My Animation Era

The first season of "The Adventures of Uncle Dragon" is "Spells", the theme is to find the spells, and the main villain is "Holy Lord".

The story originated from an archeology.

Archaeological expert Chen Long and his companions entered the castle of a Bavarian king to explore, but because their companions accidentally touched the mechanism, everyone had to flee in a hurry.

In the process of fleeing, Uncle Long used a shield he picked up at random to block all kinds of hidden weapons, and escaped from the castle through the secret passage in the posture of skiing.

San Francisco, antique store.

The relative of Uncle Long, his teacher and father, the owner of this antique shop, the nagging old man who likes to say "one more thing", is studying the shield brought back by Uncle Long and the mysterious charm on the shield.

Coincidentally, Xiaoyu, the daughter of Uncle Long's cousin, also moved to the antique shop...

"Niece or niece?"

When the animation production reached the part where Xiaoyu appeared on the stage, an animator asked suspiciously: "According to the customs of my hometown, under this relationship, Uncle Long should be Xiaoyu's cousin instead of uncle."

"Well!"

Gu Miao didn't expect that there was an "unreasonable" omission about Xiaoyu's address to Uncle Long.

"How about changing it?" Someone suggested, "If Xiaoyu's father is Uncle Long's cousin, wouldn't that make sense?"

Then change it!

Gu Miao thought about it for a while, anyway, Xiaoyu's parents basically don't have any sense of existence, whether it is a cousin or a cousin, there is actually no difference.

In fact, it doesn't matter if you change it.

It's just that Xiaoyu should call Uncle Long, but in the end she calls Uncle Long all day long, which always feels a little out of harmony.

And most importantly...

With Chen Long as the protagonist, the title "Uncle Long" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even the name of the animation was called Uncle Long, and it was temporarily changed to Uncle Long, which is a bit unreasonable.

Salutation is just a small thing.

Because Uncle Long hadn't had time to get close to his niece, the "White Trio" of the Mafia broke into the antique shop and threatened Chen Long to hand over the shield.

In order to protect his father and Xiaoyu, Uncle Long decided to follow the three of them. Unexpectedly, he was accidentally discovered during the follow-up process, so he had to use the "Hua Guo Kungfu" he had practiced for many years to beat the three of them away.

When he saw Xiaoyu and exclaimed why Xiaoyu was here, a bald man suddenly appeared in the crowd and stunned him...

"Are you awake? The operation was a success!"

The bald head is Chen Long's close friend Tan Sir, who is now the person in charge of the mysterious Thirteenth District, and the main duty of this mysterious Thirteenth District is to investigate large-scale international crimes.

And they have tracked down the Mafia, and even tracked down the leader of the Mafia, Wa Xiong...

The Mafia suddenly became interested in historical relics recently, so Sir Tan hoped to invite archaeological experts like Chen Long to join the thirteenth district.

While Uncle Long was still considering the pros and cons, Xiaoyu suddenly broke into the 13th district, and the old man who had just solved the mystery of the shield was also kidnapped by Tolu sent by Waxiong.

The story of "The Adventures of Uncle Dragon" kicked off...

"The narrative pace of animation is fast!"

Gu Miao took a deep breath and said, "Almost one incident is not over, and another incident comes immediately, there is no time to breathe during the whole process."

"This also requires us to strictly control the rhythm of the animation narrative during production, and not have too many useless key frames..."

His meaning is clear.

In the animation "The Adventures of Uncle Dragon", try not to appear redundant things and fancy things. Every frame is very compact, and the narrative should not be muddled.

"This is a typical American comic feature!"

"Yes……"

Gu Miao didn't hide her thoughts, and said confidently: "This is an American-style animation dressed in Chinese elements!"

"You must not use previous attitudes, or past experiences, into the production of this animation."

Because, this is different!

There is a big difference between American animation and Huaguo animation, and neon animation. To put it bluntly, this kind of American "superhero" animation is very different from American animation like "Tom and Jerry".

Never generalize.

To produce different types of animations, it is necessary to control different narrative rhythms and skillfully switch painting styles.

For American superhero animations like "The Adventures of Uncle Dragon", the production team has almost zero foundation, and everyone needs to learn from scratch.

Sound difficult?

But in fact, it is not as difficult as imagined, because almost all the production rules of American superheroes have ready-made "formulas" that can be applied.

Watch a few more Hollywood blockbusters, watch a few more American hero comics, the so-called routines and formulas can be summed up.

not to mention……

Although the people in the production team have zero background, Wanbao is an old man with experience in this field!

Those people who have produced "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", their experiences and insights can also provide reference for the production team.

Use the narrative method of American animation to tell the story of Huaguo, and the story revolves around the elements of Huaguo...

This is the first problem that the production team of "The Adventures of Uncle Dragon" needs to overcome.

For this reason, Gu Miao specially sent people to North America to go to the local Chinatown and well-known streets to conduct on-the-spot investigations and collect folk songs, trying to achieve the original taste and not leaking flaws in the creation of the scene.

This is not the end...

In order to let more audiences, especially overseas audiences, have a sense of belonging and identification with the animation, Gu Miao also added many scenes in the animation that pay tribute to "classic movies".

Most of them are Uncle Long's movies, and a few pay tribute to those familiar classic European and American movies.

besides.

Regarding the design of animation lines, Gu Miao also specially studied the complete collection of jokes in Europe and the United States, and studied how to poke their jokes.

Needless to say, Gu Miao did research something.

In the eyes of Chinese people, many jokes or burdens that belong to "cold jokes" are particularly funny in the eyes of foreigners. This is part of cultural differences.

"I'm worried about a problem."

After Lao Zhang learned of Mr. Gu's actions, he said rather sadly: "If you do this, will you end up being a double-faced person?"

"Domestic audiences don't like it. They call you adoring foreign countries and fawning on foreigners. Foreign audiences don't like it either. They call you uneasy and good-hearted for adding private goods, and engage in ideological confrontation?"

"It is indeed possible."

When Gu Miao heard this, she immediately thought of the changes in Internet public opinion and word-of-mouth after the original "Jackie Chan Adventures" was broadcast for many years.

People's hearts are fickle.

Maybe a certain person, when he was young, liked to watch foreign countries, especially neon film and television animations, but when he grew up, he suddenly became extremely repulsive, and even shouted the slogan "Only watch neon animations with sand dollars".

No one knows what kind of ideological struggle and transformation he experienced during this period. Anyway, the fact is that he became the kind of person he hated the most when he was a child...