Eleanor Best Animated Short Film Nomination
The one who withdrew after finishing "The Little Prince" and turned to commercial animation, which has a broader market, and did not involve literary and artistic animation for almost a whole year
Zhou Yurui closed his eyes and felt a tight pain in his chest.
Although the marketing plan was proposed by the marketing company, since it was passed and adopted in this way, it was naturally the result of Zhou Yurui's consent.
Just as the person in charge of the marketing company said, this plan is almost foolproof. Muxuxing has not been involved in art animation for nearly a year, and his energy in the past year has been mainly spent on commercial animation production. There are no new works, and the old work "The Little Prince" is already a year old. Using it as a stepping stone to the top is the most appropriate choice.
—If this nomination hadn’t come out of nowhere.
Zhou Yurui gritted his teeth. The fact before him sank into his heart like a thousand-pound boulder, shocking and frightening him.
How is this possible
Hasn't he been away from making art animation for a whole year? The new project of Huaying Animation has already been approved. How did Muxiuxing find the time to make another "The Gift of the Magi"? Even without making any noise, he was nominated for this year's Eleanor Best Animated Short Film Award
Isn't it said that the Eleanor judges this year are biased against commercial animation, preferring veteran animation producers? How could they allow a "businessman" like Muxuxing to appear at the Eleanor Awards ceremony, which represents the art hall
Zhou Yurui was in a state of confusion.
At this moment, he didn't have the energy to pay attention to the Weibo water army and other things. He calmed himself down, managed to steady his shaking hands, and immediately opened the official website of the organizer of the Eleanor Award.
Just like in previous years, the official website had already displayed all the nominations for this year on time. He immediately opened the nomination list page and searched through the huge list in an instant—
Best Picture.
Best Actor.
Best Actress.
…
Best Animated Short Film: Lin Hongxin, Mu Suxing…
Zhou Yurui no longer had the heart to pay attention to how many people were at the end of the list.
At this moment, the only thing in his vision was the computer screen in front of him and the three words "Muxuxing" after the best animated short film.
As he opened Eleanor's official website, many people who were eager to verify the facts also came over. While he was stunned, the comment section below was already filled with densely packed netizens:
“6666666, I thought Xingxing had given up on art animation and was planning to focus on commercial animation... But it turns out that the boss chose to do both, awesome!”
"Some people, don't be fooled by their glamorous and wealthy appearance. In fact, they not only have money, but also talent. They get nominated for awards without any fanfare. Oh, you can't help but accept it."
"Ahhh, so excited! I knew the stars would never let me down!! I was wondering why I always felt that "Flying Bird" looked weird, turns out the real thing is here! No, I'm too happy, wuwuwuwu, I'm going to go downstairs and run a lap to calm down!"
As the list of Eleanor's nominations spread throughout the entire Internet, the internet trolls who had been hiding among netizens and trying to stir up troubled waters could no longer hide. Now that they had posted things like "Mu Su Xing Jiang Lang has run out of ideas", not many people were willing to pay attention to them, and the few who did respond only responded with a barrage of curses.
"The navy is dead, those who are touching nm's porcelain, get out!"
"Yes, yes, yes, our Xing Xing has really run out of ideas. He is so bad that he even got Eleanor's nomination [funny]"
"Are the trolls hired by Asuka so brainless? It's fine if they are just ignorant, but before they criticize blindly, can't they open their eyes and take a closer look at who those bigwigs who endorse Director Mu are? It's not your fault that you didn't have any education, but it's wrong for you to show off your lack of education, right?"
…
As Zhou Yurui watched, his heart sank.
It would be fine if he was a commercial animation director, because commercial animation is all about sales, popularity, and money. Even if the director has a dark history, as long as he has the ability to make money, he won't have to worry about his future. But he happens to be an independent animation producer!
For independent animation producers, the most important thing is character and reputation. Many Blue Star awards claim to be only for animations and not for the authors themselves, but everyone knows that even the Eleanor Award is not absolutely fair. The judges will mostly consider many aspects to decide the final winners.
If he succeeded in hyping it up, it would be fine, but Muxuxing's short animation got Eleanor's nomination!
