director of the millennium

After Wu Jing was sent to the hospital, Wu Yuan immediately stopped filming and went to the hospital to accompany her.

Soon, Wu Jing's comprehensive examination report came out that afternoon. Although it was not severe enough to require a cast due to broken bones, the trauma caused by the fall from the horse still required Wu Jing to rest for about half a month before he could fully recover.

In fact, given his current condition, even if he only rests for two or three days and completes a simple bandage, he can continue filming with the injury.

But Wu Yuan still rejected this dangerous suggestion.

Wu Jing still has a lot of circus scenes to shoot next. If he is asked to shoot with an injury, there is no guarantee that he will have another accident.

He was lucky this time. After he fell off his horse, the extras behind him reacted immediately and stopped riding, thus avoiding a serious stampede.

You know, falling off a horse is not scary. What is scary is being trampled by the horse team behind you after falling down.

Therefore, on battlefields in the past, if a cavalryman fell off his horse during a charge, his chances of surviving were very low, and if he was lucky, he would at least break his arms and legs.

This is because being trampled by both one's own and enemy horses caused secondary injuries, and sometimes comrades would be tripped and die on the spot.

Thinking of this horrible scene, Wu Yuan didn't dare to let Wu Jing continue filming with the injury. One cannot rely on luck in such a matter.

So he simply forced Wu Jing to rest in the hospital for half a month to recuperate. He could only return to the crew after all the wounds and bruises on his body were healed and he was no longer in any pain.

As for the crew, they will naturally shoot other scenes first during this period of time.

"Ride the Wind" is not entirely about war dramas, there are also quite a few literary dramas, most of which are concentrated in a small village in Jinzhong, which is the village where the heroine Dachunzi lives, and it is also one of the anti-Japanese bases.

This part of the play is mainly carried out by Dachunzi and the villagers, in order to show the heroic behavior of the whole nation in resisting the Japanese and the people bravely resisting the foreign enemies at that time.

Dachunzi even helped to evacuate the injured soldiers while she was pregnant.

This part of the scene can be shot in about ten days.

Moreover, this part of the scene was relatively easy to shoot. It only took half a day to shoot, which was considered half-shoot and half-rest.

There's no way around it. The male lead's scenes cannot be filmed, so there's bound to be a gap in the schedule.

Only TV dramas can tolerate the behavior where the leading actor or actress joins the crew a month late, or only joins the crew for a dozen days, and then uses a stand-in to shoot the rest of the scenes.

Who can blame the length of a TV series, the large number of characters, and the crew being able to adjust even when the male and female protagonists are absent for a while.

The same is not true for movies. Most movies only have three or five main actors, and the male and female protagonists’ roles account for at least half of the entire film. If one is missing, the filming will not be possible smoothly.

Therefore, overlapping roles often occur in TV drama crews, but in film crews, no actor dares to do so, and no director can tolerate it.

In the absence of Wu Jing, the filming of "Riding the Wind" was inevitably put on hold, and Wu Yuan could now enjoy more rest time.

By only shooting for half a day every day, he can have half a day more free time.

It just so happened that Liu Yifei was in the same crew with him, so it was a good thing for the two of them to just stay in the room playing games or reading books together, or go out for a walk and have fun together.

Even after the filming was completed, he had to squeeze out time to check on the post-production of "Ready Player One", but things became more manageable and Wu Yuan could pay more attention to the special effects production of this movie.

To be honest, the post-production of this movie was really difficult.

Shooting was difficult enough, with a lot of new techniques used and many firsts, but post-production became even more difficult.

This time, Wu Yuan found a total of three major special effects companies, namely his own lighting and shadow special effects, Industrial Light & Magic in Hollywood, and Weta Digital in New Zealand, all of which are old acquaintances.

At the same time, these three companies also outsourced some of the less important special effects shots, involving more than a dozen special effects companies around the world.

Despite this, the special effects work of Ready Player One is still progressing very slowly. It is really not an easy task to build a real virtual world.

Even if it’s just in the movies.

During the process of making the special effects for this movie, the special effects artists from the three special effects companies expressed their feelings more than once.

If this kind of real virtual world or second universe is to be created in reality, it will definitely not be possible within ten or twenty years.

Just to use computers to render a few minutes of a "virtual world", more than a dozen companies need to work together and work day and night for about half a month to complete it.

It is hard to imagine the creation of a virtual world that can truly perform real-time calculations and accommodate thousands of people playing together.

Even if we use a supercomputer for rendering, the computing power is not enough!

They were clearly making a movie that imagined a virtual world of the future, but the more they worked on it, the more several special effects companies felt that such a virtual world was impossible to come into being.
Even more desperate than making a space special effects movie
Although space is vast and far away, at least human spacecraft can really send people into space. Perhaps real spaceships will appear in the future.

The virtual world.
"Director Wu, this idea of ​​yours is really crazy."

The head of the lighting and special effects department, who was constantly communicating with Wu Yuan on the phone, cried out on the phone: "This is really too difficult. It's extremely difficult to just make a fake, virtual world in the movie!"

"The special effects artists in our group have all suffered severe hair loss in recent months. The one with the most severe hair loss is almost bald."

“The workload and rendering volume is really huge!”

“Every frame is made up of a lot of special effects shots, and the protagonists have to be completely virtualized, which is crazy.”

Wu Yuan's mouth twitched when he received the call.

Why did he remember that Guo Xiaosi's "Lord of the Thrones" had all the characters modeled in 3D?
And it seems to be real shooting + post-rendering.

Putting aside the plot content that relies on the defense, just looking at the visual effects, it is still quite good. It looks authentic and has the feeling of a virtual character.

How come he had found the world's top special effects production companies, but they all complained about the difficulty?

It can't just be because he made this kind of movie a few years earlier, right?

Today’s technology can already do that!

After expressing his doubts in this way, the person in charge on the other end of the phone became even more sad and angry.

"Director Wu, there are also gaps in the virtual world!"

"Can the surreal sci-fi future virtual world you requested be the same as the 3D virtualization of characters that other directors wanted?"

"Can the workload of a virtual world of ice and snow be the same as that of a virtual world full of science fiction, technology and the future?"

The topic became awkward.

In the end, Wu Yuan could only end the call by saying that he had spent a lot of money and it was worth it for you to work so hard.

For "Ready Player One", he prepared 4 million RMB for special effects!

The production and shooting costs of "The Wandering Earth 1" combined are less than 4 million!

Party A spent so much money, shouldn't it be expected to achieve good results? (End of this chapter)