Although the production team of the animation "Martin's Morning" was established, Gu Miao was not in a hurry to start work.

The reason is simple.

Martin's morning belongs to the kind of work where creativity is more important than anything else, that is, the screenwriter is far more important than he is the animation director.

He could have waited for the writers to write the script before he started animating.

As for the time when he was writing the script, he was involved in Hou Bin's "Mobile Suit Gundam" production team, providing Hou Bin with some advice that was ahead of his time.

"In my opinion......"

Although Gu Miao claimed that he would never interfere with Hou Bin's work arrangement, as soon as he entered the group, he began to point fingers and said: "Your Gundam design is very problematic, and it doesn't conform to the realistic style at first glance." ”

"Oh? What do you think? ”

"Highlight the sense of joints and edges, and bring a strong sense of mechanical beauty to the audience in terms of appearance."

Gu Miao shook her head and said, "It's not that you don't look good, it's just that it's too round, it doesn't feel like a war weapon, but a children's toy." ”

"It's not ...... I made"

Hou Bin explained with a smile: "I'm not a professional body designer, this is the concept art of the Gundam that one of our screenwriters drew and played with himself according to the animation setting. ”

It's okay to draw and play!

Since it is the product of other screenwriters' own paintings and plays, Gu Miao is embarrassed to accuse anything.

After all, there are a thousand Hamlets in the minds of a thousand readers, and who said that Gundam can't look like this?

Can't people entertain themselves?

Most of the background and story of the Mobile Suit Gundam anime produced by Manpo are very similar to the "Gundam 0079" in the original time and space.

Because of this, in the Manpo version of the Mobile Suit Gundam anime, the main mech is the famous RX-78-2, which fans jokingly call the "Progenitor Gundam".

The name of this Gundam can be said to have been thunderous in the past life, and whether or not you have seen Gundam-related spin-offs, as long as you think of Gundam, most people will think of the figure of "Progenitor Gundam".

The name of the ancestor lives up to its name!

However, although the RX-78-2 is recognized as the ancestor of the Gundam, it can be seen from this codename that it is not the only Gundam in the series.

And before it there was the RX-78-1!

This is a Gundam painted in black, and judging by the number, this is the "Ancestor Gundam" in the true sense of the word.

Of course, there are more than these two Gundams in the RX-78 series, and there are a total of seven prototypes, and the main character Amuro uses the No. 2 machine, which is the most well-known RX-78-2.

Far away......

When it comes to the Ancestor Gundam, the RX-78-2, the opportunity to shine is also outrageous.

RX-78-1 was discovered and destroyed by the Zeon Army's Zagu team, while RX-78-2 was discovered by Amuro and activated, blanching two Zeon veterans according to the instructions.

After that, the blue-white-red RX-78-2 Gundam started the journey of the gods who killed people and killed Buddhas, and became the childhood memories of countless people.

The RX-78-2's body design is actually not very advanced and perverted, after all, it is an early Gundam work, and many of the later updated patch benefits have not been eaten.

But the performance of this Gundam is still excellent.

It excels in firepower, defense, mobility, and speed, and even has two indestructible beam swords, one for a child.

Amuro drove the RX-78-2 Gundam to kill all sides, and the performance of the airframe never disappointed the audience.

After Amuro awakened the new human skills and greatly improved his reaction speed, the Federation also made a major upgrade to the RX-78-2 body, and the already strong Ancestor Gundam was even more comparable to the Botan Autobots.

"Gundam is such a monster!"

As an animation director, Hou Bin can't help but think about a question every time he looks up at Gundam's figure, that is, is there really any hope for mankind to build such a terrifying body in the future?

It's too abstract!

It's hard to imagine the consequences of a weapon like Gundam joining the war.

This is much more terrifying than any nuclear deterrent, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a walking nuclear weapon.

"That's the charm of science fiction."

Gu Miao smiled, and then said: "Don't think Gundam is terrifying, in fact, in my opinion, most of this kind of robot animation is just a battle in the era of cold weapons in high-tech skins." ”

This has all developed Gundam, and it is still cut around with fists, kicks or weapons, and the nature is the same as Wakanda in Marvel......

It's not sci-fi at all!

It can only be said that most of the background technology trees of this kind of robot animation are crooked. It's like a group of people in the future holding laser swords to cut each other, it must be powerful, but it doesn't necessarily mean how sci-fi it is.

