Chapter 712 Action Expression Capture
The lone agent in the film is starring Mason, a popular fried chicken that has gradually accumulated box office appeal in recent years, and his "Transformers 1" and "Transformers 2" with Mai Copy have become the highest movies of his career, and he has formed a golden alliance with Mason.
Mason Xiaosheng, who has the style of Bruce Willis in "Die Hard", can be said to be the first protagonist of this film, and his charm will also ensure the appeal of this film to female audiences. The brave and funny president is played by black actor Jamie Fox, and Batman's girlfriend Rachel McAdams from "The Dark Knight" plays the role of female agent, Mason's boss, who will team up inside and outside to rescue them.
A group of well-armed terrorists occupied the White House, and a lone super-powerful agent was ordered to save the abducted president in a disparity contest and defend the highest dignity of the United States.
Tatum gets a new job as a White House agent, but he doesn't expect to encounter a big problem just after "taking office": he is ordered to be in danger
The White House fell to defend the president. The terrorists' guns and ammunition are extremely powerful and menacing, the White House has been hijacked or shot, the White House full of order is in chaos in an instant, Mason has turned into a lone hero and stepped forward to fight the terrorists, and the entire terrorist attack, the explosions are frequent and the smoke is filled, and even the White House, which represents the supreme rule of the United States, has been wiped out, and the picture of the car crash and the plane death is almost not worth mentioning.
And the spark between the agent and the president he needs to protect is the most interesting passage of the film. The president played by Jamie Fox is not a weak and delicate "vase", since the encounter with Mason, the two have fought side by side all the way, this strategic and courageous president can also use a bazooka to fire it when he is interested, and occasionally show a few tricks to vent on terrorists. is such a pair of agents + presidents who fought off terrorists in the contest with huge disparities, defended the spirit of the United States, and had a lot of fun in this bloody action movie with the main theme of the United States.
This action movie, from the beginning of the street fight, hit the White House, and even the president began to go to the sea, who said that the destruction of the White House is just a bridge in a science fiction movie? Now action movies are also doing the same.
Emmerich, the old rival of this copy, has destroyed the White House twice, and now it is his turn to play this hand, which has a narrow path, and has always only played action movies and science fiction movies, and this time it is a return to his old business.
When Mark was filming "The Avengers", many scenes were using motion capture technology, and the company is undoubtedly a leader in the passive optical motion capture industry, providing excellent performance optical motion capture and analysis systems for nearly 1,000 users around the world, covering various fields such as animation production, motion analysis, industrial measurement and control, but the most slippery in terms of movies is Weta Digital.
When "The Lord of the Rings 2: Two Towers" came out, it caused a sensation in the world, and Gollum in the film completely shocked the industry, such a realistic monster character is unprecedented, and it is also one of the most classic motion capture characters in film history.
Other classic CG characters from around the same time include Dobby from Harry Potter and Master Yoda from the Star Wars prequel, but none of them have as much influence as Gollum, one of the reasons being that Gollum is a motion-captured character, and was one of the first to use expression capture technology, and is played by the world's greatest motion-capture actor at the moment.
Therefore, for the character of Gollum, the two main film technologies he produced on the screen are CG technology and motion (expression) capture technology.
In fact, it is very easy to understand, that is, when the actor is performing live or filming in the post-production special effects studio, wearing a motion capture suit, and the motion capture points are dotted on the face, so that the camera can capture the relative position of all the capture points in the space during shooting: the points on the face are relatively fine, so they are recorded separately with a small camera.
Later, in post-production, in fact, it can be directly exported on set, and the spatial position of these capture points will be imported into the spatial coordinates of the CG, and a skeleton with the same movement as the actor will be output.
Finally, the CG department will put the finished CG model into this skeleton, and then recomposite it into the shooting frame, replacing the actor's image, and complete the production of a motion capture character.
To use a rough analogy: EMOTI capture is like casting something: first, you have to make a perfect sample, then you have to make a mold from the sample, and finally you pour the metal into the mold to cast the product. If there is no good sample, where can a good product come from?
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is the originator of motion capture technology and expression capture technology, and the technology that made Gollum later became a system that later appeared in generations of classic films, such as "King Kong", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and so on. And the most important point of this system is to give the actors' performances to the virtual characters.
