This article comes from the WeChat public account “Poison Eye” (ID: youhaoxifilm), author Wu Yinan, Ai Faner Authorized release.
“Don’t answer! Don’t answer! Don’t answer!”
“Natural selection number, forward four.”
“Destroy you, what has it to do with you?”
▲ The barrage of “The Chapter of My Three-Body North Sea” at station B
These classic lines are from Liu Cixin’s Three Body. This sci-fi classic IP was initially only popular in the small circle of sci-fi fans. With the first part of “Three-body” in August 2015 won the 73rd Hugo Award for Best Long Story, the name “Three-body” Gradually became known to the public. The “Three-body” series has attracted many ordinary audiences to read, and even once said that “” China Science Fiction “is about” Three-body “”.
Driven by the “Three Body Fever”, there have also been sci-fi events and awards such as the China Science Fiction Conference and the Cold Lake Award. Yan Feng, an associate professor of the Chinese Department of Fudan University, praised Liu Cixin as “this man has single-handedly raised Chinese science fiction literature to a world-class level.”
▲ The highest point of the three-body Baidu search index after winning the Hugo Award
How hot is “Three Body” today? Not only have big-name fans like Ma Huateng, Obama, Zuckerberg, Lei Jun also said that the philosophical ideas in the three bodiesThe company ’s three to five-year strategy is very helpful. ” In the 13th edition of the writers’ list in 2019, the
The film and television industry has already seen the potential of “Three Body”. As early as in 2009, the “Three Body” was unknown, its film and television copyright was bought by director Zhang Fanfan, and then the copyright changed ownership and was bought by Youzu Pictures. At the moment, the three-body film and TV series are under development. The artistic painting Kaitian who made the “Soul Cage” has already taken over the 2021 “Three-body” animation project produced by the three stations of Station B, Three-body Universe, and Artistic Kaitian.
Among the works that have been published, “The Chapter of the Three Kingdoms in the North Sea” (hereinafter referred to as “Zhang Beihai”) and the three-body radio drama are undoubtedly high-volume masterpieces.
Zhang Beihai Zhuan, as the third part of the “My Three Body” series, ended on March 10th, and has now received 1.1 million catch-ups and over 28 million playbacks at Station B. Zhanzhan and Douban respectively received super high ratings of 9.9 points (over 75,000 people) and 9.7 points (over 16500 people). The three-body radio drama that was launched in Himalayan is still updating the second season, and has also received 500,000 subscriptions and nearly 170 million views.
▲ The box office trend of “Return of the Great Saint” is a rare upward trend. Picture source cat’s eye app
The “My Three Body” series is also the best in the fanart work. “My Three Body” currently has three seasons, the first season is the fandom. The director of “Zhang Beihai Biography” traveled in all directions. As the earliest fan of “Three Body”, in the wish of “Amway” and “Three Body”, during the study in France, the idea of self-made fan work “My Three Body” was born— —
In 2014, Shenfang Bafang, who had no animation foundation, tried to record the animation of “My Three” in the “Minecraft” game, which also established the style of this series of square people. As “My Three” was seen by more and more people at station B, it is not good to join the “My Three” spontaneously.”In the making.
In order to better represent the next scene, starting from the 9th episode of the first season, “My Three” turned to regular animation production. Today, even in the first season, which is called “Black History” by Shenfang Bafang, it currently has nearly 17 million views on station B.
▲ Postscript of the first episode of the first season of “My Trisomy”, the author travels in all directions
In the late stage of the first season of production, Shenyou Bafang and friends have already faced problems such as insufficient funds and high mobility of participating members. The turnaround occurred in 2016. According to the prophet Jiayoubao, at the time Dr. Baa, the screenwriter of “My Three”, was invited to participate in the “Minecraft” booth of China Joy. “At that time, our screenwriters were thinking of coming. It happens that Youzu Films, the copyright owner of “Three Body”, is also in Shanghai, so I stopped by for a visit.
