What is the ip with the longest life and the largest fan base in domestic film and television?
Sir, "Notes from the Tomb Robber" occupies a seat.
So, what is the youngest and most promising field of Chinese film and television at present?
Sir said, Guoman counts one.
What happens when the two of them combine?
It's all too much to think about.
Don't say, it really is.
Taking advantage of the May Day holiday, Sir will take you to preempt the products——
Tomb Robber Notes Qinling Sacred Tree
There was a small test run before the start of the broadcast.
At that time, the fans who watched it were very surprised -
Sir wasn't surprised.
The project started with a high standard.
The third uncle of the southern faction announced the launch of the animation version in 2018.
Two years of sharpening a sword is not a quick one for the production of an animation.
There are also production companies.
Qiyuan animation, you should all be familiar with the production, the most famous, "Under One Man", there are many "national comic peak" calls.
Sincerity and strength.
The only thing that worries Sir is the history of "stealing" IP and various evil deeds.
Think back to what was the reason for every poke?
——Casting fans, special effects fishing, plot magic changes...
To sum up: the gap between the imagination of the pirated text and the reality presented by the film and television.
Eh and so on.
What are the characteristics of animation?
- Loosening the imagination.
01
Book reform, the first thing fans care about is the degree of restoration.
The first part of the "Tomb Robber Notes" series of animations chose the most frightening chapters.
Human-faced monkeys, giant hallucinogenic bronze trees, materialization of the mind...
And, the most terrifying characters.
As soon as this sentence came out, everyone who understood it understood-
Lonely Mountain Temple North Jia TingXi, old itch sewing machine.
Sir dare not determine the degree of restoration, after all, these are the climax of the whole book, and the plot has not yet arrived.
As far as the content is already available, Sir can boldly say.
The most basic advantages of "Qinling Sacred Tree":
It's honest.
The plot is roughly as follows:
Wu Xie left the protection of the other two people in the Iron Triangle and brushed the copy with Fa Xiao Lao Itch.
There is no messy supporting role plus drama, nor is it randomly divergent, honestly restoring the original work.
The characters, plot, and details have all been restored.
Let's start with the human set-up.
Ability is strong and weak.
Wu Xie in the "Qinling Sacred Tree" period has already taken risks with Zhang Qiling and Fat Zi in the tomb, and has a certain ability value.
But the mind is still "naïve".
In the animation, Wu Xie's thinking is quick and calm at key moments.
Only when you are with friends do you return to your childlike appearance.
The second protagonist, Old Itch.
What kind of character is it?
Original description: triangle eyes, high nose bridge, a pair of glasses, and earrings.
It was rated by the guys in wu xie antique shop as: "Not in the middle, not in the ocean, not in the class", "looking at the slippery head and sliding the brain, it does not look like a good thing".
The key is also stuttering.
In animation, one appearance restores all the features.
Even became handsome...
Deep in the narrow alley, walking slowly from the shadows, wearing a pair of brown sunglasses.
Before speaking, the corners of his mouth cocked, and the old bastard was confused.
Note one detail:
The yin and yang face of the old itch unique light in the lens.
The cunning and mystery in it also foreshadows.
This man is not simple.
The plot, step by step.
It started with a phone call between Wu Xie and Lao Itch.
The latter was imprisoned for three years and disappeared for three years.
The connection again is still because of the antiquities that cannot be bypassed -
Wrist-thick bronze branches.
Old Itch went to the back with his Jiangxi old watch, walked through the fir tree forest with air roots, and dug into the exciting bronzes.
The two men worked brute force for half a day, only to see the tip of the bronze tree.
Old Itch conservatively estimated - "at least thirty meters high"
this...... Got the treasure?!
No, it's evil.
The old cousin went crazy when he saw it, and he explained the bad things he had done before and went straight into the game.
Antiquities are evil, and the process of the two people entering the mountain is also evil.
