My Animation Era

  Chapter 171 Why is carelessness + playfulness = magnetic storm? (seeking subscription)

  Early October.

  When Gu Miao finished formulating the "Wanbao Expansion Plan" and recited the declaration of "Making Wanbao Greater", the production of the animation "Happy Baby" was also drawing to a close.

   Is it going fast?

   Actually, it’s not too fast. After all, the first season of the TV animation "Happy Baby" only has 52 episodes.

  For an experienced production team, it is not too easy to complete a 52-episode animation work with an average duration of only 10-15 minutes.

   "Seems a bit short?"

   Guo Hongwei, who was in contact with commercial animation production for the first time, couldn't help showing a surprised expression when he saw that the edited film generally took less than 15 minutes.

   "Is it short? I think it's okay!"

  Gu Miao could understand his surprise. After all, a ten-minute episode of animation is really not enjoyable enough to watch.

   But this is the "standard configuration" of domestic animation!

  Domestic animation is no better than foreign animation. Generally speaking, there are very few animations with a single episode lasting more than 20 minutes.

  15 minutes of feature film is not bad.

  Don’t you see some animations, a single episode is only about ten minutes long, excluding the opening and ending credits, if the feature film can last for five or six minutes, it is considered a success...

  Instant noodles are not so short!

  Maybe this is also a kind of "bad habit". Compared with foreign animations with better production and richer plots, domestic animations are really disappointing in terms of "duration".

  Sometimes, the length of a single episode is really forced.

  The budget is too small, and there is no money to make it longer.

  The construction period is too fast, and there is no time to make it longer!

  Anyway, as long as you want to find an excuse, there is always a reason to explain why the duration of a single episode is so short.

  But it wasn't for these reasons that Gu Miao limited the feature film to 15 minutes. He is not short of money or construction time, but he lacks a suitable "schedule".

  An animation must have an opening and an ending, right?

  This part counts as five or six minutes, plus the feature film breaks through 20 minutes. Assuming that two episodes are broadcast in one hour, including the advertising space reserved by the TV station, there is really no time to spare.

   "It can be played online!"

  Silly apprentice Xiao Guo rubbed his chin and said, "There are too many restrictions on the TV station, so why not just broadcast it on the Internet, and broadcast it for as long as you want..."

   "You can do this in the future."

   "But now, we have to broadcast animation on the TV platform. Because most of the animation viewers are children, they may not have mobile phones or computers, do you understand?"

  Gu Miao patiently explained: "In the future, when Wanbao becomes bigger and has a solid audience and fan base, it won't be too late to launch an exclusive online broadcast."

"Ok."

  Xiao Guo nodded.

  Master’s explanation is very reasonable. Although there are many benefits to exclusive broadcasting on the Internet, the most fatal weakness is that the "audience base" is too weak.

  Now the mobile Internet is not developed enough, there is no way for every audience to see their favorite animations through the Internet.

   Not necessarily in the future!

   One day, no one is watching TV, and everyone is playing with their mobile phones?

   "Happy Baby" is a feature-length animation.

  This also means that after the end of the first season, there will be a second season and a third season. As long as you want to shoot, this animation can even be endless like "Death Primary School".

  The story of the first season of the animation mainly takes place in the hometown of "Dr. Zhai" - the beautiful "Star Planet"!

   Star planet is weird...

  Not only humans live here, but also robots, animals and various monsters live here. The background setting is full of "future science fiction" atmosphere.

   But one thing is suffocating.

  There are a lot of robots living on star planets, and you can basically see them in every episode, but what do these robots look like...

  I can only say that the painting is really perfunctory!

   It wasn't that Gu Miao deliberately picked on the thorns, but was really perfunctory. Although I know this is to "save trouble" and passer-by A doesn't need to describe it in detail, can't I design a few more sets of templates?

  It is too abstract to have the same full length.

  Seeing these robots too much, sometimes Gu Miao would have hallucinations, mistaking characters such as Happy Superman, Sweetheart Superman and Dr. Zhai as the same "machine face".

   Daba!

   Don't do this kind of thing!

  In order to avoid hallucinations and at the same time eliminate the "aesthetic fatigue" that the audience may have, Gu Miao designed as many as "five sets" of templates for passer-by robots in the first season of Wanbao's "Happy Baby".

   That is to say, there are five types of robots in total!

  The "blue-skinned and green-eyed" robot that appeared in the original work is just one of the templates, and there are four other versions with red skin, green skin, black skin and pink skin.

   "Isn't this just a color change?"

   "You know a basket!"

   Knocking on the forehead of the apprentice, Gu Miao said solemnly: "This is to correspond to the color of the five supermen, and their respective mechanical stones."

   "Ooh!"

   Rubbing his forehead, Xiao Guo asked again: "Then master...what's the matter with this set of combined bikers you designed?"

   "For the final battle!"

   "During the final battle, the motorcycle forms of the five supermen merged into one, turning into a huge combined motorcycle man. Don't you think it's cool?" Gu Miao asked back.

   Cool?

  Xiao Guo looked at the "four different" combined motorcycle man on the computer screen, and couldn't help blinking.

   How cool is this thing?

   I don’t know where the master stole the inspiration from. Anyway, Xiao Guo thinks that this thing is too ugly and unsightly.

   "Really ugly?"

  Gu Miao asked without giving up.

  Seeing the apprentice nodded, he suddenly wondered: "It shouldn't be! I copied... the design according to Guoyuan Tianzun's plan, why do I think it's ugly?"

   "Who is Guoyuan Tianzun?"

   "An old man music!"

   After casually complaining, Gu Miao finally accepted the cruel reality of "this design is really ugly" and gave up the existing fitting plan.

Do not misunderstand.

   It's not that he doesn't play "fit" anymore.

  The combined mecha is still a promising solution, not to mention the animation field, don’t you like to play it in live-action special shooting dramas?

  He just didn't think about how to "design" the fit for Superman Biker.

   Copy the original?

   Hurry up and pull it down!

  The original version of "Happy Baby"'s locomotive fit plan, it really makes a dog shake his head after seeing it, it doesn't make any sense at all.

  The "Happy Biker" formed by the fusion of Happy Biker and Sweet Biker is not bad, at least not bad looking.

  But the "Magnetic Explosion Biker" formed by the combination of the careless biker and the hard-working biker...

   That's suffocatingly ugly.

  The combination of blue and green is indeed the most difficult combination in history, and the effect produced by this thing is simply amazing.

   And the name is weird too.

  Gu Miao sometimes wonders why happy + sweetheart = happy, careless + playful = magnetic explosion?

   Is something wrong?

   Careless + careful =?

  Fairy heart + sweetheart =?

   Gu Miao, who was full of mathematical formulas, suddenly wanted to try these combinations that did not appear in the original animation after the combination plan of the "four different images" was rejected.

   Tips: "Guobao Special Attack" in 2009, "Happy Baby" in 10 years, these two works are very close...

  (end of this chapter)