When filming "MagicaI Illya" that year, in order to be able to use Illya smoothly.
The clothes that Nanaya designed for Illya are all in a tightly wrapped style.
This is to prevent old man Long Gu Nengcheng from sinking himself into Tokyo Bay.
As time goes by, Nanaya once again sees such heavy magical girl style costumes.
But this time it wasn't him who disgusted the audience, but others who disgusted him.
Nanaya felt as if he had been yelled at by a dog.
It was printed with the words:
Sooner or later you will pay for your misdeeds.
Looking at the concept map of the five men wearing metal armor and looking as sturdy as Iron Man, Nanaya shook his head.
"The design is so ugly, there is no aesthetic appeal at all!" Nanaya complained mercilessly.
"I can imagine that when they appear on the big screen, no audience will be able to love them."
Nanaya once again sentenced this set of design drawings to death.
"Aesthetics?"
Hearing this, the head of the design team shook his head faster than Nanaya.
"Director Kiryu, they are soldiers going to the battlefield, so there must be a basic design logic for these costumes."
The design director quickly defended himself, "If their combat uniforms were only a light layer, a simple attack would kill them."
Nanaya discovered that he and this guy were talking at cross purposes.
The conversation between the two people was completely on different channels.
To be honest, Nanaya could have just fired the other person and looked for someone else.
But the next candidate may not be much better than the one in front of you.
After all, European and American and Japanese two-dimensional designs are completely different styles.
The European and American devils will never understand why Japanese people always draw girls' eyes so big.
In their view, that is a deformity.
"Lake, I think you overlooked one thing."
Nanaya added the name of the design team leader, trying to convince him.
"The design concept I need is to highlight their girlishness rather than cold weapons."
"You know, [the battle] isn't the main conflict in this story, so it would be meaningless if we didn't show the weakness of these girls."
In Nanaya's opinion, the most important feature of the five-man team's clothes is that they must be beautiful.
But Nanaya also knew that he couldn't just copy the original animation.
That would make the magical girl's look very weird, with a cheap Cosplay feel.
The span between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional dimensions is not as simple as adding a Z-axis.
Some designs that are acceptable in the two-dimensional world are not so applicable in the three-dimensional world.
For example, the fluttering skirt.
There is no Newton in the two-dimensional world, you can play however you want.
But the three-dimensional...
Regardless of whether Newton will rise up in rebellion or not, when your skirt flutters, you still have to face the consequences.
Although Nanaya knows a little about design, he still needs professionals to help him complete his ideas.
After all, although housewives can cook, there is still a visible gap between them and professional chefs.
"But..."
Director Lake thought about it, then changed his tone and asked, "Will the audience accept that design?"
[As long as it looks good, why would they care? ]
Nanaya curled his lips and did not answer the question directly.
"When the Fate series was first announced, there were also a lot of complaints about the character designs."
"Many radical viewers are saying that I have tarnished the hero, but what is the result?"
After hearing what Nanaya said, Supervisor Lake sighed but didn't say anything else.
No one can deny Fate's commercial success.
Artoria has become the most popular female character on screen since the new century.
"Lake, I've made a lot of movies."
Seeing that the opponent was showing some signs of weakness, Nanaya immediately took advantage of the situation and pursued them.
"I have a good idea of what kind of image is needed to better match the aesthetics of the movie screen and the expectations of mainstream audiences."
After a brief pause, Nanaya continued, "Even now, FZ has been released."
"There are still a large number of viewers who don't like the image of Artoria, and some even said on the Internet that I ruined King Arthur."
Nanaya picked up the teacup, took a sip of hot tea slowly, and said, "No matter what kind of design we make, we can never satisfy everyone."
"But we need to at least gain the approval of the majority. I am better than you at judging public taste."
Nanaya was telling the truth.
But in fact, he didn't say one thing.
That is, the so-called popular aesthetic refers to the aesthetic of the movie audience.
This is also a common mistake made by many Hollywood companies in the future.
They blindly pursue the so-called "correctness" but ignore who their films are made for.
Black Panther was successful because its audience was overwhelmingly black.
The premise for the success of "Wonder Woman" is not just that women pay for it, but also that countless men are fascinated by those white thighs.
But the black man's "The Little Mermaid" and that weird "Cats"…
Anyway, Nanaya felt that those obsessed executives in Hollywood would be killed by him sooner or later.