In this paragraph, all the environmental descriptions of the original work, the spooky giants, all appeared:
Wow, that forest, I don't know how many banyan trees there are that ten people can't surround, shade the sky, banyan roots crawl all over the ground, there is almost no space to go.
Taking a picture with a flashlight, it turned out to be a stone man covered with moss, and the costume seemed to be the style of the two Han Dynasties before, and the relief was a very exquisite totem pattern.
A huge downwardly sunken inverted pyramid-shaped stone pit appeared in the field of vision, the size of a football field, shaped like a huge bucket, buckled in the middle of the forest, and the slopes on the four sides of the pit were built into steps, with a hundred steps leading to the bottom of the pit.
Sigh, the pirate powder saw this paragraph is almost goosebumps ah.
Saying that it is "honest" is actually the respect and sincerity of "Qinling Sacred Tree".
Because I appreciate it, I can't bear to change it.
Because it does not change, it can more focus on using images to magnify the charm of the original.
After all, the creators once said in the live broadcast room:
I'm a book fan myself, so I can't stand not to restore.
02
Restore Sir is relieved.
What about the animation itself?
Even leaving aside the original, Sir thought it was hooky enough.
Hardware, the painting style is stable.
The images of the protagonists and supporting characters are in line with the characteristics of the characters, fierce, smiling tigers, and taciturn.
What conspiracy, a look, is to have a ghost fetus.
The face did not collapse when I hit it.
Limbs, looks, changes all the time.
Scenes, whether urban or rural, have the real feeling of falling to the ground.
Especially under the tomb.
Realistic + national style texture, full of oriental fantasy charm.
The entangled green vines and broken ancient figurines add mystery to the underground world.
Look at it more closely --
The light at the entrance of the cave and the texture of the stone walls, without ambiguity.
Of course, the most amazing thing is the action scene.
Tension is sufficient, the storyboard is cool, and the beauty is also taken into account.
Sir just picked one.
Wu Xie and Lao Itch swam to the underground lake and were surprised to see a huge piranha.
The spectacle that book fans are most looking forward to in front of you——
This guy is large and endurance, and the air currents brought by swimming form bubbles around him, instantly drowning weak humans.
Wu Xie was pushed back and forth in the water by a big fish, and he had no power to fight back.
Tremble in the balance.
The perennially unreliable old itch finally relied on it, dropping a trident-shaped knife.
With weapons in hand, the Wu evil counterattacked.
Follow the air current, accurately poke, one knife, two knives...
The bubbles around the big fish were like green vines wrapped around the stone statues, dragging Wu Xie into the water.
Finally, Wu Xie and Lao Itch joined forces, using a knife and a stone.
Follow the momentum of the swim and hit the point.
How does it feel?
The whole series of actions, Sir almost held his breath to read.
You know, underwater action scenes are the most difficult to shoot.
Although this paragraph is not complicated, the process is rigid and soft, and the characters fight and the pressure of the water flow wrestle with each other.
The landing of imagination.
Carrying the original text in the sky, strange power chaos;
It also reflects the creator's belief in the "imagination" itself.
Plainly.
Isn't that why we were once attracted to Notes from the Tomb Raider?
03
Finally, Sir would like to say a "trait."
If you had to describe the characteristics of Tomb Raiders in one word, which word would you choose?
Sir chooses "charm".
Disassemble the word alone - on one side is "ghost" and on the other side is "flower" (not, meaning flower incense attacking people).
Combined, literally: a ghost with a pleasing appearance.
The charm of this dislocation is also the atmosphere that "Qinling Sacred Tree" strives to create:
There are no gods and ghosts, but everywhere is evil, hooking you into the game.
Render from the opening track.
The tune is mournful, maddening and dashing.
The lyrics focus on showing sentiment, human hearts and blinded eyes, and listening carefully is still a bit of a jianghu flavor.
A "feng shui" element has also been added.
△ Source: @ Tomb Robber Notes Qinling Sacred Tree Animation
Lost Audio Monster - Lost
According to fan analysis, the "buzzing" sound at the beginning of the opening song is to restore the fly sound when the old itch and his mother died on the sewing machine.
