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Published at 3rd of November 2021 09:23:04 AM


Chapter 1870: 1870

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In the past two years, Lanly has participated in more and more commercial productions, and more and more exposure to different performance methods and content, this time is no exception. In order to shoot the dinosaurs in "Jurassic World", computer special effects are undoubtedly the most important part of the work of the whole crew. The special effects pictures of the entire movie will run through, which also puts forward higher requirements for the shooting method and content presentation. .

Generally speaking, this kind of film can be shot in two ways, one is studio shooting, mainly with green screen, the same is true for "Gravity", "Avengers" and other films; the other is on-site shooting. Shooting, post-production special effects as an aid, such as "Interstellar", "Mad Max: Fury Road" and so on.

"Jurassic World" chose the latter.

Colin Trevoro still hopes to create a truly immersive viewing effect, which is also the source of the shock brought by the "Jurassic Park" series. Considering that the wild environment such as virgin forest is the main scene of the whole movie, compared with the high-rise buildings of the "Avengers", computer special effects are still prone to produce more distortion effects.

In 2016, "Fantasy Forest" was created and manufactured with computer special effects throughout, but the forest picture in the movie faced severe special effects distortion. As a director, Jon-Favreau came up with a way to adjust Low light level, because the background of the movie story is the virgin forest where torches have not yet been fully popularized, which also makes the whole movie diffuse in a very very dark environment, avoiding the distortion of computer special effects.

But "Jurassic World" cannot be like that. The whole story must take place in sunny Central America; at the same time, Colin also hopes that the tone of the film will remain more positive-this is also the style that Universal Pictures expects, because Marvel The success of the film series proves that easy and cheerful popcorn is still the mainstream of the market. Then, combining on-the-spot shooting with post-computer special effects is the best shooting method.

However, the combination of computer special effects has become another test for the crew, because the shooting site has completely entered the real virgin forest. The difficulty of the shooting process has added more difficulties to the production of post-production special effects. The special effects team once again showed the masses. With his super wisdom, the shooting scene was successfully arranged:

In the clearing directly in front of the dense jungle, they built an entire animal cage similar to the Colosseum as an environment for raising wild Velociraptors. The animal cage was built on the ground with the environment as the background. , The staff can walk up and down on the top platform freely as normal——

Although there are no beasts and no dinosaurs inside the animal cage, the entire building has not cut corners, ensuring that the animal cage can also be used as a scaffold for filming by the crew, while presenting a more realistic effect in the camera.

Then, a three-sided blue screen environment was set up abruptly in the center of the beast cage-because the jungle on all sides is green, the blue screen was chosen, but the blue screen environment was still symbolically arranged with some sand and soil. The bushes reduce the workload of connecting special effects on the sidelines in the computer cut-out process, and provide reference for computer special effects artists.

The "crossing the line" just mentioned by the dramatist means not to enter the blue screen range, otherwise there may be deviations during post-production cutouts. For example, there is only one head floating in the center of the screen, which inexplicably turns into a horror movie. At the shooting scene, this is a very, very possible situation. These accidental errors and deviations are often difficult to prevent-it may be that the staff themselves appear in the screen less frequently, but the accidental fall of the belongings is particularly frequent. .

The actors and crew will be placed in such an environment to complete the shooting. The blue screen area will be used to put dinosaur special effects, and the surrounding environment can be used as a reference for post-production special effects. Realistic and more delicate visual effects.

Next, the crew prepares to shoot the scene where Irving trains the Velociraptor.

At this time, in the blue screen environment, four stuntmen are moving their limbs. They are the actors who are preparing to play the "Velotron" to cooperate with the performance.

Some of the scenes here are also particular. The director can choose to let Lan Li perform completely against the air. In the later stage, all the dinosaurs are produced through computer special effects, but this is easy to cause the problem of out of focus in the performance-because there is no reference object, Lan Li If there is no way to accurately focus, the performance will easily become vain.

In the "Lord of the Rings" film series, Ian-McKellen, the actor of Gandalf, is like this. Because the height of the Hobbit is very short, Gandalf must enter the Hobbit’s house. The hobbit actors could not stretch their hands and feet indoors, and in the end Ian could only speak and perform into the air.

Later, in the behind-the-scenes footage, Ian said, "I'm really lonely," because for most of the scenes, he may be the only one talking to the camera. Such a performance experience is indeed... hard to say.

