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Aoyama Haoda is a veteran original animation artist born in 1964. Frequent flyers of various animated theatrical versions often work under the supervision of Miyazaki, Hosoda, and Oshii. Telecom Animation Film was born. The early Telecoms assembled well-known original painters such as Otsuka Kangsheng, Hayao Miyazaki, Takahashi, and Aoyama, who also had the privilege of learning under the masters. After Qingshan’s work was mainly concentrated on the outsourcing of overseas European and American animation, Qingshan had a deeper understanding of the differences between Japanese and American animation. .
In 2004, Aoyama resigned from Telecom and was transferred to a freelance original artist. Later, he participated in the “Girls Passing through Time and Space” as a painting supervisor and an animated character design. After the success of this work, Castle Peak was also known to fans. .
Deeply trusted by Hosoda, the “Girls Passing through Time and Space”, “Summer Battle”, and the upcoming “Future of the Future” are responsible for painting supervision, and Castle Peak is responsible for a lot in “The Son of the Monster”. The protagonist Jiu Tai and Feng’s performance scenes. However, Aoyama is also known for its explosive effects. It is a very capable original painter. .
The most recent major work is the supervision of character design and painting supervision of “Zhu Zhou Ji” and the supervision of “Future of the Future” by Hosoda. .
Aoyama did not make his own personal animation when he was young, but there was a good friend in elementary school, which is now active in the “Detective Conan” theatrical version of Kenji Jiro, who was a classmate in elementary school, although he was in middle school. It’s not a school, but I often gather together to draw a book over the weekend, because at that time, the “Space Battleship Yamato”, “The Galaxy Railway 999” and the animated film after it were very hot, so the content of the hand-turned book was basically revolving around the restoration of Yoon Yonghe and Jin Tianyi. Special effects of work. Although the level of middle school students is still very low, it will be used to restore fans who are already very core. .
Such a hand-turned book has been painted for two or three years, and a total of nearly 100 volumes have been drawn. Together with the three people in Castle Peak is the special effects of painting, only Jinjing sometimes paints people’s movements, and the movements are quite natural. It stands out among them. It was because of this kind of experience when I was young, so I was embarrassed about the work of animated original paintings, but I was not determined to be an animated original painting at that time. .
Later, Jinjing accepted the Telecom admission test. Although Aoyama got the general qualification of the general company, but because of Jinjing, he also went to Telecom together, and accepted the entrance test to test his ability. I did not expect it to pass. At the time, Telecom had idols like Yonghe Xiuhe and Tanaka Tatsuko doing the work supervised by Hayao Miyazaki, so Aoyama decided to try the animation work. If it didn’t work, it would be another job in three or four years. .
However, after Aoyama came in, Telecom’s work began to shift to Europe and the United States. The reason why I was able to get in touch with “The Valley of the Winds”, “Macau can’t remember love” was because Telecom was doing an animated film “NEMO”. /ニモ”The previous planning, so the people who cut the animation did not work, although in principle, Telecom does not let the members work to pick up the work of other companies, but did not work 5:30 a day to get off work, so naturally have timed I have worked. “The Valley of the Winds” was because Ibaraki Mikiko came over and asked if he wanted to do the animation of Jintian Yigong’s original paintings, so he took a day to go to Hayao Miyazaki’s studio. Hayao Miyazaki also explained the original paintings of Jintian. “I told Jintian that I could paint the same explosion as usual. I didn’t expect this painting to be so real.” After the explanation, Aoyama took it home. Because of Telecom’s reason, the ending was not named. .
Aoyama in the 20 years of Telecom, the first 13 years are mainly based on animation with foreign countries, because it will not be broadcast in the country, so Castle Peak is more daring to try some new ideas, and this kind of cooperative animation for the number of sheets The control is not strict, it is very normal to exceed 10,000 sheets, so there is no need to think about how to save the number of sheets. Because both animations have rich experience, Aoyama thinks that Japanese local animation and European and American animations are different from the details or the whole. Japanese animations have a very strong painting with less sheets, and there are also close-to-recognition movements. The style of the work may vary greatly. Therefore, the techniques learned from animation in Europe and the United States have works that can be used, as well as works that cannot be used.
However, the Warner Bros. cartoon animation is unique, and there is basically no chance of using Japanese animation. But directors like “Batman” and “Superman” have the ability to allow characters like Japanese animation to talk and do not move their heads, so this is not 100% different. .
In the period of Telecom, Castle Peak was once thought to be less interested in painting characters and like to paint special effects, so it is often responsible for special effects and natural phenomena. The special effects of Castle Peak are mainly the paintings of Yu Yong and Xiu when they are young. The smoke of You Yong painting is very close to the smoke in reality. Qingshan is very impressed by this. However, Jin Tian’s special effects are like but not too much to imitate because Qingshan Follow the trend to the true expression style. After that, there were some good people in the Japanese industry who had some special effects paintings, and they also learned them, such as Iguro Hiroshi who painted EVA Theatrical Edition EOE and The Cat’s Reward. .
