Dad's comic life

Looking at this new work, Hao Ren had an expression of surprise on his face.

"It turns out to be this one..."Tom and Jerry"!"

I have to say that this work really did not appear in Hao Ren's imagination.

This is an anime that accompanied many children in their childhood. Even when he was in college, when Hao Ren got tired of playing league games in the dormitory, he would open the browser and find this work. It looked very enjoyable. It's interesting, and sometimes even his roommates will run to his hanging chair to watch.

It can be said to be an enduring comedy animation that carries many people's childhood memories. "Tom and Jerry" is mainly characterized by farce, exaggerated, violent, and funny, depicting the story of a pair of irreconcilable enemies, Tom and Jerry. The collision between cat and mouse, the war, the pursuit of each other, Tom's cunning tricks and Jerry's astute response are the core of the story.

Although it is an American work, the very funny plots can have a universal effect and do not create barriers between different races like some delicacies.

Just like Mr. Bean in his previous life, it must be difficult for people from any country not to laugh when they see this type of action.

This is a humor that combines two very different styles of pantomime humor and morbid humor.

What is pantomime humor?

Similar to Chaplin's movies, it is a type of humor that creates a comical atmosphere through rich body language and exaggerated expressions.

It's just that this kind of pantomime humor requires extremely high quality of actors. Just like in the previous life, there were probably not many comedy masters who could be equal to Chaplin.

But it doesn't matter if it's applied to animation. The animation is good here. Through the artist's hand drawing, he can create richer body language and exaggerated expressions, but the depiction of the details of his movements needs to be picky.

But there is no difficulty in this point. After all, Hao Ren's painting ability is still recognized, and the strength of other painters under Bika has also been rising steadily under Hao Ren's guidance.

As for the so-called morbid humor, this is easier to understand.

In the past life, when many people watched "Tom and Jerry", they just liked to watch how Tom was teased. The worse Tom was teased, the louder the laughter.

This is a kind of morbid humor, which is in line with the mentality of most people who like to watch others suffer misfortunes and watch the excitement without taking it too seriously.

If you have to keep distance, it's a bit like the melon-eating crowd in the previous life, who just like to join in the fun.

"Tom and Jerry" can also be said to be the imitation object of many domestic morbid humor-type animations in previous lives. Many well-known domestic animations have certain references to this work.

For example, in the famous "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf", the sheep in this work are somewhat similar to the mouse Jerry in "Tom and Jerry", while the Big Big Wolf is similar to Tom Cat. In addition, "The Bear" is also A very typical piece of morbid humor.

Even the form of expression is expressed by anthropomorphizing animals.

Of course, it is a pity that domestic animations and movies are all commercial in nature, so whether it is Bears or Pleasant Goat or Big Big Wolf, they can be regarded as fast-food and commercial works that only pursue morbid humor one-sidedly. Moreover, aspects such as the character's movements are very different from Tom and Jerry.

Even though an episode of Tom and Jerry only lasts just over 7 minutes, it is made up of a huge team, with 150 animators devoting all their time to creating and processing those mixtures of joy, music, chaos, and single-mindedness. The original ingenuity can be seen from the many world-famous songs interspersed in the film. There are very few lines in the film, and most of the emotions are expressed through expressions and movements. This requires the characters in the work to not only express the feelings expressed by the lines, but also It should not be too exaggerated and lead to overall distortion.

From this point, we can see the gap between the two sides. It is no wonder that this work has won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film twelve times and an Emmy Award.

Of course, technology is developing, and many handmade things in the past can be replaced by modern technology.

For example, exaggerated body movements resulted in a huge amount of drawing. When "Tom and Jerry" was produced in the previous life, technology was not as advanced as modern times. There was no so-called 3D modeling or rotoscoping technology.

But now these technologies have been developed and are even used in many parts of the company, so it doesn’t matter in terms of manpower and time consumption.

Even if there are still so many people, Bika Company doesn’t have money to recruit employees!

"only……"

Hao Ren couldn't help but frowned.

Although it is said that funny plots have no national boundaries, this work is an American work after all.

Therefore, many details reflect ancient Western culture.

Not to mention other things, just like Christmas, the witch on Christmas Eve, ancient medieval stories...

These all need to be modified by Hao Ren.

"Looks like I'm going to be tired for a while again!"

Hao Ren stretched out, but didn't say anything. After all, if there was nothing he could do to change it, Hao Ren planned to eliminate it directly.

After all, "Tom and Jerry" is not a feature film but a unit film. There is basically no connection between episodes.

Of course, apart from some details of the plot, the most important point also gave Hao Ren a headache.

That was the soundtrack to Tom and Jerry.

I have to say that the soundtrack of Tom and Jerry is quite in line with the development of the story. Apart from the funny plot, part of the reason for the success of this work is the soundtrack of Tom and Jerry.

Many people say that the success of Tom and Jerry's soundtrack is due to the citation of a lot of classical music and symphonies, such as the Blue Danube, Chopin's Fantasy Improvisation in C sharp minor, and the Waltz in C major.

But to be honest, the further the "Tom and Jerry" series goes, the more obvious changes can be seen.

That is, there are fewer and fewer cited works cited in this work, and there are more and more original score passages, which are also becoming richer. Jazz, modernist music, and atonal music have an increasing proportion in subsequent works. .

In the previous life, the world of classical music, symphony, and symphony music in "Tom and Jerry" did exist.

But the main thing is original music.

This world does not have the original music that appeared in Tom and Jerry.

This moment gave Hao Ren a headache.

"But, forget it..." Hao Ren worried about it for a few minutes and then forgot about this matter.

It’s not like there are no musicians in the company anyway, so he really doesn’t believe it. The cultural heritage of this world will be worse than that of the previous life?