"Crazy, crazy, Gui Bao, the treasure of happiness!" Will this familiar slogan instantly remind you of Gui Bao, the little boy who squinted and told cold jokes, and thought of reading comics carelessly and doing Childhood days with wild dreams.
July 29 "Crazy! Guibao: The Samsung Treasure Hunt was released. After 7 years, Guibao returned to the big screen with a new story. This time, Guibao, a genius young man from Shenwhale City, came to Sichuan, the "city of abundance" to meet with his cousin Guipi, but accidentally entered a mysterious different dimension. In order to make up for the fatal mistake he accidentally made, Guibao and his friends Came to the Sanxingdui Museum to explore the truth with magical inventions, and was involved in a bizarre treasure hunt. What followed was an unknown eternal mystery that was about to surface.
The cartoonist A Gui poured his humor, optimism and youthful energy into Gui Bao. Over the past 13 years, he has conveyed happiness to everyone through his splendid and colorful images on paper. Just like a line in the comics, "Seeing each other again is also a teenager", A Gui's heart has always lived in a crazy and loving teenager. His original aspiration to be a cartoonist since childhood and his youthful innocence inspired him to persist in creating for many years, which has never been exhausted.
"crazy! Guibao: Three Star Treasures is the second film in the Guibao series after the 2015 Guibao Movie: Hilarious Breaking into the Universe. Wang Yunfei is the director, and Agui personally wrote the film. This is China's first animated film with the historical background of Sanxingdui civilization, which originated from an encounter between director Wang Yunfei and the Sanxingdui Museum.
In 2016, the animation director who created the Douban 9-point series "Happy Things" and won the Huabiao Award visited Sanxingdui Museum for the first time, and was deeply shocked by the ancient civilization. Even though he saw those cultural relics through pictures in advance, when he saw it with his own eyes, he was completely convinced by the charm of many amazing works in the Sanxingdui period, so a story idea around Sanxingdui was like a seed, in his mind Sprout. After returning to Beijing from Sanxingdui, Wang Yunfei seemed to be obsessed. He kept inquiring and studying the literature and documentaries about Sanxingdui on the Internet and in videos. Two months later, Wang Yunfei told his friends about his encounter with Sanxingdui. Agui listened, after studying the materials, the two hit it off and decided to create a Guibao movie around Sanxingdui, and went to the Sanxingdui Museum for seven times.
The encounter between Guibao and Sanxingdui is not inconsistent, because Guibao is a genius boy who is interested in history and technology, and often "drops his book bag" in comics. In the comics, Gui Bao is happy and funny, but also always has the eyes of innocent children to open up and love the world. Between the hilarious and amusing, he always opens up his mind with irony and laughter, and he does not forget to bring children to understand science and common sense. In Agui's creative concept, "Crazy! The core of Guibao is that it is beneficial to open the book. "The so-called good teacher and good friend, Guibao is a good friend. The most important thing about comics is to stimulate the imagination and creativity of readers while they are happy."
Agui also created several brand-new character designs for the story, such as Captain Lu and Mark of the archaeological hobby team of the God Whale, the high priest and the ancient Shu mecha, etc., which are not in the comics, but appear in the movie for the first time. As the "father of Guibao" who has accompanied a generation of children to grow up, Agui hopes that animation can give Guibao more vitality, and in the domestic animation already has "Pleasant Goat" and "Bear Infested" and other quite national series, and then "add more" A child with characteristics, plump, and knowledgeable little geniuses like our Guibao", can create a new type of high-quality Chinese comic family fun, jumping out of the limitation of children and children, and truly achieve family entertainment, adults and children. Each child gains.
Before the movie was released, "Crazy! A Gui, the author and screenwriter of "Gui Bao", accepted an exclusive interview with The Paper to talk about the thirteen years of serialized comics and "Crazy!" The exclusive story behind Guibao: Samsung Treasure Hunt.
Guibao came to Sanxingdui, and the original author and screenwriter guaranteed "the amount of treasure"
The Paper : This movie adds the background of Sanxingdui to the animation. How did you work and feel as the original author?
