hhehehehe i am very excited to talk about him :))))
Yin Jiao ! And his design :
here are some notes :
the concept is basically what i like to call "prince bandit" there is so many reasons to that, he being a fallen prince ordered to be executed, but also because in pinghua, after running away from Zhaoge, he becomes litteraly a boss bandit with his own little group of bandits (and i love that for him, found family and stuff). Fun fact, I came up with the design before reading that part in pinghua, so this is just another happy accident :)
the secondary theme would naturally be tattoo. Ancient China actually had some form of tattoo, more like body paint. and interestingly enough during the Zhou dynasty, they used indelible paint to mark criminals. It ties in nicely with the main theme. Admitelly, I haven't found a motif I want for him, maybe it changes depending on what he would want.
Another thing I decided to do was to completely cut his hair, both for the theme and also for narrative purposes. I understand that filial piety is a huge thing, not just in fiction. Cutting hair was badly seen and would mean you would either be a criminal or you just don't care about your parents. And wouldn't you know, Yin Jiao has daddy issues :) I like to think he kept it short. (this whole hair thing doesn't stop to just him actually. Nezha firstly and, soon after, Yin Hong. hehe)
The red mark on his forehead is directly taken from the book. He, with Yin Hong and Huang Tianhua, are the only ones to be described with a "red beam coming from their forehead." Don't ask me why these three in particular, I'm still trying to figure it out :')
I don't have anything in particular for his movesets except just "strong". He's a strongman so naturally I wanted some muscle showing. I didn't have any restriction for the outfit so I got inspired by an idol statuette of him.
Oh and ! As I decided Yin Jiao is going to be Ji Fa's foil, I decided that their color palette are meant to contrast each other. But since I don't know what I want for Ji Fa completely, you'll have to wait Ji Fa design post. That being said, I have some drawings of them :)
Yin Jiao is meant to have multiple sets of face and arms. I figured that I'd give him multiple torsos, inspired by Wuershan movies idea of Yin Jiao. But, it will be tricky, anatomically nightmarish for me, and I still think about ways to do it :') (tho I have a funny idea of how the three heads thinks lol)
I think I don't have more concepts to share so I'll leave you with some doodles.
Yin Jiao and Nezha would hate each other guts for no reason.
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In history, Yi Jiang is Jiang Ziya’s daughter and wife of King Wu. She’s considered a virtuous woman who was also a minister in her husband’s government. The Fsyy interesting enough doesn’t seem to mention her by name.
This a initial test of how I want to characterize Yi Jiang.
She’ll likely be a strategist/advisor, or maybe a logistics officer. Since she’s Jiang Ziya’s adopted daughter in this adaptation, I think she may also know a few tricks that he taught her.
The idea was to draw Zhang Zhehan and 11 of his roles, every artist used 5 colors (we don't count black and white)
roles and artists:
Zhang Zhehan - Auxochromatic
Xu Jin - Ange @trashwarden
Xiao Zhe - Wisedo @wisedo
Wang Yue - Meep
Lin Shu - Naico
Ke Luo - Kira
Ji Fa - Aya @ayarosenweiss
Zhou Zishu - Ailee @ailee-art
Pei Yuntian - Ann
Ming Xia - Em @emiichwaan
Ahan - G
Zheng Zhi - PJ
Yeah I watched the second COTG movie and it’s taken over my life. If I had a nickel for every time I got violently fixated on a sequel media about Chinese mythology that received a lot of mixed reviews because of certain animation styles and possible budget cuts mainly because it had NeZha I’d have 2 nickels
*looks at LMK s5*
Anyways, I guess we doing art dumps now
You know I got a bit worried if I was deviating too much with my design of Yin Jiao’s 3 head 6 arm form, but given what he looked like in the actual movie I think I can implore a little self indulgence (every time I draw him I think of sharks and I think it shows a little lol)
Also Yin Jiao and NeZha have a lot of parallels that I’ve been absolutely eating up (NeZha stop taking other people’s backstories and looks in mythology challenge /j). Also would love to see NeZha and Lei Zhenzi interact more as the only kids on the immortal team. Also the only guys on the team who can fly, you can't tell me they wouldn't have taken advantage of that
I’m definitely not qualified to do any sort of rewrite of these movies, but I’m all for ending the trend of cutting the Huang family out of FSYY media when they’re so pivotal to the original novel. TianHua come back, they loosing it without you...
