The first season of "The Adventures of Uncle Long" is "The Spell", the theme is to find the talisman, and the main villain is the "Holy Lord".

The story originated from an archaeological event.

Archaeological expert Chen Long and his companions entered the castle of a Bavarian king to explore. Because their companions accidentally triggered the mechanism, everyone had to flee in panic.

In the process of escaping, Uncle Long used a shield he picked up casually to block various hidden weapons, and escaped from the castle through a secret passage in a skiing posture.

San Francisco, antique store.

Uncle Long's relative, both his teacher and his father, the owner of this antique shop, a verbose father who likes to say "there's one more thing", is studying the shield brought back by Uncle Long and the mysterious talisman on the shield.

By chance, Uncle Long's cousin's daughter Xiaoyu also moved to the antique store...

"Niece or niece?"

When the animation came to the part where Xiaoyu appeared, an animator asked with confusion: "According to the customs in my hometown, in this relationship, Uncle Long should be Xiaoyu's cousin, not his cousin."

"Well!"

Gu Miao also didn't expect that there was an "unconventional" omission in Xiaoyu's address to Uncle Long.

"How about changing it?" Someone suggested, "Suppose Xiaoyu's father is Uncle Long's cousin, wouldn't that make sense?"

Then change it!

Gu Miao thought about it for a moment, and found out that Xiaoyu's parents basically had no sense of existence anyway, whether they were cousins ​​or younger cousins, it actually made no difference.

In fact, it’s okay not to change it.

It's just that Xiaoyu should obviously call her Uncle Long, but instead she calls Uncle Long all day long, which always feels a bit inconsistent.

And the most important thing is...

Chen Long is the protagonist, and the title "Uncle Long" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even the name of the animation is also named Uncle Long, and was temporarily changed to Uncle Long, which is really unjustifiable.

It's just a small thing to call someone.

Before Uncle Long could get close to his niece, the Black Hand Gang's "Bai Gai Trio" broke into the antique store and threatened Chen Long to hand over the shield.

In order to protect his father and Xiaoyu, Uncle Long decided to follow these three people. Unexpectedly, he was accidentally discovered during the tracking process, so he had to use the "Chinese Kung Fu" he had practiced for many years to fight away the three people.

When he saw Xiaoyu and exclaimed why Xiaoyu was here, a bald head suddenly appeared in the crowd and stunned him...

"Are you awake? The operation was successful!"

The bald man is Chen Long's best friend Tan Sir, who is now the head of the mysterious Thirteenth District. The main responsibility of this mysterious Thirteenth District is to investigate large-scale international crimes.

And they have tracked down the Black Hand Gang, and even found the leader of the Black Hand Gang, Wa Xiong...

The Black Hand Gang has recently become interested in historical relics, so Sir Tan hopes to invite archaeological experts like Chen Long to join District 13.

While Uncle Long was still considering the pros and cons, Xiaoyu suddenly broke into District 13, and his father, who had just solved the mystery of the shield, was kidnapped by Tru sent by Wa Xiong.

The story of "The Adventures of Uncle Long" begins...

"The narrative pace of animation is very fast!"

Gu Miao took a deep breath and said: "Almost before one incident ends, another incident comes immediately. There is no time to breathe in the whole process."

"This also requires us to strictly control the rhythm of the animation narrative during production and not have too many useless key frames..."

His meaning is very clear.

In the animation "The Adventures of Uncle Long", superfluous things and bells and whistles should be avoided as much as possible. Every frame should be compact, and the narrative should not be sloppy.

"This is a typical American comic feature!"

"Yes……"

Gu Miao made no secret of her thoughts and said with confidence: "This is an American animation with Chinese elements!"

"You must not use your past attitudes or experiences in the production of this animation."

Because, this is different!

American animation is very different from Chinese animation and neon animation. To put it bluntly, this kind of American "superhero" animation is very different from American animation like "Tom and Jerry".

Never generalize.

Producing different types of animation requires controlling different narrative rhythms and skillfully switching between painting styles.

For American superhero animations like "The Adventures of Uncle Long", the production team has almost no basic knowledge, and everyone needs to learn from scratch.

Sounds difficult?

But it’s actually not as difficult as imagined, because the American superhero production rules almost have ready-made “formulas” that can be applied.

Watch more Hollywood blockbusters, read more American hero comics, and summarize the so-called routines and formulas.

not to mention……

Although the production team has zero basic knowledge, Wanbao has seniors with experience in this field!

The experience and insights of those who have produced "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" can also provide reference for the production team.

Use the narrative method of American animation to tell Chinese stories, stories centered around Chinese elements...

This is the first problem that the production team of "The Adventures of Uncle Long" needs to overcome.

To this end, Gu Miao specially sent people to North America to conduct on-the-spot inspections of local Chinatowns and well-known streets, striving to be authentic and avoid leaking any flaws in scene creation.

This is not over yet...

In order to let more viewers, especially overseas viewers, have a sense of belonging and identification with animation, Gu Miao also added many scenes that pay tribute to "classic movies" in the animation.

Most of them are Uncle Long's movies, and a few are tributes to familiar classic European and American movies.

besides.

When designing the lines for the animation, Gu Miao also specifically studied the collection of jokes from Europe and the United States to study how to make their jokes come true.

Not to mention, Gu Miao did research something.

Many jokes or baggage that are considered "cold jokes" in the eyes of Chinese people are particularly funny in the eyes of foreigners. This is part of cultural differences.

"I'm worried about a problem."

After Lao Zhang learned of Mr. Gu's actions, he said sadly: "If you do this, will you end up being a double-dealing person?"

"Domestic audiences don't like it, scolding you for worshiping foreigners and being a bitch to please foreigners. Foreign audiences don't like it either, scolding you for adding private goods and being unkind and engaging in ideological confrontation?"

"It is indeed possible."

When Gu Miao heard this, she immediately thought of the changes in online public opinion and reputation many years after the original "The Adventures of Jackie Chan" was aired.

People's hearts are fickle.

There may be a person who liked watching foreign films and television animations, especially neon animations, when he was a child, but when he grew up, he suddenly became extremely repellent and even shouted the slogan "Only sand dollars can watch neon animations."
Chapter completed!