Chapter 839: Decision

Seeing Yan Fei's unconvinced face, Wang Wenhong continued: "I admit that there are many basketball cartoons, but I have to say that there is indeed a lack of a classic that everyone else can recognize. "Slam Dunk" is very good, but Yuchuan Even in the 11th district, most of the readers of this cartoon do not recognize its status, let alone Huaxia. Before there is a real masterpiece of basketball, there is definitely room for improvement in this field."

Yan Fei rubbed her forehead, "I understand what you said, but it's difficult... It's hard to bring novelty to readers with such a popular subject, I'm afraid... the readers"

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

Sports animations, especially basketball, are more difficult to create than other cartoons. In addition to solid basic skills, this type of comic requires excellent storyboards and close-ups of athletes.

Shen Xin had drawn Takeshi Obata's "Soul of Chess" before, and that manga actually tested the storyboarding. In many cases, the details of the characters can be drawn only by storyboarding without words. The representative of them is the battle between Zuo Wei and Taya Yukihiro-the two chess players did not meet each other, but the tension of the picture was passed to the readers through the storyboard.

Basketball comics also have high requirements for storyboards, but they are different from Go. Go uses static storyboards to shape the atmosphere of the picture, while basketball uses dynamic storyboards, especially the confrontation between characters, to create a sense of fierce competition, so that readers can feel the intensity of the game.

Since there is a fierce confrontation, it will inevitably involve another thing-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 intense feeling 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, you must have a lot of muscles. Only by copying sports photos can we draw that feeling.

"Actually, Brother Xin plans to draw basketball comics for a reason." Xi Muhan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke.

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

Is there something hidden?

"Do you know that there is a person named 'Yang'?" Xi Muhan asked, seeing Yan Fei and Wang Wenhong hesitated, and knowing that these two people had forgotten about this person, he explained, "When Brother Xin painted "DN", At that time, he wrote many articles in support of Brother Xin."

"Hearing what you said, I suddenly had an impression. At that time, that netizen named 'Yang' wrote a lot of posts analyzing DN, and he was regarded as a loyal reader of DN." Wang Wenhong raised his head.

Yan Fei also thought of this person.

"But... the teacher decided to draw a basketball, what does it have to do with him?"

"Because we met him when we were 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 went to Yan Fei's side.

The photo was taken at a basketball court. A young man, who looked about eighteen or nineteen years old, was sitting under the basketball hoop, posing in a scissors-hands pose for 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. When he was going to the training place, he had a car accident. Now he is receiving treatment in Europe. I don't know if he can stand up. When I was in Europe, I just posted a message on Weibo. A travel photo, 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 have such an experience.” Shen Xin said.

Wang Wenhong and Yan Fei suddenly realized.

"However, Mr. Shen, if he is the main character... Readers don't like the main character being injured, especially if the main character is seriously injured in a car accident. No matter how good the story is, the readers won't buy it." Yan Fei looked worried.

"No... I only came up with the idea of ​​drawing basketball cartoons after I met him.

But I didn't say my decision, let alone design the protagonist based on him. It should be said that seeing him still obsessed with basketball, I also thought, for many people, basketball is their dream, right? Therefore, I have seriously considered the subject matter. After the manga is re-serialized, shall we all work together? "

Xi Muhan nodded seriously, she has always had confidence in Shen Xin. Wang Wenhong and Yan Fei were all taken aback for a moment, then their eyes brightened, and they also expressed their expectations for the future.

"That's right, teacher. After such a long time without serialization, some people have begun to forget you." Wang Wenhong laughed.

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

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

Shen Xin flipped through the magazines and looked at 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 artist.

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

What about online comics?

Shen Xin clicked on the comics forum again, but correspondingly, black and white comics still dominated.

"By the way, Huaxia's comics...how is the acceptance of color comics now?" Shen Xin remembered one thing.

"Teacher, you haven't forgotten "Leap", right? That comic is a full-color magazine, and it already has a large number of fans. After the popularity of web comics, cartoonists headed by Duan Ping gradually began to dabble in web comics, and It has had good results.”

Shen Xin nodded.

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

But it is precisely because of the existence of "Leap" that some readers accept color comics, and what's more, some readers only read color comics.

Some authors are also aiming at this market. Although their storyboards are not good enough and the fluency of the story is only moderate, they use color to attract some readers.

This should be the favorite of Duoman.com.

"Domestic readers don't have a big problem with the acceptance of color comics. It can be said that color comics have some fans."

Shen Xin scratched her head, "Then there is no other way. This is the market...Anyone who wants to gain a foothold in the market must respect the readers' choices."

In fact, as long as the cost is reduced, color magazines are not impossible.

Both "ComicFuture" and "MangaFly" are 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 very much. This kind of layout will make the storyboards carefully set by many cartoonists no longer so amazing.

The impact on general storyboards is still within the controllable range, while the shock to readers caused by full pages and double-page spreads will be greatly reduced.

"By the way, readers in the 11th district also prefer color comics on the Internet, but they also pointed out that color comics will affect the normal update of comics and make cartoonists more tired. Considering everything, they think black and white Manga is the best."

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

The front page wouldn't be so important if readers didn't like color comics.

But companies need costs. If coloring pages become mainstream, it will definitely affect the composition of cartoonist studios. Therefore, stability should be what the comics industry in District 11 needs most.

Before I knew it, it was past five o'clock, and in two more hours, Toru Murakami came over.

"By the way, Sister Yan, call Toru Murakami and say that we are holding a banquet at the hotel. Although this is District 11, we are still the hosts, right?"

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

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