E10 - Extra: The Director Is Not Home Today

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