The post-95 building block designer used thousands of building blocks to restore the "Tongfu Inn", triggering memory killing
Bump Syke "creates dreams" with infinitely expanding building blocks
"Hey, brother! We haven't seen you in a long time. Where are you? Hey, friend! If it's really you, please say hello!" When many people saw these two lyrics, their DNA moved involuntarily, and the melody would automatically play in their minds .
The theme song of this sitcom "Wulin Biography" is the youth memory of many netizens.
On April 9, along with the playing of this song, a building block designer from Jingzhou, Hubei took his restored "Tongfu Inn" building block model to become popular on the Internet, with the topic "The post-95 guy used 6514 building blocks to restore the Tongfu Inn" On the hot search on Weibo, it triggered the memories of netizens.
Not only that, but on a certain video platform, the number of views of this video work is as high as more than 5.2 million, ranking first on the daily list of this platform.
The Hubei guy, whose online name is "Bump Sike", lives in Changsha, Hunan, and is a building block designer and video blogger.
Just as Sai Ke often said in the video "everything can be spelled", he used the building blocks to restore Tsinghua Gate, the Beijing Winter Olympics venues "Xue Ruyi" and "Ice Ribbon", and Nobita in "Doraemon" The house, the soup house in the movie "Spirited Away"... The details in the works all shocked netizens again and again, "details are full", "super restore", "instant tears" and other barrages are always covered with the entire video screen.
Since the release of works in March 2019, Sike has gained 770,000 followers on a video platform, with a cumulative playback volume of 34.3 million and 3.5 million likes. He is called "big guy" by fans, and fans also Always hope that Seike can use building blocks to "realize their dreams".
Not long ago, a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily had an exclusive interview with Concave Sike and talked with him about the process of "dream-making" in the building block world.
Tongfu Inn
Strive for perfect detail control, you must find peculiar building blocks
The video of the first phase of the "Wulin Gaiden" series of building blocks version of Tongfu Inn is the number one broadcast on a certain video platform that day, and it has also become the most broadcast work among all the videos of Sike.
This kind of heat can not even be imagined by Sike himself, he has been feeling "really never seen this scene".
The reason why I chose to build Tongfu Inn is because fans continue to suggest that Sike restore the scene of "Wulin Biography".
In a total of two months, Sike used 572 types of building block parts and 6514 pieces of parts, and finally completed the construction of the lobby, Dengshi Street and East Street of "Wulin Gaiden".
This video imitates the title design of "Wulin Gaiden" and shows the production process step by step.
As soon as the theme song full of "Memories Kill" sounded, the barrage instantly filled the screen, "High-energy warning ahead", "Injecting the soul of martial arts rumors", "The original feature film has just begun", "Boss, please accept my knees"... Immediately afterwards, Sike imitated the title of the chapter body in "Wulin Gaiden" - "The first time in the old inn of the fans' blood book, the grandma is the main lobby of the liver".
"Exploding the liver" is not Sike's exaggerated rhetoric.
Once the production starts, he can even stay out of the house all day, from day to night.
In Sike's view, it is not difficult to build, but it is a bit physically exhausting. He once posted his thumb on the Internet and ridiculed that "the skin is getting thicker and thicker".
In fact, the most difficult part of the competition is the first step of "collecting materials" and the second step of "designing the structure".
Sike needs a lot of patience to collect materials, find a comprehensive scene map, leave no dead ends, and do not miss a detail.
"I have to make an overall plan based on the materials and determine the proportion of the structure, because this will affect the rationality of the design structure later and the display volume of the final product. When collecting materials for "Wulin Gaiden", because the scenes and angles of each episode are different Different, I can only put together the various scenes of the inn that appear in different pictures in each episode. The pictures in each episode are divided into upper, lower, left, right, upper left, lower left, upper right, lower right from the perspective of the gate. , classified in eight directions. In addition, the perspective of the second floor of Tongfu Inn and the details of some small props also need to be restored, such as the couplet at the entrance of the backyard in episode 8, the patrol dog of Xiaoliu in episode 52, and the recruitment notice at the entrance of episode 62... "..." It took Sike a month just to find the material for the show.
According to the collected materials, Sike entered the second step. In the LDD software of Lego's official virtual building system, he began to design the drawings for building, which was also the most difficult part in his opinion.
Just like designing a building model, he needs to study each proportional structure in the system and find suitable building blocks.
“There are countless ways to create a building, but if you want to be creative, you need to use some novel parts and innovative construction techniques to achieve it. There are thousands of types of parts in the system, if you count the different colors and models, there may be tens of thousands. I have to think about every part of the work, how to structure it, and try to maintain the color coordination and aesthetics of the work. Therefore, I need to combine these different types of Only by combining and transforming the parts can you achieve the look you want to build." Sike believes that it is not difficult to find a chair, but if you have high requirements for details, you must find specific parts, such as antique chairs, The state of the window texture should also have an ancient feeling... As a detail control that strives for perfection, Sike's efforts have not been in vain. The small details he restored with heart have been seen by many netizens. "This street is Xiaomi's dog fighting stick, it's too detailed"...
