Chinese Animation Leaves Animator Speechless (Jiang Ziya Analysis) 

Id love to see a review of Modest heroes, the animation is amazing

I saw that as well

Came here to say this!

Nine-Tailed Fox or Jiu Wei Hu would be better to describe her! Kitsune is not exactly the right term bc this animation is not referring to the japanese iteration of the fox spirit :>

@@svt-energyskincare5188 thank you for the correction, appreciated. 🙂

@@darthtaiter the japanese fox spirit originated from china, so using the china term would be more appropriate

Unfortunately, this animation is rather unoriginal, he just copied Studio Gonzo/Mahiro Maeda. It's still really great animation, though.

@@lynth Which movie(s) specifically did he 'copy'? Genuine question

@@Nanancay He copied the art style of Gankutsuou. This woman he is analyzing is modeled after Edmond Dantès from that series.

@@Nanancay i searched it up and believe hes talking about how the hair texture is similar? I feel like its more like taken inspiration from though. Idk

For sure he got inspired by it, nowhere near stealing tho

thanks for the background info :D

The war is too old to have concrete records in detail. The only concrete record from archaeological excavation just says the war exists in a certain period. No one knows if Daji is from an existing person or just made up. Jiang Ziya is a real person which was entitled as the Lord of the Qi region (in Shandong province today) after the war.

This entire animation is based entirely on Gankutsuou. The woman he is analyzing is effectively a female copy of Edmond Dantès of Gankutsuou. The hair even has the same colour, including the golden outline, and the animation style is exactly the same.

@@lynth wrong, it’s based on Naruto. Every animation China made is based on Naruto. lol

@@lynth What? Is this a joke. This is based off a story/myth from Chinese history. Daji, the fox demon, and Jiang Ziya, are both legendary figures. And you want to say that this is based off of a Japanese animation?

Vro can you please tell that name in inglish pls

What's the name of the movie ?

@@abhijeet7956 Jiang Ziya

What do you think about Arcane?

@@Bufekana ARCANE is also one of my favorites!! Please, if you are not asking for spoilers or feel annoyed when you read a nerd geeking out, don’t continue reading this. The animation behind the series is so good; their expressions, the aesthetically stunning and confusing style when JINX were talking to herself shows that she is very disassociated with the reality, the wonderful motion of a once-rotten-villain to a devoted father, and the irony of the history repeating. Don’t forget how Pow/Jinx is a jinx in the end by firing towards Piltover one minute after they decided to give Zaun freedom. It was so good that I had repeatedly watch it until the new season came out. With this style that I, at first, felt like it wouldn’t work, turns out to be one of the best western animation I have ever watched in a long time. To be honest, it made me continue LOL game and understand the lore, even though it is different. 😂

Sadly it would all just be propaganda and watered down by censors for the Chinese market. Great animation with awesome talent, but with things are they are right now animators or writers would get no chance to trying make their own work.

@@alias234 agreed. the artistic talents of chinese artists are CRAZY huge. i always get amazed when i see awesome chinese artists online. The government restraints on the art and people are equally as big. I think thats why so many chinese folks work in big western animation companies as well.

My thoughts exactly!

Then get a load of Fog hill of five Elements

@@W0ndaze yeah

Def cooler than most anime

Why did you even bother mentioning Disney? The company now makes only 3D movies. You can’t compare 3D and 2d.

I’m sorry but Castlevania low frame rate animation does not impress me one bit. Their art direction and art style are great, but the animation? Not so much. Fight scenes are really choppy

i do think its sad that american animation has kind of abandoned 2d art, but a lot of 3d animation is also incredible

@@shigalarson2359 having one type of animation shouldnt exclude other types of animation. A movie should use the style that fits it best, no matter if 2d or 3d.

Shawty i didn't say that the west should continue ignoring 2d animation, but saying that 3d animation is "cheap" is far from fair. Also your point kind of falls apart without assuming that 3d animation is objectively worse because asia really doesn't use 3d animation very often, yet you said that they have "taken the crown as the best animators in the world."

@@shigalarson2359 dude i never said that you said that. But a lot of 3d animation is cheap, thats the reason why there are tons of extremely bad looking 3d animations and its also the reason why it has taken over for 2d, its literally cheaper to produce currently. Also, you are wrong, Asia do use quite a bit of 3d animation, the difference is that they try to match it to their 2d so you cant see the difference or they use it as a tool to improve the 2d shots. They are far more experimental with both their 2d and 3d while the west is stuck in disney 3d style.

