Ignoring everyone's rush to recommend themselves, Mu Suxing pondered Huaying's work schedule.
Currently, within Huaying, there are animation directors with independent directing capabilities and personnel who can take on the production of a normal 26-episode animation, which can be combined into four production teams.
Dai Yuyan is in charge of "Cells at Work!", and he is directly responsible for the art animation of the educational and entertaining series, but the progress of the original drawings is extremely slow, which can probably be ignored. As for the upcoming "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma", if nothing unexpected happens, as usual, he will only be responsible for the production of the first season, and it will be handed over to other directors at the beginning of the second season.
In addition, it is time to start the animation projects of the Sherlock Holmes series, Sherlock Holmes and Taking Las Vegas.
Thinking of this, Mu Xuxing raised his eyes and looked at the people who were waiting anxiously.
Forget about the Sherlock Holmes series. In terms of the seriousness of the plot, this series is not suitable for adaptation into animation. Even if it is adapted, it is not something that the current generation can handle. As for the remaining two series...
"Just follow me and do nothing," Muxuxing said straightforwardly, "Shenxia and Gongxiang, you can choose one each."
This "you" obviously refers to Fang Lian and Wen Feihang who are currently doing nothing.
Being called out of the blue, Fang Lian and Wen Feihang were both visibly stunned for a moment, with some hesitation on their faces, but this was only for a moment. In total, the two had not officially directed a film independently in the past three years. Now that they had accumulated three years of experience, it was time to separate from his production team and try to take charge on their own.
After figuring this out, the two of them quickly agreed. Fang Lian took "Taking Over Las Vegas" and Wen Feihang chose "Sherlock Holmes".
"Little Dai, just follow me for now." Mu Suxing groaned. "Cells at Work!" has been completed, and he is destined not to work on "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" for long. Sooner or later, he will hand it over to someone else. It would be better to let Dai Yuyan follow and get familiar with it first.
The task of selecting people to form a production team was given to Dai Yuyan. Mu Suxing took the original manga of "Food Wars! Soma" and returned to his office as usual to prepare for the animation script and storyboard design.
"Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" tells the story of the protagonist Soma Yukihira entering the top culinary school "Totsuki Gakuen" and the series of stories that happen in the process of learning how to cook, communicating and competing with his peers.
The plot is not particularly novel or unique, but what is interesting is that the original author used a rather exaggerated approach when expressing the charm of the cuisine itself. If making normal food emit a dazzling glow is still within the understandable range of exaggeration, then the setting of diners' clothes bursting when they are intoxicated by the food is a bit too much.
Before choosing "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma", Mu Suxing had seriously considered this issue.
First of all, it is undeniable that both the glowing food and the clothes-exploding setting where diners feel as if their souls are leaving their bodies when eating the food are one of the characteristics of "Food Wars! Soma". In other words, these two points cannot be modified, and they must be modified.
To those who don't know, it might be easy to understand "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" as an hentai comic. Due to the setting of exploding clothes, there are quite a few nude scenes in the comics, but comics are different from animations after all. Some scenes do not make people feel shameful in comics, but when put in an animation with sound, it is inevitable that people feel shameful.
In short, the setting of clothes bursting cannot be changed, but its length and degree must be reduced as appropriate. Clothes bursting can be a feature of "Food Wars! Soma", but if it is reduced to the point where people mistake it for an anime, then it will not be worth it.
After all, when it comes down to it, the core of "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" is its own passionate and touching plot, rather than a comic work that simply relies on selling porn to gain sales.
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The time has come to the end of the month.
With the support of the original work itself, and the points that had been bothering him in his heart were also dealt with, Mu Suxing's script progress became extremely fast. When Fang Lian and Wen Feihang were still bald for their respective debut works, Mu Suxing had almost finished the storyboard design for the first ten episodes.
After distributing the written script to everyone, Muxuxing began to consider the location of the new headquarters.
"They are obviously adapted from comics, and you are still a human being, so why are you making faster progress than us?" Fang Lian was puzzled.
Unlike Mu Suxing who wrote the script alone, the animation scripts of Shen Xia and Conquest production team were written by the company's dedicated screenwriters. Fang Lian and Wen Feihang played a more general control and supervisory role. At this moment, the script of the production team they were in had not been completed yet, so they had nothing to do anyway, so they decided to come and enjoy the fun of "chasing the anime" in advance.
Mu Suxing said casually: "When you write a few more scripts and direct a few more animations, you can also be that fast."
A few of them chatted casually for a while, and soon they split into two groups - Mu Xingxue, Du Yutang and others considered the site selection and design of the new headquarters, while Dai Yuyan, Fang Lian, Wen Feihang and others focused on the animation script and storyboard design in front of them.
