CATDOLL: From the latest trailer of "Chinese Paladin 6", we can see that domestic animation is quite powerful

When it comes to Chinese animation and Chinese games, it always arouses discussion. However, animation and games are rarely combined before. However, on May 14, the Chinese Paladin, which can represent Chinese RPG games, launched the latest trailer of Chinese Paladin 6. The dazzling fighting animation at the beginning of this trailer is sure to make everyone's eyes light up. The bold use of animation as a cutscene is the first time in the history of Chinese Paladin. Of course, this 2D+3D style trailer immediately attracted various comments from netizens.

The latest trailer of "Chinese Paladin 6":

The 2D animation of Chinese Paladin 6 was produced by the top domestic animation team "Qilingshi". In 2015, the company participated in the production of many animation works such as "Attack on Titan", "Parasyte", and "Gundam Unicorn". In China, Qilingshi also participated in the production of "Kuiba", which won a good reputation. Most of the members of Qilingshi are animation producers who returned from Japan, so their style is the Japanese 2D animation style, and this style has been favored by netizens because of the large-scale introduction of Japanese animation in recent years. However, this also highlights the common problems of domestic 3D games - 3D characters have stiff movements, maps are not fine enough, etc. Therefore, many netizens have complained that "Chinese Paladin 6" should make a complete animation after watching the promotional video. However, some people also said that Chinese Paladin 6 is a Chinese-style game, and this animation seems out of place. It is better to make a good CG with this spare money.

From the above complaints, we can see the embarrassing current situation of Chinese animation and domestic games. Although domestic animation started very early, the ink-and-wash style animation shocked the world. However, for a long time, due to various reasons and restrictions, domestic animation has been stagnant. Moreover, domestic animation is still more childish. All these have made many new generation animation producers confused and struggling between ideals and reality. With the popularization of the Internet, most netizens have more and more opportunities to contact Japanese animation works, so the Japanese style is easily accepted. Therefore, now animators, mainly a group of animation producers who studied in Japan and returned to China, have begun their own road of innovation.

Can Chinese animators really not make good animations? The answer is of course no. We have previously introduced to you many high-quality animations made by Chinese animators. Let’s not talk about the distant past. The horror animation short film “Snowstorm Traveler” made by Chinese students a few days ago is a very good animation work. The plot is compact and very attractive. The style is more European and American, and it looks very refreshing. There is also a promotional video of the high-energy domestic animation “2B HERO: Mutant Hero Legend”, which can be said to be well-made. Of course, the style is completely Japanese style. There are also many animators who returned from Japan in the production team of “2B HERO: Mutant Hero Legend”. With more and more such animation producers, various production styles are blended and collided here. We can foresee that the future of Chinese animation will definitely be more exciting.

The current situation of domestic games is even more embarrassing, as domestic games started even later. Take the Chinese Paladin series as an example. The earliest one was launched in 1995. It was a sensation on both sides of the Taiwan Strait at the time. The Chinese Paladin was also praised by players as a classic Chinese RPG game. However, even such classic works have launched a total of 8 works so far, but the evaluation given by everyone is worse than the previous one. Now players may pay more attention to the feelings of Chinese Paladin. In recent years, with the increasing number of 3D games, domestic 3D games have also been complained by players. We can see such complaints as turn-based combat, stiff character movements, and insufficient textures in the comments of every domestic game. In fact, this is inseparable from the overall environment of domestic games. After all, domestic games started late, but their growth is still obvious to all. Therefore, the production team of Chinese Paladin 6 boldly adopted such a 2D+3D model to promote it, which still received relatively good results. Everyone expressed that they were very "surprised" to see the promotional video this time.

In fact, domestic animation and domestic games can also find new breakthroughs from this promotional video. There are many ways to innovate, it depends on whether we can find them. There is also the promotional video of the domestic animation "2B HERO: Mutant Hero" that we reported before. The official used a deliberate "high imitation" form to make everyone have a deeper impression of the promotional video, and the result was also very good. At present, domestic animation and domestic games are in the rising stage, and all kinds of creative ideas can be tried out. While increasing popularity, it can also allow the audience to comment. In this way, the producers can widely accept various opinions and better improve themselves, so that domestic animation and domestic games will have greater room for development.