Early October.

When Gu Miao formulated the "Wanbao Expansion Plan" and recited the declaration of "Make Wanbao Greater" again, the production of the animation "Happy Baby" was also nearing completion.

Is the progress fast?

In fact, it's not fast, after all, the first season of the "Happy Baby" TV animation is only a short 52 episodes.

It's not easy for an experienced production team to complete an animation with 52 episodes and an average of 10-15 minutes in length.

"Seems a little short?"

Guo Hongwei, who was in contact with commercial animation production for the first time, couldn't help but show a surprised expression when he saw that the finished film after editing was generally less than 15 minutes.

"Short? I think it's okay! ”

Gu Miao could understand his surprise, after all, an episode of animation for more than ten minutes was indeed not enjoyable enough.

But this is the "standard" of domestic animation!

Domestic animation is not as good as foreign animation, and generally speaking, it is rare for a single episode to be broadcast with a duration of more than 20 minutes.

15 minutes of feature film is already good.

You don't see some animations, and a single episode is just over ten minutes long, except for the opening and ending credits, the feature film can be considered successful in five or six minutes......

Instant noodles are not so short!

Maybe this is also a "bad habit", compared to foreign animations that are more well-made and have richer plots, domestic animation is really disappointing in terms of "duration".

Sometimes, the length of a single episode is really forced to be helpless.

The budget is too small, and there is no money to do it longer.

The construction period is too rushed, and there is no time to do it longer!

Anyway, as long as you want to make excuses, there is always a reason to explain why the length of a single episode is so short.

But Gu Miao did not limit the animated feature film to 15 minutes because of these reasons. He is not short of money or time, but he lacks a suitable "schedule".

Animation has to have an opening credit, right?

This part is counted as five or six minutes, plus the feature film breaks through twenty minutes. Assuming that two episodes are broadcast in one hour, counting the advertising space reserved by the TV station, it is really impossible to squeeze out time.

"You can broadcast it online!"

The stupid apprentice Xiao Guo touched his chin and said: "There are too many restrictions on the TV station, so I just broadcast it on the Internet, and I can broadcast it for as long as I want......"

"You can do that later."

"But right now, we have to go on TV and broadcast animation. Because most of the animation audience is children, they probably don't have a phone or a computer, you know? ”

Gu Miao patiently explained: "In the future, our Wanbao will become bigger and have a solid audience and fan base, and it will not be too late to engage in online exclusive broadcasting at that time." ”

"Okay."

Xiao Guo nodded.

The master's explanation is very reasonable, although there are many benefits to online exclusive broadcasting, the most fatal weakness is that the "audience base" is too weak.

Nowadays, the mobile Internet is not developed enough, and there is no way for every audience to see their favorite animations through the Internet.

Not necessarily in the future!

Maybe one day, no one is watching TV, and everyone is playing with their mobile phones?

Happy Baby is a feature-length anime.

This also means that after the end of the first season, there will be a second and third seasons, and as long as you still want to shoot, this animation can even be like "Death Schoolboy" that will never end.

The story of the first season of the anime mainly takes place in the hometown of "Dr. Otaku" - the beautiful "Star Planet"!

Star planets are weird......

It is inhabited not only by humans, but also by robots, animals, and various monsters, and the setting is full of "futuristic sci-fi" atmosphere.

But one thing is suffocating.

There are a lot of robots living on the planet, and you can see them in basically every episode, but what do these robots look like......

I can only say that the painting is really perfunctory!

It's not that Gu Miao deliberately picks thorns, but it's really perfunctory. Although I know that this is to "save trouble", passerby A does not need to be too nuanced to portray, but can't you design a few more sets of templates?

The whole length is too abstract.

After watching too many of these robots, sometimes Gu Miao will have visual hallucinations, mistaking characters such as Happy Superman, Sweetheart Superman, and Dr. Otaku for the same "machine face".

Daba!

Don't do this kind of thing!

In order to avoid visual illusions and eliminate the "aesthetic fatigue" that the audience may have, Gu Miao designed as many as "five sets" of templates for passers-by robots in the first season of Wanbao's version of "Happy Baby".

In other words, there are five types of robots!

The "blue-skinned, green-eyed" robot that appeared in the original game is just one of the templates, and there are four other versions of red-skinned, green-skinned, dark-skinned, and pink-skinned.

"Isn't this just a color change?"

"You know a basket!"

Knocking on the door of the apprentice's head, Gu Miao said solemnly: "This is to correspond to the color of the mechanical stone to which each of the five supermen belongs. ”

"Oooh!"

Rubbing his head, Xiao Guo asked again, "That master...... What's going on with this combination biker you designed? ”

"For the final battle!"

"Don't you think it's cool that in the final battle, the five superhuman locomotive forms merge into one and become a giant combined bicycler?" Gu Miao asked rhetorically.

Cool?

Xiao Guo looked at the computer screen, the "four dislike" combined motorcycle man, and couldn't help blinking.

What's so cool about this?

I don't know where the master stole the inspiration, anyway, Xiao Guo thinks that this thing is too ugly and unsightly.

"Really ugly?"

Gu Miao asked without giving up.

Seeing that the apprentice nodded, he suddenly wondered, "It shouldn't be!" I copied it according to Guoyuan Tianzun Fang Yu...... Designed, how can it feel ugly? ”

"Who is Guoyuan Tianzun?"

"An old man's music!"

After complaining casually, Gu Miao finally accepted the cruel reality of "this design is really ugly" and gave up the existing combination method.

Don't get me wrong.

It's not that he doesn't play "fit" anymore.

Combined mecha, it's still quite a "promising" Fang Yu, not to mention the field of animation, don't live-action special effects dramas also like to play this!

He just didn't think about how to "design" Superman Bikerman together.

Copy the original?

Pull it down!

The locomotive of the original "Happy Baby" is a combination of square eucalyptus, which is really a dog who has to shake his head when he sees it, and it is not interesting at all.

The "Happy Biker" formed by the combination of Happy Biker Man and Sweet Biker Man is okay, at least he looks good.

But the "Magnetic Storm Biker" formed by the combination of a careless biker and a flowery biker......

It was suffocatingly ugly.

The blue-green match is really the most difficult match in history, and the effect of this thing is simply amazing.

And the name is also strange.

Gu Miao sometimes wonders, why is happiness + sweetheart = happiness, carelessness + flowery heart = magnetic storm?

Is there something wrong?

Carelessness + Caution=?

Flower heart + sweetheart = ?

Gu Miao, who was full of mathematical formulas, suddenly wanted to try these combinations that had not appeared in the original animation after the "Four Differences" combined with Fang Yu was rejected.