Chapter 180: Animation Pipeline

Animation is not an interesting thing,Even if it's Kamiya Yu, the animation director, it's actually just a part of the assembly line,As the supervisor Kamiya Yu needs to personally do every non-technical important project,General animation supervisor will point out the direction but will not participate in the detailed special effects processing、Original painting performance or art rendering process,First, the supervision time is limited,There are too many things to supervise and be responsible for。 Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info The second is that he has a specialization in the art industry, and the supervisor has a holistic understanding of animation, but he is not an all-round superman.

Yu Kamiya is an "all-powerful overseer" in the eyes of outsiders, but he doesn't mean to burden himself, and he does the same things that the general animation director needs to be responsible for.

Participating in animation performances, going to Shindoji's music studio to select voice actors and recording songs, unlimited review and revision of the original storyboard that has not yet been made, etc., promised to become the original painting teacher of the five more Ruri, Kamiya Yu, will definitely not be hasty, just like when Uehara Eizuki taught him, Kamiya Yu first gave the five more glazed cloth additional original painting topics, training the skills and vision of the five more glazed animators, and also guiding her to develop in the direction of a qualified original artist.

Wumore Ruri is not better than Kamiya Yu, and Uehara Ezuki's sheep-herding teaching is not entirely suitable for her, so Kamiya Yu has to spend more than an hour every time he enters the consciousness space to review the original painting topics submitted by Wuchang Ruri, and give a specific and professional evaluation in all aspects. Yu Kamiya pointed out the mistakes of the original painting of the subject and appropriately gave some hints to Ruri Gosan to give her free rein to her abilities as an animator, only in this way can she grow into an original artist with a style different from Yu Kamiya, otherwise Yu Kamiya will only cultivate a degraded version of herself.

The growth of the five more glasses is very rapid.,She was originally an animated out-of-house aggravated middle and second disease patient.,Once wrote a thick set of settings when writing novels, you can see her enthusiasm for her interests.。 In addition to sleeping, eating, and working, all her time is spent completing the original art projects assigned by Yu Kamiya and absorbing Yuu Kamiya's opinions on her completion of those original art projects.

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It's late at night, and the lights are still bright in the animation production company, but only a few staff members are still working hard in the spacious public office, and the silence is only the crisp sound of mouse clicks and the "salsa" sound left by the brush.

"Ruri, then I'll get off work first." In the animator department, the last female animator packed up her personal belongings and waved to the five more glasses with a smile.

Wugen Liuli, who was staring at the screen, turned his head and responded with a smile: "Well, see you tomorrow." ”

She glanced at the clock on the wall not far away, showing that it was already more than eight o'clock in the evening, but she still didn't leave her job more than two hours beyond the end of work, Gogen Ruri was reviewing the animation performance of the seventh episode of "Madoka Magical Girl", this episode is a key episode, she wants to convey the results of her efforts during this time to Yu Kamiya through this episode, and the more she learns from Yu Kamiya, the longer she takes to review the animation performance. She's now the deputy supervisor of the animation department.,It can also be said to be an animation supervisor.,It's not the level of Kamiya Yu but the deputy director of the animators.,This position is usually held by senior original artists.,But the seniority and the young Gosō Ruri became the only animator supervisor in the animation department without causing much gossip.,Her performance in the animation "Madoka Magica" is better than all animators.,Her hard work has been recognized by animators.。

The original artist draws the work and puts it together to make a simple concept animation, usually the original animation only has incoherent characters and character background lines. In charge of reviewing this stage, finding flaws in the painting is the original art performance, and this process can be handled by Yuri Kamiya, who is the general director, or Uehara Eizuki, who is the original art supervisor. Animation performance is based on the original painting processing of the animation and then put together pre-play,This part of the animation usually has no sound、No rendering and no special effects,Based on the original painting performance more color、Specific depiction and animation frame number are more coherent,Very personal vision of graduate animation performance。

Generally speaking, whether it is an animation performance or an original painting performance, it is just to find a place where the painting collapses, and Kamiya Yu's requirements for the five more glazes are more stringent, and in addition to the places where the painting collapses, it is also necessary to consider whether the composition of the original painting itself is appropriate.

