It has been almost a week since I last painted fans in the old town.
After a week of study, Luo Huan finally brought Shen Jie into the studio to start the formal production of the second episode of "Luo Xiaohei's War Chronicles".
It has to be said that work is easier when there are more people. Shen Jie, who is used to drawing alone, was a little uncomfortable seeing so many people working on animation together this time.
And Shen Jie's current work has suddenly changed from a single painting to overall planning.
Although Luo Huan was by his side, it was Shen Jie who was explaining the effects he wanted to others when drawing each scene.
Because Shen Jie himself was deeply involved in the painting, many details were described very clearly. But even so, Luo Huan also added a lot of things. I can only say that professional is worthy of being professional.
The second chapter of Luo Xiaohei's War Chronicles is actually not very difficult to produce. To be precise, this extremely simple composition is very difficult to draw. The main difficulty lies in the conversion of the scene. Although
The second episode only has a few scenes, but the connection between scenes is also crucial.
The second chapter mainly talks about the process of Xiao Hei trying to escape, first how to get out of the house, then how to go downstairs, and finally being caught back.
The plot is very everyday, with almost no highlights. What animation needs is not the daily routine, but elements that can make people empathize with it.
So the escape process in the second episode was broken down into several steps, first how to go out, then how to go downstairs, what happened while going downstairs, and finally being caught back.
Obviously, these are only a few core points that are crucial to the escape process, not the whole process at all. What Shen Jie is doing now is to extract the core nodes in the story and make them more dramatic.
And how to connect these points to make them look like a complete story is the main problem of the second episode.
Luo Huan directly left the problem to Shen Jie to solve, while she opened a video and started fishing.
Shen Jie first assigned the tasks to each segment. Then he began to try to connect these scenes.
Although the script for the second episode has already been released, if you follow it like this, it will really become a running story. Because although the script records the story from beginning to end, it is not so clear about what is important and what is not important.
Obviously, Shen Jie has to control everything.
The beginning of the second episode is a summary of the first episode, saying that Xiao Hei woke up from his dream and found that he had been picked up and taken home by humans.
Then there is the scene of a warm meal, which is completely different from the subsequent escape.
The original animation production team used a cutscene to successfully transform the original scene of eating and going to school into the scene of Xiao Hei trying to escape.
And those two pigeons have also become an extremely classic transition animation.
In fact, many animations or TV series do this when transitions are needed, but Luo Xiaohei's transition animation seems a little special.
Because as the animation is gradually being produced, the audience can clearly see that the transition animation is not just a background. Although it only lasts a few seconds and has no lines, it actually has its own plot.
Although it will be a little awkward when you first use it, as time goes by, the animation is gradually updated, and the transition animation is also constantly updated. At this time, the transition animation itself has become a meme.
Then there is what happened when Xiao Hei escaped. How did Xiao Hei escape? The first thing was the process of going downstairs.
Here you need to understand what it will be like to go downstairs, and then start from here. When going down to a high-rise building, you will definitely take the elevator or take the stairs.
If we talk about daily life, Xiao Hei would definitely choose the elevator at the beginning. This is what anyone with a sound mind would think.
However, this is not daily life. If Xiao Hei were asked to choose the elevator and go directly to the first floor, then the entire animation would be impossible to shoot.
Therefore, we need to add a little hardship to the protagonist in this process to make the story less smooth.
This is also why in some works, the protagonist will be in trouble wherever he goes. Of course, this is not a buff brought by the protagonist, but a means to make the plot ups and downs and keep readers reading. Otherwise, it is just a daily running account, who would
Go and see it.
Therefore, Luo Xiaohei cannot successfully take the elevator from the beginning. Many accidents can be caused here, such as sudden power outage, elevator malfunction, etc., forcing Xiaohei to take the stairs.
But don’t forget, this is a residential building, and there is a high probability that it will happen. Compared with power outages and elevator failures, it will appear much normal, and it will not make people feel that the author is deliberately targeting the protagonist.
Of course, the largest number of people in a residential building are people, people coming and going and cats riding in the elevator. It is obvious that cats will be kicked off the elevator.
This is the plot. It is obviously deliberately creating difficulties for the protagonist, but it does not feel like the protagonist is being targeted. Everything seems very normal.
Therefore, Xiao Hei was forced to choose to take the stairs. In this scene, in order to show the length of the stairs, and to deepen the impression of being kicked off the elevator, an acceleration technique was used.
First, the camera shoots Xiao Hei going down the stairs step by step at normal speed, and then suddenly speeds up, and the scene jumps directly to Xiao Hei who has already gone down an unknown number of floors and is already out of breath from exhaustion. This is to make taking the elevator for the second time more interesting.
Be more reasonable.
However, even though he scored twice, the specific details should be different from the first time he took the elevator.
If the first time I took the elevator I was generous, then the second time I took it I was cautious, for fear of being kicked off by others.
This point is naturally easy to solve. Just add Xiao Hei's attitude towards this phenomenon when opening and closing the elevator door. It can be solved with one expression and one action.
Then comes the end of the escape process, which is being captured.
How to heighten the atmosphere here and express the despair when being captured is the focus here.
To figure out what despair is, we must first give the protagonist a kind of hope. Naturally, what the protagonist wants is to escape. Then killing this hope is called despair. And the most cruel one is the effect Shen Jie wants.
Therefore, it is inevitable that the protagonist will be kicked off after getting on the elevator for the second time, because it is impossible for the protagonist to be caught as soon as he comes out of the elevator. That would not be called despair, but would be tragic at most.
After being kicked off the elevator, he went down the stairs again, once again showing the protagonist's fatigue.
You must know that true despair is not when you encounter difficulties that you cannot solve, but when you are trying your best to solve the difficulties and are about to get a wake-up call.
Therefore, when Luo Xiaohei finally reached the bottom of the building and looked at the nearby exit, his mother suddenly grabbed him back. This was a kind of despair.