The Adventures of the Bird: Falcons soar above the sky

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Now is the era of animation counterattack, before there was "Frozen" broke the Box Office record of Disney animated films, and then there were "Genius Glasses Dog", "Rio Adventure" and other animation films with strong reputation, the box office, and animated films have repeatedly achieved good results, because they are colorful, and young and old, the 3D effect is extremely outstanding, the picture is fresh and bright, often becoming a gold-sucking masterpiece on the market, "The Adventures of the Bird" is no exception, this film will be a popular adventure story grafted into the animal-based movie, Among them, a variety of factors such as family affection and friendship are infiltrated, and under the rendering of fiery 3D technology, it has become another landscape in the animation market this year. Don't look at this movie is not very famous, but the content is not small.

"The Adventures of the Bird of Praise" collided with the recently released "Rio Adventure", both of which tell the story of birds, "Rio" is a parrot, and "Bird of Praise" is a falcon. Both are exotic, with the former showcasing Brazil's gorgeous street markets and lush jungles, with evocative effects such as the Icon of Jesus, Copacabana Beach, and Hugh Grove Hill, while the latter shows the vast African savannah, the vast prairie beauty, the spectacular Mosi-otunia Falls, and the mighty Zambezi River, embodying the splendor of nature. The difference between the two films is the theme, the former romantic love and family concept are self-evident, the latter is full of juvenile growth and father-son affection, so the two films have similarities and differences, "Rio Adventure" is a typical Blue Sky Studio production, doing everything possible to high-profile entertainment, colorful and noisy. "The Adventures of Zan bird" is more like DreamWorks animation, spoofs and actions can not be less, the theme is inspirational adventure, and there is no lack of entertainment effects, and the theme of "Zan Bird" is more like Pixar's "Finding Nemo", which depicts a delicate father-son relationship.

The protagonist of "The Adventures of the Bird" is a pair of falcon father and son, a single-parent family, living in a lonely valley, there is a city of birds called Zambezia, known as the paradise of birds, the teenager can not resist the restless heart, once again quarreled with the father after going to Zambecia alone, the father looked for the whereabouts of the child is unknown, the teenager came to Zambezia and found his unusual life... Judging from the consistent selection of materials for animation films, this film is indeed a unique way, but like martial arts novels (such as "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon Chronicles"), suddenly one day I found out which boss's only son, etc., the volume is very large, but the uniqueness of this film is that the biggest value of this work is not to make people sigh after watching it, but to know the love and dislike of the target audience of "Zan Bird", so they finally pulled the tone of the story to the funny and warm stall, rather than all the way to the emotional abuse.

The difference between this film and "Finding Nemo" is that this is the story of a child saving his father, focusing on the child, the father looks for his son and the son saves the father after training, defeating the vulture. It is two story lines that develop in parallel, each advancing, sometimes interspersed, and finally intersecting. We see how a child in the rebellious period has evolved from a young impulse to a tenacious and grown into a generation of eagles.

Computer animation can draw a strong and realistic three-dimensional picture, but it can not draw the delicate emotions of the characters, how to make the characters in the movie get rid of the cold digital identity and truly come alive? This requires the excavation of the characters themselves in an animated film. In the movie, the falcon father and son become the entry point of the story, 3D technology gives them anthropomorphic color, and the character creation that follows the story will reflect the different characteristics of the characters, and the scenes between the two will also spark because of the deep excavation. The biggest feature of this film is the anthropomorphism of the characters, comparing birds to combat aircraft, which was previously reflected in the British animation "War Pigeon Fast", but there is no deep excavation. The film maximizes the interpretation of birds as "war-like fighters". Falcons and vultures fight in the air, friends who like air combat films will not be strangers, such as fighters like dive, climbing, cruising, bombing, and even the famous "Pugachev Cobra" maneuver of the Su-27 fighter, especially the scene at the end of the flock of birds and crocodiles, the sense of speed is extremely strong.

When the falcon first arrived in Zambecia, there was even a tarmac, in addition to a large number of air combat lengths in the film, the film including falcons and other birds of prey were also given the characteristics of the aircraft when taking off and landing, you know, the take-off and landing of the passenger aircraft officially imitated the flight aerodynamics of large birds, and the setting of this film can be said to be back to basics. Even the scene in the movie where the Guardians of Zambecia's Raptor Team cruises to defend the city, directly accompanied by the sound effects and background music of the fighter formation flight, the protagonist Falcon becomes a member of the Hurricane Team after training, and the scene of the low-altitude skim over Zambezia is not the classic passage in Atango's "Top Gun".

In cartoons, if it comes to comedy, it is inevitable to arrange supporting roles for gags, which is the same as our national essence cross-talk "praise" and "teasing" each perform their duties and shake the baggage together. Each character and bird in the film will reflect its own personality characteristics, including the owl called "Simple", a talking one, quite strong night vision, and a bunch of textile birds that repair the city, tall and long, flamingos that perform air transport tasks, of course, the big villain, the vulture known as the "Prairie Scavenger", and a large crocodile, each character is given different characteristics, the characters move between each other, set off by each other, and the conflict between the characters' personalities and behaviors brings a lot of vivid and interesting scenes , let the audience go back and forth between laughter and emotion. Only by showing the characteristics of the different characters in the film can the audience truly recognize this animated film of virtual characters.

Another outstanding place in the film is the use of 3D effects, the color of this film is not too beautiful, but the advantage is that a large number of aerial shots bring a strong sense of depth, especially in Africa like this film to show a variety of birds in the grassland as a starting point, the film's mastery of 3D effects is luxurious, regardless of the scene, light and shadow, etc. are extremely exquisite, for the delicate feathers of birds, although not as deliberately as "Guardian Legend" to emphasize the subtlety of bird feathers, but similar to "Jungle Love Wolf", The details and colors of different characters are used to highlight the realism of the image, and it is gratifying that although this film has enough technical support to be proud, it has not fallen into the trap of showing off. It regulates the affiliation between technology and story very well, and tries to find a new way for CG animation and traditional hand-drawn works to learn from each other and integrate with each other. The anthropomorphic emotion revealed in the film allows the film to eliminate the technical sharpness of the animation in the past and replace it with the warm and natural human beauty. It seems that the figures drawn by the computer have finally jumped out of the cold digital field and showed fresh vitality.

The film's English title, Zambecia, is the name of the bird metropolis in the film, imitating Zambia, the largest bird paradise in Africa, and its landmark Mosiotonia Waterfall is reflected in the film.