"Monkey King's Return" is known as the "conscience of domestic animation" in Song Mu's original world, and it is also called "the watershed of contemporary Chinese comics" by many fans.

Indeed, in the early 60s, the last episode of "Havoc in Heaven" was released, which completely showed the traditional Chinese culture and had the characteristics of the Chinese nation, representing the pinnacle of Chinese animation at that time.

However, starting with the gradual decline of Haishi Fine Arts Film Studio, Huaguo Animation gradually weakened, and the plot was young, the production was rough, and the lack of artistry almost became synonymous with Huaguo Animation.

In such a market environment, it is not without people who work hard to do a good job of animation, but the market is bad money driving out good money.

For example, an animation company called Shuangqingshu planned to produce a series of animated films called "Demon Man", and a total of three parts were produced before and after, but all three of them lost money one after another, and the CEO died of cancer, resulting in the fourth part of "Demon Man", which was originally planned to be five, became far away......

If "Demon Man" was born at an untimely time, "Monkey King" met a good time.

With more and more money in the pockets of the Chinese people, Chinese movies are gradually recovering, and the theater chain is also returning to people's field of vision, coupled with the new generation of genuine consciousness is getting stronger and stronger, in such a period of time, although there are a few flaws, but the design inherits the Chinese aesthetics, mixes and matches a large number of exquisite computer special effects, and it is reasonable for it to become popular.

Can such an animation succeed in today's era in which Song Mu lives?

The answer is unknown.

Since "Monkey King" in the original world is a 3D animation, the reason why it can become popular is that the sophisticated computer special effects in it naturally contribute to it.

The computer performance of Song Mu's era was far lower than that of the 21st century. Therefore, it is impossible to imagine that like "Splitting the Mountain to Save the Mother" and "Mulan", while perfectly reproducing it, it is impossible to carry out magic transformation and upgrading.

At present, 3D animation has not yet been born in this era, so how can we talk about perfect reproduction?

Of course, Song Mu also has his own advantages.

First of all, the animation environment of Huaguo has not yet fallen into the abyss, and it was gradually pulled back on track by Song Mu. Not only does she not need to compete with other "bad coins" in the market, but she also has the reputation bonus of "the first person in Chinese animation".

Secondly, she knows the weaknesses of "Monkey King", such as the hasty ending of the tiger, such as some turning points that are too blunt, such as illogical character behavior, and even some laughs that are too embarrassing, these problems can be avoided by Song Mu at the beginning of the project.

All in all, whether this magic 2D version of "Monkey King's Return" can succeed or not, in Song Mu's own heart, is far less confident than other animations she makes.

The rest of the elite group were quietly watching the script, while Song Mu was silently watching them, hoping to see clues from their faces, so as to judge the quality of the script that he had changed.

I don't know how long it has been, Han Yangqiu was the first to read the script. He gently put down the script, but did not speak immediately, for fear of affecting other people who had not finished reading it.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Xiaoping, Li Xuelin, and Wang Xue also finished watching them all. It was only then that the crowd dared to speak out.

"How?" Song Mu asked with some expectation.

"It's amazing!" Li Xuelin was the first to give Song Mu a rainbow fart, his face was a little embarrassed, and he scratched his head embarrassedly and said: "After reading your script, I realized that my previous worries were unnecessary. ”

"Did you find out after you read it?" Liu Xiaoping suddenly had the idea of raising the bar with Li Xuelin at this moment, and at this moment she was like a bar spirit: "I don't want to think about our lead. The scripts written by the director, whether it is "Splitting the Mountain to Save the Mother" or "Mulan", which one is not an old story and a new story? When it comes to "Journey to the West", how can it come step by step? It must be an old story and a new story! ”

What she said was reasonable, and she was very tough, completely forgetting that she was actually an afterthought, and before reading the script, she was obviously the first to worry! I'm also going to take a script of White Dragon Horse to top!

Li Xuelin didn't know if he had forgotten it, or if he didn't want to be in it. In front of the guide, he raised the bar with Liu Xiaoping, but he was submissive, and Liu Xiaoping suddenly lost the interest in raising the bar.

After listening to the brief comments of the two talkers, Song Mu looked at the other two "dumb people", wanting to hear what kind of opinions these two people had.

Han Yangqiu was the first to speak when he saw this: "It's good." ”

Wang Xue asked softly: "Team leader, you should have drawn some concept drawings too, right?" I'd like to take a look at the picture first and comment on it later. ”

"Xiaoxue really understands me." Song Mule praised her, and then met her request.