Many loyal fans of "Wulin Gaiden" who call themselves "yuba" are also moved by the details of each detail. I hope that Sike must continue to update the scenes in the play, and spell out the backyard, kitchen, male and female bedrooms.
Sike responded and made good on his promise on May 3 to update the video again.
This time, Seike used 634 kinds of parts and 5,340 building blocks to restore the backyard scene. The title of the video is "The second time old yuba helps the first list, the grandma restores the backyard".
At present, Sike's "Wulin Gaiden" series has not officially ended, and many fans are still waiting for the reappearance of scenes such as the second floor, corridor, roof, and small theater of the inn.
When asked about the progress, Sike said that he was still at home "exploding" the production.
Tsinghua Gate
After the first video "Bounce Start", continue to challenge more difficult works
Sike considers himself a standard otaku who rarely goes out, is not good at talking, loves watching anime, likes games, and studies his own things.
In his impression, he has been like this since he was a child.
It's just that when he was a child, Sec didn't have contact with building block toys, but liked to pinch clay figures or dismantle things, wondering what the structure inside would look like.
Until college, a whim made Saike, who has the character of an otaku, understand the fun of building and enter the world of building blocks.
In 2016, Sike, who was still in his senior year, wanted to make a character figure in the game, so he began to collect information to understand the production process.
"The game figure was not finished in the end, but I accidentally found the Lego LDD software when I was searching for model software. After research, I found that the building blocks are very expandable, and there are fixed modules in the system, which can be built according to my own ideas. , and it is very easy to get started. But this thing is not taught by anyone, so I can only rely on my own exploration and practice to accumulate experience step by step. After that, I started to study the technology inside, and tried various building skills. The longer you are, the more familiar you are with each of the different styles in it." Saik recalled.
In March 2019, Sike officially became a video blogger. The net name "Bump Sike" was taken from the characteristics of the building blocks. He believes that "the shapes of the bumps are put together, and it looks like a mosaic from a distance."
Sike's first video featured him building an anime sword out of blocks.
After the video was released, it quickly gained more than 100,000 views. At that time, Sike, a novice, did not have much concept of it. Instead, a friend who "knows how" saw the data and told Sike, "This is If it is successful, it belongs to the jump start.”
In June of the same year, after updating the small props of the game, Sike turned to try more complex building blocks.
Taking advantage of the popularity before the college entrance examination, he successively released two videos of Tsinghua University's "Tsinghua Gate" and "Peking University Zhengxi Gate" built by himself. With these two landmark buildings, many fans' college dreams are fulfilled.
In the video of "Tsinghua Gate", Sike also played a small theater, directed and acted a student with a score of 180 in the college entrance examination who wanted to go to Tsinghua University and asked Sike for help.
As a result, Seike in the video turned on the working mode, searched for "Tsinghua Gate" in the real map, and wrote down every detail, even including roadside flower beds and street scenes.
"The plot and performances set at that time look a bit awkward now. However, Tsinghua Gate and the main west gate of Peking University are relatively simple works, because the structure of the building itself is regular and conforms to the structure of building blocks. The actual map of the building itself is easy to search, so it is not difficult." Saike explained.
The video of the building block version of "Tsinghua Gate" ushered in the first highlight moment for Sike. So far, the number of broadcasts has exceeded 1.3 million. Many different college students have left messages saying that they hope that Sike can also make architectural models of their schools.
After that, Sike continued to challenge more difficult works, and the length of the video also expanded from 5 minutes to about 10 minutes.
He will record the process of building works from scratch, without any waste, full of dry goods, covering every detail of his own ideas from the early stage, to the design of the virtual system, to the later stage of building.
"I want to explore more possibilities, and the more difficult and challenging things are, the more I'm willing to try," he said.
ice ribbon
Square blocks can also spell out three-dimensional curved structures
As the difficulty increases, the frequency of Cyclo updates has gradually changed from weekly updates to monthly updates. Fans also have a tacit understanding and never urge updates, waiting for Cyclo to bring surprises.
In the sequence of his works, you can see a lot of words about time, such as "It took 20 days, no drawings and independent design - Fujiwara Tofu House" "It took 30 days to restore the scene of the copy of Chang'an on the DNF cloud" "One month suspension of updates" , staying at home to fulfill the fan's wishes, using building blocks to restore Spirited Away - Soup House" "It took me a month to successfully resurrect Iron Man"... and the longest-running work is "a project that lasted half a year, the whole process of nuclear energy ".
This work is a cooperation project with China National Nuclear Corporation. On November 17, 2020, the world's first "Hualong No. 1" CNNC Fuqing Nuclear Power Unit 5 was successfully connected to the grid. Hualong No. 1 nuclear power plant.
