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Chapter 618 Made in China!

20th Century Fox wanted the key for a second run of screenings, but China Film Group refused.

"Pacific Rim" had a single-day box office of 5036 million, which made the ambitious Han Sanping see that the film has the potential to set a record again.

In addition, China Film Corporation also participated in the investment and production of this movie.

The higher the box office of "Pacific Rim", not only will China Film earn more, but its performance will also be better.

Therefore, he is now obsessed with increasing the screening schedule of "Pacific Rim", so how could he be willing to let "Life of Pi" get the key for a second round of screenings and take away the screening schedule?
Not to mention "Life of Pi", he even wants to squeeze out the screening schedule of Zhang Yimou's "The Monkey King 2".

But Zhang Yimou is a national master after all, not some small director.

Not only is the operation more troublesome, it may also cause huge disturbances, which is why no action is taken.

5036W in a single day set a new record and made history.

But it was not enough to satisfy Wang Shu.

This is also the reason why he was not immediately excited after hearing Zhou Xiaofa's report.

In the original timeline, "Avatar" was released in mainland theaters on January 2010, 1, with a box office of 4 million on the first day, a single-day box office of over 3033 million, and a first-week box office of 5600 million.

There is something fishy about this 2.6 million yuan.

Because "Avatar" has been released for 6 days and the box office has reached 2.3 million.

The seventh day happened to be Sunday. If the weekly box office was only 2.6 million, then the box office on Sunday was only 3000 million.

This box office trend and development is completely unreasonable.

Not to mention that "Avatar" is a movie with a box office of over 10 billion.

The box office on the first Sunday was only 3000 million, which is obviously unreasonable.

Although they claimed that there were malfunctions in the ticket-issuing machines in various places, which resulted in only 2.6 million being counted.

But according to the trend of "Avatar" box office breaking 10 billion, the first week box office should have exceeded 3 million.

However, due to "some reasons", it is only 2.6 million.

In any case, compared with the performance of "Avatar" in the original time, the single-day performance of "Pacific Rim" of 5036W is not enough.

However, "Pacific Rim" will be released at 18 pm on the 6th, and its popularity has not yet fully spread, so there is still room for growth.

Today is December 12th, Sunday.

If Pacific Rim can achieve a box office revenue of over 5036W today, a box office revenue of million, million, or even billion is possible.

Wang Shu’s little pearls were not shed in vain. As the popularity soars, whether the effect will be great depends on how the box office of "Pacific Rim" performs today.

To achieve higher box office, we need not only small pearls, but also matching word-of-mouth and publicity.

Tianya Forum.

A post by a staff member of Wang Shu's Yikeshu Company, pretending to be a staff member of BASE Special Effects Company, attracted a lot of heated discussion.

At this moment, it has become a hot post.

Title: "The Chinese special effects team behind Pacific Rim!"

Content: "A 25-story-high robot battles a giant monster, combining elements that both robot and monster fans love. This is a blockbuster that everyone is looking forward to."

"Perhaps, many people don't know that there is a Chinese special effects team behind the scenes."

"I am fortunate to be able to participate in such a film. In addition to improving my own production ability, it also fulfilled the dream of a passionate young man."

“In Pacific Rim, I was mainly responsible for leading the environment and material department to complete the work assigned to us by Industrial Light & Magic. This was a huge challenge. On the one hand, we needed to obtain information from the director and the client in a timely manner and accurately understand the effects they wanted. On the other hand, on the technical level, we also completely surpassed our previous experience.”

“For materials, we mainly made the textures for the machine clock and the Bigfoot textures for the repair yard.”

"Although the film is set in an era of high technology, it is full of clumsy elements of the steam age. This may be the style that Director Wang likes, with a similar sentiment to Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle."

“The machine clock is used to calculate the time of the last monster attack. Each number is composed of a separate panel, which must be physically flipped every minute and every second. We made basic textures. The biggest difficulty was to make different panel materials for each number. The numbers and scratches on each panel must be different, which means that we made hundreds of textures just for those numbers.”

