905 Movie Network Special article Every year, many people can always find rhetoric for each movie when they predict or review the Spring Festival period, but they don’t like to talk about the “Bears” series in detail. If it were put in the past few years, many people would say that the "Bears" movie is the only young animation in the Spring Festival. The scarcity of theme types and the ticket purchase habit of "One Belt Three" naturally make it a winner.
However, this year's Spring Festival is different. " Bears appear and Return to Earth" is no longer the dominant player in the animation track, and there are two animated movies, " Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf's Basket of the Future" and " Little Tiger Dun Hero ".
, especially the encounter between two animation brands with extremely high popularity, "Bears" and "Pleasant Goat", has many highlights.
has been appearing in "Bears" for eight consecutive years, while "Pleasant Goat" has returned to the big screen after 7 years and still chose the Spring Festival period.
At present, the box office of "Bears in the Haunted and Return to the Earth" has exceeded 600 million, while "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf's Basket Out of the Future" has exceeded 100 million, but the box office data between the two is not as simple as box office data.
In fact, this is not the first PK between them, and perhaps more details you don't know are here.
Content creation
For many post-90s and post-95s viewers who have already started their families and have started their own families, "Bears" and "Pleasant Goat" are all very classic animation IPs in their growth.
In the "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" series, the sentence "I will definitely come back" of the Big Big Wolf , "I will definitely come back", has become a famous scene in the hearts of a generation; in the "Bears" series, the sentence " Bear Two , " Bear Big , Bald Strong is coming to cut down trees again", has become a classic laugh point.
When everyone still maintains this stereotype for these two works , they have already undergone tremendous changes.
Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf are no longer hostile relationships, but have become friends; the relationship between Xiong Daxiong Er and Bald Qiang has also improved, and they are partners who fight side by side.
These relationship changes are particularly obvious in the two animated movies.
In "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf's Basket Out of the Future" which returns to the big screen, Big Big Wolf and Sheep Village partners become teammates together. The green grassland and wolf castle of the past were weakened in the movie, and the sentence "I will definitely come back" ended up just becoming the ringtone of the "social animal" wolf.
In fact, changes have already occurred in the animation creation of the series "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf".
started with the " Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf's Guardian of the Sheep Village " released in 2019. In terms of story creation, the team is no longer a simple unit drama, but tells a complete story in series.
At the same time, the team broke the past routine of "wolves catching sheep", allowing the wolf and the sheep to get along peacefully and fight against the enemy together.
021, the team launched the series " Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf's Basket Victory " with the theme of basketball competition. In the words of director Huang Weiming , this creation made the entire team excited. Not only that, the team also found the passion to re-create the big movie.
"After finishing one movie every year, we felt we had to make a breakthrough, so we stopped and polished some scripts." Huang Weiming and his team thought a lot of ideas in the past, and even wrote a lot of movie scripts. "We were always not satisfied and never did it until we encountered the theme of basketball competition. We thought we could try it."
So, the movie "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf's Basket Out of the Future" began to create.
Compared with "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf"'s "Looking for Opportunities", "Bears" has not been absent in the past 8 years.
The relationship between the characters in "Bears in the Haunted" happened as early as the 2017 movie " Bears in the Haunted·Fantasy Space ".
Nowadays, "Bears Come Back to Earth" is the 8th major film in the series. For the team, they will inevitably encounter bottlenecks in real creation, but director Lin Huida admitted that this brand always grasps "environmental protection" and "humanity" in the creation process, "this is our fixed original intention."
has more or less involved science fiction elements in the animated films of the "Bears Come" series in the past.
In the new story, the science fiction elements are amplified in all directions, and even the setting of "the first bear to land on the moon" is used, which not only echoes the hot spots of "Chang'e-5" moon landing, but also uses the advanced civilization of ancient times to stimulate children's audience's desire for aviation exploration and their thinking on the environmental resources behind the story.
special effects technology
For many viewers who have not followed these two IPs for a long time, when they are attracted by them again, they will feel a little bit, and why do the characters change?
Especially in "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf's Basket Victory", how did those originally cute and cute cartoon images become longer this time, and have stronger anthropomorphic appearance?
Huang Weiming told us that this change is to respect the setting of playing basketball. "I think that the head and body ratios of them who play basketball are relatively more suitable. It turns out that short hands and feet are cute, but they can't catch the ball. For example, how to do dunks, it's just how to do it. These presentations will be difficult, so we made some changes in our image."
