Best wishes for animation production

There are four tasks in cross talk - speaking, learning and singing.

Animation also has four lessons, that is, singing, dancing, R... Sorry, there was a mistake, these are the four lessons of basketball...

The correct one should be someone who is passionate, able to save lives, has a sense of responsibility, and has a little bit of love for animation production.

This is what Gu Xue understands, the qualities that people who want to enter the animation industry need to possess.

As for painting skills and the like, if you are really determined to enter the animation industry, if you can't do original painting, you can do mid-level painting. If you can't even do mid-level painting, you can also consider developing in other departments. If that doesn't work, you can do it. It doesn't matter if the production is in progress, this is also an entry into the animation industry, and this position is no less important than the original painter.

Because in the final analysis, animation production is a collective work, and individual strength is of course important, but only one person cannot make animation.

Gu Xue was indeed very happy when she painted the original paintings by herself, but the most daily work she did was still being a supervisor.

This is not interesting, at least for Gu Xue, a supervisor with a background in original animation.

She prefers to paint original paintings.

But she had to do all this to adapt.

Many problems were encountered during the production of "Embracing a Better Tomorrow". Not to mention the other episodes, even the original paintings drawn by Gu Xue also encountered a big problem.

There was no problem with the original painting she drew, and the time was no problem. She finished it quickly, but she ran into trouble at the step from the original painting to the animation. The staff in charge of the middle cut went on strike and was unwilling to paint...

In the end, there was no other way. The production management staff coordinated and offered four times the price. The other party then reluctantly agreed to take over the job and continued to work from his residence wearing a sleeping bag the next day...

for this matter.

The chubby production director Mu Shang also complained to Gu Xue a few times, probably asking her why she didn't use 3D instead of hand-drawn background animation, which made everyone miserable.

It was quite embarrassing to talk about Gu Xue.

This question was actually asked by Gu Xue when she was doing the eleventh episode of "Invasion".

At that time, for the circus scene where the male protagonist drives a robot up the building, Gu Xue specially asked the 3D department to make a background model, and then compared it with the painting.

At that time, the staff in charge of modeling asked her why she didn’t just use 3D.

This question... Gu Xue actually didn't know how to answer it.

If you really want to answer it, it's probably because of her strange persistence as an original animator.

3D is developing rapidly. If it is done well, it will not be inferior to hand-painted. Top-notch 3D can even simulate the texture of hand-painted. There is no doubt about this, but... what Gu Xue did most in the past was original painting. Even if she is now a supervisor, she In fact, I still have a mysterious obsession with hand-painting.

This kind of persistence is hard to explain.

So Gu Xue really didn't know how to answer production director Mu Shang's question.

Fortunately, the other party was not really looking for trouble. He complained a few words and left.

Then there is the issue of overall style.

Before Mu Shang came to see Gu Xue.

The chief producer of "Embrace a Better Tomorrow" came to see Gu Xue several times. It probably meant that the original painting drawn by Gu Xue was too wild and dazzling...it would be very prominent in an episode, and other animators did not have Gu Xue. With that kind of strength, it will then look particularly bad, and the overall style will be inconsistent.

Appropriate corrections are necessary, but the problem is that these original paintings were drawn by Gu Xue, and she is the supervisor...

The chief producer was afraid of being criticized, so he was like a quail in front of Gu Xue, hemming and hawing, which was very speechless.

It makes Gu Xue look like a devil...

All in all, it's a bunch of problems.

But that’s the thing about animation.

In addition, there are many problems, big and small. Gu Xue is either making decisions or on the way to make decisions every day. There are also meetings, various meetings, storyboard meetings for later episodes, performance meetings, Art sessions, photography sessions, etc…

Quite painful.

But in general, animation production is still being produced according to schedule. There are some minor delays, but the problems are not major.

So the time came to the end of August.

The first episode of "Embracing a Better Tomorrow", for which Gu Xue is responsible for storyboarding, has entered the final stage.

As for YUKI Studio, they completed the production of "Little Witch Academia: Magic Parade" more than half a month ago.

Small Company finally succeeded in persuading the publisher to change the premiere to the Comic Con in North America. As for how they persuaded them, Gu Xue didn't know and didn't care. In short, "Little Witch Academia: Magic Parade" is now ready, and we are just waiting for the release date to arrive.

With the completion of "Little Witch", YUKI Studio's work focus has also shifted. Currently, the main staff of the studio are beginning to prepare the sixth episode of "Embracing a Better Tomorrow".

As for why it was preparation instead of officially starting production... It was mainly because Gu Xue, who was in charge of storyboarding, was very busy right now and had not yet drawn the storyboards. However, the storyboards drawn by Misawa Hiroshi were rejected by Gu Xue as expected. …

Gu Xue has a lot of things going on right now.

There are three things that are urgent right now: the voice actor recording of the second episode, the storyboard production of the OP/ED, and the storyboard production of the sixth episode.

Things can only be done one by one.

Gu Xue had to be present for the seiyuu recording anyway, so after considering it, Gu Xue could only put aside the other two things temporarily.

…

August 30th.

Gu Xue temporarily put aside other things and came to the recording studio once again when she was auditioning to select voice actors.

Because the first episode of "Embracing a Better Tomorrow" was storyboarded faster and the preparation work was faster, the production cycle was longer than other episodes. In addition, Gu Xue was responsible for most of the troublesome original paintings, which speeded up the process, so the first episode The recording of the episode was completed as early as the beginning of the month, and now we are recording the second episode.

This time Gu Xue didn't come alone. In addition to Ye Huo, who composed the series and scripted the second episode, there was also Qian Shi, the storyboard and performer of the second episode.

However... compared to before, Qianshi's face is not very good now.

Gu Xue can become full of energy after taking a nap after working hard every day.

But Senshi has become very haggard since he started working on the second episode.

His face was sallow, his eye sockets were sunken, and his steps were frivolous.

He looked like he was "about to die".

He knows best what Qianshi has been through in the past few months.

It is simply a human tragedy...

He followed Gu Xue step by step.

Qian Shi looked at Gu Xue's back with regret.

Why did you say you were so mean at that time? Wouldn't it be better to let Satoshi Nakata take charge of the second episode? What are you pretending to be?

…Next time I’ll be mean-mouthed! If you install X again, I will be struck by lightning!

Qianshi took out a few quick-acting Jiuxin pills, poured them into his mouth, and swore a vicious oath.

Ye Huo walked beside him. Seeing Qian Shi gritting his teeth, he certainly knew what he was thinking. Ye Huo had also heard about his experiences in the past few months, but Ye Huo couldn't do anything. At most, he could not laugh out loud. …