Halo of cheating in the entertainment industry

Chapter [-] is going well

There are more than 50 signal points densely packed on the helmet of this motion-captured stuntman. The signal points shine on his face. Each signal point has a different distance from his face due to the undulation of the helmet. The positions of these helmets are different. , will transform into those junction points of the undulating skin on the head of the water unicorn. 【】

In front of the stuntman, there is also such a signal catcher, and behind him is a signal receiver, which is connected to the signal point in front of him.

Because the front legs of this unicorn are slightly longer, the stuntman also has a device on his hands to extend them by lying on the ground.The unicorn has sharp claws on its four legs, and these claws are also captured with some small signal points.

This kind of action is indeed relatively high-end, and the equipment is quite expensive, but now Liguang Entertainment Company is also rich and powerful, and it is not stingy in investing in these aspects.

When everyone looked at this set of equipment, they were secretly stunned and finally arrived at the legendary motion capture!

Su Li looked at the well-equipped stuntman, and then said next to him: "This set of motion capture technology equipment... Compared with foreign ones, it is already ahead in technology, with more sensitive reflection and more flexible capture methods. But no matter How to say, this is still just a capture device, so when you need to make some expressions, you still have to exaggerate as much as possible, so that the reflection on the big screen will have a sense of reality.”

"Director Su, don't worry, I know how to do it." The stuntman assured with a smile, Su Li patted him on the shoulder, smiled slightly, then walked back, came to everyone, and began to direct the camera and other actions.He still has a very strong insight, and every arrangement is ingenious. Many people who have not cooperated with Su Li secretly think that Su Li is really amazing.

Cameramen these days are used to Su Li's easy-to-get, but the feeling of making it is very gorgeous. This guy is a monster that is close to God... At least it is impossible to find Su Li's such a thing in other directors. feeling.

This is what everyone agrees on.

No matter what I said before, it is just talk on paper. The shooting experience is often formed slowly after shooting again and again, summing up the experience and carrying forward the advantages.

The actual shooting started today, and everyone looked at the scene in front of them with some strangeness.The cameras are ready and shooting is about to begin.

Li Xian and the others stared nervously at this kind of shooting. This is the first time they have used this technique in a film, and they are not completely confident in their hearts.

"Start!" Under everyone's expectant and curious eyes, Su Li finally gave an order, and then, the stuntman was already on all fours and lying on the ground.At this time, his hand had a supporting point, and in front of the special camera and Li Xian's monitor, it was divided into two pictures, one of which was the scene of the stuntman lying on the ground captured by the camera, and the other In the picture, there is nothing else, only the more than 200 signal points on the stuntman's body are flickering.

These signal points rise and fall with the movement of the stuntman's body, and on the screen showing the flashing signal points, they rise and fall and swing dizzyingly.These signal points will be produced in two parts with the live image. After some processing and production, those signal points will become the prototype of the water unicorn that has been set.

And this water unicorn will move some parts of the body due to the swing of those signal points, and it will be lifelike because of this.

Restore the movement of this water unicorn, combined with the footage of the real scene performed by the stuntman, a real water unicorn will replace the stuntman just standing there.

This is the motion capture technology, the effect is more convenient, and the effect will be very realistic.Because the water unicorn is modeled with 3 effects, when it is put on the big screen, everyone will be able to fully understand the characteristics of this water unicorn.

This technology is indeed miraculous, and it is also a sign that the human film industry has reached its peak. With the miraculous motion capture technology, it is possible to shoot many movies.

The motion capture technology of human movies is a short movie "Total Memory" in 1990, and "Lord of the Rings" is carried forward. The 2004 animated film "The Polar Express" was the first film in the history of human movies to be made entirely with motion capture technology. After "King Kong", motion capture technology has become more and more mature.

In "Avatar", motion capture technology has gone from the studio to the outside, and they have an epoch-making breakthrough. The original motion capture technology has quite strict restrictions, which is extremely troublesome, because stuntmen have to move around when performing , When walking around, it is difficult to keep up with the facial expression capture point, so shooting at this time is quite troublesome. In order to deal with the facial skin, everyone has to put in a lot of effort.At the same time, because the two places are too far apart, some signal points will be confused, and various light points will be entangled, which is quite troublesome.