“One of the robot’s feet is enough to crush a person like an ant. Precision is the biggest difficulty we encountered when making the Bigfoot texture. There are many close-ups in the shots. To show such a huge metal object, we must accurately grasp the size of the texture details on the foot. When people pass by the big foot, the proportion will not look strange, and the hugeness of the robot must be highlighted as much as possible.”

“In the digital context and environment, our job is much harder.”

“Since the accuracy of the rendered assets cannot meet the requirements of all angles and shot sizes, the first thing we have to do is to retouch every shot that is not accurate enough, which is a huge workload.”

“For example, for close-up shots of big hands and feet, the compositing department will use existing assets for compositing. When they have completed the rough effect, they will send the single frame back to the digital background and environment department for us to paint the details. When the effect is confirmed, we will send the sequence of the painted layers back to the compositing department for them to add new details. This process will go back and forth until the final effect is approved.”

“The more tedious task is to produce backgrounds for a large number of green screens. Industrial Light & Magic also gave us a lot of freedom, and we can independently design and produce backgrounds for many shots.”

“Industrial Light & Magic sent us the assets of the base scene. In many cases, we were able to use the existing assets and reassemble them. The environment department directly rendered the sequence to the compositing department, skipping the lighting department. This shortened the process and allowed us to quickly complete the backgrounds of some shots that were not the most important.”

"Among the shots I have independently produced, the most important ones are the elevator field and the control room exterior loccent."

"There are several scenes in the movie where the elevator slides through the elevator shaft, explaining the process of the characters descending from the rooftop parking lot to the base's shatterdome. This scene was designed entirely by me. The client liked the effect of light and shadow changes when the elevator slid through the lights in the elevator shaft. I set up dozens of lights for the scene, and the client was quite satisfied in the end. Because it was raining heavily on the roof, the biggest difficulty was to add the effect of water accumulation on the elevator roof. After many tests, it was still difficult to achieve a realistic effect."

“I remember when we encountered bottlenecks, Uncle Nike (CG Director) would pour mineral water on the ground for me to observe. But in fact, there was both stagnant water and black oil on the top of the elevator, which had different reflection effects. It took me a lot of time to balance this effect. Finally, I also made simple animations and volumetric light effects for the fans in the elevator shaft, and the special effects department also added some water dripping from above to make the whole picture rich and layered.”

“The look of the control room would only appear in a few shots we produced in the film, so the client gave us relatively large degrees of freedom.”

"The control room is in an inverted trapezoidal shape. I extended the scene based on a part of the actual shot of the control room. The client is very sensitive to light, so we need to grasp the volume of the scene and put each light in a position that is beneficial to the effect." "One of the shots needed to be pulled from the control room to a far place outside. The flash from the robot also had a great impact on the light and shadow of the environment. I first made a basic light environment for synthesis, and also made another light layer to simulate the impact of the flash. When the robot and the scene were finally put together, these sets of shots performed perfectly and were very dazzling."

“When working on Industrial Light & Magic projects, we often have shots that we have worked so hard to produce, only to be ruthlessly cut by Director Wang. But this is work, and in order to give the audience the most perfect enjoyment, we will also make sacrifices. This project is a milestone for Base-FX. It proves that we are capable of completing such a difficult task and lays a solid foundation for even more difficult tasks in the future.”

“So, I’m very grateful to Director Wang for giving us the opportunity to participate in the production of Pacific Rim!”

"Through this project, we learned a lot from world-renowned special effects companies like Industrial Light & Magic."

“It has greatly improved both our capabilities and our business.”

“It can be said that Director Wang invited Chinese special effects teams like us to participate in the production of Pacific Rim. Although Industrial Light & Magic was the main producer, it allowed us Chinese special effects teams to learn a lot and accumulate a lot of experience, which greatly promoted the great leap forward of the Chinese special effects industry!”

“I believe that if there are similar projects again, our Chinese special effects team will be able to complete them on their own!”

The appearance of this post immediately sparked heated discussions.

