Brad Payton told Zhang Junsheng that in 2012, the crew used a steel mechanical platform to build a steel platform, and used hydraulic and pneumatic control of the mechanical movement of the platform to simulate the arrival of an earthquake...

The effect of the ground crack can be synthesized in CG, but this partial ground vibration effect is real-life.

The platform is very large, large enough to accommodate dozens of people, and in this case the actors' performances are also real...

As for the earthquake plugin, it was purchased from Hollywood, and the price is not high, less than half a million!

Frankly speaking, Zhang Junsheng meant to let the special effects company develop the plug-in independently, but the time was a little insufficient...

And the money to be invested is a bit too scary!

In fact, the special effects production industry is not very profitable.

On the one hand, labor costs are high, and most importantly, R&D investment is quite large.

Because the technology is updated too fast, just in order to achieve an effect, a software has been developed, and in less than half a year, the software has to be upgraded, and new software must be developed to catch up with the demand.

Fortunately, many countries are now building their own film industries, such as Zhang Junsheng's special effects company, which has purchased more than a dozen of the top special effects plug-ins at one time...

From the perspective of cost performance, special effects companies should be the most cost-effective when doing special effects for advertising films.

Movies, more for branding.

In fact, at the time of "2012", Yuehua Special Effects Company had already participated - contracted to several relatively well-known post-production special effects artists in the industry, and then they contracted the work, split it up and gave it to different small teams to do, and then finally merged together, Yuehua Special Effects belonged to one of them!

Yuehua special effects are better at doing some two-dimensional + three-dimensional backgrounds and animal hair, after all, Yuehua special effects cooperate with animation companies every year, and Tian Xiaopeng has high requirements for animal hair.

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In the studio, Zhang Junsheng shouted with a loudspeaker: "... No, do it again!"

So far, this shot has been shot four times, and there are always flaws.

When a big earthquake comes, the ground cracks, people often can't stand steadily, and when the ground cracks, the actor should fall.

But when performing, the actors either fell too early, or fell too late, and they didn't cooperate well...

This is normal, although the platform can simulate the effect of an earthquake, but it is still very different from a real earthquake, at least there is no building collapse...

As soon as Zhang Junsheng finished shouting, the makeup artist standing on the side hurriedly came over and sprayed soybean powder on the actor's face and body, imitating dust.

In about ten minutes, filming resumed.

The scene notes hit the board, and the extras who were already in place immediately ran in a panic, and after only running a few steps, they felt the vibration of the ground cracking device under their feet, and immediately fell to the ground, and the close-up can be seen that Yan Bingyan collapsed to the ground, and was stunned to see the ground torn apart in front of her eyes, revealing a huge crack.

The camera moves forward with the ground crack sign that has been drawn on the ground for a long time, all the way to the green screen...

Actually,The ground crack model can also be built.,It's just that this thing is too time-consuming.,And,You can use CG to cut it out in the later stage.,When preparing in the early stage,I didn't deliberately ask for this...

“… How?"

“… It should work!"

"I also want to take aerial photography at this time to shoot the entire Tangshan earthquake scene..."

“… That's no problem, we've been prepared for a long time!"

"That's fine!"

After discussing with several special effects artists in the group and Zhang Junsheng, this shot is over...

This kind of special expectation of large-scale special effects production in the later stage, special effects artists and painters have to follow the group, it just so happens that the Suzhou Zhou studio is in the film and television city, and there are special effects companies in the adjacent places...

Guo Fan: "Director, I want to go to the special effects company to see..."

"I've got to go, too... Let's do it together!"

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The audition shooting in Tangshan has long been over, and it is already the beginning of June!

Abstinence makes a person healthy!

Zhang Junsheng has experienced a lot of life during this time!

He's full of energy, and the gang under him is miserable!

Especially the special effects company, at the end of the shooting every day, he pulls the special effects artist and chats about the effect of the earthquake...

It's normal, "Tangshan Earthquake" has smashed 380 million so far, according to the special effects company's estimates, there is no 500 million that can't be won!

Simply counting on the mainland market, it is unlikely that the cost will be recovered...

So, there has to be a big scene!

It is difficult to sell overseas without a big scene, and Ma Xiaokang's "Tangshan Earthquake" has only tens of thousands of dollars at the North American box office, why?

There are too few special effects shots, and almost all of them are local shots, and there are no big scenes, which makes it look particularly stingy, and it can't be compared with Hollywood blockbusters at all, and it is not attractive to overseas audiences.

Guo Fan followed Zhang Junsheng to Yuehua special effects.

Shainin proudly showed the 3D model drawings that had been designed!

It is a panoramic view of Tangshan taken from the air, the picture is black and white, monochrome 3D building model, and there are no color maps.

The coloring map was outsourced and handed over to the heavenly brilliance...

Although it is monochrome, it is a 3D architectural model, and it is quite shocking to look at on the screen!

Guo Fan's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but exclaim: "Wow!"

“… Where is this?

Guo Fan hurriedly stared at the screen with his eyes, and suddenly, a shocking scene appeared.

The whole picture begins to shake, the houses in the picture begin to collapse, first the bungalows, then the concrete buildings, the collapse of the houses is completely different, some of the houses are collapsed in one piece, some are collapsed from top to bottom, some are slowly tilted and then collapsed...

It's not over yet, the close-up is cut, and the character model also appears in the earthquake...

Yan Bingyan desperately escaped, and then looked helplessly at the collapsed house behind her...

Looking at Guo Fan, who was a little stunned, Zhang Junsheng was a little proud: "How is it?"

“… Shock... How long is this footage?"

"It's going to have to last five minutes, and then there's two aftershocks..."

"That's... Is there too much time?"

“… I guess it's too late... It's up to you for the Chinese New Year!"

"Huh?"

"So, hurry up and shoot "You at the Same Table"!"

"Tangshan Earthquake", no matter how fast it is, it will take at least eight months to make up for the New Year...

But hey, the Chinese New Year file is such a good schedule, Zhang Junsheng doesn't want to give it out directly with a wave of his hand.

Six months is enough time for a youth film to be released and make money...

Guo Fan changed the topic: "Director, we really can't convert to a 3D version?"

“… Lao Xie, is it difficult to convert this part to 3D?"

"It's not difficult at all, and the special effects lenses are already very suitable for 3D conversion!"

"Okay. Zhang Junsheng turned his head and looked at Guo Fan: "Then our "Tangshan Earthquake" is the same as "Painted Skin 2", 3D and 2D will be released simultaneously!"