This article is from the WeChat public account: China News Weekly (ID: chinanewsweekly) , author: Yan Zhang Kui, head of FIG. source: “my three-body: Zhang North Sea Biography” drama
In a primary school in Laixi District, Qingdao, an old man in the boiler room of a school, the young Li Zhenyi first read “Science Fiction World”, and became obsessed with science fiction. A few years later, he went to high school and read the first series of serials he saw in this magazine, which is Liu Cixin’s “Three Body”. The tone of his work is as narrative as history, making him feel “the thief is real.”
The year Li Zhenyi read “Three Body”, Jiangsu high school student Dr. Baa and Sichuan high school student Bentus also fell in love with this book. On the day of the entrance exam for Bentus, the “Three Body II” was released. Before entering the examination room, his father asked him about his wishes after the college entrance examination. Bentus said, “Bring me the” Three Body II “.”
Three of them are studying science at university. Li Zhenyi studied electrical engineering, Bentus studied meteorology, and Dr. Baa studied medicine. At that time, no one of them had expected that three people who were totally ignorant and professionally irrelevant to animation and film and television would one day gather together because of “Three Body” and adapt the work to “My Three” Series “animation.
Now, the third season of “My Three Body”, “My Three Body: Chapter Beihai Zhuan” is airing. This series of works with unique paintings and characters and scenes composed of squares is considered by the demanding fans to accurately restore the spiritual core of the original “Three Body”. The scores on Douban and B stations are above 9.5. . In the case of “Three-Body” movies and TV shows, which are frequently considered to “destroy” the novel once it is filmed, this is not a small miracle.
Animation by playing games
Zhang Beihai bought three iron meteorites from the meteorite shop, which are going to be used to assassinate scientists. In a basement, Zhang Beihai cut the meteorite he bought into a strip with a saw and polished it into a bullet shape with a CNC machine. Subsequently, Zhang Beihai raised his gun and aimed at the target. Eventually, he filled the cut meteorite into empty shells.
This is a scene from “My Trisomy: Chapter of Beihai”. In the original “Three Body” chapter, Zhang Beihai did not use a sawing machine, but only a CNC machine when he produced the “Meteorite Bullet”. “The original method is not particularly scientific.” Bentus, the original painter of “My Three Body”, recalled that he and his colleagues specifically studied the process of reloading bullets and made detailed adaptations. These creators strive for precision in every detail.
Now, My Three Body: Chapter Beihai Zhuan is produced by a small team of less than 10 people led by Li Zhenyi.
Six years ago, when this series started, everything was just a hobby of Li Zhenyi. That year, Li Zhenyi was studying abroad in Pau, France. He was in his hometown, and spent his spare time on the Internet, playing games and B station. When not playing games, he likes to watch space exploration documentaries at station B. Occasionally I see netizens posting some barrage that only fans of “Three Body” understand, and some netizens upload some short videos related to “Three Body” video.
At that time, there was still one year before Liu Cixin’s “Three Body” won the Hugo Award, and “Wandering Earth” had five years before the “Chinese New Year of Hard Sci-Fi Film” began. The readers of “Three Body” are mostly confined to the small circle of science fiction fans. “I wanted to do something and introduce you to the” Three Body “in full.” Li Zhenyi recalled to China News Weekly.
Before that, Li Zhenyi repeatedly and tirelessly recommended “Three Body” to those around her. In high school, he recommended it to his classmates, but at that time, fantasy reading was more popular among classmates.
When he was studying French preparatory course in France, the teacher asked for a lecture, and he shared the “Dark Forest” theory in “Three Body” on the podium, but he saw the teacher who understood it. I do n’t understand. At that time, there was no French version of “Three-body”. At one time, he wanted to translate “Three-body” into French. He tried to translate two pages, sought correction from the teacher, and gave up after being “made a bunch of errors” by the teacher.
Later, Li Zhenyi once again came up with the idea of recommending “Three Body” and began to consider the way of short video animation.
Although Li Zhenyi has never made an animation, he is a game player named Minecraft. At that time, the game was popular at station B. Minecraft is a sandbox game similar to the online version of Lego bricks. Players can manipulate block-shaped building materials to make characters, buildings, and landscapes in the virtual world. Some game bloggers used this game to build the Forbidden City. During the epidemic, someone used it to build a square cabin hospital. Li Zhenyi intends to use “Minecraft” to produce scenes and characters in “Three Body”, and then find voice enthusiasts to dub the characters into animation.
At 7 a.m. on February 27, 2014, Li Zhenyi produced and completed the first episode of “Three Body” animation, named it “My Three Body”, “The ID was posted on station B. The animation plot selects the content of “Ye Zhetai’s tragic death” and “Bai Mulin’s betrayal” in “Three Body”. According to Li Zhenyi, “these two scenes are very important for Ye Wenjie’s thinking.” In addition, the lines are all copied from the dialogue in the original work. First of all, Li Zhenyi wanted to respect the original work. In addition, there were very realistic reasons. For the first time, he did animations and did not know how to write lines. The animation scenes and characters are made by Li Zhenyi himself using the game, the voice-over is posted, QHelp from dubbing enthusiasts in Q group. There are not enough dubbing enthusiasts, and he also pulls in teammates who usually rank together in League of Legends to help.
The first and second episodes of “My Three-Body” are in the game area of station B. They have only a thousand or two thousand views and a few comments. Since the first copy of the original copy involved the “Cultural Revolution”, it was locked by the administrator shortly after it was issued, and only registered members can view it. Li Zhenyi continued to make the third episode. At that time, Li Zhenyi only regarded this as a hobby to pass the time.
“Technical Explosion”
Now, at the B station, the “My Three Body” series is opened. From the first season, the word “technology explosion” appears more and more densely in the barrage. “Technology explosion” is a term invented by Liu Cixin in “Three Body”. It refers to a weak civilization, and the explosive development of technology can surpass the powerful civilization in a short time. What the netizens want to express is that the production level of Li Zhenyi’s “My Three Body” has been exploding.
The lead that “exploded” the technology was ignited in the third episode. On that day, Li Zhenyi updated the video, advertised it in the post bar, and went to play the game. When he was playing “League of Legends”, he heard the QQ group dripping, and his group friends told him that your animation was recommended to the homepage of station B. He went to watch and found that there were already tens of thousands of broadcasts.
Li Zhenyi will post the QQ group number at the end of each episode to recruit netizens to participate in the animation. Li Zhenyi remembered that by the end of the first season of animation production, there were already thousands of netizens in the group. After a remote interview and screening, Li Zhenyi formed an early team of “My Three Body” about 10 people. They are all students and fans of “Three Body”.
Writer Dr. Baa then joined the production team for “My Three Body”. At that time, he was studying in the medical school of a key university, because he liked the trisomy, and “come in to generate electricity for love.” Like many members of the production team, he is also a science fiction enthusiast. He went to the stalls with his parents when he was in elementary school, bought Ben Asimov’s novels, and went into a pit ever since. When I read “Three Body” in high school, “I have a feeling of being baptized in spirit. I no longer think that life is nothing more than chai oil and salt. I will pay more attention to the grander destiny of human beings.” Dr. Baa recalled to China News Weekly.
After the core team was formed, the animation became more detailed in lines, dubbing, and architecture. However, Li Zhenyi still faces a difficult problem: The imagery of “Three Body” is destined to be inseparable from many sci-fi shots, and cannot be produced using the existing conditions in the game “Minecraft”, such as “Ancient