Chapter Seventy-One: Special Effects
After Yan Yueming hung up Zhang Ran's phone, he felt a wave of anger rushing straight to Tianlinggai, not because Hualong refused to be a digital intermediate, but because he felt that his authority had been challenged, I am also the vice chairman of China Film Group, do you dare to have such an attitude towards my project?
He flipped through the address book and turned to the number of Ma Mingyang, the deputy general manager of Hualong Digital, and made a phone call: "Ma Mingyang, let me ask you, what's the matter with your Hualong Digital? Have you not taken me seriously? You still ask what's going on? A movie on our movie channel has been transferred to your Hualong number, and you actually think that our project is small? What kind of behavior do you say this is? It's just no one in sight!"
After a stormy reprimand, Yan Yueming said earnestly: "Mingyang, it has been a few years since our group was restructured, but many comrades' ideas and concepts have not changed. It is not okay to think that we are a state-owned enterprise and have a country for everything. Now that it is a market economy, we in China Film are also self-financed, so how can we not accept projects because they are small? If this concept is not reversed, it will be difficult to survive in this market!"
When he said this, his voice raised again: "This is an ideological problem, a conceptual problem! This problem is very serious, and you must strengthen education in this regard!"
Although Ma Mingyang felt that Yan Yueming was making a big fuss, his attitude was very humble: "Chairman Yan, you are right in your criticism, I will definitely criticize them well and strengthen ideological education! I guarantee that there will never be such a problem again!"
"I don't want to listen to nonsense, you can solve this matter for me!" Yan Yueming hung up the phone directly.
Two minutes later, Mr. Wang's cell phone rang. picked up the phone that saw that it was Ma Mingyang, quickly connected it, and said respectfully: "Mr. Ma, what's the matter with you?"
"Wang Rumin, did the people from the movie channel come just now?"
"How do you know?" Wang Rumin was stunned for a moment, and then felt that something was wrong.
"Wang Rumin, you heard Lao Tzu clearly, immediately apologize to the comrades of the movie channel, and give me a good job of the later stage they are going to do!" Ma Mingyang ignored Wang Rumin's words and shouted loudly, "If this matter is not done well, Lao Tzu will withdraw you!"
Wang Rumin was startled, his heart was pounding, Ma Mingyang has always been polite and polite, but today he even burst out with such a foul language as "Lao Tzu", it can be seen that something is really wrong, he hurriedly said: "Yes! I'll go right away!"
"I don't want to listen to nonsense, Chairman Yan has called me, don't pull me if you want to die! You can do this yourself!" Ma Mingyang put down this sentence and hung up the phone.
Wang Rumin thought for two seconds before he remembered who Chairman Yan was, and his legs suddenly went limp, my mother, this time it's a big trouble! Where did he dare to hesitate, he immediately picked up the phone and called the office of the input and output department: "Wang Wei, are there any people from the movie channel on your side?"
Hearing this, Wang Wei smiled proudly: "Second uncle, did he come to you to complain?"
Wang Rumin thought to himself that he didn't stop suing you, he also sued Lao Tzu! Thinking of Mr. Ma's words just now, his heartbeat accelerated again, and he scolded loudly: "Wang Wei, it's all good things you did, I don't think you want to do it?
Wang Wei was taken aback by Wang Rumin's tone: "Didn't he come to you?"
Wang Rumin's hand shook, the phone almost hit the ground, it's over, that kid is gone, this thing is in trouble, where can I find someone?
At this moment, he saw the business card on the table, and spit it out a breath of turbidity, but fortunately he didn't throw the business card away, otherwise things would be really troublesome. He immediately hung up Wang Wei's phone and quickly dialed Zhang Ran's number.
Outside the office, Lokia's bell rang, and there was a "hey" on the phone, and there was also a "hey" outside the office. Wang Rumin rushed out in two steps like an arrow in his buttocks, and saw Zhang Ran standing in the corridor answering the phone.
Since the people are not gone, there is still room for redemption in this matter!
Wang Rumin stepped forward quickly, bent his waist, and said respectfully: "Teacher Zhang, just now I didn't know Mount Tai and collided with you, please forgive me!"
Zhang Ran knew that his phone was working, and looked at Wang Rumin coldly, but did not speak.
Wang Rumin saw Zhang Ran's expression, his head began to sweat, it seems that the other party is unwilling to forgive himself easily, things are a little difficult to do, but he has no other choice, if he can't handle it, Mr. Ma will remove him, he can only continue to apologize: "Teacher Zhang, I'm really sorry for this today, it's me who is wrong, it doesn't matter how you scold me, but the later stage of the movie can't be delayed!"
Zhang Ran still didn't answer, just looked at him coldly.
Wang Rumin sighed and said, "Teacher Zhang, I know it's me who is wrong, I'm really sorry! You can punish me as much as you want! But the movie is important, you can't delay your business, the digital intermediate film is wrapped up in us, and we will make it for you for free." ”
When Zhang Ran heard this, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and he decided not to dwell on this matter anymore, it would not be good for him to make trouble, and it was not a deep hatred, there was no need for this at all, besides, Hualong equipment is very advanced, and there will definitely be cooperation in the future, so he bowed his head slightly and said: "That's it, please call the people below, lest I be scolded again!"