Wumore Liuli stretched a lazy waist, sat on the office chair all day and made her feel that her body was about to collapse, stood up and pushed the chair aside to move her body on the spot, Wumore Liuli saw herself in the mirror on the office desktop. It's a girl with black hair and red eyes, the cute face is not mature, and if you wear the high school girl system, you won't feel much disobedience, and the bewitching red eyes with the tear moles at the corners of the eyes will always give people an inexplicable sense of charm and beauty.

"By the way, you need to rest your eyes."

Wumore Liuli blinked her eyes, gently took out the contact lenses and put them in a small bottle full of unknown liquid, when she took off the contact lenses, she felt that the whole world had changed, clearer and more beautiful. The so-called contact lenses are such a thing, in addition to the change in the appearance of people, there is nothing beneficial to the human body, and inferior contact lenses can also lead to eye fatigue, dizziness and other side effects after wearing them for a long time. The red contact lenses of Wumore glass were bought by her for a whole month's salary, and the side effects of high-end products are much smaller, and they will not bring too much burden to the eyes.

After letting her eyes get enough rest, she looked at herself in the mirror again, wearing a black and white gothic dress, she was like going back to high school, but here she didn't feel the loneliness of missing friends, and she had a sense of satisfaction and goals that she didn't have before when she worked. The corners of the five more glasses curled up and couldn't help laughing, and then his hands were clenched into the shape of cat's claws to make a cute pose to himself in the mirror.

"Meow~!"

Busy until ten o'clock in the evening, the fifth watch Liuli finally completed the seventh episode of the animation performance report, at this time the [Yuanzhikong] animation studio was completely devoid of vocals, and the quiet atmosphere couldn't help but be reminiscent of horror movies. Wugen Ruri yawned and muttered in a daze: "There is also a project assigned by Mr. Kamiya... Hmmm~ Let's do it tomorrow morning, now I have to take the late bus back to the apartment... ”

Turning off the computer, the fifth watch Liuli drove to another floor department, passed through the gloomy and dark large public office, and soon came to an office door with light shining outward.

"Tuk-tuk."

"Come in by yourself, the door is unlocked." There was a crisp voice from inside Chixia Yuuki, and after Ruri went in, she unexpectedly saw Chixia Yuuki wearing pink bunny pajamas playing an unknown fps game on the professional-grade computer that the company had configured for her. The animation production company's computer performance exceeds that of the most popular high-end computers on the market, and the accessories are all professionally customized, and the cost of a set exceeds 5 million yen.

"Black cat, you're busy arranging the original painting project again? If the work is heavy, it would be nice to push off this part of the problem. Yuuki Chixia said casually while quickly controlling the mouse to kill the enemy in the screen, the petite body looks like an ordinary little girl in pink bunny pajamas.

"I don't want to pull Kamiya-sensei's back legs, and this level is only a small amount to me."

Gojo Ruri proudly raised her chin and replied, since she became acquainted with Yuuki Chinatsu's relationship and Yuki Chinatsu's same immature appearance, she unknowingly regarded her as a friend of the same age. She skillfully picked up another set of quilts in the corner of the wall and laid them on the ground, and after pulling the chain of the gothic long skirt behind her, the skirt slipped off directly, revealing a snow-white and warm delicate body, the girlish black underwear was designed in the image of a cat, which formed a sharp contrast with the skin and highlighted the cute atmosphere, and continued to take off the brown and black pantyhose and put it on the folded skirt, and after doing all this, the five watches got into the quilt and whispered: "Qianxia, good night." ”

"Good night." Chinatsu Yuuki said as she plugged her headphones into the computer case.

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Yu Kamiya had just stepped into Shindoji's music studio, and several female voice actors who recognized Yu Kamiya hurriedly came over and bowed and greeted, "Good morning, Mr. Kamiya." ”

"Early, I'm sorry for you today." Yu Kamiya smiled, although Shindoji's music studio belongs to the [Yuanzhikong] animation production company, but the voice actor is independent, and has its own special agency, and the voice actor will only go to the music studio to record the sound when he receives the task. It needs to be compared to the voice actors who are "idols" and have their own agents and brokerage companies, and the animation produced by Yu Kamiya is a show that requires them to star.

There is also a very interesting meme about voice actors, that is, "receiving a salary". Some animation lovers often see someone swiping "xxxx and getting paid again" when watching animation, and this kind of barrage usually occurs when some characters with few lines in the animation appear. The source of this stalk is about the calculation of the voice actor's salary.,It's not based on the length of time.,Not by the number of lines.,It's based on the number of anime episodes participated.。 Two voice actors with equal treatment just say one word "oh" in the same episode, the other says it from the beginning, and the last two voice actors are paid the same salary.

