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The authors are not the same
In 1984, Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki came to China and watched China's first ink painting animation film "Little Tadpole Finds Mother" at the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio, which was shocking.
Takahata later recalled in an interview: "I was stupid when I watched it, I didn't expect to be able to make such a work. ”
This animation work, which was born in the 1960s, is still stunning.
For a long time, when it comes to domestic animation, it will always be criticized for its young and naïve. It was not until the past two years, the emergence of a series of high-quality animations, that we saw the surprise of national comics.
Some people say: Guoman is on the rise.
But every time I hear the word "rise", I always feel a little stuffy in my heart: perhaps many people have forgotten that domestic animation was once a king.
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In 1957, the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio was established, which opened the prelude to the astonishment of Chinese animation.
As the longest and largest animation studio in China, Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio has created nearly 500 works and won nearly 200 domestic and foreign awards, accompanying generations of people.
Now the film and television circle, it seems that there is a tacit understanding: what fire shoots what, others shoot fire themselves also dare to shoot; they have already shot fire, can't wait to put the sequel on the agenda...
However, Te Wei, the first director of the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio, insisted: "Don't imitate others, don't repeat yourself."
At that time, the artists in the factory often held seminars, and the discussions would have a very interesting name: "Immortal Society" - because in the seminar, everyone drank tea and talked, said whatever they wanted, unrestrained, without any scruples, and no matter how incredible the ideas were, they could speak freely here.
It is this freedom, and the insistence on "not imitating", that has the "uniqueness" again and again.
In 1956
The Proud General
It adopts the styling design of Peking Opera face mask with traditional costumes
Creatively kneaded into the Peking Opera stage elements
Since then, it has created a precedent for Chinese "national style" animation
In 1958
"Eight Commandments of Pigs EatIng Watermelon"
Absorb the artistic characteristics of shadow puppetry, northern paper-cutting, and window flowers
Pioneered a new genre of fine art films: paper-cut films
Initially, the first test shoot failed because there was no experience
But the paper-cut test team did not give up
It took more than a year to try to make it before the shooting was successful
In 1960
"Little Tadpole Finds Mother"
Combine Chinese ink painting with animated films
Create world-renowned ink animations
This work is based on Qi Baishi's paintings
Painting and poetry, three beauty and this is all there
This is probably our earliest enlightenment of beauty
The Clever Duck
This is China's first origami film
Screening at the 11th Geefni International Children's Film Festival
It received unanimous praise
In 1961
"The Great Haunting of the Heavenly Palace"
That year, it was released in the United States
The Associated Press reported
"This animation is brilliant
More exciting than Disney's work
The United States would never have made such a cartoon."
It still looks amazing today
In 1979
"Nezha Noisy Sea"
This is China's first widescreen animated feature film
Got rid of the theme and intention of the original "List of Fengshen Gods"
Created for us a dreamlike fairy tale world
Together with "The Haunting of the Heavenly Palace", it is called "Chinese hand-drawn animation double bi"
In 1980
The Story of Avanti
As the first puppet series in China
So far, the Douban score is still as high as 9.2 points
Among them, "Avanti Seed Gold" was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Animation
In 1986
The Gourd Brothers
How much of a post-80s childhood is it
How much post-90s childhood is it
How many post-00s childhood is still it
In 1991
"The Ruler Between the Eyebrows"
As an anime for adults
This is undoubtedly a new attempt at domestic animation
In 1999
"Pauline Lamp"
This anime was released in 1999
Won 29 million yuan at the box office
Than the Disney animation "Mulan" released in the same year
More than double that
"Mudi", "Deer Bell", "Landscape and Water"
"Snow Child", "Nine Colored Deer", "Divine Pen Ma Liang"
"Heavenly Book", "Sandpiper Clam Fight", "Black Cat Sheriff"
......
All pursue innovation
All of them are fine products
Accompanied the growth of generations of people
Remember that Fan Di'an, chairman of the China Artists Association, recently pointed out that Chinese animation art must go out of the Chinese road in terms of theme and style, and tap its own local resources.
