1905 film network special article From the beautiful and elegant oriental style to the cyberpunk wasteland aesthetics, "White Snake 2: The Green Snake" has once again created an imaginative world after "White Snake: Origin" At the same time as the word-of-mouth is bursting, it has also entered the 400 million box office market early, and will soon exceed 500 million box office.
"White Snake 2: The Green Snake Rise" not only dedicates a splendid spiritual world, but also dedicates a love for Chinese movies-the film is released on the official Weibo key extension and ticket price adjustment It was decided to extend the overall screening period of the film, and the key was extended to September 22. Since its release on July 23, "White Snake 2: The Tribulation of the Green Snake", the cumulative box office has reached 455 million yuan, which has won praise from many fans. In order to thank everyone for their support and overcome the difficulties with the theater, the film crew decided to adjust the ticket price from August 13th. The full version will be unified at 25 yuan/person in first-tier cities and 20 yuan/person in other cities.
In the explanation of key extension and ticket price adjustment, the producer of "White Snake 2: Green Snake Rise" wrote: "We are willing to work with all cinema colleagues to overcome the difficulties and move forward bravely. May the epidemic happen soon. We will stay with you all the time." The reporter of the film channel
interviewed the animation director Xie Junwei, art director Huang Siyao, and character design director Cui Yuemei of "White Snake 2: The Rise of the Snake", following their creation. Let’s take a look at the story behind the design of this “Guo Man Responsible”. Xie Junwei, animation director of
: All the artistic conception of is for the love of
as a transformation of the light-following animation. "White Snake: Origin" starts from the starting point of Xu Xian's previous life-Axuan and Xiaobai's fate, and let the light-following animation move forward. A very important step has been taken, marking that the direction of his creation has shifted from youth to youth.
arrives at the second "Green Snake Tribulation", and the theme has also changed from "fate" to "jeopardy". Each character in the film has its own robbery and obsession. For Xiaoqing, it is to use her own obsession, the emotion towards her sister, to save the catastrophe, hoping to let every audience feel the existence of "catastrophe" in life, and think about how to use her own obsession, Faith to cross one's own "catastrophe." In addition,
has transformed from a Chinese style full of classical elements and aesthetics and romance to a wasteland aesthetic style of dark cyberpunk, integrating modern and future settings into the ancient story. It can be called the biggest of the film. Visual style change. However, compared with the external changes, the inner emotions are still deep and full, which can still allow the national style lovers to immerse themselves in this kind of touch and accept this introverted Eastern emotional style.
In "The Tribulation of the Green Snake", the audience will enter two worlds one after another. The first one is the beautiful world where the heroine Xiaoqing can use mana, and the second is the Shura city sealed with mana— —Everyone here is full of obsessions, and even do things regardless of the consequences. The difficulty in the emotional innovation of
's sequel is that when watching "White Snake: Origin", everyone has preconceived the story of "The Legend of White Snake", so it is easy to accept the story of Xiaobai and Asuan; The sisters are deeply affectionate and have not been so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, especially Xiaoqing did not understand the hearts and human nature at the beginning, so the difficulty in her creation is to rationalize the transformation of her character.
is actually in the sequel, we can see that the world view is very complicated. There are various gangs in the Shura world: the disciplined bull head gang, the wild and unruly Raksha tribe, the strange monsters and ghosts, the zombie-like luminous vampire... two completely different As soon as the gang of's came out, people could feel at a glance that they have two completely different personalities through their actions.
For the classic Shui Man Jinshan bridge section, from the visual effect, let Xiao Bai and Xiao Qing force the waves to drive the waves, so that the final effect of the waves is shocking, making the audience feel that Xiao Bai and Xiao Qing are very Great; at the same time, when he arrived at Fahai, Fahai was "one foot taller". As soon as his aura came out, it completely covered Xiao Bai and Xiao Qing, so that he could take Xiao Bai back in a reasonable way.
as the beginning, this part also played a role in paving the way for sisterhood, including Xiaoqing's unwilling obsession to see her sister being taken away by Fahai, so she has to keep searching for her sister, so naturally entered " The Shura world of "ego clinging". In the Batu Caves at the end of the film, Xiaoqing relies on her strong obsession to fight with Fahai time and space in an infinite loop for twenty years, to truly show that her obsession will not fade due to the passage of time or her own weakness, but Constantly pursuing her goals, from a small green snake to a big green snake to a green dragon, successfully defeating the Nirvana Phoenix represented by Fahai, not only represents her ability to become stronger, but also represents her obsession. Strong, the look of finally leaving the Batu Caves is different, and he has completed his own growth.
