Original name: ☆ Ji
Director: Mahiro Maeda
Production: GONZO
A luxurious banquet was being held when a gang of gangsters suddenly broke in. The princess transforms quickly and starts the transformation robot to resist at the same time! However, the enemy's BOSS ship quickly attacked and the robot stubbornly resisted. Finally, with the power of love and justice, it defeated the invading enemy. ...
This story could have been made into a long TV animation, but now it is condensed in just one minute, which is naturally extremely fast and spoofs the love between hostile characters in the middle. The Hidden Princess, directed by veteran director Mahiro Maeda, is the most informative and fastest of all works. The whole picture is gorgeous and dazzling, and the workload is no less than that of an ordinary TV set.
Director Mahiro Maeda worked in Ghibli and participated in the original painting of City in the Sky. Later, he came out and made Nadia in the incredible sea with the Genax family. Soon after, he and his friends realized that the future trend would be the era of computer animation, so they set up GONZO now, which mainly focused on computer CG production, and the famous masterpiece was Green Six. This time, I deliberately gave up computer production and returned to traditional hand painting. Unexpectedly, it also adds interesting colors to the work.
2, gyroscope
Original name: ジャィロソプタ-
Director: Range Murata & Tatsuya Yabuta
Production: GONZO
The girl drove an empty boat to a place where blue waves rippled and recalled the prosperity of that year in melodious songs. The girl's expression changes subtly with the above, her hair flutters in the wind, and her hair is still in full swing.
As a fully computerized CG animation, Gyrospter naturally has an advantage in the picture, taking Range Murata as the character and scene. In his early years, he worked as a designer of the game "Haoxue Temple Family" in the game company ATLUS. Later, he transformed into an illustrator and provided paintings for several magazines. Later, I collaborated with GONZO on the animation of Green Six and Final Exile. Many of his works are reprocessed by computers, so it is more appropriate to use computer CG to express them. Tatsuya Yabuta, who cooperates with Murata, also comes from a game company. His most famous masterpiece is the CG production of Final Fantasy 8, and later the performance of Final Fantasy 7 arrival's son. Full 3DCG animation has become a trend. Japan started early in this field, but the development speed is relatively slow, and the technology is more inclined to the combination of 2D and 3D. This short film also illustrates such a trend from the side. Interestingly, if you look at the production list, you will find that three China people are in charge of the CGI work of this work, which can be said to be an unexpected surprise.
[Tips] CGI: Computer Generated Imagery is a new animation work born with the popularization of CG technology. It is a work that unifies CG image materials, real special photography clips, picture special effects and other original materials to make image works.
3. Kisses in amusement parks
Original name: ワンダバキッス
Director: Atsushi Takeuchi
Production: production information
Master skillfully set up various organs, ring by ring. In order to get a kiss from his beloved, he used such a big gesture. I didn't expect the organs to be used up, or all his previous efforts were in vain. But the so-called blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise. After being slapped, I got my dream kiss.
Such a love episode makes people feel relaxed and warm, and the whole picture has a retro taste. What is more distinctive is the design of the organ. Atsushi Takeuchi participated in the production of Ghost in the Eggshell and other works with Mamoru Oshii in the early days, serving as the original painting and scene setting, and then served as the director of 3D special effects in the destroyer Snow Wind and IGPX, which can be said to be an old hand in making I.G., and this is his first work as a director. Although it is not as distinctive as others, it also has its own strong characteristics.
4. Behind the tears
Original name: ナミダのこぅ
Director: Lin Mingmei
Production: GAINAX
There is a song sung in a low voice from the earphone. The girl sat by the window alone, watching the falling rain outside. Under an umbrella, she was full of sadness and tears. Recalling the past, she felt a little sad. Life should go on and learn to be strong. She smiled after the sunshine.
I'S CUBE combines songs and pictures to outline a girl's growth process. Besides the beautiful songs, the most important thing is that Lin Mingmei, who is in charge of all the work, perfectly reflects the feelings of that delicate girl. When many people see this name for the first time, they will associate it with the heroine of Fort Time and Space, thinking that this one is also a citizen of China. Actually, this elder sister's surname is Lin, but not China's. Lin Mingmei joined the animation industry in 1992, and served as the original painting and painting director of many works, among which the painting director and personal designer of the animation of "New Electoral College" and the painting director of "Climbing to the Top 2" are familiar in China. This short film is the directorial debut of Sister Lin. For the first time, I can perform on the same stage with so many big-name predecessors. I wonder if this rare female animator will be flattered?
