My Animation Era

While chatting in the wine shop, the last person of Liu Guanzhang, Guan Yu, also appeared on the stage.

Although everyone is familiar with the scene of the three people's friendship in Taoyuan, the scenes presented in the animation still made many viewers excited.

Beautiful!

The description in words is just a description. In terms of visual impact, how can it compare to the visual impact of film and television images?

The beautiful peach blossoms, the three like-minded brothers, the vow not to be born in the same year, the same month and the same day, the call of a big brother... not only satisfied all fans' fantasies about the friendship in the Taoyuan, but also made them look forward to the subsequent plot. .

Judging from the first episode alone, the new version of the Three Kingdoms animation is as good as the old version.

Even in some aspects, the new version is better than the old version, such as the theme song, which has won praise and applause from many audiences.

The first episode is about the sworn friendship in Taoyuan.

It mainly tells the story of three brothers, Liu, Guan and Zhang, who became brothers with different surnames because of similar interests. In order to serve the country, Zhang Fei even sold his peach garden and embarked on a journey with Liu Bei and Guan Yu.

The second episode is Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing.

If the first episode was just a small fight, then the second episode officially kicked off the Three Kingdoms.

Such as Lu Bu, Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and other powerful figures from the original works that the audience is familiar with have appeared one after another, which is very enjoyable to watch.

However, this also attracted complaints from many people.

There was an animation of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which is commonly known as the old version.

Compared with the old version, the plot rhythm of the new version of the Three Kingdoms animation produced by Wanbao seems to be a bit fast, and many unimportant plots have been brushed aside.

For the same plot, taking "Brotherhood in the Taoyuan" as an example, the old version took two episodes to lay out the story, while the new version only took one episode... Oh no, half an episode!

This is also the focus of controversy.

Audiences generally recognized the completion quality of the new version of the Three Kingdoms animation, but the pace of the plot seemed a bit anxious.

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"What do you think? Audiences generally question the rhythm of the plot?"

At a time when the animation "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was on the air, Gu Miao called Ma Kui and Koizumi to the office to talk about audience feedback.

The Three Kingdoms animation is very popular!

Thanks to the strong coverage of the CCTV platform, the popularity of the first two episodes of the animation is obvious to all.

However, after the first two episodes were aired, there has been debate on the Internet about the too fast pace of the plot. Although it did not turn into negative reviews, it also had a certain impact on the animation.

Therefore, Gu Miao wanted to ask Ma Kui and Xiaoquan what they thought.

"A matter of trade-offs."

In response to Mr. Gu's question, Ma Kui was the first to answer: "The original work of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has so much content, we can't do it all, we have to make choices."

This is also normal.

After all, film and television works cannot be as all-encompassing as literary works, and sorting out the priorities is very critical for animation.

To put it harshly...

If it weren't for the famous scene of "Three Marriages in Taoyuan", which is so classic and well-known that it is known to all women and children, even this scene might not have been mentioned when it was adapted into animation.

"Yes, it is impossible for us to take care of every detail of the original work. It is even less possible to add those insignificant branches of events like the original work."

Koizumi also explained: "After all, animation costs money every minute, unlike novels where you can spend a lot of time describing a character's appearance and introducing his origins and background."

for example.

In the original work, each character has an appearance description and identity introduction when he appears. But in animation, when a new character appears, you only need to add a series of "subtitles" introduction next to him.

This is also to save time.

The reason why viewers feel that the plot pace of the first two episodes is a bit fast is mainly because there were no major events before Dong Zhuo came to Beijing.

If there are really big events, such as the burning of Red Cliff and the empty city plan, the plot rhythm will definitely slow down.

This is just like the original animation that ended in two episodes after Zhuge Liang's star fell into the Wuzhangyuan.

Zhuge Liang is dead, and the subsequent plot becomes irrelevant, so the original animation ends so quickly, giving people the illusion of being unfinished.

"This actually doesn't matter..."

"When they see the back part, they probably won't argue about whether the plot is too fast." Ma Kui said with a smile.

"That's true."

Gu Miao nodded and said: "The animation only has fifty or sixty episodes in total, so it is reasonable to make some choices in the plot."

"And the reason why everyone complains about the rhythm of the plot is because they feel that the short duration is not enough to watch, and they do not mean to criticize the quality of the animation."

The reputation of animation is very strong!

Although it has only been premiered for one day and the animation has only aired two episodes, in the minds of fans all over the Internet, the new version of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" animation has already become a god and has become a candidate for a masterpiece that is not inferior to the old version.

This made Gu Miao extremely satisfied.

As directors, Ma Kui and Koizumi feel extremely proud and excited.

Especially Koizumi, as a foreigner, his eyes became wet when he saw the new version of the Three Kingdoms animation receiving overwhelming praise and even many viewers praising him.

As the only foreign director on the production team, when Koizumi's name appeared in the opening credits of the animation, more than one audience member felt confused and wondered if they had seen it wrong.

Why is there a foreigner?

But this kind of worry and confusion disappeared immediately when seeing the effect of the animation.

In the face of excellent completion quality, even if there is a foreigner in the production team, the audience will find it understandable. After all, as long as the animation is good, who cares which country the director is from?

Moreover.

Koizumi is only an assistant director, isn’t the chief director still a Chinese?

Because of this, the scene that Koizumi was worried about did not appear. Although the audience was curious about him, they did not say anything unpleasant.

Instead, he praised him a few times.

This is undoubtedly an unprecedented encouragement and touch for Koizumi. After all, before the animation was broadcast, he and Ma Kui were indeed worried that having a neon man in the production team would disgust the audience.

"Otherwise...my name wouldn't be on the title of the film, right?"

This is what Koizumi said at the time. He was worried that the audience would reject the new version of the Three Kingdoms animation because of himself, so he proposed to remove himself.

"That's not fair to you."

Gu Miao made the final decision, saying that no matter what, Koizumi was a contributor to the production team of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and his name must appear in the title.

And it ranks very high.

After the producer Gu Miao and the chief director Ma Kui, there is Koizumi's name, which represents his contribution to animation.

Not to mention, this move directly made Koizumi cry.

He thought he didn't deserve to be in the credits, but he didn't expect that not only did Mr. Gu add him in, but the audience also recognized him as the assistant director.

Koizumi has only one thought now, and that is to be grateful for the choice he made and to be able to participate in the production of a project like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

What if you had chosen to go it alone?

It’s probably quite cold by now!