My Animation Era

  Chapter 304 Where did Orange Liuxiang's arm go? (seeking subscription)

  Gu Miao lay flat.

  He finally understands that the movie "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Snake Comes Around" is too popular and highly anticipated.

  Because of this expectation...

  It is only when the official releases any "clues" that these hungry fans will swarm to speculate on the development of the plot based on these clues.

   Don't understand?

  To give a simple example, the domestic stand-alone game "Black Myth: Wukong" became popular all over the Internet as soon as it was exposed, and it has been expected by many gamers.

   Then what happened?

  This group of expecting players not only conducts a detailed frame-by-frame analysis of the game demo screen, but also searches for various "easter eggs" and special designs.

   Even, some people dug out the Weibo of the main creator of the game, and even the previous works, trying to speculate on the story background and plot development of "Black Myth: Wukong" from various angles.

so…

  Wanbao Animation officially released the movie trailer of "Snake Comes Around", and it is not surprising that curious fans have dug out the plot line.

   After all, movies are easier to guess than games.

  The 1 minute and 05 second trailer, although in Gu Miao's opinion, did not reveal too much of the main film content, and did not even constitute a "spoiler" suspicion.

  But the audience can’t hold back, the per capita "Sherlock Holmes" detective!

  Looking for clues and easter eggs one by one, all kinds of reasoning and guessing, and the 1 minute and 05 second trailer, you can roughly figure out what story this movie wants to tell.

  Spoilers are inevitable!

  After thinking about this truth, Gu Miao completely lay down, and no longer cared about these "suspected spoiler" discussions on the Internet.

   Spoilers are spoilers!

  To be honest, most of those well-known Hollywood blockbusters, except for a few works, are almost spoiled when the trailers are released.

   But why do you still watch it?

  The reason is actually very simple. After all, the spoiler is only a "text" expression, and the actual impact is not as direct as the "picture".

   This is especially common in the field of animation.

  Many light novels, manga adaptations, non-original animations, fans who have read the original works, don’t they know the plot development route?

  Bullshit!

  Spiderman just started broadcasting the first episode, and the heroine is still researching skills and panels, but the barrage has already revealed the spoiler, and the heroine has turned into a human.

   As a result, did this affect the playback volume of Spiders? Not really! Everyone knows that Gui knows that before seeing the screen, there is still a certain sense of anticipation.

  …

   The early spoilers certainly caused a lot of trouble to the project team of the movie "Snakes Going Around", but the work has to continue.

   Gu Miao can't temporarily change the script because of the spoiler and there is no sense of suspense and anticipation, right?

  This kind of thing is impossible!

  The success or failure of a movie, especially an animated movie, does not actually have a great impact on whether it is spoiled or not. Because human beings are "visual animals", the visual impact is far greater than brain supplementation.

   "Snake Comes Around" is a 2D animation with some 3D shots mixed in the middle.

  Due to Gu Miao's request, most of the characters, scenes, and props were redrawn to make a clear distinction between movies and TV animations, so the workload was heavy.

   Deadline until early June.

  The movie is only a third of the way through, and it's still far from completion. Considering the film production cycle, Gu Miao took the time to visit the "Dimension" studio next door.

   "Three Musketeers of Jelly" has been approved.

  This little-known work, under the leadership of Gu Miao, quietly completed the preparatory work.

   Now there is a tricky problem.

   Modeling!

   As we all know, the core of 3D animation is modeling, and the quality of modeling will directly determine the quality of this animation.

   There is no need to give examples.

  There are a lot of garbage 3D animations on the market, just pick one and see what the expressiveness of rough 3D modeling is.

  Since "Three Musketeers of Jelly" is also a 3D animation, Gu Miao must personally check the modeling part.

   "No, no jelly texture!"

   After watching the first version of the 3D modeling of Orange Liuxiang, Lu Xiaoguo and Pineapple Fuxue, Gu Miao shook her head.

  The title is The Three Musketeers of Jelly, and the character does not have the smooth Q-bomb texture of "Jelly", isn't it ridiculous?

   "And here..."

  Gu Miao pointed to the arm of the Orange Liuxiang character model, frowned and asked, "Why did you pinch out the arm for a jelly figure?"

"what?"

  The modeler thought that Mr. Gu would say that the arm he pinched was too thick or too thin, which lacked aesthetic feeling.

  But he never expected it.

  Mr. Gu actually asked him, why did he pinch the arm of a jelly man?

  Yeah, why?

   "Isn't he a swordsman? I thought, even if it's a one-armed swordsman like the Condor Hero, he still uses a sword in his hand!"

  The modeler blinked and said: "The posture of the jelly man holding the sword, don't he use his hands? Use Qi to control the sword, or..."

   "I know it's a hand-held sword!"

  Gu Miao waved her hand and said, "Whether it's a jelly man or a normal human being, they must be holding a sword. I'm talking about the arm, do you understand the arm?"

arm?

  The modeler stared at the character model in the computer, puzzled.

  He did a good job! Even Director Du, who was passing by, praised him, saying that he is very "artistic". What went wrong?

   "All right, all right!"

  Seeing that the modeler still didn't understand her words, Gu Miao covered her forehead and sighed, "You listen to me, delete Cheng Liuxiang's arm, and just leave a round hand."

"what?!"

   Everyone was shocked by this change.

   Remove the arm part, leaving only one hand? What kind of outrageous operation is this? Can you still model Jiangzi?

   Isn't that hand "floating"?

   Just thinking about that picture, everyone is a little bit stunned.

   Without arm support, one hand rests on the "floating" and poses in various poses. Isn't this really a horror movie?

   If you don't understand it, you don't understand it.

  In view of Mr. Gu's clear instructions, the modeler quickly made adjustments to the "Orange Fragrance" in the computer.

   "Hmm! The hands should be rounder."

  Gu Miao stroked her chin and said, "The jelly man's hands must be different from ours. Fingers can be ignored, they must be round!"

   "That's right, it's cute!"

  Looking at Orange Liuxiang on the computer, it has lost its arms, leaving only two small "ball" hands floating on both sides of its body out of thin air, Gu Miao nodded.

  It's...cute?

   Colleagues around, upon hearing Mr. Gu's words, and then looking at the "weird" jelly man in the computer, a question couldn't help but flash in their minds.

  Cute is cute, but this…

   Isn’t it too counterintuitive?

  No arms! Have you ever seen a jelly man with no arms but two small balls?

   It's too abstract!

  Is this art form a little too far ahead for 21st century kids?

   In the Guobao series, the character without arms is a big cute point. If you don’t believe me, try to think about it, if it has arms, wouldn’t it be so cute?

  (end of this chapter)