters are too cartoonish, the eyes are too big, and the movements are extremely exaggerated, which are not in line with the principles of mechanics, and are only suitable for people under the age of 20 to watch, and there is no excellent realistic style like American comics......

But as the slides played, they gradually discovered that not every work was as naïve and low as they imagined, although there was also a very strange painting style like "JoJo's Adventure", the "clumsy" of the characters' movements distorted to the point of weird and unacceptable, and the miserable "sketches" in the later stages of "The Hunter...... However, they were surprised to find that there was also such a delicate and realistic production as "City Hunter", and the painter named Tsukasa Hojo had a high level of sketching, and the beauty of the human depiction was truly amazing......

Li Xiaole watched the two American subordinates look down at the Japanese comics that they had never paid attention to, and he also took a sip of coffee and did not interrupt them, he knew that in the minds of these Americans who feel good about themselves, the culture of other countries seems to be very backward, but in all fairness, if Japanese comics only talk about the level of painting, in fact, they have long far surpassed American comics, and for a period of time after World War II, Japanese comics were indeed copycat Disney's cartoon style, But the appearance of a generation of manga master Osamu Tezuka completely changed the development of Japanese comics, this manga master has been deeply influenced by stage plays and Hollywood movies since he was a child, and has made revolutionary and bold changes in the form of expression and picture style of comics, using a large number of film composition and montage techniques, wide angle, zoom, top view and other lens languages throughout the comic story.

Not only that, Osamu Tezuka also washed the concept of American comics and Disney's storyboards, used gridded narration, bubble-like dialogue frames, and has speed lines to show dynamic scenes, plus his own way of drawing onomatopoeia in the picture, and even made the silent picture appear sound effect, all of which combined to make the frozen picture miraculously "move", and since then, Japanese manga has far surpassed the comic forms of other countries in terms of entertainment and appreciation.

Ed Wilkes and Chris Webb became more and more fascinated the more they watched, and stayed on the recent popular manga "Naruto" and "One Piece" for a very long time, constantly asking Li Xiaole to "slow down" and "We're looking", obviously they are more attracted than the wonderful depictions of the characters in these two masterpieces, and the two spent nearly half an hour on these two comics alone.

"That's pretty good." Ed Wilkes, who looked like Sven was wearing eyes, pointed to the scene in Naruto in "Naruto" comparing the ninjutsu seal, and said, "The fighting action in it is very suitable for 3D performance, which is a bit like Spider-Man's style......"

"I like this better?" Chris Webber, who has Middle Eastern ancestry and a beard, lifted his iPad, on which was a cool picture of the swordsman Zoro in "One Piece" biting a knife and using a tiger hunt, and said: "This will be very imposing if it is made in 3D, you must know that hand-to-hand combat is far more impactful than any ninjutsu spell." ”

Seeing that the two sides were a little deadlocked, before Li Xiaole could speak, Wu Wei coughed dryly and said, "Two, don't be busy arguing first, it's better to read all the information first." ”

These words made the two American technical masters a little unhappy, and they seemed to think that Wu Wei was teaching them a lesson, but seeing that Li Xiaole didn't speak, he could only shut his mouth and continue to let Li Xiaole describe the comics behind, and finally when the slides flipped through the comics of "Dragon Ball", the two immediately glanced at each other after a little look at the information, and they both saw the surprise in each other's eyes......

The two of them immediately made the same action, both touched the pocket on their chests, took out a pencil from it, and then took out an A4 blank piece of paper from the file, and began to try to draw the fighting scenes of the characters in "Dragon Ball", just watched the two concentrate and draw one after another, and after drawing a few pictures, both of them were surprised to find that if it wasn't for copying, they wouldn't have been able to draw the fighting style of the characters in Dragon Ball......

"This painter is amazing...... How could he paint so dynamic in a static painting...... I really don't understand......" Ed Wilkes put down his pen, raised his glasses with his fingers and sighed, you must know that when he used to work at Pixar, he was recognized as the strongest sketching ability among his colleagues, and he could copy seven or eight points of general cartoon animation at a glance, but he couldn't master the character movements in this simple line "Dragon Ball" at all, this painter named Akira Toriyama has far more understanding of human mechanics than he can, He seems to be able to convey the complex mechanics of the muscles with just a few lines, while at the same time keeping the characters moving smoothly and naturally, which is almost impossible for Ed Wilkes, a master of animation......

Chris Webb, a master of motion capture, also tried for an unknown number of times in a row, and finally angrily crumpled the drawing in his hand, threw it out and scolded: "Fuck! He stomped his foot in exasperation, considering that Chris Webber was once a part-time professional cartoonist, and he couldn't look down on any of his peers except Stan Lee, and he never imagined that he would one day be so completely defeated by a Japanese cartoonist.

Wu Wei looked at it next to him and just wanted to laugh, these two Yankees are really interesting, even Akira Toriyama doesn't know about the old-fashioned ones, you must know that the manga version of "Dragon Ball" has sold 300 million copies worldwide, and hundreds of thousands of people around the world have imitated and drawn this comic, and there are no less than dozens of long-form works of the same people alone, including many professional painters with quite good painting skills, even the famous Spanish cartoonist Javi Garcia imitated the work "Dragon Ball EX", and 6 professional manga artists in the United States created "Dragon Ball Super Dimensional War" together are far from the original book, and these two half-people still want to copy Akira Toriyama, which is really overwhelming......

Wu Wei was still resentful of the two who ridiculed him just now, and at this time he deliberately squeezed the two of them and asked, "How about the two of you?" This "Dragon Ball" is not bad, right...... It's just a little bit old. ”

"No, no." Ed Wilkes shook his head repeatedly: "Although his storyboard seems simple, one shot contains countless action details, and many actions are very large if they are to be animated...... Even with motion capture technology, no actor can do ......"

"It's not all." Chris Webber added with a grim face: "The fighting moves of a comic book character like him seem simple, but every move is very particular, even if it is CG animation, it will be too complicated, and the slightest mistake will distort the action, unless you use the kind of picture flash shots that the Japanese like...... But that would completely lose the beauty of the picture......" Chris Webber couldn't help but grit his teeth and said, "I don't think the Japanese have the strength to animate this manga." ”

Li Xiaole listened and nodded again and again, these two really have deep skills, and they immediately saw Akira Toriyama's unparalleled painting strength, generally speaking, the painting skills of ordinary Japanese cartoonists are actually not particularly good, such as the big red "Grim Reaper" and the future author of "Attack on Titan", they all rely on the plot and characters to win, but they are not so powerful in terms of picture expression, and the characters are also very rigid, but after animation, it is transformed by a group of top animators, with music, Let the characters really move,The level of the work is greatly improved and shines,To put it simply,It's the animation masters who process these works that were originally not expressive enough to have a picture.,Their ability to control the picture is better than that of the original author.。

In the Japanese manga industry, just like the dance of Michael Jackson in the music industry, Akira Toriyama is in the art of "always being imitated and never surpassed", of course, not to mention transcendence, in fact, there is no one close to it......