After the start-up ceremony, everyone was asked to go to the Taoist temple of the film and television base to worship God, because there are many demon gods and immortals involved in this shooting, and every actor played, regardless of whether he has religious beliefs or not, must burn incense and worship God, otherwise something strange is likely to happen.

Speaking of some feudal superstitions, when filming the old version of "Journey to the West", "Jigong" and "Fengshen Bang", because the crew did not carry out this activity, there were also many accidents, many people fell ill inexplicably, and the actors had amnesia during filming, etc., after that, each crew went to the nearby Taoist temple halfway, and the temple held a god-worshipping ceremony, and the filming was carried out smoothly, which is also a fact known in the circle, so this tradition has been maintained.

After these ceremonies, everyone also began to set the makeup for the first time, this time as the cinematographer Zhao Xiaoding, carrying a video camera on his shoulder, as well as a sound engineer holding a microphone pole and others, they followed the guest host Li Xiaole through the various studios, conducting simple interviews, which will be included in the behind-the-scenes footage of future DVDs.

I saw Li Xiaole in the camera walking to the three-walled props office, where assistant director Zhang Yimou and other members of the director team were sitting at a round table, the table was full of drawings and various molds, and next to it were all kinds of complex motion capture equipment.

The 50 cameras will capture the movements of each actor for intelligent recognition, and the crew will record the body language of the actors during the performance through this technology, and then convert the obtained data into a data model, using this movement trajectory as the skeleton, filling it with the "flesh and blood" of the 3D character, and finally synthesizing the vivid character on the screen.

"Director Zhang, can you introduce us to our new facial motion capture equipment this time?" Li Xiaole smiled and pulled Zhang Yimou into the camera, Zhang Yimou, who has always been introverted, also looked very proud this time, and proudly introduced the equipment behind him:

"I can say that, the previous "Lord of the Rings" Gollum and "King Kong" were all realized through this technology, but due to the immaturity of the technology, even after getting the fine face data, it is necessary to make a lot of corrections through post-computer painting.

For example, in Pirates of the Caribbean 2, the crew members, such as the octopus captain David Jones, the motion capture technology only records their body language, and the faces are painted by animators. The characters made in this way will work much better for companies with advanced painting skills, such as ILM, but it takes a lot of time to paint in the later stage, so it cannot be used in large quantities.

Motion capture technology has only made a qualitative leap forward in our film, now let's take a look at the 'hooded expression capture system' we have developed. ”

Saying that, Zhang Yimou took out a helmet-like instrument and wore it on his head, and a virtual CG character painting immediately appeared on the computer screen, Zhang Yimou explained with interest:

"No, from now on, the actors in the motion capture performance no longer have what looked like one-piece swimsuits and swim caps on their heads, but wear a helmet-like device. With this device, the facial expressions of the actors can be accurately recorded. The 'motion capture' and 'facial expression capture' of our film can be recorded synchronously~ Because the emotions conveyed by the CG characters are really the real acting skills of the actors. ”

When Zhang Yimou couldn't put it down to show off his new equipment, Ge You, who played the role of Tai Bai Xing, walked over to the side, Li Xiaole stopped him, and Ge You smiled at the camera: "I play Tai Bai Xing this time, and my life is very light~ There is nothing to say, you should go to interview Mr. Jiang Wenjiang, he played the Bull Demon King this time, but he led two cows in the crew, and he stared at the cow every day ~~ It's so fun." ”

Looking at Ge You, who was looking at the fairy wind bones, smiled evilly at the camera, and everyone who took the shot couldn't help laughing.

"Tom Cruise~! George Clooney~! "Came to the huge demon camp studio, where all kinds of eerie and terrifying bone buildings have been built, many of the thrones of the demon kings are made of iron swords or huge beast heads, and the walls of a moving set are printed with the logos of the major demon clans in the oracle bone inscription, Li Xiaole walked towards the two people who were talking.

This time, the two played the macaque king and the lion camel king in the "Seven Saints" respectively, and followed by Andrew Lincoln, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Martin Freeman to play the Jiao Demon King, Peng Demon King, and Yu Tamarin King.

Seeing the filming team recording the tidbits, the American actors who were setting their makeup were all happy to come over, all kinds of funny things to the camera, this time these "demons and monsters" are played by these well-known American actors to play cameos, the Chinese reporters were almost stupid when they were interviewed, because just the "Seven Sages" of soy sauce, its lineup is no less than the six superheroes of "The Avengers", and only Li Xiaole, the director of the world, has such a great appeal......

