Chapter 442: A Domestic Cartoon That Hit Abroad
Subsequently, under the leadership of Fan Xiaoya, everyone walked through the entire animation project team again. And finally came to the highlight of this visit, the production project team of the cartoon "Age of War".
The main reason why I say the highlight is that this cartoon is actually adapted from the online "War Era" of the same name created by Han Li.
And this time, the biggest desire of these book fans to visit their company is to see how the animated film "Age of War" was made up close.
Even Han Li, they also have the "Summer Morning Talk" and "That Rabbit" series of cartoons that are more popular with young people. But for these fans of Han Li's books, they still want to see the adapted cartoon.
Although the first part of the Age of War trilogy, the three seasons have a lot of unsatisfactory aspects in the adaptation. There are many reasons for this, such as the lack of technical support in production, as well as the length of the adaptation and some other reasons. In order for this cartoon to be broadcast smoothly, the adaptation team deleted many of the plot stories.
And this also makes those fans who are keen on the original book very disliked, thinking that the film does not achieve the effect of the original book. To put it bluntly, it is to ruin the original work.
In this regard, Han Li is also very helpless, after all, there is still a big difference between the scale of this audio and video content and the scale of online literature. Han Li: It is impossible for them to truthfully copy the plot in the cartoon, which is obviously impossible.
In addition, the entire book of "Age of War" has more than two million words. If these plots are really copied truthfully, then I am afraid that it will be difficult to deduce without more than a thousand episodes.
Therefore, when adapting, the screenwriters tried their best to retain the main line and cut off some redundant content on the branch lines. In this way, it can not only shorten the length, but also make the whole story plot more concise and clear, not too cumbersome.
However, compared to the few book lovers in these nitpickings, most of the fans and viewers still praise this cartoon very much. Especially since this is still a domestic sci-fi military-themed cartoon, which was very rare in the past.
What's more, the whole film, whether in terms of plot or production level, is at a super-first-class level in China, and it is not weak even abroad.
As early as when this film was first updated, it was moved by some netizens to YouTb, the largest video network abroad, and immediately attracted hundreds of thousands of netizens to click and watch, and created millions of views.
However, at this time, the website is updated with Chinese subtitles, and there is no English version, so these foreign netizens strongly demand the introduction of English subtitle versions.
Although some enthusiastic netizens finally translated, it was very slow, and the accuracy and the fluency and grace of the words were much worse.
In addition, some enthusiastic netizens reported to Han Li, and Han Li and they immediately contacted YouTb through the company's channels and asked to remove all unauthorized pirated videos.
In the face of Han Li's request, YouTb can only remove all the infringing videos from the shelves. Foreign copyright protection laws are very perfect, and there are often many lawyers who are willing to undertake infringement by large companies like YouTb, or even help them defend their rights for free.
And Han Li did not pursue their responsibility for infringement, but let them take them off the shelves, which in itself is the greatest tolerance for them.
Therefore, the YouTb website removed all pirated videos as soon as possible, and sent an apology email to Han Li.
Originally, this matter was over here, but who would have thought that foreign netizens who had lost their cartoon resources were very dissatisfied. Began to frantically ask YouTb to be able to introduce this cartoon.
saw so many netizens leaving messages, as well as the clicks and playback data of those pirated videos before. YouTb finally listened to the request of netizens and decided to introduce this cartoon.
After a group ticket with Han Li's business team, the YouTb website finally packaged the three seasons and 36 episodes of the first part of "Age of War" at a price of 3.5 million US dollars.
And this price also set a record for the highest transaction of domestic cartoons exported to the outside world, which is more than a little bit higher than what sheep.
If it weren't for the ordinary military characters and weapons and equipment in this film in PLA style, as well as the subtitles at the beginning and end of the film, foreign netizens would not believe that this film was actually produced in China.
In their impression, this kind of film with the looks and styles of East Asian characters is basically made by island countries. Of course, there are also a small number of films from Nanbang, as well as sporadic films from Taiwan, Macao, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
There are basically no domestic cartoons, and I found one by chance, which is the kind of young cartoon with various animal characters, which is the same as a zoo meeting.
And this "Age of War" has changed the previous development of domestic cartoons by foreign netizens, making this film a representative work of domestic cartoons in the world.
And on YouTb, it competes with some island countries' cartoons and European and American cartoons at the same time. actually made it to the top of the anime hit list and became one of the hottest cartoons of the year.
After this film became popular, some people also analyzed why this film was able to receive popularity abroad. Among them, good themes, good stories, and excellent production have become hot words.
The so-called good theme is the military science fiction theme. This is also a popular theme in international film and television works. And there are no regional differences, which can be accepted by netizens all over the world.
Next is a good story, in the past, this kind of military science fiction theme cartoons were either old American, or island countries, and other countries were rarely involved. And this kind of military sci-fi films about the United States and island countries are basically a routine, so over time, everyone is a little aesthetically fatigued.
And such a domestic military science fiction cartoon that is different from such films as Lao Mei and Island Country makes netizens who see it refreshing.
New story backgrounds, new characters, and culture and values with some oriental classical overtones. Let these netizens who watched it be deeply attracted by this refreshing film, so that they couldn't extricate themselves.
Then there is the excellent production level, although compared with some foreign film-level cartoons, this film still has a big gap.
But Han Li's careful production, as well as strict control of quality. also makes this film even if it is not as good as those animated films in Europe and the United States, but it is also very good.
Especially some fierce war scenes and fighting scenes, which made netizens watch it with a hot pulse and a lot of addiction.
And the positive feedback from foreign netizens also made the fans of this film in China very excited, and a sense of pride also arose.
So these people came to visit the company just to see how this popular cartoon at home and abroad was made.