The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 165
"Good guy, I believe you said this is an aircraft production workshop." Wu Han said in disbelief looking at the 40-meter-high studio.

After Wang Shiyong's explanation along the way, most of the worries in Wu Han's heart have been resolved, but the heart has not been fully grounded, after all, it has not yet been finalized.

However, this huge studio was so strange that he strengthened his confidence. The news of Chen Jingxing's new film investment of 10 billion and the studio in front of him gave him a concrete understanding of DreamWorks' financial resources. Such a rich and powerful new owner, He shouldn't think that his team's salary is too high, and they can support them by pulling out a hair.

Wang Shiyong looked at the studio and sighed with mixed feelings: "This digital industrial park was built by China Film Group at a huge cost. It was completed last year. There are 12 greenhouses in total. This is the largest one. It is said that the rent is not cheap."

He also remembered the same news as Wu Han-DreamWorks produced a billion-dollar blockbuster.

Should he invest in the film and television industry back then? Look how many film and television companies have sprung up in the past few years. Two or three big cats and small cats dared to call out a valuation of hundreds of millions, and hot money poured in.

And then look at the animation industry, it was really crazy at the time.

As soon as the two entered the studio, they saw a group of people surrounding a huge machine.

Chen Jingxing looked at Wu Yue who was wearing a simple spacesuit and was held up by the mechanical arm and asked, "How is it, sister Wu, can you adapt to this speed? Are you afraid of heights?"

The actor Wu Yue who played the heroine of "Gravity" replied in a gentle and steady voice: "It's okay, it's not that I haven't hung a wire before, it's much more comfortable than a wire."

The solution to the weightlessness effect that Legacy's special effects solution experts came up with is to use industrial robotic arms, which is the kind of industrial robots that are widely used in fields such as automotive automation factories that everyone has seen in the video.

The mechanical arm of the industrial robot can realize the flexible movement of large angle and large steering.

One robotic arm is bound to the camera, and the other is bound to the actor, which can realize the actor's free rotation and flying in space, as well as 360-degree multi-angle surround shooting.

Of course, this can only be achieved when the actor is wearing a bulky space suit, because it cannot achieve the bending and flexible movements of the actor's body.

The weightless effect that requires actors to make flexible movements requires an upgraded version of Wia-puppet Wia to achieve.

That is to say, dozens of silk threads are bound to the actor's body, just like a puppet show, being pulled to make movements in the set program.

And this requires the computer to calculate the movement mode of each silk thread in each movement of the actor based on the cg preview. Legacy's US headquarters is already producing related software and calculating the corresponding programs.

Although there is still a lot of time before the actual shooting starts, actors need to adapt or be trained to perform in various shooting modes.

As the heroine, Wu Yue came to try the shooting of the robotic arm for the first time today, and she wore a rented and relatively inferior spacesuit-the real spacesuit used in the film is not easy to design, and the designers of Mo and Legacy are following Consultants brought in by the aerospace department design spacesuits.

It was only when he actually started making such films that Chen Jingxing began to understand what a heavy industry film really means. Various complicated and even unexpected problems would emerge, and it would take a lot of energy and effort to solve them.

Chen Jingxing chose Lei Jiayin to play another role in the film, that is, a male astronaut wearing a jet space suit for spacewalking.

Of course, Lei Jiayin is still filming the sequel of "Embroidered Spring Knife", but the shooting of "Gravity" is not in a hurry. The main production time of this film is actually the preparation and post-production. It will take a while for the actors to actually come to shoot , and you can also shoot scenes without Lei Jiayin first.

He inadvertently turned his head and saw Wang Shiyong and Wu Han had come to the filming booth, standing on the periphery of the crowd watching the two huge mechanical arms rotating and running smoothly.

Chen Jingxing explained to the assistant director next to him, and hurried towards Wang Shiyong and others.

Next, the assistant director will watch the two groups of robotic arms try to shoot a scene, and then render and produce it as soon as possible in post-production, so as to judge whether such a shooting plan can achieve the expected effect.

Often in the shooting of heavy industry movies, the director will lose his artistry and look more like a construction engineer. Maybe many directors will be more repulsed by this, but Chen Jingxing enjoys this kind of shooting very much. He likes this kind of work through different industrial machines. The process of achieving a visual spectacle.

A special lounge was also set up in the studio. Chen Jingxing brought the two of them to the lounge and sat down with the other two who had already been waiting in the lounge.

"This is Xu Sheng, morevfx is the CEO of Mo...

This is Xiang Xuan, one of the founders of Mo, and also the animation director..." Chen Jingxing smiled and looked at the surprised Wu Han and the thoughtful Wang Shiyong.

"Wang Shiyong, the boss of Tianhe Animation, and Wu Han, the director of animation, according to what Lao Xiang said, you should all know each other?"

Wang Shiyong showed a hearty smile, and said with a smile: "They are indeed acquaintances. It seems that Director Xiang recommended our Tianhe Animation."

It turned out that Xiang Xuan, one of the founders of Mo, and Wu Han, the animation director of Tianhe Animation, were classmates in the United States. Xiang Xuan first returned to China and founded the special effects studio Mo with Xu Sheng and others.

Wu Han waited for several years to return to China, and was fooled by Wang Shiyong to join Tianhe Animation. During the period, he also persuaded Xiang Xuan to come to Tianhe together.

Wang Shiyong knew that Mo was a holding subsidiary of DreamWorks. After all, this special effects studio has recently gained a lot of fame in the animation and special effects circles. The most famous thing is not the production of "Signal", but the salary and loose work. time.

The three industries of games, special effects and animation are often interoperable, because the flow of talents is very frequent. The basic flow sequence is that animation talents flow to special effects companies, and special effects talents flow to game companies.

Therefore, in the generally hard-working special effects and animation industry, Mo’s salary and working environment are envied by most industry practitioners. This circle is actually very small. Many people in the Tianhe animation team have been seduced by Mo, Wang Shiyong and Wu Hanhua It took a lot of effort to stabilize.

This is also the reason why Wang Shiyong readily agreed to Chen Jingxing's offer after hearing the olive branch from Chen Jingxing. Tianhe Animation only has the top salary in the animation industry, while Mo has the top salary in the special effects industry. It is higher than Tianhe animation.

However, after seeing the surprise and joy of his old classmates, Wu Han quickly became vigilant, and suddenly asked Chen Jingxing: "Mr. Chen... Uh, Director Chen, don't you want us to change to special effects?"

Although the special effects industry is still a little bit better than the current half-dead animation industry, Wu Han really loves animation, which is why he was able to be fooled by Wang Shiyong to Tianhe and stay here with all his heart. If he is asked to change his career He would never agree to do special effects.

Seeing Wu Han's vigilance and Wang Shiyong's wry smile and apologetic expression, Chen Jingxing couldn't help laughing: "Don't worry, you can not only continue to make animations, but also make better and greater animation works."

(End of this chapter)