In fact, ink painting, shadow puppetry, origami, paper cuts, murals... Decades ago, the older generation of Animation Creators in China has been walking on the Road of China, but I don't know when it began, and those who walk on this road get lost when they walk.
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In those years, the glory of domestic animation now seems to be shocking.
The "Little Tadpole Finds Mother" 60 years ago won the Short Film Special Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, which is known as the "Oscar of Animation" and the world's largest and highest-level international animation festival.
The "Haunting heavenly palace" from 59 years ago:
The originator of Japanese anime, Osamu Tezuka, was influenced by it and abandoned medicine to study animation. The anime was screened in 44 countries and was a sensation. Let's take a look at the awards it has won:
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Special Award for Short Films
Best Film Award at the London International Film Festival
Jury Prize at the Figrida Foz International Film Festival
The 2nd Hundred Flowers Film Awards
It is not an exaggeration to call it the best in the world at the same time.
The 41-year-old "Nezha Noisy Sea":
It became the first Chinese-language animated film to be exhibited in Cannes, symbolizing the highest level of the animation film industry at that time.
As Xinhua Commented: Many years later, the scene of Long Sleeves Fluttering, White Clothes Like Snow, and Horizontal Sword Killing Himself in a Storm As Dark as Night is still vividly remembered.
The 36-year-old "Clam Fight":
The 4th Golden Rooster Award for Best Fine Art Film;
Silver Bear For Short Films at the 34th West Berlin International Film Festival;
Special Prize, 6th International Animation Film Festival zagreb, Yugoslavia;
Special Award, Toronto International Animated Film Festival, Canada
The "Landscape and Water" from 32 years ago:
Douban is as high as 9.2 points, known as "miracles" by the Japanese animation industry, and there is no dialogue in the whole film, but between a glance, the sound of a piano is worth a thousand words.
In 2006, the "Century of Animation 100 Works" was selected at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, and "Landscape and Water" was the only Chinese animation work selected.
Why does Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio produce high-quality products?
I have seen such a sentence: Now everyone wants to rush forward, everyone wants to take advantage of something, which is different from the past. At that time, the people who entered the crew didn't care about how much fame and fortune, most of them simply thought that they could do something for that play.
There is no such thing as a heart.
It was a time when the masters were not yet gone, and the human heart was still in awe.
Just like someone commented on "Landscape and Water": "No one dares to compete patiently with Chinese." ”
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The 1981 production of "Nine Colored Deer" is derived from the ancient murals of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes.
For this animation, the creative team set out from Shanghai, trekked for two months to Dunhuang, and stayed in the Mogao Grottoes for 23 days, copying the murals from morning to night.
"Every stroke, every painting, we carefully pondered, through copying to discover its brushwork and ideas, thinking about how to draw this story."
In the 24-minute animation, the main creative team designed more than 200 scenes and drew nearly 20,000 pictures.
Finally, the sacred deer flew away and became a distant point.
Those who have gone away, there are also painters of that year, whose skills are close to the ingenuity of the Tao.
In order to design the characters in the story, he took a car for seven days and seven nights to Kashgar to collect wind.
The ink animation "Landscape and Water" also invited the famous Chinese painting masters Li Keyan and Cheng Shifa to participate in the art direction, showing the ink painting skills of Chinese painting to the fullest.
The guqin music in the film comes from Mr. Gong Yi, a well-known guqin player in China, who once recalled that at that time, in order to create the characters playing the piano fingering in the animation, several painters have been surrounding him and drawing the same fingering from different angles. Strive for perfection.
In "Nezha Noisy Sea", Li Jingfuqin's fingering and music are also seamlessly coordinated.
When "The Haunting of heavenly palaces" was created, the image, action, scene, everything was started from scratch.
The painters ran to the drama school and the cultural square to observe the body movements and stage postures of the Peking Opera actors. He also specially invited the "Southern Monkey King" at that time to let the old man talk about the play.
In the end, each painter learned to turn the cloud hand and dance the flower stick, just to make Sun Wukong more monkey-like.
The various shrines in the film are obtained by the painters who visit the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, the Biyun Temple in Xishan and other places in the winter. Even the clouds under the feet of the gods and immortals were created by the painters who copied the statues of bodhisattvas in the temple and then used them as materials.
