Watch the cow play animation

Jasper 2022-01-17 08:02:55

Clear sky, colorful clouds in summer. Quiet picture, game of light and shadow. The performance of light and shadow and the exquisite background have always been Xin Haicheng's strengths. When you look at his things, you will be attracted by the feeling of living under what seems to be always orange light at first glance. This alone is worth seeing.

The character design of "Cloud" is much better than the "Star Sea" 3 years ago. I haven't read the subtitles of "Star" carefully, so I don't know whether the two are set for the same character, but I agree very much. An online bloger's evaluation of "The Sea of ​​Stars": "The background is so beautiful and the characters are so ugly that it makes people nauseous."

The story is very simple. In order to wake up the girls in Japan where the North and the South are divided, the boy flies to the Tower of Pledge on the other side of the border three years later to recover his lost youth dream... "Do you want to save Yukari or save the world?! "Although the propaganda lines are very romantic, but the style always reminds me of "The Final Weapon". Perhaps I have seen too many unfulfilled agreements. "The Other Side of the Cloud, the Place of the Agreement" did not bring me much sympathy and touch. .

I still admire Xin Haicheng very much. Animation movies have always been the product of collective creation, and the work involved is too huge. The huge amount of investment and time spent, the amount of labor required, and the division of labor can often bring the vast majority of fanatics who have the delusion of creating an animation blockbuster independently to return to normal people's thinking. Obviously, Xin Haicheng is not such a person. The original script supervised the storytelling photography CG production is all done by one person...giant...In this all-tech industry, how can a person master so many software and drawing skills at the same time in his 30s? =口=(Although the team was larger than the original three-person group when making "Cloud", it is still very strong...) Tianmen’s soundtrack is also very close to the picture, the piano and violin and some electronic equipment are combined slightly Gentle with an electronic flavor, now this kind of gentle and delicate film is more suitable, (maybe only suitable for this kind of gentle film) There are also downloads of the entire album on the Internet, which is worthy of praise.

I downloaded the trailer of "Beyond the Cloud, the Promised Land" two years ago. I remember that I was looking forward to this film at that time, and I had better see it right away. Two years have passed in a blink of an eye, and my original mood has been completely forgotten. Until one day, while chatting with a friend, he asked me if I watched Xin Haicheng's new film. I have no impression at all. So weakly asked: "What is the title?" (Subtext: Xin Haicheng? Who?) "The other side of the cloud!" After grabbing the download address, I found out that "The other side of the cloud, the place of promise" It was released in Japan at the end of November 2004.

View more about The Place Promised in Our Early Days reviews

Extended Reading
  • Cassandre 2022-03-16 09:01:07

    Yes, I still prefer Xin Haicheng's style, but it is limited to short films and medium-length films: there are two films that make me feel the style of MV or CG exhibitions. One is "Five Centimeters Per Second" and the other is this one. "The other side of the cloud, the place of restraint"-in fact, these two films are series-type, and they are completely a tune. They are not as good as the cat's imagination war in the NHK short film collection, right?

  • Karl 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    Too slow too slow. An idealized world.

The Place Promised in Our Early Days quotes

  • Hiroki Fujisawa: [Narrating] Back then, I felt that this place, this time would last forever. The tower I admired that lay beyond the clouds... became the place of a precious promise. At that moment we weren't afraid of anything. But in reality, the world and the flow of time kept on going all around me.

  • Sayuri Sawatari: The sun... is taking its time setting...

    Hiroki Fujisawa: [Narrating] That was a really special summer. But the world around me would betray me again and again after this. Since that day three years ago, I haven't seen Sawatari once.