During the Domestic Conservation Month, this British cartoon finally made it into it, but it landed in an ice cave and was squeezed into two skins by a hit movie. You know, the cute little sheep Sean has a great background, but this year's messenger of Sino-English exchanges, appeared in the heavyweight political activities of Prince William's visit to China. What’s more commendable is that "Shaun the Sheep" is a stop-motion comic made of clay. When computer production is popular in the film world, its existence has a longer history than hand-drawn comics. If you don't have enough patience and affection, it is difficult to persist. Going down, and being able to see it, I really want to pay tribute to the producer.
Still use a set of numbers to illustrate. As a stop-motion animation, the animator sculpts the prop model, shoots it with a camera, then fine-tunes the styling to continue shooting, and finally uses the captured photos to link up and play to form a motion effect, which is a "stop animation". Calculated based on 24 frames of photos per second, 1440 photos are required for 1 minute, and a movie is calculated based on the length of 85 minutes, which requires hundreds of thousands of material photos. Specifically, "Sean the Sheep Movie", it shoots 40-50 shots a week, and 20 core animators make an average of 2 seconds per day. It takes 48 frames of photos in two seconds, and the clay image in each frame is different. The workload is imaginable. In the whole movie, there are 354 character models (116 sheep), and each model takes 16 weeks from design to production. There are 14-21 modelers in total. Their work includes at least 1,000 eyes, 2,500 club and socket joints, and 3,000 mouths of different shapes for different shapes of characters. There are 1475 lenses in total. A total of 549777 frames of photos were taken, and 122375 frames were used in the film.
Well, the above description is too boring. Let me talk about it from another angle. In other words, on the weekend of the rainy season, staying at home, suddenly wanted to watch cartoons, so I flipped through the animation channel on digital TV, hesitated between a few films, and finally chose "Cats and Mice: Robin Hood and his cleverness" mouse". You know that in cartoons, cats and mice are my favorites, and Jerry and Tom have always been my favorites. Choosing to watch "The Cat and Mouse Movie" is of course inevitable. Moreover, the story also involves Robin Hood, which should be full of interest. However, less than half of the time I saw it, I couldn't hold on anymore, my eyelids were too heavy to support, and I almost fell asleep. To put it bluntly, this story was pieced together for the sake of piecing together, it is too blunt to stand.
And the "Shaun the Sheep" I watched in the movie theater was with a group of children, and between them, their laughter was lowered, and they were often happy to fall back together and couldn't be alone. Think about the current normalizing "The Return of the Great Sage", it is not difficult to imagine the connection between them. That is, a good movie must have a good story and have enough sincerity to impress the audience. The audiences nowadays are not fools. They want to swindle people's tickets if they want to get them. In the end, they can only shoot themselves in the foot. "Shaun the Sheep" is young but not stupid, cute but not artificial, it is fun and interesting, and it is also suitable for all ages.
As the big movies of TV cartoons, China’s "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" series and "Bear Haunted" series have also been screened. If it weren't for "The Return of the Great Sage" was born, "Bear Haunted Snow Ridge Bear Wind" It also maintains the box office record for domestic animated films in China. But the biggest problem with these series and most other Chinese cartoons is that they are too educated and can only fool children. It is a torture for adults to watch them. The reason why "The Return of the Great Sage" was able to win was entirely due to its sincerity, its innovation, and the profoundness of its intentions. It was definitely not for fooling the ghosts, and it could be described as beautiful in the end.
As for the somewhat tragic "Shaun the Sheep", it can only be said that the wrong schedule was selected, and unfortunately, many hot and hot films were strangled with it. And because of the lack of publicity, and the lack of sufficient filming rate, after all, it is not popular, and it has just been released, and it has been exhausted.
As a classic cartoon that doesn’t even have a dialogue, as long as the bleating sheep screams, "Sean the Little Sheep" makes people look at it without sorrow, full of laughter, and basically no urine in the whole process, one by one. . Compared with the money of domestic cartoons, it is so much better.
As a stop motion animation, no matter how well it is said, it is inseparable from a creative story, which is the core of everything. The story of "Shaun the Sheep" tells that Sean the Sheep wanted to have a happy weekend, but the owner was so tricky that he had to follow the owner to a strange city and unfold a humorous story about saving the owner. . The story is creative, the details are not obtrusive, and an excellent big movie is constructed as a whole. Just like "Doraemon: Walk with Me", there is sincerity and no money.
There is nothing else to say, take advantage of the summer vacation, while you still have to watch, it is worth taking your children to see it.
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