Li Tuo's "Rainbow Loyalty" won the Youth Composer Gold Award

Recently, at the 10th San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival Awards Ceremony, young composer Li Tuo won the Youth Composer Gold Award for his original music "Loyalty Rainbow" and won unanimous praise from the judges and guests of the competition. It is reported that Li Tuo, as a animation enthusiast, was inspired to create this work from the character Rainbow Dash in the American cartoon "My Little Pony-Friendship is Magic" series. Rainbow Dash is deeply loved by the audience as "the only pony who can break the sound barrier" and as a girl who has a boy's soul. She is strong, competitive, loyal and reliable, and finally realizes her dream. From this, Li Tuo combined the personality characteristics and harmonious elements of animation characters, and the main tone of the song "loyalty" was born.

Throughout the song creation, Li Tuo expresses the musical levels very clearly, sometimes soft and soothing, sometimes majestic. There are ups and downs in the process. At the same time, combined with animation characters, there are many creative imitations of supersonic sonic booms. sound, and ends with a very epic and shocking sequence. Li Tuo said that life is full of temptations from many aspects, and he wants to convey the inner world of strength, justice, and bravery through music. He also hopes to encourage everyone to be loyal to each other and face friendship with the spirit of the cartoon, and let the pure love Friendship illuminates every corner of the universe.

During the creation process, Li Tuo also encountered many difficulties, how to combine reality with animation, and how to integrate the cuteness of Rainbow Dash with the solemnity of promoting the spirit of loyalty, while also bringing The audience feels immersed in the scene. In the end, Li Tuo found suitable instrument arrangement, rhythm changes and format arrangements, and cleverly resolved the situation. The music is solemn with a hint of mischief, closer to the animated image it wants to describe, and depicts one touching and real "picture" to the audience. In addition, Li Tuo completed the entire process from composing to mastering by himself. Due to the excessive use of compressors during the mastering process, there would be some slight distortion when listening carefully at the climax. Li Tuo said that he would take this as a warning in the future. When creating this type of work, try to avoid distortion while highlighting the changes in intensity and weakness in the orchestral music.

At the same time, senior composer Andrew Chen(Cheng Ming), as the music group judge and award guest of this competition, personally presented the trophy and award certificate to Li Tuo. Teacher Andrew said that: "Li Tuo's work won the gold medal in the original music competition of the film festival, which was a great encouragement to him. Personally, I think Li Tuo's music works have great potential. From the orchestration techniques to the melody, including the choice of style, it is a relatively complete interpretation of his original music. I hope to hear more of his different styles of music in the future."

Finally, Li Tuo said that winning an international award for a work inspired by animated characters was a breakthrough in his career, showing that love from the heart can also produce value. As a musician, in the future, he will continue to learn in the artistic field through his own practical actions, broaden his composition style, and carry forward the original intention and positive energy that he hold in his heart.