Tencent Video Exclusive · Chief Director: Tian Li / Director: He Tan · Starring Dilraba Dilmurat
Xiaoqi Qingrang (Love on the Turquoise Land):
Visual Creation Notes
On this project, we made a bold synthesis: cinematic realism paired with an expressionist-leaning,
silhouette-driven language of light and shadow.
Supported by our in-house AI filmmaking workflow, we shaped action, style,
and worldbuilding into a unified visual system—while keeping the viewing experience smooth and natural.
Tencent Video Exclusive
Chief Director: Tian Li
Director: He Tan
Starring Dilraba Dilmurat

Xiaoqi Qingrang

(Love on the Turquoise Land):

Visual Creation Notes

On this project, we made a bold synthesis:
cinematic realism paired with an expressionist-leaning, silhouette-driven language of light and shadow. Supported by our in-house AI filmmaking workflow, we shaped action, style, and worldbuilding into a unified visual system—while keeping the viewing experience smooth and natural.
On this project, we made a bold synthesis:
cinematic realism paired with an expressionist-leaning, silhouette-driven language of light and shadow. Supported by our in-house AI filmmaking workflow, we shaped action, style, and worldbuilding into a unified visual system—while keeping the viewing experience smooth and natural.
Rather than technical showmanship, what we care about is believability.
Creature assets must hold consistent form and materials across different shot scales.
Large-scale sequences need scale, but also clarity.
Macro shots push texture, detail, and lighting logic to their most demanding edge—there’s nowhere to hide.
In the end, these shots have to share the same visual rules so they can truly connect in the edit.
Action sequences are a different challenge: causal beats, spatial relationships, eyelines, and impact feedback must be built from the ground up—and kept rigorously consistent. It should feel like performance unfolding naturally, not an “effects beat” added after the fact.
We focused on rhythm and weight:
making every contact and every pause traceable and believable—so what the audience experiences is impact and emotion,
not technique.
We used the silhouette-based light-and-shadow language as an emphasis layer—bolder, cleaner, and more directional at key moments—while keeping photographic realism as the foundation, so the image retains weight, warmth, and depth. Two visual languages, supporting each other in the same frame.
--- rom proposal to delivery, the entire window was roughly one week.
--- The tighter the schedule, the more essential clear visual benchmarks and shot priorities become:
establish the rules of the world first, land action and style inside the shot language,
then pull everything together with unified rhythm and texture.
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Rather than technical showmanship, what we care about is believability.
Creature assets must hold consistent form and materials across different shot scales.
Large-scale sequences need scale, but also clarity.
Macro shots push texture, detail, and lighting logic to their most demanding edge—there’s nowhere to hide.
In the end, these shots have to share the same visual rules so they can truly connect in the edit.
Action sequences are a different challenge: causal beats, spatial relationships, eyelines, and impact feedback must be built from the ground up—and kept rigorously consistent. It should feel like performance unfolding naturally, not an “effects beat” added after the fact.

We focused on rhythm and weight: making every contact and every pause traceable and believable—so what the audience experiences is impact and emotion, not technique.
We used the silhouette-based light-and-shadow language as an emphasis layer—bolder, cleaner, and more directional at key moments—while keeping photographic realism as the foundation, so the image retains weight, warmth, and depth. Two visual languages, supporting each other in the same frame.
From proposal to delivery, the entire window was roughly one week.

The tighter the schedule, the more essential clear visual benchmarks and shot priorities become: establish the rules of the world first, land action and style inside the shot language, then pull everything together with unified rhythm and texture.

These Visual Creation Notes capture how we made these shots feel real: creatures, large-scale sequences, macro imagery, and action interaction.


It represents one of the earliest attempts in Chinese screen content to align action, style, and worldbuilding through an AI-enabled pipeline.


We’re sharing the process here—not to prove what we did, but to show where every frame comes from.

These Visual Creation Notes capture how we made these shots feel real:


creatures, large-scale sequences, macro imagery, and action interaction.


It represents one of the earliest attempts in Chinese screen content to align action, style, and worldbuilding through an AI-enabled pipeline.


We’re sharing the process here—not to prove what we did, but to show where every frame comes from.