Although he knocked his head down, with Luo Xiaoyue's help, Meng Zhe could finally transfer all his energy to the fate that was about to be made...... Oh no, it's the formation of the i-am-legend comic team.

After all, Meng Zhe still plans to learn from Huang Yulang, and change the comics completed by one person to be completed by the division of labor and cooperation, and he himself is only responsible for the story creation and the setting of the comic characters.

There are really too few comic talents in China, and in order to select the right team members, Meng Zhe was busy until the beginning of the lunar month - in this era, is it easy to set up a comic production team composed entirely of girls?

It's not easy!

As for the reason for going to great lengths to form a pure girl comic production team, although everyone speculates that Meng Zhe wants to make a Chinese clamp aunt group, the real reason is actually just because the two big loli of the Jiang family strongly asked to help Meng Zhe during the winter vacation.

Fortunately, "Anime Boy" has been published for more than a year after all, and Meng Zhe is already a well-known genius boy cartoonist - this year, this kind of name that is more bullish than an expert is very reassuring.

So in the end, Meng Zhe successfully abducted ten girls who were in their youth and were very talented in comics, and the parents of the girls learned about the high wages and benefits of Tianjiao Club, and then they let their daughters sign a work contract with confidence under the fool of editor Xiao Zhao, who can say cow dung as peony flowers!

With the addition of the two big loli of the Jiang family, the number of this pure girl animation team has become twelve, this auspicious number makes Meng Zhe can't help but complain casually: "Simply, you can call the women's twelve bands......"

"Women's Twelve Bands? What does the name Mengjiji mean? ”

Obviously, Jiang Xiyao didn't know the origin of the name Women's Twelve Orchestra at all.

Speaking of the Twelve Women's Orchestra, Meng Zhe suddenly remembered that it was really good to form such a pop art group that organically combines traditional Chinese musical instruments with modern pop music performance forms?

On the one hand, you can use the music they play to make background music for the animation, and on the other hand, you can also package them and send them abroad to make money!

After the 12 Women's Orchestra was formed, it did not develop well in China. After all, in the eyes of the Chinese people, using such a 'cheesy' national instrument to engage in popular elements is completely playing the piano, and the piano or something Western musical instruments and the symphony of people who listen to it dozing off are elegant...... However, in the eyes of foreigners, China's national musical instruments are very oriental charm. And the charming national musical instruments, coupled with more than a dozen eye-catching Chinese beauties, are simply beautiful!

Therefore, after the formation of the group, the 12th Women's Orchestra, which did not develop well in China, went to Yuben to perform in 2003, because of the [***] pneumonia epidemic that occurred that year, and had to stay in Yuben for several months, and it became popular all of a sudden...... The first album they released in Yueben sold 10,000 copies in the first day, and one million copies in two months!

This is not a pirated disc of three pieces! And it's all genuine CD sales!

Then, the 12 women's bands that bloomed in the walls and fragrant outside the walls were warmly welcomed by the masses immediately after returning to China.

You said that I said before that the national musical instrument is mixed with popular elements and plays the piano indiscriminately?

Playing the piano, your sister, when did I say such a thing?!

People in the East say that they are elegant and sought after good things, how can we not like them?

Well, the psychology of admiring foreigners is unacceptable, but this is also the truest psychology of many people - the quintessence that foreigners say is really good, and the quintessence that foreigners say is bad is dross no matter how good it is.

From the Mongol Yuan to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, from the Eight-Nation Alliance to the Kou invasion of China, the Chinese nation's self-confidence has been trampled on again and again, and its once straight backbone has been broken again and again; although there have been bloody battles with the allied forces of more than 20 countries on the Korean battlefield and won victories, the broken backbone in the hearts of many Chinese has never been picked up.

This inferiority complex of the vanquished is projected into the real world, one of which is that the moon in a foreign country is rounder than in China...... When he thought of this, Meng Zhe suddenly found that his thinking had diverged again, hey-this is all the sequelae of Jiang Xiyao's heavy pressure on my brother-in-law and me last time, not to mention, and also pressed the back of my brother-in-law's head and the cement pavement.

So, Meng Zhe couldn't help but reach out and touch the door of his head that left a small scar, and then glared at his sister-in-law Jiang Xiyao and said, "Don't I like this name?" ”

Speaking of Meng Zhe, in fact, it was only after the Women's Twelve Orchestra became famous in Yueben that he learned that this maverick national instrumental-pop group in the pop music industry was definitely a maverick. But just like Meng Zhe said, the members of the Twelve Women's Orchestra are constantly changing, but he really likes this combination.

Although she was dissatisfied with Meng Zhe's answer, she subconsciously touched the scar on her head, which reminded Jiang Xiyao of the time she knocked on the cement pavement according to Meng Zhe's head, so she was embarrassed to continue to talk to Meng Zhe.

