Thinking of this, the expressions on the faces of both the guests specially invited by the organizer and the special audience invited to participate in this grand ceremony became a little ugly.
If they had not taken the current situation into consideration, some of the hot-tempered ones would have wanted to get up and leave.
What a wonderful art festival, the final performance before its end, turned into a group of people sitting in their seats and watching videos. What kind of thing is this
There are many people who hold this idea.
As a well-known writer in the Blue Star literary world, Wang Chan has always been straightforward and her writing style is also known for its profound, sharp, humorous and spicy style. Even if she is invited to participate in such an art festival, she will never make any remarks against her will afterwards. At this moment, she couldn't help frowning, and her expression became serious while looking at the big screen opposite.
Generally speaking, it is unfair to compare something as “dead” as an animated short with the passionate performances of real artists on the spot.
However, since the organizers are bold enough to make such an artistic animation short film the finale of the Muse Art Festival, they should also be mentally prepared for everyone to judge it with the standards of a live performance.
She wanted to see how good this artistic animation short film was, which made the organizer feel that it was not enough to just pass its review, and they had to specially arrange it after all the art performances!
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Seeing that the guests had gloomy faces for most of the show, not to mention what other people were feeling, the young reporter who had met Mu Suxing once before at Huaijiang Airport suddenly brightened up. His originally absent-minded look was immediately replaced by the excitement of discovering big news.
After all, the Muse Art Festival is not a real cinema. No matter how dissatisfied these veteran artists are, they will not talk about it or make a fuss like ordinary people. It's just that after the initial annoyance, they all look indifferent, and the expression of protest is almost written on their faces.
Noticing this detail, the young reporter curled the corners of his mouth and almost laughed out loud.
All young people are more or less hot-blooded, and young reporters are no exception. He was already furious because of Yun Su's incident a week ago. Seeing Mu Suxing do such a thing, but now he is still fine and appears at this grand ceremony as an invited artist, he has been unhappy for a long time.
That was why, when he spotted Mu Suxing at the airport, he actually wanted to take advantage of the interview opportunity to mock him.
However, his senior leader repeatedly warned him not to do anything unnecessary, so he just had to suppress his dissatisfaction, enter the scene honestly and low-key, and be ready to follow his senior leader to go through the motions and complete the task.
Who could have thought that the Muse Art Festival, which has always been smooth and peaceful, would have such a big mistake this time
As we all know, the performance order of the Muse Art Festival is never determined by random drawing.
Whether intentionally or not, at least since the first Muse Art Festival, the fact that everyone has seen is that the later the performance, the more shocking it is. The finale of each art festival is the result of careful and meticulous selection by the judges.
At the last Muse Art Festival, the vast majority of guests believed that the finale drama performance was not as good as the previous ones, which aroused doubts from many people. As a result, several artists who served as judges that year were also disgraced and suspected of lacking artistic aesthetics.
So, what about this time
Last year, it could be said that the jury lacked artistic aesthetic taste. How should the organizers explain it this year
It's impossible that this animated short film really impressed the judges, making them think that the disadvantages of animation as a form of expression in the art festival can be compensated or even surpassed by its own quality, so they listed it as the finale
If you ask him, what's the difference between this arrangement and the blatant behind-the-scenes operation
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As the big screen in front lit up, the entire Huaijiang Grand Theater went dark.
Muxuxing sat quietly in his seat.
As a special guest of the Muse Art Festival, he was naturally arranged to perform together with other artists who were also invited to perform. Because of this, when he realized that the finale was the work of a young animation producer, countless strange looks of ridicule or contempt fell on him almost at the same time.
Muxuxing didn't care about this.
He just sat quietly in his seat, staring at the big screen in front of him without blinking. As an animation producer, he was actually more familiar with the plot and pictures of this animation than anyone else, but at this moment, he was watching it more seriously than any other audience member present.
He remembered a lot of things.
He recalled the stumbling and falling in his previous life. He recalled the night when he had to modify a certain shot to the early morning because of a phone call from Party A. It rained heavily that day, dripping on the window non-stop, and he painted from dusk to dawn with the noisy sound.
This isn’t really any particular scene or memory.
