"Yesterday's Blue Sky" that fans have high hopes for is about to be re-launched, it is really good, this year's withdrawal of the film can return, only this one. "Yesterday's Blue Sky" features the signature of China's first youth animation movie, well-made, detail-oriented, not only the blue and white school uniforms we used to go to school, but also the nostalgic snowman popsicles, Jianlibao drinks, and those middle school crush and throbbing little beauty. You Changjing sang the theme song, Wang Yibo voiced the male protagonist, it seems that it will not be a low score. However, there are some things that should be said or said.
Chinese original animation, not animation, is for adults and children's dual groups of animation works, Chinese original, Chinese characteristics, we are proud to call it national comics. Marked with the prefix of "country", instantly tall, peony is the national flower, red is the national color, then the national comic is naturally able to represent China's animation, but how many national comic works have we seen, is it a mention of the national comic, you can not say what works in addition to the four major? (Big Fish Begonia, Great Sage Return, Big World, Great Protector)
1. Guoman's "Japanese Wind" and "Toddler Style"
Japanese anime is by no means created only for children, it is aimed at the entire Japanese society, and even the entire human society. Who in their hearts does not yearn for such a good work in the hearts of this generation who was influenced by Miyazaki's animated films? Before the 21st century, our country was more of a simple cartoon than an anime.
China's animation has several characteristics that must be mentioned, one is the "early childhood style". After the popularization of movies, going into the cinema to watch movies has become a very ordinary way of leisure, parents are also happy to take their children to the cinema to see movies, so a number of animated movies on the screen, but you can find that most of these movies are for young children, adults go to see only because of accompanying children, not really interested in themselves. Back home, those who like animation works open japanese and American movies, tasting alone.
I can still remember when I went to the cinema to see the theatrical version of "Conan" in my junior year, the cinema only opened once a day, the ticket price was 38, which was twice the usual movie ticket, it was full, the 8090 was the same, and I didn't see a child. Don't adults need anime? Of course not, so when "The Return of the Great Sage" and "Big Fish and Begonias" appear, they will get so many echoes, and a few years have passed, and many movies that have appeared are still mostly toddler versions, which cannot be called national comics representing the entire group of society.
The second is the "daily wind". Take "Little Red Lady fox" as an example, its advantages are self-evident, and I believe many people can be surprised after watching the movie. But the image of the character is still obvious Japanese manga style, which is also self-evident, of course, it does not mean that we must draw different from Japanese anime, seeking novelty and difference, which is not necessary, but this is an imitation of Japanese manga, who can not deny it, is it?
In addition, there are many works with game style, the characters are too similar to the game, people unconsciously ignore its content, popularly speaking, that is, there will be dramas, such as the good "Elf Throne" in the past few years, no one has gone to see the plot, and they are all scared by the character photos not to buy tickets, which is a very embarrassing situation for the national comics.
2. While calling for the rise of the country, while directly ignoring the fine products of the people, don't be stupid
Many people regard the "Big Four" as the symbol of Chinese national comics, in fact, I think it is not correct, although they have their advantages, but there are still too many works that are comparable to or even surpassed. Or rather, we automatically chose to ignore. People like beautiful things, "Big Fish Begonia" poster and trailer is not beautiful, but the Douban score is very low, everyone says that they are attracted by the beautiful stills of the Chinese style, but they did not expect that the plot has so many bugs, the higher the expectation, the greater the disappointment, "Big Fish Begonia" broke people's conception of "national comics" = "Chinese style".
The birth of "The Great Protector" is the first time that a dark fairy tale created for adults appears in China, allowing us to find that the national comic is not necessarily antique, nor does it have to be exquisite, and sometimes the connotation is more interesting. Therefore, we found that guoman is not the exclusive property of children, it belongs to adults.
There are hundreds of media and animation colleges in China, and the animation people led by the Communication University of China have come up with too many excellent high-quality national comics since 2010, and they have completely surpassed our original stereotype of "only animated films can represent national comics", with short films as the main force and movies as the essence is booming. It is not only a simple depiction of works that are extremely close to the ancient intentions like big fish and begonias, and pay attention to external aesthetic feelings, but also works of national comics that can bring people stimulation with connotation and external senses.
Nowadays, the national comics are rich in content, from the perspective of painting materials, there are traditional computer paintings, ceramic paintings, pieces of paper, plasterboard and paper-cut paintings, etc.; from the content point of view, there are animation works with the theme of ancient Chinese poetry represented by the Chinese choir, "Acacia", "Yuan Ri", "Wandering Zi Yin", "Drinking on the Lake after the First Sunny Day", they also created the modern theme of "Night Thoughts" against the background of pseudo-Manchuria in 1932, borrowing the patriotic Gu Weijun to recite Li Bai's "Quiet Night Thoughts".
The anti-war theme of "Fight, Play a Big Watermelon" uses playing cards as an army, satirizing the selfishness of leaders to start war. "Cats" that use animals to tell about family affection. One finger of the Buddha is used to imply conscience, revealing the ugly "One Finger City" of modern society. Take a sleep in class and travel to ancient times to recite the work "Spring Sleep" of "Guan Ju", and there are also wonderful works "Sea Prince", "Paper War", "Rose Apartment", "Summer Worm Country" and so on that make a grand scene by hand.
Most of these works come from college students, these works have their own styles, in a short period of less than 20 minutes, is their three to five years of painstaking efforts, any one is no less than the "Big Four", they have won multiple awards at home and abroad, and the number of hits on B station and other video platforms is less than 10,000, some works even have less than 500 viewers, and their ratings are all above 9 points, which is enough to see its wonderful.
It is not that Guoman has not developed, but it has been automatically ignored by those of us who hype and call for Guoman's rise.
3. Give me an hour to pay tribute to Chinese animators, if you have loved the national comics, you will never regret it
"Paper Battle" is a national comic work that I particularly like, all the images are drawn from pieces of paper, telling the story of how two little boys who must live in paper rely on toilet paper rolls, paper airplanes, and post-it notes to move their bodies step by step to meet beautiful women in another paper. A brand new visual experience, your unexpected wind and turmoil go to place, open it to make you laugh from beginning to end.
All the characters in "Rose Apartment" are made of paper cuts, tens of thousands of handmade roses are seas, terrifying and beautiful, under each rose is buried a young woman, roses poured out with blood, dedicated to people who love and can't help, visual feast, and careful thinking, let me unforgettable works at a glance.
The chinese choir series of ancient poems, from Wang Wei's "Lovesickness" about young men and women who are separated by the door, to the hilarity of the one-year-old Chinese "resignation" in the sound of firecrackers displayed in "Yuan Day"; from "Wandering Son", which tells about maternal love, to "Drinking the First Sunny Rain on the Lake" and "Night Thoughts" about ancient and modern talents and patriotic sentiments, each of which has a score of 9.8 points, known as the real Chinese national comic.
All the national comic works proposed in this article can be watched for free at Station B, and it only takes one hour for you to see the true appearance of Chinese national comics. But I still strongly recommend this "Yesterday's Blue Sky", Dragonfly FM's program of the same name accompanies you to pay attention to the growth of the new national comic, the real Chinese national comic, far better than you think!