Of course, it is also possible that blacks had already occupied the absolute market in Europe and the United States before that.
After all, black people in Europe and the United States are now reproducing faster than rabbits.
But now, the market that Nanaya's movie is targeting is Europe, America and East Asia.
White and Asian people are his main target customers.
This is also why he did not intend to design a black magical girl.
[If Hollywood film companies were allowed to adapt the film themselves, would Homura be changed to a black woman?]
Nanaya suddenly felt that this was very possible.
After all, the white girls help the black girls, and then the black girls become self-reliant and help the white girls in turn.
Plus the two people's inexplicable lesbian relationship.
It has all the correct elements such as black people, feminism, and homosexuality.
[I? I'm really crazy.]
Nanaya quickly shook his head and threw this terrible idea out of his mind.
"There's another point."
Although it was strange to see his boss shaking his head, Lake continued to listen when Nanaya raised his finger.
"Only when the audience likes these characters and makes them love them can there be enough peripheral benefits."
Nanaya said in a somewhat mercenary way: "Only in this way, after the movie is released, fans will be more willing to buy new toys and peripheral products. You know, Saber dolls have been selling very well in recent years, and so have Cosplay costumes."
As far as Nanaya knew, Ryan had a hobby of collecting all Saber peripherals.
For this purpose, Ryan also prepared a room specifically for these things.
Nanaya even heard that in order to facilitate management, Ryan classified them according to the year of production.
Of course, Ryan's case is definitely an exception.
But this can also explain a lot of things.
After sitting and thinking for a few minutes, Lake Supervisor nodded slowly and said, "I will rush back to the studio as soon as possible and ask the department to redesign it."
"Then I look forward to seeing the second design draft."
Nanaya nodded.
The character design of a large-scale commercial film will basically go through several revisions from the first draft to the final draft.
Fortunately, the filming of "Madoka Magica" will start early, and Nanaya can still wait.
If the movie wasn't going to be released in Europe and the United States, it would be difficult for purely oriental designs to open up the market.
In fact, Nanaya would prefer that the art design of "Madoka Magica" be done by a purely Japanese design team.
After seeing off the head of the design department, Nanaya returned to the office and called Washimine.
Although the financial budget for the movie "Madoka Magica" was entirely borne by Nanaya himself.
But as a collective project, the funding operations of commercial films are multifaceted.
If he had to handle all the funds himself, he would be exhausted to death.
Therefore, Nanaya directly opened a third-party account specifically for the production of "Madoka Magica" and entrusted Washimine Entertainment to operate it on his behalf.
In this way, Nanaya only needs to transfer the money to the account, which is simple and convenient.
As for account security, Washimine has its own special internal audit system, so Nanaya is quite relieved.
Moreover, the funding for the film does not come from just Nanaya alone.
Although we will not raise funds from outside, we will still receive sponsorship from some advertisers.
When the filming of the movie starts in the future, this part of the fee will be paid into the special filming account of "Madoka Magica".
What Nanaya confirmed with Washimine Entertainment this time was whether the film had sufficient initial funding and whether he needed to put money into it himself.
After receiving a positive answer, Nanaya hung up the phone.
In the next few days, Nanaya once again entered a busy period of work.
He first discussed the script of Madoka Magica with Gen Urobuchi again and resolved several creative differences.
Afterwards, Nanaya flew to North America without stopping to review the post-production special effects of "Inferno".
Then Nanaya flew to New Zealand to investigate the green screen shooting environment and 3D technology level in New Zealand.
Because when I went there, I happened to see James Cameron filming "Avatar".
Nanaya took advantage of his identity as a director and spent two days in the crew with the truck driver.
Cameron still has a good impression of Nanaya, the director (guinea pig) who used FZ to help him explore the way forward.
Not only did he express a warm welcome to Nanaya, he even treated him to a meal.
And Nanaya also experienced firsthand how this studio tyrant actually shoots 3D movies.
Nanaya learned a lot from it, especially the use of new equipment.
During the whole process, Nanaya was stared at with resentful eyes by the dispatched employees of 20th Century Fox.
If it weren't for the person with the most say on the set (Cameron) who personally agreed and welcomed the seven nights.
Nanaya believed that Fox's lackeys would definitely throw him out.
After finishing all this, Nanaya finally returned to Japan to prepare for "Madoka Magica" again.
By this time, it was already the end of August.
The summer of 2007 ended in a busy manner.