Anyone here who is not following this animation?
Dear fellow practitioners from Class Elite of Faction 60,
welcome to visit my company.
I'm the general manager of Bp Animation.
With over 80 employees,
we are one of the biggest animation companies in Huaxiu.
We cover key animation, art, 3D, action, photographing, and everything.
Mr. Surprise of Huaxiu, High Above, My Unbelievable Magic Ware.
"Down Below" "My Unbelievable Magic Ware"
Those are our early projects.
We are now participating in the production of
Time Is Like A Sharp Knife and The Adventure Of The Crown Prince.
Will we have the opportunity to practice cultivation here?
Of course.
The company has institutes in many places across Huaxiu.
You can have a complimentary experience of the art of liver bursting there.
If you have passion for animation, you are welcome to join us at any time.
All right, here we are.
Welcome to Bp Animation.
The storyboard is such a scribble.
I just can't recognize it.
Where is the director?
It's been 49 days,
and you haven't submitted your materials.
Is this the place
where an animation is made?
"Adapted from the story of the same title by author Ku Xuan from Chinese Qidian Website of Yuewen Group" "The Daily Life of the Immortal King"
"The Daily Life of the Immortal King Season 2"
"Episode Ten: Extra: The Director Is Not Home Today"
Sorry, the party you are calling is in retreat.
- Please dial again one cycle later. - Damn it.
Let me introduce the producer of the company.
A project needs the collaboration of different sections.
Therefore, we need a producer to coordinate their timetable and staff.
Perfect timing, boss.
She is the producer of the company.
She has very strong capabilities
and is one of the key employees of the company.
Mr. Tang, the producer seems to have something to say.
What is it?
Well... Mr. Tang, the director has run away.
What?
It's going to go online very soon,
and you are telling me the director has run away.
He was drawing the storyboard in retreat.
Somehow, he seemed to be bewitched.
He rushed out of his room. God knows where he is now.
What are you waiting for? Go find him.
But someone has got to take care of the production site.
My fellow practitioners,
now that this is your practice trip,
I'll give you a chance to experience how it feels to be a director.
Are you serious, Mr. Tang?
Mr. Tang, don't mess around like that.
Don't worry.
Most work of the early phases has been completed anyway.
The only job left to the producer is content review.
Think twice, Mr. Tang.
Attention, all sections.
As the old saying goes,
viewers are our best directors.
Our director is not home today,
but we have our fellow practitioners from Faction 60 visiting our company.
Now let's invite these Class Elite practitioners
to take over the director's job, temporarily.
I hope you'll follow their directions.
Am I too late to resign?
"Key Animation"
First, let me show you the key animation section.
One season of an animation consists of a dozen episodes.
It is not possible for the director to attend to every detail.
We therefore need a conductor to oversee each episode.
Simply put, a conductor can be seen as the director of each episode.
After meeting with the director,
the conductor will allocate the cuts
to key animators who are good at drawing.
This is terrific.
It's cool.
Did you draw all of these?
That's what a key animator does.
Are you satisfied, acting directors?
Not bad,
but there is a minor problem.
I wonder if I can say it.
Shoot.
There seems to be some frame loss,
and the sketches are kind of scribbled.
It doesn't look like the animation I watch every day.
I am the initial animator.
The sketches I make will be modified by the conductor.
Then, the 2nd animator will develop these sketches into line drawings.
After that, there is the animation supervisor to modify them,
and assistants to make the in-between pictures.
It takes so many people to complete one picture.
Who will be taken responsible if the picture is ruined?
We have limited manpower.
Films for theaters have developed to 120 frames per seconds.
How come animations have lower and lower frame rate?
I remember that Disney animations are all 24fps,
but other animations are only 8fps.
Films are shot,
while animations are drawn.
You can't require an animator to do that.
Shut up!
You want to see 24fps animations, don't you?
Biblibablibo.
Of all martial arts, speed beats everything.
This is...
The art of liver bursting.
That's right. You know quite a lot.
The animator enlightened his pen
allowing the digital pen to draw by itself.
It's a skill only someone of the golden pill phase can master.
Why don't they draw like this all the time?
Because this skill hurts your liver so much
that you'll end up in the ICU if you use it too often.
Come.
I've made this cut into 24fps.
Oh my god.
Is this the long-lost full frame animation?
It plays so smoothly.
Acting director, are you satisfied now?
Probably because I've played so many 3A games,
I still feel the frame rate is a bit low.
Can you make it 60fps?
What shall we do, Mr. Tang?