So, the actor is very important for the motion capture character, and if there is no good actor, then the virtual role may not be successful.
Andy Serkis starred in Gollum, which was a huge success, and he played both Gollum and King Kong.
Gollum's voice is not post-processed, it is Andy's own voice on the spot, he once performed Gollum and Caesar quarrel on a talk show, this vivid ventriloquism, is amazing.
That's right, it's because of Gollum that interested viewers may notice that there are some differences between Gollum's appearance in the first part of the Lord of the Rings and those in the second two films: it can be vaguely seen that Gollum's eyes in the first part are rounderer, and then relatively smaller, the shape of the eyebrows is also different, and the brow bones are flatter.
The reason is that Peter only found out in the late stage and reshoot of the second part that Andy could better interpret the character with the expression he gave to Gollum during the performance, so he decided to make Gollum look more like Andy.
This could be an important juncture in the development of expression capture technology.
At the same time, Andy also put on makeup to play the role of Sam, that is, Gollum before the transformation.
Andy Serkis is a great man, before he joined the crew of "The Lord of the Rings", he was actually a very famous stage actor in the United Kingdom, especially in physical performance. In the crew of "The Lord of the Rings", he was originally responsible for the physical performance of the Gollum character, but because of Peter's decision, the expressions of the motion capture actors were also included in the scope of capture.
Movement and expression are the two main elements of external expression in the performing arts.
So, when Andy played Gollum, he actually gave his soul to this role very personally, you say, can you find someone to play it?
Gollum's actor is no less important than any actor in the film, and even Cameron was shocked, and he thought that the technology for making "Avatar" was mature, which would start the preparation of "Avatar".
Today, Andy Serkis is widely regarded as the world's greatest motion capture actor because he was the first person in the world to play the motion and expression capture character Gollum, was the culmination of the system, and even opened a school dedicated to the training of motion capture actors, as well as a successful action director, director and general actor.
Now that Mark is filming "The Avengers", there are many roles that are done through motion expression capture, so Andy is the director of motion capture acting.
The Hulk in "Avengers", unlike "Hulk" and "The Incredible Hulk", the first two are GC generated, while "Avengers" is captured by Ruffalo through action expressions, all in front of the green screen.
Some people say that you don't need acting skills to make a superhero blockbuster, which is pure. Most of the films are done in front of a green screen through motion expression capture, and the actors have no scene rendering, only their own imagination, and if you have seen the special effects production footage without post-processing, you will think that it is a group of jokes making blind comparisons.
This kind of demand is actually very high, and if the performance is not real, it will inevitably mess up the movie.
And many of the fierce fighting scenes of this Iron Man are also completed through computer special effects.
Stanley saw Stark being hung by Wia, pulled back and forth, funny and frustrated, but after computer processing, he became flying between flying floors and high-rise buildings, majestic, unstoppable, and some were fighting with the Zitaas in the air, extremely majestic.
Stanley was surprised: "That's how the special scenes in the movie are handled?"
Mark said, "What do you think? Donnie doesn't have superpowers, and he can't even beat you." ”
Stanley said: "It's really a miracle, it's very imaginative. ”
"Green screen technology and motion capture technology have reduced production costs and made blockbuster fantasy and superhero blockbusters mainstream, and now remaking Cleopatra certainly doesn't have to rebuild a Roman city, even if James Carmeh made Titanic," said Mark , certainly no need to build an artificial sea and rebuild a ship, we have greatly reduced the cost of making extraterrestrial scenes, you take a look at this scene of the Zitaya star, all computer generated, this is a great technology, how sci-fi mysteries your imagination is, how sci-fi mysteries its scenes are, which makes big scenes cheap and everywhere. ”
Stanley watched Mark show off the highlights from the movie and said, "It's amazing, I have a hunch that this is another big hit." ”
Mark said, "Yes. Man, results so quickly?"
Stanley said, "Jerry's mistress, Elaziva, does have some information, but it doesn't do much. She pointed out that although Jerry is very careful and never reveals his heart, he has a problem, he can talk in his dreams, and he himself does not know, Eladian recorded it, but there is nothing important, gossip is the majority, maybe the tabloids will be more interested. ”