In that era, it was always a little light to mention fame and fortune, and everyone did their best to pursue the words that feel a little pretentious today: "ideal".
Lu Qing, an animator who participated in the creation of films such as "The Haunting of the Heavenly Palace", "Nezha Noisy Sea", "Snow Child", "Tianshu Qitan" and other films, sometimes sleepless for several days, just to try a new idea and present a more moving animation world:
"If the action design is done well, it will add points to the film." We are actors, to conceive well, the director is the idea if it is one point, I want to add two, three, four, five, six points. ”
Composer Kim Fu-jae insisted: "The soundtrack is custom-made, not mass-produced." ”
According to the style of each animation, he will choose different instruments, do various experiments and innovations, and use various ethnic instruments such as banhu, falling beard, yanyi, wooden fish and so on in "Three Monks".
When filming "Nezha Noisy Sea", just when the Warring States Zeng Hou Yi chimes were unearthed, Jin Fuzai specially rushed to Hubei to record the sound of a thousand years ago and integrated it into the animation.
Shuk and Betakin Reload - Shuk and Beta
Split Mountain Rescue Mother Kim Reload - Pauline Lamp Movie Soundtrack
Qiu Yuefeng, one of China's most outstanding dubbing artists, who voiced "The Great Haunting of the Heavenly Palace", "Nezha Noisy Sea", "Mindless and Unhappy", and "The Eight Commandments of the Pig Eating Watermelon", will dub the character thoroughly:
"Voice actors should not only let the audience hear the 'words' (lines), but also let the audience hear the 'things' (subtexts)," he said. If you can make the audience taste a little 'taste' (art enjoyment), it is even better. ”
In "Fool Buys Shoes"
Qiu Yuefeng took over the narrator, Wang Qi, and the shoe store manager
In the two years of creating "Hulu Brothers", all the crew members, including Hu Jinqing, did not have a day off.
Hu Jinqing is also a "director", "screenwriter", "styling design", in order not to let the opening of the film appear too many times, he also changed several names. For him, if he can create a good work, everything is worth it.
At that time, there was nothing, it was not easy to do anything, but everyone tried their best to do their best; now, many things have become easier, and people's hearts have become impetuous.
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Many people say, "Cartoons are made for children." ”
But in the animation of that year, we saw something that had nothing to do with young and naïve.
As Hu Jinqing, director of "Hulu Brothers", said: "A good animation film should be interesting, thrilling and humorous, but most importantly, it must have connotation." ”
Nearly 19 minutes of animation of "Landscape and Water", each frame is a beautiful and poetic Chinese painting. The sound of water, the sound of the wind, the crying of birds, the sound of frogs, bamboo leaves, the bright moon, the mountains, the flowing water... The beauty presented is all about stories.
I don't know how many people, when they see the snow child melting, can't cry, but they are still very grateful for this "Snow Child" cartoon, let us gradually understand the personnel, understand the pain of parting, and will cherish each other.
"Three Monks" has only three characters with simple lines. The story can also be summed up in a few words. It's just that we who laughed in front of the TV at that time may not realize that such a simple animation has affected us for so long.
"The Story of Avanti" is also reasonable, but does not regard children as synonymous with ignorance and childishness, on the contrary, it will tell the story in a way full of "adult flavor", not blunt, not vulgar, full of humanity.
"The New Doorbell" is an indoor sitcom of less than 5 minutes, without any dialogue, but it is still touching people today after 34 years, some people see the value identity of small citizens, and some people see the loneliness of modern people.
Jin Fuzai once commented on a passage of Te Wei, and also said that the insistence of the animation creators in that era:
"Animated film is an imaginative industry that needs to be imaginative; what Tver considers is to play everyone's personality, that is, how each work is different from others, how it is different from his previous one. He doesn't repeat others, he doesn't repeat himself. ”
Whether it is people in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, we should be thankful that we have experienced the best era of domestic animation.
The persistence, patience and even ingenuity that Guoman once had, now looking back, it is not only a work, but also a memory of our childhood, and my heart is suddenly full of emotions.
People who do things with their hearts will never be forgotten.