The analysis of film animation architecture scenes introduces Japanese animation architecture scenes through Japanese style architecture cartoon pictures. Many scenes built in Japanese animation are often talked about with relish: from color to stroke to every detail, they are exquisite to "heinous".

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Analysis of Japanese Film Animation Architecture Scene

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Not only the Slam Dunk, but also many scenes built in Japanese anime are often talked about: From color to stroke to every detail, it is exquisite to "heinous" The Japanese animation industry creates a "Utopia" in our mind by using lean production techniques and architectural design to link reality and fantasy. Next, we will help students to re-examine the magic of Rimanzhong space creation through several representative styles and works

Japanese Cyberpunk

Shell Attack Team series

The film series of "Shell Attack Team" was released in 1995 and 2004 respectively ("Shell Attack Team - Innocent"). The story is set in the virtual city of Xinbin in 2040. The Internet has brought convenience, but also accelerated the electronic crime. Hackers attack human beings with bad methods such as attacking the brain, tampering with memory, and the whole city is in danger.

Shell Attack Mobile Team Picture of movie scene

　　 Rated as the classic of Japanese Cyberpunk The "Shell Attack Team" continues the same way that "Aquila" overlooks: skyscrapers and low buildings in the new urban area fill the center of the city together, and the new high-rise buildings are like a continuous flow of information, turning the city into a huge data space. The contradiction and rationality among nature, science and technology, and human beings are explained by cyberpunk.

"Shell Attack Maneuver Team" clip+split picture

From the perspective of architecture, the cultural outlook in the film is based on the symbiotic concept of the alternation of old and new buildings and the traditional future. During the production of the film, the team conducted a large-scale field survey in Hong Kong. The colors and lights in the works are inspired by the real pictures of Hong Kong, and the design of city signs and social spaces are also A lot of fuzzy and general Asian visual elements with labels are used 。

Shell Attack Team scene picture

In order to highlight the real state of the scene in the work, the team carried out a "copy" module in the details of the stalls around the building. The scene design in the scanning state is similar to that of flat style buildings.

Animation scenes of the film "Shell Attack Team"

In the city in the film, Chinese billboards, neon old sheds, dense skyscrapers and confused passers-by on both sides of the road all adopt the cyber style of production Finally, these images were harmonized with cold colors, giving them a cold feeling with a sense of technology.

The core of this film is almost to shape the overall architectural environment. The neon light color block has a strong contrast with the dark sky. The scene is taken from the Kowloon Stronghold in Hong Kong. The dark side of the city is leaning against the dense concrete vortex. It seems that there are only buildings in this virtual world, and they are indifferent to the existence of human beings living in their own bodies.

Scene pictures of architectural animation of "Shell Attack Team"

Screenshot of "Shell Attack Team"

In the second "Innocence" of the same film series, in addition to the dystopian urban landscape of the Diablo system, the image of ancient Chinese painted boat restaurants and mechanical geisha is also integrated, the brilliant exotic atmosphere of East Asian elements and the huge Gothic church style of gangsters' nests The building blends into the same scene without any violation 。

Not only from the perspective of architecture, but also from the perspective of rainwater on the ground and dirty urban sewers, the contrast reflected is inappropriate, but it also has a sense of beauty of crowding and chaos.

Screenshot of "Shell Attack Team - Innocent"

In the film themes like "Shell Attack Team", the works focusing on Cyberpunk visual aesthetics seem to stand on the opposite side of the minimalist aesthetic effect, During this period, the rough breath and touch have fascinated the audience generation after generation.

Screenshot of "Shell Attack Mobile Team - Innocence"

The birth of the shell attack mobile team has given the public a new level of understanding of comic architecture, and this concept should also be proved in other works, such as "Akira", "Bad Boy" and other films.

Remodeling the future world of the past

Akira

"Akira" was released in Japan in 1988. The outline of the film mainly tells about a series of measures taken after the biochemical experiments on children caused problems. The Japanese government dropped an atomic bomb on Tokyo, People rebuild the city Neo Tokyo from the ruins.

Akira Japanese architecture animation picture

In the 1980s, Tezuka's anime painting template still has a high share in the market After the release of Akira, the setting of various forms of the current scene, culture, reality and city in the film has successfully set off a wave of enthusiasm, bringing a revolutionary turning point for the future of Japanese animation film.

The dazzling light and shadow dragged by the main character on his bicycle on the ground, as well as the high-intensity contrast scene formed by the cold building with color, It is still the leading "famous scene" production 。

Screenshot of Akira

Returning to the scene production in the film, the story is set in the "New Tokyo" rebuilt from the ruins in 2019. In the setting, Japan is preparing for the second phase of the East Olympic Games, and the human vision of peace and prosperity seems to have been realized.

