Chapter 107: It's Kyoto
From painting to performance, to supervision, the requirements for specific painting techniques or techniques are gradually decreasing, but the corresponding requirements for overall planning are increasing. This is a change from a regional to a global one, which requires one person to see the problem from a higher position.
And these abilities naturally need a little bit of exercise to obtain, and Sugita is also an original artist aiming at this kind of development direction...... In other words, when faced with the opportunity to do such a "further", there are only a few people who can endure loneliness and continue to hone their painting skills.
For animation, the original painting is the most important link, and it is also the most basic link, but if you have been an original artist, some people always have a feeling of "peeping at the leopard in the tube, not seeing the whole picture".
So...... "Concept artists who don't want to be supervisors are not good concept artists", and most of the time this can be said.
"Compared to Kyoto Animation, Mad Poihat is younger in terms of seniority and the average age of the staff, which leads to a lot of shortcomings in a lot of empirical things, so we need someone like Sugida to do it...... But being young also has the advantage of being younger, and we will probably be more energetic and will try to make more themes and types of animation. Miyadai said.
At this time, he no longer has to play the role of a lonely driver, and the three of them sit at the same table.
He didn't expect the other party to recognize him before, because he still hasn't been a "well-known person" consciously...... He is not this kind of character himself, but Oolong's only public appearance happened to be seen by the person in front of him.
Now Mad Poihat's most well-known work is IS, but IS is not enough to make Miyadai a celebrity in the industry...... The effect of IS on him is not as good as the previous "flying witch".
The success of IS is that its supervisor Kishi Seiji really has a certain reputation in the industry, and secondly, Mad Poihat has come into the eyes of many people, as for the people behind this company, it should take a little research to understand.
Although Miyadai himself served as the superintendent of the "Flying Witch" in July, the topic has now been swept under the rug by IS. Let's talk about his more "individual" performance on TV talk shows before...... Come on, it's been almost a year ago, who will remember his "hateful" face except for those who have a heart?
But Sugita happened to be the kind of person who made an impression on him, and she finally overlapped the two images, so she knew that Mr. President had just been doing the driver's "role-playing" and was not embarrassed to expose it...... It's not embarrassing for her to be embarrassed.
"That's true," Sugida thought to himself, daring to make even that kind of simple and crude harem animation, and miraculously selling it, Mad Poihat is indeed "fearless and enterprising".
But she can also vaguely perceive that Mad Poihat is just doing animations like IS just to "make money", at least after this small talk, she understands some of the thoughts of the company's "managers", and she understands that in fact, they value works like "Flying Witch" more than IS...... In her mind, the two in front of her should be the kind of rare young combination who can fully realize the reality and have their own pursuits.
The production of IS shows that they understand that a company needs to survive, and the pursuit of profit is naturally the top priority, while the "flying witch" shows that they have "artistic pursuits".
In the words of Nakamiya Daiko in a previous TV interview, what they wanted to do was "a heartwarming animation work", and it seems that this sentence is not just because it sounds good.
If you know a little about Mad Poihat, you can see that the changes that have taken place in this business have started since Miyayo took over...... Rational and persistent, flexible and not paranoid, it's no wonder that this high school student can manage a company.
"Judging from the previous animations made by Mad Poihat, it seems that you are very focused on the development of female characters, who often play a particularly important part of the work, is there any special reason for that?" Sugida asked again.
"The answer to this question is relatively simple, first, in works with delicate styles such as 'The Witch' or 'Little Forest', the main characters are naturally more suitable for women than men, which is a natural advantage for women in individual performance and recognition."
"Second, we actually think it's easier for female characters to be personalized than for male characters." Miyadai said.
These answers of his are naturally the argument that excludes harem animation.
It's true that female characters are easier to do well than male characters...... In fact, shemales are easier to portray than male characters, and one of the important reasons is that this kind of identity with natural characteristics or universal cognition is relatively easy to contrast.
As for the male characters...... tends to be a little more face-painted, and if it extends to the male characters of the long-form shonen manga adaptation anime, it can be said that they have a considerable degree of "universality". When the protagonists face any difficulties, they can enjoy a fearless performance as long as they play a song "Roar of the Thunder Dragon".
As for the act of "Sakata Gintoki" hiding in the toilet before the duel and sawing off the weapon prepared for the opponent, it must be considered fresh and refined; And Xiao Douding's choice to turn around and run away in the face of an enemy that can't be defeated has to be regarded as a routine Qingqi.
The plasticity shown by female characters is different, and the contrast can be done naturally.
In contrast, for example, when Gus says, "In short, this is also a kind of battle, no different from ordinary battles", the inner strength embodied is awe-inspiring, but because his experience and situation are extremely contrary to his resolute outlook on life, it seems to be unrealistic.
And Hinata Kawamoto is saying, "I must persist in this school until the end, I will put up with their ignorance, but if they dare to bully me again, I will definitely say 'stop' loudly, so I will not be silent!" No matter what happens in this environment, if I can persevere until I graduate, it will be my victory", and the perseverance displayed will be more convincing.
Regardless of the differences in the environment of different series of works, these two characters can be said to be "enemies of the world", but Gus is a big man, Hinata is a junior high school girl - she faces things that everyone can encounter at a young age, and she adopts an attitude that most people can't do, so this is very resonant, and with a strong sense of realism and substitution...... "character building" is also a success.
Of course, Miyashiro's answer didn't make Sugita have too many complicated thoughts in a moment, in fact, she thought about his answer in her heart: "Yes, this kind of statement is quite 'Kyoto'." ”
Kyoto Animation is the kind of animation company that is quite good at creating female characters, and for the time being, this should be the "commonality" between Mad Poihat and Kyoto Animation.
"Then Ms. Sugita thinks this job ......" chatted for most of the day, and Miyadai didn't seem to have received a clear statement from the other party.
"Yes, of course...... Happy cooperation. Sugida said that this means that she accepted the job, which is also reasonable, otherwise why would the two sides talk so much nonsense?
It seemed that after a moment of silence, she stretched out her hand to Iwami Mai...... Apparently she had just thought about it, ahem, everyone is young, and you need to think about it when you want to shake hands.
Didn't you hear from anyone, these two drove here together.
God knows exactly how many meanings these two words have.