And some final miscellaneous doodles
I saw Yang Jian, Ji Fa, and Yin Jiao all get shipped together frequently and honestly I heavily fw the poly version of them. Yin Jiao has 3 heads to kiss after all /j (what would their poly ship name be? JianJiaoFa???)
Also please ignore how bad my Ji Fa design is, I'm still trying to figure out how to draw him
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Creation of the Gods 2: Demon Force Review (Contains Spoilers)
Given I’m unsure of what is considered major spoilers or just expected of the movie given it’s based on a Ming Dynasty novel, I will just say you have been warned
Plot summary: It’s the traditional siege(s) of Xiqi plot line. Lead by Deng Chanyu (best known for bullying Huang Tianhua and Nezha with a rock) and then later Wen (taishi) Zhong (best known for having a lot of friends), they try to break through Xiqi’s defences and capture Ji Fa and get the fengshen bang. The four Mo brothers are also there and dies to super Yin Jiao who got resurrected by Kunlun and absorbed Yuanshi Tianzun’s power. Deng Chanyu turncoats over to Xiqi after Ji Fa talks to her about her motivations for combat and together, along with Jiang Ziya’s advice, beat Wen Zhong and one of the ten absolute formations he set in place (the one that seals souls).
Plot wise, overall it’s fine. It’s basically what I expected after the director said that the sieges of xiqi was going to be one big battle. What I didn’t expect was that the only ones of the Kunlun disciples that actually fight are Leizhenzi and super Yin Jiao. The funniest thing ever was when Nezha, yes that Li Nezha of Chentang Pass who will commit 1700 killings, saying killing is prohibited by immortals. Later on, Yang Jian says drinking is prohibited, so maybe they’re just really careful of rule following in case they end of going against the way of heaven. I would’ve liked to see Wen Zhong hit people with his sticks instead of doing the Jie Sect classic: formations, but given the actor is old, too much active and violent movement is probably bad for him.
Okay time to address the biggest issue in the movie (outside of horrendous cgi but I’ll get to that). The strange romance subplot between Ji Fa and Deng Chanyu. I’ve taken to calling this movie a high budget costume cdrama movie entirely because of this subplot. For those who don’t know, the strong independent who needs no man woman having a badly written romantic subplot with the protagonist who makes bad decisions due to falling in love is almost a key corner stone of cdramas.
Ji Fa I know you’re nice and all but all of Xiqi got their souls sealed and is currently getting massacred by Shang soldiers (thinking back why were you affected little lotus root? It’s one of your key advantages in the book too) and you’re hesitating to kill Wen Zhong because it’d also kill Deng Chanyu. Deng Chanyu had to go help you while she was bleeding out because you were that hesitant. What happened to you! In the beginning of the movie, you’d rather die than let the people of Xiqi suffer and now you’re willing to sacrifice all of Xiqi (and the world) because of a woman whom was your enemy like 3 days ago and you don’t even know very well! Ji Fa stop reminding me of the version of you from The Legend and the Hero 2. It’s not a good look.
On a lesser note, the horrendous cgi! Well it’s mostly fine except …
This monstrosity. Trust me it looks worse in motion. This is what I’ve taken to calling super Yin Jiao. Given that he and Leizhenzi are the only ones who fight a lot with cgi, you’d hope it looks good. It does not and every time he came on screen I wanted to burst out laughing. Please note this movie had been delayed due to cgi reasons. If this was the best that they’ve got, I just hope less of super Yin Jiao in part 3.
