The entertainment industry shouldn't be like this

Chapter 291 A very strange animation

For the public, the Chinese entertainment industry, which has just entered 1994, is full of lively events and constant events—

First of all, a review of Dunhuang and the five major storms last year has aroused widespread attention;

However, the public did not concentrate for a long time and began to look forward to the arrival of the Spring Festival period. We look forward to seeing some wonderful works in this increasingly valued popular period;

In addition, as always, the Spring Festival will usher in the climax of the awards season after the Spring Festival - in fact, as soon as the new year enters, both sides of the Pacific have entered the award-winning public relations season, one carefully planned hype marketing after another, and another

The announcement of an outpost award, of course, there are the most eye-catching Tianma Awards and Oscars...

And behind the crowd's eyes, there is a surging undercurrent: the giants have called one after another, and they are constantly threatening, promising, analyzing... It's like a pair of hands, pulling the curtain, moving the set, and making a new round of

The stage was paved with the truth.

The "actor" who appears will definitely be a movie, and it will only be a movie.

At this time, Wang Wei had put the matter of "Jurassic Park" aside for the time being and focused on the first movie released in Dunhuang this year.

Dunhuang aims at this year's Spring Festival, not a live-action movie, but an animated movie - the animation "Tongpie" directed by Xu Zhonghe!

After more than a year of investment, Dunhuang Animation Studio's first 2D animation film has officially been announced to be completed, waiting for Wang Wei to watch it again before the internal preview starts to make the final adjustment.

Not only Wang Wei, most of the executives in Dunhuang, as well as several directors from the animation studio, came to watch the sample.

Although this is not the first work of Dunhuang Animation Studio, the importance that everyone pays only to Dunhuang is obviously not inferior to the original "Toy Story".

In this case, they naturally hope for "The Totoro", also written by Wang Wei.

In fact, Xu Zhonghe’s personal experience is a bit tragic - because of his style, he has never been appreciated by Lianya Entertainment; when he is middle-aged, he is unemployed due to the changes of the times; if it were not for Dunhuang's intake, he might even be forced.

Leaving your beloved animation production career...

"How is this film taken? Let's talk about it?"

Ma Qingshi said that it was right.

In a sense, he has a somewhat similar situation to the little girl in "The Totoro" - his mother is sick and wants to move to a strange place, and his mother has never come back...

Gu Xiji gave an analysis from his own perspective, then looked at the director Xu Zhonghe with a smile on his lips.

Ma Qingshi, who also insisted on the traditional hand-painted production method, frowned, and then relaxed, "Zhonghe is really a person with innocent and childlike hearts."

It has been proved that 2D hand-drawn animation still has great potential, and it can still be cursed by Lianya Entertainment without any mercy;

If they lose, they may really consider how to quit...

Naturally, childlike innocence and hope are integrated into this film - if it weren't for the innocent and childlike innocence, they would not have done this.

——Although I hope that all the company's resources will be invested in 3D animation, Gu Xiji did not deliberately belittle the other party's works.

This is because the success or failure of "Tongkats" is related to the "route battle" of animation studios.

As for the artists, whether it is Wang Wei himself, Gu Xiji, Ma Qingshi, or even Old Zhou and Xu, they are more or less emotional, and they are relatively easy to feel the appeal - in the not strong

Behind the plot, some people remember the childhood resonance in their memories, and some people remember a period of time in the past when they were in a vast mood...

Wang Wei nodded slightly.

"Although the animation effect produced by traditional hand-painted does not look as exquisite as computer-made, we have to admit that these simple works that have been hand-painted have more touching power, which is worth learning from by our group."

This is a movie with a very simple story - in the season when corn is about to mature, the father takes his two daughters Xiaoyue and Xiaomei to an old house near the country forest, waiting for his mother who is about to be discharged from the hospital; all the stories are

Revolving around the two sisters, cleaning the house, going to school, planting trees, visiting mothers, getting lost, meeting chinchillas and bobcat buses...

With all kinds of thoughts in mind, everyone quickly finished "The Totoro", which lasted less than 90 minutes.

However--

——Although Dunhuang invested in animation movies, 3D animated movies have occupied the majority; if there is a chance, who doesn’t want to monopolize all resources?

On the other hand, most of the traditional animated film schools that originated from Lianya Entertainment.

“A childlike animation!”

No wonder Xu Zhonghe said that this is the most relaxed and pleasant movie he made as a director. When the creator's voice is completely coupled with the work, the appeal of the works he created is also unparalleled.

Wang Wei nodded again.

For this faction, they firmly believe that 2D animation has a future, but they were all swept out by Lianya Entertainment, which led to their lack of confidence.

From this point of view, Xu Zhonghe selected Wang Wei’s planning purpose for "The Totoro": to produce a happy and heartwarming movie, a movie that allows the audience to have a light and joyful mood after watching it...

Completed perfectly.

There are black balls rolling around in the old house, and there are surprises and adventures in the small garden connecting the forest. In this pure and natural land, they just need to laugh and scream and run by barefoot

The puddles chased after them...

So I feel light!

After watching the movie without realizing it, no one spoke in the screening room and was immersed in a quiet and peaceful atmosphere.

Until Wang Wei smiled and broke the silence,

The debater is naturally the 3D animation school represented by Gu Xiji.

In their opinion, what Dunhuang Animation Studio is most proud of is that it has ushered in the era of 3D animation, and it is natural that we must continue to follow this path.

Especially when the traditional animation overlord Lianya Entertainment is catching up, the resources invested should not be dispersed.

However, he did not arrange the tragic renderings in life into a tragedy, nor did he even deliberately take the "healing" route. Just like the two sisters in the film, in a strange environment, everything only makes them feel unprecedented novelty-

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The king who has been silent after watching the movie. Are we watching the same movie? It seems that I am the only one who has no feelings for him. Chuanqi couldn't help but press his temple.

"No doubt, this is a very strange animation."

"It's very special!" he emphasized, and then poured cold water, "It's so special that I can't even evaluate it!"

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(End of this chapter)