The Creator of the Second Dimension

With the development of the Internet industry, students majoring in animation design are not only limited to animation production.

No matter the major game companies, portal websites, or some traditional enterprises, they are all looking for talents in graphic creation and design, and the well-known animation school of Ningjiang University has naturally become the place where these enterprises look for talents.

For example, at last year's job fair, more than 20 graduates joined non-animation companies. Many fresh graduates.

"The income of the animation company is indeed not high."

Although Han Qingwen and the others are freshmen, there is a course called career development planning in the freshman year, which requires them to form a group and interview a senior in the industry to broaden their career horizons, and their group was introduced by a teacher. , I interviewed Zhang Ran, a senior who has been working in Tomato Manufacturing for more than four years and has just been promoted to original artist recently.

Seeing the promotional poster in front of him, Han Qingwen subconsciously remembered what happened when he interviewed Zhang Ran.

According to the teacher's introduction, the senior Zhang Ran was the number one student in the animation major. He got an offer from Tomato Video Network, entered Tomato Manufacturing, and became an animator. He also entered the original painting group last year and became an original artist. He also has a wife who was together when he was studying and got married later. After listening to the introduction, others are envious.

Since this course is held every year, Zhang Ran seems to often receive commissions from his mentor, so he brought a group of four people from Han Qingwen's dormitory and four other girls from his class to the tomato production site.

It's very busy here. Tomato Productions has at least one new animation every quarter, as well as some long-form serialized animations, commercials, game titles, and BD disc corrections. There is almost no free time in a year.

"The original painting is the most important part of the animation. It is responsible for the work of the key sheets. The animation you actually see is composed of countless key sheets and intermediate sheets. Using the principle of vision, the key sheets stay in people's eyes. The time spent is the longest and the impression is the deepest, so every original painting must strive to be the best."

Zhang Ran took the young boys and girls to visit the office area, and at the same time introduced a little knowledge of animation production.

Since Tomato Manufacturing has introduced digital painting for a long time, except for the storyboard and design drafts, there are very few paper materials. Therefore, there is no animation company's original manuscripts flying in Han Qingwen's impression on the scene. Every original artist Looking at the two screens in front of him and drawing on the digital board with a pen in his hand, he looks like a high-tech enterprise.

"In Tomato Manufacturing, new graduates usually start as animators. After three to five years of training, they can start to be responsible for the original painting after passing the assessment. It usually takes five years until they really become an original artist. As for the above, as for the more core performances and character design, it is impossible without ten years of hard work."

Looking at these ignorant freshmen, Zhang Ran couldn't help recalling how he looked when he entered school.

"Wow, so that said, Zhang Xuechang, you became an original artist in only four years, isn't it amazing?"

Cai Liren, Han Qingwen's roommate, opened his mouth and asked, he was the most active and proactive this time.

"Uh, it's not too bad. I have been an original artist for four years, and I can only be regarded as a person who is 70% ahead of Tomato Manufacturing. You know, Rainbow Media, ahem, the former martial arts director of Rainbow Media, from entry to the first animation director, it only took seven years."

Zhang Ran said modestly, but there was already a clear look of joy on his face.

"Then senior, you are also very good. I heard from Professor Zhou that you married your lover in college, which is really perfect."

A girl asked, she cared more about this kind of emotional gossip than industry anecdotes.

"Haha, what did the teacher say? My wife He Shuyi is currently in the tomato coloring department. I can ask her to come over and tell you about it when I'm waiting for lunch."

Zhang Ran touched his chin. He was very satisfied with the reverent attitude of this group of students, and even all the unhappiness at work disappeared.

Since Zhang Ran had half a day off to receive these students, the person in charge paid special attention to this kind of promotion of the company's image.

During lunch, he continued to laugh and chat with the students, chatting about various industry gossips, very happy.

However, Zhang Ran noticed that there was a boy who didn't seem to like to talk very much and looked taciturn, so he asked.

"Student, I think you are a little confused. If you are interested in tomato production, feel free to ask."

The person he asked was Han Qingwen.

Han Qingwen's mind was not on this side. The cartoonists and members of the animation company he came into contact with through Li Xue's cousin Li Ruoxuan. This kind of knowledge learned in half a day of interviews is basically useless to Han Qingwen.

When he was clicked on at this moment, he froze for a moment before opening his mouth.

"I have no doubts, Senior Zhang, I think what you said is very good."

He replied with a natural attitude, neither humble nor overbearing.

Zhang Ran smiled and didn't say anything. He has seen this kind of high-spirited newcomer, and even he was like this back then. He felt that he was already very great, and he could make a career and change the industry casually. But in fact, he is just an insignificant screw in this huge industry.

At this time, Huang Kun, who had been looking at his phone just now, raised his head and asked blurtly.

"Hey, I found out that Zhang Ran, you and Xu Rui from Fantastic Animation seem to be the same batch of graduates. Do you know each other?"

As soon as he asked, Huang Kun realized something was wrong.

Zhang Ran's originally kind expression suddenly froze. Xu Rui, this name was like a nightmare, haunting Zhang Ran for four years. Even this name was a forbidden sentence between him and his wife He Shuyi. information.

But Zhang Ran and his wife work in the industry, so how can they stay away from Xu Rui? From the topical animations that appear every few quarters, to the annual animations every year, various mobile games, live broadcasts, and the previous turmoil of Wu Yi's resignation, Xu Rui this His name appeared in every corner of Zhang Ran's life, which made him feel extremely stressed.

In Zhang Ran's words, how rich the world's richest man is has nothing to do with him, because he doesn't know him anyway, but Xu Rui, who used to stand on the same platform as himself, and even worse than himself in all aspects , and now it has become one of the most influential names in China's animation industry, it is really difficult for Zhang Ran to maintain a peaceful mind.

The later interviews became a bit awkward. Of course, Han Qingwen's classmates were still more inclined to join Tomato Production, after all, it was too difficult to get into the fantasy animation.

However, in the winter near the end of December, the sudden appearance of this joint training program between fantasy animation and Tranquility University made this group of freshmen suddenly have many restless thoughts.

At 7 o'clock on Sunday night, Building No. 2, a large classroom that can accommodate 500 people, is crowded with people, and there is no empty seat.

Han Qingwen and Li Xue sat at the left front and watched as several teachers were making final preparations.

Soon, the presentation officially began, and just as the students were getting specific information about the plan, the person in charge of the presentation from Fantastic Animation walked into the classroom.

That turned out to be Xu Rui.