After looking through the movies and TV series I often watch, I found that anime accounted for at least 1/3, which is amazing. I watched Naruto since I was a child, and now I have watched a lot of excellent s work. So why does Japan have animation, and why is Japanese animation so strong?
1. Why is there anime in Japan?
The earliest animation film in Japan was developed under the influence of foreign culture, and it also developed from an imported product to a pillar industry.
In 1914, a short animation film was introduced to Japan from the United Kingdom. Since then, animation works from various countries have also been introduced to Japan one after another.
In fact, as early as 1892, the French artist Renard used 500 hand-drawn manuscripts to create the movie "Poor Biello", which is the earliest animation in human history. It tells the story of Viello courting Columbine, but was tricked by Arlequin, and premiered at the Paris Wax Museum at that time.
Looking back at Japan, the film "Tufang New Painting Account" aroused strong repercussions at the time. Its best-selling aroused Japanese people's recognition of animation, and also gave them a national consciousness, and they began to want to create their own animation works. , In addition, it also made some businessmen feel the strong potential of animation to attract money. "Tufang New Painting Account" provided an opportunity for the birth of domestic animation in Japan.
However, due to the technical limitations and lack of information at the time, many people were gearing up but couldn't start, so they had to explore by themselves, invented some unique techniques, and did many challenging experiments. However, the results are always unsatisfactory.
Until 1917, three Japanese animation producers successively launched the first batch of domestic animation films in Japan.
Two, the classification of animation
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Animation can be divided into three-dimensional animation, two-dimensional animation and stop motion animation.
Let me talk about stop-motion animation first. This name is relatively rare. It has a history. Stop-motion animation (stop-motion animation) is to shoot objects frame by frame and then make them show continuously, so as to produce characters who seem to be alive or you can imagine. Any exotic characters that come in. What is commonly referred to as stop-motion animation is generally performed by clay puppets, puppets, or mixed-material characters. The history of this form of animation is as long as the history of hand-drawn animation (Cel Animation) in the traditional sense, and may even be older. Simply put, the prototype of stop-motion animation is more like the real thing, but it is moved through camera technology, such as "Calabash Brothers" and "Shaun the Sheep". "Gourd Baby", which the author remembers most as a child, also belongs to this kind, and it is indeed a classic.
Three-dimensional animation, also known as 3D animation, is not limited by time, space, place, conditions, and objects. manifested in the form. The above concept is supplemented with the definition. The so-called 3D refers to Three-dimensional, which is the space formed by the three dimensions of length, width, and height. By the way, "four-dimensional space", most of the "four-dimensional space" mentioned in daily life It refers to the concept of "four-dimensional space-time" mentioned by Einstein in his "General Relativity" and "Special Relativity". According to Einstein's concepts, our universe is made up of time and space. The relationship between time and space is that in the space structure, there is an additional time axis in addition to the three axes of length, width, and height in ordinary three-dimensional space, and this time axis is an axis of imaginary values. There are various multi-dimensional spaces in mathematics, but so far, the physical world we know is only four-dimensional, that is, three-dimensional space plus one-dimensional time . The high-dimensional space mentioned in modern microphysics has another meaning, which only has a mathematical meaning. Of course, in the animation, I have not seen works that can better describe the four-dimensional space. Domestic animation has risen in 3D, and I personally think that it is doing well. The representative works of domestic 3D animation include "Qin Shi Mingyue ", "Star Academy III Pandora", " Toy House ", " Mobis Ring ", " The Return of the Great Sage ", " Heroes ", " Painting Rivers and Lakes ", " Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes into the World " and so on. The author's childhood memories, Hokage, 3D is the mainstream, and the picture of Naruto riding a toad is still handsome.
Two-dimensional animation is flat animation, and it is also a history. For example, "Lotus Lantern", "Havoc in Heaven", "Painting Fairy", etc. are all traditional two-dimensional animation works.