After all, for any cartoonist, such complicated modifications and overtime work have already become a part of their daily work.
When suffering and pain become a habit for a person, or even for everyone in an entire industry, the so-called hardship no longer seems to be enough to be called hardship.
When the production team of The Old Man and the Sea was first established, everyone thought that his accurate performance of The Old Man and the Sea was due to his natural talent in animation, so he could easily depict things he had never experienced before. Only Muxuxing himself knew that those similar emotions and impulses had already been played out countless times in his mind during countless sleepless nights in his previous life.
This animation work seems to have suffered a lot of criticism since its inception.
Some people think that this is his upgraded work after commercial transformation, and the last door to his path to becoming a true animation master. Others see it as a tool for him to gain fame and reputation, and the last stepping stone for him to climb up the ladder.
Only Muxuxing himself knows—it’s not the case.
If one must give a definition to this work, then it is more like a special gift made by his current self for his previous self. Now, all he wants is for everyone to "see" this work.
As the big screen lit up again, along with the coast appearing on the screen, the sound of the surging waves also rang in everyone's ears. At the same time, information related to the production team was also displayed on the big screen -
Title: The Old Man and the Sea
Original: Hemingway
Production company: Huaying
Producers: Mu Suxing, Li Lianggong, Xin Zongyi, Tan Qingyi, Xia Yongyuan, Zhang Ru, Chen Yidan, Wang Mengke, Lin Hongxin.
However, such an ordinary opening sequence, when seen by everyone in the audience, caused a stir in their hearts, and even the expressions on their faces became much more relaxed.
It’s not because of the star-studded production team in the subtitles.
In fact, this production list that once shook the entire animation circle did not cause any ripples at the Huaijiang Grand Theater.
All the artists who were invited to perform on stage were masters of their respective fields. In their opinion, if there was not even such a configuration, this animation would not even be worthy of passing the review of the Bureau of Culture. It was for this reason that after seeing the production team members being invited, the expressions on everyone's faces did not ease up, but became more serious.
The luxurious list does not make them lower their standards for the animation, quite the opposite - it is precisely because these people are in another field and are on par with them that they will be more strict with it.
What caught the eyes of everyone present was not the list of producers on the big screen, but the oil painting style that appeared in front of everyone as the screen lit up.
Most of the art in this world is the same. Although not everyone here can accurately say whether a style is good or bad, they can still see the pure good and bad.
For any guest who has some knowledge of artistic animation, the feeling at this moment can only be described as shocking.
The oil painting style of "The Old Man and the Sea" is just right
But that's not the most special thing.
Compared with the strong artistic sense of oil painting, what surprised them more was the film stock used in this animated short film. Generally speaking, the film stock of a general movie is not too long, because the length of the film stock is often linked to the size of the movie itself.
On the surface, it might seem that bigger is better for movies—but in reality, the opposite is true.
When the film itself is shorter, even if the producer makes a mistake during the shooting process, it will not have much impact on the audience's viewing experience, because of the smaller size, such mistakes often will not be displayed on the big screen at all.
But The Old Man and the Sea is different.
The film stock used in this animation is twice as long as that of a regular movie. This means that in the process of making this animation, the production team cannot make any mistakes, even the smallest ones, because on such a large screen, even the smallest flaws will be exaggerated to an unforgivable degree by the film itself.
In other words, in order to produce this work perfectly, the production team of "The Old Man and the Sea" must either make no mistakes throughout the process, or if they make any mistake, no matter how minor it is, they will have to start all over again!
That's fine.
If this animation was drawn on regular animation paper like most animations, it would be understandable. However, in this choice, the production team used an unprecedented glass plate!
What does it mean to draw the lens on a glass plate? In addition to being able to draw it in one go, is there any room for error in this way
Thinking of this, Zheng Rong felt his scalp tingling, but he suddenly understood why the judges were so crazy and chose an animated short film as the finale of the Muse Art Festival.
On one hand, there is the risk of being criticized by everyone for behind-the-scenes manipulation in order to push an animated short to the top of the News Art Festival, and on the other hand, for the sake of an animated short, one is willing to push oneself to such a point - isn't this a madman meeting a madman