Lucas led Liu Lang and a few people into another factory, this is completely different from the previous one, that factory is a studio, even outsiders can enter and exit at will, but this factory is different, it is equipped with an anti-theft door, and you need to press the password to enter.

"This is the core of our Industrial Light & Magic!"

Lucas opened the door and walked in, pointing inside.

Liu Lang is also very curious, in this era when computers have not yet been popularized, what method does Industrial Light & Magic use to produce special effects beyond this era?

The expansive factory is divided into three areas, each of which is staffed by seven or eight people.

Lucas looked at them with a hint of pride in his eyes.

"Little Jimmy, the Star Wars movie made $700 million at the box office, and the second part was a bit worse, but it also had a box office of 100 million, and you know what the key to the success of these two films is? ”

Lucas led a few people to an area where models were made, and then pointed to two "spaceships" and said: These two are the models of the "Death Star" and "Star Destroyer" spaceships, and they are also the two most famous spaceships in Star Wars.

Liu Lang leaned closer and looked at it carefully, sure enough, these two models are very realistic, if you zoom in a hundred times, probably everyone will think that these are two alien spaceships.

"It's made of steel?"

Liu Lang gently touched it and asked.

"Most of them are made of steel, after all, the hard characteristics of steel are not comparable to other materials, but it still needs to go through more than a dozen processes of polishing to finally show the kind of appearance in the movie, but if it is just a model, no matter how good we do, we can't surpass others too much. ”

Star Wars filming required a lot of dynamic footage, and we had to do it optically. Then you need a time-consuming "stop motion" technique.

That is, the coherent action of the miniature model is broken down into an independent attitude of 24 frames per second, shot separately, and then reprinted on the film film, but no matter how fine the stop-motion animation is, it is difficult to achieve a smooth flight effect when shooting the picture of space flight, so we invented a machine that can control the camera in motion, so that the lens and the miniature model being photographed, produce a convincing relative movement, the most important thing is that we record the motion trajectory data of the camera, and then continuously analyze and correct, so to speak, we will not make mistakes after many shots, shoot in perfect shape every time, and at the same time accurately composite other images in post-production. ”

Lucas stood in front of a giant camera, the volume of this camera is much larger than other cameras, the body is controlled by multiple couplings, and behind the coupling is a motor, this motor is obviously very different from ordinary motors, Liu Lang can see it at a glance.

This kind of motor can only be found in CNC machine tools, that is to say, the core component inside is the integrated circuit board, of course, this integrated circuit board and the chip of the wafer production line can not be compared, but the CNC system is applied to the photographic equipment, industrial light and magic is afraid to be the first.

"Mr. Lucas, who made this CNC system?"

Liu Lang asked.

"What? You know this device?"

Lucas was taken aback.

"Huh......... These things are blue screen technology, right?"

Liu Lang ignored the other party's question, and pointed to a large blue cloth hanging on a high place not far away.

Lucas's face is not very good, it seems that this child is not only good at design, but also very amateur in other aspects, the technology of blue screen is not a mass product, this is the original shooting technology of Industrial Light and Magic, how can this child from China know?

"Well, well, you're not wrong, that's blue screen technology, and both films make heavy use of blue screen technology, which works very well for complex dynamic scenes.

For example, there is a chase battle between the "Millennium Falcon" and the "Titanium Fighter" in a meteorite group, and this scene requires layered shooting of different moving objects.

We reprinted the layered images several times, and each layered image needed the same background, and then superimposed them, and of course, the overlay process required a level of precision that no previous film had ever had.

Lucas explained the three areas in detail, Industrial Light & Magic has created a lot of original technologies, blue screen technology, multi-link control system, and the first time to introduce CNC motors into shooting, which greatly improves the accuracy of shooting, which should be an original innovation in the film industry.

Liu Lang admires this group of technicians very much, and it is their persistence that has brought the film industry into the era of special effects.

Of course, in Liu Lang's eyes, today's industrial light and magic technology is still too simple, is the special effect still "fake" enough, the main reason is that computers have not yet been fully popularized, and the accuracy of the numerical control system is not high, especially the computer, which has not yet officially appeared in the movie.

In the previous life, the Industrial Light & Magic Company later became Pixar, and this turning point was that they were acquired by the "Joe Gang Leader" of the "Apple" company in 86 years, but at this time, the Qiao Gang Leader was also very down-and-out, and he had just been eliminated from the "Apple" company created by himself, and it was purely idle and boring to buy Industrial Light & Magic.

However, as a computer genius, how could you not think of introducing computers into special effects?

The former industrial light and magic belonged to the "traditional" special effects production, and after becoming Pixar, it gradually embarked on the legendary road, from the beginning of model manufacturing to virtual generation, from the miniature scene to the use of computer programs to produce huge scenes.

It can be said that as long as designers have enough imagination to create the picture they want, and it is enough to make it real, Pixar at that time really stood at the pinnacle of the world's special effects industry.

Liu Lang's assumption is very logical, if there is no "Qiao Gang Leader" to join, maybe Industrial Light and Magic can become a top special effects production company, but if you want to reach the height of Liu Lang's previous life, I am afraid it is still a little close.

"Computer? Qiao is a computer genius, but I'm not bad! In my previous life, I had Apple, and in this life, I also have VIE Technology! If we talk about software programming, VIE Technology in the previous life may not be much better than VIE Technology in this life, and if we take the current time period, VIE Technology is probably the first in the world!"

For Industrial Light & Magic, Liu Lang is imperative, not only to acquire him, but also to make it reach the height of the previous life. ()

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