Chapter 986: Ant's Home, Wuhuang Blade Tan (22)

PS: The chapter I owe this month is paid off.

Zhang Tan approached Xiaobai and Xi'er and saw them eating ants. They were squatting on the ground with focused expressions on their faces, unaware of his approach. He originally wanted to call them back, but when he heard that they were having a heated discussion, their words were childish, cute, and innocent, and he couldn't bear to interrupt, he couldn't help but stop and listen.

"Wow! There are ants!" Xi'er said in surprise, carefully observing the ants' movements. They crawled along the edge of the flower bed, forming a long line, all the way from the edge of the flower bed to under the flowers in the flower bed.

"There are a lot of ants here." Xiaobai picked up a small wooden stick and gently opened the flowers. He saw more ants surrounding a rotten fruit. "I know, these must be worker ants. They are small and climb up very quickly. They are busy carrying fruits and steamed buns home."

"Move home!" Xi'er said, "Xiaobai, how do you know?"

"This is my strong point." Xiaobai boasted, and then added, "That's what the picture book says."

"That's what the picture book says." Xi'er agreed, and suggested, "Xiao Bai, I have a good idea. Let's build a home for the ants together."

So they used small wooden sticks to clean the place where the ants gathered, and picked up rotten leaves and pebbles, hoping that many ants could live here.

In order to attract more ants, they placed the buns in their hands in the "Ant House".

"No." Xiaobai thought for a while and said, pointing to the edge of the flower bed, "It's too steep here. The ants will fall when they come down!"

"What can we do?" Xi'er said with a Sichuan flavor.

"We are going to add a staircase here!" Xiaobai put the wooden stick in his hand on the edge of the flower bed, found a leaf, and placed it on the lower end of the stick so that the ants could follow the stick when coming down from the edge of the flower bed.

"We have stairs." Xi'er said happily, and suddenly said, "Xiaobai Xiaobai, what if the ants fall down the stairs? It's too dangerous."

Xiaobai quickly thought of a new way, "Let's find another wooden stick and set it up so that the stairs will be very wide and the ants will not fall. Look!"

After a while, ants really crawled over, dragging the bun crumbs from the sticks, and gathered where the fruit was.

"The ants didn't fall!" Xi'er said happily, "Xiaobai, the ants didn't fall!"

"Okay, let's go find some leaves and hide this ant home so that it won't be discovered by other small animals."

They surrounded the ant's house with leaves, and finally built a "door" with wooden sticks.

The ants' house was built and well hidden. They could finally rest assured, but something happened again. They decided to find some more fruits for the ants to eat. They seemed to like eating fruits very much.

"Xi'er, you go to Li Baibao and ask for the fruit. I'll protect this place." Xiaobai quickly divided up the tasks. Xi'er got up and ran to Lao Li to ask for the fruit. Suddenly she turned around and saw Zhang Tan, and was stunned, hiahia Laughing, "Godfather! Look, we found the Ant House."

Zhang Tan took them to find fruits.

In the studio, Xu Qizhe waited for a while and saw that Zhang Tan never showed up. When he came to the balcony, he saw him squatting by the flower bed on the roadside with Xiaobai and Xi'er. He didn't know what he was doing.

Xin Xiaoguang came over and said that Zhang Tan was building an ant house for Xiaobai and Xi'er, and he would have to wait a while before he could come.

Xu Qizhe was speechless for a while, but then he seemed to understand. Artists in history have always maintained strong innocence and curiosity until they grow old. Perhaps Boss Zhang belongs to this category, otherwise he would not open such a late-night academy.

Zhang Tan came back after helping Xiaobai and Xi'er take care of the Ant House. Xiaobai and Xi'er came with him. The two little ones were led away by Yang Xiaoxue, eating snacks and reading picture books, while watching Xin Xiaoguang to make sure he was not lazy at work.

There were only Zhang Tan and Xu Qizhe in the conference room. The two were chatting about new projects. Zhang Tan was mainly listening to Xu Qizhe's ideas.

He had a lot of ideas, but they were all immature. If Zhang Tan hadn't asked him to talk about them and said it didn't matter, he would have been embarrassed to pour them out.

Zhang Tan listened patiently, interjecting from time to time to start a discussion. He noticed that Xu Qizhe was wavering in his style, which may have been affected by the results of "Insect Master".

"Where is your persistence?" Zhang Tan suddenly asked.

"What?" Xu Qizhe was stunned by the question and didn't seem to understand.

Zhang Tan asked again: "What about your persistence? Isn't your style a hardcore violent aesthetic? Why do you want to change your style? The style of "Insect Master" is the style of "Insect Master", not yours. You Why should you change yourself and follow others?”