Agui : In terms of movies, I am working hard on screenwriting, reviewing and storytelling. The most critical part of animation has to be director Yunfei and the animation team. We are the core of the creation, and the plot is everyone's brainstorming. For this theme, my focus is to ensure that the "treasure content" of Guibao must be the real and original Guibao, and let him enter the Among the big themes of Sanxingdui. Guibao has been to many places in the comics, such as Inner Mongolia, Shennongjia, Hunan, and in foreign countries, he has been to Rome and Greece. He is a down-to-earth boy who likes to explore. "Read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles", I hope Gui Bao can "walk ten thousand miles" in comic books. Now the presentation of the film is a combination of science fiction, fairy tales, ancient history and mysterious culture. There are many unsolved mysteries in Sanxingdui, which are left for scientists to explore and research, and also for animation workers to imagine and create. Readers are suitable to watch.
In addition, I am very happy that because of Gui Bao, I have met a close friend like Director Wang Yunfei. The last sentence written in the film is called: "A friend is the light in the dark", which I think is particularly well written. We have been working together for 10 years, like Guibao and Aqin, I care about this friendship very much. There must be discussions and debates in the process of creation. The most important thing is that because we care about both parties, we are more tolerant in cooperation and listen to each other's opinions. Animation is a brand-new form of creation. While I have my vision, the director also has a lot of genius in the film. I want to give him a thumbs up. One to two to go, we are like playing together, and we cooperate very well, or like the northeast two people, the two of them cooperate well in rhythm. As a leader, it is very important for him to let everyone do things together. As a cartoonist, I am also willing to give my all to cooperate with him. We have cried, laughed, and worked hard. There is a word called incisively and vividly, and there will be a sense of fulfillment to complete one thing with all our heart.
Agui : Yes, when we made the first movie in 2015, we were not that mature. At the beginning of the creation, we didn’t know how to “combine animation”. We didn’t really show Guibao’s spiritual core when we made it, although the results were not bad. . Including some concerns that the audience's reflection is too "young", it is also related to this. The real Guibao world is not young, in fact, it is a normal humorous comic.
If there is a comparison, I will give four words for both, the first is "imaginative", and the second is "down to earth". In fact, it was because of the word-of-mouth and evaluation of the previous film that it did not reach our inner feelings. In the second film, Yunfei and I have been holding our breath, just wanting to make a good thing. Nutrition comes from ups and downs and difficulties." Although the commercial aspects of the first film are not so unsuccessful, it is painful for us, because as a creator, his focus is on the work, not on the face. to the so-called box office. Now when I come to talk about this film, I am happy in my heart. I don't care how much he box office, I will not have any regrets, because I really did my best and participated in it to the fullest.
The Paper : As a best-selling comic, what do you think is the core and most attractive thing about Guibao comics?
Agui : Qian Zhongshu said, "You have to learn to use stupid kung fu". I also wrote a famous quote from him in Gui Bao. Gui Bao's popularity is actually the use of stupid kung fu or his ability to work hard. In fact, there are a lot of ingenuity, but basically all of them are strength. I have been drawing very seriously. Guibao's content is very good, so people still watch it all year round. And we will often revise the places that don't feel good, not fun enough or could have been better performed, like a sculpture, we will seriously overhaul it, or like a forest, we will often fertilize and water it ,prune.
If we talk about why Guibao is attractive, take the new book Guibao Juvenile Volume as an example. The name is taken from the lines in it, which is also what we often say: "I hope everyone will meet again as a teenager." From the perspective of comics, it is a delicious and nutritious food that is both interesting and knowledgeable. This knowledge is not knowledge in books or dictionaries that many people think, but knowledge in life. I hope that the fun of Guibao is to make the comics stimulate the imagination and creativity of readers while being happy. For example, this big movie is based on Sanxingdui. After watching it, children who don’t know will understand that we have such a splendid civilization, and he will want to go to Sanxingdui to see it. The adults who know it will further stimulate their imagination. Therefore, the core of Guibao is that it is beneficial to open the book. From the perspective of Guibao himself, he is still a good friend who accompanies everyone. The so-called good teacher and good friend, he is a good friend.
