Dai Tielang was a completely unfamiliar name to many people. However, when it came to his works, there was no one in Huaxia who didn't know him.
Among his most famous works were the 1960 ink animation short "Tadpoles Looking for Their Mother", the 1980 animation short "My Friend Dolphin", and the 2003 animation short "The Legend of Nezha".
Among them, the most famous one was probably the 1984 cartoon "Black Cat Detective".
That's right, this Dai Tielang was the man who created Black Cat Sheriff.
At the same time, he was also Jia Yapeng's teacher. Jia Yapeng was a student at Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts in his previous life. After Dai Tielang retired, he lived very close to Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. Although he did not have the title of a professor, he often went to the academy and occasionally taught some classes.
Jia Yapeng met Teacher Dai in the academy in his previous life. Teacher Dai even taught Jia Yapeng a few times. Although he never said that he would accept Jia Yapeng as a student, Jia Yapeng treated Dai Tielang as his teacher.
At the same time, he knew Teacher Dai's story in detail.
Dai Tielang was originally a national treasure director in Shanghai Animation Film Studio. However, later on, he fell out with the studio because of the Black Cat Sheriff.
The reason was that Teacher Dai had originally designed a script with a total of 24 episodes. He wanted to make an animated feature film. This was also the reason why after the broadcast of the fifth episode of Black Cat Sheriff, there were four words "To be continued".
He originally wanted to make 24 episodes.
However, when the production of the fifth episode was completed, the studio directly put a retirement certificate in front of Teacher Dai and asked him to retire immediately.
Teacher Dai was unwilling to explain the reason, and Jia Yapeng did not ask much. However, at this point, Teacher Dai basically broke off his relationship with Shanghai Animation Film Studio and became a loner.
[PS: The above information is from the Internet. The author is not sure if it's true or not.]
However, Dai Tielang never gave up on animation. This was also the reason why he later participated in the production of animations such as The Legend of Nezha and Black Cat Sheriff.
It was precisely because of this that after deciding to make an animation, Jia Yapeng immediately found Teacher Dai, who was currently in a retired state.
Producing an animation was not an easy task. There were countless tasks that needed to be completed. If there was not a director who was familiar with the animation production process, steps, and related talents to coordinate the overall situation, not to mention three months, even if it was three years, it would be impossible to produce an animation.
Among all the people Jia Yapeng knew, the only one who could achieve this goal was Dai Tielang, Teacher Dai.
Therefore, after entering Mr. Dai's house, Jia Yapeng went straight to the point and told him his purpose.
"You want me to direct the animation!" Although Dai Tielang didn't know when the young man in front of him became his student, after hearing the other party's purpose, he was immediately tempted.
Because the Black Cat Sheriff was cut in half at the waist, Dai Tielang's heart was still pent up with anger. Even in his dreams, he wanted to complete the animation of the Black Cat Sheriff.
Even if he couldn't make the Black Cat Sheriff, he wanted to make a full-length animation. Especially when various overseas animations were wreaking havoc in the domestic market recently, and all the children were shouting something like "Protect Athena". Dai Tielang's national pride made him yearn for a domestic full-length animation.
Now that Jia Yapeng took the initiative to come to him, Dai Tielang was naturally tempted.
But although he was tempted, Dai Tielang still had to judge whether the young man in front of him was a liar.
"What kind of animation do you plan to make? Do you have the animation setting and script?" Dai Tielang asked. Liars could exaggerate anything they wanted, and he had no way of verifying it.
But there was one thing that was difficult for liars to fake, and that was the script and animation setting of an animation. This was something that only someone who sincerely wanted to make an animation would prepare.
Even if a liar prepared these things, without a sincere heart, the animation would definitely be very rough and unsightly!
"Yes!" Jia Yapeng handed over the two things that he had prepared long ago. "For the script of the animation, I only prepared the outline of the script for the first ten episodes, but they were all carefully crafted by me. Here are the character settings for the animation!"
Dai Tielang first looked at the animation mission settings handed over by Jia Yapeng, and then he almost jumped up. He pointed at the characters on the screen and said, "This drawing is excellent, who drew this? I must meet this person, the drawing is really good! "
Dai Tielang excitedly held the character settings and shouted. Jia Yapeng, who was beside him, showed a somewhat ashamed expression. They were all copied by others, so he was embarrassed.
