Best wishes for animation production

More than half an hour later.

"finish watching!"

Gu Xue closed the drawing in her hand and placed it on the table.

Shirakawa Rina, who had been waiting for a long time, raised her head and wanted to show "I don't care at all", but unfortunately, contrary to his thoughts, she not only failed to show her indifference, she even stared straight at him. Gu Xue looked at it...

Looks like he cares a lot.

"I probably understand what you're thinking."

Gu Xue looked at the drawings on the table, pondered for a moment, and then said: "You plan to focus the plot on the third male... the man who climbed out of the dragon's cave at the end of the third volume, and then dig deeper into the dark elves. The plot of the film puts the male protagonist and the second male protagonist on opposite sides again... Well, that's probably true, right?"

Although the drawings Shirakawa Rina brought were only about three chapters long, because it was only a first draft, there were many paragraphs similar to inspirational snippets interspersed in it. They were probably written by what Shirakawa Rina thought of while drawing.

With these things, and the fact that there is something similar to a chapter outline on the first page of the drawing, it is not surprising that Gu Xue can guess the direction of the next plot.

Shirakawa Rina was a little surprised, as if she didn't expect that Gu Xue had really been following comics, "...right."

"Well..." Gu Xue heard Shirakawa Rina admit and glanced at the drawing on the table again, "Then I'm telling the truth... you'd better overthrow it and start over..."

"!!!" After learning that Gu Xue had been chasing comics, Shirakawa Rina jumped up suddenly, "Why! Why!"

Because she was so excited, she even shouted why twice.

"Calm down first."

Gu Xuechong raised her hand at Shirakawa Rina, who was glaring at her. After finding that it was of no use, she felt a little embarrassed: "I'm not completely denying you. Your idea is good, but your handling of the plot is really shit. Same……"

Shirakawa Rina: "!!!"

While showing a troubled expression, he said mean words!

Who is this!

"you listen to me."

Gu Xue bent down, pushed the drawing in front of Shirakawa Rina, and explained to herself: "First of all, there is a problem with your time setting. I know that you want to draw a new chapter, and at the same time, you consciously want to combine this volume with The first volume of the manga was so criticized that it was almost cut in half. Don’t deny it, your performance in the last volume was really poor. The motivations of the characters were unclear, the plot development was confusing, and the storyboards were even more difficult to describe. In short, it was a mess.”

Shirakawa Rina: "..."

"I can understand you, but what do you mean when you open the show seven years later? Do you think the popularity of comics is not low enough?" Gu Xue raised her head slightly, "Do you know that this will make readers very troubled? The last volume was obviously Fighting to death, a lot of things have not been resolved, and it is seven years later. What's even more outrageous is that you also changed the harbor city in the first volume into a mess, and even changed the misty forest that was better rendered in the anime and manga to to a tourist resort, and finally caused Alice’s father to die on the spot, you..."

Shirakawa Rina calmed down a little. She sat back slowly, her face a little unnatural and said: "...It's normal for there to be changes!"

Gu Xue stared at her for a while: "...I'm telling you, you're not thinking, 'I just need to change the environment drastically and let new characters appear, and readers will follow me with curiosity and interest. The idea of ​​​​making a comic and forgetting about the stupid plot before the comic, right?”

"No, no."

Shirakawa Rina's eyes dodge.

Even a fool knows that she does have such thoughts.

"I'm talking about you." Gu Xue sighed, "Did you know that like comics, or all works in the serialization stage, the most taboo is to have a plot that spans thousands of years, hundreds of years, and more than ten years without the ability to control it. If I didn't If you guess wrong, it’s not that your editor can’t help you, but just rejects this volume, right? After all, it can be expected that once these words of yours are published, the readers will definitely not be satisfied. In addition, your previous volume’s Poor performance, readers’ patience is limited…”

Gu Xue paused and continued: "The final result will be that the satisfaction level will drop off a cliff, ranking at the bottom for a long time, and then cut in half... It's not that your editor cannot help you, he is already helping you, and he is very dedicated."