If the chaos caused by "Flying Bird" has only caused a stir among ordinary people on Weibo so far, then with Mu Suxing getting this nomination, many respected old seniors who rarely show up on weekdays will inevitably cast curious glances.
This is undoubtedly a devastating blow to Zhou Yurui, an independent animation producer!
His body went limp, and he leaned back in the back seat in fear and exhaustion. At the same time, the door over there opened with a snap, and the assistant's equally anxious voice suddenly came from the other side of the door in a panic:
“… It’s bad, Brother Zhou! Public opinion can no longer be controlled. Now, whenever our trolls post something, it will be deleted in less than a minute. We can’t hype it up at all! The original trending searches have also gone down. The marketing company said they have already done what they should do, and left us to solve the problem ourselves. What should we do now?”
Zhou Yurui didn't say anything.
It was at this moment that he suddenly realized why such a big thing happened today, but Mu Suxing, the person involved, seemed to have heard nothing and did not even show up.
It's not that I was caught off guard, it's not that I felt guilty, and it's not that I didn't know how to respond - it's that there was no need.
If the strength of the two is almost the same, perhaps he needs to stand up and explain to his fans and audiences, but when the gap between the two is huge, no matter how clever the means are, they will only be defeated in the face of absolute strength.
Of course, there was no need for Muxuxing to respond to his provocation.
Would a falcon soaring in the sky take a second look at the reptiles on the ground just because it occasionally stops on a branch to take a nap
—
If Mu Suxing knew what Zhou Yurui was thinking, he would definitely complain that he was thinking too much.
Although he was not interested in wasting time arguing with others online, the most important thing about public opinion was timeliness, especially now that relevant keywords were on the hot search. If he really waited until passers-by's first impression of him became a mess before explaining, it would be too late.
However, at this moment, Muxuxing really couldn't care about the situation on the Internet—
As the animation producer of "The Gift of the Magi", Mu Suxing certainly couldn't be the last person to know about this. In fact, after this year's nomination list was confirmed, the organizer of the Eleanor Award informed Mu Suxing of the good news by phone as soon as possible, that is, one hour ago.
"...Mr. Mu, congratulations on your work "The Gift of the Magi" being shortlisted for this year's Eleanor Best Animated Short Film Award. You are welcome to attend the award ceremony in Xi'an City on July 24. Your invitation letter is expected to arrive within three days, so please check it..."
Mu Xiuxing did not show any surprise or surprise at this sudden nomination - although he had never won the Eleanor Best Animated Short Film Award in his previous life, he had been nominated occasionally.
The pleasant notification ended here. Mu Suxing had just hung up the phone, and before he had time to put the phone away, the dark screen lit up again:
"Hello Mr. Mu, first of all, congratulations on being nominated for this year's Eleanor Best Animated Short Film Award. I am Tang Ligui, the editor-in-chief of Animation Online. If it is convenient, could you please spare some time to be interviewed by us?" This is the editor-in-chief of a famous animation weekly.
"Brother, can you be more awesome? Others just think about doing their graduation projects casually, but you made a direct entry into the best animated short film," Fang Lian's voice came out as soon as the phone was connected: "Please treat me to a meal! You must treat me to a meal!" This was a message from a close friend of Mu Suxing.
For the next two hours, Mu Suxing's phone never stopped ringing.
Familiar friends, teachers, fellow directors, and subordinate colleagues in the company all sent their congratulations via phone or text messages. After Mu Suxing hurriedly thanked them one by one, the dispute on Weibo on the other side ended quietly under the handling of Mu Xingxue.
In front of a top award like Eleanor, which symbolizes the highest level of artistic animation, no one doubted the possibility that Mu Suxing had impersonated the authorship of "Flying Bird", let alone comparing the two -
One is a well-known director in the commercial animation field who has just been nominated for the Eleanor Award for Best Animated Short Film, and the other is a novice producer who emerged from nowhere and is unknown, with only one work, "Flying Bird", on his hands. Are the two comparable
If there were some people who cursed back at the beginning of the public opinion, then when Eleanor's nomination spread all over the Internet, no one was willing to take another look at "Flying Birds".
