Introduction: In recent years, with the development of domestic animation, domestic animation films have also begun to be put on the agenda. Although the number is still not much, there are some domestic animation movies online every year.
Recently, the most popular of course is the animated movie "Lion Boy"
Judging from the current rating of 8.4 and the rating of Cat's Eye 9.5, the work should be recognized by many people, but is this really the case?
Obviously, the recent polarized comments have also pushed this animation work into a wave of public opinion.
Controversial character modeling
The focus of the controversy is basically focused on the character modeling, and the design of the small eyes of the whole staff is suspected by many people of "insulting China".
However, there are also many viewers, moved by the plot of the animation, that the work is a work of art in the contemporary animation film culture, but the difference in people's aesthetics has led to public opinion.
But to be honest, when I saw this kind of character modeling, as a member of the group who likes animation, I felt that I really didn't have any desire to watch.
There is no doubt that the character modeling of "The Lion Boy" is ugly, there is no doubt about it, "squinting eyes", "squinting eyes" and "small eyes" deliberately integrate these elements into the character modeling in the animation.
It can be said that the work is a sword in this regard.
For a long time, national comics have also included domestic animation films, which obviously have great deficiencies in "original" animation plots.
National cartoon network text adaptation, domestic animation movies are also based on mythological stories, etc., and a small number of original animations such as "painting rivers and lakes", "Kuiba" and so on, may often not have to pay.
And rising to domestic animation movies, especially the original animation plot, the sword can also achieve an effect, relying on some of these elements to enhance the popularity of animation.
"Lion Boy" is obviously like this, it imposes the definition of "ugly" on the aesthetics of the Chinese people, and then relies on the points of "promoting Chinese culture" and "the road of the growth of the youth's blood" in the movie to win the resonance of the audience.
After all, even CCTV and various stars are calling for the work, once someone complains that the animation does not meet the aesthetics of the Chinese people, when the character is ugly, it will be crowned with the crime of lack of cultural self-confidence.
Therefore, the reputation of animation is also becoming more and more seriously polarized.
After all, it is the difference in group choices
Regarding this reason, Galaxy personally wonders whether the group choice will be different.
If it is a two-dimensional group, especially those fans who often pay attention to Japanese and Chinese comics, there will be an instinctive resistance to the character modeling in "Lion Boy".
This is obviously ugly, why not let people say?
"Squinting Eyes" and "Small Eyes" are not absent in the modeling animation, and usually we think about this kind of image setting, those characters who are very deep in the city government.
For example, Ichimaru Silver in the Japanese manga "Death God", his squinting setting finally does meet his personality, and then the Tushan Rongrong in the national comic "Fox Demon Little Red Lady" is also giving people a wise and black image.
And so on a series of small-eyed characters, there are also many in the animation, but are these characters ugly? Obviously not, "small eyes" and "squinting eyes" are not synonymous with "ugly".
But why does "Lion Boy" make people feel "ugly"?
Some people may say that some people have not seen the movie to comment, do you know how touching its plot is?
However, whether the plot is good or not is not ugly is different from whether his character is ugly or not, because it is ugly, so not many people go to see it, which is also a fact.
Is it obviously wrong for people who don't go to the movies because of this to be labeled as lacking cultural self-confidence?
According to relevant data, the scheduling rate of "Lion Boy" on the day of release was as high as 25%, but the attendance rate was only 2%, and the attendance rate did not exceed 10% for a whole week.
What does this data mean? That is, now when you take out your mobile phone and buy movie tickets through the Internet, you will find that there are not many people watching movies in a movie hall.
Even in some remote places in the cinema hall, you may be able to spend a ticket to experience the feeling of the cinema hall charter.
All indications show that the popularity of "Lion Boy" in the cinema is not high at all, and which group will choose this genre to watch.
Galaxy estimates that there should be very few two-dimensional A-houses, because it really does not match the aesthetics that many people follow.
Therefore, this kind of theme may be aimed at the mass group other than the second dimension, of course, it is not absolute.
If you don't pay much attention to animation, you may not pay much attention to the character modeling of "Lion Boy".
As long as they find the plot attractive, it is worth their tickets, but the number of the latter group is obviously relatively small.
I just didn't expect that the character modeling of "Lion Boy" has become the center of group antagonism on the Internet in a short period of time.
epilogue
Real-life themes, the promotion of national culture, "squinting eyes" is a new aesthetic exploration, etc., these are honest concepts too deep, galaxy for the time being.
When the animated movie "Lion Boy" is launched on the online platform, Galaxy may comment on some plots, as for now, I may not have such a high aesthetic ability!
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