"How about Huichuan?" Mu Xingxue suggested.
As a famous new technology development zone in Xingning City, Huichuan has gathered a considerable number of large technology companies, representing the highest technological level of various industries in Xingning Province. It covers a very wide range, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most prosperous core area of Xingning Province.
"The environment around Huichuan is too noisy," Mu Suxing shook his head. "Not to mention that the land there is very expensive, the surrounding environment itself is not conducive to creation. I still prefer a small town with fewer people."
"How is Louwan Town?" Du Yutang said, "It's not too far from Xingning City, and the environment is good. It's a quiet small town. The only problem is that the transportation is not very convenient."
"Transportation is not a problem." Mu Suxing turned the reference material in his hand to the page belonging to Louwan Town: "I plan to build it into a small habitat, with a variety of daily necessities and venues. It mainly depends on the specific environment and whether there is suitable land..."
The three were talking about the location of Tianxin's headquarters. Fang Lian saw something and suddenly patted Mu Suxing on the shoulder. With an expression that said "I understand you", he said seriously, "Amu, I admire you."
Wen Feihang was a little more educated than his friend. He pondered and said, "Could this be the legendary food, sex and nature?"
Dai Yuyan coughed.
The two of them quickly shut up, but did not forget to wink at Mu Suxing, which gave him goose bumps. He put down the information in his hand and glared at them unhappily: "If you have something to say, just talk nicely, don't make faces."
It was obvious that the reaction of the few people was like seeing the clothes-exploding scene in Food Wars! This also aroused the interest of Mu Suxing.
When he was designing the storyboard, he consciously reduced the proportion of selling meat. In short, he wanted to avoid the scenes of clothes bursting in the animation from overshadowing the main plot and making the audience, who were originally immersed in the charm of food, feel out of the play because of inexplicable shame. But after all, he could only represent himself, and now that he had taken out the storyboard script, he naturally wanted to hear other people's opinions.
Fang Lian and Wen Feihang looked at each other, seemingly not knowing how to start.
So the first person to speak was Dai Yuyan.
As the only woman present, and a director who had directed the second season of IS, Dai Yuyan was not as resistant to the setting of Food Wars! as Fang Lian and Wen Feihang imagined. She said seriously, "I think the setting of this comic is very interesting."
Fang Lian & Wen Feihang: “Ah?”
Seeing the two people's slightly confused expressions, Dai Yuyan laughed instead: "Is it weird?"
She said frankly: "Indeed, most female audiences are disgusted by animations that sell erotic content, but Food Wars! is different."
She pointed her finger. "First, the erotic scenes in Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma are very frank and fair. Unlike those vulgar animations, which insult the audience's intelligence by half-hiding the benefits, it treats everyone equally - regardless of gender or age, all characters will have their clothes exposed when they are immersed in delicious food."
"The second, and most important point," Dai Yuyan said naturally, "Food Wars! does a great job of showing the charm of food, and the various dishes are also very creative. Even without the clothes-exploding setting, it would still be an excellent food animation."
She concluded: "For Shokugeki no Soma, the setting of exploding clothes can only be regarded as the icing on the cake. This setting can make Shokugeki no Soma a typical example of food animation. Even if there is a trend of copycats, when people mention this setting in the future, the first thing they think of is still Shokugeki no Soma."
What really attracts and keeps the audience in "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" is its characters and plot, rather than its sensational settings.
At this point, Dai Yuyan shrugged and said, "If there are other animation companies that really think that the setting of clothes bursting is the core of food animation and follow suit, I think they will probably know how to write the word "failure" soon."
Mu Suxing looked at her in surprise, but soon revealed a faint smile.
Dai Yuyan was the director he had originally planned for the second season. It was great that she could put aside the prejudice brought about by her own gender and read "Food Wars! Soma" so thoroughly.
After determining the general direction of "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma", several people began to discuss the scale of clothing exploding.
"It's better to modify this part a little bit. The comics look very harmonious, but if the animation is added with dubbing, it may be a little bit..."
While they were discussing, Mu Xingxue on the other side also made a choice: "So the location is confirmed to be Louwan Town? What are the specific designs?"
The floor plan that Qin Sheng gave him that day was actually quite complete, but it was just a rough design, and the specific style still needed further discussion with professional designers. Mu Suxing thought for a moment and said, "Let me first look for a suitable designer... By the way."
As if remembering something, Mu Suxing added: "Please help me find out if there are any vacant shops for rent in Xingning City's food street. If they are suitable, we can rent them first and then find someone to renovate them." As he spoke, he turned his gaze to his assistant: "Also, find someone to make a custom sign for me. The name is-"
He thought of the huge plan that he had finally started after three years, and subconsciously smiled happily: "Let's go to Xingping Hotel."