Agui : This slogan came out unintentionally, and it was very catchy. But I didn't expect that after reading it for so many years, many readers would use this sentence instead of "crazy" and blurt it out unconsciously, which is an emotional expression. So I think Guibao is the treasure of happiness. Many things can be simple, and you will feel happy when you see a good friend. Confucius has an old saying, "Learn and learn from time to time, it's a joy." I hope that we can find more places to be happy whether we study, live or work. Real life is already a lot of unhappy, if there is a happy, meaningful and nutritious book, I think it is better. For example, all kinds of things in life have a certain amount of energy. For example, noodles can be made into the simplest dough and eaten, but humans will turn it into noodles, and they have to add some brine. I'm thinking, if there is really a science fiction, back to the time when human beings first appeared, we can see that the most critical thing about human beings is inner optimism. Modern people sometimes "suppress the cloud", while primitive people are faced with the predicament of survival, and there must be optimism supporting them. I believe that they will definitely find some fun in their daily life, so stories, paintings, etc. gradually appear. fun stuff.
The Paper : In addition to being a cartoonist, you are also an animator yourself. You have also experienced a stage of domestic animation development from the Flash era. What are your observations and feelings about this industry and market?
Agui : I think everyone has been working hard and doing things for the audience. There are endless good works, including the previous "Nezha" and "The Great Sage", which have inspired the industry. There are also many good directors. There is an old saying: "The land is vast and the resources are abundant." We have come to understand that our own Chinese culture is the best, and we have more and more positive views and energy. Chinese animation is in the ascendant and will become more and more professional. Chinese animation and comics are improving. I believe that in the future, we will also be a very important and indispensable force on the world animation stage, but we also need to work hard from generation to generation, which is not achieved overnight.
The Paper : What was the initial motivation and creative process of becoming a cartoonist? At this age, what does this comic mean to you when you look back on it for so many years?
Agui : When I was in the second or third grade of elementary school, I liked comics. Whenever I saw comics in the newsstands, I had to buy them and read them. I was thirsty. At that time, there were still very few local comics, mainly Japanese comics. It was my original dream to be a cartoonist. At that time, I drew four-frame comics and wanted to contribute, but there were not so many magazines. But in fact, I also love animation. When I graduated from art, I studied animation and made original short films. In the Flash era, I did fat dog series, nostalgic 70s and 80s strangers, nostalgic songs and so on. But the ideal of comics has never been put down. Before 2008 and 2009, I began to serialize Guibao comics on the Internet. After such a long time, I found that comics are really my original intention and my goal. It's not easy to draw comics. Comics are more stressful than animations, because original short films are for self-entertainment, while comics are meant to make everyone happy and have a certain amount. I drew 240 pages in the first volume. Our books have always been thick and heavy, so each one was stressful.
When it comes to influence, first of all, I made a lot of friends through drawing comics and opened up a lot of opportunities. The conclusion is, originally I thought I was using my brush to paint Gui Bao, but now I feel more and more that Gui Bao is writing my life in his comic world. The world of comics is virtual, but it has such a strong interaction with the real world, which allows me to go to all parts of the country to meet every one of our readers, let the comics fly into the hands of every reader who likes Guibao, and bring them joy. Although I could feel its impact at first, I didn't expect it to be so huge.
Agui : Human life is not a vacuum. I often want to have a perfect creative environment, without any trivial troubles in life, and I don’t say that the state is good or bad. Just like I like food very much, but I also find it troublesome to cook, so I figured it out a long time ago, and there is no perfect state of creation. Every operation is very difficult. It is very difficult to do a constant thing in a rich and varied life. For example, after I wake up every day, I must draw a few pictures no matter what, it is an endurance long-distance running.