However, Dai Tielang obviously misunderstood. He saw Jia Yapeng blushing, and thought that he was shy after hearing his praise. He asked in surprise, "Could it be that you drew this?"
"Yes!" Jia Yapeng nodded. Although he copied it, it was indeed drawn by him, so there was no problem.
"That's great, it's drawn so well. Our Huaxia animation finally has a successor … This won't do, I have to drink!" Dai Tielang hurriedly took out a bottle of Erguotou from the kitchen and poured a glass for Jia Yapeng and himself. Then he raised his glass and said, "Little Jia, are you my student? This toast is to you, with your current skills, you are more than qualified to be my teacher!"
"Teacher, you can't say that!" Jia Yapeng couldn't hold the glass steadily, while Dai Tielang laughed and drank a few glasses of wine. In his heart, his satisfaction and love for Jia Yapeng rose in a straight line.
"Let me see your script again!" Dai Tielang held the glass and began to carefully read Jia Yapeng's script outline.
Episode 1
In the distant year 2020, Yue You was an ordinary high school student in the future world. At the same time, he was also one of the players of the extremely popular game, Water Margin Heroes. Yue You's grandfather had one of the most precious hero cards in the Water Margin Heroes series: Jade Qilin Lu Junyi.
When Lai Haima, the young master of the Haima Group, learned that Yue You's grandfather had Jade Qilin Lu Junyi, he specially came to challenge him. After defeating his grandfather, he snatched Jade Qilin Lu Junyi, then completely tore apart this precious Water Margin hero card in front of his grandfather.
Yue You challenged Haima to a duel. Faced with the seahorse's three Jade Qilins, Lu Junyi and You Xi were forced into a corner. In the end, they used five cards of unknown meaning to summon the strongest one, a mysterious superhero, and defeated the seahorse.
Episode 2
Yue You received a videotape. It was sent by Gao Hexi, the father of the Water Margin hero duel. When Yue You played the videotape, a dark game between Yue You and Gao Hexi began!
However, during the duel, Yue You's grandfather was kidnapped.
Episode 3
In order to save his grandfather, Yue You and his friends accepted Gao Hexi's invitation to the Duel Kingdom Tournament. They took a luxurious cruise ship to the island where Gao Hexi held the tournament. On the cruise ship, Yue You met the champion of Fusang, Yue You, who pretended to approach them. Yue You's goal was to get rid of Yue You's strongest card, the mysterious hero card, which was a threat to him!
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"What the hell is this?!" When Dai Tielang finished reading the synopsis of the first ten episodes, he was completely dumbfounded. This was because he did not understand what the plot was about at all.
However, Jia Yapeng had already expected this. He quietly took out all the Water Margin hero cards from his backpack, as well as the game background and world settings that he had created, and handed them to Dai Tielang.
When Dai Tielang finished reading the settings eagerly, he reread the script from the beginning to the end. He was completely immersed in it. After rereading it a few times, he suddenly struggled out of it. He looked at Jia Yapeng with a complicated gaze and finally sighed. "I'm still old after all. I'm not as good as you youngsters!"
"This kind of game and world settings are just too scary!" Dai Tielang exclaimed in the end.
"Teacher, can you make this into an animation?" Jia Yapeng asked carefully.
"Yes, of course I can. There's nothing in this world that I can't make!" Dai Tielang snorted coldly, but his expression was a little conflicted.
"What's wrong, teacher? Do you have any other questions?" Jia Yapeng quickly asked.
"I don't have any other questions, but I'm afraid this animation will cost a lot of money!" Dai Tielang touched his pocket.
"Teacher, how much do you think it'll cost if we make thirty episodes first?" Jia Yapeng asked carefully. If the price exceeded one million, then Jia Yapeng would have to think about whether he should cut some of it first.
"It'll cost at least three hundred thousand!" Dai Tielang said with a frown. Jia Yapeng, who was beside him, heaved a sigh of relief. It seemed that the money was not that much after all.
[I don't know which anime this is from. Show me your hand. I thought everyone knew about this anime.]
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