With the development of the Internet industry, animation design students can not only do animation production.

Whether it is major game companies, portals, including some traditional enterprises, they are all looking for graphic creation and design talents, and the well-known Ningjiang University Animation School has naturally become a place for these companies to find talents.

For example, at last year's job fair, more than 20 graduates entered the companies of non-animation companies, and this year, several of these seniors who have been working for a year have come back with their own companies for autumn recruitment, gathering more fresh graduates.

"It's true that the income of the animation company is not high."

Although Han Qingwen is only a freshman, because there is a course called career development planning in the freshman year, they are required to form a group and interview a senior in the industry to expand their professional horizons, and their group was introduced by a teacher to interview Zhang Ran, a senior who has been in tomato manufacturing for more than four years and has just been promoted to original artist.

Seeing the propaganda poster in front of him, Han Qingwen subconsciously remembered what happened when he interviewed Zhang Ran.

According to the teacher's introduction, this Zhang Ran senior was the No. 1 student in the animation major that year, got an offer from Tomato Video Network, entered tomato manufacturing, became an animator, and entered the original painting group last year, became the original artist, and he also had a wife who was together when he was a student and later married.

Since this course is held every year, Zhang Ran seems to often receive commissions from his teacher, so he took a group of four people from Han Qingwen's dormitory and four other girls in their class to the tomato manufacturing workplace.

It's a busy place, and in addition to at least one new anime every quarter, Tomato Productions has some long-form serials, commercials, game titles, and BD disc corrections, so there's almost no free time for a year.

"The original painting is the most important part of the animation, responsible for the work of the key sheet, and the animation you actually see, is composed of countless key sheets and middle sheets, using visual principles, the key sheet stays in the eyes of people for the longest time, the impression is the deepest, so every original painting must strive to do the best."

Zhang Ran took the young boys and girls to visit the office area, and at the same time casually introduced a little knowledge of animation production.

Since tomato manufacturing has introduced digital painting very early, in addition to storyboards and design drafts, there are few paper materials, so there is no animation company in Han Qingwen's impression of the original manuscript flying all over the sky, each original artist looks at the two screens in front of him, holding a pen in his hand to paint on the tablet, like a high-tech enterprise.

"In Tomato Manufacturing, new graduates generally start as animators, and after three to five years of training, after assessment, they can start to be responsible for the original painting, until they really become an original artist, which generally takes more than five years, as for the more core performances, character design, it is impossible without ten years of tempering."

Zhang Ran looked at these ignorant freshmen and couldn't help but recall what he looked like when he entered the school.

"Wow, then, Senior Zhang, it only took you four years to become a concept artist, isn't it very powerful?"

Han Qingwen's roommate Cai Liren opened his mouth and asked, he was the most active and active this time.

"Uh, it's okay, four years to become an original artist, in tomato manufacturing can only be regarded as a 70% lead, you know, Rainbow Media, cough cough, the former martial arts director of Rainbow Media, from the entry to the director of the first animation, it only took seven years."

Zhang Ran said modestly, but there was already an obvious look of pleasure on his face.

"Then senior, you are also very powerful, I heard Professor Zhou say, senior, you are still married to your college lover, it is really a success."

One girl asked, she cared more about this kind of emotional gossip than an anecdote in the industry.

"Haha, what did the teacher say, my wife He Shuyi is currently in the coloring department of tomato manufacturing, and when it is time for lunch, I can ask her to come over and tell you about it."

Zhang Ran touched his chin, the reverent attitude of this group of students made him very satisfied, and even many unhappiness in his work disappeared.

Due to the special reception of these students, Zhang Ran has a half-day vacation, and the person in charge above pays special attention to this kind of thing to promote the company's image.

At lunchtime, he continued to talk and laugh with the students, chatting freely about various industry gossip, and was very happy.

However, Zhang Ran noticed that there was a boy who didn't seem to be very talkative and taciturn, so he asked.

"This classmate, I think you seem to have some doubts, if you are interested in tomato making, you can just ask."

The person he asked was Han Qingwen.

Han Qingwen's mind is not here, the cartoonists and animation company members he came into contact with through Li Xue's cousin Li Ruoxuan, although his understanding of the industry is not as good as Zhang Ran's, but it is always much deeper than other students, and the knowledge that can be learned through this kind of half-day interview is basically useless to Han Qingwen.

At this time, he was stunned before he spoke.

"I don't have any doubts, Senior Zhang, I think what you said is very good."

He replied with a natural attitude, neither humble nor arrogant.

Zhang Ran smiled and didn't speak, he had seen this kind of newcomer with a high spirit, and even he was like this back then, he felt that he was already amazing, and he could casually make a career and change the industry, but in fact, he was just an insignificant screw in this huge industry.

At this time, Huang Kun, who had been looking at his phone just now, raised his head and blurted out.

"Hey, I found out that Senior Zhang Ran, you and Xu Rui of Phantom Animation seem to be the same batch of graduating students, do you know each other?"

As soon as the words came out, Huang Kun realized that something was wrong.

Zhang Ran's originally kind expression suddenly froze, Xu Rui, this name is like a nightmare, entangled Zhang Ran for four years, and even this name is forbidden between him and his wife He Shuyi, and the two have never taken the initiative to mention the news of this fellow student.

But Zhang Ran and his wife work in the industry, how can they stay away from Xu Rui, from the topic animation that appears every few quarters, to the annual animation every year, various mobile games, live broadcasts, and then to the previous martial arts resignation turmoil, the name Xu Rui appeared in every corner of Zhang Ran's life, which made him feel extremely pressured.

In Zhang Ran's words, the richest man in the world has nothing to do with him, because he doesn't know him anyway, but Xu Rui, who used to stand on the same platform as himself, and even had inferior results in all aspects, has now become one of the most influential names in the Chinese animation industry, so it is really difficult for Zhang Ran to maintain a peaceful mentality.

The later interview became a little awkward, of course, Han Qingwen's classmates still preferred to join Tomato Manufacturing, after all, the phantom animation was too difficult to enter.

However, in the winter of December, when the end of the semester approached, the sudden appearance of this joint training program between Phantom Animation and Tranquility University made this group of freshmen suddenly burst into many restless thoughts.

At seven o'clock on Sunday evening, Building 2, a large classroom that can accommodate 500 people, was crowded and full.

Han Qingwen and Li Xue sat at the front of the left, watching several teachers making final preparations.

Soon, the briefing session officially began, and just as the students were getting the details of the plan, the person in charge of the Phantom Animation walked into the classroom.

That turned out to be Xu Rui.