《Fengshen Part 1》Introduction to the original design of the nine-tailed fox

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The nine-tailed fox is a very interesting existence in Fengshen. Its high recognition and image profile in current cultural works just verify a view we mentioned before in [Lei Zhenzi Chapter]:

[Every era has an image with contemporary characteristics. In fact, many characters in Fengshen evolved into their current appearance in different periods and under different cultural backgrounds.】

Its experience among gods, monsters and monsters can be described as quite bumpy:

The earliest detailed description of the nine-tailed fox can be traced back to the record in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Nanshan Classic - Three hundred miles to the east, there is a mountain called Qingqiu, with many jade in its yang and many green crocodiles in its yin.There is a beast, which looks like a fox and has nine tails, and whose voice is like a baby. It can eat people, and those who eat it are not bewitched (eating its meat can protect them from evil spirits) - at that time, its image was towards totem worship, slightlywitchcraft;

In the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was regarded as a symbol of auspiciousness, prosperous kings, and prosperity of descendants. In the "Wuyue Spring and Autumn Period", the nine-tailed fox was even associated with the Tushan girl married by Dayu; Confucius and his disciples 《 The Classic of Filial Piety - raises its status to the level of - the most virtuous bird and beast, the nine-tailed fox (the nine-tailed fox is the bird and beast with the highest virtue) -;

However, with the changes of the times, the penetration of religious concepts and the spread of witchcraft, the nine-tailed fox was gradually demonized because of its cannibalistic and charming characteristics, and its image gradually evolved into the more familiar figure that we are now more familiar with, causing harm to the country and the people.The image of a fox prostitute.

So after experiencing successive influences from different periods and different cultural backgrounds, the nine-tailed fox finally grew up from - Suisui white fox, nine-tailed pangpang, into the family, and I am Youchang - these few people want to be transformed into immortals and Buddhas.It fell and became a shameless, enchanting and troublesome monster that destroyed the imperial court and overthrew the country and destroyed the king - which also foreshadowed the description of the nine-tailed fox in "The Romance of the Gods":

“The eyes are exposed in the sad wind shadow, like a golden lamp in the mist; the four claws are poked out from the black air, like steel hooks out of the purple clouds; the tail swings and the head shakes like a ferocious beast; ferocious and fierce like a ferocious beastlion.”

“A treacherous evil beast that is evil, monstrous, animalistic, and terrifying comes to life on the page.

[Physical Characteristics—Nine locks in one tail]

Due to the high recognition and topicality of the Nine-tailed Fox itself, a large number of Nine-tailed Fox characters have appeared in many artistic works. Nowadays, most of the Nine-tailed Fox in movies and TV shows are based on the Ming and Qing engravings of the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Edo period in Japan.Based on the Tamamoae Ukiyo-e, the most representative feature is that it splits directly into nine long tails at the tail vertebra;

However, this kind of exaggerated interpretation on a two-dimensional visual level also greatly increases the cumbersomeness of the Nine-tails volume and the difficulty of controlling the center of gravity, which directly causes the picture structure to lose balance when the Nine-tailed Fox is in real motion, and also sacrificesThe character's unique body lightness and dynamic fluidity are revealed.

So we went further and finally found some clues in the murals of the Western Jin Dynasty and the portrait bricks of the Eastern Han Dynasty: Nine-tailed foxes can be seen sitting around the Queen Mother of the West in the mural tombs of Bu Qianqiu in Luoyang, Xincun Xinmang in Yanshi, Henan and other Han Dynasty murals.The image of the tomb ceiling collected by the Xuzhou Han Painting Museum also depicts a nine-tailed fox on the side. The nine tails in these portraits have a unified feature: one tail vertebra is maintained, and nine long strands are separated on the upper side of the main body.The tail is like the forked branches on the branches of a tree.

”The shape of the nine-tailed fox is thus solved. The setting of [One tail with nine locks] not only maintains the characteristics of the traditional nine-tailed fox, but also meets our dynamic needs for its strange and agile body.

[Physical Characteristics—The Boundary Between Humans and Foxes]

》Fengshen--The biggest feature of the nine-tailed fox setting is to show the bond between it and Daji - both the human form and the fox form need to retain certain characteristics of the other party's state.

Due to technical limitations, traditional works generally start with the former: for example, adding some animalistic and seductive postures to the actors' interpretations;

But this time, with the support of digital technology, we hope to achieve some two-way echoes from the initial conceptual design to make this character more full and lively.

According to the uncanny valley effect, as the degree of anthropomorphism of humanoid objects increases, humans’ favorability towards them will also change accordingly——

So based on this theory, we continuously adjusted the human characteristics of the nine-tailed fox in the early rounds of design. We tried to increase the human-like proportion in different parts from the face to the torso, and finally chose to adjust the waist and hip structure of the fox to make it more human-like.The shape is more like that of a human girl, and I have finally adjusted the fit of human and fox into one and have just the right sense of evil charm.

After [Manazhonghe] completed the four-stage conceptual design drawings, sculptures of the corresponding stages were produced and scanned and rendered; then [Tianheyan] Studio processed the tail of the nine-tailed fox into a transparent state when changing.The required granular state; and finally delivered [Mei Si Image] to complete a huge visual effects digital project.

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