My Animation Era

No one outside the world knew about the conversation that took place in the Tennis Club of Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School, let alone Gu Miao.

If he knew...

If the airing of the anime "Prince of Tennis" puts heavy pressure on the students, he might regret it.

If he had known that after the animation became popular, everyone would look forward to the performance of the Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School Tennis Club and it would have such a big impact on the members of the Tennis Club. He should have made up a school in the first place and not used the real school name.

However, everything has two sides.

Although the real-life Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School Tennis Club has indeed felt pressure from the outside world since the animation "The Prince of Tennis" became popular, only with pressure can there be motivation.

If they hadn't been stimulated by the animation, they might still look like they were before...

certainly!

Gu Miao didn't know and had no time to care about these people and these things.

At this time, he was sitting on the sofa with great anticipation, holding a bucket of popcorn, enjoying an "animation-to-live-action" TV series produced by Haitian Film and Television!

"The Little Master of China"

This is a live-action TV series adapted by Haitian Film and Television based on the cartoon of the same name "The Little Master of China", which will be officially broadcast on the stars tonight.

The live-action version of Little Master chose a well-known "child star" actor to play the young Liu Pleiades.

Not to mention, the casting is good.

This child actor really restored the look and appearance of Liu Pleiades in Gu Miao's imagination, and his acting skills are really eye-catching.

But then again.

No matter how closely the actors fit the original work, it is not Gu Miao's focus. As a food-themed work, "The Little Master of China" has to focus on "cooking".

What about glowing egg fried rice?

Hurry, bring it to me!

The animated version can be very simple and crude, directly adding various light effects to the food to make the food shine and create a shocking visual effect.

But you can’t do this with the live-action version. After all, animation and live-action film and television dramas are very different, and you can’t copy that set of settings.

So the director changed his mind.

"Food shines" as the most important feature of "The Little Master of China" must be retained. But what color of light does it emit? How can we shine?

At the beginning, the film crew really didn't know how to present this "glowing meal", and they didn't know how to do the special effects appropriately.

Later, I don’t know who made the suggestion, and I simply started with the ingredients themselves and coated the finished meals with a layer of “special material” that would glow dazzlingly when exposed to light.

Like egg fried rice!

I believe viewers who have watched the animation will still remember the classic "egg fried rice" dish from the Little Boss.

When filming, the film crew coated each grain of rice with a specially prepared "egg liquid" material.

This "coating" has an effect, that is, it will reflect a dazzling golden light when exposed to sunlight or light...

Like grains of golden rice!

With the special coating and fine-tuned lighting tones, the visual impact is not much worse than the simple "glowing egg fried rice" in the animation.

However, Gu Miao was a little disappointed.

He originally thought that these shiny golden fried egg rice grains were all made of "gold-plated" or "pure gold", but he didn't expect that it was just a special coating.

"How dare you think..."

Huang Kun, who was watching TV with him, couldn't help but complain: "Pure gold egg fried rice? Then the cost of this plate is at least ten or two hundred thousand!"

"Gold-plated ones are not that expensive, but it's troublesome! If you are plating so many rice-sized things with gold, you might as well just apply coating."

You can’t see it anyway!

The "luminous" egg fried rice shown in the first episode of the live-action version of "The Little Master of China" is already very good in Huang Kun's opinion.

The visual effects are great!

After all, it is a live-action version, and a lot of care was taken to film it like this. Considering that the production budget of the entire drama is only tens of millions, excluding the salaries of the major actors, it is already very good to be able to make it like this.

"I was also disappointed with the plot."

Gu Miao shook her head and said, "I thought Haitian Film and Television would make a lot of changes to the original work, but I didn't expect it to be based on the animated version of "The Little Master of China". Even the lines are exactly the same."

"Isn't this great?"

Huang Kun explained with a smile: "Rather than make random changes and end up being disliked by fans of the original work and casual fans, it is better to respect the original work and make the live-action version the same as the animation."

"You didn't pay attention to netizen comments, did you?"

"As soon as the first episode aired, many fans of the original work rushed to get positive reviews, saying that although the live-action version had some flaws, it did achieve the effect they wanted."

It seems like the reputation is pretty good?

But this makes sense, after all, the live-action version has restored the animation, which satisfied many fans of the original animation.

If fans of the original work are satisfied, they will naturally not come to cause trouble, and the praise rate and reputation will naturally increase...

Next, let’s look at the ratings.

If the ratings performance can be directly proportional to word-of-mouth, then this drama will be completely popular, and it is expected to break through the circle of influence and become a candidate for the best TV series of the year.

Why only a candidate?

Because the competition in TV dramas is much more cruel than that in TV animations.

Every year, there are so many period dramas, historical dramas, war dramas, and anti-gang dramas that are aired in turn. There are quite a lot of good TV dramas, but animated adaptations like "The Little Master of China" are not around.

But it's not a big problem.

Haitian Film and Television is not aiming to win awards when making this thing, as long as the ratings pass and it can make money.

Judging from the word-of-mouth performance of the first episode of the live-action version, it is estimated that there will not be much problem in repaying the money...

There was "Marry the Big Big Wolf" before, and "The Little Master of China" later. Haitian Film and Television has successfully remade two Wanbao animations in succession.

Predictable.

Next, having tasted the sweetness, they will definitely contact Wanbao to strive for the rights to adapt more live-action adaptations of popular animations.

Gu Miao planned to change her strategy.

In the past, the purpose of promoting live-action adaptation projects for animation was to create buzz and popularity for the animation, so the adaptation rights were sold very cheaply.

Things are different now.

Through two cooperations with Haitian Film and Television, Wanbao has proved the potential of adapting its animation IP. Now it is a "seller's market", so why should we raise the price ruthlessly?

"What if no one buys it?"

"If you don't buy it, it will fail! What's wrong if no one buys it? If no one buys Wanbao, it won't survive and is about to go bankrupt?" Gu Miao rolled her eyes and said.

How funny!

This is someone asking them to adapt it, not Wanbao asking others to adapt it. To be honest, it doesn't matter to Wanbao whether there are real people to adapt it.

It’s best if someone buys it.

If no one buys it, just hold it in your hands. It is impossible to sell it at a low price anyway. Either you have to accept the blackmail, or you don't want to adapt the Wanbao animation into a live-action drama.

certainly!

Old friends like Haitian, who have worked together twice before, still have discounted prices. The 93% discount is considered a favor.

I forgot where I saw a video, egg fried rice is directly coated with fluorescent material hhh...