"So what do you think the sci-fi war should look like in the future?" Hou Bin said curiously.

"Battles beyond visual range."

Gu Miao summed it up in one sentence: "You didn't even see me, you didn't even know my existence, and you were wiped out by me before you knew it." ”

This is the case with technology crushing.

Why do you want to go to fight your real man in person? Wouldn't it be good to give you a fatal blow directly out of sight so that you can't return it at all?

Trivia.

The way of modern warfare is almost also arranged around the line of sight, the war of a large country vs a small country, before the war starts, you will become blind and deaf, all electronic equipment will fail, power plants and arsenals will be destroyed, and missiles, rockets, and drones will be cleaned up.

Use ultra-advanced and ultra-sci-fi individual armor for soldiers, and then go to the battlefield 1V1 heads-up, how untechnical is this?

"That's right."

Hou Bin said thoughtfully: "But the animation or film and television works produced in this way are estimated to be nothing to look forward to." ”

"That's right, so it's okay to watch a robot animation like this, but you have to worry about whether there will be such a thing as Gundam in the future, then my evaluation is that the brain is sick."

Gu Miao rolled her eyes and said: "The future development of robots must be towards unmanned, what is the point of being a driver?" Will it only increase casualties? ”

"When you say that, I suddenly feel that Gundam is not so interesting, isn't this a skin-changing fantasy fairy?" Hou Bin couldn't help but smile.

"So to speak."

Gu Miao didn't object.

Gundam has such a sci-fi background, but the war is so "primitive", it is indeed a bit like those fantasy fairies, where the protagonists are so powerful, but the battle is still like "fists and feet".

But then again.

Although Gu Miao criticized this kind of "cold weapon" combat thinking, he thought that it did not conform to the background of the story with a sense of science fiction.

But he also has to admit that robot animation has to be done like this, if you don't engage in this kind of cold weapon battle scene, where can the audience understand?

"According to statistics, among China's more than one billion people, less than 20% of the population has a college degree or above!"

Gu Miao said casually: "I don't know what the situation is abroad, but it is estimated that it will not be too high, you should understand what this means." ”

"I understand that most people are limited by their academic qualifications and knowledge level, and they can't understand things that are too esoteric, so we should move closer to the direction of simple and easy to understand when making animation."

Hou Bin understood what Mr. Gu meant.

Gundam is a more "esoteric" type, and there are a lot of things in it, and I really can't understand it without a little knowledge.

Gu always wanted to warn him not to drill into the horns and continue to explore the so-called "depth", but to expand the breadth of Gundam, so that more people can try to understand Gundam, accept and recognize Gundam.

Small circles don't work.

As a commercial anime, Gundam was not intended to take a deep route, and the higher it went, the more obscure the content became, which meant that the audience for the anime would be sparse.

Of course!

On the premise of ensuring the breadth of the animation, Gu Miao thinks it's okay to appropriately retain some of the depth that it should have.

No one rules, every kid has to be able to understand Gundam, right?

……

In the design draft of Ancestor Gundam, the first thing I saw was not Hou Bin, the animation director, but Lao He, the general manager of Wanbao Toys.

Lao He was taking a lunch break at the time.

Suddenly, I received an email from the mailbox, the content of which was the line drawing of the body design of the Ancestor Gundam RX-78-2, as well as Mr. Gu's advice.

"Huh? Free up a production line? ”

After receiving Mr. Gu's instructions, Lao He was surprised. It is important to know that there is a separate production line for a toy that has not yet been launched and has not proven its market prospects, which has never been done before.

However, the Gundam design is really good.

As a veteran of the toy industry, Lao He could see at a glance that Gundam, a simulated articulation model toy, was bound to be very popular with its cool and realistic style.

But that's not a reason to open a separate production line, let alone a location to decide on a new Gundam factory.

You can't make it like this if you have money!

To this day, Lao He still can't understand why Mr. Gu attaches so much importance to an animation that has not yet been broadcast.

The Gundam factory has been set up.

It is estimated that Wanbao Toys will invest tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of funds to build a plastic model production plant with an annual output value of more than 2 billion yuan in a wasteland on the outskirts of Jiangchuan.

With this kind of investment, Lao He is really worried that he will lose all his money.

After all, the Gundam thing hasn't even been broadcast in the anime yet, and I'm not sure if anyone will buy the toy.