Xu Qizhe felt as if he had been hit hard and was speechless, not knowing what to say. He thought about Zhang Tan's words carefully, and it seemed that Zhang Tan was right! He unknowingly wavered in his persistence. Is it because he values ​​his grades too much? Or is he jealous of Liu Xiangsheng?

"You're right. I unknowingly wavered in my persistence. Thank you for your vigilance." Xu Qizhe said.

Zhang Tan continued: "In the comics industry, when it comes to the aesthetics of violence, if you say you are second, no one dares to say you are first! We should continue to dig deeper. As for the results, maybe it will be very good, maybe it will be average, but who knows, No matter what results you achieve, you are taking a road that no one has ever walked before. I support you very much and the studio will fully support you.”

After hearing this, Xu Qizhe was moved and nodded firmly.

Then the two continued to talk about new ideas for comics. Zhang Tan guided him and talked about many of his own ideas. Xu Qizhe was greatly inspired. Two days later, he wrote a script and handed it to Zhang Tan.

After Zhang Tan finished reading it, he thought of an animation he had seen in his previous life, called "The Legend of the Stranger". The story was almost the same, but there was a difference in the conception.

"The Legend of the Stranger" is a big animation movie with a great reputation. It was once nominated for the Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards.

The background of Xu Qizhe's story is set in the Tang Dynasty, an era when all nations came to pay tribute. People of all races gathered in China and a brilliant and colorful culture was born. A monk from the Tang Dynasty traveled east to Japan to preach and brought an orphan from Japan to the Tang Empire. The orphan carried an astonishing secret. After being separated from the monk, he was alone and helpless. He took his dog to the Da'an Guo Temple in Chang'an. On the way, he met the mysterious swordsman "Wuming", who was actually a Japanese ronin. The orphan was hunted down, and Wuming saved his life in a critical moment. From then on, the two traveled together. Although the eccentric wanderer and the closed-hearted boy had constant conflicts, they gradually became good friends.

The government's underground organization sent a hunting team, led by the team leader Bai Luan, who captured the orphan and began to prepare a certain ceremony. The life-and-death duel between Bai Luan and Wuming kicked off...

After reading this story, Zhang Tan suggested: "Compared to Wuming, the character of Bai Luan is a bit simple. Can we set it up like this? For example, Bai Luan is actually a top master, but he usually hides his strength in order to hide in the underground organization and monitor whether there is rebellion in the organization. His real purpose is to obtain the elixir of immortality for the emperor!"

"The orphan's life experience is strange. The elixir of immortality can be obtained by refining medicine with his hard work. At the last moment, Bai Luan faced the temptation of the elixir of immortality, and he wavered and wanted to take it for himself! He betrayed the emperor and obeyed himself!"

Xu Qizhe nodded and said yes.

But Zhang Tan was not finished yet, and continued: "You set the background of this story in the Tang Dynasty, but you did not fully show the multiculturalism of the Tang Dynasty. My suggestion is to add another character. This character is called Luo Lang, for example. He has blond hair and blue eyes. He followed his Persian parents to the Tang Empire since he was a child. He was originally a member of the hunting team and had extremely high martial arts skills. He obeyed orders on the surface but did not really care about the purpose of the team. For him, finding an opponent who can match himself is the meaning of life. His encounter with Wuming is a fateful duel."

Xu Qizhe asked: "A duel between three people?"

Zhang Tan: "Yes! The three people did not wield the blade for any lord. Bai Luan was for himself, Luo Lang was also for himself, and Wuming was for orphans, or to atone for himself."

"The Blade of the Stranger Without an Emperor", in which "without an emperor" means this. And the foreigner refers to the identities of several protagonists. They are all outsiders, and the fate of wandering brings them together.

Zhang Tan added: "For this comic, we will not follow the crowd, but focus on action movies, and give full play to your violent aesthetics. You don't have to think about the results first. This is not what you want, but what I should think. You just need to draw the style we want with all your heart. What do you think?"

Xu Qizhe felt that he would die for his friend, and nodded firmly: "Okay!"

Zhang Tan said again: "Do you know a well-known martial arts action director?"

Xu Qizhe was stunned and said he didn't know him, "Why are you looking for this?"

Zhang Tan: "Of course it's for you to train. You can't make up martial arts movements. If you don't know him, I'll find one for you. After the story is written, you can learn from this martial arts director for ten days or half a month. If necessary, it's okay to ask him to join the production team."

Xu Qizhe: "..."

Are you serious? He has been in the industry for many years, and he has only heard of martial arts directors being invited to film and television works, but he has never heard of martial arts directors being invited to comics.

However, isn't this exactly what he wants! This kind of support and this kind of creative atmosphere made him tremble all over and couldn't wait! !