Fans have always been a double-edged sword.

The advantage is that the harvest is guaranteed by drought and flood, as long as the die-hard fans are satisfied, then they will not worry about making no money. The shortcomings are also obvious, and die-hard fans are not satisfied, so send it.

Gu Miao didn't have much choice.

After all, it is the first animated film, focusing on accumulating experience, and then jumping out of the fan-oriented framework in the future.

The First Cause of All Worlds

Filmmaking is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

In particular, animated films like "The Snake Comes to Run", which is mainly 2D and mixed with some 3D shots, are more troublesome to make.

Don't get me wrong!

Gu Miao didn't think the progress was slow, he just felt that the production process was troublesome, and there were too many details that needed to be studied, which was too brain-consuming.

Let's take a simple example.

In the movie "The Snake Comes to Run", there are many new scenes that have not appeared in TV animation, including the Yangcun Library.

OK！

It's just a new scene, paint!

But for this simple library scene, do you know how many line drawings you have to draw?

Answer: Yes, hundreds!

Because animated films are different from television animations, they must be refined in detail. So even if it's a 30-second scene, it takes a lot of time to refine it.

What does the library door look like?

What books are on the shelves?

What should be used to decorate the roof, floor, and walls of the library?

And then there's the Five Views!

When it comes to "five views", many people may be confused. But this is actually a key step in the animation production process.

Of course, scenography is also useful.

The so-called five views refer to the images of scenes, people or props from five different perspectives. These five perspectives are the main view, the top view, the left view, the right view, and the rear view.

What?

There are left, back, and right, why not before?

Because the front view, that is, the front view, is generally called the main view, or "front view", according to geometry.

The whole process is tedious and boring......

Many anime fans probably think that the process of making animation is very easy and enjoyable.

But in reality, this is not the case.

Perhaps at the beginning, at the beginning of the project, everyone had a great "creative passion" for this project. At this stage, everyone is indeed very enthusiastic and lively.

But over time.

Months, or even years, of long, tedious work will wear out this creative passion, and what remains is a "sense of tiredness".

This is common in the field of artistic creation.

Taking creation as an example, the author thought of a good brain hole, such as the protagonist obtained the Shenhao system and jumped from a low-level youth to a winner in life......

When I first started creating, I didn't have to be too excited! When I write about the wonderful plot, I will also be high, and I can't wait to soak in the computer 24 hours a day to code words.

Can be over time.

When this book, serialized to 500,000 words, 1 million words, or even longer later. That creative passion fades, and it enters the "torture stage".

A cup of tea, a pack of cigarettes, 2,000 words to write a day!

Why is that?

Because the initial creative passion has been worn out by time. Writing and writing, my own people are numb to writing.

The same goes for animation creation.

This problem has not been particularly obvious in other projects before. Because other projects were closed in half a year at most, they didn't drag on for too long.

But the movie "The Snake Comes to Run" project has been going on for almost a year, and it is an incomparably long time for everyone in the production team.

A few months ago.

Gu Miao shouted for a meeting to discuss some plot developments, story routes and character settings, everyone was still very enthusiastic, and the discussion was extremely intense.

Now it's good......

During the meeting, you hang your head one by one, you stare at the ceiling in a daze, and he counts the teacups on the table, and he has no energy anyway.

How can this work?

Gu Miao understands that the main reason why everyone has become like this is that they have lost their initial creative enthusiasm and their spirits have become numb.

If we want to change this "lifeless" status quo, we need to get everyone back to their enthusiasm for the "Snake Runs" project.

The question is, how to do it?

Gu Miao thought of a lot of ways, such as giving everyone a holiday, and going to the screening room to watch the animation "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" to relax.

Play mini-games, cosplay......

After all kinds of methods, everyone still has no passion. Just when Gu Miao felt at a loss for this, Ma Kui, who was passing by, made a suggestion.

"To tell you the truth, you can't do anything! If you want to arouse everyone's creative enthusiasm, you have to get them out of the office and communicate with fans face-to-face......"

"Let the fans motivate everyone?"

Hearing this suggestion, Gu Miao's eyes suddenly lit up.

I have to say that Ma Kui made a good suggestion. It's amazing to let the fans who are looking forward to this movie inject passion and motivation into the tired production team!

But how?

"Let's have a meet-and-greet! If the timing is not good, put it online! Conduct a face-to-face question-and-ask session similar to a live webcast. ”

"Yes, listen to you!"

Gu Miao said with a final sound.

Ma Kui's proposal was very constructive, and Gu Miao, who felt that this method was feasible, quickly found the operation and maintenance personnel of Wanbao Video and Wanbao official website.

Soon......

Wanbao's official website, Wanbao Video and LIVE all hung up promotional posters, indicating that the production team of the movie "Snake Comes to Run" will hold an online live meeting at 8 o'clock in the evening on August 8.

At that time, a batch of high-quality questions will be selected in the live broadcast room and answered by the production team.

At the same time, there will be a few lucky viewers who will have the opportunity to "connect with the microphone" and talk about their thoughts and suggestions to the production team.

The live broadcast room will also draw lucky viewers to get the "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" clay doll gift package sent by Wanbao Animation.

"It's better to act than to be excited!"

"My name is Gu Sanshui, I'm waiting for you in the live broadcast room, if it's a brother, come to see my live broadcast! At 8 p.m. on August 8th, we'll see you there! ”

Boy!

In order to attract as many fans as possible to this matter, Gu Miao, who has always been low-key and introverted, also went into battle in person this time and made a very embarrassing promotional video.

Not to mention......

Gu Sanshui is worthy of being Gu Sanshui, the only top producer of domestic animation, and his status is indeed unshakable.

As soon as the video was released, both the three gouache and the three black were attracted.

Fans want to know more about the inside story of the "Snake Comes to Run" project, as well as the progress of the film's production, and even want to prostitute clay dolls for nothing.

The black fan wanted to smoke the opportunity to connect the microphones, and then sharply commented on a wave of Gu maggots, and finally left a sentence: "Gu Sanshui, you are a **, don't let me see you on Jiangchuan Street!" ”

Whether black or pink, in short, everyone is very interested in this very special "online meeting".