Chapter 393 The Science Fiction Film That Scientists Are Looking Forward to (Part II)
Sure enough, without waiting for Peng Yichen to raise his own questions, Zhou Jingqi had already said the technical problems they encountered.
"The biggest problem we have now is this: in interstellar warfare, there are many weapons that are used in large quantities beyond the current imagination of mankind. For example, particle beam cannons, singularity bombs, antimatter cloud barriers, etc., we don't have a clear concept of the effect and power of these weapons, and we don't know how to achieve them at all. ”
Zhou Jingqi was a little helpless and explained their difficulties to Peng Yichen.
Truth be told, for the first time in more than a decade, he felt a sense that his imagination was too scarce.
This is an unbearable feeling for a person who is extremely obsessed with movie special effects.
Peng Yichen thought about it, and indeed he forgot to explain the details of these wars to the special effects team, no wonder they were a little bit of a guide.
"Are there any other difficulties?" Peng Yichen hopes to try to find out and solve all the problems before the film starts.
Zhou Jingqi thought for a moment and said, "In addition, the people of the Carbon-based Federation are similar to human beings, except that they can communicate with their minds and the force field surrounding their bodies. We can do this with post-production effects. But what should silicon-based life be, robots, artificial intelligence, or the kind of mechanical life in cyberpunk......"
At this time, Peng Yichen really developed his own experience in shooting science fiction and fantasy movies, and he had too little experience.
Because this kind of movie often comes from the product of illusory imagination, many of the settings and things in the movie have no basis and reference in reality.
Therefore, for science fiction movies, the director's imagination is extremely important, and it even directly determines the height and depth of a science fiction movie.
The reason why "Star Wars" has been popular all over the world for half a century is because George Lucas used his meticulous imagination to build a huge cosmic world.
Let the fans who see it can't help but believe that the love-hate hatred and grand wars that happened between the stars have really happened somewhere in the universe.
Peng Yichen is now a director of science fiction films, and he has discovered that this is really a job that poses an extreme challenge to the imagination.
In the short stories of the previous life, although countless brains and imaginative settings are given, these settings are not described in detail.
Therefore, Peng Yichen did not give a specific description of these settings in the script, which made Zhou Jingqi and others, the special effects team, a little confused about many specific details.
But to be honest, now let Peng Yichen directly take out the specific image of so many details in the movie. He was really embarrassed.
Fortunately, he still has the "plug-in" of the plot world, since he can't imagine so many details at once, then go to the plot world to see it yourself, don't you know everything?
Of course, before entering the world of the plot, he still wants to know more about the technological level of these alien cultures in the movie.
So, in the next meeting, most of him was communicating with two scientists, Chen Xudong and Liu Cixin.
With the help of these two scientists, Peng Yichen gradually sketched out the life forms of the carbon-based federation and the silicon-based empire on the drawings, as well as the rudiments of various warships, weapons, and technology.
In these sub-shots he painted, although many details are still very blurry, it can already roughly sketch a complete and huge image of interstellar warfare.
In the following days, Peng Yichenhe, under the introduction of two scientists, found several top astronomers, sociologists, and biologists in China.
Fortunately, this science fiction film and television base is on the outskirts of Kyoto City, otherwise it would be tantamount to a fool's dream to gather so many experts at once.
Under everyone's brainstorming, the script in Peng Yichen's hand became more and more detailed, and the content in it became more and more grand and real.
Although the main line of the story has not changed, the details that are constantly added to it and Peng Yichen's personal thinking about the universe, science and technology, and civilization have made this movie slowly begin to really add his personal flavor.
This is a very delicate process, and originally this story is the crystallization of the thoughts and imagination of famous science fiction writers in previous lives.
However, due to the limitation of space and the author's writing level at that time, this work was originally compared to several amazing works created by this writer.
But now, with the joint efforts of Peng Yichen and several top experts, the story is getting fuller and more real.
In the end, the appeal of the story to people, and the fateful confrontation between those interstellar wars and interstellar civilizations, have raised the level of the whole story by more than one notch.
When the final script was passed on by these scientists and experts, even they were moved and shocked by this movie, which they themselves had poured countless efforts into.
The scientific and technological settings are as rigorous as possible, the strange and gorgeous alien life, and the fate of the earth is fatalistic and tied to a huge interstellar war and the teachers and children in the mountain village.
All this made these scientists have great expectations for this film.
In addition, Zhou Jingqi and his special effects team made some preliminary CG special effects pictures and special effects models from time to time according to the descriptions of aliens and superweapons sketched by Peng Yichen.
It makes these scientists involved in it even more feel that they have created a huge world little by little.
This "Creator" pleasure makes everyone a little.
The night before Peng Yichen was about to leave the science fiction film and television base, all the scientists and experts who participated in the revision of the script and the preliminary shaping of the images of various characters and objects in the film applied to Peng Yichen that after the film started, no matter how busy they were, they must watch their filming process.
Because they are too curious about how shocking the effect of such a science fiction movie is.
Let them wait until the end of the year or the beginning of next year when it is released, and then watch the movie in the cinema, it will suffocate them.
Of course, Peng Yichen approved all of these applications.
There is a group of scientists who are willing to serve as directors and consultants for the whole process of filmmaking, which is not something that ordinary films can ask for.
Of course, even now the script is basically perfect.
But many of the details in it are still not real enough, and there are still many shots how to use special effects technology to achieve them, which are all problems that Peng Yichen still has to face.
In order to solve these problems, he finally made up his mind and chose a role in a movie that he didn't want to choose.
Then, on the night of leaving the film and television base, he lay on the bed in the room where he slept, and once again entered the world of the plot and experienced a life that he had never experienced.
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