Animation is not something that can be made in-house by a production company.

Concept art, animation, background, coloring, compilation, photography, etc......

With so many processes, it is certainly impossible to complete them all in our own company.

Many small companies do not have this ability, and some animation production companies even only have a painting department and a planning department, and other work such as coloring, animation line cutting, and even original painting will all be outsourced, or partially outsourced.

Even large companies are more or less outsourced.

This is the same as the earth, in the true sense of the word, we have the ability to take care of all the animation production processes, and all of them can be completed in-house, and only the KyoAni that everyone is familiar with.

Some companies choose to outsource because they do not have the ability to set up these departments, but many companies are able and unwilling to set up these departments.

For example, the color department, the work is tedious but the difficulty is low, give a color to see the book, just find someone to practice for a period of time, maybe you can do it, you really want you to be able to go.

Outsourcing this process to a country with lower labor costs can result in significant cost savings.

Otherwise, it's overwhelming.,A few new ones in a quarter.,There's not so many original artists in the company to paint the original paintings.,There aren't so many animators who draw the line in the cut.,You can only outsource some.。

In an episode of animation, all the individual painting parts are outsourced, which is called painting outsourcing, and the separate coloring part is all outsourced, which is called coloring outsourcing.

There is also a special case of outsourcing, and that is turnkey.

The turnkey animation production company that accepts the project knows the scale of its company very well and cannot undertake the production of the entire animation, so from the whole animation, such as 12 episodes of animation, it divides several episodes, such as the second and third episodes to other companies, and the company that accepts the job must be responsible for the entire production of the animation of the second and third episodes.

Since there is a turnkey party, there must be a subordinate party who accepts the turnkey......

"The company accepted the commission from CDD Animation Studio to help produce the eleventh episode of 'Invasion'."

Misawa Guang saw that Gu Xue's emotions just now seemed to be a little excited, his voice was much quieter, he awkwardly picked up a script from the table, sighed, and said:

"After the production of "Uncle Ben" was completed, in addition to the manga "You Are My Hero" was still in production for half a year, and no new projects were received, there was a gap period, and some personnel did not work for the time being, and they didn't know how to do it, maybe they felt that we were too idle, or they felt that the painters who were forcibly promoted below had matured after the experience of "Uncle Ben", or it could be that they did a good job in the end of "Uncle Ben...... Anyway, the company took over the outsourcing job, and Ms. Mihara was still in charge of the production, and I was in charge of the performance. ”

"......" Gu Xue's face was very ugly.

Of course she has heard of the turnkey, the turnkey party is also called Yuan Please, and the company that accepts the turnkey is called Please, which is not an uncommon thing, many cartoons have production cooperation written at the end of the film, and the name of an animation production company is behind it, which is outsourced back.

Outsourcing back is divided into reliable, and unreliable, reliable outsourcing back, basically the same level as the animation produced by the animation production company, many people don't pay attention to it, and they won't realize that this is outsourcing.

And unreliable, that is, the company that accepts the turnkey invitation will continue to outsource, that is, the grandson invited, if it is not reliable, it is not good to have great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren......

If you're brave enough, you can animate too.

Shit.

Gu Xue really doesn't like this way of outsourcing, but I have to admit that this is indeed the only way for many small animation companies.

The newly established animation company accepted the experience of outsourcing work, and after a little bit of teamwork, it began to take on animation projects, and after receiving the project, it could not undertake the production of the entire animation, so it was outsourced...... Until you really have the ability to animate independently.

That's how a lot of animation companies come to be.

But Gu Xue's snakehead animation production company has already passed this stage, and it is still outsourcing with a fart, even if it is outsourced, let's see if the time is good, the future planning of animation has just started, "Uncle Ben" has just ended, and many people haven't even taken a few days off.

Seeing that Gu Xue didn't speak for a long time, Misawa Hiroshi smiled bitterly: "I'm just telling you, the future plan of animation is going to be pushed back a little, and I don't force you to help us complete this outsourcing work, although the other party's requirements are quite strict......"

Gu Xue interrupted him and finally spoke, but the tone was not too good.

"Even if I've already finished the storyboard and character design of "Little Witch Academy", you don't plan to modify it, and you have a month and a half to spare, but are you sure there will be no problems in the follow-up? Even if there are no problems with the future planning of the anime, there will be no problems with the production of the eleventh episode of "Invasion" that you just mentioned? Can you really do it in a month and a half? What should I do if I can't figure it out? Do you push "Little Witch Academy" back again? And then we use the duration of ordinary TV animation to train new people? Don't you really take the government's plans to heart? ”

"Although these words are a bit too arrogant for me to say, but I'm the supervisor of "Little Witch Academy", since you entrusted me with the work, then I have to be responsible for my own work.。

“…… I'm sorry. ”

Misawa Hiroshi was silent for a long time, and then said softly: "But this is an animation production company, often one project is not finished, and another project begins to be prepared, a company like ours that can't afford to go up or down, can't afford to take risks, can't join the production committee, can only get a little production fee, if you don't take on the plan, you really won't be able to survive." ”

"Although it was really difficult and annoying to take on an episode of outsourcing work at the beginning of the animation future project, I really couldn't refuse, because that's the style of our companies."

"......" Miss Mihara did not refute what Hiroshi Misawa said, but was silent.

She has been in the industry for so many years, and she has seen everything.

The high commercialization of animation production has brought a lot of planning to animation production companies, but at the same time, it has also caused animation production companies to fall into a bottleneck and even push into the abyss.

"Ah......" Gu Xue sighed after listening to Misawa Guang's words, she is not a newcomer, although she has selectively forgotten many things in the past, but she has more experience and things than Misawa Hiroshi and Miss Mihara, but she has never seen such a strange thing, and there is no one who works in the preparation stage of a plan.

However, one yard is one yard, and after Gu Xue calmed down, she also knew that there was no point in blaming Misawa Guang.

"Tell me, what's going on with that "Invasion" you are talking about."