After 'Spirit Cage' clears the mines, November's anime version of 'Trigun' PV will never skip a beat

Audiences have questioned the characterization and plot logic while affirming its production level, such as why most of the "human community" after the end of the world is made up of Western faces, etc. In this regard, the NJB interviewed Ruan Rui, CEO of Artpicture Kaitian. In this regard, the New Beijing News reporter interviewed Ruan Rui, the producer of "Spirit Cage" and CEO of Artpicture Kaitian. Ruan Rui said, "Spirit Cage" is a sci-fi drama to show the eastern thought, many of the current unreasonable, are for the later reasonable to make the padding. He also revealed that Spirit Cage "waded through a lot of holes" for Three Bodies, and many of the mistakes made in Spirit Cage can be avoided when Three Bodies is produced. And "Three Bodies" animation will be announced as scheduled the first PV (promo samples), will never skip.

Most of the characters are European or American looking?

The hero's life will be revealed later.

In "Spirit Cage", the extreme post-apocalyptic environment has given birth to the cold laws of survival and strict hierarchical barriers within the survivors of "Lighthouse". "The Lighthouse regularly sends out "Wasteland Hunter" combat teams to search for supplies from the crisis-ridden ruins on the ground, in order to ensure the survival needs and the energy supply of the Lighthouse's floating space. The main character, Mark, is the leader of a "Wasteland Hunters" combat team. After the launch of "Spirit Cage", the audience generally recognized its production level, but questioned mainly focused on two aspects: character setting and plot logic.

'Spirit Cage' Characters' Mostly Western Faces Raise Some Questions. Image from the web

Some viewers questioned why most of the characters in a national manga about a post-apocalyptic world are European and American looking. The main character, Mark, is of mixed blood and looks completely European and American. Ruan Rui said, "Spirit Cage" from the end of the disaster a long time, "lighthouse" in the boundaries of the human race has become blurred, but not all are Westerners, "hunter" team there are Orientals, the top of the three commanders there is also an Oriental. The hero, Mark, has a look that relates to his heritage. "His father is Chinese and his mother is Western. I have a friend in real life who looks particularly like Mark and is actually Chinese with 1/8 Slovenian blood. Mark's birth will unfold later and has special significance. The reason for this setup will be revealed as the plot unfolds. Only the irrationality of the current situation will give rise to the rationality of the later. I believe that when the first season ends, viewers will understand why it is set up and arranged in this way."

Some viewers also questioned the fact that Mark's combat team, which is said to be the most experienced, panicked like a rookie in the face of the Ridge Raiders. Rui Nguyen explained that the most important purpose of the hunters is to bring back supplies, and their knowledge of the apocalyptic ecology is extremely limited. "Pop-ups are a double-edged sword, maybe 10,000 people don't think there's a problem, one person notices it, and once the pop-ups go off everyone thinks there's a problem. But if it's something that we think is a real problem, we'll pay attention to it in the creative process and try to be more rigorous in the later episodes."

Perspective on the science fiction theme of national comics

The need to learn and the need to remain original

Science fiction is a genre that requires the highest level of production and industrial standards. Not only the domestic film and television drama less touch, domestic animation companies, but also do more fantasy, do science fiction less.

In Ruan Rui's opinion, "Hollywood can coordinate more than 20,000 creators from studios all over the world for a big investment movie to achieve unified standards, but China's film and television industry has difficulty in coordinating thousands of people, what is missing here is the industrialized management process, standard setting, backbone talent ...... "But learning is not all about copying, it is equally important to retain your own originality. Rui Nguyen cited NetFlix's sci-fi animation "Love, Death, Robotics" as an example of a show that has good ideas in terms of its grand worldview and conceptual setting, but the kernel of Western individualism is not suitable for China. "Spirit Cage" explores whether human beings choose to live on under great existential pressure, or keep their ideals to find hope. Its expression is different from traditional Western sci-fi works, and we want to make a sci-fi drama that shows Eastern ideas."

Analyzing the animation creation of "Three Bodies

The Spirit Cage wades through a lot of holes for The Three Stooges.

Concept art for 'Three Bodies'. Image from the web

Compared to The Spirit Cage, Artpainting Kaitian's next project is getting more attention - an animated series of the same name adapted from Liu Cixin's Hugo Award-winning novel Three Bodies. The movie and TV adaptation of "Three Bodies" has had many twists and turns, with the movie version out of reach and the stage play getting mixed reviews, and fans of the book have high hopes for the animated version. Author Liu Cixin hopes that the Three Bodies animation will accurately express the picture he imagined as the original author, "preferably the kind that makes me feel like taking a breath backwards when I see it."

Rui Nguyen revealed that he was both excited and cautious when he was first approached about the Three Bodies animation project. "The team spent six months considering and exploring the idea, and internally made a version of the concept PV to corroborate some of the ideas, to see if the colors, design, graphics, and music all worked together to be that flavor."

Rui Nguyen said that "Spirit Cage" helped wade through a lot of potholes for "Three Bodies," but the two may not end up presenting similar styles. "There are many potholes in the sci-fi animation production process and production standards that 'Spirit Cage' waded through. Having made such mistakes once, 'Three Bodies' won't make them again when it's produced, such as how to optimize the story structure during the scriptwriting process and how to reveal the fate of the characters in a more reasonable way. Most importantly, through the production of "Spirit Cage", we have found the balance of producing this kind of high-quality 3D animated drama. However, the visual styles of the two shows may not be similar, and the team is still exploring the art style of 'Three Bodies'." By balance point, Rui Nguyen means the balance point of how to present the best quality within the given investment and timeframe.

On June 26th of this year, when it was announced that it would take over the production of the animation of "Three Bodies", Yipu Kaitian gave a deadline of 144 days (mid-November) to announce the first PV of the animation of "Three Bodies".Nguyen Rui disclosed that the animation of "Three Bodies" is still in the stage of preparation of the script, and that "big scriptwriters" from animation scriptwriters and film and television dramas are involved, so the first PV will definitely be released on schedule and will never be skipped. The first PV will be released on schedule, and will never skip.