The inner source of energy, I have to thank my mother, my mother is a person who can do anything, she can get Guibao's bad jokes. I once asked her, one day Xiaoming stepped on a lemon, guess what happened to Xiaoming's foot? She said, "That foot is sore," and I was surprised she could guess. The most important point is that my mother gave me a lot of tolerance and free love. This energy grows in my heart and is alive.
Another point is that I have been more positive and optimistic since I was a child. I am from the Northeast, which is very similar to Guibao. I have a lot of whimsy, which can also be called wild thoughts. There is a boy in everyone's heart. I was still thinking two days ago, is this boy still there? As his parents age, he may disappear. But after painting Guibao for so many years, I have never felt exhausted. These energies have always been there, that is, the boy in my heart is still there, but every time I want to do better, I sometimes feel dissatisfied with myself. This new book, 26 volumes, is full of happy and wonderful things. If it is a food, it must not be sauce-flavored, but refreshing and colorful like fruit, beautiful and delicious, and the taste is very fresh and unique.
Agui : Actually, I think the childhood feelings of human beings are similar. We have met many young readers, and the communication is very smooth, because we know what everyone likes, the robots, superpowers, new technological inventions that we liked when we were young, and so on. Today’s children still like. As long as your childlike innocence is not dead, it is easy for children to become friends with each other, but adults will think a lot, and children have a pure heart together.
I feel that I am not new to my creations over the years, and more of my creations are based on people's inner feelings. For example, in Guibao's Galaxy Wandering series, there is a planet. When you reach this planet, a floating flower will grow on your head. Everyone's is different: some people are shy The flowers are like mimosa; some people's hearts are a little hard, and the flowers are relatively hard; some people's hearts are more intricate, and they have to use a wood to comb them, and their hearts will be smooth.
There is one person who does everything well, but cannot fill his heart, just like many people in life who cannot be satisfied. Gui Bao directly asked the alien to send him to the hole in his heart, where he saw the original intention of his childhood. It turned out that for so many years, he had been empty in his heart and felt lost because he had been burying his original intention.
To put it simply, if I want to be a cartoonist, but become a trader in the stock market, although I am successful, looking back, I always feel that I still want to draw something. The original intention is to always ask and always be new. There are too many distractions and temptations in this world, and so do I, but I will be aware of it and I will often ask myself.
The Paper : Guibao is also a childhood memory of many people. For readers who saw your comics growing up and still miss the days of reading Guibao's comics when they were young, do you have anything to say to them?
Agui : Just one point. I hope everyone can study and live happily after watching Guibao. I hope everyone can love life and nature. Culturally, I especially hope that after watching this movie, you will find an opportunity to go to Sanxingdui, go to the museum, and have a look at our splendid Chinese culture; in life, I hope you will watch this movie and have a good meal with your good friends A hot pot. Really, I guarantee that most people will want to eat hot pot after watching it hahaha.
July 29 "Crazy! Guibao: The Samsung Treasure Hunt was released. After 7 years, Guibao returned to the big screen with a new story. This time, Guibao, a genius young man from Shenwhale City, came to Sichuan, the "city of abundance" to meet with his cousin Guipi, but accidentally entered a mysterious different dimension. In order to make up for the fatal mistake he accidentally made, Guibao and his friends Came to the Sanxingdui Museum to explore the truth with magical inventions, and was involved in a bizarre treasure hunt. What followed was an unknown eternal mystery that was about to surface.
"crazy! Guibao: Samsung Treasure Hunting Poster
The original book of the same name and the best-selling comic "Crazy! Gui Bao has been loved by many readers since its first volume was published in 2009. Thirteen years of serialization, Guibao has accompanied the growth of generations of readers. As of season 25, "Crazy! The cumulative sales of Guibao comics exceeded 11 million copies, and the comics' online hits exceeded 300 million. While humorous and interesting, this comic is full of knowledge that is close to life and meaningful. The collision of imagination and childlike innocence makes Guibao's world full of magic.The cartoonist A Gui poured his humor, optimism and youthful energy into Gui Bao. Over the past 13 years, he has conveyed happiness to everyone through his splendid and colorful images on paper. Just like a line in the comics, "Seeing each other again is also a teenager", A Gui's heart has always lived in a crazy and loving teenager. His original aspiration to be a cartoonist since childhood and his youthful innocence inspired him to persist in creating for many years, which has never been exhausted.
