CATDOLL: Officials say that the first episode of "Rewrite" has an amazing amount of drawings and may become the strongest July series

The Key game adaptation animation "Rewrite" to be broadcast in July has also attracted everyone's attention from the beginning. Although it is still early for the broadcast, the official has also released a lot of news. The previously announced first episode of this work will be a 1-hour special episode, which has also aroused everyone's interest. Now the animation director Tian Chong said on Twitter that the number of cuts (number of shots) in the first episode is as high as more than 800, far exceeding the average number of cuts in general animations.

In the field of animation production, the original painting is generally based on Cut as the basic switching unit of the original painting scene. Simply put, the switching between Cuts generally means the switching of animation scenes. The data given on the official website of Shirobako Animation is that TV animation generally has about 280 to 340 cards, which means that the screen scene switches about 280-340 times. If the animation feature content is 20 minutes, there is one Cut every four seconds in the average TV animation. According to the number of cards of general TV animation, the number of drawings for one hour of animation should be about 600 Cuts, so the number of drawings for the first episode of "Rewrite" in one hour is 800 Cuts, which is 200 Cuts more than the average number of drawings for general TV animation. And "Rewrite" is not a fighting animation. It can be seen that the animation production team has indeed put a lot of effort in the drawing this time, and it also makes people look forward to the quality presented at that time.

The most recent animation with the most CUTs is the last episode of One Punch Man. The number of CUTs in the first half alone is the same as that of an ordinary animation, almost reaching the effect of a theatrical version. However, the production staff couldn't help but complain about the hard work.

In the past, some animations would use a high amount of drawings to show delicate scenes, such as the "legendary five seconds" in "MACROSS PLUS", the battle between Calder Godwin Bowen driving the YF-21 and the drone X-9. In one scene, 116 frames were used in just five seconds to depict the delicate movements of the aircraft and the missile.