My Animation Era

Gu Miao actually doesn't have much opinion on the matter of "Quick Guns" because he himself is a recognized Kuaishou director.

But don’t go fast just for the sake of going fast!

Animation production, especially the production of a commercial animation, is a complex and professional project with many processes, and there are many links that need to be paid attention to.

If in the pursuit of speed, certain links are neglected during the production process, it may lead to the failure of the entire work.

I won’t talk about the storyboard plot.

Let me just talk about one small detail that is easy to be overlooked, but is extremely important to an animation work. It is also something that is often ignored in order to meet the deadline.

Picture brightness!

Isn’t it very inconspicuous?

But this cannot be easily ignored. The brightness of the picture may seem unimportant, but it is indeed a part that affects the direct viewing experience of many viewers.

As everyone knows.

Gu Miao used to make live-action dramas, and was also a director of bloody dramas.

He is particularly sensitive to this aspect, because when shooting live-action dramas, especially when going on location, the light will directly determine the shooting effect of this group of shots.

The sun is very good, so we should seize the time to arrange for the actors to take more photos and secure more photos.

The sun is bad? Or there is simply no sun, then you have to consider whether to wait for the sky to clear, or ask the lighting engineer to think of ways to fill in the light, at least to make the picture look clear and bright.

Trivia!

Lighting engineers with similar functions not only exist in the crews of live-action film and television dramas, regular and professional animation production teams generally have the same lighting engineers as standard.

Of course, animation is not a live-action film and television drama after all, so the workflow and work content of lighting engineers are naturally slightly different.

But the goal is the same.

Maintain the brightness of the picture and the vividness of the colors to meet the director's needs for this scene and enhance the audience's viewing experience.

Different animations have different requirements for color and brightness.

for example.

For animations such as "The Adventures of Little Carp" that Guo Hongwei is producing, the pictures must be brighter and the colors brighter.

For a work like "Super Cool Cat" produced by Gu Miao, because the plot mainly follows the "dark fairy tale" route, the picture will not be so bright and the colors will not be so bright and eye-catching.

"We need to pay attention to the weather!"

"If it's a more soothing and daily story about Ku Le and his grandparents getting along, then the sky must be a cloudless sunny day."

Gu Miao explained patiently: "But if it is an accident, and when Sakura Town encounters a big crisis, the weather will have to be a little cloudy to create the feeling of dark clouds."

"Ok, I see."

The employee in charge of scene creation nodded, and then asked: "Mr. Gu, should the overall structure of Sakura Town be made older or newer?"

The background of the story is different.

The original "Super Cool Cat" took place in Neon, and the Neon economy has been stagnant for many years, so even the street scenes many years ago look similar to now.

But the story background of the Wanbao version of "Super Cool Cat" is in Jiangchuan. The development of Jiangchuan in recent years can be said to be rapid, the economic growth rate is astonishing, and the appearance of the city is changing day by day.

This brings up a problem.

Is the street where grandparents and Kule live mainly in the new city or in the old city?

New urban areas are closer to reality.

The old town has more life!

Faced with this choice, Gu Miao hardly hesitated and decided to let the set designer make Sakura Town look like Jiangchuan ten or twenty years ago.

Make old things new!

The new high-rise buildings, spacious roads and traffic light billboards do look very majestic and futuristic, but they are too divorced from the animation background.

It is still the old urban streets, the strong atmosphere of life and the full sense of memories are more eye-catching.

People can't always live in the past, but they can remember the fresh and vivid scenes of their childhood through animation.

…

Regarding the animation "Super Cool Cat", Gu Miao needs to pay attention to many points, and even hired foreign aid for the core fighting storyboards.

That's right!

Several experts from the animation "Dragon Ball" came to guide the fighting scenes of "Super Cool Cat" on the grounds of technological poverty alleviation.

Don't even say it...

People who have worked on top-notch passionate comics like "Dragon Ball" are indeed many levels ahead of everyone in understanding concepts.

With the help of this group of foreign aids, Coolcat's fighting scenes were upgraded from "stepping on toes" to "Tathagata Palm" level.

It's on fire!

It's obviously a fight between a cat and a group of aliens and another group of cats, but it gives people the wonderful illusion of watching "Dragon Ball".

This one, this one!

Gu Miao is very satisfied with the new version's fighting portrayal, especially the Gatling cannon in Ku Le's hand that emits blue fire and fires wildly. It is simply too cool.

"It's still almost interesting..."

"After all, he is a mechanical cat who has no knowledge of martial arts and is good at bombarding with hot weapons. He doesn't have any specific tricks."

The foreign aid expert heard Gu Miao's words and said with emotion: "If this cat can release moves like Kaio Fist and Turtle Style Qigong like Goku, the fighting scene will be even more shocking."

"That's enough, don't be too outrageous!"

Gu Miao broke into a cold sweat after hearing this.

What about Kaio Fist and Turtle Style Qigong? Kule is just a cat, or a mechanical cat with a mechanical side. As for using the Kaio Fist?

If that's the case, then the animation shouldn't be called "Super Cool Cat", just rename it "Super Saiyan Cat".

not to mention!

Kule's strength is already strong enough. If placed in the three-acre area of ​​Sakura Town, he is already a cat with the most destructive power.

If you give him some perverted tricks or skills, the corresponding destructive power will blow Sakura Town into a cherry blossom pit and directly wipe this town off the map?

Shinra Tenzheng, right?

The more she thought about it, the more speechless Gu Miao became. She was already very satisfied with Kule now.

The only shortcoming, which can also be said to be a drawback, is probably that the limbs of the cool cat are still as thin as chopsticks.

Trivia!

Kule's palms and soles have always been nicknamed "mouse hands" and "mouse feet."

Where did this nickname come from?

The main reason is that Kule's hands and feet look so much like a mouse, and the limbs are so thin that they look like the power cord of a mouse from a distance.

Hence the nickname.

This shape is very classic, but it is also very annoying. When Gu Miao designed Kule's image, he planned to change it and make his limbs slightly thicker.

After the modification, I found that this kind of cool music is not "cool" at all, but has a strange "iron-silly" feeling.

So what to do?

In order to match the word "cool" in Kule's name and make him look cooler, of course, he restored it to his original shape and continued to use mouse hands and feet.

Weird is a little weird.

But I have to admit that the hands and feet of this mouse are really cool and unique...