"crazy! Guibao: Three Star Treasures is the second film in the Guibao series after the 2015 Guibao Movie: Hilarious Breaking into the Universe. Wang Yunfei is the director, and Agui personally wrote the film. This is China's first animated film with the historical background of Sanxingdui civilization, which originated from an encounter between director Wang Yunfei and the Sanxingdui Museum.
In 2016, the animation director who created the Douban 9-point series "Happy Things" and won the Huabiao Award visited Sanxingdui Museum for the first time, and was deeply shocked by the ancient civilization. Even though he saw those cultural relics through pictures in advance, when he saw it with his own eyes, he was completely convinced by the charm of many amazing works in the Sanxingdui period, so a story idea around Sanxingdui was like a seed, in his mind Sprout. After returning to Beijing from Sanxingdui, Wang Yunfei seemed to be obsessed. He kept inquiring and studying the literature and documentaries about Sanxingdui on the Internet and in videos. Two months later, Wang Yunfei told his friends about his encounter with Sanxingdui. Agui listened, after studying the materials, the two hit it off and decided to create a Guibao movie around Sanxingdui, and went to the Sanxingdui Museum for seven times.
The encounter between Guibao and Sanxingdui is not inconsistent, because Guibao is a genius boy who is interested in history and technology, and often "drops his book bag" in comics. In the comics, Gui Bao is happy and funny, but also always has the eyes of innocent children to open up and love the world. Between the hilarious and amusing, he always opens up his mind with irony and laughter, and he does not forget to bring children to understand science and common sense. In Agui's creative concept, "Crazy! The core of Guibao is that it is beneficial to open the book. "The so-called good teacher and good friend, Guibao is a good friend. The most important thing about comics is to stimulate the imagination and creativity of readers while they are happy."
"crazy! Guibao: Three Star Treasures" stills
With the help of the animation lens, the film truly restores the Sanxingdui Museum and the unearthed cultural relics. The high-level restoration of the Sanxingdui picture in the film also carries out some imaginative divergence on the basis of respecting the facts, imagining that the civilization of Sanxingdui may be inherited by other dynasties. possibility. It is not a small challenge for the animation team to restore the cultural relics and maintain the harmony and unity in the art style of the animation. The team repeatedly revised and adjusted between the design draft and the digital assets, in order to achieve the real and the current in the film. It has the look and feel of an animated film art style. For example, the long shot at the beginning of the film is a one-shot image of the entire city, with a duration of more than 1 minute and more than 1,000 frames, which puts forward extremely high requirements on the performance of the equipment. However, the Chinese civilization thousands of years ago and the lively contemporary teenagers produced new chemical reactions. The compatibility between Sanxingdui civilization and Guibao was unexpectedly high. The two elements of different time and space and different attributes were skillfully combined. On the contrary, it had a wonderful effect.Agui also created several brand-new character designs for the story, such as Captain Lu and Mark of the archaeological hobby team of the God Whale, the high priest and the ancient Shu mecha, etc., which are not in the comics, but appear in the movie for the first time. As the "father of Guibao" who has accompanied a generation of children to grow up, Agui hopes that animation can give Guibao more vitality, and in the domestic animation already has "Pleasant Goat" and "Bear Infested" and other quite national series, and then "add more" A child with characteristics, plump, and knowledgeable little geniuses like our Guibao", can create a new type of high-quality Chinese comic family fun, jumping out of the limitation of children and children, and truly achieve family entertainment, adults and children. Each child gains.
Before the movie was released, "Crazy! A Gui, the author and screenwriter of "Gui Bao", accepted an exclusive interview with The Paper to talk about the thirteen years of serialized comics and "Crazy!" The exclusive story behind Guibao: Samsung Treasure Hunt.
