My Animation Era

When the animated "Bugs Bunny" premiered, Gu Miao was also having a headache about another thing.

Voice choice!

The production of the animation "The Young Master" is in the middle and late stages, but the voice actors for many important characters have not yet been finalized. This is something that Gu Miao is very distressed about.

"I think we should find some younger voice actors to highlight the lively personalities of the characters in the film."

This is Director Wang's suggestion.

Coincidentally, Gu Miao thought the same way. He also felt that the young voice actor's voice was more in line with the characteristics of "The Magic Soldier" and could match the youthful and lively feeling.

But the problem is...

It’s hard to say what the situation in the dubbing industry is like abroad. At least domestically, it’s facing a difficult situation of “lack of work”.

The dubbing teachers with rich dubbing experience are basically elderly, while the young dubbing actors have poor professional abilities.

After asking friends in the dubbing industry to recommend several people, Gu Miao interviewed them one by one and discovered that some people were really not good enough.

This kind of incompetence refers to incompetence in business capabilities.

Unlike the older generation of dubbing actors who work hard, many of the younger generation have a "fun" mentality towards dubbing work. To sum it up in one sentence, they did the dubbing just for fun and did not take it seriously as a job.

Look for it again!

The importance of dubbing to an animation cannot be underestimated. A good dubbing actor can completely transform the animation. Gu Miao doesn't want to give up until he has to.

Fortunately, things turned around quickly.

Gu Miao, who was looking for young voice actors all over the world, accidentally learned through a friend that the character dubbing of a domestic two-dimensional game was very good and was well received online.

So Gu Miao went to experience it. By playing the game, he also recognized the dubbing of the game characters and hurriedly asked someone to contact the other party.

I found out after getting in touch.

It turns out that the team dubbing this two-dimensional game is actually an animation club established by students from the broadcasting department of a university, with an average age of only 20 years old.

"Isn't this too young?"

Facing this group of college students whose average age was only 20 years old, Gu Miao didn't know what to do for a while.

He really wants to find a group of young voice actors to highlight the lively personalities of animated characters, but is it a bit too young to be this young?

certainly!

The ability of these young people to dub popular games is enough to prove their strength, and Gu Miao has also verified that the dubbing effect does meet the needs.

But then again.

These young people usually take on tasks such as dubbing for some game characters and dubbing for animations. This is the first time!

"Forget it, let's give it a try."

Such a young dubbing team may be rare across the country. Although the other party lacks experience in dubbing animated characters, Gu Miao still wants to use them.

Don't ask why...

The question is that through contact, he discovered that these young people really love the dubbing industry and are willing to study hard for this, and they are not just playing for fun.

Based on this alone, they are better than their experienced colleagues who have a casual and careless attitude.

What happened to college students?

Their status as college students is precisely the advantage of these young people. After all, college students are obedient and easy to make a living. They just want to spend some money. They have to thank Gu Miao for the opportunity!

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The bold use of a dubbing team with an average age of 20 years old is the most eye-catching aspect of the animation "Soldiers".

besides.

There is another aspect of the Godly Soldier that is particularly noteworthy, as it greatly drives up the production cost.

That is, in the animation production process, there are quite a lot of storyboard materials, all of which are hand-drawn, which is a symbol of burning funds.

"Making it 3D will probably save half the cost!" Lao Zhang said with a smile.

"Don't!"

When Gu Miao heard the word 3D, she immediately thought of "Soldiers 2", and her expression instantly turned black.

Blanch!

I don’t know since when, a demonic trend called “3D” suddenly blew up in the domestic animation industry. No matter what animation, the producers feel that they cannot keep up with the “trend” if they don’t remake it in “3D”.

Classic old animations such as "The Adventures of Uncle Long", "The Magic Soldier" and "Big Head Son and Little Head Dad" have all been affected by this evil trend.

Among them...

"Big Head Son and Little Head Dad" is probably more attentive. After the 3D version, the plot and picture quality of "New Big Head Son and Little Head Dad" have been significantly improved. It can be said to be a rare success story.

But "The Adventures of Uncle Long" and "The Magic Soldier" are typical 3D victims.

The previous work was originally quite a classic.

As a result, after the forced 3D conversion of "The Adventures of New Uncle Dragon" and "The Legend 2", the quality dropped significantly and they were reduced to a piece of shit.

There is really no need to force 3D!

3D animation and 2D animation are two different tracks, each with its own strengths and advantages.

It is absolutely unwise to use 2D animation to cater to the so-called market trend and transform it into 3D.

To put it bluntly, this is most likely to defraud subsidies...

Making "The Magic Soldier" into a 3D version can save a lot of production costs without considering the precision of the modeling. Doesn't Gu Miao know this?

He must know.

But he has watched the 3D version of "The Legend 2" and has seen the 3D version of Nangong Wentian's style. Naturally, he understands that sticking to 2D is the only way out for "The Legend".

"Can't it really be made into 3D?"

"I can definitely do it..."

Gu Miao shook her head and said: "But if you want to achieve qualified results, the money you spend is not necessarily less than 2D, it may even be more."

If that's the case, then why make it a 3D version?

He does not discriminate against 3D animation.

Wanbao Animation has its own Dimension Studio that specializes in 3D and has launched many classic 3D animation works.

But if a good 2D animation like "The Magic Soldier" has to be changed to 3D, then it is purely because of overeating. It will not be good to change if the money is too little, and it is not worth spending too much money. Why bother?

"makes sense!"

Lao Zhang clicked his tongue: "But we must admit that there are fewer and fewer companies in the domestic animation industry that still insist on doing 2D."

Wanbao is one of the few large companies that still insists on producing 2D animation. Other companies have either given up on 2D or become unknown.

"It's understandable..."

Gu Miao didn't criticize anything about this.

After all, he also knows that many people in the domestic animation industry are basically in the stage of losing money and making money. Under this premise, it is natural to save whatever you can.

Because Wanbao has money and good grades, he dares to play 2D like this, and even does hand-painting.

If it were other business partners, they wouldn’t even have enough to eat, and their skills wouldn’t be good enough to achieve results. How could they dare to play like this?

Think about it this way...

It seems that the 3D versions of "The Adventures of New Uncle Long", "New Big Head Son and Little Head Dad" and "Soldiers 2" were also forced?