5. Mermaid Project
Original name: PROJECT _ mermaid
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Production: production information
In the digital world, a dragon fish wandered around and turned into a mermaid girl who was half man and half fish. In this chaotic world, she kept moving forward and finally jumped out, breaking the void and everything became nothing.
Among 15 works, this one is the most obscure. Mamoru Oshii, who has the title of "Original Shredder", often turns his original funny or light-hearted works into people's films full of philosophical discussions, but many people still become his fans. Although this piece of content is boring, the tidbits behind it are interesting: At that time, Yasui just finished the filming of "The Story of the Sun Never sets" in a special way called "Live-mation", which is the effect of making a paper doll with CG after real people take pictures. In addition, he and Kawai Kenji, a royal musician, produced a gorgeous short story Evolution with computer CG for the Japanese World Expo. In this short story of 1 minute, the above two technologies are well combined, and the result is mixed into the present effect. The mermaid girl named MakoHy? once appeared as a poster character in Jaing's first live-action movie, played the role of silver fox in Shi Lishi Biography, and will be the heroine in the live-action movie Li Zhenshi Biography. With such people and Kawai's music, we can see that it is very unkind to take NHK's money to practice on your own. ...
Step 6 play
Original name: ぉっかけっこ
Director: Michael Ares
Production: STUDIO4℃
On the endless grassland, children in twos and threes are playing, and the breeze blows, which leads to laughter. There was a rumbling sound gradually. I turned around and saw that it was a robot passing by. Some people are used to it and pursue it, while others marvel at its height and strength. Is this the distant future or the ideal Eden? All I know is that it's peaceful here, away from war.
As the only foreign director's work, this short film looks a little dull, but the quiet atmosphere makes people feel very comfortable. Michael Ares is a strange name, but if we say the animated version of The Matrix, it is estimated that many people know it. He was the general director of that series, and later co-directed Bad Boys with STUDIO4℃, becoming the third animation director to win the most authoritative Japanese animation award "Nobur? ?fuji Prize" and the only foreign director after Osamu Tezuka and Miyazaki Hayao.
7.good morning.
Original name: ォハヨ
Director: Jin Min
Production: madhouse
The chaos after the birthday party the night before yesterday, but this morning I had to get up according to the instructions of ringing the alarm clock. In a daze, I don't want to lie in the quilt again, even for a second. So I get up in a daze, brush my teeth, wash my face, take a shower, change clothes and make up. Finally, my body and spirit are integrated. "Good morning" is the beginning of a new day.
Two bodies, one virtual and one real, can't tell the difference between virtual and real, and virtual and real, which is exactly the interaction between real and unreal that Jin Min is best at describing. Although it is only a short minute, it has reached the quality of the theatrical version, and both the scene and the action have made great efforts. Jin Min, who is now very famous, embarked on the road of cartoonist when he entered Taoism. He published two books respectively, got to know Dayou Shengbo and was invited to be the art design of old man Z, and then worked as a script in the famous memory trilogy "Her Memories", gradually becoming Dayou Shengbo's right-hand man. His directorial debut, The House Without Hemp (Perfect Blue), was a blockbuster and attracted a lot of attention. But what brought him more fame was the award-winning Millennium actress, which made Jin Min the most famous animation director in the new generation. Although the latest work "Pabulica" gained a high voice in the production process, it finally failed at the Venice Film Festival. Some people once worried that this talented director would go astray in his expressive skills, but this short story of 1 minute once again proved Jin Min's strength and his most precious talent as an animation artist: his keen and eternal curiosity about life.
8. The assassin came to the mountains to hunt.
Original name: Assassin, shinya yamanaka, Qing Zhi, come on! !
Director: Tobira Oda & Shimizu Yasuyuki
Production: STUDIO4℃
The colonel was chased by an assassin, went through some dangers and finally survived safely.
In this series of short films, this one is the lightest, and almost all of them are in black and white. This is the so-called cartoon animation: the picture uses black and white lines like a cartoon, and the action is easier to draw. This time, one of the directors is Tobira Oda, the original author of the cartoon. He made his debut in 1999' s "Talking about the Morning of the Club", and later transferred to the big comic spirt in primary school to serialize his new works. This short film is an animation made from a passage in the original comic book, and it is also a rare production combination for cartoonists and animators to cooperate. Shimizu Yasuyuki, the animation director who cooperated with him, worked as a painter and original painter in the animation such as Steam Boy and Naruto, and then transferred to STUDIO4℃ to participate in the production of Magic Sound Syoujotai Arusu. He is one of the main members of the studio at present, and he is relatively a late bloomer.