He understood that the audience might find it strange at first, but after watching the movie and entering a tense event, this discomfort will weaken. The setting of
is not simply to satisfy the playing action. The creative team draws it completely according to the real basketball rules in reality. "Of course, we will use some exaggerated techniques to show some movements, so that the audience can feel that they are real and immersive, and even enter the entire game."
, especially the blocking scene in the movie. Although the audience saw three-dimensional animation, the painter actually drew it in two-dimensional way, one by one for two or three months. It has to be said that the vividness presented by the movie at the end is in addition to the creative team's careful study of basketball rules, and it is also inseparable from the changes in the image of these characters.
And "Bears Are Coming Back to Earth" is also eye-catching at the production level.
Many people used to understand the animation effects of "Bears in the Way" almost flash. Now, the answers submitted by "Bears in the Way" are becoming more and more "real". This reality cannot be separated from the team's research on animation technology in recent years.
, especially this film focusing on science fiction themes, has 1,500 special effects shots in the whole film, accounting for 80%, and the number of characters and scenes has reached more than 300 respectively.
Director Lin Huida recalled, "We have broken through many difficulties in technology. The most complex scene is the scene where Abu recalls the origin of the Cat Tribe. Although it is just a dozen shots, it shows the rise and fall of the entire Leirte tribe, including the prosperous scenes of the Leirte tribe, the city garbage mountains after the decline, realistic tornadoes, tsunamis, magma eruptions and destruction of the earth, and the battle of thousands of soldiers and spacecrafts alone, the number of particles is 29 in the garbage city scene alone. We have made 7.3 billion models, with a polygonal face number of 12561 billion faces, and a single frame rendering time is 20 hours per frame. Regardless of the whole film, it took three months to produce these dozen shots alone. "This is not the first time that the technical difficulty of
has been presented in the "Bears" series. In the previous "Bears·Wild Continent", 387 characters were produced, and the characters with the largest animal hair volume reached tens of millions. The director of the "Bears" series,
, once proudly said, "Special effects are no longer a problem for us."
It is obvious that at a time when animated movies are becoming more and more important to the audience, each brand is constantly polishing its own technology, and coupled with unique stories, bringing the audience into a new fantasy space.
box office numbers
two national brands meet, and box office data is naturally one of the most concerned contents of audiences.
Before "Bears" was released, "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" was the only one.
In 2009, after the release of the first "Pleasant Goat" movie "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Boss" had a total box office of 100 million, becoming the first animated film in China to have a box office of over 100 million yuan, which is unlimitedly glorious.
The animated film "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" at that time focused on the concept of "twelve zodiac signs" and catered to the zodiac topics of that year. By 2012, " Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Happy Year of the Dragon " reached the highest box office of the series of 167 million.
Not only that, the series also launched the animation + live-action movie "I Love Big Big Wolf" series in the summer season of 2012 and 2013. Unfortunately, the series is not as good as the series of animations in the Spring Festival, both in terms of reputation and box office.
was also in 2012. The series animation "Bears" was released. Once it was broadcast, it attracted the attention of many children.
After two years of polishing, "Bears" released its first big movie " "Bears: Treasure Hunt Bear Soldier ", which directly competed with " Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Pegasus Adventures " in the Spring Festival.
In the end, both in box office and reputation, "bears appear" have an absolute advantage overwhelming "Pleasant Goat".
The following year, "Father of Pleasant Goat" Huang Weiming returned to direct the big movie " Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf of Pleasant Goat in the Year of the Sheep ". Even with the advantages of the Year of the Sheep zodiac, it still cannot withstand the fierce "Bears" series.
The work launched by "Bears in the Wave" back then is " Bears in the Wave of Snow Ridge Bear Wind ", which is now proud of many "bear fans". The reputation of the film has been rising from 7.5 points at the beginning to 7.9 points at the present. Even many "bear fans" admitted in the comment section that this film is the ceiling of "Bears in the Haunted".
Since 2016, the market has dominated the market with "bears appearing" and its box office has been soaring to 717 million in 2019's " Bears appearing·Primitive Era ". This year's "Bears Are Coming Back to Earth" is predicted by the outside world that there is a chance of more than 800 million. The box office of
is always a number that can be broken, and the behavior everyone has worked hard for this is also worth paying attention to.
"Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf's Basket Out of the Future" and China College Basketball League cooperated to become its joint promotion; "Bears Are Coming and Returning to Earth" interacted with China Space Museum to take children to explore the mysteries of the universe.
While basketball competition, universe exploration is the combination of the two animated movies, allowing viewers who like animation to have more choices. When they are put together, they are naturally inevitably compared, but we are more looking forward to their "next" improvements under this comparison.