Agui
【dialogue】Guibao came to Sanxingdui, and the original author and screenwriter guaranteed "the amount of treasure"
The Paper : This movie adds the background of Sanxingdui to the animation. How did you work and feel as the original author?
Agui : In terms of movies, I am working hard on screenwriting, reviewing and storytelling. The most critical part of animation has to be director Yunfei and the animation team. We are the core of the creation, and the plot is everyone's brainstorming. For this theme, my focus is to ensure that the "treasure content" of Guibao must be the real and original Guibao, and let him enter the Among the big themes of Sanxingdui. Guibao has been to many places in the comics, such as Inner Mongolia, Shennongjia, Hunan, and in foreign countries, he has been to Rome and Greece. He is a down-to-earth boy who likes to explore. "Read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles", I hope Gui Bao can "walk ten thousand miles" in comic books. Now the presentation of the film is a combination of science fiction, fairy tales, ancient history and mysterious culture. There are many unsolved mysteries in Sanxingdui, which are left for scientists to explore and research, and also for animation workers to imagine and create. Readers are suitable to watch.
In addition, I am very happy that because of Gui Bao, I have met a close friend like Director Wang Yunfei. The last sentence written in the film is called: "A friend is the light in the dark", which I think is particularly well written. We have been working together for 10 years, like Guibao and Aqin, I care about this friendship very much. There must be discussions and debates in the process of creation. The most important thing is that because we care about both parties, we are more tolerant in cooperation and listen to each other's opinions. Animation is a brand-new form of creation. While I have my vision, the director also has a lot of genius in the film. I want to give him a thumbs up. One to two to go, we are like playing together, and we cooperate very well, or like the northeast two people, the two of them cooperate well in rhythm. As a leader, it is very important for him to let everyone do things together. As a cartoonist, I am also willing to give my all to cooperate with him. We have cried, laughed, and worked hard. There is a word called incisively and vividly, and there will be a sense of fulfillment to complete one thing with all our heart.
"crazy! Guibao: Three Star Treasures" stills
The Paper : This is not Guibao's first film. I feel that the word-of-mouth of the last film is still somewhat regrettable. This time I am challenging the IP of filming again. What will be the difference in mentality?Agui : Yes, when we made the first movie in 2015, we were not that mature. At the beginning of the creation, we didn’t know how to “combine animation”. We didn’t really show Guibao’s spiritual core when we made it, although the results were not bad. . Including some concerns that the audience's reflection is too "young", it is also related to this. The real Guibao world is not young, in fact, it is a normal humorous comic.
If there is a comparison, I will give four words for both, the first is "imaginative", and the second is "down to earth". In fact, it was because of the word-of-mouth and evaluation of the previous film that it did not reach our inner feelings. In the second film, Yunfei and I have been holding our breath, just wanting to make a good thing. Nutrition comes from ups and downs and difficulties." Although the commercial aspects of the first film are not so unsuccessful, it is painful for us, because as a creator, his focus is on the work, not on the face. to the so-called box office. Now when I come to talk about this film, I am happy in my heart. I don't care how much he box office, I will not have any regrets, because I really did my best and participated in it to the fullest.
The Paper : As a best-selling comic, what do you think is the core and most attractive thing about Guibao comics?
Agui : Qian Zhongshu said, "You have to learn to use stupid kung fu". I also wrote a famous quote from him in Gui Bao. Gui Bao's popularity is actually the use of stupid kung fu or his ability to work hard. In fact, there are a lot of ingenuity, but basically all of them are strength. I have been drawing very seriously. Guibao's content is very good, so people still watch it all year round. And we will often revise the places that don't feel good, not fun enough or could have been better performed, like a sculpture, we will seriously overhaul it, or like a forest, we will often fertilize and water it ,prune.
