Once the decision was made, the Phantom Animation became busy.

But fortunately, after the news of the animation was released, Xu Rui received several resumes, and the quality of this wave was obviously higher, and by the time the first version of Yi Qianqian's character design was officially released, there were already five more people in Phantom Electric Animation.

There are many animation companies in Ningjiang, and there are more animation companies in Huaxia, not all of them are like Rainbow Media or Mushroom Pictures, which are mainly based on independent originality and contracted adaptation, and more small companies and studios are the main force to undertake outsourcing, and some companies have even evolved into professional outsourcing animation companies.

Cheng Ke contacted a few, and the other party said that as long as the money is given, then there will be no problem at all, so that only the storyboard and some preliminary materials need to be given by Phantom Electric, and the outsourcing company can start to produce it.

Of course, Xu Rui wants to be all produced by Phantom Electric and produce a perfect animation, but reality does not allow him to be so capricious, and Phantom Electric's first animation can only be completed in this way.

The familiar blue car stopped at the door of the phantom animation, the scorching sun in mid-July made Li Ruoxuan ooze sweat as soon as she got out of the car, she was wearing a dark blue short-sleeved shirt this time, dark yellow cropped pants, white sandals, revealing her white calves and ankles, she did not carry the usual school bag, but a black bag, except for a handful of hair on her head that rose because of sleeping, like a young woman chasing fashion.

Li Ruoxuan touched her head and tried to flatten the handful of messy hair, but the other party did not give up, still raised high, and finally she could only helplessly tie a one-sided pigtail, lift a white bag from the co-pilot's seat, and walk into the small building of the phantom electric animation.

The first floor was still deserted, and there was nothing here, Li Ruoxuan easily climbed the stairs to the second floor, and soon came to the studio.

It has expanded a lot, the original painting group and the animation group are separated, Xu Rui did not give himself a separate office, but sat outside with everyone.

"Ah, it's Xiao Xuan here."

Tao Ran, who was sitting on the outside, was stretching his waist, and he saw Li Ruoxuan at first sight.

"Teacher Tao, I brought you condolences."

Li Ruoxuan shook the shopping bag in her hand, walked to an empty table, and opened it.

"This is the mango mousse from Clariss' Cake House, I bought it on a special detour, let's try it."

Since the start of the animation plan of "Soul Eater", Li Ruoxuan has often come to Phantom Electric Animation, on the one hand, out of the responsibility of the editor, to hand over some information to the animation production team, including asking the original author Mr. A Chuang, to confirm the character image, compare some setting details, etc.

On the other hand, Li Ruoxuan, a newcomer who has just entered the workplace, is quite interested in animation production, and she is only responsible for one author, Teacher Atron, so she also has plenty of time to phantom.

"Then let's rest and have afternoon tea."

Xu Rui waved his hand, and most of the people stopped what they were doing and came to Li Ruoxuan's side.

"I'm going to make some black tea."

Deng Shixin of the 3D group ran to the pantry in small steps and picked up tea bags and hot water kettles.

"Wow, this one is delicious."

Yao Jiajie in the coloring group is the most idle now, she is also the first person to eat mango mousse, although she has crossed the threshold of thirty years old, she is still young and beautiful, looking like a little girl in her twenties.

"Teacher Guo, aren't you going to eat?"

Yasuhara is usually a silent, silent person, he took the cake back to his seat, took a bite, and looked at Guo Weiren, who was still immersed in painting.

"I'm too old to eat this sweet, you eat, you eat."

Guo Weiren stopped his pen and answered, and continued to pick up the brush.

"Hey, where's Mr. Cheng?"

Li Ruoxuan was handing out cakes, and found that there was one less figure who usually came to join in the fun, so he asked.

"He went to contact the outsourcing company, after all, we still don't have enough manpower, and this animation still needs a stable outsourcing partner."

Yan Zhe replied that he took the cake back to his seat, but did not open it, but thought about taking it back to his son at night.

Xu Rui took a piece of cake and walked behind Yi Qianqian, who was wearing headphones to paint, not disturbed by the movement of the outside world at all.

Yi Qianqian's screen is the heroine of "Soul Eater" Li Leshen, who is younger than the appearance of the comics, a little childish, this is because the story of "Soul Eater: Zero" takes place three years before the original, and the heroine is still a junior high school student.

"Sister Qianqian, let's eat some cake."

Xu Rui put the mango mousse in his hand to Yi Qianqian's hand and said softly.

"Wait a minute, when I'm done here."

Yi Qianqian's voice was very cold at this time, as if she had put all her emotions into painting, even Xu Rui couldn't affect her in the slightest.

Xu Rui could only shrug his shoulders helplessly.

"Let's have some black tea."

Deng Shixin brought several cups of black tea and handed one of them to Li Ruoxuan.

"Thank you...... Ah, is this Li Leshen, it looks a little small, so cute. ”

Li Ruoxuan took the disposable paper cup, and saw Yi Qianqian's painting, she leaned over and handed the cup in her hand to Xu Rui.

"Xu Rui, give you this cup of tea."

"Oh, good."

Xu Rui picked up the cup, blew it slightly, and put it in the open space of Yi Qianqian's table.

"Is this an animated character?"

Li Ruoxuan didn't care about these details, she saw that Yi Qianqian was still painting seriously, so she asked Xu Rui softly.

"I've always been curious, why don't you just use the image of the comic, and still need to redraw the character?"

"Well, after all, animation is different from comics, when a cartoonist draws a character, he only needs to consider the storyboard, he can choose the angle from which the character is presented to the audience, in short, how handsome it is, just like a posed photo."

Xu Rui gestured with his hands and continued.

"But animation needs the characters to move, which inevitably needs to take into account the appearance of the characters from all angles, the deformation of the clothes and equipment on the body in motion, if there is no one to give a reference at the beginning, then it is easy to have contradictions due to the painting methods of different original artists in the subsequent production process."

"To put it simply, it's like the difference between a selfie after careful retouching and a small video taken by a classmate with a mobile phone?"

Li Ruoxuan put her finger on her lips and said while thinking.

"Uh...... You can understand it that way. ”

Xu Rui was stunned, thinking about it, it didn't seem to be wrong.

"I've never seen an original artist draw so closely."

Li Ruoxuan looked at the focused and serious Yi Qianqian, and muttered to herself.

"They're going to draw them one by one like this, and then play them together?"

"To be precise, the concept artist is only responsible for a part of the animation."

Xu Rui patiently explained, seeing Li Ruoxuan looking at him with wide eyes, like a curious baby.

"The original artist draws the key frames of the action, and then the animator is responsible for supplementing the middle part, such as a simple walking action, the original artist only needs to draw the start and end of the two feet, as well as the position in the middle, as for the rest of the number of shots, the animator will be supplemented, which is why the original artist must be very familiar with the deformation and timeline of the action."

As soon as the words fell, Xu Rui's mobile phone rang, and the default ringtone was pressed by Xu Rui within a few seconds, he listened to a few words, hung up the phone after agreeing, and then said to Li Ruoxuan.

"Sister Xuan, it's just right, I'm going to participate in the audition now, do you want to join us?"