new kung fu king

Chapter 421 Shocking Special Effects in 5 Seconds

With the medium of kung fu, the boys of the crew of "Shaking Earth" have another arduous task in addition to work every day: running.Those with poor physical strength ran at least five laps, and those who often played basketball could last for twelve laps, but none of those who were so perverted as Wang Xiaohu ran for 25 laps.

In the last days of Ip Man, he once said this to Wang Xiaohu: "When Xiaolong taught Wing Chun to foreigners, I was not too opposed to it. But it must never be taught.”

The subtext of this sentence is: Ahu, you can teach others Wing Chun, even foreign devils who want to learn Wing Chun, but you can only teach the basics of Wing Chun. .Therefore, Wang Xiaohu taught them Wing Chun.

Being able to exercise your body through Wing Chun after work, and even learn self-defense skills, this is probably an extra reward for everyone in the crew of "Shaking Earth". Not only did they become physically stronger, but the daily sparring between the two of them gained mutual trust, and they became more harmonious and tacit in their work.

"Tiger, you can see that they are cooperating very well now. I'm afraid this is an additional effect of learning kung fu from you."

Spielberg smiled and looked at the energetic young men in the audience, feeling a little relieved.

Wang Xiaohu shrugged, agreeing with his point of view. "In addition to improving people's overall quality, learning kung fu can also help you understand yourself and your companions better during the learning process, and your spirit will also be improved. How to say it is still somewhat effective. At least everyone's shooting progress has been obvious in the past few days. It’s sped up a lot, but I just don’t know how the editing on George’s side is going.”

Synthesizing real shots with post-production model effects is a key research topic of "Industrial Light and Magic" in the past two years. After half a month of shooting, the first five seconds of "Shattering Earth" were finally filmed. Now George Lucas personally Leading the team in the editing room temporarily set up on the set, the synthesis of these five-second images is in progress.

"Trust him, he is an expert in this field." Lucas comforted Wang Xiaohu. In fact, he himself is not sure. Relatively speaking, the synthesis of real scenes and models is more than ten times more complicated than "Star Wars". Most of the spaceships in "Star Wars" are models, and it is relatively simple to synthesize, while "Shattering Earth" needs to fuse three films together to achieve the coordination and synchronization of models, real scenes, and characters without being obvious. , It really gave Lucas a big problem.

This is not only a problem that Lucas has to face, but also a big problem in the history of world cinema. If this difficulty is overcome, then OK, the progress of filming will be accelerated in the future. I will also accumulate valuable experience, and then use it in the shooting of "Star Wars", which will definitely have a good effect.

The shooting is still going on, but Lucas' team has been busy for more than a week, and it has entered December at this time, and the second 12-second shooting is about to be completed, and the final edit of the first 5-second has not yet come out , somewhat made Wang Xiaohu feel irritated.

Gradually, this irritability affected everyone in the crew, so besides work and practice, they had another fun to pass the time every day: squatting in front of the editing room with Wang Xiaohu and waiting for news.

For the past week, Lucas's team has been stuck in the editing room. Except for eating and drinking, Wang Xiaohu always looks very dignified every time he sees Lucas's face. Wang Xiaohu wished he could kick his feet twice.

But at this time, Wang Xiaohu also knew that kicking would definitely not give an answer, so he could only wait until the day when Lucas spoke.

Wang Xiaohu seemed to be guarding outside the delivery room, anxiously waiting for the birth of a child who was pregnant in October, pacing back and forth outside the editing room with his hands behind his back, and more than 40 young men followed him back and forth.

Just when Wang Xiaohu was waiting impatiently and wanted to kick the door in, the door creaked open. Wang Xiaohu rushed over and asked George Lucas who came out with a tired face, "How is it?"

Lucas gave a bitter smile and didn't speak, but moved away, and very gentlemanly invited Wang Xiaohu to go in and see for himself.

Without the slightest hesitation, Wang Xiaohu walked in with big strides, followed by Spielberg and several other key personnel.

The editing room was in a mess, and there were a lot of discarded films piled up in front of the projector. In order to give Lucas more space to display his talents, and also for safety reasons, every 5-second shot, Wang Xiaohu would make another copy after shooting. Two copies, which is why the editing room is full of discarded film.

