Chapter 628 vivid character creation

"No, is this the character I asked for in this movie?" Zhou Shaoming questioned the production staff on the spot, "You have been fired." ”

“WHY？” A British production crew questioned on the spot.

Zhou Shaoming waved his hand, "Ben, send money to this person and leave." Zhou Shaoming turned to Raymond beside him and asked, "Raymond, are those artists still obedient?" Is it so hard to manage? ”

Raymond frowned and said to Zhou Shaoming: "I think it's just that they don't understand what you mean very well, and there's no need to fire him." ”

Zhou Shaoming responded with a smile on his face: "No, it's a problem with his attitude." This is important. This time, you've done a great job designing the characters in the film. Let's do it on the production side. The design of those extras left in the movie, come on. ”

Raymond looked at Zhou Shaoming's expression, as if there was no room for negotiation, the British animation production staff who had just arrived here did not come to the supernova film and television company base for two days, and was fired by Zhou Shaoming on the spot.

Zhou Shaoming then looked at the panda made by the staff on the computer, from the point of view of body type, it meets his own requirements, the cuteness of the panda, the fat body shape is all displayed in front of Zhou Shaoming's eyes!

"Raymond, I accidentally saw such a move, do you think it's appropriate to put it in our movie?" Zhou Shaoming asked Raymond beside him.

"What move?" Raymond was very puzzled by Zhou Shaoming's words, what does people's actions have to do with the protagonist of the movie in front of him, Panda PO.

Zhou Shaoming explained to Raymond: "I see that whenever pregnant women sit down, they always bow down their stomachs, so the protagonist in our movie, can we also add such actions to the production, so that people have a strong sense of intimacy after seeing it, which is more acceptable." ”

Raymond's eyes lit up, "That's a good idea, better than the one I thought of with an entrance." ”

Zhou Shaoming hesitated. Asked, "What did you design for the main character?" ”

Raymond said with a smile on his face: "It's just from the appearance, let's make our protagonist PO a big-mouthed panda, after all, he can eat very well." ”

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Shaoming agreed: "This idea is also very good. VC, now make me a picture of a panda holding his belly in front of the computer, and let me see the effect. ”

The animation producer VC began to operate the movie on the spot, and Zhou Shaoming and Lei Meng sat on the side, and soon after, VC moved the screen to an angle that was conducive to Zhou Shaoming and Lei Meng's viewing, and gently tapped the keyboard. A 5-second screen appeared on the screen, and the panda Po was holding his stomach on the spot.

This kind of cute action made Zhou Shaoming very satisfied on the spot, and the production of other actions, Zhou Shaoming believes that it is a highlight to increase the score of the movie.

“OK。” For the production of Panda Bao, Zhou Shaoming was basically satisfied in the early stage.

The next one is the monkey, Zhou Shaoming looked at the image made by the monkey on the screen, "Friendly, humorous." Enthusiasm can indeed be reflected, in general, let's imagine it. When the monkey appears in front of the audience, what small animals do you need to use to increase his charm value? ”

Raymond had already thought about this issue and responded to Zhou Shaoming: "I remember that there is a star in China, his name is Jackie Chan. When he was filming action movies, he often had small movements that we could imitate. ”

Zhou Shaoming's eyes lit up. The actor of the Monkey King Monkey King in Journey to the West, Liu Xiaolingtong, made Zhou Shaoming unforgettable, and remembered that when he was always playing the Monkey King, there was a little animal that grabbed his face, and this action became his signature move.

I didn't expect Raymond to be so careful, if it wasn't for Raymond's reminder, Zhou Shaoming wouldn't have thought of Jackie Chan all of a sudden. "Jackie Chan is actually a member of our action producer for this movie, so I have the opportunity to introduce you."

Raymond was stunned, he didn't expect Zhou Shaoming, this guy, to think of everything, and even Chinese martial arts obviously had to be invited to the production site. "Okay."

Zhou Shaoming stretched out his thumb and praised: "If it weren't for your reminder, I wouldn't have thought of the monkey's idea at once, Raymond, you are really my lieutenant." ”

The monkey character design is basically frozen, the next one is the tiger, to be precise, it should be the South China Tiger, Zhou Shaoming is actually not as good as Raymond in this regard.

After all, Raymond has studied Chinese culture for eight years, and Zhou Shaoming, who originally lived in China, is ashamed to say that he doesn't know as much as Raymond.

Zhou Shaoming looked at the screen and said with some excitement: "The villain should be the big leopard." ”

Raymond frowned, how could Zhou Shaoming see the shape of the South China Tiger as a big leopard?

The staff who designed the South China Tiger said with some concern: "This is just the shape of the South China Tiger, one of the martial arts heroes in the Valley of Peace." ”

After hearing the staff's words at the scene, the smile on Zhou Shaoming's face disappeared on the spot, frowned, and asked lightly: "What about the design of the villain Big Leopard?" ”

One of the cartoon staff members raised his hand and shouted, "It's me, here." ”

Zhou Shaoming turned around and saw the shaping of another villain on the screen, and then turned his head to look at the tiger shape of one of the five heroes of Peace Valley.