"The engineer and I discussed the realizability of the structure, but since the other party and I were both unfamiliar territories, the communication always came to a standstill. Because before I made the model, I had to be familiar with every detail and function of the original, as well as the movement. The state, motion law and trajectory, etc., so for a nuclear power plant, I don’t know how to cut it. After that, I went to China National Nuclear Corporation to see the model they made, and even experienced VR, visited the entire nuclear power plant, and understood it clearly. The structure and details. After that, the number of parts was reduced according to the requirements, and many versions were changed before it was made.” Sai Ke analyzed.
In October 2021, before and after the 100-day countdown to the Winter Olympics, Sike focused his attention on two famous Winter Olympics venues - "Ice Ribbon" and "Snow Ruyi".
Sike used more than 4,000 parts to make "Xue Ruyi", while the larger "Ice Ribbon" venue used 11,000 parts. Sike said, "It's too big to fit at home."
At the beginning of this year, Sike took two models of the Winter Olympics venues to participate in Hunan Satellite TV's variety show "Everyday Upwards", where he met Mr. Zheng Fang, the chief designer of the "Ice Ribbon" of the National Speed Skating Stadium in China.
When Mr. Zheng saw the "Ice Ribbon" building block model, he repeatedly praised and asked Sike, "How can such a complex three-dimensional curved structure be made of building blocks?"
For Sai Ke, the curved structure is indeed a very difficult part of the production process, because he has never been to a building venue, and there is no complete design drawing on the Internet. He can only view it frame by frame through promotional videos and press releases. Details, piece together the complete appearance of the venue, and then analyze the elliptical structure and curved surface of the venue.
"To create a three-dimensional curved structure with square blocks, special parts and ingenious building techniques must be used, such as the need to adjust the curvature of the parts, and the angle of each part is also very critical when building. This mainly tests the familiarity of the parts, and it is necessary to combine them up, down, left and right to create a curved surface through the structure. It is especially difficult for the outermost glass curtain wall of the venue, because the height distribution on the four sides of the venue and the four-storey structure must be considered. The curtain wall has a raised effect, and 22 light strips should be installed in the transparent curtain wall according to the night scene." Sai Ke introduced.
Teacher Zheng Fang was very moved after seeing it. He believed that Sike truly restored the "Ice Ribbon", and every detail of the venue was accurate, especially in response to the Winter Olympics held in 2022. There are really 22 "Ice Ribbon" venues. root light strip.
In addition, Mr. Zheng Fang also said that he must give Sike a complete model.
Howl's Moving Castle
Every work is not perfect, if there is a chance, it must be improved and upgraded
The models made by Sike are sometimes due to the distress of moving, and can only dismantle some large-scale works, leaving some single-type models, such as Nobita's home in "Doraemon", Iron Man, Howl's Moving Castle and more.
The cost of the parts used in a piece of work generally ranges from thousands to tens of thousands of yuan, and the dismantled parts can also be recycled to save resources.
In his usual recording background, there is a whole wall of transparent boxes in which different kinds of parts are placed.
As long as the video reaches the building stage, fans will post a barrage to ridicule that Sai Ke is the link of "old Chinese medicine prescribes medicine according to the prescription".
Asked about his favorite works, Sike thinks that these works are all built by himself, and he can't say his favorite.
However, he frequently refers to the model "Howl's Moving Castle" in his words, and often uses it as an example to describe his building skills.
Howl's Moving Castle is the most satisfying work of Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki.
Sike made this model also to fulfill the fans' dreams. A large number of private messages and comments hope that Sike can restore the fantasy-filled "moving castle" in the movie.
Sike used 5044 parts to design and build after two months, and finally handed over the answer sheet.
Since its release on May 15, 2020, the work has received nearly 2.7 million views.
After that, Sike continued to update the video, showing many details of "Howl's Moving Castle" in detail.
In this work, Seike captures the key word "movement".
The flying castle has both wings and tail, as well as four legs that can land on the ground. He restored all these movable elements: the wing part is equipped with spherical joint parts that can be rotated at will, and the tail part is made into a rotatable one. Small double deck propeller.
Sike originally made the castle legs that were movable, each with individual gears to control, but after finishing it, he still vaguely felt that the details were different.
After thinking about it, he thought that the trajectory of the moving castle should be similar to that of reptiles, moving back and forth on a horizontal line, rather than walking up and down vertically.
Not only that, the tongue of the castle designed by Sike is movable, the three turrets on the top floor of the castle can also be rotated independently, and the barrels can move up and down...
Although he tried his best to restore the moving castle, Sike believes that there can be room for improvement. If there is a chance, he hopes to remake "Howl's Moving Castle" again. For example, there is enough space in the tail part, which can theoretically be upgraded to motor drive. The rear wing can also be optimized for details such as its proportional structure.
Until now, Sike believes that each of his works is not perfect, and every work can be improved and upgraded again.
"Actually, this also motivates me to make continuous progress. From entering the world of building blocks to now, I think I have made great progress. Now, most of my fun is that I will not let go of every problem, big or small. It must find a way to solve the problem, which is a challenge for me, as long as I think of a way to solve it, I will be very happy." Said Said.
Text/Reporter Han Shirong