She asked Han Yangqiu to turn on the projector, and she picked up the mouse, and after clicking on it, the concept map drawn by Song Mu was projected onto the screen.

Every time she projected one, she explained to everyone why it was designed this way, why it was like this, in short, in great detail.

There are only a dozen concept drawings in total, but it takes almost an hour to talk.

"That's it," after talking about the last picture, Song Muru concluded: "Of course, these conceptual drawings are all my own ideas, everyone still expresses their own opinions, our elite group is a whole, still according to the precedent, whoever is the most reliable will follow whom." ”

Song Mu has been creating a fair atmosphere in the elite group, although she is more fair than the other four, but the overall fairness is still there.

So the people in the elite group did not take her last words as polite words, but really thought about it seriously, and took a pen to record the scattered inspiration on paper.

After a while, Wang Xue, who had not said what he thought before, was the first to raise his hand.

Song Mu nodded at her, and Wang Xue said: "I don't think there is much of a problem with the script except for a little drag at the end." Although after looking at your concept art, I understand that this is the inflection point that pushes the whole film to the peak, I still feel that it is a bit delayed. ”

"It's too much...... Song Mu muttered.

Due to the anticlimactic tail of the original film of "Monkey King", Song Mu wanted to make the ending fuller, and from Wang Xue's feedback, it seems that he has done a little too much.

"I agree." Han Yangqiu interjected: "Some fragmented dialogues should be appropriately condensed, the main focus should be on the promotion of the atmosphere, with a long shot, the duration will not be less, and the information and pictures obtained by the audience will not be as complicated as they are now." And ......"

"And here......"

"The fourth concept art shows that, yes, I think he ......"

"Flip to the ninth sheet again, this design plane is fine, it's not easy to move in the animation......"

When it comes to the professional field, Han Yangqiu is like drinking wine, changing the usual setting of a cold-faced and domineering president, and he can't stop.

Fortunately, what he said was very reasonable, so everyone was not disgusted by his words, but carefully recorded the key points and what they did not approve of, so that after Han Yangqiu finished speaking, they would come out to refute his erroneous views.

After Han Yangqiu finished speaking, Song Mu either summarized or refuted a few words, and Li Xuelin began his speech.

He first affirmed several points of Han Yangqiu, and then denied a few points, and suggested that Song Mu continue to implement the original line of thought. After saying this, he began to say something that Han Yangqiu hadn't mentioned, but he felt could be changed.

Li Xuelin was followed by Liu Xiaoping, and then returned to Wang Xue, who had new ideas. After all four people talked in circles, in the end, it was a "five-person scuffle", each of them caught the right one at will.

said that it was caught at random, but basically at this time, it was mainly a battlefield between Liu Xiaoping and Li Xuelin.

Of course, since the two had already absorbed the opinions and ideas of others at this time, it was reluctant to say that it was a "five-person melee".

After a series of arguments, the first meeting of "Monkey King" was basically over.

The final big axis is that Song Mu summarized and arranged the work after listening to everyone's opinions: "Since the script feels that it is not bad, I don't need you to change it, and I will go back and figure out the redundant part." In terms of character design, it is still the old rule, take the script by yourself, draw a few according to your own ideas, and then get together to finalize it.

"But this time I am not in a hurry to start the project, everyone still has a good New Year during the Chinese New Year, and after returning to work during the New Year, we will give priority to the last few episodes of "Fast and Fury", and then we will consider launching "Monkey King" after we are done. Just do it before that. ”

With that, she got up from her seat, looked around at the four people in the conference room, and then bowed to them: "Another year has passed, and in this year, everyone has suffered. I'm here to give you an early New Year's greeting and Happy New Year! ”

Seeing Song Mu bowing to himself, everyone was a little flustered at first, but after hearing what Song Mu said, everyone calmed down, and when Song Mu finished speaking, they returned the salute one after another, and even Han Yangqiu also said a word of blessing.

In the end, Song Mu took out four passbooks from his pocket and gave one to each of the four people, several people were a little confused, and after opening the passbook and seeing the numbers inside, they were even more confused.

"10,000 per person, it's not much, just be a red envelope for the New Year." Song Mu first explained before they asked, and after explaining, she added: "Now that I have given out red envelopes, I won't give them when I start work after the year!" When the time comes, if anyone wants me, they can turn their faces! ”

Up to now, 10,000 yuan seems outrageous to ordinary people, but several people in the elite group are actually not short of this money, so they did not refuse, but happily accepted this heart.

Only the careful Wang Xue showed a hint of embarrassment on her face......