In the new season in July last year, there was an original national comic that attracted the pursuit of the audience of the whole network.
Its production team is not well-known and luxurious, and it can even be said that it was almost a lonely existence before this new series. But it is such a team called Liudao Fishless that successfully ignited the entire national comic circle with the most shocking picture.
The above exploding battle scenes are all from a national comic called "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains", and in last year's new season, it only released 3 episodes, which simply explained the background of the story, the world view, the character story, and opened the curtain of the protagonists' adventures.
However, with its extremely stunning picture presentation, "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains" also won a high score of 8.8 on Douban given by more than 100,000 people, and also attracted the praise of Wang Sicong, who is known as the national husband.
Not finished, in addition to this, "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains" has also been on CCTV, not only by the official stamp "National Comic Dark Horse", but also by Sun Lijun, vice president of the Beijing Film Academy, which is considered to be from the private sector to the official, from the entertainment circle to the academy and so on.
Of course, after a work is out of the circle, the audience will naturally have strong expectations for the subsequent plot. However, the experience of history always tells us that the production time of "small workshops" is often the existence of "lifetime".
Liudao Fishless was indeed a "small workshop", and there were only 3 people when "Five Elements of the Smoky Mountains" was first produced, and it has been maintained in the state of 6 main players since then, so that the first "Five Elements of the Smoky Mountains" could only be launched after 6 years of polishing (counting from the production of short films).
But ah, now they seem to be different, the specific scale I don't know, but just over a year later, on November 17, 2021, a related news also exploded the entire national comic circle again.
On the 17th, the second season of "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains" also came with news, and the specific time of release is still unknown, but the name of the poster and chapter "Xichuan Fantasy Purple Forest" has been determined.
This poster that brushes the national comic circle maintains the consistent "national style" of "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains", and the strong ink painting style and large-scale "blank space" can make the audience have endless reverie.
For fans who have seen the original work, "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains" is indeed like a national comic walking on ink, whether it is a scene composition or a color match, each frame of the picture is very artistic and charming.
In the past many years, fans have repeatedly shouted about the rise of national comics countless times, and they also have endless expectations for the export of culture. In this process, we have indeed encountered such masterpieces as "The Return of the Great Sage" and "The Demon Boy of Nezha", and their production quality is really remarkable, but there are really some things missing in them.
In a sense, they all seem to be catching up with Disney and Pixar's 3D animations.
But "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains" tells us another possibility, that is, it is feasible to use the style that once made the national comic stand to the top of the world stage (the American film studio in the last century used the ink painting style in many chinese comics such as "Landscape and Water" and "Little Tadpole Finds Mother", thus opening up a Chinese style that distinguishes it from Japanese comics and European and American animations).
It can even be said that it is precisely because of the blessing of the ink painting style that the fight scenes of "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains" can be so vivid.
Of course, the quality of "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains" is strong, but when exactly the second season will be launched Is still an uncertain matter, as a fan, I can only see the announcement of "exploding liver" on director Lin Soul's Weibo, and the most ideal situation may come next year?
It is worth mentioning here that in recent days, a station has been promoting the news of the 2021-2022 national animation works conference, and this annual event that will be held on November 20 will also announce the national comic plan for the next year.
It just so happens that the "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains" that Chinese comic fans are looking forward to is among them, so it is said that the release of ah, 2022 may also be a sure thing.
As mentioned earlier, "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains" had launched a pilot short film before the release of the main film, which lasted only more than 5 minutes, but it was immediately praised by the screen at the beginning of the launch.
Although there is only a confrontation between fire and ice in the short film, almost every storyboard, and even every frame, is amazing.
Of course, it is said that it is a "first short film", but in fact, for the director Lin Soul at that time, he did not know whether there was really a chance to produce a full version of "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains" in the future. In this regard, we can understand it as "show muscle", which is also like the "roadshow" in the venture capital circle, but fortunately, director Lin Soul has successfully attracted the attention of the domestic animation circle, and with the support of many parties, he has been able to embark on the road of polishing a complete world view.
Not only that, the pilot short film of "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains" is not the first time that director Lin Soul has tested the waters. If you want to talk about the "debut" of director Lin Soul, then you must count the regrettable "Year City Glass Heart".
This is a web short film released in 2014, and it is only 4 minutes long, but this work also exploded the entire national comic circle like a nuclear bomb that year.
"Never seen such an adrenaline-pumping national comic", "It's so cool that its fights", "Blowing up!!! Guoman is really going to rise this time"... Similar admirations can be said to have filled various places in those days.
But note that unlike the first short film of "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains", in fact, "The Heart of the City of Glass" is not a short film in the full sense, it is more like a tidbit editing of an animated feature film, and the scenes and characters that appear in the play basically meet the setting standards of animated feature films.
To put it bluntly, this is actually a long trailer, and its release is only a sign that the "Year City Glass Heart" feature film National Comic is about to be launched.
This is naturally not my speculation, in the subsequent media reports we also saw the news of the production of feature films, coupled with the various information presented by the encyclopedia in great detail, it is also a fact that director Lin Soul's debut will be a "feature film".
However, later the producer and the company had a copyright dispute, resulting in the project had to terminate the creation, and since then, director Lin Soul has set up the Six Fishless Studio, and has made a name for himself with the "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains" first short film, and has the opportunity to create the July 2020 Dark Horse National Comic that even CCTV and Wang Sicong have to like.
It can be seen that the success of "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains" was not achieved overnight, and director Lin Soul was able to stand in the center of the stage is not just a matter of good luck.
God has at least tested the strength of production ability, psychological endurance, and most importantly, "works that can arouse the audience's interest repeatedly".
Then you say that at this stage in the early stage of the development of Guoman, we can have a talented and tenacious producer like Director Lin Soul, is it not worth saying that "Guoman can look forward to the future"?