Second weekend of October.

Gu Miao met with Dave Smith, the head of the North American branch who came to Jiangchuan to report to him, and his colleagues at home.

It has been two and a half months since the establishment of Wanbao North America.

And for more than two months, Dave Smith and the "Oscar-level" animation production team he led have been busy with the same thing.

Determine the persona!

That's right!

In nearly three months, if it were a group of fast gunners at the headquarters, it was estimated that they would be able to shoot a 12-episode short TV animation. Dave and his colleagues, on the other hand, haven't even finalized their role image.

It's really slow work......

Fortunately, Gu Miao expressed her attitude in advance that there is no time limit for the "Cat and Mouse" project, as long as she is not pregnant with Nezha, Dave can do whatever she wants.

Because of this, Gu Miao was not angry that Dave's team took more than two months to draw the first version of the "Tom and Jerry" character image sketch.

What's the use of being angry?

The work attitude of these ghosts is like this, and it is not the social animals who are desperately involuted in China, and it is really easy for people to work.

Unless they are fired and replaced with a group of domestic social animals who are good at involution and overtime, Gu Miao has no way to deal with them.

But if he fires these people, where should he find the next "Oscar-level" animation production team?

Bear with it!

Let's take a look at the sketches of Tom and Jerry's characters that Dave and others spent two and a half months drawing.

"Hmm! This cat ......"

Gu Miao stared at the gray British short cat on the sketch, and her eyebrows couldn't help but wrinkle.

Is Tom this coat color?

Like the early Tom, it is indeed gray. Three years later, it was modified to the light blue familiar to the audience, and it was later changed to the classic blue-gray.

Among these three coat colors, everyone is most familiar with "light blue" and "blue-gray" Tom, after all, it is Tom's best skin, which can be called a hundred times more than a hundred years old.

As for Grey Tom......

It's not that Gu Miao is biased or discriminatory, it's just that I'm used to seeing light blue and blue-gray Tom, and it's really uncomfortable to look at this gray Tom again.

The ultimate leather is too classic!

Gray Tom is actually quite good-looking, and has more "cat" wild characteristics, but in terms of familiarity, it is definitely not as good as the later blue-gray and light blue classics.

"Add some blue?"

After listening to his boss's words, Dave touched his chin and thought, "It feels good, we'll try it later." ”

“OK！”

Gu Miao's English is not very good, and he is very lame in communication, so he can only make a long story short: "And ears!" Don't you think it's too rounded? ”

"What?"

Hearing this, Dave looked down at the original sketch and couldn't help but ask, "This is part of the part we copied based on the physical form of 147 British kittens......

"Stop, stop!"

147 cats, you can do it!

Gu Miao hurriedly waved her hand, stopped Dave's introduction and said, "I'm not denying your efforts, I just think this cat doesn't look anime enough, do you understand what I mean?" ”

Not animate enough!

This is the primary problem that Gu Miao discovered based on the first version of the character image sketch.

Dave, they did a great job, this cat's demeanor is no different from a real cat, and when I look at it from a distance, I guess I think it's alive!

But that's exactly the problem.

It's too realistic, it's too real, but it's not anime enough. Animation is not about taking pictures, it's not about restoring and being as realistic as possible.

It is still necessary to "exaggerate" the animation a little, after all, it is a virtual character.

……

Gu Miao and Dave communicated at home for two hours and discussed many details of the character's image.

Of course, he is only responsible for picking thorns.

Gu Miao didn't dare to guarantee that her vision would be better than Dave's. It's just that he has watched the original version of "Cat and Mouse", so he will unconsciously compare the original version.

In this comparison, he will find a lot of inappropriate and even inappropriate details, and then he will tell Dave.

Dave also made a note of them all.

Because the original artist who drew the sketch of the character did not come with him to visit the boss in Egawa, he had to write down the boss's suggestions and bring them back to North America to give them to the original artist.

"Can't you communicate on the phone?"

"It's really not good, you can communicate face-to-face with a video, right?" Ma Kui wondered, "Why do you have to write it down and bring it back to tell you?" ”

"You don't understand, it's called rigor!"

Gu Miao pursed her lips and said, "So they are the seven-time Oscar winners, and it takes a lot of effort for you to win a Golden Finch Award, this is the gap between the two of you." ”

Ma Kui: "......"

Does this have anything to do with rigor?

Fortunately, Dave had already flown back overnight, otherwise Ma Kui would have asked him: Do you work without a mobile phone or computer at all?

"Alright, understand."

Gu Miao said indifferently: "After all, the people in Dave's team are old, and their ability to accept new things is not as strong as ours. ”

As long as you can make animations and make good-looking animations, then let him go!

Not to mention.

Where is this? The first version of the character image has not been finalized, and it has to be revised several times in the future, even if there are any problems, there is time to remedy it.

Compared with this, Gu Miao is more concerned about the progress of the "Crayon Xiaoxin" project officially announced by Xiao Qiu and Konjac Studio.

Especially the script and characters.

Crayon Xiaoxin is an anime with a lot of meat jokes, and Gu Miao also focused on this part when he introduced the project to Mr. Qiu.

In fact, this is not a hidden danger.

The meat jokes of the original "Crayon Xiaoxin" are more concentrated in the plot of the first two seasons, and in the third season, the plot pays more attention to the shaping and description of the family's feelings.

So his advice to Xiao Qiu at that time was that if the meat jokes could not be integrated, or if they faced "vulgar" accusations, which made it difficult to pass the trial, they could consider deleting them.

Xiao Qiu said to him.

In this regard, he will ask other people for their opinions and opinions on the audit.

After determining the red line, consider the scale of the meat joke or the script.

It's been so long.

Gu Miao, who hadn't heard from Xiao Qiu for a long time, was extremely concerned about this matter, wondering what he had heard and how he was going to deal with this scale.

"I know this!"

As the head of the eunuchs of the Wanbao Dynasty, Ma Kui not only heard about this matter, but even participated in it himself.

According to him.

Xiao Qiu and Konjac Studio, visited and consulted many people in the industry, and from their mouths and side listens, one thing was determined.

That's driving, as long as it's not too obvious, and the wheels are crushing in people's faces, then it doesn't matter.

Meat jokes can also be used.

But there can be no sexual innuendo, let alone too straightforward, it can be subtle and subtle, and it can be a joke.

Shengxu, my nephew's name. I accompanied my brother to get a birth certificate today, but I was delayed for some time on the way and came back late......

(End of chapter)