Nearly 2 billion output value a year!

The scheduled production capacity of the factory is far beyond Lao He's imagination. He thinks that even "Yu-Gi-Oh" may not be able to sell 2 billion worth of card peripherals in a year.

"It's not that much production is produced as soon as it comes up, but in the first year, it is enough to be conservative and reach 20% of the production capacity."

Gu Miao comforted Lao He and said: "Build the factory first, and the production capacity can be slowly increased." Otherwise, when Gundam is on fire, it will be too late to build a temporary factory. ”

Capacity is mainly limited by labor.

In the early stage, we can recruit fewer people and maintain about 20% production capacity, and the GUNPLA produced is almost enough to sell.

If you can't sell it out, you can also throw it into the warehouse when you turn around, and use it as a promotional discount item in the future, or send out a lottery as a benefit.

Factories are definitely going to be built.

The output value of 2 billion a year sounds terrifying, but when converted into production capacity, it is not as exaggerated as imagined.

This is Gundam!

Even if the newly released Gundam can't be as popular as the original time and space, and the sales volume is not so high, Gu Miao thinks that it is not difficult to achieve half the level.

As long as the Wanbao version of "Mobile Suit Gundam" can achieve half of the influence of the original version, then this production capacity can be full, and it will even be stretched.

After all...... Gundam is sold all over the world, so you can't just focus on the domestic market!

"Well, I'll believe you for a while."

Although Lao He was full of doubts, he still chose to trust Mr. Gu, and honestly arranged for people to build a new Gundam factory and open molds to produce the first batch of Gundam toys.

That's right!

The anime was still in production, and the RX-78-2 Gen Gundam's related model toys were already in production.

Although it is only a small batch of tests and put into production to test the reliability and yield of the product, this batch of models is also very commemorative.

There are more than 500 prototypes of this experimental nature, all of which are numbered JC006-Gundam 1701, and the PVC material is about 30 centimeters at 1:60.

JC is an acronym for "Egawa", and 006 is Factory 6, which is the internal code of this Gundam factory.

As for the Gundam 1701 code, it means that this is a GUNPLA produced in Lot 01 of 2017.

If nothing else, the anime "Mobile Suit Gundam" will not premiere until next year at the earliest.

This means ......

The batch code of 1701 will be the rarest, most special and most commemorative batch of GUNPLA models in this time and space.

There are more than 500 models, and Gu Miao only plans to release 200 for external sales.

At this time, Gundam had not yet aired, and no one knew what this anime meant, and no one would think that this batch of models had any special meaning.

The remaining 300 models Gu Miao plans to give away to company executives, business partners, and friends of TV stations...... As well as a raffle!

The Ancestor Gundam 1701 Lot No. 001 will become his permanent collection and the first GUNPLA in his collection.

This batch of Gundams is undoubtedly special.

Especially when Hou Bin got an Ancestor Gundam numbered 002, Rao was a long-time battle, and he also had a feeling of being flattered.

"Take it, you're the director of the first Gundam anime, and you deserve it."

"Do a good job of animating and don't live up to Gundam!" Gu Miao patted Hou Bin's shoulder and encouraged.

"Well, I will!"

Holding the brand-new factory Ancestor Gunpla that had not even been stained with any fingerprints on its surface, Hou Bin suddenly felt more confident.

"By the way, Mr. Gu, you said that this batch of GUNPLA will be released in advance, so can I go and grab one?"

"You have this special number, what are you going to rob?" Gu Miao was puzzled.

"Collect!"

Hou Bin said with a look of wealth on his face: "You don't have to think about it, this batch of Gundams must have a lot of appreciation potential, can't I collect a few more?" ”

"Pull it down!"

Gu Miao rolled her eyes and said, "A total of 200 units will be on sale, and they have already been booked, how can you still have your share?" ”

Although the pre-sale of this batch of GUNPLA models was quietly released on the shelves without any publicity, and the price was still expensive, who made the "Manpo Filial Son" too much!

Wanbao's group of die-hard fans, there is no shortage of rich brothers, when they saw a new product in Wanbao's official flagship store, they won it without thinking about it.

As for what Gundam is?

Come on! Who cares about that! You don't care what it is, if you have money and no brains, it's all over!

I know a rich brother in Hangzhou, who doesn't look at anything when he buys figures, and when he meets his favorite IP and places an order without brains, I am envious......

(End of chapter)