stjorthotic 428 Changing Skins (2/5)
428 Changing Skins (2/5)
Harris and Fili are the two most famous puppet masters in Europe.
This is something everyone agrees on.
The other puppet masters knew that they were incapable of repairing these puppets.
Let's see if the two of them can fix it.
Seeing everyone's eyes, curator Ian also understood.
Looking at the two, Director Ian asked.
"Two masters to try?"
Hearing this, Harris glanced at Felix beside him, and nodded.
"Okay, let me take a look."
After all, Harris picked up his magnifying glass and walked towards the real doll lying flat on the table.
However, Harris' expression couldn't help but change when he saw the spirit pattern on the real doll.
Harris never expected that the carvings on this puppet would be so complicated.
Originally, micro-carving was already enough to make people's heads big.
But now, the patterns on this doll's body are equivalent to using micro-carving techniques to carve the patterns first, and these tiny patterns look like lines from a distance.
Then these lines composed of patterns form complex and mysterious patterns again.
It is conceivable that if one person handles these patterns, how much work is required.
And the pattern seemed to be alive, making Harris dizzy after looking at it for a while.
Hurry up and lose the battle.
Looking at the curator aside with a wry smile, Harris shook his head and said.
"Sorry, Director Ian, I may not be able to help you with this. My skills are limited, and I am really not qualified for this job."
Harris is a real person. After finding out that he didn't have that skill, Harris didn't try his best, and directly admitted that he couldn't do it.
Hearing what Harris said, curator Ian showed unconcealable disappointment on his face.
Harris has been defeated, so the last hope is Master Philip next to Harris.
Looking at Fili, curator Ian said a little nervously.
"Master Feili, would you like to come and see?"
Seeing that it was finally his turn, Master Phillip showed a proud smile on his face, twisted his waist and came to Harris, Phillip said slowly.
"Get out of the way without that skill, it's really embarrassing for our puppet masters."
Hearing this, Harris' expression changed first, and then changed to other puppeteers.
Fei Li's words were equivalent to scolding everyone at the scene.
How can this make people look good?
But because I really don't have the ability to deal with these cultural relics.
Harris could only grit his teeth.
"Philip, don't be too arrogant, you can guarantee that you can repair these dolls yourself?"
"Hehe, let's wait and see."
Out of trust in his skills, Feili came to the puppet, and then stretched out his hand without looking back.
The young apprentice behind him hurriedly handed the magnifying glass to Feili.
Full of confidence, Fei Li cast his eyes on the magnifying glass, but as soon as he touched the real doll, Fei Li's expression froze.
Seeing that expression, Harris sneered.
He whispered to Zhou Ye beside him.
"Zhou Ye, you see, this guy is about as good as I am, but he's good at bragging, let's see how he steps down now.
Although Harris deliberately lowered his voice, the words clearly reached Philip's ears.
Hearing this, Fei Li's face twitched.
Although Feili wanted to say something now, Feili had to admit it.
It seems that I have indeed underestimated the situation in front of me.
The current situation is as if I am a top student in elementary school, seeing the teacher ask a question and ask the students to go up and solve it one by one.
After discovering that all his classmates couldn't do it, Xueba went up confidently and wanted to pretend to be aggressive, but finally found out that this was actually a high-level math problem in college.
This feeling made Fei Li feel dizzy.
Seeing Feili's expression, Zhou Ye on the side was also a little amused.
To restore a real doll, one must have a certain understanding of spirit patterns.
If you don't have an understanding of the spirit pattern, it is really impossible to start.
Because the spirit pattern is a living (bcef) speech language, it is not as simple as carving it with a carving knife.
Without knowing how it works, it is impossible to fix it.
Seeing Philly's reluctance to come down, Harris couldn't help but mocked.
"Master Feili, why don't you come down? Didn't you say you want to solve it easily? Why, it's too difficult? Tsk tsk.
Hearing this, Fei Li's eyes stood up, and the noise was a little sharp.
"Who said I can't do it? Hehe, yes, I admit that I can't restore the original doll by carving, but I have other ways to restore this doll.
Hearing this, everyone's eyes could not help but be surprised.
Hearing this, Zhou Ye was also a little surprised.
Is there any other way to restore a real doll? That's pretty odd.
Sure enough, Curator Ian's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked.
"Really? Master Philip? What can you do?"
"Skin-changing technique, curator Ian, only the skin-changing technique can restore these dolls to their original appearance, which is absolutely impossible to achieve with ordinary carving techniques.
In this regard, Philip was very firm.
Hearing this, curator Ian couldn't help being taken aback, with a look of embarrassment on his face.
The so-called skin-changing is a unique craft method of Feili's doll company, which was created by Feili himself.
A technique specifically aimed at repairing and replacing patterns on carved objects.
To put it bluntly, it is to use a special method to rub the patterns on the carvings.
Then the picture is repaired in the computer, and then it is a technique of spraying pictures with fuel.
Although it sounds simple, it is difficult in practice.
In particular, the patterns on the carvings are different from those on the plane, and the restoration of three-dimensional patterns requires 3D technology.
So so far, only the Feili family has this technology.
Of course, Director Ian has heard of Philly's technique.
But to be honest, Curator Ian didn't want to do that.
Because if the patterns on these dolls are re-painted, it will lose the original sense of historical vicissitudes of the cultural relics.
Only the ancient carving technique, that is, artificially filling these missing patterns little by little, can protect the cultural relics to the greatest extent without losing the sense of vicissitudes.
After all, the technique of changing skins is generally only applied to the restoration of modern handicrafts.
For the restoration of cultural relics, I haven't really used it much.
However, curator Ian understands that his cultural relic restoration experts have nothing to do with these dolls.
And these puppet masters are helpless about the restoration of these puppets.
Then there is no one in this world who can do it.
Now there are two roads before Curator Ian.
The first is that, like many cultural relics with immature restoration technology in the contemporary era, they are temporarily sealed up by museums, and will be restored after new technologies are available.
The second is to agree with Feili's approach and carry out the skin replacement treatment. Although this may lose the sense of history of the cultural relics, the restoration of the cultural relics can be completed as soon as possible.
Thinking of this, Director Ian fell into deep thought. .