Another key animator is down.
It seems that 60fps animations do not exist.
You want to see 60fps animations?
This is the photographing section.
After receiving the backgrounds and the key animations you just saw,
"Open " "Abort"
photographing uses post-composite software to combine them
and make the pictures move.
Special effects like blur or fireworks-like water surface
are also post-composite's job.
Photographing and composite cannot be done until all other materials are finished.
Normally, photographers are in a state of dormancy.
When the time to go online comes close,
the producer will wake them up.
All right. Come on.
It's time to witness the miracle.
Is this some kind of magic?
No.
This is an AI complement frame plug-in.
60fps is a small case.
I can create 120fps, even 1,200fps if you want.
Then why do they go to great pains to draw the pictures by hand?
That's because AI has problems like this,
only that at such a high frame rate, nobody notices it.
Are you satisfied now, frame rate detective?
I think animations made by a computer don't have souls in them.
You do it if you can.
Come on. Come into my body and make animations with souls.
You do it if you can.
- Come on. Come into my body and make animations with souls. - Do you feel it, master?
"Scene"
Next, I'll show you our art section.
Is this the great man in his infancy?
The art section's job is not just drawing the scenes.
It determines the artistic style of a production.
For example, a scene about vigorous youth is best depicted by a golden dusk,
while sad stories are usually set in a gloomy rainy day.
Coming up with convincing scenes
requires accumulation of numerous materials and long-time experience.
If you have any comments on art, please...
I beg you, Mr. Tang.
No more comments.
Mr. Zhu has been exhausting his liver for over half a year.
He can't hold on much longer no matter what a high status he has.
All right. I appreciate your hard work, Mr. Zhu.
When this episode is completed, go back to your hometown to get married.
- Mr. Zhu. - I didn't mean to do it.
What is it, Brother Wang?
Master, the total value of the world's spiritual force is dropping rapidly.
There is nothing I can do now.
We've lost so many hands.
This episode will never be done.
Don't give up, producer.
You need more hands, and you have us.
You?
That's right.
We've been learning quickly when we were touring around your company.
We have full knowledge of the production process now.
But it takes at least 30 years' endeavors to make a qualified key animator.
Miss Wong, don't forget,
when our company started, we were exactly like what they are.
We grew from green hands that didn't know anything to what we are now.
Bravo. Good for you.
Look at the sincerity and enthusiasm in their eyes.
That's the passion for animation.
We must have belief in these youngsters.
They are the future of Huaxiu.
On your desk, you should have your part of the storyboard.
Draw your picture as described in the storyboard.
What's this?
Sometimes the director is busy,
so the storyboard he made might be kind of scribbled.
Needs key animator's improvision for 30 seconds.
What the hell is this?
Some directors are not good at drawing action scenes,
so they will ask the key animators who are good at it to improvise.
Oh my God. It's so difficult.
All I need to do is trace the original picture.
Why is it still so difficult?
Of course it is.
Beginners are required to practice drawing solid lines in their first 3 months,
countless circles and straight lines,
until they can draw proper lines without any zigzags.
I don't have a talent for drawing.
My pen is moving by itself.
Whatever I have in my mind,
my pen draws it by itself.
This is...
The art of liver bursting?
No, I previewed the art of enlightenment for the next semester.
No worries about my hand trembling.
You are a genius, Brother Wang.
"Key Animation"
Here are the key animations, Supervisor.
Please modify them.
Producer, why must the supervisor modify the key animations?
Different animators draw the same face with slight differences.
In the best cases, the supervisor just modifies the outline of the face
to unify the style.
But key animators nowadays are not all that good.
In that case, the supervisor will have to modify the head and hands,
sometimes even the whole picture.
If the key animation is worse than that,
the supervisor will give his comments and ask the animator to redraw it.
No way.
It takes so long to draw a picture.
It's going to take forever to redraw it.
I don't believe it.
I won't allow such twisted things to exist in my computer.
"twisted"
"twisted things"
It's so difficult to make an animation.
There's really nothing I can do now.
What shall we do, master?
The total value of the world's spiritual force is coming to 0.
The dimensions are going to collapse.
The world is destroyed again.
Producer, where is the director?
They are working so hard.
Are you ready, master?
The battle is about to begin.
When are you going to finish the storyboard, director?
In a minute.
The director is back.
Conductor, how are the key animations going?
How many scene cuts are not done yet?
Move the lips 2 frames backward in this cut.
He's so professional.
This is a genuine director.
Thank you all for creating this beautiful world.