The staff who made the South China tiger looked a little scared and asked, "I did exactly what you wanted." ”

Zhou Shaoming looked at the staff in front of him, frowned, waved his hand, and said lightly: "Let me think about it." ”

Raymond saw the appearance of the South China Tiger staff, and said with some understanding: "In fact, the shaping of these two shapes is completely in accordance with the script, the South China Tiger is a rare animal in China, and his ferocity is well known, and the villain in the movie, the snow leopard, we are trying our best to portray it, so that people will know that it is a villain as soon as they see such a character." The ferocious, hateful eyes are all expressed, is there anything wrong? ”

Zhou Shaoming listened to Raymond's words, and after thinking about it, he responded: "Have you noticed that judging from the appearance alone, in fact, the portrayal of these two characters is almost the same, but one is a tiger and a leopard." Tiger Boxing is still relatively well-known in Chinese martial arts culture, and this role is indispensable. But how do we distinguish between villains and decent characters? ”

Raymond frowned. For Zhou Shaoming's question, he couldn't respond for a while.

Zhou Shaoming reminded Raymond: "I remember I talked to a friend who knows Chinese martial arts culture very well, and his portrayal of such a character, the advice to me is that when shaping him, try to make this character reflect a heroic nature, the style of a general, in the martial arts world, he has the courage that others do not have, and his courage is unparalleled." I think this tiger should be the first of the five heroes. The look of fear doesn't mean that he is really powerful, plus the tiger in front of us is a well-known figure in the martial arts......"

Raymond's eyes lit up, and he listened to Zhou Shaoming's guidance: "I understand, I will revise it as soon as possible." ”

"Or am I doing it?"

When Zhou Shaoming turned around to look at the snow leopard, he heard the question of the staff behind him, and Zhou Shaoming, who had been ignoring the expression of the staff member just now, turned around again.

"You're a staff member from China." Zhou Shaoming asked lightly.

The staff nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Zhou Shaoming patted the staff's chest and said, "Since you came out, you have to straighten your waist upright, you haven't done anything wrong." No matter how worried you are, I hope that the next time I see you, you can confidently tell me your name. ”

The staff was dumbfounded. looked at the well-known director in front of him, from firing one of his colleagues as soon as he came in just now, and then to himself, his expression was very different. However, I fully felt Director Smith Zhou's clear attitude of rewards and punishments.

Zhou Shaoming once again stared at the shape of the snow leopard, and asked lightly: "Except for the appearance." What characteristics do you plan to use to show his ferocity? ”

Raymond responded, "Looks." ”

Zhou Shaoming said lightly: "Very good." Let's take a look at the last two shapers. ”

Raymond took a deep breath and said to Zhou Shaoming: "The last two are the difficult points of this shaping. ”

Zhou Shaoming took a deep breath and said: "If it's not difficult, how could I invite you to come, and let me find a professional to design the shape of these characters." ”

Raymond really didn't know whether Zhou Shaoming praised himself or hurt himself at this time.

"Xianhe is the most docile master of the Five Heroes, and we designed him to be a dad-like martial arts master just like a game. A hat, the unique body shape makes the crane look very low-key. Especially the feathers on its body, we used 6019 feathers to cover the whole body to have such a vivid crane shape. ”

Zhou Shaoming saw that Raymond kept praising the character image they designed and created by the staff at this time, "What about the shape of the praying mantis?" ”

Raymond led Zhou Shaoming to the designed mantis shape and said: "The mantis is such a small and capable action, in order to show his small and flexible, we constantly balance his size, and we also add a longevity pattern to its back, which makes this animal even stronger." ”

Zhou Shaoming nodded, he came to the scene today, and saw the image creation of the main characters in the film prepared by Raymond for himself, which was indeed very attractive, and he was deeply attracted at the scene, and he was very satisfied with the fact that this time led by Raymond, from the designer to the animation staff, created such a powerful film character image.

The only regret is that the master of the five heroes in the movie, obviously the staff who started to make this image, did not have any intentions at all, such a cute image of the raccoon, so that Zhou Shaoming was already stunned after seeing it, not surprised, but deeply startled.

Zhou Shaoming can completely see the work attitude of this staff, in a huge team with strong equipment and sufficient funds, Zhou Shaoming may not be able to memorize the names of these hundreds of staff, but Zhou Shaoming will not allow such team members to exist in his own team!

A mouse also returned a pot of soup, and from the results of watching the production staff today, the results are still remarkable. The cooperation between Raymond and the production staff also showed great results.

In just a few days, the prototype of the character image in the movie has been determined, and the following is the in-depth image. Obviously, Raymond asked for it like Zhou Shaoming.

