"The Adventure of Atang": The Chinese tea pet dumb robot starts a dream journey
Text: Tian Jinshuang
If the original "Little Door God" of the light chasing animation moved the story to the immortal world, this time, the light chasing animation moved the story from the immortal world to the tea pet world, so that people can experience the warmth of cuteness in the cute and bowable tea pet story.
"The Adventures of Atang" tells the story of a ceramic tea pet named Atang who lives in a southern tea shop, who is always mercilessly ridiculed by other tea pets and lives a very unhappy life. One day, a magical robot from the futuristic world accidentally fell into a tea shop. In order to make the color beautiful and regain self-confidence, the Chinese tea pet Atang and the robot Xiaolai embark on a fantastic journey to the future together.
What is a tea pet? In the film, it is explained like this: tea pets are the pets of tea drinkers. Through the trailer, we can see that the tea pet in "The Adventure of A Tang" is a group of vivid and cute living treasures, in addition to Atang, there are golden pigs, Mr. Bookkeeper, Maitreya Buddha, three-legged golden toads, virgin boys and girls... During the day, they will stay quietly on the tea tray and wait for the tea shop owner to pour tea to moisturize, and at night, they will be full of blood and come back to the ground, talk like humans, and even "spit" on their masters.
But it turns out that tea pang can also be short in parents, tea pets can also be tasteful, and tea pets can also compete for wind and jealousy. Look, this feeling, is not very funny, very fairy tale flavor.
It is quite interesting that the tea pets in the film have different forms, distinct personalities, cute and funny, high cold and elegant, and thick and clumsy. For example, when the protagonist of the film, the tea pet Atang, first appeared, he was both arrogant and domineering, and a POSE showed the "tea bully" style. However, who knows that under the mask of his seeming self-confidence and arrogance, he actually has his own troubles.
So, in order to make his color more warm and beautiful, tea pet Atang and his new partner, a spherical robot full of technology, began their dream journey.
In the trailer, there is an intriguing bridge section: Ah Tang and Xiao Lai have repeatedly encountered dangers during their journey to find the mysterious tree cave people, but the robot Xiao Lai has never lost the gift that Ah Tang gave him. Even in the face of the danger of flooding, Xiao Lai still clung to the gift. When Adam accused it of not caring for life, do you know what it said? It says, "This is a gift that cannot be washed away by water!" ”
This sentence is also the spiritual theme that the cartoon "The Adventures of Atang" intends to convey to us: friendship is the most beautiful gift given to us by God. It can even transcend races and even transcend times. The fantastic journey of the frustrated tea pet Atang and the mysterious visitor Alai is even more warm and touching with love. The positive themes of cherishing friendship, grasping the present moment and bravely pursuing dreams conveyed in the film are in line with the appetite of family audiences, and parents and children find pleasure in the film together.
It is particularly worth mentioning that the animation film "The Adventures of Atang" concentrates on traditional Chinese aesthetics and modern scientific and technological elements, and the film not only has a strong traditional color, but also is full of modern scientific and technological atmosphere, which can bring the combination of traditional craft technology and 3D technology to the extreme. In addition, the film is very elaborate in character grasping, fine speech performance and field film production, which can satisfy the audience's picky eyeballs and sexy ears to the greatest extent possible.
Comprehensive evaluation, in the case of Hollywood, Disney-style "Autobot Story" and other cartoons, the emergence of Chinese local animation "Big Fish and Begonias", "Little Door God" and even "Atang Adventure" and other aesthetic and innovative works, indeed added a lot.