The first job after leaving Telecom in 2004 was “まかせてイルか!” (2004, OVA animation supervised by the original Japanese version of Kentaro, Shibata Yuki is responsible for character design and master painting supervision), because Telecom’s descendant Shibata Yuka was in Gainax, so she was invited to participate, and then continued to participate in Gainax’s “Flying over the Peak 2” and “Re: Sweetheart Warrior”, because there is no restraint, so for example, “Ghost in the Shell 2nd GIG”, “Bread” Superman and so on are also picking up, and there are impressions of doing three jobs at the same time. .
Although there is a big work like “Summer Battle”, the most difficult thing for Aoyama is the “Peach Letter”, because there were a lot of masters at the time, there are (Okinawa) Kaichi, Ando Yasushi, Inoue Jun, and so on, and Qingshan does not know how to start painting, or how to draw to qualify, but there are few links in the grassland reference retreat, and directly repaired their original paintings, so Qingshan has no final product. I don’t know what the problem is, so it’s hard to understand. .
“Navigation King: Baron and Mysterious Island” Animated film Aoyama is responsible for two shots. The two lenses were originally handed over to other original paintings, but it was too late, so Kubota vowed to call and please, though There are two shots, but the process of going to the lens direction is very long, because it is only a week for the working hours, and there are other activities, so the Qingshan light painting smoke basically runs out of time, and the characters are finally handed over to other original paintings. To complete, it is not completely responsible. .
And this work is the “MONSTER” 57 episodes just finished, while Aoyama is responsible for the painting supervision and original paintings of this episode, so after finishing the “Navigation King: Baron and Mysterious Island”, Aoyama invites Kubota to participate. His “MONSTER” 57 episodes. .
“MONSTER” 57 has a lot of exquisite and realistic acting skills, which is consistent with the personality of Castle Peak. However, Castle Peak has always felt that the style of Uesugi Naoki is difficult to imitate. As a viewer, I saw “Rokke Gang” and “Dangerous Investigator”. When I was sighing, the original artist moved the style of Urawa. Therefore, through the work of “MONSTER”, Aoyama feels that he has improved his ability to imitate other styles, and Fujita Masato, who is the chief supervisor, has also offered to let Aoyama be a prisoner. At this time, Castle Peak feels that although he is from a cooperative animation, he does not I have to adapt to the different animation styles in Japan. .
When I am doing cooperative animation, I go home and watch TV animation on TV. There is a feeling that I am not a thing with my own animation. After leaving Telecom, when I work, I often have “this is the case.” Style, I have seen the feeling on TV, as if the industry is new. The reason for leaving Telecom was that the work pressure was too great. In the first year or two after Qingshan left Telecom, Telecom’s work was basically a week or two. Although Qingshan could barely catch up, but after complicated work, more and more pressure It is getting bigger and bigger. The last opportunity is the work of Telecom “Steam Boy”. At that time, it was requested that Castle Peak complete 10 cards in three weeks, which is impossible to complete at the speed of Castle Peak. At the same time, in the “Steam Boy” headquarters studio. Liuyan and Liang have said that as long as they can draw well, they don’t need to be so urgent. Aoyama thinks that if it really needs to be completed within three weeks, it is estimated that he will start to hate this job, so he took the opportunity to resign.
There is a lot of cooperation between Aoyama and Hosoda. Compared with other animations, Aoyama will strictly follow the mirror and pay more attention to whether or not the world in the story will be expressed. It will not think that it would be more interesting to change the mirror. Or “such a painting will be more real and better”, painting always centered on the intention of Hosoda. .
When it comes to the intention of the show, Aoyama feels that no matter what works, painting must not deviate from the intention of the show. It is not all that the paintings are “good”, and there is a lot of good original paintings that can be taken care of in both directions. I feel that I am not too smart, so I just think about how to restore the intention of supervision. However, “Girls Passing through Time and Space” and “Summer Battle” originally had the original case set of the original line, while Hosoda also had his own style when drawing the mirror, and it was a bit troublesome to take care of both sides. .
The main work in recent years is “Space Dandy”, which is responsible for the supervision of some sets of paintings, but it doesn’t feel like drawing a lot of characters. (In fact, this film has a lot of episodes, because the personality of the creator role Deviated from the original design), the protagonist Dandy is the prototype is Yaji Yoshi, the original character design is more sagging in the corner of the eye, but it is easy to draw a straight line when painting. At the beginning, Aoyama felt that he was not the material for painting supervision, so he tried very hard to rely on Ito Kazuo. However, as members of various personalities appeared in the production team, they gradually understood what they wanted to do and why. This arrangement is made. .
“A Boxing Superman” Qingshan is responsible for the battle of the last episode of the atomic warrior. There are three requirements for supervising Natsume’s true understanding: “The atomic warrior takes the move forward and cannot retreat.” “The claws of the enemy are all kneeling down, initially 斩The lower claws are inserted on the ground.” “There is no need for an animated flea, and the sniper does not leave the ground.” When I heard these three requirements, I didn’t know how to draw. Finally, I finished the request in a way that was close to the original painting. It may be that the “One Punch Superman” film often has such a strong demand. However, if there is no careful request from Natsume Supervisor, it is estimated that Aoyama may take for granted the fleas that often appear in animation. .