Just took great pains to create several characters, but after all, it was not in place all of a sudden, such as the shaping of the South China Tiger, which obviously did not meet Zhou Shaoming's expectations.

When Raymond and Zhou Shaoming saw the shape of the snake, Zhou Shaoming's eyes lit up, whose design had almost no problems, and Zhou Shaoming, the snake, had a whim, and said to Raymond: "What if you also change the shape of the tiger to a woman." We follow the natural laws of the animal world. In the shaping of animal images, it is almost designed according to the original body characteristics of animals, but if a male tiger is replaced by a female tiger, it will not intuitively reflect the difference between decent characters and villains. ”

Raymond listened to Zhou Shaoming's suggestion, nodded and said, "I will consider this and then discuss it with the staff." ”

Zhou Shaoming patted Raymond on the shoulder, "So far, your work has been very satisfactory, and I have other things on my side, right." Can the oil painting masters complete their work tasks early? ”

Raymond shook his head and said, "More than a dozen masters are already rushing to produce oil paintings, but I think you will need to recruit more people as soon as possible." ”

Zhou Shaoming said wisely: "It seems that your news is still accurate, and it will be brought to you when the time comes." ”

A huge production team is constantly improving, from the first dozen or so oil painting masters to this time, Benjamin contacted several painters who were willing to paint for the film, and there were already more than 20 oil painting masters who began to paint oil paintings for the film.

Not only that, but the production staff is even more powerful, with dozens of people from different countries around the world in so many rooms in the film and television base. Animators from different regions gather here.

It's home to most of the world's most elite people in animation production, and many of them have heard about this and reached out to Benjamin or Supernova Entertainment Films, and this time the elite of animation production wants to come to Los Angeles. Under the team of Supernova Entertainment Film and Television Company, experience the feast of global production crews gathered together.

This is not only an opportunity to make money, but also an unforgettable and rich feast for mutual exchange. For the production team. Supernova Entertainment Film and Television Company has also developed such a salary plan.

That is the basic salary plus commission, and the design plan of the animation is submitted. The basic salary is the same for everyone and relatively high. However, the commission is more attractive.

After the producer meets the company's requirements, there are some more difficult productions, and the capable live there, which is a stage for competition, but also a stage for talent to show.

As long as you have your own professional knowledge of animation production and can do your best under the company's requirements, then Supernova Entertainment Film and Television Company will not be stingy!

Because the production funds for this movie are very sufficient, the company is willing to invest in the production of this movie, mainly because the director of this movie is Director Smith Chow!

A director who has eye-catching box office results every year has always left an indelible image in the minds of the audience. From chainsaws to cattle herding classes, to Resident Evil, to fuses, to the pinnacle of creation in recent years, Iron Man.

As Zhou Shaoming produces movies with good box office results every year, Zhou Shaoming is becoming more and more confident in his heart, high-tech movies, and large-scale film investment.

Such a high-risk film investment is already commonplace in Zhou Shaoming's eyes. Zhou Shaoming is also confident that such an investment can eventually be recovered.

After a series of preparations, Zhou Shaoming's team gradually began to improve, and Zhou Shaoming could only hand over the production to others to manage the operation, and his important thing was to start the filming of the movie.

For the movie, Zhou Shaoming also planned several places for real-life shooting, except for the beginning of the film, even if there are many masters, it will take two or three months to complete the preparation for shooting.

During this period, it is impossible for Zhou Shaoming to wait, this is not Zhou Shaoming's character, such a time period allows Zhou Shaoming to rest assured to shoot other live scenes!

In terms of the construction of the real scene, the staff in the film and television base are still in place, and the residence of the protagonist Panda Po was quickly built.

And all the filming is in the film and television base, in such a working environment, Zhou Shaoming can still communicate well with the production team in addition to filming.

Facing the screen all day has made Zhou Shaoming's head a little painful, especially when his mind is full of not only the consideration of the designed characters, but also the analysis of how to improve the characters.

Although it is an animated film, Zhou Shaoming knows that in order to make an animated film deeply impress the audience, it has always achieved high box office results.

Then humanized processing is an inevitable breakthrough, if there is not even this sense of substitution, then people watch such cartoons. If you enjoy an animal world, will it have box office results?

Even if the director is excellent and has box office appeal, it is impossible for the audience to take the hard-earned money and enter the theater to watch an animal feast, just like watching the animal world.

Delicate expression techniques, humanized processing, to push the plot of the story to the climax step by step, this is a mode of thinking that Zhou Shaoming wants to show to the audience in his mind, so that people are completely immersed in this film, and this film also has an inspirational meaning, without losing the connotation of the film.

The product of a high-tech film may be easy for a Hollywood team to make, but as a director who directs the audience, it is a physically and mentally exhausting thing. At the end of a short day, Zhou Shaoming's head suddenly seemed to explode, and he couldn't hold anything at all. (To be continued......)