The Strongest Animator [Rebirth]

Thinking of this, Zheng Rong was immediately in awe.

As an oil painter, he also worked hard and spent three years just to paint the artwork in his heart. Because of this, he understands better than anyone else that he wants to complete "The Old Man and the Sea" How difficult is such a work.

But, this is the attitude an artist should have!

Regardless of the actual content of "The Old Man and the Sea", at least, in terms of the production team's thoughtful attitude when making the animation, this animation is fully worthy of the finale status!

Inadvertently glanced at Mu Pian Xing sitting in the front row again, Zheng Rong secretly nodded in his heart.

He also knew about the news that was raging on the Internet some time ago.Although he doesn't draw conclusions about a person's behavior just because of the news on the Internet, he does not have a good impression of the Shepherd Star because of this, so that after discovering that "The Old Man and the Sea" has become the finale of the art festival, This kind of dislike has further turned into dislike.

However, Zheng Rong changed his view of him after seeing the actual scene of "The Old Man and the Sea".

In today's era, products can be faked, faces can be faked, news can be faked, but a person's diligence and hard work can't be fooled.

Take the production team list as an example.

In the art circle, there has always been an unwritten rule: when a certain performance or a certain work is completed by a team, then on the official list, the order of the list is usually according to everyone's contribution to the project. The contributions made by the works are arranged in order of high and low.

In the list of producers just now, the name of Star Shepherd was ranked first.

And those behind him are all well-known veterans in the animation circle.Zheng Rong didn't think that these seniors would give up the number one position to Shepherd Star for some other inexplicable reason.That being the case, there is only one answer left——

In the animation "The Old Man and the Sea", Shepherd Star does not exist as a small character who was brought to be gilded by his predecessors, or on the contrary, he is the real core of this animation project team!

A young man who has reached the pinnacle of commercial animation at a young age is able to settle down like a real artist without being affected by the material environment, and is able to contribute to an artistic animation that does not bring him much real income. With all the strength of Zen, how could such a person be the one who is said on the Internet to be famous?

Of course, for a work of art, both the carrier and the method are secondary, and the most important thing is what is contained and represented behind the work, the expression of the creator.

I just don't know, is the spiritual core of this animation as shocking as its appearance?

Zheng Rong began to look forward to it.

In the huge Huaijiang Grand Theater, some people watched it seriously, and naturally some people watched it casually.

When the animation just started, the young reporter actually took it very seriously.

As the saying goes, without investigation, there is no right to speak.Even if he wanted to make a fuss about it in the newspapers afterwards, he had to read the actual content of "The Old Man and the Sea" first, didn't he?But what he never expected was that such a finale work at the Muse Art Festival could be so boring!

He watched the others for a while, but within 3 minutes, he began to feel drowsy.

That's it?

He considers himself to be a person with a certain level of art appreciation. He has also seen the world when he participated in other art interviews. At that time, after the interview, many artists would praise him for his level of questioning. When this "The Old Man and the Sea" has at least two brushes, this is the result?

Isn't this naked shady what is it?

Thinking of this, the reporter didn't bother to look any further.In order to prevent himself from falling asleep due to the hypnosis of this animation, he simply thought about the press release he was about to write in his mind.

Because of this, what he didn't notice was that those artists who had looked at this animation with strange eyes before could already lean forward uncontrollably. The expression was also replaced by engrossing.

Accompanied by the sound of waves one after another, after the end of the broadcast of the subtitles, the scene of the animation quickly shifted from the panoramic view of the small harbor to the protagonist of the animation.

This is a very haggard old man, he looks thin and bony, and his dark face is full of wrinkles from weather and fatigue.However, such an old man who lives in a seaport where fishing is his main industry has not caught any fish for 84 consecutive days.

Once again, the old man climbed ashore with nothing, and the acquaintance child carried the hook and harpoon for the old man, and the two walked back while talking.

"There is a pot of fish and yellow rice. Would you like some?"

"No. I'm going home to eat. Shall I light a fire for you?"

"No. I'll be reborn in a while, maybe I'll just have a cold meal."

"Shall I take the net?"

"Of course."

It was a very cumbersome conversation, but at the same time everyone's eyes lit up, their hearts also felt heavy.

The light in front of my eyes is the accurate and true portrayal of this animation, but with a few shots and a few words of dialogue, the old man's character and current situation are fully expressed-and the heavy heart is naturally It is because of the predicament that the elderly are currently facing.