9. a group of cats
Formerly known as "Cat Gathering"
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Production: CoMix Wave movie
In an ordinary family, a kitten was trampled on its tail for no reason more than once, so a group of cats with the same experience gathered at night and dreamed of forming a cat house dragon gun to destroy the city. As a result, the owner gave a little benefit the next day, and the kitten's anger disappeared immediately.
As the most popular animation director and independent animator in recent years, Makoto Shinkai has attracted many audiences with his beautiful background and youthful stories. When promoting "5 cm per second" in Hong Kong, he revealed that he had accepted the invitation to join NHK 15. The Cat's Party changed Makoto Shinkai's youthful and sentimental style in the past, and expressed the story in a relaxed and humorous way, which made many people exclaim that it was not Makoto Shinkai's work. Another reason is that the picture of this work is widely regarded as similar to that of Miyazaki Hayao. Makoto Shinkai himself once said that he joined the animation industry because of the influence of Miyazaki Hayao's City in the Sky. However, for lovers, those exquisite and gorgeous scenes, at first glance, still have a strong Makoto Shinkai style. Interestingly, Makoto Shinkai's famous work is She and Her Cat. He also keeps a big fat cat at home. This time, the theme is cats, from which we can see that Xiao Xin is a real cat control. ...
10, cosmic people flood.
Original name: when the cosmic people attacked.
Director: Shoujirou Nishimi
Production: 4℃ studio
The teenager who was reading comics at the workbench found something disturbing from time to time, but he didn't know what it was. It was not until the end that he realized that he had missed an opportunity to get in touch with cosmic people.
A very simple scene, there is only one shot from beginning to end, but the director gives full play to his imagination and makes a big fuss. Shoujirou Nishimi used to be an original painter. After entering S4C, he worked with fellow countryman Masaaki Yuasa to make psychological games (the Media Art Festival Award of the Ministry of Culture in 2004), and later served as the design and painting director of Bad Boys. Anyone who has seen these two works will know that in his works, the characters are all American-style, and there are still some differences in proportion. Actually, it's their own style.
1 1, Yurururu~ ~ daily articles ~
Original name: "ゆルルル" ~ Daily editing ~
Director: Lady Nakazawa Tomohide.
Production: STUDIO4℃
One day, the animation director said that there should be trees, so there were trees; Want a person, so there is a person; There must be fish, so there are fish; Where there is a building, there is a building; There must be monsters, so there are monsters; If you want to move, you have animation.
Many people are asking how animation is made and how animators work. This Nakazawa Tomoyoshi simply uses the animation process to form the animation in the animation, which is a very interesting idea. On a blank piece of paper, an interesting scene slowly emerged after the animator's constant description. Finally, just for this action of less than one second, there is also the process of the producer eating, going to the toilet and making trouble for his colleagues. People can't help laughing after reading it: "That's how they work!" "
Hideyoshi Nakazawa was once the original painting of many works. Later, I became a designer for the first time in Colonel. Unfortunately, this job is relatively unpopular. Later, I went to Samurai, which attracted attention as a designer and painting director. In fact, he was the director of several animated short films in Studio at 4℃, and also participated in the production of Digital Tyrannosaurus, Battle of Rhodes, Valley of the Wind, The Story of the Lost Palace and Gundam series. He also performed the famous band Linkin Park's MV "Breaking the Habit", and his talent also attracted the attention of European and American countries, belonging to the type of flowering inside the wall and fragrant outside the wall.
12, predicting omega
Original name: プロジェク 12488ω.
Director: Ishikawa Mori
Production: Sunrise
There is a romantic drama on TV, and suddenly there is a news: a meteorite is about to fall to the earth. The host of NHK found in the broadcast that the final landing point of the meteorite was actually this studio building! So the emergency system started immediately, and the whole NHK building immediately turned into a giant robot, firing the last weapon at the meteorite!
Other directors are nothing more than mixing the word NHK in the picture. Only this final plan is the boldest. It directly uses the NHK building, and even more whimsically designs the whole building as a deformation robot. Not the kui is like deformation Kawamori Shi Zhi! There is also the mascot of NHK, Domojun. The purpose of this advertisement is too obvious, but the joke is good. ...
