Chapter 001. Graduation project
"Xu Rui, your work, it's not good."
Professor Zhou shook his head, put the paper in his hand back on the table, and turned his head to look at the boy standing next to him.
The boy known as Xu Rui was about his early twenties, tall and thin, although he was not extremely handsome, but he was clean and looked very sunny.
"I have also shown you the works of the previous students, and I have also told you that creativity is not the most important thing, the important thing is to show the basic skills you have learned in the past four years."
Professor Zhou shook his head again and sighed.
Xu Rui is a senior graduate of Ningjiang University majoring in animation design, and one of the three students that Professor Zhou mentored as a mentor this year.
After quickly skimming through Xu Rui's graduation thesis again, looking at the concept design and story outline inside, Professor Zhou spoke.
"Your animation, there are too many things you want to show in just ten minutes, and too many elements have been added, there are all kinds of campus mecha stars and seas, this is completely the content of an animated movie, and if you forcibly cram into a student work of ten minutes, it will only become fragmented."
He flipped through the paper and froze the picture on the title storyboard.
In a somewhat rounded handwritten font, three large characters are written on the curtain against the background of the starry sky - the voice of the stars.
"I thought it was a campus love story of the hero and heroine, but then suddenly aliens came, and finally the two people separated from each other and came to an abrupt end, no beginning and no end, to be honest, I have seen a lot of students like you, and they all want to make a big news on the completion of the design, and make a shocking work, but as a result, the shocking world did not do it, but the big news did - they all hung up on the completion."
Facing the mentor who was full of lamentations, Xu Rui scratched his head.
It's a bit ashamed to say that he is a traverser.
On Earth, Xu Rui is an animation producer who has been repeatedly frustrated and frustrated in his workplace, but he has inexplicably crossed into this paradoxical parallel world to the earth.
Because this place is not the same as the earth, the course of history is also different, China is the world's largest country, the economy and culture are leading, many well-known literary and artistic works have not appeared, replaced by other works that Xu Rui feels unfamiliar with.
And Xu Rui is a senior student at Ningjiang University, when he crossed over, the original owner of this body, the parallel world of himself, the young man also named Xu Rui was working all night for the content of the graduation project, but he was never able to do so, and finally died suddenly, allowing Xu Rui to occupy the magpie's nest.
It's just that Xu Rui in this world has always had an obsession haunting his heart, and Xu Rui, who has crossed over, decided to help him make up for this regret in order to completely integrate his soul into this world, so he decided to complete the design first.
After learning about the situation of this era, Xu Rui also discovered the golden finger attached to his crossing, that is, he can clearly recall various literary and artistic works on the earth.
With the help of Goldfinger, Xu Rui immediately burst his liver, and spent half a year transporting Makoto Shinkai's short work "The Voice of the Stars" to this world and submitting it as his graduation project, but he was so criticized by his mentor.
The entertainment industry in this world is developed, and the animation industry is booming, but most of the current animations are dominated by male-oriented hot-blooded adventures and female-oriented love animations, and have not yet formed that kind of homely and rotten atmosphere.
Thinking about it this way, it is understandable that "The Voice of the Stars", which has the texture of a literary film, will be considered by Professor Zhou to be not.
However, Xu Rui felt that "The Voice of the Stars" was a work above the standard no matter how poor it was, and it should not be criticized by Professor Zhou as useless, so a bold idea surged in Xu Rui's heart, and he couldn't help but ask.
"Uh, Mr. Zhou, have you seen my feature film?"
The original 20-minute film of "The Voice of the Stars" has been handed over to Professor Zhou along with the paper, and it stands to reason that as Xu Rui's mentor, Professor Zhou should have watched it carefully.
“...... Although I haven't seen it, from your storyboard and outline, I don't think it's good, I tell you, I'm very busy as a mentor, Zhang Ran is a strong contender for this year's outstanding graduates, and I need to spend time tutoring him. ”
As he spoke, Professor Zhou casually clicked on another video file on the desktop and played an animation.
"Just right, let you look at Zhang Ran's completion, this is the level that animation design students should have."
