"Battle of Two Cities" has become the benchmark for American drama-style animation, igniting a burning budget for action dramas

League of Legends’ first official animated series "Battle of Two Cities" premiered on domestic video platforms on November 7. With its hard-core plot and outstanding graphics, it has successfully attracted countless fans. Many netizens have also become a favorite and are looking for this treasured animation. Anyway, after watching the first three episodes, I am full of anticipation for updates. I believe that all TV fans who are eager to wait for the subsequent plot development can understand.

With great anticipation, episodes 4-6 of "The Battle of Two Cities" have finally been updated and online, and they are still as exciting as ever. In the third episode, the dungeon builder Fandel died tragically. Wei blamed all of this on Blast, who failed to achieve anything but failed. With the help of the law enforcement officer and Silko, Vi's relationship with the twins broke down. Since then it has taken a different path.

In Episode 4, the blackened Blast, now named Jinx, became Silko's minion, triggering a series of bombings in Piltover, resulting in the deaths of six law enforcement officers. In order to solve the case, Piltover Sheriff Caitlin took Wei away from the prison who knew the clues. Vi and Jinx, once good sisters, are now on opposite sides, one good and the other evil.

"The Battle of Two Cities" adopts a two-line parallel narrative technique. In addition to the story line of Wei and Jinx, Hex Technology is also a major branch line. The focus is on the young Jace, who is trying to Harness the magic of runes through science. Although Professor Heimerdinger, the president of the college, believed that Jace's research would not have good results, with the help of the council members and Victor, Jace harnessed the power of the Hex Crystal and wanted to normalize it, using in all aspects of urban development, but whether it can succeed is still unknown.

"Battle of Two Cities" has received numerous praises since its broadcast. The total score on Douban is 9.1, and more than 26,000 viewers have rated it, of which 63.9% have 5-star ratings and 0.1 star. score. Of course, not only domestic audiences like this animation, foreign audiences are also very obsessed with it. This can also be seen from the Rotten Tomatoes freshness score of 100%, the audience popcorn index of 98%, and the IMDb score of 9.4. It is said that a truly good drama can be universal and satisfy the different preferences of different people from different cultures. "Battle of Two Cities" does that.

In addition to professional-level Hollywood storyboards and screenwriting, as well as a super fitting and catchy theme song, the graphics of "Battle of Two Cities" are also beyond the reach of ordinary animations, whether it is fighting scenes or character movements and expressions. , are all rich, natural and have a strong sense of impact, making people feel that every shot is 3D.

Take the scene in Episode 6 where Vi and Jinx met and were attacked by unknown persons as an example. The fighting scene lasted only two minutes, with punches to the flesh, coupled with awesome camera work. Violence and beauty at the same time. There are many scenes with violent aesthetics like this in the play. Almost every fight scene is an animation ceiling, and you can see the burning passion of money in every frame.

It is said that this drama was carefully polished by Fist for six years. All scenes are not modeled, but purely 2D hand-painted. Yes, you understood it correctly, it is just one angle. It means a single painting, coupled with the stylized rendering of 3D characters, it achieves a visual effects experience unique to 4K movies.

Of course, excellent production and strong visual impact are important reasons for the popularity of "Battle of Two Cities", but the more critical thing is the plot, which is the core that attracts attention for a long time. In the plot that has been aired, there is actually a lot of suspense hidden, such as why Bakubo's transformation is so huge. It seems that overnight he transformed from the innocent Bakubo to the crazy and almost out-of-control Jinx. Hilko's What role did she play in this, and whether she was using drugs to control her. There is also Haiers Technology. For the time being, it seems that Picheng will be better due to the development of this technology, but there is still a question mark whether it will be backlashed in the future.

At the end of the sixth episode, Jace forced Professor Heimerdinger, the father of Piltover, to retire. Victor, who was seriously ill, returned to his hometown and seemed to be conducting genetic mutation experiments, while Vi was abducted by a masked person. , how much impact all this will have on Piltover and Zaun, whose relationship is already in jeopardy, no one knows, and they can only wait for the answers in the subsequent plot.