As the saying goes, slow work makes good work.

In the field of animation production, this may not be all true, but there is some truth in it, because the construction period is an important factor in determining the quality of the work.

The construction period of "Guardian of Sheep Village" is quite generous, and this alone is enough to ensure that the finished quality of the animation will not be much worse.

But then again......

Although Gu Miao's tolerance is higher than that of ordinary works in terms of construction period, the long construction period does not mean that everyone can fish and paddle.

Wanbao Group previously reached a cooperation with Mr. Tan's company, and the two sides carried out in-depth exchanges in the field of AI drawing and painting, and many projects benefited from it.

Among them is the Guardian of Sheep Village.

There are quite a few intermediate frames, in fact, there are AI to assist in drawing, and there are also AI parts involved.

Originally, this technology was introduced to save labor costs and time, after all, painting intermediate frames and coloring are really labor-intensive, and all of them are highly repetitive processes that require a lot of outsourcing personnel.

But then Gu Miao found that some people seemed to be using AI to be lazy, obviously AI was only playing an "auxiliary" role, but it became the main C.

Don't ask him how he found out......

At this stage, AI has not yet evolved to the level of perfection, and participating in animation production is more of an auxiliary role, if you expect AI to help you do all the work, it must be too much.

Since Gu Miao found out that there was a problem with some of the middle frames, and at first glance it was drawn by AI, he immediately convened a meeting of all the members and criticized some people.

"Don't you think that's a lot easier? Don't you think you're smart? ”

Gu Miao sneered: "You guys are right, it's really easy to do this." So I think firing some people shouldn't have an impact on our work in the future. ”

Boy!

As soon as these words came out, many people immediately broke out in cold sweat on their foreheads, and their attitudes were immediately corrected.

This is an unemployment crisis!

Mr. Gu made it so clear, if you think that AI can replace your job, then you should hurry up, Wanbao does not support idlers.

You like to use AI, right?

When you look back and are robbed of your job by AI, and you are kicked out of the company with a cardboard box, don't feel aggrieved.

AI is not a panacea......

However, in some specific fields, or in work environments with many restrictions, AI is better than humans.

This is what Mr. Tan himself said when Gu Miao chatted with Mr. Tan.

The current AI technology will not impact the field of animation production, and it will not cause a job crisis, but the future is difficult to say.

"Maybe in ten years, Wanbao can really lay off employees."

When Gu Miao told Mr. Tan what happened to the production team of "Guardian of Sheep Village", Mr. Tan couldn't help but laugh: "Ten years later, AI technology may really be able to draw an intermediate frame that you can't see flaws." ”

"Ten years? I don't think it works. ”

"Five or six years at most, I think with the current development rate of AI technology, maybe in five or six years, the middle frame brother of animation production will be unemployed."

Why is the middle frame little brother the little brother?

Because the people who draw the middle frame do extremely repetitive dirty work, they have the lowest status in an animation production team.

Gu Miao was not surprised that such a job would be replaced by AI in the future, and even applauded.

Actually, there is still a way to solve the problem of animation intermediate frames, which is to use "software algorithms" to draw.

However, the intermediate frame "calculated" by the software algorithm is more harsh to use, and it needs to be modified and adjusted in the future, and the potential for technological development is far less broad than that of AI.

……

The lazy incident that happened in the production team of "Guardian of Sheep Village" is actually a microcosm of Wanbao's interior.

Wanbao has become bloated!

In previous years, Wanbao Animation has been continuously expanding, and the number of employees has continued to grow every year, and so far, the total number of employees of Wanbao Animation has reached 2253.

This is still not counting the number of people in the Neon Division and the North American Branch, if you count them all, there should be 2,800 people.

As the saying goes, when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, and with so many employees, it is inevitable that there will be people who are superficial and cheating.

After a meeting and discussion of senior management, Gu Miao signed an announcement on the layoff of some employees, which is the first layoff since the establishment of Wanbao Animation.

The total number of layoffs reached 247.

This scale is almost enough to catch up with the total number of domestic first-line animation production companies.

Wanbao Animation laid off 200 people in one go, and there were dozens of versions of what happened to Wanbao overnight.

Some people say that Gu Sanshui, the boss of Wanbao, ran away with his sister-in-law, and Wanbao is about to go bankrupt......

Some people also said that Wanbao's layoffs were to save expenses, the company's profitability was worrying, and many internal projects were cut.

There are also people who are purely spreading rumors, saying that Wanbao has serious internal party disputes, that the outsiders and the old faction are fighting each other, and that layoffs are just the losers who have been liquidated.

"What is this?"

Throwing her mobile phone aside, Gu Miao, who had just read a financial news, said speechlessly: "We are not the only animation company that has laid off employees, why are you staring at us and spreading rumors?" ”

"No way!"

Lao Zhang explained with a smile: "Who made us the leader of domestic animation?" No one pays attention to us, that's weird, right? ”

"Makes sense! Don't talk about it......"

Waving her hand, Gu Miao, who didn't want to continue to talk about layoffs, asked, "What I asked you to inquire about, is there a result?" ”

"Yes and no!"

"The studio that previously produced the "Superman" series of animations for Weller was disbanded 5 years ago, and the main creators retired and changed careers."

Lao Zhang said with a bitter face: "I finally found one, the former original artist of "Superman" animation, do you know what he told me?" ”

"What did you say?"

"Please! I've been Superman for forty years, and I really don't want to see this guy wearing panties now......"

Lao Zhang spread his hands and said with a very helpless expression: "The situation is roughly like this, the former group of Superman animation producers are basically unwilling to return." ”

The corners of Gu Miao's mouth twitched, as if she didn't expect that the production staff of this group of old supermen would say such things.

But...... You can understand it!

After all, this group of people has been in contact with Superman for decades, and it is not surprising that they are not interested in this series.

If it's you, you've been eating instant noodles for almost 50 years, don't you want to eat something else and change the taste?

But this ruined Gu Miao's plan.

Because he originally planned to hire some old Superman production staff to return, and let these people give advice to the Wanbao version of "Superman" animation.

But if these people don't come back, it's a bit embarrassing, so Wanbao can only get it himself.

The Wanbao version of "Superman" animation refers to the 96 version of Superman TAS, this version of Superman has a fatal flaw, that is, the weakness has caused countless viewers to complain.

Gu Miao has thought about borrowing from the 96 version of Superman TAS in terms of painting style and plot, but in terms of setting, he still has a better setting.

But Superman's setting system is very complicated.

Comics, animations, TV dramas, movies, stage plays...... Each version of Superman almost has a unique setting system, some are ridiculously strong, and some are ridiculously weak.

In so many Superman setting systems, which set of settings should they refer to and integrate into the Wanbao version of "Superman" animation?

Could it be ......

Re-programme?

I didn't find out when I watched the 96 version of Superman, but later I found out that it was really weak, and many abilities were missing

(End of chapter)