On the third day of the first lunar month in 2003, when many companies in Jinling had not yet resumed work and everyone was still immersed in the joy of the festival, Chen Xueqian's studio in Jianye District was already busy. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When Chen Xueqian received a call from Zhao Qingge in the morning, the whole person was stunned, and yesterday I faintly heard Zhou Yan mention that Li Minzhen did not come back from the studio. He was a little weird.

It is said that the annual leave he gave to the studio a few years ago was until the tenth day of the first lunar month, and Li Minzhen should not be very busy.

However, last night, he didn't bother to ask Li Minzhen for a while. At this time, after receiving a call from Zhao Qingge, he understood what happened.

It turned out that all the staff of the studio started working in the third year of junior high school, and yesterday, the studio members in charge of the music part were already busy.

The reason why the members of the studio are so motivated is inseparable from the pressure they feel.

From the opening of the studio a year ago to the Spring Festival, the entire studio sadly found that the entire animation production still had no clue.

On the contrary, the music group that should be in post-production, thanks to Chen Xueqian's previous live performance at Jinling Art Academy, made the required repertoire in advance.

As a result, the rest of the studio naturally felt the pressure even more. However, there is a lot of pressure, there is no direction, and there is no way.

They took the storyboard that Chen Xueqian had written for them, but they disappeared and couldn't hand in the finished draft.

This is also a big problem for China's animation industry, there is no shortage of skilled painters in China, but most of them lack creativity and understanding of the language of storyboarding. Even they lack some of the foundation of life.

Chen Xueqian, who watched it, wrote that the wind swept through the cherry blossoms in April, and romantic pink danced in the whole sky.

But many people in the manga team can't even imagine what the cherry blossoms look like and the scene of the cherry blossoms flying, so how can we talk about manga production!

In the world of animation, the most important thing is always scripting, storyboarding, and post-rendering, and without these three basics, it is difficult to imagine making a good manga.

However, in China, such animation production talents are too scarce. Of course, all of this is also related to the Chinese education system. In Chinese education, animation production has always only focused on skills, only focusing on some details, many schools have courses on theory, history, and even advanced mathematics and English, but they just don't teach you how to complete an animation from beginning to end.

How competitive is the student who is handed over by such an education?

Of course, this is not a disadvantage in one field of animation, which is a common problem in China's current education.

China's education system almost never takes into account the situation of its own school or the situation of its own students, and blindly teaches those empty things. After graduation, students don't know how to apply what they've learned, or even never use it.

In foreign countries, junior college and undergraduate are two completely different types.

Colleges are more akin to a technical school, where they are all based on actual job opportunities. The knowledge they learn is pertinent and highly directed.

In undergraduates, they learn more about theoretical things. Their goal is equally clear, they exist to delve deeper into what they have learned.

However, those colleges and universities in China are usually the same, and there is no essential difference between their teaching content schools, and they are always in an embarrassing state of high and low.

When Chen Xueqian arrived at the studio, he saw a gloomy and miserable scene. He couldn't help but be slightly stunned by this situation.

However, he was not in a hurry to make a judgment, first he came to Zhao Qingge's department, and when Zhao Qingge saw him, he immediately ran forward with a happy face.

Chen Xueqian didn't say much, and directly asked them to release the results of the preparation, sitting there, Chen Xueqian mobilized his memory, and played the episodes about this animation in his memory and Zhao Qingge's production synchronously.

Soon he noticed the slightest change in it, but in general, Zhao Qingge's production results were gratifying.

After listening to their performances, Chen Xueqian appropriately put forward a few revisions, and then approved their music production.

Amid the cheers of the music group that resounded through the office, Chen Xueqian came to the animation production department. When he walked in, he noticed that everyone had their heads bowed at the same time.

It's a far cry from when he first started his studio, when each of them was scrappy and ambitious to make a super-anime and even conquer Japan.

However, at this time, it doesn't take much thought to know that they have lost the mood they had at the beginning.

Chen Xueqian quietly came behind Lin Wanqiu and saw that she was painting a sub-shot of Kaoru Miyazono playing the flute on the high platform.

Her painting skills are quite exquisite, and the whole picture is very gorgeous, but what she draws is simply a caricature, and there is no language of sub-shots at all.

Chen Xueqian couldn't help frowning after looking at it for a while, and after thinking for a while, he clapped his palms and said, "Everyone stop what they are doing, and I'll say a few words to you." ”

When everyone stopped what was in their hands and turned their heads to look at him at the same time, Chen Xueqian motioned to Lin Wanqiu on the side to stand up.

"I've just walked around the office and noticed that you may have encountered some problems, which is that you don't understand the storyboard language well."

Chen Xueqian raised his eyes as he spoke, and glanced at the crowd, and saw that everyone was listening carefully before continuing.

"I know that many of you are studying art, and many of you are studying animation design, but why can't you always draw a shot of the process?"

"It's not because everyone's drawing skills are not good, it's because everyone lacks imagination."

Listening to Chen Xueqian's words elsewhere, everyone suddenly pricked up more seriously, and their ears didn't know what different opinions he could say.

"Animation and manga are different, and many people think that anime is just to connect manga and move pictures one by one. In fact, this is a very wrong concept. Animation: It actually has a camera that you can't see. When you are working on a storyboard, you have to imagine that you are holding a camera, and that comic is the final image of the camera, but before that there is a process, which is what we call a storyboard. ”

"When we want to draw a person, the camera will have a saccade process, and the camera will change differently depending on the angle of view at that time.

"For example, Lin Wanqiu is now painting the scene of Kaoru Miyazono's first appearance, and we will find that the storyboard of this section is very empty, so we can add a coordinate to it, which can be a fluttering silk scarf or a pigeon flying in the square.

In front of this storyboard, it is from Arima's point of view, and he sees the pantyhose hanging from the book, and he sees a pair of black leather shoes. At this moment he heard a melodious harmonica sound, so he walked slowly along the grove in the square to the middle of the square, during which he could skip the scenery of the square, and the narrator remembered that when I first met you, the whole world suddenly took on color.

So the whole color should be light to thick first, and when the camera is really pushed to Kaoru Miyazono, because of the line of sight, she is standing relatively high, so the camera should be swept from the bottom to the top. When the final image is complete, it should be in line with the composition and highlight her figure. ”

Chen Xueqian said as he started to paint, and when he finished speaking, a beautiful set of storyboards suddenly appeared on the drawing paper.

The people standing on the side were completely dumbfounded at this time, is this really just a simple picture of words? Why is its painting skill so average, but its imaging is so beautiful?

Chen Xueqian saw everyone's doubts, and he continued: "The lens is alive, it can be poetic, it can be demonic, and it can be evil. The key is to construct a scene in your mind right now, when you feel like your mind is empty, don't imagine it, you can go to a movie, but find a park to walk around, or even go to the street, see beautiful women, and capture their charming moments. When you discover the beauty of these details in life, you can really master the storyboard. What I ask of you is not to rush, but to keep improving. ”

After Chen Xueqian finished speaking, he suddenly remembered a warm applause in the audience!

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