Shji Kawamori, a talented generalist, started the design of MACROSS in his early twenties, and created three deformation robots, which can be said to be a revolution in the history of Japanese robot animation. After that, even Gundam must follow suit, so that Gundam Z can also be deformed. He Sen also served as the mechanical design and artistic design for many works, and also directed the Girls on Earth, The Creation of Saints and other works. The most representative works are, of course, the classic "Fort of Time and Space" handed down from generation to generation at the age of 24, and the theatrical version of "Always Remember Love". He Sen's obsession with "transfiguration" is well known. It is not difficult to see from such a short film that "Transformed He Sen" really deserves its name. Turning Japan's largest radio and television building into a giant robot like MACROSS, Mr. Hesen, aren't you paying tribute to yourself? ...
13, Fire Man
Original name: Fire Man ヒョットコ
Director: Soejima yashufumi
Production: GONZO
On the ancient earth, a tribe went out hunting and met a strange creature "Star Fish" from another planet. When everyone is afraid, a person becomes a Vulcan and competes with his opponent.
Although this movie is also made by computer CG, it uses real-life motion capture and 3D rendering. The actions of characters are completed by real people, and then the rules of actions are captured by equipment, and then these actions are applied to computer characters by computers. Finally, the lines of characters are refined by 3D rendering technology, so that the picture has both 2D fluency and 3D stereoscopic effect. Several recent Japanese animations, such as Apple Nuclear War II and Japan Lock 2077, have adopted this technology. It not only saves money but also conforms to Japanese aesthetics, so in the future, this technology will be more popular in animation production. Before filming this movie "ソェジマヤスフミ", I had been working behind the scenes. After I entered GONZO, I was mainly responsible for computer CG processing, and he was responsible for most dazzling pictures in famous works such as King of the Cave and Final Exile.
14, attack on dongmachi No.2.
Original name: ァタックォブ朹264252 Dingmu.
Director: Shinji Kimura
Production: 4℃ studio
Aliens from afar want to invade the earth. When they come to a house, they try to adjust the translator to a state where they can talk to each other. But before they finished reading the Declaration of Aggression, they were rejected by a sentence "unnecessary", and the animation "Because of lack of funds, the scene is simple" was noted from time to time. Finally, even the soil used for the scenery fell down. ...
If anyone thinks this scene looks familiar, then your memory undoubtedly comes from Bad Boys. Yes, this Shinji Kimura is in charge of the artistic design of the magical and gorgeous scenes in Bad Boys. He first worked as an art designer in the second edition of "Revival of Teenagers", and his unique color style was very eye-catching. In addition, he also worked as a painter and published a picture book in cooperation with Dayou Shengbo. Sometimes, he also makes some animated short films as a director. Like this animation, it is built with real scenes, then processed by computer and synthesized with the characters inside, so the picture looks like a unique sense of hierarchy.
15, three tea blues
Original name: Sancha ブル —ス
Director: Osamu Kobayashi
Production: madhouse
While playing games, the grocer observed all kinds of people entering the store. Maybe if he meets more people, he can immediately judge what kind of customer is, and then judge by the amount of money. It's hard to see a playboy who is more proficient than him, let alone other vulgar and brainless people.
The story setting is more interesting. Money is used to measure the level of wisdom in her mind. For example, a high school girl who is tweeting is only worth 5 yuan and 10 yuan, but a delinquent teenager can get 100 yuan instead. Osamu Kobayashi was also the producer of Green Six at first, serving as the world outlook and scene setting, and later as the producer, original painting and art setting of many works. I have directed two works myself, one is Baker, which is adapted from a musical cartoon, and the other is Kiss in Heaven, which is adapted from a ai yazawa cartoon. Both of them have been well received.
Introduction of production company
production information
Although the name is often nicknamed pig, it has always been famous for its excellent pictures and movements. Jin Roh: Wolf Warriors Brigade, Mobile Police and the theatrical Ghost in the Shell, which have won great international fame for Japanese animation, are all from this company. In addition to excellent production, the excavation and thinking of profound themes is also a major feature of this company. In recent years, The Story of Wilbur the Elf Guardian, The Hunting of the Gods, and Last season's Battle of the Library and The Hidden Brain Investigation Room all show the ambition of Pig to gradually transform and open up a new world.
Studio 4℃
This animation studio, usually referred to as S4C for short, is famous for making personalized and avant-garde animation short films. His works are mainly oriented to the European market and the artistic direction of the college, and he is a frequent visitor to the Media Art Festival of the Japanese Culture Department. The famous memory trilogy (Big Friends Win Bo) and the animated version of the Matrix are both from this studio which is famous for its personality. Bad Boy, which reached the peak of Japanese art animation last year, shows the outstanding strength of this studio.