Li Xiaole stretched out his fist and touched each of them, turned to face the camera, and said with a smile: "They are all world-class selling points in "The Legend of the Great Sage", of course, after the makeup is set, because it is a motion capture system, you probably won't recognize who they are." ”

Tom Cruise excitedly waved his fist at the camera and said, "Hi guys, I'm playing a monkey, although there are thousands of monkeys in this movie, but the coolest monkey will definitely be me~~You must recognize me~~I am the macaque king~" said and imitated the monkey to make a tickling motion.

"Wait, Tom, you'll be able to get some of the monkey training in the future." Li Xiaole joked, and George Clooney next to him smiled at the camera with a gentlemanly face: "I have to say, this is really amazing, the wonderful world built in this movie, I never thought that Chinese mythology is so grand, I am honored to participate in this movie, if the crew of "X-Men" sees this, I am afraid that they will immediately go back and change the appearance of those mutants." ”

Although the crew gathered actors and staff from all over the world, everyone got along very well in this magical film and television base, and all the actors were pleasantly surprised by Li Xiaole showing them everything.

They all felt as if they were not just working on a commercial film, but were working on a great film career that would change the entire film industry when it was made.

The external ceremony includes press conferences, catwalk photo interviews; And the internal rituals, including prayers, are simple, the crew gets together, and the main creators take turns to speak, encouraging and looking forward to the shooting.

"Thank you all for coming to this Suo Po world...... In the spacious green screen studio, all the crew members of the "Legend of the Great Sage" studio gathered here, Jiang Wen, Ge You, Zhou Yanfa, Siqin Gaowa, Chen Daoming, Sun Li, Ha Zhiyuan, Zhao Yazhi, these Chinese actors who play the immortal clan, as well as Tom Cruise, George Clooney Joss, Andrew Lincoln, Wang Baoqiang, Hu Ge These demon actors, as well as Zhang Yimou, Wu Wei, Lei Ting, Xu Zhen, Lenny Wisemore and other creators sat in a row of long chairs in the front, and the team members in the back also looked at Li Xiaole on the small stage in front of them.

Photographer Zhao Xiaoding and other "continuing staff" are responsible for filming and taking pictures, including on-set footage.

"In the next 4 months, we will do our best for the "Legend of the Great Sage". Looking at everyone's familiar faces, Li Xiaole can call out the name of any of them, the production team, the director team, the photography team, the props group, the set group, and the special effects team...... He went on to speak emotionally:

"All of you here, are my friends, our teachers, my partners, my close comrades-in-arms, since I entered the film and television industry, step by step I have been learning from you, relying on you, Black Pearl Company from a small company of three people in 2001, to now, you have made my crew from dozens of people to hundreds, to the current giant crew of thousands of people, I am really grateful to have you in ~~"

Li Xiaole bowed emotionally, then got up and looked at everyone and pretended to be serious: "But the ugly words came to the front, and after I finished saying these words, I would not have any friendship with you when I sat in the director's chair~~~ So don't be too serious about what you said just now." ”

"Hahaha!" Everyone immediately burst into laughter, Zhang Yimou, Jiang Wen and others couldn't help it, shook their heads and said with a smile in their hearts, this Director Xiao Li, his eloquence is still so good, it is obviously such a serious oath meeting, but it makes everyone so happy, and the atmosphere of the crew is too good.

"In this crew, there are Chinese, Americans, Koreans, British...... Filmmakers all over the world~~ Everyone's way of working and personality will definitely be different......" Li Xiaole paused and glanced at the smiling crowd:

"But I hope that this story, this movie can become our common dream, become the pride of all of us, in this world of sava, we unite all of our strength, then these people who have been alive in the hearts of hundreds of billions of people, stories, glow with new life, let this dream of us create myths in every corner of the world, and leave this story in front of the screen forever in the hearts of every old man, young man, child, dream, thank you~~"

Bang Bang Bang! The thunderous applause resounded in the green screen studio again, everyone laughed and applauded vigorously, Ha Zhiyuan's eyes didn't know why tears flashed, Lei Ting next to her gently handed her a piece of paper, and said softly: "Don't cry, there is a camera, you don't want to leave such a shameful picture in the tidbits." ”

"I'm not crying, I just can't help ......it" Ha Zhiyuan's tearful eyes couldn't stop smiling, looking at Lei Ting: "I'm so happy, Sister Lei." ”

Lei Ting also looked at Li Xiaole with a loss, feeling the emotion in Ha Zhiyuan's heart, yes, watching her dearest person come step by step, and finally realize her childhood dream until today, this feeling is so wonderful, isn't this the myth of life~ Today~ Our dream is turned on~~