Since even Jiang Xiyao, who can disobey Meng Zhe the most, no longer protests against the name of this team combination, then the other girls who have joined the team have no right to speak.

Editor-in-chief Xiao Meng, he is not only the teacher Jiji who personally teaches everyone to draw, but also everyone's boss, hey, it's not good to disobey him, right?

Besides...... The name of the 12th Women's Orchestra seems to be quite poetic.

The girls exchanged glances with each other, and they accepted Meng Zhe's casual name, and nodded their heads to accept the name of the team.

But then Meng Zhe expressed his remorse, because he felt that since he might have to run the women's twelve more annoying in the future, then this name would not be good to use here now - simply, change the name of the women's twelve orchestra to the women's twelve painting workshop?

This time, Jiang Weirui expressed her opposition, because she felt that it would be more poetic and picturesque to modify the workshop into a painting boat with a slight modification. The so-called painting boat is not a painting boat, but a gorgeously decorated sightseeing boat...... Meng Zhe naturally would not refute the face of his future wife, so Meng Zhe's first collective comic production team was born in a more outrageous way - Women's Twelve Painting Workshop.

Now that the team has been formed, Meng Zhe needs to tell the girls what kind of story "i-am-legend" is.

When telling the content of the story, Meng Zhe took out the original painting settings of Coyote, Saber and others that he had already drawn, as well as the original painting of the personal game Cang with a very sci-fi concept and so on.

Then, Meng Zhe asked the girls to draw the first draft of the "i-am-legend" comic according to the story and original art settings he provided.

So the girls began to divide and work together - Jiang Weirui was responsible for setting the storyboard composition, Jiang Xiyao was responsible for the draft, and the new girls were doing other jobs.

As for Meng Zhe, when the girls started drawing, he had already gone to his Gigi animation studio to check the production of the TV animation of "Sword of Immortals" and went to the city.

Since Meng Zhe injected start-up capital, the animation studio has started the TV animation production of "Sword of Immortals", and after more than a month of hard work, the original paintings needed for the 25-minute cartoon have all been completed, and the more than 20,000 intermediate paintings that need to be used have been completed more than 17,000.

At present, the technology of computer-aided animation production is not mature, so these intermediate paintings must be completed by hand.

Animated Animation ...... Its basic principle is the same as that of film and television, which is a visual principle.

In medicine, human beings have the special surname of "visual persistence", which means that after seeing a painting or an object, the human eye will not disappear within 1/24 of a second.

Therefore, using this principle, playing the next painting before it disappears will create a smooth visual change effect. As a result, movies are shot and played at a speed of 24 frames per second, and televisions are shot and broadcast at a speed of 25 frames per second (PAL system) (CCTV's animation is PAL system) or 30 frames per second (NSTC system).

According to the classification method in the industry, animation can be broadly divided into "perfect animation" (anime animation) that is close to natural motion and "limited animation" (slide animation) that uses simplified and exaggerated animation. If you look at the visual effects of space, it can be divided into flat animation ("Little Tiger Returns") and three-dimensional animation ("Final Fantasy"). From the perspective of playback effect, it can also be divided into sequential animation (continuous action) and interactive animation (repeated action). In terms of the number of frames per second, there are also full animation (24 frames per second) (Disney animation) and semi-animation (less than 24) (third-rate animation), and Chinese animation companies often use semi-animation to make TV films in order to save money.

Obviously, what Meng Zhe is now asking his Jiji Animation Studio to do is obviously not a third-rate semi-animation, but a full animation with a smooth picture and no sense of pause.

After Meng Zhe entered the studio, he went directly to the coloring department to inspect the ongoing coloring work of celluloid.

Celluloid sheet, also known as plain film, is a transparency film made of polyester material with a smooth, fully transparent paper-like surface. This material is used in the production of animations, which can not only be used to draw different action characters on different films, but also to shoot in multiple layers without affecting each other, and at the same time to overlap with the background to enhance the layering and three-dimensional effect of the picture.

Since the beginning of the animation of "Sword of Immortals", Meng Zhe has been engaged in painting supervision and color designation in addition to being the de facto original author and chief director of the comics.

The painting supervisor needs to correct the original painting and the finished animation to see if the face shape of the character matches the character's setting, whether the movement is smooth, and so on. It is necessary to be able to re-paint when necessary, so only experienced original artists and animators can do it.

In addition to specifying "clothes should be red and pants should be black", it is more important to specify the shades and layered colors required for celluloid painting, which is to use xxx paint.

Now Jiji Animation Studio, it is Shuzhong General Liao Hua who has become a pioneer, and Meng Zhe can only bite the bullet. Well, although it is hard-headed, Meng Zhe is also very serious and responsible when he does things...... It's common to send things that don't meet the standards back and remake them.

