My Animation Era

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 the animation "The Devil Soldiers of Maoer Mountain" is progressing?

As a result, the phone was dialed, and he was stupid.

This fellow Hou Bin stopped being 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?"

Knowing 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!"

Upon hearing this, Hou Bin quickly defended himself and said, "I'm not traveling, I'm calling it a field trip! As the saying goes, if you don't investigate, you don't have the right to speak. It shouldn't be a problem 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 patiently explained: "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 something right?

Gu Miao, who realized that she might have wronged a good person, touched her nose in embarrassment, and immediately asked, "What about the animation? If 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, and through Hou Bin's description, he had a general understanding of the production progress of the 3D anti-Japanese 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.

In terms of 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 small 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, and mainly tells the story of the three dolls, Huzi, Niuniu and Tie Dan, fighting wits and courage with the ghost soldiers at the station.

The total duration is about 500-700 minutes.

According to the animation standard of Guoman, which averages an episode of 15 minutes, 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 the average cost of an episode was only 300,000, which is really not a high cost.

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.

In addition, 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, called 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 parties have their own bottom lines, 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 show..."

Gu Miao sighed and said, "Let me just say that the script was pretty good, but why something went wrong from the 24th episode onwards, so there is something behind it."

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

"fine!"

Gu Miao smiled: "Whether it's an animation or a TV series, it's nothing more than a different way of expression. As long as the story is told well, I think it's the same."

"But……"

After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Zhou still chose to express his concerns: "The main audience of TV dramas is adults, and cartoons are mostly 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?

From Gu Miao's point of view, Zhou Zhou didn't have to worry about lack of experience.

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.

"All right!"

Seemingly convinced by Gu Miao, Zhou Zhou nodded and said, "Mr. Gu, I've also joined the job now. Is there any work arrangement for me to do?"

"Yes! Look at this!"

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

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

"Those things about 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.

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