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"Little Witch Academia: Magic Parade" is really only one step away from being edited. However, although the publisher has been set, the specific release time has not yet been decided. The relevant publicity and distribution will also have to be done with another investor in the animation.

Mr. Osawa from Sall, the manufacturer, agreed that the audience would have to wait a while longer to see it.

However, if "Little Witch Academia: Magic Parade" can be completed within the construction period, other things will be trivial. After Gu Xue has been tracking it for a while, the focus has completely shifted.

During the month of writing the script for "Embracing a Better Tomorrow", Gu Xue went to the animation workshop to attend many meetings.

For example, preliminary meetings to determine the overall direction of the work, art setting meetings, character setting meetings, etc.

However, this is a manga adaptation, so determining these is much better than when Gu Xue started working on "Little Witch Academia" from scratch. Because there are references, it is not difficult to determine the overall direction of the work. The original work is placed in

There, no matter what you do, it is impossible to make it in the retarded style of "Blessings for a Better World"...

As for the relevant settings, the manga drawn by the manga author, Shirakawa Rina, is equivalent to the original work. The main creative staff only need to change the relevant settings in the manga to suit animation production and animation performance based on the actual situation.

The same goes for character design.

Gu Xue was responsible for the character design of the animation, and the changes were not very big. Apart from the usual reduction of lines, the characters were made less beautiful.

Anyway, the original author is not here. If Gu Xue thinks this is appropriate, then it is appropriate.

At the end of the month.

Gu Xue came to the animation workshop again and participated in the script meeting. The completed script is mainly the first two episodes of the series that Ye Huo was responsible for. Gu Xue took a look at it and found that there were some problems, but it would be fine if he changed it a little, and it would not have any impact.

not very big.

The next step is to post the storyboards.

Gu Xue needs to make it clear to the person who draws the storyboard what kind of image she wants to convey. In short, she needs to state her creative intention.

However, Gu Xue needed to be responsible for the storyboarding of the first episode, and she also planned to act in the first episode. So she thought about it for a while, put aside the matter of storyboarding for the time being, took the completed script, and ran to

The animation studio has reserved a place for itself, and plans to start drawing the storyboards of the first episode to take a look.

Although general supervisors do not participate in too specific production work, it is common for them to be responsible for the storyboarding and performance of key episodes, such as the first episode, the last episode, the gaha or transitions in the middle, and so on.

This can serve as a good demonstration and can also establish the overall style of the work from the beginning, or the supervision style.

At this point, Gu Xue is certainly not exempt from vulgarity.

She plans to be responsible for the storyboarding and acting of the first, sixth, and final episodes, if nothing unexpected happens.

But if nothing unexpected happens, it sounds nice...how is that possible?

Gu Xue drew the storyboard and encountered a problem after drawing the first shot.

On the table.

The completed script was opened by Gu Xue, and it was clearly written on it.

"village."

"Under the setting sun, the male protagonist ran to the hillside and stood there, bathing in the afterglow of the setting sun, looking into the distance and smiling..."

Just two sentences.

The scene where the male protagonist is, the relationship between time and space, and his demeanor have been explained.

It seems like just following the painting will be fine.

But the actual situation cannot be like this.

There is no specific lens language involved in the script.

For example, the above two sentences explain the time and space relationship between the main characters, lines and scenes, but what angle is used specifically, close-up or telephoto lens, how the protagonist runs, and the specific smile after standing still.

What does it look like on the screen, etc.

There are none of these, and determining these is the work of storyboarding.

Originally this was a comic adaptation, so it would be easier to draw storyboards, because when cartoonists draw comics, the storyboards they use can theoretically be copied or copied with slight changes.

But Gu Xue... maybe because of pride, she didn't do this.

After reading the script many times, Gu Xue picked up the pencil and started drawing the first scene after more than ten minutes.

First, the camera started to focus on the protagonist's swinging legs, then it zoomed out to a telephoto lens that included the hillside and the running protagonist, and then it showed the protagonist standing still, holding his knees and panting. Then,

It is a close-up of the protagonist. She is looking at the front {camera}, her face bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun, confident and happy. He raised his hands and shouted loudly into the distance, venting his happy mood...

Everything is difficult at the beginning, but it gets much better after getting started. Gu Xue drew the shot smoothly.

After outlining the last scene, Gu Xue added notes next to it, explaining the mood of the protagonist when he shouted, and especially emphasized the point of confidence.

Then, Gu Xue dropped the pencil, picked up the stopwatch on the table, looked at the first shot, and pressed start.

After waiting seriously for two seconds, she pressed the pause button on the stopwatch, turned over the stopwatch and looked at the time.

More than three seconds.

Gu Xue thought about it for a while, started over, pressed start again, looked at the storyboard and imagined for a while, and pressed the pause button again.

After confirming that there was not much difference in the final time, she picked up the pencil, filled in the time, and filled in the number of card 1 in the first column of the storyboard.

This is the process of drawing storyboards.

Unlike the original painting, which can be drawn without stopping, Gu Xue must determine the time of each shot. The length of an animation episode is fixed. In the storyboarding step, the time must be roughly determined.

To determine the time, you can only rely on your imagination.

Rely on the human brain to imagine how many seconds it will take to complete the action in the storyboard to determine the time of one card.

After all the storyboards are drawn, you can roughly determine the time of an animation episode by adding up the time of all the shots, and then delete or add shots based on this.

In addition to storyboarding, you also need to determine the length of lines, the BG style to be used in different shots, various requirements, etc.

Although the storyboards can be very sloppy and many details can be ignored, it is really not an easy task to draw.

After Gu Xue drew a few shots, she was a little worried about whether she could complete it on time.

But the fact was beyond her expectation.

Pretty fast.

Although calculating time and writing notes are troublesome and time-consuming, Gu Xue can draw very quickly.

And ever since he finished painting the first scene, Gu Xue felt like he had opened up the two channels of Ren and Du, and his inspiration was endless.

The only trouble was that the background music needed to be used at certain critical moments, and Gu Xue had no clue.

I don’t even know the general style.

When she was working on "Little Witch Academia" before, she knew exactly what she wanted, but this time it was different...

What style of music do you want...

What kind of music style do you imagine when you read comics...

Gu Xue frowned, put down her pencil temporarily, picked up the script, and turned to the last page.

The last series of shots in the first episode are the most important in Gu Xue's mind. She wants to create a 'feeling of adventure' and a 'battle is about to begin' feeling. This would definitely be a bit weak just relying on the pictures. The music and pictures that fit well

The effect will be better.

Compatible bg.

Gu Xue looked at the description on the script and thought hard for a while.

Adventure, dungeons, evil dragons, the battle is about to begin...

etc.

Gu Xue flipped the script forward, looked at it, and suddenly thought of a very familiar BG.
Chapter completed!