What is Signal · Mdd's effort in 'Furikuri Progres' fifth episode of 'Painting the original picture on the screen as it is'

In theatrical version " Furikuri Progres " released in September 2018, one movie is composed of 6 episodes. Among them, Director Tsuyoshi Suzawa and production company Signal · Mdd have created a fifth episode that apparently differs from the number of other stories.

What I looked like was because Director Suemizu et al. Aimed to "show the picture drawn by the original worker on the screen as it is". In a session held at the event " ACTF 2019 " aimed at exchanging and exchanging information for industry stakeholders, Director Suuzawa showed concrete material and clarified the workflow on how exactly the work was carried out It has made me.

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"Production case announcement in" FLCL Progressive Episode 5 "

Mr. Suzawa and Production Progress · Kazuo Terada entered the stage.

The contents of the presentation are "1. Purpose of Workflow", "2. Layout / Original Work", "3. Video / Finish", "4. Shooting / Retake Work", "5. Merits / Demerits", "6.AI", "7. Summary" It is divided into.

First is "1. Purpose of workflow". The conventional workflow of animation production is that the original picture drawn by the original man is different from the assumed screen because the "original tress" and the "line correction" are included in the movie and the finish There are many things. Therefore, in this work, by doing original work with a binary line for the purpose of "Painting the drawing drawn by the original worker on the screen as it is", the original tress is unnecessary, the pen setting is unified by unifying it In addition to making Torres unnecessary, furthermore, the original picture / movie man performed until the finishing work, so that the nuance of the picture can be displayed directly on the screen.

Also, the resolution was uniformed at the same 188 dpi (2198 px × 1554 px) until shooting work progressed. This seems to be due to frequent occurrence of accidents such as "Redo all over since I worked while keeping it small for movies," because the scan size up to the layout and the scan size at the time of submitting the movie were different.

Next, "2. Layout and original work". Regarding layout, it is the same as ordinary workflow except that it is "done digitally", the line can be binary or anti-aliased. TV Paint, CLIP STUDIO, FLASH was used.

In the layout work supervision work, the brush used a binary custom brush, and work was done in another layer so that it can be copied. The work result is like this. It is spooky to pull out a single body, but as it was a policy to make use of the original picture as much as possible, it is the result of only a minimal modification.

A custom brush example of TV Paint used. Be sure to share this custom panel and use it so that everyone uses the same color and thickness. Looking at the rightmost panel, it is named "FLCL_br_ver 4", but this is due to the fact that whenever the opinion that "This type of brush is better" comes up, it was updated every time.

This is the CLIP STUDIO brush setting.

In the original picture, use the straight line of work supervision right as it is, and work as far as possible to the finishing process. At that time, solid lines and filling are done in separate layers. Suzawa said director Suzawa said, "To be honest, it takes time and a mistake," but since he becomes conscious of what the original man will be doing at the time of finishing, he may notice color paka and parts missing, "It takes time and effort. Even if it is the speed of the final process, it is not so early ".

That is why, firstly, the original picture of the solid line rises ...

Next, "base painting" is done. This is a process incorporated in discussion with the person of finishing inspection and color setting, so that BG shear will happen if there is a missing finish. This finish omission check function will be found at TV Paint at a later date, "Director Suzawa said" It might have been unnecessary work if I found it before. "

The rise of the original picture with finishing is like this.

Some examples of actual work mistakes were also mentioned. The appearance of Ide who wields the guitar, although it seems that it does not seem to be problematical at first ... ...

If you look closely you can see that anti-aliasing is applied to the frame on the right side of the glasses, around where the line is broken. This is a pattern that the pen was binary, but the anti-aliasing was turned on by the eraser. Some of them have already discarded the data before the integration at the time they noticed and resigned and resent themselves.

This is Haruharu Rahal with a bold face. This seems to be problematic, but ...

The white eye part of the left eye etc was not painted. Because this is drawn on a white canvas, it is a pattern that I do not notice the painting of colors near white. According to Suemasu Director Suezawa said that it occurred because it was not thorough to check the background by drawing an extreme color after painting finished.

This is "Cut that the finish climbs up the original picture". After drawing the original drawing, filling in the timesheet, we can now turn it to the inspection. As Mr. Terada's production side, this flow seems to be "I got a lot of time being shortened".

Some of them adopted the technique of RotoScope, photographed a walker in the street, worked in binary original work, there was also a cutoff to movie man ... as it was. This picture was taken by Mr. Terada et al.

The process enters "3. Video / finishing". The point of the movie is that the original image Torres is unnecessary. Since the number of motion picture works is reduced, when it is loaded on the shelf of animation, it gets put in a state to put it immediately, and finally it was able to process 90% of the movie inside the company.

For finishing, we got such check items from the finishing examiner and work proceeded.

