Title Picture Tick! Let's sleepwalk!
The whole work with pure flavor.
2. Distance from "Honkai: Star Dome Railway" (hereinafter referred to as "Honkai") 2There is still a week to go before the version 0 update, and all players already know that miHoYo "wants a whole big job", and the official began to warm up early, and promotional materials were released one after another. However, if you want to pick the most impressive, I believe that many players will vote for the animation "Tick! Let's sleepwalk! One vote.
The protagonist Clock Boy is always reminiscent of Mickey, with exaggerated movements like rubber hoses, and the opening of the film makes people confused whether to jump to "Cat and Mouse", in addition, "Cuphead", "Bioshock Infinite", as well as the "Fallout" series of Shelter Kid, and Miss Minute of "Loki" have been repeatedly mentioned in barrage comments, which shows how high the retro nostalgia of the animation is.
No wonder players agree that the best way to open this ** is "British matching + 360p + black and white filter", which has brought another wave of topic discussion to "Star Iron", which has long been full of stalks. Why can this PV easily achieve "retro overflow screen"? The answer is obvious, the "rubber tube animation" style plays a decisive role.
The retro flavor of rubber tube animation can't be stopped if you want to
Wikipedia shows that rubber tube animation was born in the 20s of the last century and was the first standardized animation style in the American animation industry. As the name suggests, the character's hands and feet have no joints or skeletons, and the whole body seems to be made of rubber tubes, and all parts of the body can be infinitely elongated, wound, deformed, and restored.
At that time, animation was still a completely new thing, more like a hand-drawn "dynamic rubber tube animation" to simplify the details of the characters, which undoubtedly reduced the cost of drawing time and increased efficiency, and at the same time the extremely exaggerated acting skills could make the characters vivid and interesting enough in the silent film era. Coupled with successful works as models, rubber tube animation became a trend for a while.
The most influential during this period was the world's first "animation star" - Filet Cat. In the early days, there was no shortage of parody homages to the comedy master Chaplin, and in 1923 "Felix in Hollywood" became an instant hit, and later became the first image to appear on television, even in the army.
In addition to Filet Cat, there are many classic animated characters that continue to carry forward the rubber tube animation style. For example, in 1927, Walt Disney and Woodey Ewaux created "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit", which was the predecessor of Mickey Mouse. Studio Fleischer's Popeye animation is also full of exaggerated deformations.
Although rubber tube animation gradually withdrew from the mainstream stage in North America in the 30s with the progress and standardization of animation production, it can be seen in classics such as the Mickey Mouse series and "Cat and Mouse" that the continuation of the style characteristics of rubber tube animation can be seen. Disney developed its own animation style and production rules, which became a worldwide success and had a major impact on the development of Japanese animation.
Contemporary works will also choose the style of "rubber tube animation" as a tribute: Disney's 2013 "Mickey Fun More" has a retro feel, and the corresponding elements can also be found in games such as "Cuphead" and "Bandy and the Ink Machine".
It can be said that as long as the rubber tube animation appears, it can be reminiscent of the United States a hundred years ago, which is very representative and recognizable. After all, its birth and popularity have been marked by the times - witnessing the "roaring 20s" after World War I, and also giving spiritual comfort to many people during the Great Depression. "Rubber tube animation" has become a classic logo of American retro style, and it is not difficult to explain why the PV of "Broken Iron" is so familiar.
What is Pinocone like?
The "Pinocone Travel Promotion" animation of "Crash Iron" has been repeatedly discussed in a pure retro style, but what makes gamers "up" is the planet Pinocone itself presented on the screen.
If the teaser animation of the members of the "Annihilation Gang" gathers shows the ambition of the villain organization, and the trailer of "The King of Trash Cans" is full of the absurdity and abstraction of dreams, then the content of the "Travel Promotional Video" with the most retro flavor is not simple.
In the animation, "Clock Kid" leads the audience to visit Pinocone in advance, from the daydream hotel where all tourists stay, the extremely bustling Grax Boulevard, to the shopping mall where you can buy even dreams, the all-you-can-drink Suleda, and the film and television park that gathers many entertainment items, the repeatedly mentioned "dreamland" and the "luxury life, consumerism, and virtual dream" shown in the PV have become the key words of Pinoconi's impression. Perhaps the "advertising slogan" in the film is too flawlessly described, and it is difficult not to be alert, and even feel the weird and grotesque atmosphere hidden everywhere after watching it a few times.
At present, the main line of "Broken Iron" has gone to two different worlds, Yalilo VI shows post-war reconstruction and internal contradictions, Xianzhou evokes thoughts about time and life, and Pinocone will be the third.
The introduction of Pinocone in the game is scattered in the plot dialogue, the introduction of plane accessories and other scattered details, simply put, Pinocone was originally "the prison star used by the Interstellar Peace Company to exile criminals", and then due to the intervention of "destruction" and the help of "pioneering", he fell into the arms of the "harmonic" star god Xipei, and now the planet is governed by five "families", and has become a "star of the event" and "a dream place where time lasts forever". The player's train crew has received an invitation to the "family" extravaganza and has set Pinoconi as their next destination.
In view of the fact that "Crashing Iron" has always been talked about by players with "flying memes" and "integration of elements", the game text can include many elements such as regional culture, classic literature, entertainment works, and new Internet memes, and Pinoconi is destined to be the same.
Players are well versed in the characteristics of "Crashing Iron", and have long speculated about the prototype of Pinocone, and with the release of multiple pre-heating PVs now, more and more people are inclined to take the planet setting from the United States in the 20s of the last century, before the Great Depression. That's right, it's the aforementioned stage of the development and popularity of rubber tube animation. World War I changed the pattern of world power, and the United States ushered in major changes in the economic, social, and cultural aspects, and more families began to enjoy the comfortable experience brought by consumption, just like the prosperity of FMCG, culture and entertainment industries in the "Pinoconi Travel Promotional Film".
Given that Pinocone is "overly enjoying the ideal life in dreams", the more prosperous the warm-up PV becomes, the more players will care about what reality is and whether the dream it creates will be shattered.
On major social platforms, you can often see discussions about Pinoconi and the "harmonic" star gods behind it: some people guess that the main line is similar to "The Matrix", which will be a story of escaping from virtual dreams, and harmonic manipulates the consciousness of "family" members and dreamers, so that everyone can work together; Some people suspect that the plot is biased towards "Inception", and Tongharmonic can "implant thoughts", and the subconscious mind makes people immerse themselves in one dream after another ......
However, in the real 2Until version 0 arrives, we don't know which guess is closer to the final plot. The only thing that is certain is that, as the preview is introduced, the Pinoconi "Harmonic Ceremony" will be very lively.
At present, in addition to the five major families of Pinocone's local "Tongharmoni", there are as many as eight forces participating in the celebration, namely the "Conservation" Strategic Investment Department of the Interstellar Peace Company, the "Pioneering" Star Dome Train to which the player belongs, the "Intellectual" Erudite Society Scholar, the "Memory" Streamer Memory Garden, the "Joyful" Masked Fool, the "Hunting" Patrol Ranger, and the "Destruction" Annihilation Gang who is committed to doing great things, and the Star Core Hunter who always deals with players. The wide range of forces and the number of characters make players more and more curious about how "Crashing Iron" will work.
Even the Watch Kid will release new animated shorts.
Under the bombardment of official materials, players have obviously been surrounded by the excitement of revealing the unknown, and now all kinds of discussions on the Internet can probably be summed up in the same heart: "The current version can't stay for a day!" Let me go to Pinocone! I'm going to Pinocone right now! ”