Recently, the national style fantasy animation film "Heavy Rain" released a special edition of national style art, and ** abandoned the manuscript in the early stage of the film. The special feature shows the design inspiration of the poetic Dalongwan village and the interior of the drum boat: "Heavy Rain" has both the Zen beauty of the Jiangnan mountain village and the grotesque wonder of the opera on the boat, revealing the director's extraordinary brain hole everywhere. Director Bu Sifan hopes to arouse young people's interest in Chinese mountain villages and traditional culture in this imaginative way, and at the same time borrow the style of Chinese ink painting to seal his feelings about "traditional Chinese culture into the film". It is worth mentioning that more than 90% of the people in the "Heavy Rain" team are from mountain villages: it is this life experience rooted in the mountains and rivers of their hometown and "born and raised" that gave birth to the "Heavy Rain" with great national charm. In the face of the audience's evaluation that ""Heavy Rain" is a luxury on the big screen", director Bu Sifan said, "No matter how difficult it is, we must go on the road of two-dimensional". The movie "Heavy Rain" is the director's view of the world, telling the "present" through the shell of animation. The film will be released in theaters nationwide on January 12, and the pre-sale is now in full swing!
The vitality of the "native" national style and the original new world view of "cute and micro-fear".
"Soil" is the main creative team's self-humble summary of the overall aesthetic style of the film. On the one hand, more than 90% of the members of the production team of "Heavy Rain" are from mountain villages, and they are "native" creators who came out of mountain villages; On the other hand, the art style of the film comes from the team's childhood memories of a real mountain village: "Hidden in real feelings, it is the environment in which we grew up," said art director Satsuki Ban, "Looking back now, you will find that the house was not that big, and the road was not so wide." You may think that your hometown is very earthy, but it is your hometown." This time, with the national style special, "Heavy Rain" also ** a group of discarded manuscripts: although they are discarded manuscripts, they are stunning, frame by frame Chinese painting wallpapers. When depicting the scene of the landscape, "Heavy Rain" incorporates the characteristics of Chinese painting with the freehand and weak perspective relationship, creating a "feeling of clouds and mist, and the city falling into the city" before the mountain rain is coming.
In the scene of the drum boat, the grotesque and slightly cute little drama is a highlight. "This boat is like a water-anchored mountain, gathering all kinds of wandering people," director Bu Sifan explained. Each character has its own complete storyline behind it: the eerie little Lou with a harlequin face is actually the first mate in the ship; Like a mist floating in the ship, the fairy brother Mu Yingzhi is actually a dead soul lost in his ideals. The special focuses on the birth of a little monkey: from a single-celled organism to a mammal that gives birth to hands and feet, to what seems to be a process of biological evolution.
Let traditional culture be inherited in innovation, "no matter how difficult it is, we must go on the road of two dimensions".
Some viewers commented that the movie "Heavy Rain" is a big-screen "luxury". On the one hand, in the context of two-dimensional brain drain, "Heavy Rain" still insists on two-dimensional creation; On the other hand, there are many inheritances and innovative explorations of traditional culture in the film: for example, in the character design, "Heavy Rain" incorporates elements of Chinese drama masks; In the scene design, Chinese elements such as opera masks, oil-paper umbrellas, old-fashioned signboards, and water moire patterns were added. The art of "Heavy Rain" has the flavor of Shanghai Film Studio's art films: "We all grew up watching these when we were kids," explained art director Satsuki Ban. If you pay close attention, you can find that there are easter eggs in the film to pay tribute to classic old animations such as "Havoc in Heaven", "Three Monks" and "Nine-colored Deer".
In the animation industry, the situation of 2D animation can be described as "precarious". "There are fewer and fewer two-dimensional painters, and of course it's not a problem with painters," director Bu Sifan admitted, "Although the environment is difficult, I will still persevere", because "the happiest time is when I hear the audience say 'I like two-dimensional'". With this clumsy sincerity, the Bu Sifan team spent six years to produce this 2D hand-drawn animated film "Heavy Rain": this is a inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese culture, and it is also another "throwing stones to ask for directions" of domestic 2D animation.
It is reported that the ink and Chinese style animation film "Heavy Rain" is directed by Bu Sifan and produced by Jintu Pictures and Shanghai Chinese Pictures, a member of the Chinese Culture Group Company. It will be released nationwide on January 12, and the pre-sale is now fully open!