Author: Xiao Yan
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The end of Star Skeleton Knight
Science fiction, usually literally translated as science fiction, as a film and television work theme that has attracted much attention in China in recent years, although there are many controversies about its specific definition and connotation, but this does not prevent creators from developing various types of works around science fiction, which is very attractive.
Shoji Kawamori, one of the directors of the Japanese science fiction animated film "Chrono Fortress: Can Remember Love", released in 1984, believes that science fiction works are based on scientific principles and realistic phenomena to stimulate their own creativity. Good science fiction should be able to bring personal and wonderful experiences. "For me, the most important thing about science fiction is the experience, seeing things I haven't seen before, being amazed by it, so much so that my worldview has undergone a 180-degree shift."
In 2030 AD, somewhere on the earth, five years after the fall of the somatorite meteorite, scientists from all over the world have conducted in-depth research on this extraterrestrial object whose composition is completely unknown, and it is exciting that scientists have found that the sommeter contains huge energy, which can trigger the folding of natural space and greatly shorten the sailing time...
This is the beginning of the first season of the domestic science fiction animation "Star Skeleton Knight", which sets sail with a surprising science fantasy setting, and the audience is also accompanied by the "Spark" ridden by the male protagonist Chen Mo in the animation, and accidentally stepped into a new universe of fantasy magnificence.
After winning hundreds of millions of plays and super high word of mouth, the first season will usher in a perfect end
"Star Skeleton Knight" is tencent platform S+ level project, jointly produced by Black Rock Network and Penguin Film and Television, the first season was broadcast on Tencent Video on December 30, 2020, as of now, the number of views has approached 400 million times, the rating is 9.3, and it has won the Tencent Video Golden Goose Award, shortlisted for the Chinese Animation Golden Dragon Award and many other industry honors, it is worth mentioning that "Star Skeleton Knight" also won the Epic MegaGrants Global Developer Program Award, becoming the only domestic animation project to receive the award.
The first 14 episodes of the first season ended on June 30, 2021, after the protagonists Clayti and Chen Mo were successively involved in the huge vortex created by the interpreter Eleanor, and judging from the announcement of the finale trailer, there will be a fierce war between Chen Mo, the Knights of Cangyan, and Eleanor, the Interpreter covets chen Mo's creative power, threatening the lives of Clayti, Keane, etc., and Clayti seems to have encountered an accident, Chen Mo will also usher in a new power outbreak, although it is only 1 minute long, but the entire trailer, The content is not incendiary.
If you go back in time, as a science fiction animation that is not good to "nibble", from the script stage to the landing on the video platform, "Star Skeleton Knight" took a full 3 years, for this work, in the "Star Skeleton Knight" documentary "Star Sea Traveler", its producer once said that this is 3 years of non-growth in exchange for 20 years of accumulation to get something, he thinks it is a very valuable thing.
The reason why "Star Skeleton Knight" can live up to expectations, in addition to the huge time and capital cost invested by the producer Black Rock Network, in order to serve higher quality animation finished products, in terms of story content and animation production technology, Black Rock Network has also contributed the greatest sincerity and efforts.
"In our science fiction dreams, humanity has conquered the solar system and is moving towards a more distant and deeper universe. On the path of exploring the unknown, humanity may encounter a higher civilization ideologically detached from mortals, mysterious and powerful cosmic energies, and a dark abyss that terrifies all life. ”
This is the animation team's original world view concept, human exploration of the universe, more mysterious galaxies are gradually "unlocked", in the face of unknown forces, how do humans choose to cope, how to create a new home? These are based on the existing scientific knowledge to make a hypothesis or prediction, according to which after years of creation and incubation, the Black Rock Network has established a science fiction story system represented by the unified worldview "Marginal Apocalypse" as the basic framework, the global market (domestic, European, American, Japanese and Korean markets) as the goal, and the animation of "Star Skeleton Knight".
In the animated series, Chen Mo, a human mechanical engineer, arrives in a starship to the wild star outside the solar system, and after his teammates change, Chen Mo, as the only survivor, has many questions and four robots survive on the planet, during which he meets the members of the Thorne Empire and gradually discovers the terrible power from the abyss that will threaten the entire universe.
In order to seal the Abyss Lord, the speaker created an energy storage device, the Apocalypse Shield, and handed it over to the Wild Star Ice Field, which was first discovered by humans, the Vosto Ice Field, which has a complex ecology, in order to better create this unique and extreme natural environment atmosphere, the production team created more than 10,000 model components for it, and arranged them in a vast scene with an area of up to 40 square kilometers (4x10 kilometers), including the use of black crystal as an important guarantee for the operation of the Thorne Empire. Therefore, the sombra tower that stands on the surface of the planet like a sword, as well as monsters with different forms and abilities... These are the imaginative and highly aesthetically volitional refinements and fillings of the Black Rock Network in the story and picture guided by the existing overall worldview framework.
The uniqueness and power of animation is also that in terms of production technology, "Star Rider" uses Unreal Engine throughout the production, using UE4 for production, Unreal Engine's real-time rendering technology can change various elements in the animation production scene, including characters, environment, weather, and at the same time can ensure exquisite picture quality, so although this kind of technology is really invested in animation Production, there are inevitably many difficult problems, but in order to achieve better visual effects with less time and capital cost, The Black Rock Network resolutely embarked on this path that required cutting through thorns. Facts have proved that such insistence is worthwhile, special effects and pictures have become one of the advantages praised by many audiences, and it has also successfully contributed many high-end technologies to the animation industry, so that more animation fans can join in and inject more fresh blood into domestic animation.
