If you don't animate, you will die

Chapter 4 Employee Complaints

pain!
Wu Qi frowned and thumped his waist. He woke up this morning with some back pain.

Maybe it was because of doing it for too long, coupled with his weakness, Wu Qi got down from the bed.

In the bedroom, after doing stretching exercises, I went out to wash up.

After breakfast, he rushed to the company with Dr. Li and two security guards.

When I arrived at the company, it was already 8 o'clock in the morning, and all the employees were already in place.

Wu Qi walked into the 2D animation department, and everyone who saw him greeted him with "Hi Boss".

After three days, Wu Qi returned to the company again.

The employees were a little apprehensive, and they were more respectful to Wu Qi.

In the past few days, all the employees knew the news that the boss was seriously ill.

When people are about to die, do they speak well or become crazy?
Wu Qi called a few names, and called the art supervisor, production supervisor, sound supervisor and the three executive producers.

In Huaxia, the position of 'executive producer' is similar to Yueben's 'production progress', except that Huaxia's executive producer is more relaxed.

Huaxia's painters all work in a fixed environment and sign a labor contract, while Yueben does not have a contract. The original painters stay in their respective homes, and the production must be dragged to deliver manuscripts, while Huaxia does not.

In the corridor, there were six men and women standing in front of Wu Qi, most of them chose not to say a word, waiting quietly for Wu Qi to order the task.

A young man wearing glasses and disheveled hair broke the silence, "Boss, whose order is this?"

Wu Qi raised his eyebrows. This young man's name is Ma Lin, he is his art supervisor, and he likes outsourcing the most on weekdays.

Sometimes it is outsourced to domestic companies, and sometimes it is outsourced to Yue Company. The outsourced animations are generally animations for all ages.

If you are doing your own company's animation, 99% of it is sub-supplied, Ma Lin thinks this is very boring.

"One part is for original animation."

Hearing Wu Qi's answer, Ma Lin sighed, and lost three points of energy.

Wu Qi took out a USB flash drive and handed it to Zhao Xiaoyue, "Look at it, and then arrange the work yourself."

Zhao Xiaoyue took the USB flash drive and looked at several colleagues around her, "Let's go."

Zhao Xiaoyue and others are very familiar with this, and the boss usually doesn't care about it, after all, their boss doesn't know much about production.

Ma Lin sat back in his seat and received a compressed package from Zhao Xiaoyue in Penguin Chat.

Unzip it, open it, he thought, probably another childish sub-supply animation, dull character design, simple scenes, and low frame rate shots everywhere.

A dark blue cat, a large brown mouse, all given human form.

"It's so simple."

Ma Lin sighed, and he turned on the storyboard to continue watching.

The more you look at it, the more you frown. The picture inside is simple, a little bird, a little mouse, and a big blue cat. There are only these three characters in the first episode.

The cat wanted to catch the mouse, so it walked cautiously against the wall.

This action is very simple, but the comment next to the storyboard made his eyelids twitch, 'at least 16 frames'.

Then, he continued to browse, and the little bird discovered Tom Cat's intentions, and cooperated with the mouse to defeat Tom Cat.

The story is very simple, but the action is very complex.

Tom cat was tripped by a mouse. During the pursuit, Tom cat chopped down the tree with an axe, but he was smashed into a cylindrical cat.

Tom tries to grab the birdcage, but Jerry the mouse sprays his face with a bottle of champagne to stop him.

Tom cat fell on several clotheslines, and the clothesline cut Tom into five or six pieces. As a result, Tom cat was fine and continued to catch mice.

Ma Lin started to watch quickly. There were so many weird and weird actions like this. They even spent more than half of the episode performing such animations. The deformations of the characters were very exaggerated.

Complicated movements full of imagination, all kinds of items in daily life can produce magical effects here.

Jerry, the mouse who can never catch, meets Tom, who can easily recover from anything.

Ma Lin opened his mouth wide, he had never seen such an imaginative design.

It would be great if he had "Tom and Jerry" in his childhood.

In his opinion, this "Tom and Jerry" simply takes the advantages of 2D animation to the extreme!
Abandoning biology, physics, and chemistry, neurotic painting, and unrestrained painting expression.

Ma Lin used to be a professional, and he majored in animation in college.

In school, no matter what direction you major in animation, you will learn 3D animation.

Because Huaxia 3D is developing rapidly, and the country is also vigorously supporting the cultural industry, the update speed of the school curriculum is also very fast.

His teacher once told him: "If the movements are too difficult, you can use 3D modeling. After adjusting the movements, just put a piece of paper to draw."

The movements described in this way are in line with physics and biology, but they lack aura.

The teacher told him that the bouncing principle in the animation can make some parts of the character deform elastically and increase the realism of the picture.

For example, when a girl jumps to the ground, she lands.

But this "Tom and Jerry" is an exception. It has too many deformations, and the range is very large.

In Ma Lin's view, an average of 24 frames is unavoidable in order to achieve a sense of fluency.

Ma Lin read the annotations of the storyboard again, and after a rough calculation, the animation averaged 30 frames per second.

Outrageous!Really outrageous!
Ma Lin remembered the sub-supply animation he had done. The frame rate of this kind of animation was the lowest, single digits per second when it was low.

For example, if the characters are all still except for the mouth, this can save a lot of time.

When the character charges and pulls a speed line behind his back, the frame rate can directly drop to 4 frames per second.

The gap is too big!
The frame rate of "Tom and Jerry" is higher than Tsukimoto's new animation, and this frame rate will be very smooth on the big screen!

Moreover, "Tom and Jerry" is still a silent play, there is no dialogue between the characters, and there is no possibility of water duration.

"too difficult!"

Ma Lin sighed.

Zhao Xiaoyue also exclaimed, "Oh my God!"

"What's wrong?" asked an old man next to Ma Lin who was in charge of editing. ,

"Its frame rate is too high."

Ma Lin recounted his discovery, and the entire [-]D animation department fell silent after listening to it. After a few seconds, whispers began to appear.

Someone said in frustration: "Why do you do such a stupid animation?"

"Yeah, drawing so many frames is too wasteful."

Employees find various reasons to express their dissatisfaction.

Ma Lin and the others who had seen the plan were amazed at how special "Tom and Jerry" was. They could tell that it would be very interesting if it were made, and even adults like them would enjoy watching it with gusto.

Outside the [-]D animation department, there was a figure leaning sideways, eavesdropping on the door with its ear pressed against the door.

This person is Wu Qi, and he heard the complaints of some employees clearly.

He stood up straight again and shook his head.

These people have been doing children's animation for a long time and are used to the long time of water, so it is not easy to change it.

What these employees have to overcome is not a technical problem. The painting of "Tom and Mouse" is very simple, but the workload is quite a lot!
Their attitude when making animation is what they need to change the most.

Only by giving up the work attitude of cutting corners and making do with it, can Wuqi complete more and more difficult projects.

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