"You drew it?!"

Wang Ming's eyes widened, although he is not a professional, but he has received enough edification from his mother since he was a child, and he can see at a glance that this is a child-oriented animation work.

"Hmm." Jiang Xia nodded slightly: "I have been preparing for a long time, and it was not until last night that the storyboard of the first episode was completed." ”

"You kid......"

Wang Ming quickly went through the thick stack of manuscripts, even though all the storyboards were very rough, almost only a simple outline and facial expressions marked by words, but considering that the storyboards and original paintings were his own, there was nothing particularly difficult to understand, as long as the creator could understand it.

Moreover, the characters on the first two pages are very detailed and the themes are very distinct, which is the kind of feeling that children will like at a glance.

If he remembered correctly, the manuscript paper that Jiang Xia showed him a few days ago was Tom and Jerry, but now it was colored, and the details were richer, so it looked much more perfect.

"Okay, you kid is hiding deep enough!"

Wang Ming returned the plan to him and raised his eyebrows: "Say, how long has it been painting?" ”

"Winter vacation, I started to prepare after the art exam, what do you think?" Jiang Xia lied casually, mainly because he was afraid that telling the truth would frighten him.

"It's hard to say, I read your theme, this should be a pantomime-style animation, although it can save dubbing to the greatest extent, but at present, there are almost no animations of this type on the market, and the lack of lines means that the audience can't understand the meaning of the animation in the first time, and it's ......"

Wang Ming said and looked at Jiang Xia: "And in the end, you are an independent producer, and it is difficult to guarantee the quality, you can generate electricity for love, I really want to rely on this animation to achieve anything, there is no drama at a glance." ”

Jiang Xia smiled, without explaining too much, the essence of cat and mouse is that the audience can understand the animation content without using lines, and as for the quality, excellent content trumps everything.

He watched the animation for so long in the Internet café the day before yesterday, and none of the mainstream works on the market can fight with cats and mice.

As long as he can make it, in today's animation field, the starting point is Wang Bang!

"You just want me to generate electricity for love, I can't give up before the official production starts, how can there be such a reason, don't you say?" Jiang Xia put the plan book in his bag and put it away.

Wang Ming pondered for a moment: "That's true, yes, why don't you go to my studio?" It just so happens that my mom isn't here today, and I have all the tools there, so I have everything. ”

"Good brother, it's decided!"

"Why do I feel like you've been waiting for me to say this?" Wang Ming felt a toothache.

"Delusion, absolutely delusion!" Jiang Xia's face was serious.

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Wang Ming took out the key to open the door, and before the two entered the house, Jiang Xia saw a beautiful young woman in home clothes sitting on the sofa watching TV through the gap between the screens.

"Lao Jiang, the shoe cover is here, you wear it yourself." Wang Ming put the schoolbag net shoe cabinet away, took out the shoe cover and threw it over, but he changed into slippers himself, but saw that Jiang Xia was still motionless.

"Don't be restrained, didn't I say it, my mother goes out, just treat it as her own home, not so much exquisite."

Jiang Xia made a speechless look at Wang Ming, can this kid's information be accurate once? I'm afraid that after I leave for a while, I will be beaten by a women's singles.

Looking at Jiyou's hints, Wang Ming subconsciously chuckled in his heart, turned his neck a little stiffly, and saw his own mother looking at himself with her legs crossed.

"Mom, didn't you say you were going to the company for a meeting?" Wang Ming held back a smile with difficulty.

"The plan has changed, and it has been postponed to the afternoon, but you ......"

Li Weiya looked at her son and frowned slightly: "Didn't you go to school?" How did it come back again. ”

"Ah Xia said that he wanted to paint some paintings, and I thought that the studio at home was empty anyway, so I brought it back."

Hearing that Ji You turned his head and sold himself, Jiang Xia looked helpless and bowed to Li Weiya: "Teacher Li, I'm sorry to disturb you." ”

Wang Ming's mother was an art teacher at a middle school and also worked as an art supervisor at an animation outsourcing company.

In the previous life, when Jiang Xia was learning to paint, she was guided by Li Weiya, strictly speaking, she was half of Jiang Xia's teacher, and the two of them coincidentally chose animation in later generations, and they were more or less influenced by her.

Looking at Jiang Xia's polite attitude, and then looking at her son's babbling appearance, Li Weiya couldn't help but sigh.

"Come in, come in, you're welcome, just like he said, just feel free, by the way, have you had breakfast?" Li Weiya asked with a kind face.

"I've already eaten it, Mr. Li." Jiang Xia replied.

Putting on shoe covers, Jiang Xia followed Wang Ming into the studio, saying that the studio was actually a study, with many Li Weiya's works hanging on the wall, as well as several art trophies.

Although I have been here a lot, it has been more than ten years for him now, and I feel a lot of emotion when I look at the familiar scene layout.

"Okay, you can draw it yourself, I'll read the book, and if you don't understand something, ask my mother, after all, she is a professional." Wang Ming patted him on the shoulder and walked out of the door, and after a while he came in with a glass of boiling water.

"Thank you."

Jiang Xia didn't hesitate, opened the schoolbag and took out the three-hole positioning paper he had just bought, looking at the storyboard he drew yesterday, as well as the description marked on the side, he closed his eyes, and when he opened it again, he had already entered the state.

The first storyboard, with white walls and long tails, is a rat that tries to escape but keeps running in place.

This shot is as simple as drawing three subtle movements while running, then filling in the middle frames, and finally repeating the scene during post-editing to give the visual effect of running in place all the time.

The next storyboard is that Jerry senses that something is wrong, and slowly turns back as he runs, as if he sees something terrible, showing a frightened and exaggerated expression, and the range of running gradually increases, but the desperate efforts are still in place.

Since the backgrounds of both shots have not changed in any way, it is possible to draw the original background artwork separately, and use software to combine the movement of the characters with the background in post-production, which greatly improves efficiency and saves a lot of meaningless time.

Then the camera turns, it is Tom lying on the ground, one paw supporting his chin, and one paw holding Jerry's tail, full of banter, explaining the previous shot.

Together, the three storyboards convey what the first ten seconds of the shot convey—Tom easily grabs Jerry and plays with it.

He was painting vigorously, but the door of the studio opened quietly, and Li Weiya stood behind him at some point, her eyes getting brighter and brighter.