"Child of Time" released a special production feature, a sincere confession to refine original domestic animated films for five years

The original domestically produced animated film "Child of Time" released a special production special "That's Very Sincere" today. Writers and directors Yu Ao and Zhou Tienan, producer and producer Sun Lingyu, producer Zhang Xuan, executive producer Luo Kun, director Liu Yicong, animation director Zeng Jialin, visual effects director Zhao Wei, art director Mo Jin, character design director Fu Qingluo, environmental effects director Wang Hui, sound director Wang Chong, composer Luan Hui and other behind-the-scenes creative team sincerely shared the film production process. From visual ingenuity to emotional core, it fully demonstrates the sincere background of original domestic animation, unveiling the behind-the-scenes veil of this film that took five years to polish. The film will be screened nationwide this weekend from May 24 to May 25 and will be released nationwide on May 30.

"The Son of Time" is due to Ao and Zhou Tienan serving as screenwriters and directors, Zheng Zhihao and Zhang Bo serving as chief producers, Sun Lingyu serving as producer, Shu Yicheng serving as co-screenwriters, Sun Lingyu and Zhang Xuan serving as producers, Yang Tianxiang, Jonsen Cerf and Xu Yan serving as dubbing directors, and Wang Junkai, Liu Xiaoxue, Zhou Shen, Huang Bo, Jia Bing, Ma Dong, Jin Jing, Zhou Tienan, Yan Peilun, Zhang Xiaowan, Liu Yang, Luo Shengdeng, etc. form a dubbing lineup. Produced by Shanghai Cat's Eye Film Co., Ltd., Tianjin Cat's Eye Microfilm Culture Media Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Drama Film Co., Ltd.

For five years, I have persisted in writing animation, carving a grain of sand frame by frame, and never letting go of it

As an original domestically produced animated film that took five years to create,"Child of Time" builds a fantasy aesthetic universe with extreme sincerity in production. In the film, the scene of the Jinsha Islands, which symbolizes the passage of time, has 40-50 layers of Jinsha elements alone. The flow trajectory of each particle has been adjusted several times, hoping to use the "hourglass image" to metaphor emotional weight.

This ultimate pursuit of detail is also reflected in the carving of character dynamics. In terms of character dynamic design, the team abandoned motion capture technology and insisted on presenting an ideal artistic style with pure hand K animation. For example, Amu's cartoon multi-POSE switching is completed frame by frame, and the production volume is 2-3 times that of the regular process. Such complicated carving details are only to reduce the dynamic traces of real people and give the characters more unique tension in the animation language.

In terms of visual construction, the art team is based on modern Shanghai architecture and incorporates surreal imagination. The Shaoguan Building intertwined with neon signs and carved colonnade columns, and the blurred light and shadow reflected by candy-colored glass not only retains the retro texture of old Shanghai, but also gives the animation unique exaggerated tension. The first "cloud production" system at the technical level has achieved efficient collaboration among cross-regional teams. In addition to the innovation of the production model, the team has also turned technology into a brush for emotional expression. For example, the scene between Shiqi and Qianxiao in the dressing room. The light color of the picture will flow progressively with the changes in the relationship, and the space-time tunnel scene will use dynamic light spots outline the shackles that transcend destiny. These designs are only to allow visual wonders to always serve the "love-based" narrative core and enrich the audience's movie-viewing experience.

Behind the scenes, more than 100 teams worked together to create the original fire. Wang Junkai worked hard on the first animation dubbing

Faced with the current challenges in the film market, the "Children of Time" team has cultivated deeply with the courage of "no reward, just for love." The two directors personally completed the reference recording of the entire film's performance. From the restraint and forbearance of seventeen to the pure enthusiasm of Qianxiao, they all took "the commonality of characters and actors" as the creative origin and led the team to polish the original story.

This insistence on originality also infected everyone in more than 100 behind-the-scenes teams, and finally jointly created an animated light and shadow world with more than 2000 shots in the entire film. The dubbing actors who performed the voice also spared no effort to contribute to the film: Wang Junkai, who challenged the animation dubbing for the first time, studied the script and received line training several months in advance; Liu Xueyu made Qian Xiao's agility appear on the screen through delicate interpretation; Zhou Shen used the voice The temperature conveys the power of the character. As Wang Junkai said: "This is a story full of warmth and power. "The team hopes to let more viewers see the sincerity of the creation of domestic animations. When hand-K animations carved frame by frame meet the flowing sand particles, when the modern imagination of Shanghai style has a dialogue of emotions across time and space, the code of breaking the circle of original animations may be hidden in the persistence of this group of dreammakers to" go upstream despite the difficulties." This persistence in the original intention of creation is the sincere confession of "Child of Time" to China animation.

It is reported that "Child of Time" will be released nationwide on May 30. During this Dragon Boat Festival holiday, you might as well walk into the theater and open this "love letter" belonging to filmmakers with Shiqi and Qianxiao.