"you……"

Shirakawa Rina bit her lip, put her hands on her knees, clenched her fists, and trembled slightly because of excessive exertion.

She really wanted to say to Gu Xue, 'You are not a professional comic editor, you know something about it'.

But unfortunately, Gu Xue guessed correctly.

Shirakawa Rina's editor was really not optimistic about it, and even asked her to redraw it very rudely.

Therefore, Shirakawa Rina couldn't even say a word to refute.

"ha……"

Looking at Shirakawa Rina who was stubborn and silent, but exuding a dejected air.

Gu Xue held her cheek with one hand, and inexplicably remembered some... long-lasting past events.

I remember that when she first entered the animation industry on Earth... she was also a very proud person. She was indeed proud at that time because she was very talented and her basic skills were very solid because of her hard work.

At that time, she relied on these two advantages to quickly stand out from the animators of the same period, passed the promotion exam, and became an original animator.

It only took less than half a year.

This is something she should be proud of.

But after becoming the original painting.

Her pride was beaten to nothing.

At that time, there was no such profession as second original animation, and the environment was not that impetuous. At that time, practitioners in the animation industry were quite admirable in terms of their professionalism and attitude towards their works. Of course, on the other hand, management was not so standardized at that time. Gu Xuejue had just been promoted to original animator... without any preparation, she was thrown into a certain serialized animation that was being broadcast and was responsible for the original animator of a certain episode. The person responsible for teaching her as a newcomer was Animation supervisor for that episode.

The huge workload and deadline pressure made the painting supervisor extremely irritable.

Gu Xue had just been promoted, let alone experience. She didn't even have time to adapt to the environment where she was overwhelmed by the deadline.

One can imagine what she would go through as the original painter.

She was scolded terribly.

The irritable expression of the painting supervisor who was responsible for teaching her, combined with the characteristic surprise of the islanders, and the sudden and loud shouting of curses, were really... unbearable.

The reason why the production supervisor cursed was also very simple.

Poor painting.

But at that time, Gu Xue didn't think she was a bad painter.

After the young and energetic Gu Xue endured it for a few days, she finally couldn't bear it anymore. After being scolded for handing over the original painting again, she stood behind the painting supervisor and stiffened her neck and said, "I don't think so."

Although there were no mirrors at that time.

But Gu Xue felt that her expression at that time should be similar to the expression Shirakawa Rina is showing now.

Not convinced, not angry...unwilling.

That’s my hard work! A work that took a lot of time and effort to draw! Why! Why can you veto it with just one word? Declare my efforts in vain! What qualifications do you have! Why are you qualified?

...Gu Xue said "I don't think so" firmly at that time, probably with this idea in mind.

Although I didn't say it explicitly.

But the painting supervisor seemed to understand what Gu Xue wanted to express. After looking at Gu Xue for a while, he cursed that he was self-righteous. Then he took out the storyboard and spent about two hours on the picture that Gu Xue had just handed over. The original painting of the card was repainted.

During this period, Gu Xue stood behind the painting supervisor and watched him paint.

I also watched my self-esteem and pride shatter into pieces...

Three hours later, the painting supervisor who dropped the pencil threw the original painting that Gu Xue handed over into the trash can like waste paper, and then threw the original painting that he had just drawn into Gu Xue's face, using almost half a kilometer to He cursed again with a voice that could be heard from far away: "Self-righteous."

Gu Xue had forgotten how she felt when picking up the original paintings scattered on the ground while receiving strange looks from colleagues around her.

Gu Xue also forgot how he returned to his position.

But Gu Xue still remembers how she felt when she sat in her seat and watched the painting supervisor draw an original painting that was much better than what she drew.

I still remember it now.

Even after traveling through time.

"Hello."

Gu Xue suddenly called Shirakawa Rina.

Shirakawa Rina, who was clenching her fists and adjusting her breathing, trembled when she heard Gu Xue's voice.

Gu Xue held her cheek, her eyes were very bright, as bright as stars.

"Have you watched the fifth episode of "Embrace a Better Tomorrow"? After watching it, I will teach you how to cook... Bah, I will teach you how to draw comics..."