It seems that the dialogue between the two does not seem to have any gold content, but everyone who has followed the plot all the way knows that the old man’s poor home does not actually have the so-called fish boiled yellow rice, and the big net that is easier to catch fish , and as early as the days when no fish could be caught, due to the pressure of life, they had to sell it to others.

This seemingly plain and simple conversation was actually just a lie uttered by two people who knew the truth, deceiving themselves and others.

Wang Chan was silent.

Ordinary viewers may still be baffled by this plot, but Wang Chan, who was born in a peasant family and suffered a lot since childhood, would never think so.

She has been through similar years.

Obviously, the food for three meals a day at home is no different from pig food, and there is no better food.Every day when I occasionally talk about the topic of eating, I have to say some inexplicable words.One said, let’s eat braised pork at noon today, the other said no, I lost weight recently, next time.

It may sound ridiculous, but for their family, which had a bad harvest that year, this kind of self-deceiving lie, which seemed meaningless to outsiders, was a tiny bit of strength to support them during those years.

But the animation in front of her was so delicately and realistically depicted that she almost immediately remembered her youthful years, and couldn't help but start to worry about the old man in the animation.

What fate will he meet next?

Can he catch fish?

On the big screen, the plot of the animation is still going on.

In the following plot, the production team seems to have made up their minds to portray this kind of suffering that penetrates people's hearts to the extreme.After finally waiting for the old man to go into the sea with fishing gear again, he began to try again, hoping to catch fish successfully and improve his life, but suffered the ravages of fate again.

The old man finally caught the fish.

But the fish was so huge that the old man not only failed to pull the fish up, but was pulled by the big fish and the fishing boat together, and swam towards an unknown place.This kind of destruction of one fish and one person, after more than ten hours, finally ended in the failure of the big fish.

It finally died.

Wang Chan focused on the old man on the screen.

He looked very tired. For a skinny old man, this kind of ten hours without eating or sleeping was a cruel torture in itself.The hands that were holding on to the fishing rod relentlessly had already cramped like dead bodies.

Will he make it back to the harbor safely?

Reason tells Wang Chan that, as an artistic short film, "The Old Man and the Sea" will never be as simple as just telling a fishing story.But emotionally, because she had the same experience, she subconsciously brought the old man in the animation, but selfishly hoped that he would be looked at differently because of this, so that he would no longer live so difficult and embarrassing.

It was at this time that another bad news happened to the old man again.

The boat, which was full of old people who had successfully fished, was attacked by a shark on the way back. When it got out of the water, it bit the big fish full of the old man's honor.

The old man who wanted to protect his loot did not have a decent weapon in his hand.

Just when Wang Chan thought that the current situation should not be worse, the old man who managed to drive away the sharks with a knife tied to an oar as a weapon, ushered in another shark eyeing his spoils.His hands were bleeding profusely due to the laceration, and his body was already numb from the pain, but he still stubbornly raised his weapon and fought every shark to the end.

One shark, two sharks, three sharks...

There were more and more wounds on the old man's body, but the big fish he was protecting became more mutilated and incomplete because of the shark's gnawing.

This should have been a tragic scene.

However, for such a scene, the producer didn't have any sensational intentions.

To be precise, from the beginning to the present of the whole animation, she failed to see the emotion of the producer.The other party is like a calm and rational bystander and narrator. He was lucky enough to see all this, so in the form of animation, he slowly explained all this in a straightforward way without any personal emotions. Come.

But it is also this kind of line-drawing technique that makes the audience who are obviously just watching the animation live at the moment seem to be caught in such a cruel fate just like the old man in the animation.

Wang Chan took a deep breath, feeling her chest was tight.

So uncomfortable.

Over the years, it is not that she has never read works that focus on human suffering, but there is no work that is as heavy and true as "The Old Man and the Sea".It was so real that she could find the shadow of her past in the old man in front of her almost as soon as she closed her eyes.

She closed her eyes, almost unable to bear to look any further.

In fact, she did so—it seemed that only in this way could she temporarily escape from the world in the animation, but in fact, even if she closed her eyes at this moment, those dark and painful things in the past The past is still eroding her heart like some kind of poison.

But at this moment, she heard the old man say——

"People are not born to fail." The old man said: "A person can be destroyed, but not defeated."

She opened her eyes in a daze.

At this moment, there was almost no meat left on the big fish, only a bare skeleton, but the old man stood up again, persistently and stubbornly, with his hands stained with his own blood, Picking up his weapon, he walked towards the shark step by step.

In the camera, the back of the old man is still so thin and dry.

Wang Chan looked at it, but her eyes turned red, and tears came down in a flash.