Entering the plot, this sense of atmosphere of "evil door" began to exert force.
For the first time, with listening.
The old tradition, starting with the legend that sounds wrong, is fulfilled one by one.
Cliffs that could be closed were "clip ditches", and a group of troops who did not communicate or make any noise passed gloomily.
Then, the cliff of the "Clip Ditch" closes ...
People, gone!
The so-called "Yin Soldier Borrows the Way".
The second time, with the look.
The sense of presence of "Qinling Sacred Tree" is excellent.
Tone, light, texture, to the audience is transmitted to the two words: abnormal.
The banyan tree's qi roots are intertwined, and they are still in front of their path.
There are so many directions to fall, or fall in front of the stone people, you say evil is not evil door.
The fear we have when we read the original book comes from the unknown of "not being able to see the whole picture" and not being able to see the whole picture.
The animation also implements this method -
A lot of subjective lens use.
An important item: a flashlight (or torch).
The illumination is limited, and the occasional realistic statue is illuminated, all of which are treated as human faces.
In the first episode, the old itch went down to the "inverted pyramid-shaped stone pit" to go to the lower photo, which could only illuminate half of the steps, and the rest was engulfed in darkness.
What is bottomlessness?
This is --
What is the Bird of Fright?
In the creation of atmosphere, another advantage of animation is also reflected:
Fear (imagination) is figurative.
When people are afraid, a trace of air currents and a little noise will think that it is the trace of the "Yin Soldier".
The deeper the darkness, the more concrete the imagination.
In the fifth episode, Wu Xie was kidnapped by Boss Li and his party, and Wu Xie was forced to explore the way as a guinea pig.
There was no bottom below, the stones were thrown down, and there was no sound after only two sounds.
They asked Wu Xie to hold the whistle and blow it in half an hour.
If you don't blow, the old itch will be gone.
Down the steps, the air from the opening of the cave, and even the sound of footsteps, are enough to fill in with imagination into a terrifying story.
"Every year in early autumn, the Yin soldiers of the Difu enter and exit the two realms through the Huangquan Waterfall."
"This Northern Wei army, which was imprisoned in the mountains, was the ghost soldier who returned to the underground mansion from the underworld."
"The clip ditch is the boardwalk of the Yin soldiers."
“……”
The advice of the local old man is still in the ear.
The air currents and sounds in the darkness have been visualized in the imagination as "yin soldiers".
Slowly surround and devour you.
This is also a question expressed in the original work:
When people's fears and evil thoughts really become substances, is human nature the same?
So far, the early stage of "Qinling Sacred Tree" has exceeded Sir's expectations.
The first six episodes, brushed up in one breath -
The plot is not procrastinating, the atmosphere is in place, the details have highlights, especially the display of various famous scenes are online.
Sir even accidentally brushed off the trailer behind it.
All are the key scenarios in anticipation:
There are nine yins, Yellow Spring Waterfall, human-faced monkeys, a thousand coffin corpse arrays, and a complete view of the sacred tree...
Sir still has to be reminded.
Follow-up should also be rational and wait-and-see, pay attention to lightning protection:
For example, will the plot suddenly deviate, will it suddenly inject water, will it add strange branches...
After all, these are the pits we stepped on.
"Qinling Sacred Tree" is certainly not a luxurious visual experience.
But it did a lot of things that big productions failed to do, or didn't care about.
Back to the story itself.
Don't be a demon, don't draw snakes to add feet, don't rush to make quick gains, and at the same time, maintain your own momentum.
This is the origin of IP adaptation.
In Sir's view, this is another progress of Guoman.
It uses its sincerity to win the opportunity to look up to a great IP.
If "Qinling Sacred Tree" sets off, it is a wave of young retro.
Sir hopes.
This wave, the higher the better.
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Editorial Assistant: Kitano Martial Arts Master