From White Box To Supervision

Chapter 15: Meeting Op

“Miri Segawa is a very famous existence in the industry, and is also a very famous original artist. She was originally from Studio Ghibli and once served as the original artist for the animation master Hayao Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away”. I left a few years ago, and I did not join other companies after leaving. Instead, I became a freelancer. However, in the last few years, I have cooperated with us Musashino many times, so the supervisor asked me to invite her to become a freelancer. Drawing supervisor for our new project.”

In the car, Erica Yano introduced Zhang Beichuan after hearing Zhang Beichuan asking who Miri Segawa was.

The matter was almost settled, so the three of them didn’t stay any longer and drove back directly. Now they are on their way back to the company.

“It turns out that Miri Segawa is so powerful.” Zhang Beichuan sighed.

Aoi Miyamori was driving the car, and she was a little curious when she heard the words, and said strangely: “Senior Erika Yano, why do you think Segawa Miri is so powerful and doesn’t go to another company, and I see that many animation companies, including Musashino, are looking for another company. Working as a freelance animator like Segawa Misato-senpai, why not train it yourself?”

Without waiting for Erica Yano to speak, Zhang Beichuan explained: “Well, there are many aspects to this problem, because the animation system in District 11 is very unreasonable, one is because the salary of the painters is still too low, and some people work One day, working for a month, I can’t even support myself. Secondly, in addition to the low salary, the animator has a lot of work, and even a lot of sudden deaths, which also leads to a high turnover rate. It has almost reached 90%. Small companies have just trained new people, and big companies have already poached them with high salaries. Therefore, small companies now basically don’t bother to train new people. If there is a shortage of manpower, they will hire freelance animators. .”

Yano Erica did not deny it, which also proved that Zhang Beichuan was right.

The animation in District 11 is very famous in the world, but this prosperous industry is obtained by pressing the layers of the bottom layer in exchange, and some of the bottom-level painters are even better off working in a coffee shop for a month.

Some people may ask, don’t animation companies have any money? As for this?

In fact, those who have this idea are not people in the industry. Most animation companies are basically in a state of lack of funds. The composition of an animation is very complicated. To make an animation, you need to set up an animation committee first, which is commonly known as pulling investment.

When a production company wants to make an animation, the first thing that comes to mind is how to make money first, and the most important point is that it can make a profit before it can make it. After all, people who use love to generate electricity can’t support it. No matter how much you love you, you will be hungry. Death, the kind that died tragically on the street, of course, if you have a good money father who supports you unconditionally, or when you are sixteen years old suddenly accused of being a billionaire with a small goal of 100 million, then forget it.

When the project is likely to be profitable, it is necessary to set up a production committee at this time. Generally, it is music in animation, which is provided by music companies for publicity, or companies around toys think it is good to invest, or if the animation is adapted from comics If so, manga magazines may also invest.

Since it is an investment, then if they have to share the profits in the end, they will take the majority of the money, and the production company will definitely not be able to make much money. The salary distributed to the bottom-level painters is even more negligible. This is also the main reason for the current situation in District 11. one.

It is worth mentioning that the original inventor and user of the production committee method is Evangelion, who is called God’s work.

In fact, not to mention District 11, there are many high-quality painters in Huaxia, but it is difficult to make money from animation, and most of the artists are invested in the original paintings of the game.

As for Musashino, this phenomenon is unavoidable.

Seeing that Miyamori Aoi was a little silent, Yano Erica comforted: “Miaosen, you don’t need to think about the issue of the animation system. I don’t know how many company bosses have thought about this issue. It’s useless to think about these things. .”

“I know.”

……

Back at the company, Zhang Beichuan’s buttocks just landed, and he immediately received a notice to have a meeting.

This time, the discussion was about the op production meeting. The painting department and the production department to which Zhang Beichuan belonged were either supervising or supervising, and were in charge of op performances.

OP is simply the opening song of an animation.

Before the meeting started, Zhang Beichuan took out his mobile phone and turned on the recording function, intending to record the meeting.

After all, Zhang Beichuan is not a native of District 11. Although there is no problem with pronunciation, when it comes to such important matters in a meeting, people speak fast, and there are many people, so it will be difficult to remember. At this time, it is necessary to record it.

“Everyone, this is the drawn op storyboard, let’s take a look. UU reading www.uukanshu.com” Director Kinoshita Joichi handed over a stack of copied storyboards to everyone.

“Let’s see if you can decide. If you can, use this as an op.”

Zhang Beichuan also took it over, and he was a little surprised, because the storyboard of this episode was completely based on the scene where the three protagonists dance at the beginning of the storyboard of the first episode.

“Supervisor, is it too…too sloppy to use this as an op.” It was Yamada Masashi, “EXODUS! ” performance.

In District 11, the meaning of performance is the meaning of the director of a single episode, because the supervisor is one person and cannot manage everything. This also gave birth to the position of director of a single episode.

“As long as you increase the number of frames when painting in the later stage, there is no problem with being finer. You can refer to Haruhi Suzumiya’s house dance setting. After all, many people are eating this set now.” .

“However, this made it much more difficult for us to paint. If we make this dance method very precise, the number of frames is very high, and we will have to do a lot of original paintings, which will take a lot of time.” Ogasawara Ronko said.

“It can’t be like the op drawn in previous works.” Yuan Hong said.

“But that would be too featureless. After all, ops are also a very important part.”

Zhang Beichuan listened to it for a long time and understood the nature of the contradiction. In short, it was a meeting for the op.

If OP wants to do well, he needs a lot of original paintings. Musashino doesn’t have that many original artists, so he must select the original artist for the first episode, but this will definitely delay the progress. After all, the construction period is not so sufficient.

If you change to an ordinary op, you can finish the painting very quickly, and you can save time for the future production time, but it has no special features and is ordinary.