My Animation Era - Chapter 717

Chapter 717 Jerry and Cheese (for subscription)

The day before New Year’s Eve, the news that “Tom and Jerry” won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film quickly spread across the country.

Major media reported on it one after another.

This breaking news was also posted on the Internet, setting off a round of heated discussions.

In addition to congratulating Wanbao and being proud of Wanbao, netizens are also discussing the reason why “Tom and Jerry” is so powerful.

Not to mention…

Under the frame-by-frame analysis of netizens, they really dig out many details that were previously overlooked from the first episode of “Tom and Jerry”.

Almost a question is very popular.

【What do you think of the first episode of “Tom and Jerry” winning the Best Animated Short Film at the 87th Academy Awards? 】

The answers to this question were added thousands of times in just one day, and the answer with the highest number of likes came from a senior animator.

In his answer, he carefully analyzed the small details in the first episode of “Tom and Jerry” that are easily overlooked by the audience.

For example, Tom’s hair.

The animator said that as a common pet, “cat” is not uncommon in major animation works.

But there are few animations that can be portrayed so vividly like Tom in “Tom and Mouse”, and even the details of hair and beard are handled perfectly.

And there is the soundtrack.

In the first episode, Tom chases Jerry. This exciting chase scene uses a piece of classical music that fits the atmosphere.

And this piece of music, generally you can only hear it at concerts…

The analysis of Gao Zan’s answer shocked many viewers who didn’t know the truth.

Before this, they only thought “Tom and Jerry” was very exciting and beautiful. But no one noticed that “Tom and Jerry” actually did such a good job in details.

Even the soundtrack is so classy and elegant!

No wonder you can win an Oscar! The details are so well done, if you still can’t win the Oscar, it’s a joke, right?

Regarding these remarks, there are also voices praising “Tom and Jerry”, of course Gu Miao also saw it.

Just…

His attitude is very disdainful.

Maybe this is the so-called, when you succeed, your farts are also delicious!

It’s not that “Tom and Jerry” isn’t good enough to deserve all the praise and adulation. It’s just that these people didn’t say anything before, and they jumped out to brag when “Tom and Jerry” won the award, which is really disgusting.

Of course, it doesn’t matter.

Anyway, Gu Miao’s plan has come true. With the help of the Oscar-winning popularity and traffic, everyone has successfully remembered “Tom and Jerry”.

The second episode is about to air.

According to Dave, with the efforts of him and the team, the second episode of the animation “Tom and Jerry” is coming to an end, and it will be broadcast after a year.

Gu Miao was looking forward to it.

Before this, he had watched the clips of the second episode “Midnight Dim Sum”, and he was full of confidence in the performance of this episode.

The story of the second episode is quite simple. Jerry steals cheese at midnight and is discovered by Tom.

Then Tom played with Jerry and asked him to put the cheese in the refrigerator, but he opened the refrigerator to eat, but the owner found out, and the witty Tom chose to throw the blame to Jerry.

Jerry was not reconciled, and the cat and the mouse fought in the kitchen for several rounds, making the kitchen a mess…

The plot of this episode is actually simpler than that of the first episode.

But this episode left a deeper impression on Gu Miao than the first episode. Especially the original version, which was just silent with a smile on its face.

Why?

Because the original “Tom and Jerry” was born in the 1940s and 1950s, and in the animation, the refrigerator is filled with all kinds of cheese, sausage, ham, jelly…

That was eighty years ago!

Sometimes I really can’t think about it while watching animation, because the more I think about it, the easier it is for people to realize the cruelty of reality.

That aside, this episode also created Tom and Jerry as a character who loves cheese.

Cheese is an old supporting role!

In many classic episodes of “Tom and Jerry”, cheese can be seen. As a mouse, Jerry especially likes cheese, which has formed a stereotype.

This directly leads to the fact that when Gu Miao thinks of mice, he thinks of Jerry, and when he thinks of Jerry, he thinks of cheese…

The difference from the first episode is.

From the second episode of “Tom and Jerry”, it adopts a broadcast strategy of “network update” as the main and TV broadcast as the supplement.

This is mainly because the current number of “Tom and Jerry” animation series is too small, so few that the TV station buys them back, and it is not even easy to arrange a schedule.

That’s why Gu Miao decided to broadcast animations on the Wanbao video website starting from the second episode “Midnight Dim Sum”.

When will it be broadcast?

It lasted until the number of “Tom and Jerry” episodes, about 20-30 episodes, began to package and transfer the copyright to the TV platform.

“How about twenty or thirty years?”

Old Zhang wondered: “With the current production speed of “Tom and Jerry”, it will take at least ten years to make 20 episodes?”

“How is that possible!” Gu Miao shook her head, “The production was slow at the beginning, that’s because designing and drawing the scene characters would delay more time and energy.”

“I will do a few more episodes later, and the material and experience will be accumulated enough, and the production progress will be accelerated.”

This is what Dave said.

At the beginning, it really took a lot of effort to rebuild the scenes and characters. But the further back you go, the smoother and faster it gets to make.

It took half a year for the first episode, and two and a half months for the second episode. This is already a great improvement!

In the later stage, it may only take half a month or even a week to make an episode of “Tom and Jerry”.

The deadline for “three years to sharpen a sword” given by Gu Miao is not to let Dave “three years to sharpen an episode”, but to let him spend three years to polish a complete animation work.

“Actually, to be honest…”

“I’m not very worried about “Tom and Jerry”, after all, Dave, the eight-time Oscar winner, is in charge. On the contrary, it’s the movie “Sheep Elated”, which makes me even more worried.”

Old Zhang understood: “Are you worried about poor box office results?”

“There is a strong enemy this year!”

Gu Miao said with a headache: “In the past two years during the Spring Festival, we didn’t meet any decent opponents. But this year there are a few blockbuster films, and the lineup is probably all taken up.”

Well known.

If a movie wants to achieve results and get a high box office, it must ensure the health of two data, one is the attendance rate and the other is the film scheduling rate.

Attendance rate Gu Miao is not worried.

“Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf” has a high attendance rate in all major movies of the past dynasties. Those parents who take their children to the movies buy two or three tickets.

But the film scheduling rate is really uncontrollable.

There are no strong competitors in the same period. Fortunately, as long as the theaters are not blind, they will always increase the screening rate for films with high attendance rates.

But if there are blockbuster movies released at the same time, or an absolute dark horse appears, the film rate will be overwhelmed, and there will be no results.

(end of this chapter)