Regarding the matter of "fast gunman", Gu Miao actually has little opinion, because he himself is a recognized fast gunner director.

But not for the sake of being fast!

Animation production, especially the production of a commercial animation, is a complex and multi-process professional project, and there are many links that need to be paid attention to.

If some aspects of the production process are neglected in order to pursue speed, it can lead to the failure of the entire work.

I won't talk about the storyboard plot.

Just to say that a small detail that is easy to be overlooked, but is particularly important to an animation work, is also a very often overlooked existence in order to meet the deadline.

Picture brightness!

Isn't it inconspicuous?

But this is not easy to ignore, the brightness of the picture may not seem important, but it is indeed the part that affects the direct viewing experience of many viewers.

As everyone knows.

Gu Miao used to make live-action dramas, and he was still the director of that kind of bloody drama.

He is particularly sensitive to this link, because when filming live-action dramas, especially when going out on location, the light will directly determine the shooting effect of this set of shots.

The sunshine is very good, so hurry up and ask the actors to shoot a few more and keep a few more.

Poor sunlight? Or if there is no sun at all, then you have to consider whether to wait for the weather to clear, or let the gaffer find a way to fill in the light, at least to make the picture look clear and bright.

Trivia!

Lighting engineers with similar roles not only exist in the crews of live-action film and television dramas, but also in formal and professional animation production teams, and generally have the same lighting engineers as standard.

Of course, animation is not a live-action film and television drama after all, and the workflow and work content of the gaffer are naturally slightly different.

But the goal is the same.

Maintain the brightness of the picture and the vivid value of the color, so as to meet the director's needs for the scene and enhance the audience's viewing experience.

Different animations have different requirements for color and brightness.

Here's an example.

For an animation like "The Adventures of Little Carp" that Guo Hongwei is producing, the picture needs to be brighter and more colorful.

And a work like "Super Cool Cat" produced by Gu Miao, because the plot mainly takes the route of "dark fairy tale", the picture will not be so bright, and the colors will not be so dazzling.

"The weather needs to be watched!"

"If it is Kule getting along with his grandparents, it is more soothing to the daily plot, then the sky must be cloudless and sunny."

Gu Miao patiently explained: "But if it's a sudden accident, when Sakura Town encounters a big crisis, the weather will have to be slightly overcast, creating a feeling of dark clouds." ”

"Okay, I see."

The employee in charge of scene shaping nodded, and then asked, "Mr. Gu, should the overall structure of Sakura Town be a little old or new?" ”

The background of the story is different.

The original Super Cool Cats takes place in Neon, and the neon economy has been stagnant for years, so even the street scene from many years ago looks pretty much the same as it does now.

However, the story of Wanbao's version of "Super Cool Cat" is set in Jiangchuan, which has developed rapidly over the years, with an amazing economic growth rate and a changing city day by day.

This poses a problem.

Is the street where the grandparents and Kulle live mainly in the new town or the old town?

The new town is closer to reality.

The old town has more life!

Faced with this choice, Gu Miao almost didn't hesitate, and decided to let the set designer make Sakura Town look like the old appearance of Jiangchuan ten or twenty years ago.

Do the old not the new!

The new high-rises, wide roads, and traffic light billboards do look very grand and futuristic, but this is too out of the animated background.

It's still the old city street, and the strong atmosphere of life and the full sense of memories are more eye-catching.

People can't always live in the past, but they can remember the vivid scenes of childhood through animation.

……

Regarding the animation "Super Cool Cat", Gu Miao needs to pay attention to a lot of points, and the core fight storyboard even invited foreign aid.

That's right!

Several experts from the anime "Dragon Ball" came to guide the fight scenes of "Super Cool Cats" on the grounds of technical poverty alleviation.

Don't really say it......

People who have worked on top-notch hot-blooded comics like "Dragon Ball" are indeed many levels ahead of everyone in understanding the concept.

With the help of this group of foreign aids, the fight scene of Cool Cat was upgraded from "stepping on the toes" to the level of "Divine Palm".

It's on fire!

It's obviously a fight between a cat and a group of aliens, and another group of cats, but it gives people the wonderful illusion that they are watching "Dragon Ball".

This one, this one!

Gu Miao was very satisfied with the new version of the fight portrayal, especially the Gatling cannon in Cooler's hand that would fire blue and shoot wildly, it was simply cool.

"Still almost ......"

"After all, it's a mechanical cat that doesn't know martial arts and is good at indiscriminate bombardment with hot weapons, and there is no specific trick."

When the foreign aid expert heard Gu Miao's words, he said with emotion: "If this cat can release moves like Wukong's Realm King Fist and Turtle Sect Qigong, then the fight scene will be even more shocking." ”

"Enough, don't be too outrageous!"

Gu Miao broke out in a cold sweat when she heard this.

What about the king fist and turtle school qigong in this world? Is Cool just a cat, or is it a mechanical cat on the mechanical side, as for using the Upper Realm King Fist?

If you really do that, don't call the animation "Super Cool Cat", just change the name to "Super Saiyan Cat".

What's more!

Cooler's strength is strong enough, and in the acre of Sakura Town, it is already a cat.

What kind of perverted tricks or skills can you get for him, and the corresponding destructive power must not blow up Sakura Town into a cherry blossom pit and erase this town directly from the map?

HRE Celestial Sign, right?

The more she thought about it, the more speechless Gu Miao became, and she was already very satisfied with the current Kule.

The only drawback, which can also be said to be a slot, is probably the limbs of the Cool Cat, which are still as thin as fast.

Trivia!

The palms and soles of the feet of COOLER have always had a nickname called "mouse hands" and "mouse feet".

Where did this nickname come from?

Mainly because COOLE's hands and feet are too much like a mouse, and the limbs are so thin that they look like a mouse's power cord from a distance.

That's why it's nicknamed.

This shape is very classic, but it is also very complaining, when Gu Miao designed the image of Kule, he planned to change it for him and thicken his limbs a little.

After the result was changed, I found that this kind of cool music was not "cool" at all, but had a strange sense of "iron and cold".

So what's going on?

In order to match the word "cool" in the name of Cooler and make him look cooler, of course, he returned to the original state and continued to use the mouse hand and mouse foot.

Strange is a little weird.

But I have to admit that this mouse hands and feet are really cool and distinctive......