Wang Rumin was like being amnestied, Zhang Ran's words in his ears were tantamount to the sound of heaven, pulling him from hell to heaven at once, and the whole person was relaxed: "I'll go with you! Teacher Zhang, please come here!"
When Wang Rumin respectfully invited Zhang Ran into the office of the input and output department, Wang Wei and the three of them turned white with fright, and their legs trembled even more. Minister Wang behaved like this, how big is this? This time he is dead!
However, Zhang Ran didn't mention the unpleasantness just now, and just asked them to help him complete the work of converting numbers as soon as possible. Wang Wei and the others breathed a sigh of relief, cheered up their spirits, and began to work on the conversion of film to digital.
After the production of the digital intermediate film was completed, Zhang Ran rushed back to Nortel's animation department with the materials and began to produce post-production special effects.
The first is the cutout work, the green screen cutout is the same principle as the Ps magic wand tool, select the green color, and delete it directly.
However, when picking the footage of Yang Zhi's crash, I encountered a little trouble. Yang Zhi fell on Simmons, and the green cloth was crumpled by her, with shadows, and black remnants left behind after keying. These black residues can only be cut out manually, so Chen Ningyu had to find a few students from the animation department to cut out the pictures manually.
Cut out the green background of the lens, and the next thing to do is to replace the real background with it and compose it. Zhang Ran and the others were quite well prepared in the early stage, and they drew the storyboard of the special effects lens during the preparation period, and the camera position and angle were designed very clearly, and the angle camera was also designed in advance when shooting, and it is relatively easy to synthesize it now.
The most difficult special effects shot to deal with is the shot of Cui Xinqin driving the car down from the air to the ground, because the car is in motion in this shot. In other shots of cars flying in the air, the cars don't actually move, just change to a fast-moving background. This shot of the car is moving, and the position of the car changes in every frame of the frame, so every frame must be aligned, otherwise the lens will be a goof.
The effects team adjusts the keyframe motion to match the model's window to the 3D model's window. Next, the 3D model of the flying car is combined with the character, and a 3D projection is created in the computer, and then the keyframe is manually adjusted to move and rotate to match the movement of the car. After three days of tossing, the characters and the car finally combined perfectly.
The rest of the work is as simple as combining the car with the background, and then creating realistic lighting and shadows to make the picture more realistic.
After several special effects shots were completed, Zhang Ran gathered the post-production team together and showed it to everyone in the screening room of Qingying Studio.
As the screen lights up, the audience is greeted with the scene of a futuristic city, flying cars flying through the air, and a breath of the future comes to their faces.
As soon as the picture turned, Cui Xinqin appeared in the camera, she drove the car forward with a heavy heart, and the intelligent system in the car kept reminding her: "Five kilometers away from Yaxin Hotel, three kilometers away from Yaxin Hotel......"
At this time, a speeding car whizzed by, and Cui Xinqin and the audience in front of the screen were startled. The intelligent system in the car suddenly scolded: "What are you doing so fast, rushing to reincarnate!"
Everyone in front of the screen was stunned, and then they all laughed, the future computers are all bad, and they can scold people!
After laughing, someone said with a little confusion: "This street is very familiar, it looks like it is on the other side of Dongdaqiao Road!"
Everyone reacted immediately to this shout, and they all whispered: "Yes, look at this building, it's the building on the other side of the East Bridge!"
"It's a bit like, but there's no round house on the East Bridge!"
"How did this come about?"
The car flew across a street, turned around in the air, flew to the parking lot of the Yaxin Hotel, and landed slowly. At the moment when the car was about to hit the ground, a stream of air erupted from the chassis of the car, splashing a fine cloud of dust, and then the car came to a steady stop.
Cui Xinqin in the car pressed a button, and a cylinder appeared on the door, which automatically rotated around and opened like a flower, and with a "click", the door opened and rose to the top of his head.
Cui Xinqin got out of the car, walked towards the camera, and then passed by the camera and stepped out of the lens.
As soon as the picture goes black, the shot ends.
"Oh, it's gone, I really want to see the back!"
"Why is it gone?"
"It has the feel of a Hollywood sci-fi movie, and the action of the car door opening automatically is very metallic, so cool!"
"It's just too short, if only it were longer!"
Everyone in front of the screen shouted regret one by one, and they were seeing the critical moment, why was it gone?
Immediately after, everyone stood up and applauded the members of the special effects team. They didn't have the special effects team to make such an awesome shot, which is completely unique to Hollywood movies, which is really cool!
The special effects team also stood up, clapped and hugged again, and two of the girls wiped their tears. For more than a month, everyone has been busy in the dark, and now that the results are out, they feel that their efforts have not been in vain.
Zhang Ran also applauded with a smile, although it is still far from Hollywood, but at least it is a start, this step out!
(Thanks to "Fengyun Fuchen, Yi Hanling, Ning Ge/-, Sleeping Lazy Cat" for rewarding!