After the ditch passed, the “My Three” team joined the You family and officially became a part of the “Three Body” development universe. As a result, the second season of “Luo Ji Biography” and the third season of “Zhang Beihai Biography” became “official fan” productions produced by the “regular army.”
The “My Three Body” series fully reflects the advantages of fan creation. The story of the three-body story is complicated, so the derivative works must not only consider the satisfaction of the fans of the novel with the content, but also allow the three-body Xiaobai to see. Many members of the team have read the original book more than 20 times, so they can not only retain the original worldview, but also adapt and enrich the plot properly during the second creation.
At present, the core team has about 10 people. Due to the small team fighting, they usually adopt a dual-line parallel working method: for example, when the third episode is in the post-rendering, it may be writing the seventh episode script and design at the same time. Scene of the sixth episode.
For “Official Fans”, content adaptation is the first threshold.
According to the introduction of Poisonous Eyes from the Eight Directions of Shenyou, when making “Luo Ji Biography”, basically, the Luo Ji’s drama was taken out along the timeline of the original work, and the adaptation workload was not large. Therefore, when the team did “Zhang Beihai Biography”, they originally thought to follow this line of thought, but later found that this experience could not be copied.
Unlike Professor Luo Ji’s life is more colorful, Zhang Beihai is too boring. His role in the early and middle period of the original book is basically a meeting,Meetings and meetings. In order to make the animation look less boring, the team overturned the established outline and scrapped some of the lens and scene design. In the end, some supporting actors were added to make the overall plot more full. For example, the “face wall man” Seans became the second protagonist, accentuating the role of ETO (Trisomy of the Earth), making the more boring part of the early part of the season, more active.
▲ Line design to keep up with the times
The most satisfying of all directions and screenwriter Dr. Baa are the original episodes of the last episode of the Dark Campaign. In the original book, the Doomsday Battle caused nearly 2,000 battleships of the Space Force to be destroyed by “water drops,” but the description of the survivors’ transition from the celebration of the rest of the life to the killing of each other is less.
“Zhang Beihai Zhuan” complements this part in the last episode, showing the survivors of different warships, from actively preparing for a long space trip; to becoming aware of the panic after the food shortage; Until someone escapes the battleship and the whole team starts to attack each other; Dr. Baa bluntly gets the relevant plot inspiration from “Death of the Integrity”.
With the support of the plot, the production level is the second threshold.
In an interview with the media, Shenfang Bafang said that although they still follow the style of the box people, they already have a mature 3D animation production process-first determine the outline, script and scene, character design, dubbing, and then Draw the sub-mirror, scene modeling and task modeling, do the binding (the intermediate steps required from 3D modeling to animation production), and finally do the animation, K frames (set key frames to make the animation smooth), lighting rendering.
▲ Split lens, sourceB Station Intelligence Ji
Although the process is standardized, the production of each season is a “daemon upgrade” process. Both “Biography of Luo Ji” and “Biography of Zhang Beihai” are based on the second book. The characters and the plot have overlapping parts, so the “somewhat awkward” and “regrettable” parts of “Biography of Luo Ji” are in In Zhang Beihai Zhuan, there is an opportunity to remake—for example, the overall appearance and interior space of the battleship Mantis, which was vaporized after capturing “water drops”.
For the animation production team, the most exhausting remake is the battle of the end. This episode has been sketched in Luo Ji Zhuan. This time, the team began to prepare one year in advance.
King Qing, executive director, scoring division, and head of the animation team, “spit out” in a media interview: “I made a year and changed countless drafts. The difficulty is that there is basically no related animation production experience in the universe in China, all tears.” The long production cycle is partly due to the large workload. Four types of models must be prepared for each battleship in the Doomsday. Both high-precision models and low-precision models with less details are required. Both need to prepare “original” and broken versions.
In the initial stage of this season, the team spent a month or two to do the dynamic parting of the Doomsday War; during the production of the previous episodes of the animation, it also accumulated some resources available for the Doomsday War. Such as warship models, cabin scenes. Even with so much homework done earlier, the animation of the Doomsday Wars was done separately for two or three months, so it took almost a year to complete.