If we talk about why Guibao is attractive, take the new book Guibao Juvenile Volume as an example. The name is taken from the lines in it, which is also what we often say: "I hope everyone will meet again as a teenager." From the perspective of comics, it is a delicious and nutritious food that is both interesting and knowledgeable. This knowledge is not knowledge in books or dictionaries that many people think, but knowledge in life. I hope that the fun of Guibao is to make the comics stimulate the imagination and creativity of readers while being happy. For example, this big movie is based on Sanxingdui. After watching it, children who don’t know will understand that we have such a splendid civilization, and he will want to go to Sanxingdui to see it. The adults who know it will further stimulate their imagination. Therefore, the core of Guibao is that it is beneficial to open the book. From the perspective of Guibao himself, he is still a good friend who accompanies everyone. The so-called good teacher and good friend, he is a good friend.
"crazy! Guibao: Three Star Treasures" stills
The Paper : "Crazy, crazy, Guibao, the treasure of happiness" is quite a signature slogan. Does it also contain an attitude or creative concept of your life?Agui : This slogan came out unintentionally, and it was very catchy. But I didn't expect that after reading it for so many years, many readers would use this sentence instead of "crazy" and blurt it out unconsciously, which is an emotional expression. So I think Guibao is the treasure of happiness. Many things can be simple, and you will feel happy when you see a good friend. Confucius has an old saying, "Learn and learn from time to time, it's a joy." I hope that we can find more places to be happy whether we study, live or work. Real life is already a lot of unhappy, if there is a happy, meaningful and nutritious book, I think it is better. For example, all kinds of things in life have a certain amount of energy. For example, noodles can be made into the simplest dough and eaten, but humans will turn it into noodles, and they have to add some brine. I'm thinking, if there is really a science fiction, back to the time when human beings first appeared, we can see that the most critical thing about human beings is inner optimism. Modern people sometimes "suppress the cloud", while primitive people are faced with the predicament of survival, and there must be optimism supporting them. I believe that they will definitely find some fun in their daily life, so stories, paintings, etc. gradually appear. fun stuff.
The Paper : In addition to being a cartoonist, you are also an animator yourself. You have also experienced a stage of domestic animation development from the Flash era. What are your observations and feelings about this industry and market?
Agui : I think everyone has been working hard and doing things for the audience. There are endless good works, including the previous "Nezha" and "The Great Sage", which have inspired the industry. There are also many good directors. There is an old saying: "The land is vast and the resources are abundant." We have come to understand that our own Chinese culture is the best, and we have more and more positive views and energy. Chinese animation is in the ascendant and will become more and more professional. Chinese animation and comics are improving. I believe that in the future, we will also be a very important and indispensable force on the world animation stage, but we also need to work hard from generation to generation, which is not achieved overnight.
"crazy! Guibao: Three Star Treasures" stills
The serialization of comics is a long-distance run of patience, and the original heart of love should be frequently asked and updatedThe Paper : What was the initial motivation and creative process of becoming a cartoonist? At this age, what does this comic mean to you when you look back on it for so many years?
Agui : When I was in the second or third grade of elementary school, I liked comics. Whenever I saw comics in the newsstands, I had to buy them and read them. I was thirsty. At that time, there were still very few local comics, mainly Japanese comics. It was my original dream to be a cartoonist. At that time, I drew four-frame comics and wanted to contribute, but there were not so many magazines. But in fact, I also love animation. When I graduated from art, I studied animation and made original short films. In the Flash era, I did fat dog series, nostalgic 70s and 80s strangers, nostalgic songs and so on. But the ideal of comics has never been put down. Before 2008 and 2009, I began to serialize Guibao comics on the Internet. After such a long time, I found that comics are really my original intention and my goal. It's not easy to draw comics. Comics are more stressful than animations, because original short films are for self-entertainment, while comics are meant to make everyone happy and have a certain amount. I drew 240 pages in the first volume. Our books have always been thick and heavy, so each one was stressful.
When it comes to influence, first of all, I made a lot of friends through drawing comics and opened up a lot of opportunities. The conclusion is, originally I thought I was using my brush to paint Gui Bao, but now I feel more and more that Gui Bao is writing my life in his comic world. The world of comics is virtual, but it has such a strong interaction with the real world, which allows me to go to all parts of the country to meet every one of our readers, let the comics fly into the hands of every reader who likes Guibao, and bring them joy. Although I could feel its impact at first, I didn't expect it to be so huge.
