Chapter 411 Start the Animation Project!

December is generally the sprint stage on the eve of various awards seasons.

Especially music awards.

For example, the Grammys are announced in February.

And Xiangjiang's "Top Ten Golden Songs" and "Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs" will be announced in January, or a dinner party will be held.

The most successful one last year was naturally Zhang Guorong, who soared into the sky. With "New Mandarin Duck and Butterfly Dream", Zhang Guorong became popular and became a new generation of heavenly king.

Zhang Guorong also released an album this year, but it is much worse than last year.

According to Zheng Donghan, Zhang Guorong's album is mainly based on his favorite British style, and English songs account for 5 songs, but unexpectedly, fans in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan did not buy it very much. They still like Zhang Guorong's Mandarin songs.

On the contrary, a new singer named Tan Yonglin launched by PolyGram of Baodao, with the "Flowers in Water" written by Yin Jun, has become popular all over Baodao in the past half a year. Dongfeng released the album in one go, and it also sold well in Southeast Asia.

Even on the streets of Xiangjiang, some people sang the lyrics of "How much prosperity is like a dream in the cold rain and cold wind".

"Flowers in Water" has pre-determined one of the "Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs" and "Top Ten Golden Songs".

Although Tan Yonglin developed in Baodao, this song has also been operated in Xiangjiang, and Tan Yonglin is from Xiangjiang, so after the operation of PolyGram, Tan Yonglin has a share of both honors, this new star is naturally Just rise slowly.

Together with the programs of ATV, TVB and JiaTV, there are interviews and reports of Tan Yonglin.

In terms of appearance, Tan Yonglin is not as good as Zhang Guorong, but his voice is definitely better than Zhang Guorong's.

Zhang Guorong's vocal width is not as good as that of Tan Yonglin, which is why Zhang Guorong sings pop songs very well, but other songs lack thickness.

Tan Yonglin's voice is basically the same as that of Zhang Xueyou and Chen Yixun. The treble can go up, the bass can go down, and there is room for maneuver between turns. Even the vibrato is very comfortable, so the three of them are called the three generations of song gods .

In the previous life, Tan Yonglin and Zhang Guorong were "dead enemies", because Wen Wu was first and Wu Wu was second, and everyone wanted to be the first, so conflicts naturally arose.

Looking at the current situation, the two of them will still have to strangle them for the rest of their lives.

But Yin Jun has no choice. Tan Yonglin and Zhang Guorong are singers of the same era. They are already outstanding talents, so it is absolutely impossible to be buried.

If you want to compete, you can only continue to compete like this.

Fortunately, Zhang Guorong's life is quite different from his previous life. Although the sales of his album this year are worse than last year's, it's still pretty good overall. The sales volume has already exceeded 200,000 copies, so he must be making money.

Of course, he also has a lot of gossip. For example, some time ago, he was photographed coming out of the hotel with a starlet, and there was a photo of him going to a nightclub with her.

After Yin Jun pushed Zhang Guorong and Tan Yonglin, he was not going to interfere with their life path.

At best, Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, and Zhou Huajian will be released in a few years, and they will write songs for these good singers. This is the greatest support.

Not only Tan Yonglin and Zhang Guorong, but all the singers, Yin Jun is not sure how far the road of music can go.

After all, it's not just about the singers and songwriters themselves, it's about the music market as a whole.

As long as the cancer of piracy is not cured, music will have no place to rise.

Even the last bastions of genuine music such as the United States and the United Kingdom have gradually fallen into a period of decline after entering 2010, and they are far from recovering, so Yin Jun has no confidence in the domestic market.

What he can do for these singers is to make their singing career as colorful as possible, at least to make more money, so that they will not be so embarrassed when the market slumps down in the future, and then they will have the leisure to calm down Come make some good songs.

It is very simple to make them make money, which is the path Teresa Teng has been walking in recent years.

Concert.

First hold concerts in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, etc. After two years, when the mainland is opened up, then enter the mainland market to hold concerts.

Anyway, the mainland has such a large population, with a population of 1.2 billion, not to mention super-first-class cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, let alone first-class cities like Lin’an, Gusu, Jinwei, Minzhou, and Jinling, but second-rate cities like Rongcheng, Changsha, In a city like Liancheng, there are 30 concerts a year, and the venues are definitely full.

There are fifty or sixty cities like Huaguo, and there are more than 1,000 concerts a year. Isn't that enough?

There's no way, people's entertainment life is so little now, and concerts, which they can enjoy, are definitely very popular.

In fact, until 2020, when those outdated old singers hold concerts, they can still make a lot of money, let alone the era of lack of entertainment like the 80s and 90s.

Allowing singers to hold concerts will not expand Yin Jun's career territory, but it is good for expanding his influence.

It's a pity that now, except for Yin Jun, no one knows that the golden age of singers is less than 20 years left, and even on Hong Kong Tai's side, it is only 10 years.

As for the mainland singers...

Hehe, did they ever have a golden age?

How do you want them to make money when the state-owned bookstores and record company systems are directly and openly recording and selling pirated versions?

Of course, there are times when millions or tens of millions of tapes are sold, but how much money can your singer get?

Give you a little bonus this month, that means the unit treats you well!

This kind of disrespect for talents and music is really a trample on China's record industry.

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Leaving aside the matter of singing, Yin Jun's main energy now is still on how to develop his own career territory.

The production and distribution of comics is a very important part, but the derivatives of comics are even more important.

There is no way to talk about big movies or live-action movies now, but at least animations can be prepared, and toys are the same.

That's right.