▲ Well-made models
Shenyu Bafang also told the poisonous eye about the production of a small egg-that is, the characters in “Biography of Luo Ji”, in order to simplify the process without making ears, and “Zhang Beihai Biography” strives for excellence and new characters All made ears. So when Zhang Beihai and Ding Yi appeared together, a careful audience might be able to find that one had ears and one had no ears.
In the interview, Shenfang Bafang was quite worried about the production of Cheng Xin, the main character of the next season, because Cheng Xin is a girl with long hair, and the long hair floating around is very difficult to model. Previously, although Captain Dong Fang in Zhang Beihai Biography also had long hair, he had fewer plays. But Cheng Xin is the absolute protagonist of “Three Body 3: Eternal Death”, the main plot of the book is all aroundShe unfolded, so the issue of long hair needed urgent solution.
▲ At the end of “Zhang Beihai”, leave a message at station B of Shenfang Bafang
More imagination beyond film and television
Different from the bold adaptation of Shenyou Bafang, the overall design of the three-body radio drama will be more original. Even Liu Cixin commented that it sounded familiar and fresh. “The real voice makes every character come alive, and what the world looks like, every listener can have the imagination of blankness.”
The three-body radio drama has been updated since December 2019, and Himalayan and the three-body universe have secretly launched this project from mid-2018. The staff involved in the production are almost all three-body fans, hoping to pass This project gives ordinary people who like trisomy a chance to enter the trisomy world. Now the types of radio dramas are rich and varied, and they made “Three Body” in order to give radio dramas more possibilities in science fiction.
Himalayan revealed to Poison Eyes that the three-body radio drama is a “super big production” that Himalayan has invested heavily in. The investment of the entire project exceeded 10 million yuan. Ten teams across the company cooperated for more than ten months across departments and communicated every technical detail with the copyrighted company Three-body Universe. The time-consuming, team input and production quality are The entire audio industry is also rare.
The 729-sound workshop, which is responsible for dubbing, is the industry’s top dubbing team, and has a good reputation of “729 products must be excellent.” The dubbing lineup is also very powerful: Liu Ye, the voice actor of Moss in the movie “Wandering Earth”, voices strong in the radio drama; Ajie, the voice actor of Baili Tusu in “Ancient Sword and Tan”, voices Wang Miao in the radio drama; The voice actor Yang Tianxiang of the movie “The Legend of the Demon Cat”, and the voice of Ding Yi.
Himalaya also said to Poison Eye that the script of the radio drama has been adjusted and tried in many versions with the cooperation of the screenwriter team and the three-body universe content team. In the end, there were 80 episodes in 6 seasons, and each episode was a 30-minute drama structure.
In order to allow the audience to “play in one second,” the producer of the three-body radio drama said in an interview with the media that the script creation refers to the structure of the American drama. “I will segment and restructure the story with the screenwriter teacher for the overall structure of the story and the content of each episode. On the basis of retaining the original content to the greatest extent, I will ensure that each episode is integrated, including bedding, conflict, climax, The end of the presentation makes listeners feel better hearing effects.
The most obvious adaptation is that the radio drama has reduced the inner monologue and the more professional background introduction in the original work, and changed it to dialogue.
In the original work, Ye Wenjie, after receiving warnings from other civilizations “Do not answer!”, ignored the warning and determined to send a message to the sun. The original text mainly describes this plot from a third perspective. There is only the word “what” dialogue.
In the first episode of the second season of the radio drama, Ye Wenjie pretended to check the “secret operations” of the actual information transmitted by the equipment. The whole process was promoted by the attendant, the leader and colleagues of the attendant, Ye Wenjie’s dialogue, role monologue, and supplementary narration. Let this thrilling moment come to life in the reader’s mind.
