On January 4, 10, a super blockbuster "Avatar" that made domestic audiences develop the habit of going to the theater to watch movies was released in China, instantly setting off a frenzy of movie-watching.

Originally, there were long queues in the cinema from morning to night, and a ticket could be fried to hundreds or thousands of yuan. Some theaters even give all the theaters to "Avatar", which is open 24 hours a day, lasts for 15 days, and does not close 360 hours a day.

The appearance of "Avatar" made countless filmmakers instantly stunned, and for the first time, they thought, ah, it turns out that movies can still be made like this! Then a bunch of directors have converted the film from 2D to 3D, and made countless movies with only subtitles and the most 3D.

Lu Lin's "The Return of the Great Sage" uses a super microcomputer to do special effects, so it naturally saves money in terms of cover-up. You don't need to rent a 3D camera, you can shoot a 2D digital camera.

As a special effects blockbuster, CG special effects and motion capture technology are indispensable, but this kind of talent is the most lacking in China at the moment. made Wu Jing extremely uncertain when recruiting crew members, damn a group of amateur players playing special effects blockbusters, how to get this thing!

As a result, when Wu Jing said his worries, Lu Lin said very calmly that he could recruit members like an ordinary crew, and he would do it when the special effects were filmed.

Wu Jing rolled his eyes when he heard this, and finally couldn't help complaining, "Brother, this is a special effects blockbuster, not a martial arts movie that will be made by hanging Weiya." ”

Lu Lin smiled and didn't explain, only asked him to rent shooting equipment according to the minimum configuration.

Before the official start, Lu Lin led the crew to set up a studio in the factory, and most of the staff were impressed in just one morning. What shape and how to build, which lamp should be hung where, everything that Lu Lin commands is the best position. It's not like in other crews, I got it and looked down for a long time and said, ah, it doesn't seem appropriate, tear it down and do it again.

The biggest actor in the whole film is Wu Jing, but he is still a small role in the film industry, because Lu Lin didn't hold a press conference, and the studio was very low-key as soon as it was set up.

In the first scene, the scene of Sun Wukong making trouble in the Heavenly Palace, Wu Jing was wearing chain gold armor, wearing a phoenix winged purple and gold crown, walking in the clouds under his feet, and a long red cloak behind him, and the whole person was sitting on a high platform more than three meters high, surrounded by green cloth.

Wu Jing took a bite of the peach in his hand and threw it diagonally upward, calling out to you, the first shot was completed.

After that, the scene of the fight between Sun Wukong and the heavenly soldiers and generals was filmed, and they all put on makeup and fought with Wu Jing, and the action part was mostly completed by Weiya. One of the changes is that in the animated version, the one who was thrown down by Sun Wukong was obviously King Tota Lee. But in the lower realm, he became Zhu Bajie.

Therefore, a detail was added to Lu Lin's live-action plot, that is, Sun Wukong came to Tianhe when he was fighting with Erlang God, and he met Marshal Tianpeng, who commanded the Tianhe Naval Army to help. And the Jiao Demon King also appeared here, pretending to help Sun Wukong bite back at a critical moment.

In this plot, King Tota and Nezha are played by Wuxing real people. The animals that Sun Wukong and Erlang God turned into and the dragon body of the Jiao Demon King are CG special effects. The Four Heavenly Kings, Erlang God, and Giant Spirit God were captured with motion capture and facial expressions.

In the later stage, the Erlang God is two meters tall, the Four Heavenly Kings are three meters, and the Giant Spirit God is five meters, using their tall and powerful to set off the power of the Monkey King.

Especially this giant spirit god, his muscles are knotted and his upper body is bare. Although he was defeated by the Monkey King with one move, in Lu Lin's thoughts, he wanted to be more real and powerful than Hulk.

One more thing to mention is that the 03 version of the Hulk is made with CGI digital synthesis technology, and the character image looks a bit like animation. And when it was filmed with motion capture technology in "The Avengers", it was much more realistic.

At the filming scene, a tall martial arts actor, wearing a motion capture equipment suit, holding a green fluorescent Xuanhua axe, made a force to split Huashan. Immediately, he was quickly dragged away by the stunt team with WIA, allowing the actor to make a posture of being kicked out.

As for the expression on his face, he needed to apply phosphor and shoot it in the facial expression capture studio.

watched Lu Lin methodically command the teams on the scene, easily playing high-precision shooting, and instantly convinced most of the crew members.

Liu Xun even sighed when he was eating a boxed lunch, when he filmed "A Chinese Ghost Story", it was also a special effects blockbuster. But the filming method is really different from "The Return of the Great Sage".

Wu Jing admired, but he was more puzzled in his heart, and said secretly: "Even if Lao Mei doesn't use this set of things, where did he go to learn, he can't lurk on the set of "Avatar"!"

The first day was mainly about motion capture, which was to give those who were hesitant to have confidence in Lu Lin and the crew. Lu Lin has already conquered most people with the professionalism he has shown, but the martial arts actors in equipment costumes have made frequent mistakes. Because their attention is always distracted by the motion capture suit on their bodies, they can't meet Lu Lin's requirements in terms of momentum.

"Forget about the equipment and clothing on you, imagine that you are now the king of the country, playing the pipa magic weapon in your hand. Lu Lin helped the actor enter the role, but this "poof" laughed, and everyone laughed at the scene.

"I'm sorry director, I can't help but look at this green bag, why don't you get me a real pipa!" It turned out that he was holding a guitar pocket painted green, the same principle as the green cloth on the scene, all for the purpose of replacing it in later production.

The motion capture actor who plays the king of the kingdom is a martial arts friend that Lu Lin met in the crew in the past, and he has no scruples about speaking.

Lu Lin glared, "This Heavenly King of the Holding Kingdom has made the late effect, it is three meters high, how big do you want to take the pipa?"

Everyone at the scene smacked their tongues, they still didn't understand it at first, and they thought that it would be better to find a few tall actors with red and blue colors on their faces, didn't all previous "Journey to the West" be filmed like this!

"Three meters tall, I don't know what it will look like when I get it out later, can it look like an avatar?" a staff member muttered quietly.

"It's hard to say, why do I always feel that the crew doesn't have much money, according to him, the investment in this play must be at least hundreds of millions, do you see the style, there is no publicity at all!"

"I really don't see it, maybe it's hard to say that people spend all their money in the later stage. ”

In a team of hundreds of people, there will naturally be people who pour cold water and say strange things. But when the day's filming was over, only a few people were still skeptical.

At the end of the evening, the entire crew stayed in the hotel that Huairou had set up in advance. Everyone else had dinner arranged by the crew, and Wu Jing pulled Lu Lin out for a drink.

As soon as the two of them found a food stall and sat down, Wu Jing couldn't help but ask: "I said, brother, where did you learn this set, could it be that you went abroad secretly?"