Last summer, the animated film "Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes into the World" turned out, adding confidence to the Chinese comic industry. Recently, the Chinese ink and wash animation "Five Elements in the Fog Mountain" went on fire again at Station B. At present, all three episodes of the first season ended on August 9. The broadcast volume of station B reached more than 50 million, and more than 3 million people chased the drama, which aroused the recommendation of stars like Wang Sicong and Peng Yuyan. This summer, the topic that Guoman kept going out of the circle also made netizens talk about it.
Yangtze Evening News/Ziniu News reporter Zhang Nan
Barrage "Injecting Forest Soul" screen
From the release of the first trailer to the feature film, the three-episode animation lasted three years. Since the domestic original animation "Five Elements in the Fog Mountain" was on the shelves for half a month, animation enthusiasts have not hesitated to say good things about it. Douban scored 9.1 points, and Station B gave it 9.9 points, which is full of reputation.
"Five Elements in the Fog Mountain" mainly tells the adventure story of a teenager with the power of the five elements, going out to find the unicorn beast. This is a very styled ink and wash work of national style, with rough and beautiful lines of characters, and the fighting scenes are very ornamental.
Among them, it incorporates a large number of Chinese cultural elements, including traditional Yin-Yang and Five Elements, unicorn beasts, ancient weapons, etc. It is a work of blood that demonstrates the national style.
On July 26, the first episode landed at Station B. The screen was full of barrage. "It’s hard work." The 31-year-old director Lin Hun appeared in the ending subtitle list more than ten times, from director, script, original painting, to animation and coloring. With multiple roles, he not only sang the theme song "Fearless in the Deep Sea", but also played a guest role in the dubbing of the duck in the play. He was hailed as the "Universal Soul of the Forest" by netizens.
Ink style and cold weapon stunning netizens
"Five Elements in the Fog Mountain" depicts a fantasy world, a family with the special abilities of the yin and yang and the five elements, fighting with monsters and guarding the peace of one party. In addition to the freehand brushwork that outlines a frame of exquisite pictures, the most praised is the wonderful martial arts scorer, which has been criticized by many netizens to give the film texture.
Wang Wenjie, a professor at the Chinese Painting Department of the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University, believes that although the film still has many traces of Japanese animation influence, it is really a rare domestically produced work recently. The exquisitely drawn pictures are even combined into lens language, narrative and lyrical. The poetry of painting, and this poetry implicitly creates a sense of field of Chinese culture, with both artistic quality and contemporary value.
The "color ink" that combines ink painting and watercolor painting is a prominent highlight of the play. The producer, Liudao Wuyu, draws on Zhang Daqian's artistic expression techniques of splashing colorful landscapes, simple and freehand, and quickly captures the audience's taste and attention with the national style. Regarding the ink and wash style, Lin Hun said: “Eastern culture is loved by everyone, especially the national style, Chinese painting, such as "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" and Zhang Daqian’s splashing colors. These are all styles that we like very much, and we finally chose this style. Because it best represents ourselves."
Lin Hun's requirements are relatively high, and the unique ink painting style and line drawing style of "The Five Elements in the Fog" is not easy for ordinary animators, and even without a certain amount of accumulation, it is not even qualified for hooking. "It requires the ability of hand-painting and the understanding of traditional Chinese painting. It takes time to accumulate and practice painting." The cold weapons in the play are also Lin Hun's hobby, which belongs to the "man's romance".
Cherish every persistent animator
"Please cherish every animator who persists and perseveres." Lin Hun specially added such a sentence in the ending subtitles. This is what he said to himself from Zhejiang Sci-tech University, majoring in animation (graduated) from the College of Science and Technology, and entering the animation circle. Summary of the year’s history. In 2016, after finishing his five-year journey abroad, Lin Hun returned to his hometown of Lanke Mountain in Quzhou, Zhejiang, and established Liudao Wuyu Animation Studio with only 3 members. Just like the protagonist Hei Qilin in "Suicheng Lixin", he dares to fight against thousands of horses with one person.
The customs of his hometown gave Lin Hun the inspiration for his creation, and he settled down to create national style animation. Lin Hun laughed and said, "Ducks in the play have a high sense of existence, because there is a river at my door, and ducks at the river door, so I can see them every day. Their usual habits are very interesting. So I want to show them. come out."
The audience’s comments, appreciation, and encouragement are the driving force for Lin Soul to continue to move forward, but in his opinion, "The Five Elements in the Fog Mountain" is still some distance from the big screen, and the completely original "two-dimensional" story is also far from the ordinary audience. This is why he chose station B to test the waters alone.
Regarding the high-profile second season, Lin Hun was unable to give an accurate timetable for launching, "There is still a shortage of people! We are just an animation company that has just started, and the team is still very young." Lin Hun said, "Good work takes time. Carving. Only after we recognize ourselves can we bring about some recognition from the public. This is actually a step-by-step process. I think the ultimate goal is to do a good job in the content, the story, and our animation work."