My Animation Era

The story of the animation "Shen Weapon Boy" can be divided into two parts according to the plot, which is similar in nature to "Super Beast Arms".

The first half is the "Jade Dragon Kingdom" chapter that everyone is very familiar with and the most impressive one. The villain BOSS is the leader of the heaven and earth alliance.

The second half is about the Jade Dragon Kingdom's sister country "Jade Island Kingdom", and the villain BOSS is Xuantian Evil Emperor.

In addition to the same protagonist, is there any special connection between the two films, or a hidden plot?

The answer is yes!

First of all, why are Yulong Kingdom and Yudao Kingdom called "sister countries"? Not because the country names are similar, but because the heads of state of these two countries are really sisters!

The female heads of state of the two countries are both descendants of Nuwa, and Yuyan, the head of the Yudao Kingdom, is the wife of Nangong Yi, the lord of Nangong City in the Yulong Kingdom, and the mother of Nangong Wentian and Nangong Wenya.

besides!

Yulong Kingdom and Yudao Kingdom are almost like the same template in terms of regional division.

There are four cities in the Yulong Kingdom, namely Nangong City, Ximen City, Beiming Snow Village and Dongfang Haige.

The Yudao Country next door has four islands, namely Insect Island, Rainforest Island, Ancient Country Island and Grassland Island.

Does it sound similar?

As we all know, in each of the four cities of the Jade Dragon Kingdom, there is a guardian beast, as well as a demonized boss and demonized subordinates.

After the map was updated to Yudao Kingdom, although there was a new map, the gameplay was still the familiar one, with the guardian beast, the demonized boss and his subordinates...

"Tell the truth."

Gu Miao bit her lollipop and said quite speechlessly: "It's not unreasonable for "The Legend of the God" to be criticized for its mediocre plot. The plot is too similar to an MMORPG game."

Nangong Wentian, Nangong Wenya and others are equivalent to the "land reclamation group" formed by players. After receiving the land reclamation task, they attack the dungeon magic cave on the new map one by one.

How is this different from playing a copy?

oh! You can play dungeons in the game and get various rewards after defeating the BOSS. Nangong Wentian led people to play dungeons and didn’t get any money?

It sounds worse than a game!

"You can't say that..."

Director Wang smiled and shook his head and said: "This dungeon mode commonly used in RPG games sounds a bit boring, but the important thing is the process rather than the result."

Just look at the results?

Nangong Wentian starts the game with a lot of money, holds a magic weapon and leads a girl to clear the dungeon, and easily saves two countries. This is even worse than Long Aotian!

But after watching the process, you will find that this is not Long Aotian, but a very royal and passionate adventure battle animation. As the male protagonist, Nangong Wentian, although he keeps winning, the process of winning is also very difficult.

"That's true..."

Gu Miao nodded.

Just looking at the results, Nangong Wentian's adventure is truly speechless, a perfect example of a cool male protagonist.

But the animation mainly shows the adventure process. This process is full of hardships and hardships, and it is not easy to win every battle. Therefore, from a visual point of view, Nangong Wentian does not feel like Long Aotian.

If someone insists on saying that Nangong Wentian is Long Aotian, then "Dragon Fighter" and "Light User", and even "Digimon" are also Long Aotian. After all, the plot templates of these hot-blooded adventure series are similar. of.

No, no!

It can be said that this set of RPG level-breaking plot templates is very clichéd and highly repetitive, but it must also be admitted that the audience just likes it.

Not only animations, but also those fantasy fairy online novels, don’t they also have this kind of plot mode of “RPG breakthrough, upgrade and open new maps”?

This set of plot modes can be very popular on the market and be widely praised, so it definitely has merit.

Therefore, Gu Miao complained, and she did not intend to modify any background settings, nor did she think about making differences between the Yulong Kingdom and the Yudao Kingdom.

certainly!

It is unrealistic to not change it at all. At least in terms of the handling of "Shadow Wentian", Gu Miao was full of opinions on the original work.

Don't ask, it's just that the reversal is too fast.

Shadow Wentian has only appeared in a total of five or six episodes, but his personality has changed drastically. Although it can be explained by Wentian's mother transforming him into a good boy, Gu Miao still feels that it is too fast.

Shadow Wentian and Shadow Sky Crystal Beast, as the opposite side of the original body, should not be so hasty and make a so-called correction.

simply put.

Shadow Wentian can change his evil ways, but he cannot change them easily. The transformation of this character requires more plot to pave the way.

Five or six episodes are definitely not enough!

In the Wanbao version of the animation "Little Magic Soldier", Gu Miao plans to let Shadow Wentian and Shadow Sky Crystal Beast run through the second half of the 26-episode plot.

The first 10 episodes create the hateful and hateful side of Shadow Wentian and Shadow Sky Crystal Beast. The next 10 episodes show the struggle and confusion of Shadow Wentian through the interactions with characters such as Nangong Wentian, Nangong Wenya, and Wentian’s mother. .

In the last 6 episodes, which is coming to the end, let him jump back and change his ways, and sacrifice himself in exchange for Nangong Wentian's final victory.

After such a long period of preparation, the image of the character Shadow Wentian will no longer be so thin, and his change of evil will become more reasonable and will not make the audience feel abrupt.

A single move affects the whole body!

Shadow Wentian involves a lot of plots in the original work. With this change, Gu Miao's workload increased and he needed to spend more brain cells arranging the plot.

Fortunately, he is not fighting alone, there are more than a dozen experienced Wanbao senior screenwriters behind him to serve him.

at the same time.

Although Director Wang does not have the ability to take charge alone and can only be an assistant director, he is definitely a good hand at odd jobs.

He could successfully complete the tasks assigned to him by Gu Miao, and he would even bring little surprises from time to time!

The production team was united as one, and the production of the animation "Little Soldier" went smoothly without any obstacles, which greatly reduced Gu Miao's workload.

I’m afraid of comparison in everything!

Different from the smooth sailing of the animation "The Magic Soldier", the animation production team of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" next door was a bit troubled.

Ma Kui has been working hard for so long, and Koizumi, a powerful foreign aid, has joined the team. It stands to reason that the animation production progress should be faster than imagined...

But the results were disappointing.

For half a month, the animation "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" only produced less than 5 minutes of material. Just the "Three Brothers in Taoyuan" made them quarrel and almost break up.

What happened?

Gu Miao was very curious, so she asked Ma Kui for a question. After he learned the details, he was speechless.

It turned out that these people had been arguing for a long time, and they were actually arguing about Mr. Guan’s beard!

By the way...

What's the fuss about? Is Mr. Guan’s beard important? Shorter and longer, more elegant and unruly, what impact will it have on animation?

It’s not like you’re going to get red-faced and even roll up your sleeves because of a bunch of beard, right?