When a supporting character with few lines appears, even if he only says one word, it is considered the salary of the voice actor to participate in the dubbing of an episode of the anime.

Japanese voice actors seem to be alive and glorious, but in essence, they are also pyramid-shaped career development, and the voice actors at the bottom are unable to make ends meet, and they need to rely on odd jobs to support themselves, because they have no popularity, they still need to go to the agency for free to "brush their faces". The treatment of well-known voice actors is no worse than that of some well-known idols, and there will even be a phenomenon that the cost of hiring voice actors is the same as the overall cost of producing animation.

In the voice actor world, voice actors can not only rely on voice fire, but also rely on appearance to develop popularity, that is, voice actor idolization. Voice actors can publish their own photos, can hold autograph conferences, can be invited to participate in some events, etc., because it can bring a lot of money, many voice actor companies support such things, and the voice actor industry has bred the inferior unspoken rules that only the Japanese idol industry can have - voice actors are not allowed to fall in love without the permission of the agency, let alone get married.

It would be even worse if the voice actor's private life was erosive, [Haruhi Suzumiya] voice actor Aya Hirano and [Takasaka Honoka] voice actor Kegumi Nitta are typical examples.

"This is a modified part of the lines from the fifth episode of "Madoka Magical Girl"."

After Yu Kamiya entered the recording studio, he handed over the dubbing script in his hand to Shindoji, he glanced at Yu Kamiya and nodded, and when the voice actor from the other studio came, he said to the voice transmission microphone in the recording studio: "Excuse me, everyone, the following lines need to be revised." ”

"Act IV [There's nothing to be afraid of] was changed to "There's nothing to be afraid of."

Act 8 [I see] was changed to [Yes, I see]

"Act 11 [Flame Sauce] was changed to a question sentence."

"Act 12 [This is probably the fate of our magical girls] was changed to [Sure enough, I still can't break free from our fate]."

The voice actors on the other side of the studio have taken out the script and revised it according to the instructions of the new department, the layout of the voice actor's studio is very simple, there are three high-precision recording microphones in front of it and three LCD screens, and the voice actors who dub need to take turns in front of these three microphones to watch the silent animation on the screen for dubbing, and if there are too many people, there will be a situation where they will take turns queuing.

The left and right sides of the studio and the back of the studio are the rest chairs of the voice actors, and the voice actors also have rules, and usually the seats behind the LCD screen are usually only sat by experienced voice actors, so that you can better see the animation screen. Both rookie and not-so-famous voice actors sit on opposite sides of the studio and wait quietly, silently joting down the script's lines.

The process of recording the animation is very boring, and listening to the voice actors repeat that line over and over again, most people have long been bored and feel tired of the sound aesthetics, and there will be errors in judgment by a well-resourced sound supervisor like Shindoji. Therefore, when recording the sound, there will basically be a plurality of professionals present to discuss whether the sound is qualified or not.

"There's nothing to be afraid of~!" The female voice actor chuckled and was stopped as soon as she finished saying this to Mai, and her expression was very similar to that of Sister Ba Ma Mei in the screen animation. To outsiders, this may seem quite humiliating, but "role substitution" is also a skill that voice actors must master.

Shintangji pondered for a while and then said, "Stop, um~~~ Try to invest more emotion, a little more briskly." ”

The female voice actor stared at the silent animation on the screen, took a breath and exhaled: "There's nothing to be afraid of anymore~!" ”

"Okay, next."

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"Asami-senpai!"

"It's too stiff, do it all over again."

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"Sure enough, we still can't break free from our fate."

"Take a break, Miha, please demonstrate this line for her." Simari Shindo instructed another veteran voice actor to give a line demonstration.

Another female voice actor came to the microphone to think and said slowly: "Sure enough, I still can't break free from our fate." ”

Shindoji said with satisfaction, "That's pretty much how it feels. ”

"Yes, thank you for the guidance!" The female voice actor who failed the dubbing just now bowed solemnly.

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"I'm still not used to being in the studio so many times."

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Yu Kamiya came out of the music studio and felt like his ears were blocked, and the car horn still sounded faint and illegible. He patted his ear and felt that the estrangement was not improving, so he shook his head helplessly, and had to wait for his ear to readjust to the outside world. (To be continued.) )