Li Yi finally decided to give Zhang Haiyang a chance and Xingman a chance!
He wanted to see if, with sufficient financial support, Xingman could give him a surprise.
He didn't ask for Xingman to be as good as what he remembered, but at least the gap shouldn't be too big.
The story of the animated movie "Wall-E" is actually very simple.
In fact, to a certain extent, if the robot were replaced by a real person, this would actually be a very vulgar story about a lonely otaku and a savage girlfriend.
When Li Yi took out the script to Zhang Haiyang, Zhang Haiyang immediately read the script with anticipation.
The next moment, Zhang Haiyang was...how should I put it? A little disappointed?
Mainly because this script is just a short story script.
The story tells a series of stories about Wall-E, a cleaning robot on Earth, who encounters and falls in love with the robot Eve, and then follows her into space adventures.
The script of "WALL-E" has never been amazing, which can be seen from Zhang Haiyang's reaction.
What really makes this movie a classic is the details given in the animation production process.
For example, WALL-E's image, such as Eva's image, WALL-E's movement habits, Eva's characteristics, plus other characteristics such as pet cockroaches, such as the cleaning robot on the spaceship, etc., these are what make WALL-E
This movie is the key to becoming a classic.
In fact, looking at those animated movies, it can basically be said that excluding the images and details of the animated characters, the plots of most animated movies are relatively simple.
The same goes for WALL-E.
And this is also the power of top animation production companies. They can make the most popular themes into robot shells and make them interesting!
This is what Li Yi hopes Xingman can do under the guidance of his "bad guy"!
"Okay, in the next time, we need to design the appearance of the main characters in this story, including the movements, expressions, voices, languages, etc. of these characters." Li Yi did not give Zhang Haiyang too much.
Time to think.
Perhaps there is a big gap between the strength and level of Xingman and Hollywood, but it has a huge advantage, and that is, Li Yi!
Because Li Yi can directly anchor many key details about "Wall-E" through words and drawings, and it can be said that these can definitely save Star Comics a lot of time.
In the production process of animated films, what do domestic animation companies lack most?
It is a talent with both artistic aesthetics and production technology, but this is not irreparable. What is artistic aesthetics and where is it reflected?
For example, the image of the robot WALL-E, the image of Eva, the image of the pet cockroach, the image of the cleaning robot, etc. These are the places where artistic aesthetics are displayed.
And Li Yi can help them overcome these in advance.
If they can't make it according to the picture, then it's impossible for Li Yi to leave this animated movie to them.
Zhang Haiyang called over Xingman's most elite team.
Then Li Yi began to design the character's image.
As a director, Li Yi has very solid basic skills.
When Li Yi drew the three-dimensional image of the robot WALL-E, Zhang Haiyang was completely shocked.
Because the image of the robot WALL-E drawn by Li Yi also included displays of WALL-E's various dismemberment movements.
Especially when Li Yi asked Xingman's graphics staff to color the Wall-E he drew on the computer. Although it was just a static image, the entire image stood up immediately.
After that, there's Eva, and so on.
In the following time, Li Yi stayed at Xingman and stayed with the production team.
Of course, it was more that he was talking and drawing the image, and then the people in the production team kept making and modifying it according to Li Yi's requirements.
Watching the images of the robots WALL-E, Eva, etc. being realized step by step inside the computer, the sense of accomplishment is really addictive.
Then Zhang Haiyang was shocked to discover that Li Yi was really terrifying.
It is difficult for ordinary people to imagine.
To Zhang Haiyang, Li Yi seemed to have a very mature and complete movie in his mind.
You know, the most time-consuming thing about animated film production is actually not the technical implementation, but the fact that during the production process, you can't know exactly what effect you want.
In this case, constant adjustments and adjustments must be made.
The adjustments made during animation production and the adjustments made during actual live-action shooting are completely different things.
It takes longer and more time.
Instead of just reshooting it directly.
Because animated characters, every word, every move they make, cannot be done naturally like real people.
But with Li Yi here, he can directly tell the production team what kind of effect he wants.
And Li Yi is the director himself, and he has a complete finished film in his mind, so what he needs to do is to directly tell them what the lighting requirements here are, what are the elements of the fantasy here, and what is to be achieved.
Such effect.
Sometimes, when he couldn't make it clear to them with words, he would start drawing.
Therefore, the progress far exceeded Zhang Haiyang’s imagination!
Although this is just the beginning, it is the most important and the most critical point in animated film production.
With clear and detailed pictures that are outrageous and wonderful, all they need to do is really just tool people!
It can be said that with the existence of director Li Yi, the biggest shortcoming that originally restricted Xingman has been directly made up for.
Zhang Haiyang, who has directed "Ocean of Childlike Innocence" himself, does not think that Li Yi's behavior is normal. When he was making "Ocean of Childlike Innocence", he changed the draft countless times just for the character image.
But here in Li Yi, he can tell you directly what it is like and what effect needs to be achieved!
However, even so, Li Yi also felt that the production methods of animated movies and live-action movies can be said to be completely different.
There are more convenient and convenient places. For example, what kind of light, what kind of lighting, what kind of environment Li Yi wants. In reality, it may be very troublesome, but in the process of computer production, these are the most difficult
It's an idea. If there are clear requirements, then when they make it, they only need to adjust the parameters to get closer to Li Yi's requirements step by step.
But even so, although the progress is much faster, it is still too slow compared to live-action movies.
However, Zhang Haiyang is full of confidence because he has never seen a director like Li Yi. It almost feels like Li Yi is "watching the movie" and then letting them reproduce it.
What Zhang Haiyang didn't know was that he was right, because Li Yi was indeed "watching the movie" and retelling it.
Time flies by and January 14th arrives in a blink of an eye. This is the day when the Academy Award nominations are announced!