I thought the special effects of "Pacific Rim" were completed independently by Hollywood Industrial Light & Magic, but who would have thought that this was not the case.

Among them is our Chinese special effects team!

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Many viewers who have watched "Pacific Rim" were stunned, wondering when did our Chinese special effects team become so awesome?

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Didn’t the bigwigs in the film and television industry always say that they were still ten or twenty years behind Hollywood?

How come it became equal in the blink of an eye?

This news is really hard to believe.

But as more details were revealed, people gradually had to believe it.

For example, Wang Shu had to do post-production while filming Pacific Rim in order to have it released at the end of the year.

Subsequently, the part that required post-production special effects was handed over to the BASE special effects company located in Beijing, and Industrial Light & Magic sent people to provide guidance.

In this way, the post-production time is greatly accelerated.

This also shows that a large part of the post-production special effects of "Pacific Rim" were indeed completed by Chinese special effects companies.

As for the fact that Industrial Light & Magic sent people to provide guidance, it was basically ignored.

Because many people know that the level of special effects in China is indeed far behind that of Hollywood.

If you say that all the post-production special effects of "Pacific Rim" were produced by BASE, no one will believe it.

So it would be reasonable if Industrial Light & Magic guided BASE in the post-production of Pacific Rim.

1L: “Wow! It turns out that our Chinese special effects company participated in Pacific Rim? This is so awesome!”

2L: "I have already watched this movie in the cinema. The special effects are really good. Just because our Chinese special effects company participated in the production, I decided to buy a ticket and go to the cinema again."

"I don't have any other ideas, I just want to support our Chinese special effects and our Chinese special effects blockbusters!"

"I know some people would say Pacific Rim is a co-production, but since it's a co-production, it can also be called a Chinese film, right?"

"Not to mention, the script was written by Director Wang, the filming location was also in our country, and even the leading actors are Chinese."

"Now, even the special effects are being produced by our domestic special effects companies."

"It's just because, in order to target the world and have a bigger market, this film has joined two of the eight Hollywood companies, Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox."

"It was just made into a co-production for the purpose of global distribution."

"In fact, Pacific Rim is a Chinese film at its core!"

"It was only because of the global market that it was made into a co-production!"

3L: "Thanks for your hard work! I haven't seen this movie yet, but I heard you guys say the special effects are great. I'm going to buy a ticket tonight to check it out!"

4L: "I thought it was produced by a Hollywood special effects company, but it turns out that our domestic special effects companies are also involved? And the proportion is quite high! To be honest, this really refreshed my cognition. I didn't plan to watch this movie, but now I want to go!"

At the same time, major entertainment media sections also reported the incident.

Sina Entertainment: "Incredible! Pacific Rim was actually post-produced by a special effects company in Beijing!"

This is the charm of journalism. It does not mention that this BASE in Beijing was actually founded by a foreign founder, nor does it mention that BASE was guided by Industrial Light & Magic to complete the project, nor does it mention the proportion of BASE in the post-production project of "Pacific Rim".

It is only said that the post-production of "Pacific Rim" was completed by a domestic team, and it was highly praised.

It gives people the impression that "Pacific Rim" is actually a movie that was post-produced by a domestic special effects company.

For a moment, many people felt a sense of pride in their hearts!
It can even be said that because of this sense of pride, even though they know that most of the time the special effects companies in Hollywood produced it, they still choose to ignore it.

Deep down, I just want to believe that the cool special effects scenes in the movie "Pacific Rim" were completed by a domestic special effects team!
And this naturally evolved into another situation.

Should we support this kind of special effects blockbuster produced by a domestic special effects company, which is not inferior to those of Hollywood movies?

Should I buy a ticket and go to the cinema?

One word.

Should!
As major media outlets reported one after another that a domestic special effects company participated in the production of "Pacific Rim", and the reports were very detailed, even the details and reasons were disclosed.

For a time, audiences across the country were once again eager to watch movies!
To follow Zhang Weiping's words, if we don't even support "Pacific Rim" produced by a domestic special effects company, it would be persecution of domestic films!
(End of this chapter)