China News Service, Xi'an, December 19 (Dang Tianye) "Japan has Gundam, America has Transformers, and China has so many excellent legends and cultures, but there is no similar product. This is very embarrassing." Mecha Design In an interview with reporters, Shi Yin Dajiang said that he hopes to combine Chinese elements with the image of mecha, and show Chinese culture in this way.
The picture shows Mecha designers Yin Dajiang and Xin Qidong are debugging products.
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In a warehouse in Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, Mecha Designers Yin Dajiang and Xin Qidong are adjusting the design of their new works to the computer.
On the field behind them, the two co-created mechas with Chinese elements such as "Monkey King Monkey", "Bull Demon King" and "Xia Ke".
The picture shows the "Chinese style" mecha produced by the team of Yin Dajiang and Xin Qidong.
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Yin Dajiang told reporters that when he was a child, he liked to watch classic cartoons such as "Journey to the West" and "Transformers". After he grew up, he was interested in mechas and models. He often made some mecha props for self-entertainment.
A few years ago, he met Xin Qidong, a fellow "post-90s" who is also a mecha enthusiast, and the two hit it off and decided to set up a studio for making "Chinese style" mecha models.
The picture shows the "Monkey King Monkey King" mecha made by the team.
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The reporter learned that the mecha produced by the team looks metallic, but it is actually made of professional high-density environmental protection props and other accessories. Therefore, a mecha with a height of about two meters can control its weight at 20. About kilograms, easy to wear and manipulate.
A mecha takes dozens of days from design to production, and the cost ranges from 10,000 to tens of thousands.
"Traditional production processes use a lot of metal or fiberglass materials. The mecha is very heavy and can only be displayed statically. It looks rather rigid." Xin Qidong said that the material used by his team is very light. After design, the fingers of the mecha Joints such as arms and legs can be flexibly rotated, making the performance more vivid.
The picture shows the "Monkey King Monkey King" mecha made by the team.
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In the four years since the studio was established, the mechas produced by Yin Dajiang and Xin Qidong’s team began to gain some fame in the fields of comic exhibitions and commercial performances. The orders gradually increased. The team has grown from two people to more than a dozen. Employees.
Although the business is gradually on track now, the two are not satisfied with the status quo.
With a heroic dream, Yin Dajiang often wears the "Monkey King" mech to enter campuses and other places to personally promote Chinese elements, while Xin Qidong is committed to designing more original works.
Allowing Chinese mechas to go to the world is to support their dream of moving forward.
"If in the future foreign friends are interested in Chinese classics or myths because they like our Chinese mechas, then I think it must be a very'cool' thing." Xin Qidong said.
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