China News Service, August 22 (Reporter Xu Jing, Xu Yin, Kang Yuzhan) "Support" "Reposting and spreading to protect China's native peacocks"... I saw the stop-motion animation "Green Peacock" produced to save the green peacock, a national first-class protected animal "Dynasty" has attracted many netizens' attention after it was broadcast on Weibo, Station B and other social media. The animator Tao Xi is very happy because it means that more people are paying attention to the green peacock.

　　Tao Yan from Jiangsu is a "post-70s" who came to Shanghai after graduating from university and worked in the financial field for more than 20 years.

In 2019, by chance, she learned about the endangered species, the green peacock, a national first-level protected animal, and she had the idea of ​​doing something to protect the green peacock.

　　After inquiring about relevant information, Tao Xi found that on December 10, 1988, the green peacock was officially listed in the "National Key Protected Wildlife List": a national first-level protected animal; in 2013, it was assessed as being listed in the "World Conservation Union Endangered" The IUCN Red List: Endangered Species (EN); On May 22, 2017, "International Biodiversity Day", the Environmental Protection Publicity and Education Center of the Environmental Protection Department of Yunnan Province issued a document stating that the green peacock was listed as critically endangered Species.

Tao Yan is creating.

Photo by Kang Yuzhan

　　Therefore, Tao Yan, who loves to write, took the green peacock as the prototype, and took more than a year to create a 300,000-word novel "The Green Peacock Dynasty", which tells the series of stories triggered by the death of the green peacock king after his illness.

　　In order to let everyone understand the green peacock more intuitively and interpret the plot of the novel, she began to explore the forms of expressions such as reality show theaters and shadow puppets, and finally decided to shoot and produce stop motion animation.

However, affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, she encountered difficulties in finding an animator.

　　At that time, Tao Yan was a little unwilling. She decided to "turn around" from a well-paid investment banking elite and devote herself to the creation of later novels and animations.

Although in the eyes of friends this is "absurd," Tao Shao does not regret it.

　　Clay figurine, interior and exterior shooting, post-compositing...Tao Yan, who started from the ground up, took almost all the steps of the overall creation, and the process was also quite arduous.

Since domestic green peacocks are currently mainly concentrated in Yunnan, Tao Shai has also incorporated a lot of local characteristics in script content and clothing customization. "I want to show the local customs and food culture of Yunnan as much as possible, including the beautiful scenery. Come out."

　　The first season of the stop-motion animation "Green Peacock Dynasty" produced by Tao Yan is expected to have 24 episodes, and it has been updated to 20 episodes. She is currently rushing to make the post-production of episode 21.

　　In the past few decades, the Chinese government and the people have worked together to greatly promote the protection of endangered species and the protection of nature in China.

　　To Tao Shao's comfort, her friends also contributed to the protection of the green peacock.

The dubbing of the cartoon was done by several friends who played the roles.

After receiving the recording file via WeChat, Tao Yan "hidden" in the closet to complete the final synthesis of the sound.

After three or four months of work, the first integrated film was "born" on July 6, 2020.

　　"I was moved and cried when I came out in the first episode. I never thought that I could make a cartoon, although it was very rough." Tao Shai recalled the experience of failure at the beginning, quite emotional.

　　"After the end of the first season, I look forward to finding an excellent production team to cooperate, and then donate all the copyright." Tao Yan hopes to do his best to protect these animals, not to disappear from the earth, and future generations can still see it. Also let everyone understand the importance of biodiversity.

　　In the process of understanding green peacocks and making stop motion animations, Tao Yan also discovered many unknown endangered species.

"In the future, I will launch more novels and animation works on other endangered species. I hope that through such dissemination, more people will pay attention to more endangered species, and thereby improve environmental awareness and concepts." Tao Yan said.

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