“The first year of Chinese hard science fiction movies” is still five years away. The readers of “Three Body” are mostly confined to the small circle of science fiction fans. “I wanted to do something at that time and introduce everyone to the” Three Body “.” 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, asked the teacher to correct it, and was “recovered a bunch of errors” by the teacher and gave up.
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. After the outbreak in Wuhan, some people used it to build a square cabin hospital. Li Zhenyi intends to use “Minecraft” to create 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 the first episode of “Three-body” animation, named it “My Three-body”, and used an ID called “God Touring” Post at station B. The animation plot selected 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 were made by Li Zhenyi himself using the game. The dubbing is to help with the dubbing enthusiasts in the Post Bar and QQ 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 Trisomy” are in the game area of station B. There are only one or two thousand views and a few comments. Because the first copy of the original copy involved the “Cultural Revolution”, it was locked by the administrator shortly after it was released, 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.
“Technology explosion”
Now, at the B station, open the “My Trisomy” series.Looking at the first season, the word “technology explosion” appeared 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. 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 about three people in “My Three Body”. 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 at 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 bigger things of human destiny.” Dr. Baa recalled China News Weekly.
After the core team was formed, the animation became more detailed in lines, dubbing, and architecture. 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 the picture of “Guzheng Action” . “Operation Guzheng” refers to the combat plan formulated by the military to capture the three-body world information on the “Judgment Day”. On the two sides of the Panama Canal, the military pulled out dozens of “flying blades” with only one-tenth of a hair. The “Judgment Day” sailed through it, and the hull would be cut into pieces. Because the “flying blades” were thin enough Without damaging the data the military wants.
So, Li Zhenyi found a tutorial on the Internet and started teaching 3D animation software. “No one in the team understands technology. If you want to attract people with technology to do it, you have to pick it up first.” Li Zhenyi recalled to China News Weekly.
The “Guzheng Action” screen produced by an animation beginner Li Zhenyi, although it looks ugly now, completely restores the entire “Guzheng Action” process. This is the first time that the “Three Body” fans have been imagined. The picture in the image becomes a real visible image.
Li Zhenyi, who taught himself 3D production, raised his head