Seeing Yan Fei’s unconvinced face, Wang Wenhong continued: “I admit that there are many basketball comics, but I have to say that there is indeed a lack of a classic that everyone else recognizes. "Slam Dunk" is very good, but Yuchuan The teacher’s cartoon, even in District 11, has a large number of readers who do not recognize its status, let alone China. Before there is a real basketball masterpiece, there is definitely room for improvement in this field."

Yan Fei rubbed her forehead, "I understand everything you say, but it's difficult... Such a popular theme is already difficult to bring freshness to readers, I'm afraid... readers"

"I also know that it is difficult. That's why I said that there is no way to draw this type of comics. I have to wait for a while." Shen Xin scratched his head.

Sports animations, especially basketball, are more difficult to create than other comics. In addition to solid basic skills, this type of comics needs excellent storytelling and close-ups of athletes' movements.

Shen Xin painted Obata Takeshi's "Soul of the Game" before. That manga is actually a test of the storyboard. In many cases, the details of the character can be drawn only by the storyboard without words. The representative among them is the battle between Zuowei and Taya Yukihiro-the two chess players did not meet, but the tension of the screen was passed to the readers through the lens.

Basketball comics also have high requirements for the storyboard, but it is different from Go. Go uses a static shot to shape the atmosphere of the picture, while basketball uses a dynamic shot, especially the confrontation between characters, to create a feeling of fierce competition, so that readers can feel the fierce competition.

Since there is a fierce confrontation, it is inevitable that another thing will be involved-how to draw the characters in the game more realistically.

Any action of a person will involve many muscles, especially in the process of confrontation, the muscles will inevitably be deformed. If you want to express the fierceness of the picture through the collision of muscles, you must be very clear about the structure of the human body, and at the same time also have a lot of Only by copying sports photos can you draw that feeling.

"In fact, there is a reason why Xin Ge is preparing to draw basketball cartoons." Xi Muhan, who had not said anything, suddenly spoke.

"What's the reason?" Yan Fei turned around and asked.

Is there any secret?

"Do you know that there is a person named'Yang'?" Xi Muhan asked, seeing Yan Fei and Wang Wenhong hesitating, knowing that these two people had forgotten this person, he explained again, "In the painting of "DN" by Brother Xin At that time, he wrote a lot of articles supporting Brother Xin."

"Listening to you, I suddenly got an impression. At that time, the netizen named'Yang' wrote a lot of posts analyzing "DN", and he was considered a loyal reader of "DN"." Wang Wenhong raised his head.

Yan Fei also thought of this person.

"But... the teacher decided to paint basketball. What does it have to do with him?"

"Because we met him while traveling in Europe." Xi Muhan took out the pad, found a photo, and handed the pad to Yan Fei.

Wang Wenhong also stood up and moved to Yan Fei's side.

The location of the photo was a basketball court. A young man, who appeared to be only eighteen or nineteen years old, was sitting under the basketball hoop, posing as a scissor hand to the camera, with a bright smile on his face.

Unlike ordinary people, he is sitting in a wheelchair.

"He used to be a very talented athlete. He was in a car accident while heading to the training site. He is now being treated in Europe. I don't know if he can stand up. When I was in Europe, I just posted a message on Weibo. Zhang travel photos, he made a special trip to contact us. At first, we thought it was just an ordinary reader, but we didn't expect that he would still have that kind of experience." Shen Xin said.

Wang Wenhong and Yan Fei suddenly realized.

"But, Mr. Shen, if he is the protagonist... Readers don't like the protagonist being injured, especially if he is injured in a car accident. No matter how good the story is, the reader will not buy it." Yan Fei looked worried.

"No... I only got the idea of ​​drawing basketball comics after I met him, but I didn't say my decision, let alone design the protagonist with him as a prototype. It should be said that I still miss basketball when I see him. , I am also thinking, for many people, basketball is their dream, right? So, I seriously considered the subject matter. After the comics are re-serialized, shall we all work hard together?"

Xi Muhan nodded seriously, she had always been confident in Shen Xin. Both Wang Wenhong and Yan Fei were taken aback, then their eyes were bright, and they also expressed expectations for the future.

"That's right, teacher. After so long without serialization, some people are starting to forget you." Wang Wenhong smiled.

"Forget it." Shen Xin didn't care much about it. "Just draw a good work. Okay, let's start working now?"

Wang Wenhong and Yan Fei nodded each other and continued their respective work.

Shen Xin flipped through the magazines and checked the comics serialized in these magazines.

Because he doesn't understand Japanese, he can only judge the trend of the magazine from the storyboard and painter.

After reading several magazines in a row, as Haruka Tamagawa said, there is no sign of colorful comics in the 11 districts.

What about online comics?

Shen Xin clicked on the manga forum again, but correspondingly, black and white manga still occupies the main body.

"By the way, Huaxia's comics...how is your acceptance of Color Manga now?" Shen Xin thought of one thing.

"Teacher, don't you forget "Leap"? That comic is a full-color magazine, and it originally had a large number of fans. After the popularity of online comics, cartoonists ranked first by paragraphs gradually began to get involved in online comics, and Already have good results."

Shen Xin nodded.

"Flying" has fallen below one million sales, but the magazine's pricing is higher than that of "ComicFuture" and "MangaFly", so life is not sad. Moreover, the extension of "Leap" is not animation, but martial arts or fantasy film and television drama, and the copyright fee is not low.

But it is precisely because of the existence of "Feiyue" that some readers have accepted the color manga, and what's more, some readers only watch the color manga.

Some authors have also targeted this market. Although their storytelling is not good enough and the fluency of the story is only moderate, they just use color to attract some readers.

This should be the favorite of Duoman.com.

"Domestic readers ~lightnovelpub.net~ have no problem with the acceptance of Color Man. It can be said that there are some fans of Color Man."

Shen Xin scratched his head, "There is no way. This is the market...Anyone who wants to gain a foothold in the market must respect the reader's choice."

In fact, as long as costs are reduced, color magazines are not impossible.

Whether it is "ComicFuture" or "MangaFly", it is a single-page 16 format, as long as it is changed to a single-page four-in-one, the cost should be able to come down.

But Shen Xin doesn't like this mode. This type of layout will make the storytelling carefully set by many cartoonists no longer so amazing.

The impact of general storyboards is still within the controllable range, while the shock to readers brought by full pages and spreads will be greatly reduced.

"By the way, readers in District 11 also prefer color comics to the Internet, but they also pointed out that color comics will affect the normal update of comics, and will also make the cartoonists more tired. Comprehensive considerations, they think black and white Manga is the most suitable."

"It's normal for them to have such an answer." Shen Xin was not surprised.

If readers don't like color comics, the front page color pages will not be so important.

However, companies need costs. If color pages become mainstream, it will definitely affect the current composition of cartoonist studios. Therefore, stability should be the most needed in the 11th district comics industry.

Unknowingly, it was five o'clock, and after more than two hours, Murakami Toru came over.

"By the way, Sister Yan, call Toru Murakami and say that we are set up at the hotel. Although this is District 11, we are still the host, right?"

Yan Fei nodded and took the phone to the window, while Shen Xin's eyes fell on the magazine again.

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