But with the continuous update and progress of shooting technology, this also allows Colin to choose the most advanced motion capture technology to complete the shooting of the Velociraptor.

In fact, the first mature application of motion capture technology was also in the "Lord of the Rings" series-they created the image of Gollum, and in the past ten years, this film shooting technology has also been rapidly developed in an all-round way. , And reached a peak through "Avatar", and the "Rise of the Apes" series later used motion capture technology to complete the shooting of all ape characters, which can be regarded as an epoch-making work.

Compared with the anthropomorphic images created by computer special effects, motion capture technology can give full play to the advantages of real actors and further complete the anthropomorphization, so that the screen image has more vivid and delicate actions, expressions and expressions, etc., in simple terms, it is endowed Those screen images are more "human".

Of course, the vividness of this "image" also requires a lot of financial support. The budget cost of the "Jurassic World" project is still not able to reach the level of "Avatar", and there is no way to focus on the similar image rendered by fur like "Rise of the Apes", which also made Colin had to make a choice.

In the movie, the four most spiritual key characters, the four Velociraptors, are also the characters who have direct communication with Owen. Colin will use motion capture technology to complete the shooting; while the other dinosaur images will be completed through post-production computer special effects. Make. Different shooting methods, the ultimate goal is to show the best viewing effect.

The four stuntmen in front of them will be responsible for the performance of the four Velociraptors.

At this point, they have replaced the hot spot capture action clothing-in fact, a set of all-black close-fitting sportswear, and then posted a lot of hot spot capture points outside the sportswear, all connected to form a line, the body The joints of the actor are fully connected to provide a heat source for the computer to capture the actor's body movements, because each capture point is connected to a long wire, which also makes the actor have wires hanging all over the body, which is really not convenient.

Standing within the range of the blue screen, it looks very happy; if you leave the blue screen and stay in the jungle, then it will be even more absurd.

The on-site staff may not be unfamiliar with motion capture technology, but they are very interested in the blurring of the boundary between reality and illusion in the jungle. This is only possible with the continuous advancement and improvement of film production technology. Everyone They are all quite curious—just like “gravity” can only be realized in the studio, and the five-dimensional space in “Interstellar Transition” is also the case. There are still many constraints and restrictions on shooting on the spot.

Lan Li took the initiative to greet him and waved hello, "Hey, I am your work partner, Owen, I will need to trouble you guys for the next period of cooperation." Not surprisingly, it is in the whole movie. All four velociraptors will be played by them, which also means that they have many "rivals" with Lan Li.

"I'm Scott, and I will play Charlie."

"I am Pete and I will be responsible for Delta."

"I am Brad, and I will be responsible for the role of Ake."

"I'm Samuel, and I will be responsible for playing Blue."

The first four names are for the actors, and the last four are for Velociraptors. Everyone has their own responsibilities. Although Velociraptors seem to be the same to the audience, the actors need to be distinguished so that they can be distinguished. Give the character more details. Among them, Bru is the boss of the four raptors, and also the one with the most drama.

Just a self-introduction, Lan Li immediately understood, "So, who is the most ferocious? I mean, there is only bravery but no wisdom."

"I, I am Delta!" Pete immediately raised his right hand, with a surprised expression on his face, and looked at the other friends left and right, "Lan Li, I mean ~www.novelhall.com~ Do you mind? In fact, each of us has discussed it and gave each Velociraptor a different personality, hoping to distinguish a little bit, but we are not sure..."

Not sure if the big-name actors like it.

In fact, just like what is said in "The King of Comedy", if there are too many dramas, it is very impolite to add dramas or even grab them. For big-name actors, they naturally don't want the rhythm of the performance to be disturbed, let alone being robbed of the focus of light.

The four substitute actors are a little nervous, because they are only playing the Velociraptor, and even their faces and names do not appear in the movie. Their relatives and friends appear in the movie theater and cannot see their acting, but they do Want to give the Velociraptor personality within a limited range? What should I do if I offend Renly?

"Ha, let me guess? Aiko is a female? Then Charlie is a idiot? As far as I know, Bru is the smallest but smartest one? Of course, this is my own brain supplement. I think you should be able to give I have more things, how about it, what content do I need to know in advance?" Lan Li did not say much, but expressed his views in practical actions:

Welcome to the world of performance.




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