And those in the film A fortress skyscraper composed of concrete and rough industrial style In the camera overlooking the field of vision, the scene opened in an uproar, which is also the new residential area under setting. In Sanying City, behind Shinjuku District, we experienced bomb bombardment, incomplete fragments and noisy urban landscape on the edge of the city add radiance and beauty to each other 。

Pre production film setting of Akira

Akira film settings

The buildings in the film are not built with the appearance of a new fantasy city. The director Toyo Kayang once said: "The new Tokyo in Aquila reflects the period from the post-war recovery period to the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games." In the work, classrooms like ruins, brutal war tours, and the opening scene of motorcycle violence, etc, They are all taken from the complex era experienced by Dayou Kayang.

The main Olympic stadium and Miyako Mission, which bear the core of the story, also referred to the real Tokyo at that time. The architectural design of Miyako Mission was taken from famous architects National Yoyogi Gymnasium Designed by Kenzo Danxia for Tokyo Olympic Games As a crucial religious place in the film, the Miyako Mission recreated its iconic suspended roof structure, presenting post-war Tokyo together with the "2020 Olympic Stadium", which is the prototype of the main stadium of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Akira Fragment+Setting Diagram

In addition to the adoption of real scenes, there are more features that highlight the new Tokyo. The intuitive night scene lighting effect also expresses the historical face of the city from another perspective; The light and shadow flow generated by the national experimental center of the viaduct center and the urban power supply is in sharp contrast with Showing the dual landscape of ruins and cities 。

In the later published setting diagram, More intuitively feel the division of "New Tokyo" : city night scene with bright lights+city led by the National Experimental Center, surrounding light source transmission area; The rear of the city is the ruins area. It seems that the power supply has been cut off. The only light source is the low-intensity traffic light in the city.

The film setting of Akira

In addition, the street landscape from the first person perspective also reflects the scarred face of New Tokyo, Similar to the late Cyberpunk theme, "high-tech low life" is scattered in the multi-level urban structure.

Akira Fragment+Setting Diagram

At the end of the film, the protagonist's resurrection destroyed the reconstructed "New Tokyo". The high investment producer presented a fine work for the public in the macro form of architecture.

Wantonly changing city

"Evil Boy"

The work released in Japan in 2006 was produced by the Studio 4 ° C team. The story is set in a medium-sized city, Baoding, which is out of touch with the development of the times and densely populated. Baoding is a city with no future, until a company called "KIDDY KASTLE" came here and wanted to transform Baoding into what they wanted, The evil children know that it is time to fight for their own lives and cities, and even more for their own souls.

Animation building scene pictures

The scene design of Bad Boy is absolutely a work of art, The colors in the building are all dark steam retro style The background and style of the whole film are properly highlighted. Most animation work of the film is done on paper.

Animation ancient scene material

　　 The team of Bad Boy spent a lot of energy in the architectural scene A town has been built here, which is detailed to the flagstones in every street, warning signs in every park, every goods in every shop, and every ashtray in every family.

The extreme and morbid striving for perfection further sublimates this work to a new height.

Architectural scene of Evil Boy

Different from the first two works, The production artists of "Bad Boy" did not classify the film into neon lights and dark scenes in the cyberpunk world It draws a lot of inspiration from the Jixiang Temple (Tokyo area where Studio 4 ° C is located).

Above: Screenshot of "Bad Boy"

Below: Street View of Jixiang Temple

　　 As far as Bad Boy is concerned, the creation technique is more inclined to documentary handheld camera , rather than the perfect composition of most traditional animation. This kind of directing strategy challenges the artistic art and technology of the finished product.

Screenshot of the film scene of Bad Boy

In the creation of architectural background, Bad Boy abandons the design techniques in traditional animation , boldly use the rebellious abstract form hand painting to express the scene, so that the work not only retains the two-dimensional plane, but also shows the three-dimensional sense of space. The complex and exquisite scene finally presented is also breathtaking.

Bad Boy Japanese animation architecture scene

　　 In addition to the macro architecture, the shooting method used in the film is also extremely striking The perspective relationship of many omnidirectional shots and extreme drama visual impact makes a large number of lines and block graphics in the scene have irregular distortion, deformation and stretching, which improves the depth of the vertical and the whole scene. It is not too much to call it the template of scene production textbooks in the animation field.

Scene of "Bad Boy"

　　 Summary of today

From "Akira" to "Shell Attack Team" to "Bad Boy", we can always feel the energy invested by the Japanese animation industry in drawing scenes. Whether it is the original scene painting, or the separate script and set sketch, it contains the artist's multi-level understanding of the classic visual elements and various urban forms.

Finally, the natural light wants to say that the shining points in every excellent work can actually let students draw strength from it, Think about more possibilities in the field of art design . Whether it is excellent animation works or film and television works, Keep thinking , while enriching the spiritual life, we can give you more inspiration for artistic design creation.

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