The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

The time has entered mid-November, and at this time "Glory" is still in theaters around the world.

At this time, another work of Dimension Entertainment was also launched.

This is an animation - "Hunting Notes".

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On November 11th, the day of the shopping carnival hyped up by e-commerce companies, Guo Lei spent time at the movie theater.

He doesn't like to join in the fun. If there is anything he needs, he usually buys it and it's over. He never specially stores things on Singles' Day.

But his wife likes it.

He's too lazy to accompany his wife—they don't need such a wooden companion like him, and a group of little sisters are very happy to make up the list.

Ever since, he was also happy to have a leisurely time. After get off work, he went to the cinema to watch a movie.

He was watching "Demacia: Glory", and this was the third time he had gone to the cinema to watch it.

Even though it's three brushes, I still feel very refreshed after reading it.

Now, he is extremely looking forward to the release of "Night Hunter" in the next year. If Galen is the natal hero of the boss of their dormitory, then VN is his natal hero. When he was playing games back then, he mainly played bot lane shooters, and he loved VN the most—although it was very good.

When I got home, my wife hadn't come back yet. Bored, he took over the job of feeding the child from the off-duty nanny, and after finally putting the little one to sleep, he sat in front of the computer and opened the dimension platform.

After watching "Demacia: Glory", he has become a fan of Dimension Entertainment. During this period of time, when he was free, he often went back to make up those previous works of Dimension Entertainment.

Even animations are included.

The work "Amber Sword" has now risen to the point of his favorite anime. In just half a month, he has almost finished reading the three seasons of "Amber" - he is not an anime dead house, he usually goes to work, goes home to accompany his wife and children, it will take up a lot of time, it is impossible to do that Staying up late to brush things up.

But even so, in the last half a month or so, he was able to finish almost three seasons of content, which is quite good.

Now, for him, the third season of "Amber" is almost finished, and he plans to finish watching it today!

However, after opening the dimension platform, a home page recommendation popped up first.

Generally, this kind of recommendation, in other software, he must have dropped it casually for X-he doesn't like to watch advertisements.

However, on the dimension platform, it seems a bit different.

The current dimension platform, the overall number of users, the base is actually not small, but in general, this is a place dedicated to the distribution of works produced by Dimension Entertainment itself. Occasionally, some third-party works will be seen, but not How to vigorously promote it. At the same time, this software is also very simple in terms of interface style, and never engages in too many fancy advertisements, especially this kind of homepage pop-up advertisements, which are more likely to be annoying by users, and Dimension Entertainment is even more useful Very restrained.

This is the purpose of everything that puts the user experience first.

In this case, Dimension Entertainment uses pop-up windows on the homepage to advertise things, which basically means that their new work is about to be released.

Sure enough, when he saw the content of the pop-up window clearly, he became very excited!

"The latest masterpiece of Dimension Entertainment! The CG animation of "Hunter's Notes" is officially launched!"

Guo Lei really didn't know about this animation before.

He didn't click to open it in a hurry, but looked at the promotion under the advertisement.

"A novel adaptation...well, it's Dimension Entertainment's consistent style...wasteland painting style? Pure CG production?"

Originally, he was already a fan of Dimension Entertainment, but when he saw something new, even if it was animation, he decided to watch it. Not to mention, the elements of the latter works are even more attractive when placed outside.

The pure CG technology of the wasteland painting style, the animation produced, there may not be similar works in China at present.

If it is another domestic animation company that claims to be CG animation, it will definitely be questioned by a lot of people. For domestic CG works, most people’s inherent impression may be that the level of model production is low; the lighting and materials are messy; the related rendering does not take effort or thought...

But if Dimension Entertainment does it, then almost no one will worry about it.

Originally, Guo Lei was going to make up for the little tail that he hadn't watched in the third season of "Amber", but now, his thinking has changed a bit—since a new work is out, why don't you watch it first? New work?

The complete works of "Hunter's Notes" have a total of ten episodes, which are updated at 8 o'clock every Saturday night, and the first episode is currently released.

The payment model of this work is obviously different from the previous animations and TV series.

Non-members do not have any free content to enjoy, even Dimension members can only watch the first episode for free.

Moreover, it is quite expensive.

The price for non-members is five yuan per episode. If you buy the complete works, that's fifty yuan. Even if it is a member, it will cost 40 yuan after the discount.

However, Guo Lei is not sensitive to prices at all in this respect. Don't care about dozens of dollars, anyway, it's a small amount, just pay and you're done!

In contrast, seeing the work earlier is what he cares more about.

He took out his mobile phone and scanned the QR code to pay the bill. Although he was a member and the first episode didn’t cost money, he still pre-ordered the full episodes. Anyway, he believed that what Dimension Entertainment produced would not disappoint him, no It will make him feel like his money was wasted.

He started watching "Hunter's Notes", and sure enough, just the first scene made him feel that the money he spent on animation was worth it.

In the puddles formed by the accumulation of sewage, rags of the original color, rusty iron cans, and carrion corpses left by unknown animals, all kinds of dirt floated or sank.

Suddenly, a one-meter-long giant rat came out from nowhere, creaked and screamed, and ran into the sewage, gnawing on some pieces of rotten meat. The giant rat seems to be normal, but when it has leather and fur, it will drop a few pieces of meat, and these pieces of meat have long been rotten.

This picture is very similar to the concept of being affected by radiation in many movies or literary works.

Then, the camera gradually zoomed up from the giant rat, and the Huamin reflected was full of buildings with only frames, houses with half-collapsed walls, and car wrecks scattered around.

The broken world is full of miserable green fluorescence.

Such a place, which used to be called a ruin, is now called a city-this is what the subtitles say.

