Chapter 52: Photography, Recording, and Trailer (1)
From April to July, the first episode of "Black Rock Shooter" was all done until it was colored, and all that remained was post-processing, soundtrack, and recording.
However, at this time, Ryunoko's photographer, who had already confirmed that he was going to take over the supervision of photography for "Black Rock Shooter", would have to wait a few days for him to arrive, so some of the work had to be delayed a little...... Probably because Ryu's son is making a mess when it comes to issues such as being acquired, so it's understandable that the other party's trip has been delayed.
This is force majeure, as long as the "postponement" does not turn into "prevarication".
At this time, Miyadai was supervising a certain key painting of the first episode of the Black Rock Shooter with Kishi Seiji...... In general, as a high tide picture, there is a slight lack of expressiveness here.
Mad Poihat's painting is weak, especially when entering high-intensity painting clips, this problem is easier to manifest, but fortunately, there are more ample production funds and Kishisari's second-hand painting resources to make up for it, which can basically avoid many low-level mistakes.
For example, the obvious collapse is not available for the time being...... There are two points to be explained here, first, sometimes the collapse of the picture can increase the expressiveness and tension, especially when the action is exaggerated, emotional, and the expression is distorted, so the collapse must be bad. Second, collapse is collapse, this has not to be washed, no matter how good the performance is, it is also a collapse, a mistake in the process of painting and a situation that should be avoided.
But the problem remains.
"The characters are a little slippery, and the movements are out of shape...... Let's go to the frame. Gong Daiyu said after watching it several times.
"Well, it's more critical here, and I need to fix it again." Kishi said. Gong Daijuan can understand how to deal with the picture, but it saves him the process of explaining...... It is said that the young president is ready to try his hand at supervision, and although he remains skeptical, it seems that the other party does not understand anything at least.
After the number of paintings suddenly increased, the picture of the Black Rock Shooter was too "smooth", so that the characters' movements appeared to be "slippery", and the soft stepping had no strength, which was obviously unacceptable for combat movements.
A character like Kuroiwa who fights with heavy weapons, when attacking, needs to rely on appropriate pauses to express a sense of power and blow, based on realistic movements, wielding a heavy sword can't be like wielding a toothpick, so if the animation is shown like this, the audience must feel awkward visually...... It can be exaggerated to do it, but it is still necessary to abide by the "Basic Law".
Sometimes you don't need Mr. Tori Niu at all to do animation, but sometimes you have to cover Mr. Niu's coffin board so that he can sleep well.
In this case, what needs to be done is to remove the superfluous excessive movements and part of the painting, so that the movements become more natural, more realistic, and more powerful, that is, "deframing......
Every painting is painstakingly painted, and some of them have to be thrown away, which has to be said to be quite painful, but what hurts even more is that I have to do it for the sake of the effect.
At any time, "redundancy" will only become a "burden", so it should be thrown away, even if it is a real production budget.
Moreover, Gong Daiju decided that all the animation links in the future would be handed over to domestic animation companies to complete, so as to save money...... If you want to say that he wants to support domestic animation now, then he doesn't believe it himself, the key is to save money.
It's too late for Black Rock Shooter, so you can start with the next installment. There is a different distinction of difficulty between making the original picture and the animation, the original picture is the keyframe, and the animation is the middle frame, if you want to give an example...... For example, when an American GI says "HI, Tepp" and salutes the president, the original drawing is about the movement before the hand is raised and the action after the hand is raised, while the animation is about the process of moving the arm in the middle...... Sometimes the animation doesn't even need to draw the body, just a certain part of the body of the character in motion.
Because of production costs, a lot of this kind of work is handed over to domestic animation companies to complete, these companies sometimes appear in the production list, sometimes they will hide, but the labor cost advantage allows some animation companies to survive with this low-end production link.
"What about the production of PV? Is it already done? After determining how to deal with the problem screen, Gong Daiyu asked again.
The PV in his mouth now is naturally not Hatsune's PV, but Kuroiwa's PV.
As an anime to be broadcast in November, the first film was released in July, which was a bit too late, but considering that it was only March when this project was planned, I actually had to praise Mad Poihat for his efficiency.
Of course, at least 20 seconds of this 30-second PV are from the first episode...... The ratio is so high that it doesn't look like a PV but like a spoiler.
Since the director of photography was not yet in place, the final processing of the PV footage was left to Jomon to do the photography himself.
"It's in the final production, and it just so happens that we can go to Mr. Duyu's side to have a look......"
Kishi Seiji recorded the first sentence that needed to be changed.,If you need to supervise, you will fix it.,If you need to redo the original painting.,If you need to remove which minute and which second of which paintings, you can remove it.,And after hearing the question of Gong Dai, he casually answered like this.,And then the strokes in his hand didn't stop.γWalk towards the office where the photography department is located.γ
It seems that this overseer Kishinari is already quite familiar with this place, which should be a good thing...... Miyadai thought as he followed behind the other party.
When they arrived at the photography department, they saw that Yujomon was indeed busy with the work.
Basically, the PV, OP and other parts of an animation are the most well-made, after all, this is a picture that needs to leave a "first impression" on the audience, and if it is not done well, it will directly dissuade a large part of the audience, so he did it very carefully.
"It's all up to Sang, to what extent has the final processing of PV been carried out?"
ββ¦β¦ Supervisor Kishisei, Mr. Gong, PV is already in its final stages. Du You just glanced back at the two of them, then turned his head back to get back to work.
Forehead...... Miyadai and Kishi looked at each other, and that's it? Is that succinct in reporting?
Fortunately, the other party was just busy with work and not really had no IQ, and after finishing the details he was working on, he first chose to save it, and then began to show the finished part.
"Look, you two, the actual effect is like this......"
The two split-screens on the computer screen start to play the before and after images so that the two people can make a visual comparison.
Compared with the slightly "powerless" part of the original painting, Mad Poihat put a lot of effort into the construction, composition and drawing of the background scene of the Black Rock Shooter, and the parts that can be done well must be done as well as possible, which is one of their production principles.
So intuitively, as long as you take a look at this background, most people's first reaction should be that this production team is really not short of money, otherwise they would not have worked so the details...... If you don't take into account the length of time they make.
Therefore, through this high-quality background, the part of the work that should be expressed will be expressed with high quality and super-finish.
And as I've heard before, this Mr. Du Youyou is really good at handling details such as grains, shadows, textures, textures, etc., and this person is even so fine that Gong Daisao feels unnecessary.
The cross-section of the broken concrete slab, the twisted steel cable, the rusty iron bridge, the broken glass, etc., etc., these images are all fleeting in the eyes of the audience, but he does his best little by little......
Gong Dai's performance understands that this PV has not been completed yet, and if it is too detailed and improving, it will naturally not come soon.
Jomon has quite good parts, and naturally there are shortcomings, first of all, he focuses on the background and the scene, especially the architecture, rather than the more important characters, and says what he is good at and what he is not good at.
But he's done well enough.
"I can call Miss Hanazawa Kana in Tokyo, and it's no problem to do dubbing directly in this PV."
There is no doubt that this statement of Gong Daiju is an affirmation of the work of this benevolent brother.