Animated special effects are well received. "Future Machine City" exposes overseas production special edition.
1905 movie network news The sci-fi animated film, which was adapted from runaway comic script, produced by first-class foreign teams and dubbed by teachers Feng Yuanzheng and Shi Banyu, was released nationwide on July 19th. As early as last year, Future Machine City was bought by Netflix (Netflix), a global streaming media giant, for overseas distribution rights at a record high price. At the same time, it has also been nominated for the Annie Award, which is known as the "animated Oscar", and competed with other outstanding works such as Superman Attack Team 2.
At the beginning of this year, at the award ceremony of "2018kidscreen awards" known as "Children’s Oscar", "Future Robot" won two awards, namely, the best cartoon and the best design. Such bright results made the film get high attention before it was released, and it became the most anticipated animated film this summer. At present, the film has been shown in national cinemas.
The perfect combination of reality and imagination, retro futuristic style is amazing.
"Future Machine City" tells a touching story of a little girl and a robot taking risks side by side and gaining growth in the future world. Today, the film released a special overseas production. In the video, director Joe Casad and Joe Ksander expressed their love for the work "Future Machine City" in front of the camera. "Future Machine City" discusses the meaning of loneliness, how to find your own friends, how to face the problems in the growth process, and the aerial atrix picture of the robot, which is a perfect combination of plot and picture. "
In the movie, the setting of the future city "Midu" is very amazing. The endless skyscrapers, buildings with both Chinese and western characteristics, and the design of articles are bizarre but based on reality, which makes the audience feel surprised while watching and feel deja vu. Director Joe Casad explained to us that this design is called retro future wind. "Retro future is like people’s imagination of 2017 in 1978." At the same time, the smart phone we use in modern times has been replaced by the more versatile housekeeper robot "Q Bao" in "Future Machine City". Director Joe Casad said that "Q Bao is an all-round player who never leaves his body with one hand, and even spends too much time on Q Bao instead of spending time with his family." From this point of view, the setting of "Q Bao" in the film is also to allude to the social problem that modern people rely too much on electronic products and ignore the emotional communication between anyone. I have to admire the imagination and intention of the creative team.
Each robot in Future Robots has its own personality and appearance characteristics, which can make the audience feel that they are produced by different companies. At the same time, the team referred to many home machine design styles in the 1970s, such as metal edging and black plastic materials, which made the film reflect a unified "retro future style" from the whole to the details.
The design of the movie characters is careless, and the puppy bun wins the director’s favor.
In order to design a good character image, designers need to have a deep understanding of the character and experience of the character. Su Xiaomai, the protagonist, grew up in a single-parent family. She has no friends, can’t communicate with her mother and is disgusted with everything around her. Therefore, in the design of the role, the designer chooses exaggerated hairstyle and purple hair color to reflect her rebellion. The freckled face always has a world-weary expression, and the sporty clothing also makes her look more flexible and light in action. As a military robot, Robot 723 is naturally equipped with weapons. The arms, shoulders and back are all equipped with plasma cannon and laser weapons. In order to have more emotional interaction with human beings in movies, 7723 is also set as a robot that can learn, distinguish good from evil and think like us. The image prototype of Su Xiaomai’s pet dog bun is a French bulldog, and its small body is very cute. At the same time, in order to reflect its grumpy temper, the founders also specially designed a big head that is very uncoordinated with the proportion of the body. Director Kevin Adams said, "It’s really super cute. It’s simply the most popular character in the whole film." Words can’t hide their love for this role.
Two directors, Joe Casad and Kevin R. Adams, get inspiration from many live-action sci-fi movies they have seen in the past, and add their own innovations and styles to make Future Machine City different from other animated films. At the same time, they also hope to break the previous prejudice against the aesthetic differences between the East and the West and present a work that all audiences can like.
In the special edition, Joe Casad said that in addition to the visual effects, the film also has a very emotional part in the plot. "This is a movie that I have always wanted to do." The film contains the affection between Mai and his mother, the friendship with the robot 7723, and the elements of action and comedy. The director Joe Casad said happily, "We can finally tell a story about this. Director Kevin R. Adams also expressed the hope that this work would make the audience resonate with laughter and screaming.
The film "Future Machine City" began to be planned in 2014, and the script was revised for more than 100 versions before and after, and it was not finalized until 2016. The production special of this exposure also shows us the first-class level and attentive attitude of the behind-the-scenes team. With the help of science and technology, the film finally presents us with a touching story with oriental family style. The problems about "family" and "companionship" reflected in the film are very profound and worth thinking about by every parent.