Yin Jun's highest priority to produce is the one with the most money among all the comics.

Transformers.

In May, Yin Jun sent 13 animators from Shanghai Animation Film Studio to study in Japan for 4 months, then to the United States for 3 months, and after studying in the United States for a month, in January They should return to Xiangjiang to complete the 8-month learning process.

In fact, these 13 animators have already participated in the production of cartoons when they went to the US factory.

It's just that they are still far away from the most advanced animation production concepts in the world, so Yin Jun asked them to learn animation production in Japan and the United States.

For those who have the foundation, learning starts from the technical aspects.

They study for 8 months, enough for beginners to study for three years.

They will be the group of animators that Yin Jun focuses on training. In the next two or three years, they will produce a series of animations of Kirin Culture and teach batches of animation talents.

Speaking of new talents, Yin Junxin recruited 18 students from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Huaguo Academy of Fine Arts, most of whom were recruited for drawing pictures needed for animation.

They came to Xiangjiang in November, and the first thing they learned was how to sketch these animated characters.

Regardless of whether it is Megatron, Decepticon, Master Abu, Xiaoqing, Grandpa, Chibi Maruko... etc., they are all asked to draw as quickly as possible, and then break down all kinds of expressions and movements. open.

For these talented students from Huaguo's two ace academies of fine arts, such a sketch is not a problem.

After a month of repeated practice, they have drawn many images vividly.

Especially through everyone copying the same portrait, they can almost draw eight or nine points of similarity. If you don't look very carefully, you can't see it at all.

By December, they were concentrated on painting "Transformers", and began to hand-paint various static pictures according to the content needed for the cartoon written by the screenwriters.

Here I want to talk about a basic knowledge of animation production.

Usually when we look at things, if 24 pictures flash in front of you in one second, what your naked eyes see is a continuous image.

So when playing a continuous motion animation, every second you see is usually composed of 24 pictures, and this still picture is usually called a frame.

The same is true for movies. Usually every second you see is obtained by playing continuously 24 frames of pictures printed on the film.

So usually a one-minute movie needs about 27.43 meters of film, and a 90-minute movie needs about 2,500 meters of film—this is without wasting film. Generally, shooting a movie consumes 20 to 30 times more film than a 90-minute film.

In 2016, the 120-frame shooting technology used in "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" directed by Li Wei means that 120 still pictures are shot in one second, and the brains of the people who watch the movie are given the usual With 5 times the amount of information in the movie, one can imagine how clear it is.

Also because of such good technology, there are only 5 cinemas in the world that can play this advanced movie, and therefore the 2 cinemas in China are 288 per ticket, setting a sky-high price.

For such a movie, if you watch the ordinary 3D version or the giant screen version, you will not be able to see the taste of it at all.

Only pay a high price to see it.

If you can't see 120 frames, then go to 60 frames, which is also expensive.

This high ticket price is also the most critical factor for "Billy Lynn's Halftime Walk" to exceed 100 million box office in a short period of time!

And you paid a high price to see it, and after watching it, you will only sigh that the effect is so good, it deserves to give people the most perfect visual and auditory enjoyment, the money is really worth it!

Compared with movies with more and more demanding effects, in fact, cartoons, especially animated series with an episode of about 20 minutes, are basically not so particular.

We don’t need to compare the old man Hayao Miyazaki and Makoto Shinkai, they are the typical kind of people who make cartoons as super blockbusters.

Therefore, their cartoons cannot be called simple cartoons, but blockbuster movies produced by animation.

In the current era when there is no computer to assist in the production, animation at 24 frames per second is very time-consuming, and 34,560 pictures are required in 20 minutes. According to the calculation that an artist can draw about 50 pictures in 10 hours a day, 10 artists It takes 70 days to paint, plus production, it will take at least 3 months to finish.

Therefore, the works of these animation masters will only come out in at least two or three years.

These are all carefully polished by hundreds of people before they can come out.

Even for animation and drama, if you want to draw 24 frames per second, and want to play one episode per week, at least fifty or sixty artists must start working hard half a year in advance, and the progress is very fast. hardships.

so!

When Osamu Tezuka, the god of manga, produced the animation of "Astro Boy", he came up with an unprecedented and innovative animation production method for the Japanese animation industry, called frame-limited animation production.

Frame-limited animation, as the name implies, is called an animation that limits the number of frames per second.

That is to say, instead of making 24 portraits per second, I only draw 8-12 portraits on average, and one painting takes up 3 frames, or even two or three seconds that are so crazy that only one painting is used all have.

This example is not obtained from "Astro Boy", but it is developed to the extreme in "Doraemon" - in each episode of it, there are so many still pictures, it is really outrageous! When Doraemon took out something from the small bag, didn't it draw a still picture in a second? This is simply stealing and playing tricks to the extreme!

It's also fortunate that everyone is watching the storyline, not the picture, otherwise "Doraemon" would have hit the street long ago.

However, Osamu Tezuka’s way of making cartoons has indeed greatly reduced the time and cost of cartoon production, so that cartoons are continuously produced quickly and meet with everyone.

Now, the similar animation studio used by the old man to produce "Astro Boy" - that is, a comprehensive big guy composed of complex cameras, compositing software, photography platforms, etc., has been ordered by animators when they were in Japan Yes, after 3 months, the company over there has finished the production and sent it back to Xiangjiang.

When they were learning Japanese animation production, they used this kind of animation studio to make it, so it was easy to get used to it.

Coupled with the fact that the art students who are familiar with the process are in place, everything is ready now, and the animation production can be started only when the animators return from their studies!