This is a clip of a basketball game, and although the lines and colors are extremely simple, you can see the lines full of tension when you move, and the whole animation gives people a hearty feeling.
It's just that in Xu Rui's view, this animation clip does not have the slightest narrative, just a simple performance of storyboards and art skills, just like a mechanical product, and I can't see any personal emotions.
"It's good."
"It's a good head.,This is the work of the first student in your grade.,I don't know how high it is than your incomprehensible animation.,This whole picture gives people a feeling of burning.,This is the blood that teenagers like.,Your animation.,Just looking at the story feels too aggrieved.。
Professor Zhou took off his glasses and sighed again.
He is one of the leaders of Xu Rui's current session, he was originally going to apply for excellent teachers this year, everything has been prepared, and he even got the best student of this year, Zhang Ran, under his own name, everything is ready, but he didn't expect to kill Xu Rui halfway.
According to Professor Zhou's point of view, Xu Rui's incomprehensible animation doesn't need to be watched, the defense must be floating at a low altitude, combined with Xu Rui's previous achievements, it is very likely that his grade points will not reach the graduation line, that is, Professor Zhou has an extra red name, and the selection of outstanding teachers is likely to have accidents, even if they pass, they will eventually fall into the hands of others.
Xu Rui has listened to the gossip of his classmates, and naturally knows the doorway behind this, but he is still very confident in his work, after all, this is Makoto Shinkai's famous work, and he is a leader in the field of personal animation, and a mere graduation defense is not simple.
"Mr. Zhou,Other people's animations are all fights and kills.,Maybe this year's defense teacher likes to watch this kind of different thing.,I can also fight for an excellent completion or the most popular award or something.。
In addition to the regular defense, there is also a public display link for the annual completion of the animation design major of Ningjiang University, where they will upload their works to Tomato Video Network, and select the most popular award by comprehensively clicking on the value of recommended votes.
Tomato Video has always cooperated with the animation design major of Ningjiang University, which can be regarded as giving these graduates an opportunity to show themselves, so that they can enter the industry in the future, and at the same time, Tomato Video Network can also discover new talents for the first time and win the first place.
"Dream on, Xu Rui."
When Professor Zhou heard this, he immediately retorted.
"Let's put it this way, Xu Rui, if you can get the Outstanding Completion Award or the Most Popular Award, I will personally send you a certificate of merit in front of all the graduates, okay?"
"That's good, of course."
Xu Rui nodded, leaving Professor Zhou speechless.
"Teacher Zhou, you see that today is the deadline for submission, and I don't have time to make another one, otherwise I will upload it directly, I am confident, I don't believe you can read it yourself."
Xu Rui said again.
"You ......"
Professor Zhou was not angry when he saw that Xu Rui was said by himself, but he was extremely sincere, and he was suddenly a little speechless, and he was silent for a long time before finally speaking.
"Okay, I'll upload it for you."
After speaking, Professor Zhou remembered something again and added.
"You go back and buy some gifts or something to give to those teachers who defended, beg for mercy, and they will be accommodating, at least get you a degree certificate, by the way, don't forget to come to the lecture tomorrow afternoon."
Naturally, he didn't want Xu Rui to hang up, but he couldn't pull his face to please those colleagues, so he could only suggest this, but it really didn't work, he could only walk around behind his back.
"Then I'll go first, Teacher Zhou."
Xu Rui nodded ambiguously, and seeing that Professor Zhou had promised to let him upload it, he didn't say anything, turned his head and left, leaving the teacher's office.
It was the early summer of May, and the students who came and went in Ningjiang University had already put on their refreshing summer clothes, the skirts of the girls in the corridors were flying, the boys were sweating on the court, and the study room and library were crowded with students at the end of the revision period.
I used to have such a simple time, but unfortunately I didn't have time to experience it in detail, and even now, my second life has crossed the ladder of university and is about to enter society.
Xu Rui was a little emotional, but he didn't linger anymore, and then stepped out of the school gate and prepared to go home.
At noon, he had to help the guy who lived with him cook.