Similarly, in the fourth episode of the first episode of the radio drama “The Crazy Age”, as an important role in the first part of “Three-body”, Ye Wenjie recalled her experience during the Cultural Revolution when her father was beaten in public. Lethal footage.
The radio dramas vividly demonstrated Ye Wenjie’s despair at that time through the powerful and hissing dubbing of multiple voice actors. At the beginning, the background sound of the broadcast with a sense of time “… The red movement of the proletariat is a big movement that touches the human soul …”, quickly bringing the audience back to the scene of the time.
Similar to the episode of “Mad Age” above, Three-body radio dramas in other episodes have also added a lot of sound effects that are not in the original book to enrich the listening level. The story takes place in the Daxinganling radar At the peak, many animal and natural sound effects were added; in the episode of “Guzheng Action”, in order to better restore the “guzheng line” of the nanomaterial cutting hullMotion “, amplifying the cutting sound effect, making the audience feel more immersive.
▲ Liu Cixin commented on the radio drama: “Familiar and fresh.” Tuyuan Xinnet Morning News
In addition, producer Zhao Ruilin once stated on his personal Weibo: “The second episode of the second season is one of the few episodes in which the dialect has been added to the entire three-body radio drama series.” In this episode, Ye Wenjie left the Red Bank base due to his weak postpartum and went to rest in the farmer’s home in Qijiatun, a small village in the northeast, not far from the base. Powerful tools.
As the producer of the “My Three Body” series and the licensee of the three body radio drama, the three body universe officially registered in 2018 is a team established to focus on the development and operation of the “Three Body” IP. Three-body universe is currently the sole copyright developer and operator of three-body universe.
In addition to Himalayas and Divine Touring, he has made famous art works such as “Crazy Hero”, “Magic Mirror Nordelin” and “Soul Cage”, and has also accepted the “Three-body” animation project. Responsible for the entire creative process from the script. In June 2019, Station B officially announced the launch of the “Three-body” animation project at the tenth anniversary celebration and announced the concept PV of the animation. The animation is expected to be launched in 2021. The three-body universe is also one of the co-producers.
In addition to animation and radio dramas, the three-body universe has also tried other types of derivatives.
In April 2019, the “Three-Body” stage drama started a national tour, with attendance rates exceeding 90%. In an interview with Poison Eyes, Shenyou Bafang mentioned that the animation requires that every scene should be compressed within three or five minutes as much as possible, but the stage play is completely different. Extending and extending a dialogue as much as possible to make the audience richer Experience.
▲ Liu Cixin commented on the radio drama: “Familiar and fresh.” Tuyuan Xinnet Morning News
In addition, producer Zhao Ruilin once stated on his personal Weibo: “The second episode of the second season is one of the few episodes in which the dialect has been added to the entire three-body radio drama series.” In this episode, Ye Wenjie left the Red Bank base due to his weak postpartum and went to rest in the farmer’s home in Qijiatun, a small village in the northeast, not far from the base. Powerful tools.
As the producer of the “My Three Body” series and the licensee of the three body radio drama, the three body universe officially registered in 2018 is a team established to focus on the development and operation of the “Three Body” IP. Three-body universe is currently the sole copyright developer and operator of three-body universe.
In addition to Himalayas and Divine Touring, he has made famous art works such as “Crazy Hero”, “Magic Mirror Nordelin” and “Soul Cage”, and has also accepted the “Three-body” animation project. Responsible for the entire creative process from the script. In June 2019, Station B officially announced the launch of the “Three-body” animation project at the tenth anniversary celebration and announced the concept PV of the animation. The animation is expected to be launched in 2021. The three-body universe is also one of the co-producers.
In addition to animation and radio dramas, the three-body universe has also tried other types of derivatives.
In April 2019, the “Three-Body” stage drama started a national tour, with attendance rates exceeding 90%. In an interview with Poison Eyes, Shenyou Bafang mentioned that the animation requires that every scene should be compressed within three or five minutes as much as possible, but the stage play is completely different. Extending and extending a dialogue as much as possible to make the audience richer Experience.