And, in order to avoid the above-mentioned color painting mistake, "In-house exclusive color model" was made as a measure. Specifically, the whitish places are clearly colored so that you can see the presence or absence of color. In addition, it seems that it is becoming possible to understand at once whether painted or not painted by not only darkening the color, but also taking advantage of the contrast of warm color and cold color.

This is a finished sample of the movie of Signal · Mdie company, and it seems that the animation shows the local descending stairs. Suemasu Director Suzawa is "a quick glance, is not it possible to understand the difference between the original picture and the movie?" It is a workmanship. According to the director, the drawing staff said that they were saying "I was pleasantly depicting because I am drawing a picture of myself while not dividing by a uniform line," he said.

A color checker that will show you that there is a missing in the finish that I said earlier. In this picture, there was a red dot around the shin of the right leg that was painted black, indicating that there was a missing finish, and it was used for "pre-inspection inspection" by production.

Then enter "4. Shooting / Retake Work". After the in-house video, finish, finishing inspection work, the resolution is kept as it is and the picture is taken (ordering of photographing work) is done. Although the process is digitized, "cut bags" themselves are present, and delivery was done with a paper time sheet. Actually, paper is not absolutely necessary, but the cut bags are "obvious where the latest work is done" at a glance, and the timesheets are slightly off the seat and the timeline of TV Paint When you are in, you can prevent confusion by deciding that the paper is absolutely correct. Director Suzawa told me that even if I advanced this digitization, the sheets and cut bags "I thought the paper would be better."

In addition, in the animation industry it is very difficult to manage and keep paper, but in the case of "Furikuri Progres" episode 5, even if there are 320 cuts and 7500 sheets, the amount of cut bags is about two-thirds of cardboard Terada, who is in the process of making it, commented, "It's easy to take pictures as it can be taken lightly compared to paper work, and production was also helpful."

Although "Retake" is all TP correction (Tres paint correction), because it was able to cover 90% of video work inside the company, "Suicide retreat is almost zero" which Suemasawa did not suppose It is said that.

In "5. Merits and Demerits", the following points were mentioned as merits and demerits when working in this workflow.

Regarding "a screen different from ordinary", Director Suemizu commented, "I think that there was an impact." Regarding "shortening of work process and time", I recalled that we could not finish with that strength unless this workflow was to skip "formally necessary work" and only do "really necessary work". Regarding 'Increase in income' and 'Stability in moving quality', 'Finishing fee' can be issued if finishing work, so 'income on site' condition that income increases as much as the same number of cuts and the screen gets better That was. In the animation industry labor issues low animation income is often raised, but in this example, the animation man also got a finishing fee and the income has nearly doubled.

On the other hand, in terms of "It is difficult to secure a digital animator," even though it was said that "It can be done with paper" from the animator, it was awful though it was good that everyone was able to make it in full digital without using paper Director Suzawa said. "It was supposed to be supposed from the former", but it seems that Suzawa has picked up 50 to 60 cuts floating.

"Too few operating companies that can handle" means that there is no company that can handle it even if you want to go outside when you do not have time. It was told that there was nothing to do with the way it was done, but it was said that the work would fall or danger when the time really gone away.

"Increase in meeting with each section" occurred because everyone gathered and consulted whenever problems occurred. For example, the judgment of "omission between a line and a line" is "burning" or "not filling" is only sensation, and since it was in a state where there was no judgment criterion from a person specialized in finishing, we will discuss that standard. It seems that it took a while to decide this finishing area.

In "6.AI", AI's "Tokiwagarahara (Time to be afraid)" appeared, "Tokiwagarahara

The actual work of Mr. Buri is like this. I have original material ......

We are moving the smoke at the center lower part of the screen with a middle dividend. According to Suemasu Director, although he is good at simple middle division, it is difficult if solid comes in. It took about 5 days in this middle division calculation, and as you go forward with the calculation, it seems to be getting better and better.

One of the original trekking AI · Shin-kun is excellent, he said that he is doing great things inside Signal · Mdi. In setting Torres and original tress, it seems that it is quicker to correct through shooting than tracing from 1.

However, I am not good at places where the lines are dense, and in the case of the following materials, it is said that all reworking has entered the eyes.

Finally "7. Conclusion."

Director Suuzawa's key to "digital transition" is directing with a director, who will be responsible for the work. However, in the case of an engraver, since "painting materials change only", even if everyone does not have to do it, even if you do not have to do "pencil feeling" and "digital feeling", it is only necessary to join the hurdle It seems that it feels relatively low. On the other hand, not only drawing a picture but also how to check and how to fix it is a part depending largely on the body, it is necessary to switch the feeling like "pull speed" 5 mm / frame " It is difficult.

"Proficiency of digital software" can not operate as "I'm doing this kind of thing" unless I remember the software that I use also as progress of production as much as an animator, and Mr. Terada if I am studying anyway.

Regarding "Reviewing the work process", it is important how you can consult, share and improve the air on the spot when problems occur, so it was important that this "Furikuri Progres" site was able to do it well It was.

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