My Animation Era

Chapter 489: Zhou Zhou (for subscription)

Chapter 489 Zhou Zhou (for subscription)

What is Hou Bin doing?

Out of curiosity, Gu Miao called Hou Bin and wanted to ask him why he didn't attend this comic exhibition, and how is the animation "The Devil Soldiers of Maoer Mountain" going?

As a result, the call was made, and he was dumbfounded.

Hou Bin didn’t stay in Jiangchuan two days ago. Without informing anyone, I sneaked to the Northeast alone to conduct field visits and collect materials.

"Are you really good at it?"

When she learned that he was sleeping soundly on the kang of a farmhouse in the northeast, Gu Miao was so angry that her nose turned crooked.

Immediately scolded: "Don't make your animation well, go out to travel with public funds, right? Who gave you the courage?"

"Mr. Gu, don't talk nonsense!"

Hearing this, Hou Bin quickly defended himself and said: "I am not traveling, this is called field inspection! As the saying goes, if there is no investigation, there is no right to speak. It should be fine for me to investigate the local customs, right?"

Big problem!

Gu Miao sneered and said, "Then tell me, what did you gain from this trip?"

"The harvest is quite a lot."

"First of all, in terms of terrain and landforms, I took a lot of real-life photos and passed them to the 3D modeling team, so that they can restore the old rural style of the Northeast region as much as possible based on these photos."

Hou Bin explained patiently: "Secondly, there are some unknown details, such as the clothing, food, housing and transportation of local farmers during the Anti-Japanese War."

"Of course, I also visited a very old and now abandoned train station. I also found some precious prototype materials of earthen weapons through the local museum..."

Forehead!

Are you really doing business?

Gu Miao, who realized that she might have wronged a good person, rubbed her nose in embarrassment, and immediately asked, "What about the animation? Once you leave as the director, the animation production team won't stop, right?"

"Nothing!"

"In the past few days after I left, although I was in the Northeast, I communicated with the production team through the Internet every night, and the animation production was not affected." Hou Bin explained.

That's more or less...

Gu Miao breathed a sigh of relief. Through Hou Bin's description, he had a general understanding of the production progress of the 3D anti-Japanese theme animation "The Devil Soldiers on Maoer Mountain".

Overall, everything went well.

For the 3D modeling part, under Gu Miao's strict requirements, the animation production team was not careless. Each character was reviewed three or four times before it was finalized.

As for the script, Hou Bin, with the help of his friend, also made more detailed supplements and improvements.

There are eight main characters.

They are three little anti-Japanese heroes, Huzi, Niuniu and Tie Dan who live in the village near Maoer Mountain.

And the garrison team stationed by the devils at the Maoershan Transport Station, captain Ono, team members Iguchi, Yagi, Nabeshima and Inosuke.

The plot revolves around these eight main characters. It mainly tells the story of the three dolls, Huzi, Niuniu and Tie Dan, fighting wits and courage with the devil soldiers at the station.

The total duration is about 500-700 minutes.

According to the average 15-minute animation standard of Guoman, this time is not too long, and it is estimated that about 35-40 episodes can be made up.

Take 40 episodes as an example.

Wanbao Animation allocated a total production budget of 12 million to the production team, and an average of 300,000 per episode, the cost is really not high.

Typical low-cost small production.

According to Hou Bin's extremely optimistic statement, the animation is expected to be completed and broadcast before November this year.

Besides that, Hou Bin also told Gu Miao a happy event.

After his persuasion, his talented and talented screenwriter friend finally accepted the invitation and will soon join Wanbao Animation.

…

Hou Bin's friend is surnamed Zhou.

The name is very interesting, Zhou Zhou. If you don’t know that the second word is “zhou”, you might think it’s called “Zhou Zhou” just by listening to the pronunciation!

After he completed the entry procedures, Gu Miao met him and chatted briefly for a while.

This person is not bad!

Through chatting with Gu Miao, I learned that Zhou Zhou was a TV screenwriter at first, but because of a conflict with the director, he was banned from the TV circle and changed his career to become a screenwriter for children's stage plays.

The reason for the conflict is actually very simple.

The director wanted to change the play, that is, not follow the script. But Zhou Zhou felt that this was not good, and the whole script collapsed after the modification.

Both sides have their own bottom line, and the result of the quarrel is naturally that they broke up unhappy.

Because the director's status in the crew was much higher than that of the screenwriter, and Zhou Zhou stubbornly believed that he did the right thing, he was very regrettably kicked out.

"I've seen that drama..."

Gu Miao sighed and said: "Let me just say, the script was pretty good at first, why did something go wrong from the 24th episode onwards, so there is such a thing behind it."

"Mr. Gu, I'm not good at animation screenwriting." Zhou Zhou confessed.

"fine!"

Gu Miao smiled: "It doesn't matter whether it's an animation or a TV series, it's just that the way of expression is different. As long as the story is told well, I think it's the same."

"But…"

After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Zhou chose to express his concerns: "The main audience of TV dramas is adults, and cartoons are mainly watched by children. I have no experience in this field!"

"Who told you that cartoons are only watched by children? As long as the story is told well, I think adults will watch it, even more enthusiastically than children."

Gu Miao didn't care.

Animations are also divided into several age groups. There are not only child-oriented animations that are common to everyone, but also adult-oriented animations that are mainly for adults.

experience? What experience do you want?

In Gu Miao's opinion, Zhou Zhou doesn't have to worry about lack of experience at all.

He may not be able to get involved in animation for children, but for animation for adults, it is not a big problem to write scripts according to normal TV dramas.

"Ok!"

Seems to be convinced by Gu Miao, Zhou Zhou nodded and said, "Mr. Gu, I've joined the job now, is there any work arrangement that I need to do?"

"Yes! Look at this!"

Gu Miao took out the X project plan that was handed over to Hou Bin before, but was rejected by Hou Bin on the grounds of being "cowardly", handed it to Zhou Zhou and said.

"My task for you is to compile an animation script based on this plan!"

"What happened to that rabbit that year..."

After staring at the draft plan for a long time, Zhou Zhou suddenly became interested.

"If I'm not mistaken, this shouldn't be the kind of historical military general animation for children in the traditional sense, right?"

"no…"

Gu Miao shook her head: "If it was an animation for children, I wouldn't leave it to you to write the script."

"This is an animation made for the younger generation."

young generation?

Zhou Zhou looked thoughtful when he heard this.

This range is too wide!

According to the current mainstream view, the definition of the younger generation is roughly those under the age of 30.

This group includes both minors under the age of 18 and young people between the ages of 18 and 30.