I really don't want to fight with gods

The times have changed.

Countless filmmakers present felt a sudden sense of urgency and panic.

The majestic ancient Roman buildings in "Gladiator" were originally constructed by computer virtualization. When I watched the movie, I felt like shit. This is how much it cost to build the real scene.

There are also countless colleagues who have tried their best to go to the location of Neverland Manor to find out what happened. They are all half-built buildings, and it would be good to have one-tenth of them.

It turned out to be completed with partial real scenes and computer filling.

Remember the most expensive movie in Hollywood history, "Ben-Hur".

The work filmed in 1958 cost 1500 million US dollars. According to the inflation of purchasing power and tune, it is approximately equal to the current production cost of [-] to [-] million US dollars!

A lot of the cost was spent on hundreds of buildings as the set, and as many as one million related props were produced, and more than 1 extras were used in a circus.

There is a law in Hollywood: Any virtual set will become more and more fake as time goes by, but the real scene will not lose its sense of reality no matter how many years later.

Just look at the famous "Star Wars".

After watching "Ben-Hur" for many years, those real scenes are indisputably standing there.

Jing Xiaoqiang himself was born in stage painting, so when he first came to Hollywood, he naturally specialized in scenery props.

And around the millennium, it was precisely the critical stage when computer CG technology fully matured.

If "Gladiator" is not obvious, full of real and fake ancient scenes around, "Pirates of the Caribbean" is a complete subversion.

Live-action shooting like "Ben-Hur" is costly and can solve scene problems, but actors have limits.

In that famous horse racing show, nearly a hundred white horses were specially trained, and then the male protagonist was thrown away by the carriage that was accidentally soared, and the carriage was crashed and countless actors were injured.

For example, can "Jurassic Park" train dinosaurs for filming?
In the scene of "Gladiator" fighting with beasts, without computer post-production assistance, the actors can only deal with real beasts!
Not to mention the lifelike skeleton pirates in "Pirates of the Caribbean", and the cracked carrion face of the big villain still has rich expression details.

Computer post-production CG can be said to [-]% broaden the dimension of film shooting.

In the past, when designing any plot, we had to first consider whether the screen could be realized. Now, as long as you dare to think, the rest is left to the computer animator.

I haven't experienced the aesthetic fatigue of the era when Marvel movies were flooded with computer CG special effects. I'm sure everyone will only think it's too wonderful at the moment.

The rules of the entire Hollywood movie world are about to be rewritten!
And is this rule in the hands of Jing Xiaoqiang?
No, the biggest difference between Jing Xiaoqiang and the Europeans and Americans of this era is that he is happy to seek profits from copyright patents, but he does not focus on making money.

The sharing economy that people in later generations are more accustomed to is to allow more people to use it for free, and then rely on the massive base to harvest a little bit of fees to achieve the super bonus of gathering sand into a tower.

Because the Internet economy is based on unprecedented mass characteristics.

Now he masters the computer CG post-production technology promoted by him, and also has a completely open software and engineer team. Anyone can spend a little money to buy a set of software to study it by themselves.

Just like the set of "fraud" music synthesis software, a set of VAIO laptops comes as a bonus, and anyone can turn their computer into a band or even an orchestra.

Those who are not talented can play around, and those who have feelings can delve into it.

But if you want to match well and reach the broadcast level, you need professional software and a professional team.

Maybe there will be such a rare genius who can produce the most top-level effects with the most basic software.

However, it is impossible for a single person to complete thousands of machines and thousands of operators to complete a large-scale project of a huge production.

So even if you have learned these software, understand technology and even management, you can't replicate this kind of enterprise scale.

We can only obediently outsource the post-production special effects of this part of the film to Fairy Flower, and then subcontract it to "all over the world" branches for production.

If other companies want to use this software system to follow suit and establish a business model, they may face sky-high charges of intellectual property theft.

Therefore, several other famous computer animation studios that should have developed along with the times were still in the stage of workshops with a dozen to dozens of people, and they were strangled to death by the large-scale operation of a super enterprise like Fairy Flower. .

Fairy Flower is now taking root in Hollywood, and has opened up to accept the post-production special effects business of all parties at a clear price. With a small number of European and American engineers and a large number of skilled workers in "Asian" computer factories, it is definitely not the case for any European and American computer animation studio. Aristocratic and elite workshops are unbeatable for their low price and high quality.

At the Academy Awards in 92 and 93, such studios were just awarded the Science and Engineering Awards.

They have just produced a pure computer-generated [-]D short film similar to a tin box.

