My Animation Era

  Chapter 638 Clay Animation

  Wanbao Animation’s 3D business started a bit late, at least compared to the first batch of 3D companies in Guoman, Wanbao is considered a new player.

   But new players ≠ poor skills!

  Wanbao Animation’s Dimension Studio started 3D relatively late, and the studio has only been established for a few years, but its technical strength has already become the top in China.

   This is all due to Gu Miao's long-standing style of "breaking it with money".

   Throw money and you're done!

  Gu Miao has always believed in one truth, that is, in the field of 3D animation, any technical gap is imaginary, and financial resources are the only criterion for measuring technology.

   This is not the same as 2D.

  Although 2D has to spend money, but the level of domestic 2D animation is too low, even if you spend money, you may not have the right manpower.

  The 3D animation technology in China is definitely the first-class level in the world. In terms of CG special effects, even Hollywood has a close cooperation.

   Technically there is no problem.

  Then what you can make, what you want to make, doesn't it depend on the strength of your wallet?

   There is a misunderstanding here.

  Money-laundering 3D animations such as "XX Story", and "Three-Body Problem", which claim to be a large investment but have poor actual effects, have emerged one after another, causing audiences to mistakenly think that this is the technical level of "Guoman 3D".

   I really can’t generalize!

   Guoman’s accumulation in 3D animation is quite deep, and the upper limit of technical strength is also quite high. The reason why we did not do a good job is that we should reflect on whether the money has not been given enough?

  Why do you advocate 3D animation?

   A model is used to death, trying to save money! But 3D animation also has exquisite and expensive ones. The commercials aired by Universiade Motors in 2000 can still blow up the 3D special effects of many Chinese comics. Whose problem is that?

   These things cannot be thought about carefully.

  Anyway, Gu Miao upholds an attitude, that is, Wanbao does not allow that kind of 3D animation that is of poor quality and rough, and the actual effect is eye-catching.

   "Super Beast Armed Forces" is the same.

  If you want to do 3D, then do it well. It doesn’t matter if you spend more money, you must present the best visual effect, and you can’t leave any shame and black history.

certainly!

   It is true to say so, but when it comes to actual production, everyone can save as much as they can, and don't want to spend more money.

  No way, ideals and reality are always so separated...

   This situation is commonly known as: double standard!

  Gu Miao doesn't deny his double-standard ugly face, but he has high hopes for the animation "Super Beast Armed Forces", which is not fake.

Unfortunately.

  Although Huang Kun really wanted to start the animation production of "Super Beast Armed Forces" as soon as possible, Dimension Studio received a 3D animation outsourcing order from a friend and couldn't do it for the time being.

   It may take a while.

  …

   While Gu Miao continued to toss "The Bizarre Adventure of Little Guoding", a message suddenly came from the puppet workshop that had been silent for many days.

  After "The Story of Avanti", they produced another puppet animation. After many days, it is finally time to meet everyone.

   "No no no, Mr. Gu!"

  After learning about Mr. Gu’s misunderstanding of Puppet Studio’s new work, Liang Xiaodong explained dumbfoundedly: “You misunderstood, this time it’s not puppet animation, what we’re doing is clay animation!”

"what?"

  Gu Miao opened her mouth wide, her face seemed to be covered with question marks.

   Clay animation?

   Aren't you a puppet studio? Does Puppet Studio not engage in puppet animation? And what the **** is this clay animation? Why haven't you heard of it before?

   "Ugh! How should I say it?"

  Liang Xiaodong spoke for a while, and finally gave a fairly simple and easy-to-understand explanation: "In fact, clay animation, like puppet animation, belongs to the category of stop-motion animation, which is usually produced by shooting frame by frame."

   "This kind of animation emphasizes hand-made, you can understand that animation is just a carrier and presentation method of manual art..."

   Liang Xiaodong said.

  Puppet Studio has been exploring the future of puppet animation or stop-motion animation.

   Right in the studio, someone mentioned that clay animation is also part of stop motion animation. Everyone wondered whether it is possible to combine the advantages and strengths of clay animation to make a unique puppet animation?

   "So, this is still a puppet animation? It's just covered with a layer of clay animation?" Gu Miao asked doubtfully.

"no."

  Liang Xiaodong shook his head and said, "Combining clay animation with puppet animation is what we will do next."

   "The animation we are producing now is pure clay animation, which can be regarded as our attempt to make clay animation."

   "OK! OK!"

   Gu Miao, who was listening in a daze, didn't bother to think about what Liang Xiaodong's so-called "art combination" was.

  He just wanted to know, what story does this puppet...clay animation called "Chicken Run" tell?

   "Oh! The plot is simple."

   "It mainly tells the story of a group of chickens in a chicken farm who are unwilling to be made into fried chicken nuggets, so they struggle to escape." Liang Xiaodong introduced.

  Gu Miao: "..."

   Is it really that outrageous?

   Gu Miao, who always felt that this story seemed a bit sloppy and outrageous, asked unsatisfactorily, "What's next?"

   "What's next?"

  Liang Xiaodong wondered: "The story is over! The chicks tried to escape again and again and failed, and finally escaped again. This is the outline of the story."

"Uh!"

   Unexpectedly, Gu Miao, who had never expected the story to be so simple, had a series of black lines hanging on her forehead, and a crow seemed to fly over her head.

   "Just this little story, you tell me that you guys have been working for so long to get it right?"

"Yes indeed!"

  Liang Xiaodong nodded and said: "Mr. Gu, it's very difficult! You don't know, those chicken feathers are all hand-painted..."

   What a waste of time!

  In Liang Xiaodong’s words, this is their first contact with clay animation. Many things are learned while doing, and the production process is extremely painful.

   It would be nice if it could be done.

  In the beginning, Puppet Studio wanted to make TV animation, about 20/30 episodes.

  But after doing it later, everyone found that something was wrong.

  If it is really made into a TV animation with 20 or 30 episodes, the hair that everyone has left may not be able to keep it.

   For the hair!

  Everyone simply deleted the duration and deleted it again and again, until there were only 80 minutes left in the end, and they barely made up a short animated film and broadcast it.

Impressed!

   It's not a puppet animation, but some kind of clay animation. Not a TV animation, but an animated movie...

   Gu Miao, who finally figured out the details of the animation "Chicken Run", couldn't help complaining: "Then what do you guys think? Since it's an animated movie, it won't be shown in theaters?"

   "No."

  Liang Xiaodong shook his head and said: "We don't have much confidence, we think that most of the time no one will buy tickets, so let's broadcast it online for free!"

   Humble, too humble.

  Because he was afraid that the audience would not be familiar with clay animation after the movie was released, so he refused to buy a ticket to watch the movie, and even broadcast it to the audience for free.

  As an audience, I was almost moved to tears when I encountered this kind of conscience animation studio.

Ok…

  Gu Miao, as the owner of this Shabi studio, is indeed crying now, because of this gang of hairy people.

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  (end of this chapter)