When Qiao Xiu used a brush to finalize the images of cats and mice on the paper, the white cat incarnated by the World Tree next to him also jumped to Qiao Xiu's table curiously.
The white cat's claws stepped on the paint that Qiao Xiu put on the table. When it walked in front of Qiao Xiu's drawing paper, colorful flesh ball-shaped footprints appeared on the table.
"Lord Holy Tree."
Tailin hurriedly hugged the white cat, it resisted a little, and still looked at the animation image drawn by Joshua below in Tailin's arms.
"Mr. Qiao Xiu, you painted something similar to the white cat family... Does it exist?"
Tailin held the World Tree in her arms and looked at the two animation figures drawn by Joshua.
The difference between these two images and the cat and mouse that Taelin sees in reality is too great.
The blue cat and the brown mouse looked more like creatures close to humans than an animal.
They both have hands and stand upright, and they also have rich facial expressions.
"These two are just ordinary domestic cats and mice in the animation world. They are named Tom and Jerry. They are a little bit smarter, um... very smart."
Joshua carefully recalled the cats and mice he watched when he was a child. Tom and Jerry have done almost everything in the animation, from going to outer space to battle wits with aliens to playing symphonies in a magnificent theater. .
"Does all I have to do is make them move?"
A lavender inscription had already appeared in Ciri's hand.
When she was taking the Purple Clothes' class, the Purple Clothes also took "moving the scenery in a painting" as a test question for Ciri to complete.
"This is just the character design part. I will draw the first storyboard first, wait a moment."
Qiao Xiu searched in his memory and decided to directly draw the original episode of Tom and Jerry, called Home Sweet Home.
The first storyboard drawing Qiao Xiu didn't take long, and Qiao Xiu only needed to outline the background color scheme and the characters.
"What are the mice doing?"
Tailin looked at the storyboard of the first scene drawn by Qiao Xiu. The white cat in her arms was constantly trying to touch the storyboard drawn by Qiao Xiu with her little paws dipped in oil paint.
Jerry, the mouse drawn by Joshua, was posing as if he was struggling to escape. The thing that caught Tailin's attention the most was the mouse running on his own legs.
"Run away." Joshua outlined Jerry's tail, then drew Tom who was lying on the ground in a very comfortable position, and held Jerry's tail with his paws.
"Ciri, you can make the picture move. The first step is to focus on Jerry, and don't let the audience see Tom."
The purple inscription flashed across the painting, and Ciri made the mouse Jerry run on the painting paper according to the description in Joshua's language.
"The expression has to be a little exaggerated, and the tail has to have that bouncy rope-like feel."
Joshua looked at Jerry, who was running hard in the picture, and always felt that something was missing.
"like this?"
Ciri had never seen a creature with an elastic tail in her life, but Joshua's cats and mice could walk on two legs, and it seemed that there was no problem with the tail being able to stretch.
As the storyboards drawn by Qiao Xiu increased, Ciri gradually realized that this cat and mouse were not ordinary creatures at all, but more like a monster with extremely high intelligence.
The content of the story is that Tom accidentally broke the furniture in the home when he was teasing Jerry. After being reprimanded by the owner, he had to be extra careful to protect the fragile items in the home, and Jerry, who was a mouse, used this to threaten Tom.
"Both of them are... fun."
Tailin watched the content of this story beside him, it was just a very simple story.
But at the request of Joshua, the exaggerated movements and expressions of the cat and the mouse when they confronted each other, always made Tailin cover her mouth and chuckle.
"What should I do next, the glass fell on the ground and shattered?"
Joshua has already drawn the storyboard to show Jerry standing on the table holding a glass and threatening Tom not to get close. When Tom chose to leave in fear, Jerry directly chose to throw the glass off the table.
"No, let Jerry whistle to remind Tom, and Tom runs over and catches the glass."
Joshua continued to draw the scene where the blue cat showed a shocked expression and jumped in mid-air in an instant.
"Catch... Does this cat have any teleportation magic?"
Ciri felt that her actions and demeanor had been exaggerated enough, but it took less than a second for a glass to shatter on the ground, and the mouse even whistled to remind the cat.
In less than tenths of a second, I wanted to run from the table to the ground to catch the glass.
It takes five or six seconds for a powerful spellcaster to sing teleportation magic!
"It's for running. It disappears as soon as it jumps up, and in the middle of it, a painting where its figure becomes blurred will be added, and then a gust of wind will be left behind." Qiao Xiu explained again.
"run… "
This scene Ciri used the illusion several times to pass according to Joshua's instructions. The final effect is that the cat that was still sitting on the table disappeared in the blink of an eye, and the next shot was that it appeared on the ground and caught it. that glass.
"Joshua, where is this kind of cat... I want to have one too." Ciri whispered after finishing the shot.
"The real world, probably not."
Joshua also drew a picture of Tom holding a plate and accurately catching a large pile of glasses that Jerry threw from the table.
This series of skilled actions would make even the oldest bartender in the tavern feel ashamed.
"It's animation... animation."
Ciri kept repeating this sentence, then cleaned up her mood again and began to draw the following content.
The episode was not long, only about nine minutes long, and with the help of Ciri's vision, Joshua finished recording the entire animation before the sun rose the next day.
"The rest is dubbing."
Joshua said with the original film of the first episode of Tom and Jerry recorded in his hand.
"Voice? I… want a character."
Taelin, who sat by her side as a bystander during production, should have gone to bed three hours earlier according to her biological clock.
"Only the hostess has lines in this episode, um... Taelin, your voice doesn't quite suit the hostess."
Joshua admits that Taelin has become an excellent singer and announcer recently, but her voice is not suitable for the only character in it with lines.
"What about the plot of this animation?"
Tailin looked at the last storyboard, and she always felt that the story was not finished.
"The plot is about cats and mice. This is the theme. The plot of each episode is independent... In terms of dubbing, I'll go to the Demon World to find the Skeleton Lord for help."
Among the symphony orchestras Joshua knew, there were only orchestras under the command of Duke Bone. I hope the Lich Lord is willing to compose music for a cat and a mouse.