Another similar question is: "Is 3D painting technology good or 2D painting technology good?" The answer is naturally: it doesn't matter who is good, it depends on how to use it.
Of course, there are so many people in this world who are self-deceiving and deceiving. They are unwilling to work hard and step by step. They just think about opportunism, and they want to make money by putting the crude goods on the surface and concealing them. Unfortunately, they made the wrong wishful thinking!
That’s right, the above is the film: Apple’s nuclear wars exmachina
CG technology has developed so far, both the richness of the picture and the depth of the lens are enough to meet the needs of film production, and more importantly, its cost is already low. It can be controlled, and it won't be like FF that year, a movie will bring down a company.
However, as mentioned earlier, the key to the quality of technology lies in the person who uses it, and whether he can truly master the details of the advantages and disadvantages of a technology and serve its purpose-it doesn’t matter who is better or worse than 3D or 2D painting technology. , The reasonable use of mutual compensation, the real ability to do it as one.
In this regard, if Ghost in the Shell 2 Innocence is a classic positive textbook, Apple Core Battle 2 is a typical negative. If the CG scenes of the whole film are exquisite and intoxicating, then the performance of the characters in the film can be said to be terrifying and lifeless.
The animated characters are just paintings, they are lifeless, and the creators must rely on the creator to figure out the human mind, grasp the characteristics of humans, and inject aura into the pictures. Obviously, the producer of this film did not have this ability, or that he chose a painting method that could not breathe life into the character, a technique that he did not understand or master at all. As a result, all the characters (including the protagonist) have become exquisite puppets-exquisite but lifeless.
What about using new rendering technology? The puppets with soft light and shadow are still just puppets. The puppets wore delicate masks and rubber wigs. They spoke vulgar lines. Their facial features and limbs twitched from time to time, as if the thread-lifter accidentally pulled the thread wrong. Where is there a trace of vitality? Those dragons are even more miserable. The guests at the birthday party and the citizens on the street all have sluggish expressions, walking and shaking. If they raise their hands flat, it will be another Resident Evil.
When the character can’t even be “personal”, it’s a joke to talk about the emotional scenes of the film. There are several literary scenes that show delicate emotions, Dunant’s partying is boring, Briarius flirts with the nigger, And the sadness of mother and child at the funeral and so on. . If you try to overdo it, not only can it not resonate with emotions, but it will give people a nauseating feeling. Is this the so-called "Uncanny Valley Theory"?
Then again, even if Apple Core 2 fails in character performance and completely destroys the lively characters in the comics, it is still not completely unforgivable. After all, the use of new technologies has a run-in period, and failures must be allowed, and moreover, new The application of technology brings freshness, and people will not be too picky.
It is a pity that the shameless and brain-disabled screenwriter (this Kiyoto Takeuchi is also the screenwriter of the bad film Sengoku Masturbation Team) has made this failure even worse.
We understand that the producer of Apple Core wants to make a commercial work with a simple plot and popular lines, but simplicity does not mean simple, popular does not mean vulgar. At the beginning, it is only for money, and it is very likely that it will not even make money in the end. .
How bad is the script of this film? A person who does not understand Japanese and has never been in contact with the original comics, after watching the film with closed subtitles, can definitely understand the plot of the film accurately! The screenwriter was so lazy that he didn't even want to describe the characters on the side. All the dragon sets came on stage with missions. After a dialogue to promote the plot, he directly led the scene and ended. Watching it as lively as a temple fair, it taught people to feel guilty!
For example, the villain has three scenes in total: one appearance, two evil acts, and three confrontation with the male protagonist-to tell the truth about his overall plan plus the causes and consequences of why he did bad things, and then kill himself with a bomb, no more, even one sentence There are no extra words. You can't see how bad he is in the whole film. You can only see that he is really in a hurry, for fear that a slow sentence will delay the exciting play.
Ever since, with the talented screenwriter and the eager producer who used this talented screenwriter, coupled with the incompetent director and the talented action producer of Jiang Lang-with the joint efforts of all parties, Apple Core 2 has successfully become a movie. The “masterpiece” of CG that comes with the rustic atmosphere, a work made with the latest technology, but more naive and crude than a puppet show. I absolutely believe that making a plasticine animation of Apple Core 2 will not look better than this one. More "old-fashioned".
The only fortunate and unfortunate thing is that, relying on Shiro's authentic and exquisite worldview settings and genius mechanical design, he kept the bottom line of the quality of the film, so that it at least did not fall into the situation of the machine gun girl of the Warring States masturbation team.
However, as Shilang’s authentic meal, I couldn’t help but cry in my eyes, and asked the heavens speechlessly: How guilty of the Apple Core series, should such a shameless person ruin and desecrate it? !
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