The small projector was turned on, and Wang Xiaohu felt his heartbeat start to speed up with the flickering pictures on the screen.

First, there is a big scene of a group of buildings. The three-story buildings are very quiet under the dim street lights. Occasionally, there are a few rooms with lights on, and the shadow of the fan in the room can be vaguely seen. These are not part of the first 5 seconds. The shots within the range were all shot directly by Wang Xiaohu, very smooth.

Next, the camera began to shake slightly, and then the shaking accelerated suddenly. The originally quiet three-story building complex immediately tilted under this shaking, and there was a scream in the building complex. , the bricks and dust are presented by slow-motion editing for a while, and the good buildings begin to fall and tilt in the blink of an eye
How long is five seconds?In reality, it takes only one blink and two breaths, but everyone in the editing room almost held their breath for nearly half a minute. Wang Xiaohu was staring at the picture on the screen, and his fists were also tense at this time. Holding it, the eyes are full of joy and excitement, while others are shocked!
Five seconds, in the minds of the shocking people, they have been elongated by the picture on the screen. It was the first time they saw such a shocking movie picture. The visual shock brought by the earthquake had already made them feel that it was far longer than five seconds bell.

"Hmm." Wang Xiaohu's throat moved. There is no doubt that the 5-second video edited by Lucas in a week was successful. Beyond what can be made in this era.

This somewhat reminds Wang Xiaohu of a slogan of Industrial Light & Magic: There are only pictures that you can't imagine, and there is no picture that Industrial Light & Magic can't make.

This slogan is definitely not bragging, but the credibility earned by Industrial Light and Magic through decades of commercial success.Now, in the 70s, Lucas made special effects that even Wang Xiaohu could not help admiring. It cannot but be said that Lucas was astounding.

"Success! Success! Steven, we succeeded!" Wang Xiaohu let out a long laugh suddenly, it was a long-suppressed laughter that was suddenly released, and immediately awakened everyone in the editing room who was still in a state of shock.

"Ah! We succeeded!"

"God, is this something we made?"

"It's so real!"

"I'm not dreaming, this looks like a real earthquake!"

Everyone was chattering and talking, and then they hugged each other ecstatically and cheered to celebrate. The success of the 5-second picture declared that Industrial Light & Magic had successfully taken a milestone step. You let this group of people who have worked hard for half a year How unhappy people are, how unexcited!
Seeing the crowd ecstatically embracing together, Wang Xiaohu also really wanted to find someone to hug, but everyone present knew that Wang Xiaohu never hugged with the same sex, otherwise he would incur his fists, so everyone wanted to protect their own. The nose and teeth were not damaged by Wang Xiaohu, and they instinctively avoided him. For a while, Wang Xiaohu became a loner, and no one cared about him.

"It's up to you!" Wang Xiaohu cursed with a wry smile.

"Hey, boss, did I finish well?" Although George Lucas was still tired, seeing his work being passed by the boss, his eyes were full of spirits, and he walked over with a smile and extended his right hand.

"Damn it, it's a hundred times better than I expected!" Wang Xiaohu held Lucas's right hand vigorously, shook it twice and said, "Dude, you don't know that I've been so worried this week, I I was very afraid that you would scrap these three boxes of film, but fortunately you did not disappoint me, our hard work has been rewarded as it should be.”

"George, thank you!"

George Lucas grinned and said in a grateful tone: "Actually, I should thank you, Tiger, if you hadn't transferred me to Hong Kong to do this project that would be impossible for the world If not, I'm afraid I can't believe that one day I can make such a satisfactory work, and I have a new understanding of the post-synthesis machine I invented."

"Really? Tell me what you think." Wang Xiaohu and Lucas walked out of the editing room slowly. The light outside was so strong that Lucas, who had not seen the sun for a long time, was a little uncomfortable. After a long time, the bearded man Cai smiled and said: "When I was compositing and editing in the later stage, I found that the machine still has a lot of room for upgrading. It can be modified for this movie. Of course, the premise is that you have to spend money again."

"Money is bastard, don't worry about money, George, I just need to know how many times the efficiency of this thing can be improved after upgrading."

Wang Xiaohu waved his hand indifferently.At this time, money is really not important anymore. After all, the machine is not unusable after shooting. As long as the shooting progress and efficiency can be improved and the current quality is guaranteed, it is cost-effective to spend more money.

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