As an online fantasy novel, "Purple River" depicts a unique and wonderful world to the reader with humorous and witty language and delicate and moving brushstrokes.
And on December 21, the anime of the same name adapted from the novel, "Purple River", finally wants to meet with everyone who loves this work and loves the national comic!
The original author interprets the work and lays the core of the adaptation
In order to perfectly convey the spiritual core of "Zichuan" to the audience, before the adaptation and creation, the creative team first contacted the author of "Zichuan", Teacher Lao Pig, and better interpreted the work after the author's own elaboration, so as to find the spiritual core to be expressed.
Thus the values of "Zichuan" are determined to be: praise faith and loyalty in blood and fire, and praise loyal friendship and love.
In the Xichuan Continent, Sanjie rose up, the eldest brother Di Lin was calm and resourceful, ruthless and strong, the second brother Sterling unified the army with Fang Zhongjun and patriotic, and the old Sanzichuan Xiu was called a "rogue", but he was wise and courageous.
The Zichuan family is worried about internal and external troubles, and the three masters of Zichuan show their miraculous powers: Zichuan Xiu repelled the fierce demon clan at a critical moment, and went into the tiger's den alone to hunt down and kill the rebellious Lei Hong; Sterling put the family first, ruthlessly and affectionately cherished other lovers; Di Lin was invincible, and the name of the Blood Cultivator resounded throughout the demon clan... The three brothers performed one miracle after another.
Different forces are divided, and the details are supreme
Because "Purple River" is a huge fantasy novel with an overhead historical theme, it is necessary to achieve differentiated expression in the specific presentation of several major forces.
As the main story of the Zichuan family, its architectural style adopts the design concept of combining Chinese and Western. In terms of details, considering that Zichuan uses the eagle as a totem, the core logo of the building is also equipped with an eagle element.
At the same time, the characters of the Zichuan family also adopted a regional design. Most of them are facial characteristics of the Central Plains people with thin face, sharp edges and strong three-dimensional sense. The costumes worn by the characters are mainly Western Gothic, while the standard official uniforms are mainly designed with robes, scepters, collar badges, and long cloaks, highlighting the aristocratic style. Most of the practical utensils are mainly porcelain.
In the design of the Liufeng family, because it is located in the northwest of the entire continent, with abundant water and grass, developed animal husbandry, and strong folk customs, its architectural style is mostly built on the mountain, brick and stone buildings. Its interior is also more steppe fur with various woven items.
Due to regional reasons, the team designed the appearance of the flowing character to be more European than the high nose bridge and deep eye sockets. The Legion of the Liufeng Family is dominated by crusaders, with red uniforms in cavalry costumes and helmets highlighting the cross emblem. Most of the utensils used are mainly gold and silver utensils.
The Demon Clan is the most special race, because it is located in the easternmost part of the entire Xichuan Continent, the terrain is dangerous, and the architectural style is dark and mysterious. The overall demon clan is exotic, the royal family of the demon clan is gorgeously dressed, the design is mainly purple and lilac military uniforms, and the royal officers are dark brown uniforms.
The Far East is a gathering place for half-orcs, which is rich in ores and gemstones. The architectural style is relatively primitive, mostly living in caves and wooden houses. In order to highlight this sense of barbarism, the costume design of the Far Eastern half-orcs is also rough and barbaric. Most of the weapons are blunt weapons, and the structure of the force is dominant. The ornaments used by the half-orcs are mostly wood and stone, highlighting the ethnic characteristics.
Recreate the ancient battlefield and restore the shocking war
The most eye-catching and difficult part of the "Purple River" project is the war drama. Book lovers who have read the original book should know that Zichuan's war drama runs from the beginning to the end. Epic war-themed works are characterized by a large worldview, a large number of characters, and a large number of fictional scenes.
According to statistics, there are as many as 912 characters and 482 scenes in the "Zichuan" project, in addition to 9208 special effects shots and 3230 martial arts shots. Although such a large-scale work is a huge challenge for the team, the production team also pays attention to presenting the audience with a unique visual enjoyment.
In order to truly reproduce the ancient battlefield, the team not only used a large number of special effects to lay the atmosphere of war. Moreover, it also considered the battle formation queue in the era of cold weapons, and made the theory of army formation unification: light infantry is like hands, cavalry is like feet, heavy infantry is like armored chests, and commanders are like heads. Among them, the Terran army will also be accompanied by siege tools such as vanguard scouts and catapults.
And the catapult and other equipment we are compared to the siege vehicle of the cold weapon era, and do a dramatized treatment. In terms of lighting and color, the team tried to simulate the real light source and restore the real scene of the war.
Interactive dramas expand characters and enhance the sense of substitution
Since "Zichuan" itself is a group portrait play, in order to make users more engaged and focus their vision on Zichuan Xiu, we have planned some scenes in which the protagonists are not involved, but they are very meaningful, as well as some more wonderful scenes with different timelines, to the interactive drama link.
It can be said that in "Purple River", the main drama is to restore the main line of the original plot, and the interactive drama is mainly to refine and expand the story of key characters.
"ZiChuan" is a classic online literary work and an enlightenment work of many book lovers. Adapting and producing such a work is both a blessing and a challenge, and the production team worked hard for excellence after a two-year retreat, only hoping to present the audience with an epic war-themed animation that integrates high-quality pictures and deep spiritual cores - "Purple River".
On December 21, Tencent Video premiered
Let's experience the grandeur and poignancy brought by "Purple River" and shock people's hearts!