Two days ago, a newcomer who joined the animation studio said when Meng Zhe sent back some celluloid films that he was responsible for coloring back to redo: "Jiji boss, what we do is nothing more than coaxing children, and there is no need for such certification at all, anyway, even if it is almost done, those little hairy children can't see it......"

And Meng Zhe looked at the other party for at least a minute, and when the newcomer hung his head weakly, Meng Zhe pointed to the other party's nose and said in a roaring way: "Go to the finance to receive your salary this month, and then you give me a roll, non-stop roll!" ”

Thanks to the imperfect labor laws of this era, Meng Zhe didn't even need to pay even one more month's salary for the employees he fired, and he didn't need to worry that the fired person would go to court to sue him or something.

For the first time, the employees of the animation studio saw how terrifying the Jiji boss was when he was angry...... And under Meng Zhe's compelling momentum, no one even dared to come up to intercede for the newcomer who was directly expelled by Meng Zhe because of his gaffe.

After expelling the newcomer who tried to perfunctory the audience, Meng Zhe gathered everyone in the animation studio, and then said in front of all the staff: "I just want to tell you - if we perfunctory the audience now, then sooner or later the audience will also perfunctory us, I Meng Zhe don't want to be pointed at the nose and say 'Oh, I know you, you are Meng Jiji, who led a lot of garbage animation people and produced n many third-rate bad cartoons!'" ’。 So, if anyone still has the same idea as that guy, they can also go and get this month's salary, and then give me a non-stop fuck! ”

After a pause, looking at the solemn expressions on the faces of the people in the studio with satisfaction, Meng Zhe continued: "I think you all know that there is a famous Disney animation in the United States, although Ben is not as famous as Disney, but there are a large number of companies such as Ghibli that can produce beautiful film-level animations. Yes...... I, Meng Zhe, have never said how strong I want to make this Gigi animation studio be, nor have I shouted the empty slogan of surpassing Ghibli in three years and Disney in five years. But I really want to lead everyone to make a few cartoons that can still be remembered by many people in a few years, and say that they are still good-looking! ”

When he said this, Meng Zhe reached out and tapped at the door of the studio where the employee who had just been driven away, and then looked at the people in the studio in a slightly sad tone and asked, "Tell me, is it unrealistic to even have such a simple idea and such a low goal?" ”

Under Meng Zhe's gaze, most of the people lowered their heads in shame, because although they didn't say the same thing as the newcomer who was driven away just now, they also had the same idea in their hearts - cartoons, show things to children, so it's almost enough.

This matter, Meng Zhe can't help but be so distressed and make a big move.

In the later generations before rebirth, didn't Chinese animation just hold this kind of mentality, so it made one third-rate semi-animation after another?

Yes, even if the overall environment of the domestic animation industry is very poor, but "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" can be as successful as it can make money! The road is all made by people, even if there are various restrictions, is there no way to succeed?

Or take Guo Xiaosi as an analogy, although he has the funny name of "three cents copying four", but when he can't get the magazine number of "The Smallest Story" magazine, doesn't he also use the method of making a whole set of book publication numbers, and then stealing a copy of the "Smallest Story" magazine?

Meng Zhe has actually never understood how Chinese animators can't think of similar ideas.

There are too many restrictions on TV cartoons, so let's go for online animation. TV cartoons are not easy to be reviewed in radio and television, so take them for review in the name of animated films that are easy to pass, and then directly give up the TV broadcast platform and specialize in the network platform.

Anyway, in addition to being famous, the TV broadcast platform can't make money at all, and the main audience is not a big child, so there is no big purchasing power for peripheral products.

And the online platform is different.,Most of the people who watch animation online are die-hard fans who really love animation.,And most of them are die-hard fans of animation with a certain economic strength.,If you can make a popular TV animation.,Then just selling genuine peripheral products can get the investment back, right?

Of course, Meng Zhe also knows this kind of thing, in the future society before the rebirth of the animation system has successfully occupied most of the market, it is also very, very difficult to succeed.

Because animation wants to be popular, it not only needs excellent animation production, but also needs to have attractive comic stories and a unique voice actor team...... Were there any of these three conditions in China before rebirth?

There can only be some of them.,In fact, there has always been no shortage of animation production talents.,Whether it's an adaptation of a web novel or a local comic that's a big hit.,But dubbing voice actors ...... Speaking of which, Meng Zhe has really seen domestic animation adapted from online novels in later generations, if Meng Zhe remembers correctly, the anime should be adapted from the wild fox version of "Sou Shen Ji" under the tree, but that animation can only be described as miserable in terms of both the picture and the voice actor dubbing.

The "Sou Shen Ji" written by the wild fox under the tree itself is a good story with a very large structure, but the fact is still that a good story is made into a bad animation.

Why?

It's still the three words Meng Zhe said - don't worry!

(To be continued)