"crazy! Guibao: Three Star Treasures" stills
Surging News : On the one hand, there has been "a lot of pressure", on the other hand, the entire series is still growing, and we must continue to produce humorous, youthful and happy energy, "Crazy! Guibao" also recently launched a new "Juvenile Volume". For you, how do you draw and maintain this energy?Agui : Human life is not a vacuum. I often want to have a perfect creative environment, without any trivial troubles in life, and I don’t say that the state is good or bad. Just like I like food very much, but I also find it troublesome to cook, so I figured it out a long time ago, and there is no perfect state of creation. Every operation is very difficult. It is very difficult to do a constant thing in a rich and varied life. For example, after I wake up every day, I must draw a few pictures no matter what, it is an endurance long-distance running.
The inner source of energy, I have to thank my mother, my mother is a person who can do anything, she can get Guibao's bad jokes. I once asked her, one day Xiaoming stepped on a lemon, guess what happened to Xiaoming's foot? She said, "That foot is sore," and I was surprised she could guess. The most important point is that my mother gave me a lot of tolerance and free love. This energy grows in my heart and is alive.
Another point is that I have been more positive and optimistic since I was a child. I am from the Northeast, which is very similar to Guibao. I have a lot of whimsy, which can also be called wild thoughts. There is a boy in everyone's heart. I was still thinking two days ago, is this boy still there? As his parents age, he may disappear. But after painting Guibao for so many years, I have never felt exhausted. These energies have always been there, that is, the boy in my heart is still there, but every time I want to do better, I sometimes feel dissatisfied with myself. This new book, 26 volumes, is full of happy and wonderful things. If it is a food, it must not be sauce-flavored, but refreshing and colorful like fruit, beautiful and delicious, and the taste is very fresh and unique.
"crazy! Guibao: Three Star Treasures" stills
The Paper : As an author of children's cartoons, the life of children, the environment in which they grow up, and the things they come into contact with are actually changing all the time. How to digest and deal with the changes in the external world in the creation, I want to convey to the children through Guibao What is it?Agui : Actually, I think the childhood feelings of human beings are similar. We have met many young readers, and the communication is very smooth, because we know what everyone likes, the robots, superpowers, new technological inventions that we liked when we were young, and so on. Today’s children still like. As long as your childlike innocence is not dead, it is easy for children to become friends with each other, but adults will think a lot, and children have a pure heart together.
I feel that I am not new to my creations over the years, and more of my creations are based on people's inner feelings. For example, in Guibao's Galaxy Wandering series, there is a planet. When you reach this planet, a floating flower will grow on your head. Everyone's is different: some people are shy The flowers are like mimosa; some people's hearts are a little hard, and the flowers are relatively hard; some people's hearts are more intricate, and they have to use a wood to comb them, and their hearts will be smooth.
There is one person who does everything well, but cannot fill his heart, just like many people in life who cannot be satisfied. Gui Bao directly asked the alien to send him to the hole in his heart, where he saw the original intention of his childhood. It turned out that for so many years, he had been empty in his heart and felt lost because he had been burying his original intention.
To put it simply, if I want to be a cartoonist, but become a trader in the stock market, although I am successful, looking back, I always feel that I still want to draw something. The original intention is to always ask and always be new. There are too many distractions and temptations in this world, and so do I, but I will be aware of it and I will often ask myself.
The Paper : Guibao is also a childhood memory of many people. For readers who saw your comics growing up and still miss the days of reading Guibao's comics when they were young, do you have anything to say to them?
Agui : Just one point. I hope everyone can study and live happily after watching Guibao. I hope everyone can love life and nature. Culturally, I especially hope that after watching this movie, you will find an opportunity to go to Sanxingdui, go to the museum, and have a look at our splendid Chinese culture; in life, I hope you will watch this movie and have a good meal with your good friends A hot pot. Really, I guarantee that most people will want to eat hot pot after watching it hahaha.
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