Art Director Huang Siyao: The new imagination of Chinese elements
From an artistic point of view, the two climax scenes of the whole movie-Shui Man Jinshan collecting white snakes and Black Wind Caves fighting the sea, all follow traditional Chinese art. Style.
For example, the tsunami that floods Jinshan is driven by Xiaoqing and Xiaobai’s spells, so it is designed to have a sense of life, appearing in a serpentine state and structure; while in Batu Caves, there is no concept of time. , There is only a void world smudged by ink and wash, representing the blur and chaos, so it becomes a moving scene that may disappear in the swallowing, appearingOn the second floor of the spider bus.
In the eyes of director Huang Jiakang, Shura City is the most important part of the film, and it is also the most overhead part, so how to make it authentic and credible has become the most difficult point in the entire creative process. In this way, a living, living ring-shaped snake-like city appeared: the newly-grown building is in the snake's head, and the old building is in the snake's tail. It will be swallowed every time-just because the city is created by obsession. Place, old obsessions will pass away and disappear, but new obsessions will continue to grow... If the bridge at the end of the city of Shura grows in the last position of all the buildings, it will be swallowed up by the snake head, so it will There are many ancient and modern buildings piled up here like corpses, there will also be a lot of vegetation covering, adding more ghostly atmosphere, and there will be ghosts and monsters stationed here, the whole environment and atmosphere are more dark and terrifying.
In addition to the city of Shura, there is another scene in the film-Wuchi is impressive. After jumping into Wuchi, all the memories of this life can disappear, like baptism, Mengpo soup and formatting. Same. The design of this scene refers to the cliff stone carvings, on which many people’s obsessions are engraved. These people have obsessions in their hearts before jumping off, so they all engrave on them, and after jumping into Wuchi, they escape into the six reincarnations, namely After the memory disappeared, he was reborn and transferred to the next life.
Character Design Director Cui Yuemei: In line with the national aesthetic of young people
From "White Snake: Origin" to "White Snake 2," although the overall visual tone (such as Xiaoqing's long pony tail and smooth figure) has not changed, The details, painting style, and character design (such as Xiaoqing's body proportions, facial features) have been greatly upgraded. This improvement is undoubtedly to satisfy her preparation for the heroine of "The Green Snake". In order to show the coolness of Xiaoqing's personality, her hair was tied up, and her clothes were designed to be neatly wrapped around the chest due to high-speed movement. The design of the belt shape and flowing long hair also referenced the elements of snakes.
not only upgrades the image details, Xiaoqing also added some characteristics of the green snake in the action design, creating a kung fu, capable "snake fist" heroine. For Xiaoqing’s weapons, from the sword used by Shui Man Jinshan to the dagger picked up after entering Shura City, because of the loss of the spell, the dagger designed a "snake attack" flying knife ribbon type equipment. .
More importantly, she must be promoted from the second female to the heroine, enter Shura City in order to save her sister back, read Qianfan and continue to grow, change her mind a little bit, from not knowing what love is to finally understanding her pursuit The things...it is necessary to let the audience feel the delicate, deep, and sincere and touching feelings through the expressions of the characters and the language. The strength of Xiaoqing's inner personality is also shown through very resolute behaviors, which is the unified presentation of the outside and the inside.
Therefore, Xiaoqing's eyebrows are flat eyebrows, frowning fiercely; while Xiaobai's nature is gentle, and the distance between the eyes and the eyebrows is designed to be wider, and the eyebrows are also the willow-leaf eyebrows that look gentle and calm. In fact, from the time of "The Origin of the White Snake", this fashionable ink painting style has become the subject of heated discussion. For example, the characters conform to the face of the Chinese, and the eyes have charm-like Xiaobai's phoenix eyes.
For the owner of Baoqing, who has a human face and a fox face, the double-sided design of the human fox is to show its unpredictable cultivation and the sense of conflict. The age has also been modified step by step from more than 20 to ten. Many-year-old girls have become super popular characters in both works.
The male lead masked man in this film has spent a lot of thought on the design-more feminine, the same grayish purple as the small white pupils, can make everyone faintly aware of this tattered dress The lonely and hidden ranger is actually Xiao Bai.
The "villain" character of this film-the leader of the Bull Head Gang, in order to shape his identity as the supreme king of Shura City, he found a lot of trophies similar to monster bones embedded in his armor, showing a kind of powerfulness. , A feeling of inviolability.
Generally speaking, the biggest challenge of "Green Snake" compared with "White Snake 2" is the diversity of characters, including people of different dynasties and different species, and it has created more than 200 characters and more than 100. Group role modeling, which can be described as a huge volume in an animated film, is also enough to witness the creator's intentions.
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