As a last resort, the animation production company will not entrust the original art to a freelance original artist. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info freelance original artist and animation production company for the commission relationship, the level is uneven, accidentally it is easy to paint collapse, but for the industry for the existence of free original artist is indispensable, because with the animation production company for the commission relationship, free original artist highlights the "free" characteristic, can accept the commission of different animation production companies, to help animation production companies through the embarrassing situation of labor shortage.

For any well-known animation production company, the members of the production department usually have a large number of freelance concept artists. Although there is no formal company for freelance concept artists, it does not mean that their appearance rate is low, on the contrary, every animation production company will have a permanent freelance concept artist.

District 11 is a big animation country, and the irony is that the animation industry in this big animation country is now facing a shortage of labor, and there will even be producers looking for original artists on the streets, and many original artists lament that the number of original artists in the industry is simply not enough to support the number of animation production. It fundamentally reflects the gap between animation production and animation operation. Animation is a commodity, but animation production companies are like an assembly line factory that exploits labor, and understanding the difficult situation of the industry has led to fewer and fewer people willing to enter the industry.

The social economy of District 11 has been finalized, and even if there are irrationalities in most industries, it will be like a pool of stagnant water, and it is difficult to make substantial changes.

Yu Kamiya obtained from Tora Fujiwara the contact information of a freelance concept artist who was in constant contact with the production when he was working at Kyoni Animation Production Company, and then asked the production department to contact them to arrange the commission of the original painting, which is much higher than the industry's painting commission fee, which actually has the potential to make freelance concept artists paint seriously.

On average, each of the production department contacted more than two freelance concept artists and supervised them until the completion of the painting commission.

Yu Kamiya's strict requirements for the production of the twelfth episode of the "fate/zero" animation have the greatest impact on the production department, the original painting department and the animation department, and now the original painting department and the animation department of the [edge of the air] animation production company have become a "city that never sleeps" every day, and it is common for an original artist to stay in the company for several days before going back, eat the bento provided by the company's lounge when he is hungry, hide under the original painting table and sleep when he is sleepy, and continue to draw the original painting when he wakes up. Severe sleep deprivation has caused many concept artists to be listless with dark circles under their eyes.

This kind of crazy behavior is due to the bonus system of the animation production company, the original artists can get the usual one-week income by working overtime for one day, and everyone wants to get more bonuses during this time without an upper limit, and when this time has passed, they will resume their usual work rhythm, and the generous bonuses for overtime are only enough for them to live a long and prosperous life.

【Edge of the Void】Animation production company, original art department.

"Tuk-tuk."

After the assistant assistant Tsuyama Airi knocked on the door, he came directly into the office and hurriedly reported: "Uehara Shogun, the instructions for the storyboard performance of the superintendent Kamiya have come down, is it directly handed over to everyone?" ”

Uehara put down her brush, and now she is examining the original drawings and correcting the nuances or inconsistencies of thousands of original paintings, which is the job of the painting supervisor (original painting supervisor). Hearing her assistant's report, she didn't hurry and said, "There shouldn't be any omissions in the performance instructions that Superintendent Kamiya is personally responsible for, so I will distribute the storyboard first, and if I don't understand anything, I'll submit it as an exception." ”

"I see, so the performance of the original painting is still handed over to the superintendent of Kamiya?"

"Well, the composition of this part of the original painting is more complicated, and Superintendent Kamiya should be able to convey our opinions very well."

"Yes, it's rude." The assistant supervisor did not leave the office until he received a clear answer.

The performance is a very delicate position, with almost the same rights as the director, including the storyboard, color, art style, voice actors, etc. of the entire episode of the animation, which can be directed by the performance himself, and the performance is also responsible for a very important responsibility, that is, the connection between the various levels of animation production.

Generally speaking, animation production is divided into three major levels,Script、Original painting、Animation,Each of these three levels needs a performance,The performance of the script is usually responsible for the supervisor himself,It needs to be mentioned here that most of the animation scripts are not responsible for the supervisor himself,Kamiya Yu's situation is a special case,He conceives the animation plot by himself and skips the script stage to draw the original picture storyboard,After the script is performed, the original picture storyboard is drawn by the supervisor,Generally speaking, the animation supervisor is rarely personally responsible for the original picture storyboard of the whole animation, That's a lot of work, and most of the storyboards can be left to the performers or supervisors, so it's unusual for Kamiya to draw the storyboards for each episode of the anime himself.

The performer is responsible for refining the content of the storyboard, conveying the meaning that the storyboard really wants to express to the original painting department, and at the same time you can add your own ideas or concepts, the original painting department draws the original painting according to the performance instructions, and the original painting performance will be carried out after the original painting is completed. After completing the animation performance, it is handed over to the color assignment (coloring) stage, and the color performance continues after the painting is completed (checking the color).

After the painting is completed, it will be handed over to the next department, the art department (background), and it has been said before that due to the static and dynamic relationship between the background and the animation, it will save a lot of effort to make the background as a static scene alone, and it will still be an art performance after the background is completed. After all the links are completed, it is the turn of the final photography processing, and the photography performance requires the appearance of the person in charge of almost the entire production link, and at this step, it means that the animation is almost completed, and the person in charge of each link appears to review the finished product.

The content of each of these steps is very different, but the common denominator is that the performer needs to read the content of the session, refine it and convey it to the next part of the production. For example, in the original art performance part, the original painting is responsible for drawing the main elements of the picture, including character dynamics, movements, emotional changes, etc., the storyboard drawn by Kamiya Yu is more detailed, so the original painting department saves a lot of effort, and the original art performance needs to give the next step according to the content of the original painting, that is, the animator completes the middle frame to make clear instructions. (To be continued.) )