About the kunlun disciple shaped mascot in the room: Nezha and Yang Jian. What they do in this movie is mainly stand around and watch things happen. They help out with protecting the citizens of Xiqi during Wen Zhong’s attack, though ultimately fails to the soul sealing moonbeam lasers (Book Nezha: ???) and that’s it! Oh wait, Yang Jian also rescues Jiang Ziya once after Jiang Ziya called out water escape several times as a gag. Speaking of which, eight-nine technique, nine turns technique, what’s that? All Yang Jian knows is the 5 methods of escape. He literally does nothing but that and rescue people and calls them out too.
Also I think they ended up taking out a romantic subplot involving him because he was offered alcohol, denied due to reasons above, and then purposeful accidental kissed by the woman who handed it to him. As one commenter said, which of the four words of Qingyuan Miaodao have to do with love? He later rescues her and she tries to say something but he just goes off to save more people. Nezha gets a better showing with huntian ling and blots out the sky to stop the moonbeams from hitting people. Truly the mascots to bait people who had no interest previously but do have interest in one or both of these characters into watching. Unfortunately I’m a Huang Tianhua fan too so I’m just eternally suffering.
Characterisation wise, outside of Ji Fa, everyone important is fine. Ji Fa’s characterisation aside from the strange romance subplot is workable? He’s way too self sacrificing, especially as King Wu, but outside of that being annoying, just acts like part 1’s version.
Given what I remembered of Nezha and Yang Jian’s personalities and roles in the first movie, it was to be expected they be passive rather than how they acted in the book (missing Nezha’s violent personality and Yang Jian’s love of viewing the scenery and being a smart asshole). Group together because they are basically a set.
Jiang Ziya stops being comedic relief and starts doing his job as being the guy who does military strategies and also fills the quota for fish allegories.
Yin Jiao I don’t remember much from the first movie or the book. He gets a lot of people shipping him with absolutely everyone after the first movie so that probably says something about his personality. Standalone, he’s fine. Usual angsty guy out for revenge. This movie actually made me realise Yin Jiao is Taisui Xingjun, hence the form super Yin Jiao has. Super form has 3 personalities as a gimmick and it’s fine, not anything majorly important. Lets me suffer the bad cgi more however.
Newcomers Wen Zhong, Duan Chanyu (and to a lesser important extent, the four Mo brothers).
Wen Zhong, less friends, got a huge power buff. He’s the one who stayed most to the book version. Loyal supporter of the Shang Dynasty, though not to Yin Shou, and comes out of retirement to secure the future of the Shang Dynasty. Didn’t have his condemnation of Yin Shou’s sins here but Yin Shou comparatively has done less sins compared to the book before Wen Zhong returns from suppressing the northern uprising. Dies by getting stabbed through the third eye. Enthusiastic supporter of following the rules.
Deng Chanyu diverges from the book a lot. Her core motivation is to follow her dead father and die on the battlefield too and bring honour to the Deng family name. Her reason for turn coating is due to not wanting to kill civilians because her father never did. Poor Deng Chanyu, freed from Tuxingsun and right into Ji Fa’s hands. She kept her rocks at least.
Brief note on the Mo family. Why can’t they talk and why do they have zero brain cells. That’s all I have to say on them. Yin Jiao kills the remaining three single handedly after they were terrorising Xiqi.
Yin Shou and Daji are in the movie but don’t do much so I won’t talk about them.
Overall
Well I didn’t have high expectations going in after I got spoiled about the romantic subplot and people saying the movie was badly written. It basically matched my expectations. Is it better or worse than the first one? I’d say worse but I’d have to rewatch the first one. I’d say the director achieved their goal of showing what can the average human do against cultivators and giants, though that came to the downside of basically only the normal humans doing the fighting. Hope the third movie is better and no badly written shoehorned in romantic subplot that destroys characters thanks.