@@Sakuyamon The age of ass 3d animation is kind of in the past because its very easy to render good looking stuff now. That being said it takes a lot of money to render a 3d animation so it isn't necessarily cheaper. That's kind of fair but also not really the same thing as generally that is considered a separate thing called 2.5d. Also i will agree that disney has a pretty homogeneous art style, but that is not all of the "west." there is kind of a rebirth of 2d animation going on right now, as well as a lot of very experimental 3d stuff being used, you just have to look a little further than disney. Disney is big, but they're not everything

yesss the first fight with the junior disciples was sooo good and also the introduction to Han Guang Jun really made my jaw dropped the first episode really solidify the quality of the animation and left a deep impression to me as a first time watcher of Chinese dong hua and effectively pulled me into the fandom

Omg it's the tiny laozu!!!😮 😂

罗小黑 is a work of art

The word you're looking for is concubines, not mistresses lol But yeah it's right.

He already did a video about that in epi 1

This was a movie?!

@@aerasoli7908 Yes, a 90mins animated feature movie. The major part is 3d.

that will be a big chapter in my upcoming course www.animatorguild.com/mastering-motion.html

@@HowardWimshurst okay. Already signed up for the pre order notification.

Someone else mentioned it too so i'll do it differently next time. Thanks for the pointers!

had to do it to stay monetized. It was that or no sound at all

@@HowardWimshurst Ah, gotcha.

3d can make things more realistic, the emotion transition can be done with more depth. If done right. 2d is more exaggerated, more cartoonic.

​@TheExtraterrestrial99 not really many 2d animated shows are far more expressed and it is all abt stylization many 3ds do too what u r sayin as 'cartoonistic' lmao tf as if that's a bad thing it's abt stylization there r no rules pls but ngl 2d just has it's own speciality which is literally doing ANYTHING u can with ur art skills like ANYTHING which makes it superior at it's own place.

What's the name of this one.

@@luckyking7704 The movie is called "Jiang Ziya" there's a prequel called "Ne Zha"

I look it but appear another movie witb the same name but it's like a format 3d Very diferent to the animation of this video

@@melquisedecolivares6432 It is the same movie. Jiang Ziya has a 2D animated beginning while rest is in 3D.

the beginners guide is literally so beginner-friendly that you dont even need to be an artist to do it!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rXMAj-72IlU.html

What do you mean?

If software did most of the work, we would be overrun with quality animations.

@@soon_to_emerge When we stop to considered how even 30 years ago,, being a self published animator was impossible without a major production studio behind you to now thousands upon thousands of low level animators able to churn out work this good or better at home, publish themselves online, many of which then go viral, I think you have to conceed that we are, in fact, overrun with animators and their commonly high tech animations.

yeah a lot of the filling i do in TVPaint I am able to automate or at least speed up by a factor of 10. it's really wonderful because I'm able to focus more on the creative aspects of the animation

i think you're taking the wrong idea from this. No, this animator is not super-human. This animator has put in more time and concentration than you to get where they are. If you put in that same amount of time and concentration, you might not be exactly where they stand, but you would be making some very impressive animations of your own. Just because you can't understand it RIGHT NOW, does not mean you won't be doing it yourself one day if you just stick with it. You don't know what you will know 5 -10 years from now. Creativity is not something you're born with. Creativity is something which can be done deliberately. Read the book Lateral Thinking by Edward Debono. He will teach you how to be creative. It's a science. There have been very few animators through history who have had a photographic imagination. Most of them cannot see clearly what the result of the animation will look like until the drawing starts forming from the marks they are making. It's a rinse and repeat process: add a little here, erase a little there, take it through a round of cleanup and inbetweens - all the time looking at it and re-looking at it, tilting your head, look at it flipped through a mirror... That's what's so fun about the process; the results surprise the artist who is drawing them! And please stop referring to animators as being in tiers (why is everyone doing this? Who the heck started this "god tier / top tier" catch phrase??). They are not separate from other artists. They learned from the artists who came before them. All artists have something of value to offer. Putting artists of different styles and attitudes into a linear tier list reveals your narrow-minded view of what animation is. Separating animators by tiers is a bad paradigm to be thinking in. Sorry I had to say it. I feel strongly about this.

Exactly, well spoken

Photoshop is industry standard

Democracy well destroy their civilization long term.

Can you talk about it in detail? worry about what?

Gotta be more specific dude. But at 17:42, the song is 'Mar Vei - Steps on Water'

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Thanks. I've been focussing my attention on creating an online course for advanced animation, working on commissions for private clients. On top of that, my taste in animation doesn't always align with what is popular right now. I like a lot of obscure animators that people have never heard of. On top of that, I don't really like attracting the fans of these animes over to my community - the Otakus. They are often rude and have nothing interesting to say. I just don't like them.