Mixed fact and conjecture
As a mainstream animation company, GONZO's history is relatively short, but its rise is very fast. At first, the groundbreaking work "Green Six" with 2D and 3D attracted wide attention, and later works such as "Variety Star" established their position in the industry. Combining the latest 3DCG technology with traditional animation has always been a consistent feature of GONZO.
madhouse
This company, dubbed "the madhouse" by fans, caused a sensation in various animation and film exhibitions last year with a girl who traveled through time and space. The Millennium Actress, tokyo godfathers, Paranoid Agent, Death Note and Sword are all produced by this company. More talk about the quality level of its theatrical version. The latest play is Jin Min's Pa Bouricat.
GAINAX
This is a company that makes a group of animation geeks become professionals. A evangelical warrior in the new century continues to make money until now. Last year's tianyuan breakthrough Red-Lotus Eye was full of manly romance. Strangely, the only female animator (Lin Mingmei) in this activity was sent by GAINAX to attend NHK 15.
sunrise
The famous Risheng Society, the producer of Gundam series, and Star Cowboy, regarded as the pinnacle of Japanese TV animation, also came from him. Of course, the best is robot animation. Gundam 00 and rebellious Lu are breakthrough topics of the company. Because of the mainstream commercial animation, the production methods are mostly quite satisfactory. However, this time, Chuansen Shizhi, who is famous for his "MACROSS" series, provided a support team for Sunrise.
background introduction
Since Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy, Japanese animation has taken a different road from China and Europe and America. With the progress of the times, the continuous updating of concepts and techniques, and the accumulation of more than 30 years of experience, today's Japanese animation has become the most influential emerging image culture and art in the world, accepted by people of different languages and cultures around the world, and has created a proper term animation for Japanese animation.
In this context, in order to better reflect the diversity and creativity of this culture, Japan's NHK TV decided to invite a group of outstanding animators to make an animated short film, and then show the world the rich themes and imagination of Japanese animation on its own TV screen. This "NHK" is not just the abbreviation of a TV station. In fact, its full name is Nippon Hoso Kyokai, which was founded in 1925. It is the largest radio and television organization in Japan and the only public radio and television station in Japan at present. NHK has set up 54 radio and television stations in Japan, and is also responsible for Japan's external publicity and exchanges. There are 34 general bureaus and sub-bureaus around the world, and there are cooperative relations with 47 countries and regions around the world. With this background as a support, those invited animators are naturally willing to do their best to show their talents.
The proposal for this short film was put forward at the end of 2006, and it contained 15 short animations with a length of only one minute, which were broadcast on TV stations in three batches. The first batch of five works premiered on May 7, 2007. These works were randomly placed in the middle of two programs of NHK TV station, and they were played circularly by means of advertising breaks. The second batch started on August 6, 2007, and the third batch ended at the end of the year, with a time span of one year, which shows that NHK attaches great importance to this proposal.
The official name of this animation feature is Anikuri 15, which is called anikuri 15 for short. Some people in China are used to calling it NHK 15, and the following 15 refers to the number of invited animation directors. These directors are all selected from the current mainstream Japanese animation companies, representing the styles of the current Japanese animation industry of three generations. Among them, there are internationally renowned directors like Mamoru Oshii, well-known independent animators like Makoto Shinkai, semi-novices like Lin Mingmei and Nakazawa Tomohide, and even backbones like Mahiro Maeda. Are gathered together, reflecting the various styles and types of Japanese animation.
Because the purpose of NHK 15 is to reflect the image culture and art of Japanese animation, the scale is very open, and the theme, technique and style are not limited. The only limitation is time. Each short story is only one minute, depending on how the directors express it in this minute. This extremely open requirement, at the same time, also extremely tests the director's talent and skills, so that the creativity and personality of these animators can be reflected in high-concentration works. In terms of diversity, NHK 15 is very similar to the graduation works of students from Animation Institute, and there are also some works by independent animators like Makoto Shinkai. However, this time, the great directors don't need to fight alone, but their own companies provide creative teams to help the directors fully reflect their personal ideas, so these 15 interesting short stories are produced, which allow us to enjoy various animation works with different styles and techniques in a short time.
Thanks to the sponsorship of NHK, NHK 15 hardly needs to consider the cost in production, and the animation directors have various techniques, such as real shooting, full computer CG and pure hand-drawing, each of which shows his magical powers and gives full play to his own characteristics. Some familiar directors can guess who it is at a glance. In addition, although the theme is not limited, each work has more or less NHK-related elements. Some of these elements are hidden, some are straightforward, and some are clever and bold. It is also a great pleasure to dig and find these elements carefully during watching movies.
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