3. Look at project management from the perspective of animation production process
For a work with story content as the main body, animation has strong project characteristics . A project is a temporary activity undertaken to create a unique product, service or result. Naruto and Attack on Titan have very unique products, showing a unique fantasy world. Temporary instructions must be completed within a limited time. The time requirements for animation are reflected in the submission of manuscripts. If the manuscripts cannot be delivered, there may be no income. Events This is the focus of this section, and the production process of the Demon Slayer Blade will be interspersed below by the way.
The production process of animation can be divided into three stages of activities: early stage, middle stage and late stage. Taking 3D animation as an example, the whole process is as shown in the brain map:
In the early stage, it is mainly to create the story and establish the shape, and establish a clear guiding direction for the subsequent production. According to the project management part, the preliminary work is similar to establishing the project charter.
Before the project charter is determined, there are four possible backgrounds for the start of the project, such as (1) compliance with regulations, laws or social requirements, of course creation does not fall into this category; (2) meeting the requirements or needs of relevant parties to create ghosts As far as the blade is concerned, it must meet the needs of many comic fans; (3) Execute, change business or technical strategies, and whether the creation of such works has anything to do with the company's strategy, which will be analyzed later; (4) Create, change Improving or repairing a product, process or service is at the heart of creating animation. Take "Demon Slayer: Blade" as an example. It is the work of ufotable. The so-called "ufotable" animation company has always been loved by anime fans for its high-quality production. A 31-year-old single woman named " "Wu Toge Hu Shiqing" " and can't find a photo of her in a low-key way.
There are certain skills to be able to tell a good story, and there are certain rules for being able to tell a story that everyone likes, and even a story that everyone likes to chase. Project management often extracts similarities from unique works. A work often has its own uniqueness, but whether a work is unique or not is relative. Compared with previous projects, a project will have some similarities, for example, there must be many similarities between two road construction projects or two hydropower station construction projects. If each project was completely unique, there could not be knowledge that applies to most projects most of the time, and the PMBOK® Guide would not exist. It is this uniqueness in a relative sense that broadens the scope of application of project management. Many jobs are unique in a relative sense, so they all have the possibility to be done as projects. For storytelling, there are also many techniques, such as comparison. The following story uses comparison very well.
Dear Mom and Dad: Since I went to college, I have been neglecting to write letters home, I am really sorry. I'm going to update you on how I'm doing, but before you read on, please sit down. Don't read any further until you're seated, okay? Ah, I'm fine now. I'm pretty much healed of a fractured skull and a concussion — I just got here when I jumped out of a window in a dorm fire. I've only been in the hospital for 2 weeks and I'm pretty much back to normal now, with the nagging headaches only happening once a day. Fortunately, when I jumped out after the dormitory was on fire, the clerk at the gas station next door saw it. He immediately called the fire brigade and called an ambulance. He even visited me in the hospital. Since I had nowhere to live after the fire, he kindly invited me to live in his apartment. It's actually a basement, but it's a cute kind. He's a really nice guy and we've fallen deeply in love and are planning to get married. We haven't set a specific date yet, but it will definitely be before anyone can tell I'm pregnant. Yes, Mom and Dad, I'm pregnant. I know how much you want to step up as grandparents, and I know you will welcome my baby with the selfless love and care that I had when I was a child. The reason our wedding was postponed was that he had a small infection and we couldn't pass the pre-marriage blood test because I also accidentally caught it from him. I know you will welcome him into our family with open arms. He was a good, if not very educated, self-motivated man. Alright, alright, I want to bring you my real recent situation. Let me just say that my dorm room didn't catch fire, I didn't fall and get a concussion, I didn't break a bone, I wasn't hospitalized, I wasn't pregnant, I wasn't engaged, I wasn't infected, I didn't even have a boyfriend. However, I got a "D" in American History and an "F" in Chemistry, and I hope you put those grades in perspective. Love you all, Sharon (Author's comment: Sharon's chemistry may not be very good, but she can get an "A" in psychology.)
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5. The author of "Ghost Slayer: Blade" has a net worth of tens of billions, but his real identity is a 31-year-old single beauty ——Sohu
6. "Influence" - [US] Robert Cialdini
7. "Dr. Wang's Interpretation of the PMP Exam" ——Wang Xiaojin