Seeing this first scene, Guo Lei believes that this will be an excellent work.

Although the story has not yet started, Dimension Entertainment has already demonstrated their excellent production level when they were doing pure CG animation through the dynamic giant mouse before. In the follow-up, the scene shown by the camera zooming out further revealed their strong strength in art.

They are serious about their work, whether it is in the overall design or in the details of the picture, they have put in a lot of effort.

In the ruins of the city at night, a woman is being chased by a large group of ragged-looking people with certain deformities on their bodies.

This is the beginning of "Hunter's Notes".

The woman with the baby in her arms ran in a hurry, and after turning a corner, she suddenly noticed a figure sitting by the wall.

The man's whole body was covered in a black blanket, his head was lowered, and his face could not be seen clearly. Judging from his thin figure, he looked like an eight or nine-year-old child.

She rushed over with a few strides, forced the swaddling baby she was holding tightly into the man's arms, and said in a crying voice: "Please, save her!"

The fluorescence emitted by the puddle of sewage under the wall illuminated the woman's face. This is a very young and beautiful face, only around 20 in appearance, with a delicate snow-white skin that is rare in this era, in stark contrast to the deformed people that appeared in the previous picture.

Without waiting for an answer, the woman suddenly stood up and ran to the depths of the alley. A few seconds later, she suddenly let out a scream that almost pierced her eardrums.

In the slightly noisy night, the screams spread far away. The frenzied crowd not far away immediately burst into shouts of excitement or joy. In less than a minute, the torches illuminated the alley, and more than a dozen mobs in ragged clothes with cruelty and excitement intertwined on their faces , rushed into the alley, you pushed and squeezed, and chased into the depths of the alley.

In the fluorescent light of the sewage, under the reflection of evil, the miserable screams of women and the excited howls of refugees tell people that cruel things are happening there.

At the corner of the wall, the figure wrapped tightly in the black felt blanket moved suddenly, slowly raised his drooping head, and took out a swaddling baby from under the blanket. Half of his palm was exposed from the edge of the rag. The immature silhouette clearly belonged to a minor. My child, but his skin is icy clean and moist, so bright that it is a bit dazzling, and it doesn't fit in with the surroundings. And in the lowered blanket, a deep blue light glowed, which were his eyes, silently watching the baby in the swaddle.

So far, the main character 'Su' in Notes of the Demon Hunter, and the baby girl who is an important clue to the development of the follow-up story, have all come out.

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The follow-up story, after dawn.

An old man in his fifties knocked on the empty iron pipe standing on the ground and roared: "Work! Get up, you bastards! Let Old Hans see how many lucky ones are left today." guy!"

Hundreds of people got up and rushed to him.

In the follow-up conversation, I learned that Old Hans is an agent of a company. Here, people can get money and exchange for survival materials by doing coolies and digging ores in the mine.

Like a butcher picking animals, he glanced at their physique, skin and complexion, and ordered casually: "You can, go over there to get something to work!" or "You can't!"

Those who were selected were ecstatic, while those who were not selected were ashamed.

"Why can't I!" A thunderous roar drew everyone's attention back. A 1.9-meter tall man who looked like a mountain bear thumped the iron case and roared at Old Hans.

Old Hans pointed to a bowl-sized ulcer on the black man's chest, and slowly said: "You are sick! Letting you go down the mine will infect all my strong mules. Who will treat me then? Work?"

"I can work! I want to eat, and I have three children to raise!" The black man didn't listen carefully to what Old Hans was saying, but kept roaring, beating the iron case to a bang.

There was a sudden gunshot, and behind Old Hans, a bald man pulled the trigger of the double-barreled shotgun in his hand. Hundreds of grains of iron sand blasted into the black man's chest, blasting a big hole.

The content of this scene, as well as the previous part, about the woman who runs away, clearly shows the cruelty of this new era.

After the old Hans finished picking people, he complained to himself about the shortage of labor force recently.

Then, Su walked over.

This child, who looked less than ten years old, was wrapped in a dirty blanket. His face and hands, as long as the exposed parts were exposed, were tightly wrapped with cloth strips, with only one left eye exposed.

"You want to work too?"

Su nodded.

"Okay! But first tell me if it's a man or a woman?" Old Hans said.

"Very good, boy, go over there to get tools. Like everyone else, you can get five cents for digging out a hundred kilograms of ore. This is the greatest preferential treatment for you. You can't be born if you dress like this. What's wrong? Well, you don't have to worry. At least you don't smell bad. Old Hans has a good nose. Go to work. When you can't do it, go to Peter the Cripple, and he will tell you How much money do you earn and how much food can you exchange for?"

After night fell, when the mine was about to finish work, the protagonist Su, carrying a huge basket that didn't match his figure, walked over step by step.

He is thinner and smaller than any peon, but harvests the most minerals.

However, in exchange for supplies, he had to buy 'third-grade pure water'.

In the conversation, this setting was also thrown out. The so-called three-grade pure water is water that has not been polluted. Through this, Old Hans also guessed that Su was raising a child, and said: "If a child under three years old drinks water without radiation and eats clean food, yes, he will eat damn third-grade water and food all the time. food, then it won’t mutate when it grows up.”

In this way, the dependent relationship between Su and the baby girl is shown.

These contents are the contents of the first chapter of the original novel.

According to the adaptation, it is only a prologue, and it should not spend too much content in the precious animation space. Especially in such a sophisticated CG animation, every second is burning dollars.

But the content of this part is very important. It shows the world view of the whole work, as well as the characters in it, under the distorted world view, distorted values.

The style of the whole work sets the tone; at the same time, it also enriches the personality of the protagonist.

This is not good content to give up.

It is still necessary to work hard to make it.