However, "Avatar" broke through the shackles of this aspect with an ingenious design, just like the whimsical employee who used an electric fan to blow away the empty soap box. They solved this problem with a rather simple method. It is to directly design a motion capture helmet, let these sensing points be worn on the person's head, and move around with the person!This kind of capture is accomplished by placing the camera inside the person's helmet. Such a difficult problem that has plagued many directors who study motion capture technology is easily solved by him in this way.

Therefore, the motion capture technology of "Avatar" has been completed quite well. After "Rise of the Ball of the Ape" and "The Adventures of Tintin" later, human motion capture technology will become more and more perfect.

But this time, the motion capture technology owned by Liguang Entertainment is superior to the ace of American motion capture technology, Industrial Light and Magic, in terms of capture sensitivity and flexibility. It is a huge achievement on the Internet, and the expressive power of Lve Ying's motion capture technology is much better than that of Industrial Light and Magic.

It is conceivable that "Zhu Xian" will surprise those foreigners even in terms of visual effects.

This special effects actor doesn't have much acting experience, but after intensive training in the recent period, he is completely handy in performing these things and does a great job.

However, the devil director Su Li didn't let him go... because he found that this stuntman didn't seem to have the feeling of acting as a water unicorn. , In the blink of an eye, the momentum is soaring.

He had also done some research on motion capture technology before, and knew the effect of the water unicorn shown by the stuntman, so he felt something was wrong in his heart, so he asked everyone to do it again without hesitation.

Although he knew that this would increase investment, the increase in investment due to his dissatisfaction these days was also countless.

"Huh... I think it's not bad..." Li Xian heard Su Li said that he was going to start over, so he said beside him: "Su Li, come on, these light spots, swinging in accordance with the law, are quite clever... I think it's already That's pretty cool, and you might get a nice effect."

Su Li smiled slightly: "But what I want is not just good."

After saying this, he left Li Xian on the spot and thought in a daze, while he himself came to the stuntman next to him, and told him the effect he wanted, and the stuntman couldn't stop nodding. , the next shoot begins...

This kind of motion capture technology has been used in several places in the past two days. In fact, through the combination of motion capture technology and g technology, some monsters have been produced, but the cost of the monsters produced in this way is quite astonishing ...

Just the cost of making the water unicorn just now cost 30... This is not an exaggeration at all. In "Zhu Xian", there are many such monsters, and 30 of them are enough for them to pay a lot of money for it.

But 30 is also a very, very low number. Compared with the lifelikeness of this water unicorn, 30 is an insignificant number.You must know that in the past, a famous American movie that used motion capture technology, the 2001 "Final Fantasy: Inside the Soul", spent 3000 million US dollars just to make people's hair... This is simply A day number.

In the past two years, due to the advancement of technology, the cost of these productions has been reduced, and the Fenying Special Effects Studio and Lvying Studio are both affiliated studios of Liguang Entertainment Company, and the cost is cheaper. The price in China is already low. to be cheaper.On the other hand, Su Li obtained quite a lot of materials and technologies from the superstar cultivation system, and these materials and technologies came in handy in this model making, so the cost is really not high.

And some monsters that need to fight need quite a lot of money...

For example, the monkey Xiaohui, in order to make this model, Liguang Entertainment directly poured more than 200 million yuan into it... to show all the hairs on Xiaohui's body in detail.Moreover, because Xiao Hui's figure is not big, it is impossible for a stuntman to squat on Su Li's body...

The solution is to use a model to replace Xiao Hui squatting on Su Li's shoulders, and then use post-processing to replace the model with Xiao Hui's appearance.As for the protagonist and the monkey standing together, it is easier to solve it. At that time, it is enough to use special effects to shrink the body of the stuntman. Although it is a bit complicated, it is not as complicated as imagined.

Sometimes, the use of light and dark contrast, as well as the angle of the camera can solve the problem of size. "Lord of the Rings" relies on this method, using that kind of visual deception to capture the contrast between shorter children and tall humans. body shape gap.

As for the technology of zooming in and out, the latest reference to "Avatar" can be used.