As tencent video's 2022 opening year animation masterpiece, the spark rekindling of "Star Skeleton Knight" has officially landed on Tencent Video at 10 o'clock this morning, and in 14 episodes of content without delay, it has developed to the perspective of the interpreter "exposed", under the premise of the story that Chen Mo and his party began to confront the abyss power, the revival of the spark of "Star Skeleton Knight" that aims to draw a perfect end for the first season will provide you with more high-burning story content and wonderful audio-visual pictures.
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"Star Skeleton Knight" is located in the vast "marginal apocalypse" IP universe created by Black Rock
For the huge energy that science fiction can radiate, the "ambition" of the Black Rock Network, the producer and producer of "Star Rider", does not stop there, the launch of animation is only one of its huge goals, and it is one of the important steps in the construction of the IP "Marginal Apocalypse".
Black Rock Network positioned "Marginal Apocalypse" as the original domestic science fiction IP, IP worldview architecture began to build from 2015, in 2016 entered the worldview concept design and combing stage, and developed this worldview system under the novel, comics, audiobooks, etc., as mentioned above, the animation series after 3 years, in 2017 began to write the script, the end of 2020 officially launched.
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At present, the worldview framework of the Marginal Revelation alone has been written in 300,000 words: the new federation representing democracy and freedom, the Overlord of the Galaxy, the Thorn Empire, the fanatical believers of the gods, the Morning Dawn Temple, the dark heir abyss of the beginning of the universe... The long-term script polishing and the ultimate pursuit of story content not only make the story system complete and the plot ups and downs, but also gradually form a variety of characteristic elements such as "marginal apocalypse" inspirational positive energy, blood, science fiction, adventure, suspense and so on.
In the context of such a grand worldview and the team's goal positioning, "Star Skeleton Knight" is undoubtedly only the first step for the production team to show the vaster science fiction universe. In the later stage, the Black Rock Network will fill in various representative protagonists, develop their own story lines, create a story matrix, and achieve strong IP bundling and interaction in the later stage.
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Regarding IP development, Black Rock Network hopes to influence young people through differentiated content, form an IP cultural ecosystem with science fiction and future fantasy theme subdivisions as the core, and at the same time has a plan to continuously produce more kinds, more styles, and works that are not limited to animation, games, movies and other categories for the majority of audiences and fans.
At present, in addition to the complete worldview framework, marginal apocalypse has a large number of three-dimensional animation and game art assets under the IP, and has developed high-quality episodic animation, serial comics, audiobooks, model hand-made peripherals and other products with this series as the core.
Taking the commercialization of the animated series "Star Skeleton Knight" as an example, in addition to january 1, "Star Skeleton Knight" and one of the world's largest night economies, EKO Entertainment launched a science fiction theme night on New Year's Day, in order to enrich the trend entertainment methods of young people, its all-round immersive VR script killing is also under development, and is expected to meet with users in 2022.
In addition, as one of the few companies in the industry that can do both full-production production line original animation dramas, and at the same time can develop their own mobile games, the "Star Skeleton Knight" mobile game that is very game-like in the eyes of fans is also under development, at present, 1 of the 2 series of mobile games has been opened for reservation in Taptap, and the next will continue to update the game content and dynamics on Taptap.
The mobile game is personally operated by the producer of the "Star Skeleton Knight" animation, as a strategy game, it will restore the exciting and magnificent scenes in the animation, present the most original world view, players can freely form an army, explore the world, collect resources or collect equipment, in addition to the classic characters in the animation, there will also be new characters to join, in order to bring players more unexpected surprise experience.
The multi-faceted development of the commercial development of animated series has also greatly verified the market recognition of the "marginal apocalypse" IP behind it, and based on the excellent performance of the first season, the second season of "Star Rider" is also under continuous development, which will further improve the cosmic worldview of "Marginal Apocalypse".
From the perspective of target positioning, although marginal apocalypse will become a larger and larger, extremely rich connotation of the big IP, but falling on each work, in fact, is a very small step, no matter how different the form and content, the works under the marginal apocalypse ip will uphold the creative team's as always creative concept and vision: with the best technology and attitude, for the majority of enthusiasts to create an unprecedented, can be fully experienced science fiction world, thus becoming one of the most representative science fiction IP in China.
As one of the producers and producers of "Star Rider", as well as the founder of "Marginal Apocalypse", Founded in 2013, Black Rock Network has accumulated many years of experience in many projects such as animation series, game CGs, advertising films, movies, etc. As a company with both animation creation production capacity and game industry genes, in the 8 years since Black Rock was founded, it has served more than 30 industries around the world, including 300 digital entertainment companies, and produced 10w+ works. To provide high-quality film and television animation and digital art works for global audiences and users, partners include NetEase, Tencent, ByteDance, Alibaba and other well-known enterprises, and the core team has participated in well-known film and game projects at home and abroad such as "Fantasy Journey to the West", "Yin and Yang Division", "The Fifth Personality", "Inhuman Academy", "Wilderness Action" and so on.
In 2021, it will receive a series B investment from Tencent, which is understood to help Black Rock continue to develop more creative film and game works to give back to users and the market in the future.
The animated series that ran out from the hands of the powerful Black Rock Network are constructed from different high-quality works and have unlimited possibilities of the sci-fi IP universe, and the rekindling of the spark of "Star Skeleton Knight" launched today will not only continue to write more brilliant and energetic powerful sci-fi stories for long-awaited audiences, but also further light up the vast world of domestic original IP.
Science fiction is both in line with scientific reality and full of boundless imagination, and Black Rock has both powerful technology and fantasy creativity. Such an ability is also enough to make people look forward to the greater energy that marginal apocalypse can explode in the future, and perhaps, like Marvel, Black Rock can also create a science fiction universe rooted in China that fascinates users around the world.