Let the filmmakers feel that computer animation is approaching step by step...

I never thought that the post-production of computer CG special effects led by Jing Xiaoqiang would choose another path, directly running over everyone's faces!
Technologists are obsessed with using computers to create 100% pure [-]D animations, just like drinking tea in Pingjing City, they must pay attention to what mountain the water must be dragged from, what kind of tribute the tea leaves are, and how old the teacup must be.

Jing Xiaoqiang doesn't care about the tastes from all over the world, as long as he can cook good dishes, he will serve them to the audience.

If the hardware technology is not up to the mark, then the animation will be simulated by frame-by-frame modification. If the software level is not enough, then thousands of computers will be used to disperse and replace complex calculation settings.

According to his mentality, anyway, the level of hardware will be improved by leaps and bounds, and it will gradually stagnate in excess after ten or twenty years. Now the things that have been painstakingly completed can be done after two years of ordinary computing, so why spend so much effort.

Moreover, the down-to-earth Hollywood computer rendering and special effects post-processing technology is not good for him to distance himself from the rest of the world. It is better to take this road astray to kill the evil.

In short, his brief introduction on the new computer special effects post-production technology not only helped Fairy Flower attract an endless stream of hopeful cooperation crews, but also robbed the traditional four awards at the Oscars.

After Jing Xiaoqiang sang the best original song, the big guy who won the best director for directing "Forrest Gump" last year was talking nonsense. He wanted to whet his appetite and make everyone wonder who would take over from him. Torches, but the audience unexpectedly responded very little.

Looking at Lao Yu's "Gladiator" and Lao Zhang's "Atonement" on the big screen, they both clearly surpassed the standards of other nominated films.

Including comparing and watching "Braveheart" now, I feel that it is good enough, but the production seems to be not perfect, and it seems rough here and there.

Stimulated by the hot scenes of "Gladiator", I always feel that other movies are not so bright, sharp and thrilling.

If the computer post-production special effects rendering is also used to clean it up, the quality of the entire film will definitely increase.

Then add Li An, who directed "Cape" and "Pirates of the Caribbean", and "Fast and Furious" directed by Lao Yu.

Now it seems that their movies are all superior to others, and this computer post-production special effects has contributed a lot.

It's like everyone taking photos without makeup, and the result is that there are a few effects taken with a beauty camera, which naturally hangs everyone.

What follows is not to make people admire them for taking good photos, but it will only make beauty cameras sell better.

Anyone would think, if it were my work, and if it could be cleaned up like this, it would definitely be improved to a higher level!

The masters in Hollywood are all masters who are good at using tools. What Jing Xiaoqiang just showed is that computer post-production will be the sharpest tool in the future.

Originally, this kind of tool would be controlled by high-level directors like Spielberg and Cameron of "Titanic" for a few years, but now it has become a commodity that anyone can touch, just add money.

So when the last best director finally announced that Lao Zhang won the unanimous praise of all the judges because of the war scene in the opening 25 minutes of "Atonement", and won the gold award for best director this year.

The audience applauded, and even strongly appealed to replay this scene again.

Everyone is a filmmaker, and there are countless ways to rewatch it, but now it feels like I just took a class, and I can’t wait to review and consolidate the knowledge points.

Looking at it again this time, I can clearly understand many ways that I was amazed at before.

It exploded violently next to the living actors. In the past, it was difficult to dare to engage in such dangerous pyrotechnic explosion shots. Now it seems that the explosion and the characters were shot separately and then synthesized by computer.

Without a computer, do you really spend your life fighting for such an amazing and shocking picture?

The flamethrower who was detonated was rolling in the sea of ​​​​flames. If it was split into a fire scene and a stuntman wrapped in a fire blanket and started a fire alone, the risk factor would be much lower.

Even the water birds flying over the river in quiet times should be special effects added later.

It's like a painter can add more picturesque and dramatic brushstrokes as he likes, so who can compare?
The renewed applause seemed to be given to Lao Zhang who was excited to take the stage, but it was actually given to the technological revolution led by Jing Xiaoqiang, who is worthy of being an Internet upstart.

Perhaps only this crossover artist in the IT industry can bring about such a thrilling change.

Lao Zhang is not as free and easy as Li An, and cares more about office politics. He also made preparations, and thanked the boss first of all in fluent English with a Northwest accent.

The emotional talk is that the boss played this sad soundtrack at a friend's banquet, told him the outline of the story, and emphasized that the vision should be placed in the perspective of every ordinary person, so that such a scene An unforgettable cooperation.

Then he said something that he later regretted.