Soon, Wen Feihang found that he was surprised too early.
As the three of them officially began to draw the storyboards and original paintings, Wen Feihang and Fang Lian suddenly discovered that their roommate, who was usually gentle and amiable, was like a completely different person when he stood in front of the copy table. He was calm and decisive, not like a fledgling college director, but rather like a battle-hardened industry leader.
"No," Mu Suxing frowned. "The storyboards here are too monotonous. Animation is different from TV dramas. The audience won't mind if the stars stand in front of the camera and talk for seven or eight minutes. But this is animation. Switching back and forth between close-ups of faces, half-lengths, and full shots is too lazy. Do you think you are making a PPT?"
At this point, he subconsciously bent his index finger and tapped the edge of the copy table. On the copy table, multiple overlapping drawings showed the most important scene in The Little Prince -
In the endless wheat field, the fox met its little prince.
"… But if you tame me, my life will be joyful, and I will recognize a step that is different from all others. Other steps make me hide underground, but yours will be like music that brings me out of my cave."
The breeze blew through the full-grained golden ears of wheat, undulating and reverberating like waves, and the scarf around the little prince's neck also fluttered. In the warm sunshine, the fox looked at its little prince.
"… I do not eat bread, and wheat is of no use to me. But you have golden hair. It will be wonderful, then, once you have tamed me. The wheat, being golden, will remind me of you. And I shall even love the sound of the wind in the wheat…"
Mu Xuxing rubbed his forehead and turned sideways, and the chair with built-in wheels also turned with his movement.
"There are also problems with the background design and colors. The Little Prince is positioned as an adult fairy tale, so the scene design can be a little dreamy, but not too cartoony. Imagine flowers on the stars. This scene should be romantic like a fairy tale, not a cartoon version of the animal world for children."
Mu Suxing was talking, and then suddenly he stopped talking as if he realized something.
He helplessly held up his forehead, hiding the helplessness and regret in his eyes.
If you are not careful, the occupational disease will come back again.
Different animation directors have very different directing styles and working styles. Some are more Buddhist, and they will do whatever the client says. You give them constraints and fixed cards, and they will use the existing resources and try their best to play a hand of cards through their own combination. Some are more Taoist, and they will do what I say, and don't ask me to change the script. There is no room for negotiation. If you want to do it, do it. If you don't want to do it, go away.
Unfortunately, Muxiuxing is the latter.
Outside of work, Muxuxing has a mild temper, sometimes even a little soft, but once he stands in front of the copy table and negotiates with the animation director, he will immediately turn into a cold-blooded tyrant, and often scolds people so badly that they can't even raise their heads.
This result has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that in the process of animation production, disagreements of one kind or another often arise. An animation director who knows what effect he wants and can follow through from beginning to end can often chart the direction for the wavering production team and avoid a collapse.
Of course there are disadvantages too - because of his overly strong character, the animations produced by Muxuxing in his previous life often had investors withdrawing their funds in anger.
But Muxuxing didn't care about this - he was a director who attached great importance to his control over the animation. The client's requirements were messy? Okay, then change the client!
I have money anyway.
But Wen Feihang and Fang Lian were not members of his production team in his previous life after all. They came to help him with good intentions, but he treated them like he had scolded members of his former team, which was a bit too much.
"I'm sorry, I was a little anxious." Mu Suxing apologized to the two with a wry smile.
Wen Feihang: "It's okay, it's okay. If you ask me, the only thing to blame is the fat guy being useless. He can't even draw a storyboard properly. What do you think we need you for?"
Fatty Fang looked at him with disdain: "Then why don't you take a look at the background design you made? The atmosphere you designed is way off the mark, trash!"
The star Muxiu couldn't help but smile.
Knowing that the two didn't take it seriously, Muxuxing breathed a sigh of relief. However, less than half a minute later, his attention shifted to the background draft again. He thought: "Feihang, wait a moment, I'll draw a concept map for you."
In the process of animation production, scene concept maps often play an auxiliary role for color samples. Sometimes the background design cannot find the design style that Mu Xuxing wants, so Mu Xuxing will often draw the scene concept map by himself to ensure that the final overall visual effect and artistic style meet his expectations.
Wen Feihang obviously understood his intention and said, "Okay."
Seeing Mu Xuxing sitting in front of the computer desk and quickly drawing a scene concept map, Wen Feihang looked at Fang Lian with mixed feelings.
"Do you feel that Amu seems to be different?" Wen Feihang said.
Fang Lian nodded in agreement: "Amu was very good in the past, but generally speaking, we were not that far behind. Now..." He scratched his head: "I feel like we can't keep up with his pace."
"And when he spoke just now, I felt like I was being scolded by Professor Li. I didn't dare to breathe." Wen Feihang added.
"Maybe he felt hit by the previous support plan, so he worked hard to improve himself?" Fang Lian guessed.
The two thought about it over and over but couldn't figure it out, so they simply put it out of their minds and thought that their friend had suddenly opened up his Ren and Du meridians, which was why his strength improved so dramatically.
With the help of the concept map, Wen Feihang finally understood what Mu Suxing meant by "feeling". He turned around and began to discuss the storyboard script with Fang Lian. This was an inspiration that suddenly popped up when he was drawing the concept map just now.
"I think the storyboard of this place can be modified," Muxuxing pointed to the storyboard script on the copy table and said, "The little prince tamed the fox, but the time of separation has also come. We can try to change the performance angle here, cut the space, and create a sense of distance--"
He gestured with his hand: "The little fox looked down at his feet. The little prince was still standing in front of it, his eyes looking into the distance. The two were still facing each other in the same posture as when they first met, but their moods were completely different. The fox wanted the little prince to be responsible for everything he had tamed, and wanted him to be responsible for his rose... All that was left for the little fox was the color of wheat."
As Muxiuxing was talking, he seemed to have thought of something: "Oh, right, I think I can try to insert a metaphorical montage here? Dewdrops on roses? The little prince finally understood what his rose meant to him, but it was too late -"
On the surface, "The Little Prince" seems to be a warm and healing classic, but in Mu Suxing's opinion, this story is more like a depressive one: without the little prince's care, the rose will inevitably wither, and the little fox will have to watch the wheat field alone from then on. On the surface, in the ending, the little prince seems to have just gotten rid of his body, returned to his hometown, and looked for his rose, but the more obvious fact is that he was bitten to death by a snake.
Wen Feihang & Fang Lian: “…” Yes, yes, yes, boss, whatever you say is right!
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