The carnival is over.

Meng Lang can also return to the Western Regions with confidence.

Although he really wanted to stay in Jiangchuan for a few more days and study the whirlwind locomotive that had just been delivered, time waited for no one!

Seeing that it is the New Year, I have to take advantage of the last bit of time at the end of the year to shoot more materials, so that I can arrange the schedule more calmly in the coming year.

"Legend of Skyfire" is progressing fast!

The original plot is relatively procrastinated, and the story that can be told in one episode is delayed until the second or even the third episode. Therefore, the original version of the Legend of Skyfire has 60 episodes.

This episode is a bit long.

For the audience, the best viewing experience must be the golden range of 30-40 episodes.

Let's say an episode is 30 minutes, that's a total of 900-1200 minutes, which is about 15-20 hours.

Think about it, now that people's lives are faster, the rise of short videos and online videos has already seized a lot of TV pastime.

If the entire fifty or sixty episodes or even seventy or eighty episodes are long, after the total broadcast time exceeds 20 hours, it will scare away a certain audience.

Of course, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law dramas are not among them.

Mother-in-law dramas and housewife dramas are all wonderful, and all TV series made for housewives, the length of the episodes really doesn't matter, anyway, you don't have to worry about the ratings.

The Legend of Skyfire can't be too long.

Meng Lang was ready to shoot a 50-episode material, and then cut it into a finished film of 41-45 episodes.

It's much better that way.

Because of a lot of experience, and the actors are more familiar with the filming style of "Mr. Meng", the filming progress is very gratifying.

In two months, nearly 24 episodes were filmed!

This is talking about the material, there are a lot of materials for 24 episodes, and it is more than enough to cut out 20 integrated films.

That's half the shot.

It's a pity that this speed can't be maintained, after all, it's the first half of the scene, and the leather case doesn't appear very often.

Once you start filming the second half, it's time for the holster war. Multiple holsters are being played around, and the progress is definitely not as fast as before.

After Meng Lang returned to the Western Regions, he mainly filmed the leather case scene.

"Done?"

"It's done!"

Meng Lang blinked and said, "Release it out and let me see!"

The VFX artist opens the notebook he is carrying, unlocks a project file, and clicks play.

Here's a rough video.

As a demonstration of a glasses special effects guy, gesture "OK" to the camera, and then the video starts.

The glasses guy wears a wristband-type "transformer" on his left hand, and holds up a spar in his right hand.

"Here is the first part, that is, the spar's flickering light effect! According to Mr. Meng's instructions, we have added sparkling color light to the spar......

Meng Lang looked at the video demonstration, frowned and said, "The brightness is a little low, brighter more!"

Do you want to make a light bulb?

"If the brightness is increased, you won't be able to see the details of the hedron clearly!" said the special effects artist worriedly.

"What details do you want?"

"Shine is beauty, shine is cool!"

"If the light effect has a flow effect, you're too strong!"

The special effects artist silently wrote down this passage, intending to write it down silently when he returned home and paste it on the wall as a life creed.

After talking about the spar flickering part, the next thing is the main event, which is the transformation.

The video continues, and the glasses guy slaps the spar of the shimmering color light at the transformer in his left hand, then crosses his hands in reverse, and then slams it behind him.

"White Tiger, transform!"

The tiger roared and suddenly appeared a layer of spatial ripples around the glasses brother, and a white tiger beast appeared behind him out of thin air, as the word "transformation" fell, the phantom of the beast coincided with the glasses brother, and the four spirit warriors appeared!

It is worth noting that at the moment when the phantom coincides and completes the transformation, there is a shot of the glasses brother's right hand turning into a "claw".

It is more appropriate to say "beastification" than transformation. It's just that the final appearance of this beast is not a real beast, but a humanoid four-spirit warrior.

"I'm not satisfied with the process of beasthood!"

Meng Lang said: "The process of turning hands into beast claws is too rough, and it should be refined. And the details are only the hands, the heads, the feet?"

The Armor of All Evils...... Mr. Meng!

The special effects artist scolded his mother in his heart, and said with a smile: "Okay, Mr. Meng, is there anything else to change?"

"One more ......"

Meng Lang touched his chin, stared at the laptop screen and said: "Before the transformation, when the actor did the transformation action, the light effect was a little less, and this part needed to be modified." ”

"After transforming into a Four Spirit Warrior, how can you step on the ground without dust?"

"Extend the transformation time!It's best to do it for more than half a minute......

Is this "a little bit"?

The special effects artist couldn't remember Mr. Meng's requirements with his brain alone, so he could only pick up a pen and paper and listen to it, and after writing it down thoroughly, he left with a "full page" of revisions.

The transformation effect is almost ready.

However, in the image design of "Chiyou", everyone had disagreements and quarrels.

"Chiyou is not a demon god, history is written by the victors, he is just a defeated tribal leader. ”

"But in the script, Chi You is the villain, and the image of the villain is too great, what do you make the audience think?"

Is it beautification or ugliness?

As the leader of the Jiuli tribe, Chi You is a brave and warlike man, and he is also the god of war in mythology.

Defining Chi You as a villain, putting it in the perspective of Yan Huang's descendants is definitely "Zhenzi is correct", but doing so is indeed to scandalize and smear Chi You.

"In this way, let's make two Chiyou images. One is the leader of the Jiuli tribe before entering the demon, and the other is the demon god after entering the demon. ”

Meng Lang knows very well that he is filming children's special dramas, and the audience is mostly children.

If they characterize Chi You as a "demon god", then after watching this drama, when they mention Chi You in the future, they will definitely preconceive of him as an evil god and demon god.

That's not good.

When filming children's dramas, we must convey the correct cognitive orientation to children, rather than letting the screenwriter make it up.

The image of Chiyou is made into two.

One is the leader of the ancient Jiuli tribe, who is brave and good at fighting, righteous and awe-inspiring, and created the four spirit crystals to protect the tribe.

One is the brutal and unkind demon god Chiyou after recovery, who revived with the help of Dr. Shi's greed, and after the demon breeded, he fell into the devil's path in a vain attempt to conquer the world.

Both Chiyou have a special origin.

Although because of the needs of the plot, Chiyou finally became a demon god, the play also mentions Chiyou's kind and gentle side as a tribal leader.

This also made a reasonable explanation for the rebellion of the Four Holy Beasts against Chiyou.

The "King of Chiyou" recognized by the Four Holy Beasts is Chiyou, the leader of the Jiuli tribe at the beginning, not the demon god Chiyou who is now revived.

That's why the Four Holy Beasts rebelled.

"I'm such a good person, the hole dug in the original version was filled by me......"

As a copyist, Meng Lang admired himself a little.