Regarding the work of the “Designing the Boat” character design master painting, Aoyama initially thought that he was already old, and the supervision of the total animation of TV animation may be a bit heavy for him. The reason why I picked up this job was to talk about drinking from a friend. When I was drinking, my friend mentioned that I had received a TV animation master’s job, but after a while, my friend accidentally was riding a bicycle. When I fell downhill, I fell into a fracture, so Qingshan had to take over the work of a friend. .
However, Aoyama does not intend to do the total supervision of all the collections. Originally, the producers of ZEXCS intend to find another chief supervisor, who is responsible for the total supervision of odd and even words, but at the beginning Was not found, so Qingshan was responsible for the first three prisoners, the fourth was the original painting of Tiantou Ren, and Tiantou took part in the performance and supervision, and found the eighth in the fifth. Yuko (the “Volleyball Boy” series of supervisors, “Knife makes the witch” set up the overall supervision) to do the overall supervision. .
Is slightly different from other animations. “Zhu Zhou Ji” is the system for total supervision and inspection twice. The third episode is Sasaki Miki and is also responsible for the performance of the spectacle, so Aoyama is only responsible for the correction of the characters. However, in other episodes, if there is a problem in acting and character modeling, if the single-handed supervisor only corrects the face, it will be too much trouble to change it later. Therefore, although the fifth episode is not named, the layout of this episode passes. After the performance check, first hand over to Qingshan to repair it again. That is to say, although this episode is not the number of the total supervision of Qingshan, all the layouts also have Qingshan’s inspection and correction. .
Of course, although there will be problems with the acting skills, but all the acting skills are definitely not too late, basically put a few grassland paintings for reference, from the fifth episode, slowly hand over these jobs to another One of the chiefs was supervised by Yu, and in the sixth episode, the work was handed over to Asano (the “Ason” series of people set up the overall supervision). This episode was the first time that Castle Peak was not completely revised. Then there is the continuation of the seventh and eighth words, but the eighth is just the beginning of the new time in the play (the eighth episode is 13 years later), so I can see it continuously. It is also from this stage that as the general supervisor gradually no longer checks twice.
The ninth words were held by Shinsuke Shinoda, the veteran of the society, and Shimazawa, who had been in the past. The performance was performed by Sasaki Miki in the third season, so this episode did not pass through the hands of Castle Peak. The tenth word has not been handled, and the total supervisor is responsible for the full power of the eight. However, after the seventh and eighth words, Castle Peak had to fully prepare for the last words. In this process, Castle Peak feels that time is not enough. There is no time for confusion. When thinking a little, time is not enough. .
Regarding the person setting, the character design industry evaluation of this work is very high, and it is not too much to be the best person in the TV animation of 2016. However, Aoyama thinks that there are still many deficiencies. This animation is animated by Yuntian Yu (a representative of comics: “Showa Yuanlu’s Heart”). Qingshan also wants to be as close as possible to the original style, because now the young original paintings are very good at restoring the original case. Style, at the same time according to their own personality and supervision requirements, in the real style to try a little, but the overall time is tight, and finally it is a little ordinary style. When I am doing homework, I will be confused about the design of the original painting. It is not good to be unified according to the character table. As an original painting, I will feel lost, and sometimes I will have the idea of re-doing the character design. However, before this, the tense schedule was more overwhelming, and it was basically time to correct the original painting that had to be corrected. (But the completion of the TV series as TV animation is already very high, I believe the audience will not feel that part of the role is out of the setting).
ZEXCS employees have done the “Evil” before, some members of the original painting have the habit of making video reference painting, supervising the black Liu Li charge is also a painting, so there are also management checks on acting and movement, because The output of each production staff has the animation of “King Zhou Ji”. ZEXCS’s impression of Castle Peak is that there are very few people chatting on the side of the station for a long time. Many of them work quietly at the table, reminding him of his youth. .
Regarding the work of like a prisoner or the original painting, Aoyama said that at the time of Telecom, in fact, the company did not pay much attention to the work of supervising, including Youyong and Xiuhe and Tanaka, who were just thinking about painting their own scenes. At that time, I refused to work as a supervisor in order to do my own work. However, after trying to work as a supervisor after leaving Telecom, I also realized that there is also an interesting place in the work of supervision. .
Finally, I talked about why Aoyama always evaluates it so low. When Aoyama said that he entered Telecom, no matter how many seniors or seniors, there were too many. The second phase was born with Miki Maki, Endo Masaaki, Uruguura, and Ueda. Yasaki Kenji and others, the third phase of the birth of Morikawa Satoshi. In the fourth phase, there is Masuda Yoshihiko, and in the fifth phase, there are Liuuma and Liang, the first one has Arita Nakajima, Sakamoto Hiroshi, and there are now (Yokohama) Hiroshi and Sakaguchi, who support Telecom, and then Hashimoto’s history and Nishikyu. Shi Lang came in. Before Qingshan had not come, there were Yudu Gongli in the third period. There were too many masters who were stronger than themselves. I felt that I had to rely on luck to get to this step. .
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Reference: “Animage” March 2017 issue