The Daily Life of the Immortal King (2020) s02e10 Episode Script

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