In the words of one Huaying fan, "I'm too lazy to care."
Aren't you trying to market? Aren't you trying to stir up some hype and step on our stars to get ahead? Fine, then we won't pay any attention to you, just go and have fun by yourself :)
Just like that, "Flying Birds", which had caused a stir on Weibo three hours ago, disappeared from the hot search list without a trace, and its position on the hot search list was immediately replaced by the words "Eleanor Muxiuxing". Fans seemed to have never experienced the quarrel over "Flying Birds" at all, and they directly started to happily talk about "The Gift of the Magi".
"I heard that The Gift of the Magi won the Eleanor Award for Best Animated Short Film. So now the question is, where can I watch this animated short film? I searched all over the Internet, but I couldn't find The Gift of the Magi. Is my search method wrong?"
"It probably hasn't come out yet. I guess we'll have to wait until the Eleanor Awards ceremony is over to see it."
"Xingxing hid it too well this time. I didn't even hear him mention qaq! I was almost shocked when the official nominations were announced. If I didn't know there was only one Xingxing working on the animation, I would have thought it was a duplicate."
"I checked the time of the Eleanor Awards ceremony, and it will be at least a month later. Oh my god, I am crying. I really want to watch this nomination animation! With so many big names endorsing it, the final product must be superb! Ahhh, I am going to have a torturous month, crying!"
…
Just when everyone knew nothing about "The Gift of the Magi" but was very curious and eager to learn, a question that seemed like fishing quickly attracted their attention:
Know the app, the search bar is first.
#Why was Muxuxing nominated
Leaf 233
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I see that many people are curious about what kind of animation "The Gift of the Magi" is. I happened to learn about some very interesting anecdotes and would like to share them with you here, which can also be regarded as answering the question raised by the questioner.
The answerer is a fan of art films and has no particular requirements for live-action or animation. Generally speaking, I prefer works that are more profound. As for animation, I prefer older generation artists like Mr. Xia Yongyuan. As for live-action films, my favorite director is Director Ye Changlin.
Those who only pay attention to animated films may not know that Director Ye mentioned an interesting story in an interview with a film magazine some time ago:
According to Director Ye, when he was investigating the filming location in a small town in Huaijiang Province, he found a young man whose temperament was very compatible with the protagonist of his next movie. He was overjoyed and went to invite him directly. As a result, the young man told him that he was an animation director who also came to investigate and collect materials. Director Ye thought that he was acting in his true colors, but in fact he was constructing the character image in his animation through interpretation.
Of course, at that time I hadn’t actually thought of Mu Suxing. The main reason was that strictly speaking, I could only be considered a casual fan of "The Little Prince" during the period. I didn’t think about it that way at the time until I accidentally saw this on Weibo.
[picture]
(The content of the picture is very simple, just a young man sitting casually on the steps of a dilapidated hotel, looking down and concentrating on sketching his profile. It can be seen that this is a rather backward place. Upon closer inspection, you can even see traces of spider silk in the corner of the hotel. But when the light golden sunlight gently sprinkles on his five bony fingers, there is a kind of beauty like a girl's comic book.)
Who is the person in this photo? I don’t need to introduce myself, right
The first picture should be a sketch. Of course, looking at this picture alone cannot prove anything. You will understand if you look at the second picture together.
[Image 2]
(It was still the young man in Photo 1, with the same familiar profile. Even the environment hadn’t changed much. The young man just stood in the courtyard of the inn, looking casually at the cat on the white fence, but his temperament was completely different.)
If the first picture clearly shows that Muxuxing is an outsider, then the second picture shows his standing posture, the natural movement and arc of his hands, and even more micro-expressions and small movements, which make him perfectly blend into the surrounding environment, looking like a clear-headed but tired office worker. I won't say much about this, you can experience it for yourself.
Back to the topic.
In fact, whether it is animation, live-action TV series, or movies, there has always been a serious situation where traffic is prioritized while the substance of the work is cut corners.
The poster asked why Mu Xuxing got this nomination
I'm sorry, but based on his serious, non-impetuous, non-perfunctory, and focused attitude, I think he really deserves this nomination.
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