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Gran swaggered over, squinted at Li Xiaole and asked, "What's the matter, Chinese boy?" He is one of the top ten special effects makeup artists selected by the union last year, and has a high status in Hollywood, and he is not interested in rookie directors like Li Xiaole at all, no matter how the outside world blows, Li Xiaole is just a smug boy in Gran's eyes.

"Gran, you probably didn't understand what I was asking before, right?" Li Xiaole tried his best to be as calm as possible, pulled a fifteen-year-old girl actor who had put on zombie makeup and asked, pointing to the bloody tongue she spit out and questioning.

"Is this realistic?"

said that the little white girl actor who couldn't understand the situation was also full of embarrassment......

"This is the realistic style, and of course the tongue sticks out when a person dies." Gran touched his goatee, looking like he took it for granted, of course he knew that this was not a realistic style, but he himself thought that this slightly exaggerated effect was better, realism is a classical genre has fallen behind, and now exaggeration is a general trend, not only because exaggeration will make zombies more terrifying, but more importantly, the requirements for details of realistic special effects makeup are very high, so many extras have to be dressed on the scene, such a large workload, if all go in realistic style, Then the pressure on his special effects makeup team is too great.

As soon as Li Xiaole saw Gran's expression, he knew that he was not convinced by himself at all, and he simply regarded his words as the wind in his ears, in fact, this is normal, art is usually subjective, and it is normal for various departments in this kind of crew to have inconsistent views with each other, especially when a young director like him encounters a master like Gran who has been shortlisted for the Oscar, he naturally has no right to speak.

Li Xiaole figured out this truth, and he didn't get angry anymore, and calmly waved his hand to the actors who were filming not far away and shouted: "Yan Group, Lincoln, come here." ”

Lincoln and Wu Yan, who had already put on prop costumes and were ready to start filming, hurriedly put down the script and trotted over, Li Xiaole bent down and took two prop guns from the prop box that could pull the trigger and make the same sound as real guns, and handed them to the two of them.

"You guys shoot her in the head." Li Xiaole pointed to the girl zombie actor and instructed them.

“haode。” Lincoln smiled, thinking that Li Xiaole was going to test his training results during this time, seeing whether his shooting posture was professional or unprofessional, he took the gun very neatly, and smiled at the mass zombies:

"Hey, little girl, you have to support it." Raised his hand and shot him in the forehead at close range, the prop gun made a "bang" sound, the little girl zombie actor was so frightened that she almost sat on the ground, causing everyone to daxiao for a while, the girl could only stand up again helplessly, I really don't know, how could these people be so unsympathetic.

Then Wu Yan's group also learned from Lincoln, shooting calmly, with the same standard posture, after shooting, he also smiled at Li Xiaole and asked, "Director, how is it, it's not bad." ”

Li Xiaole didn't answer him, but just stepped forward to help up the girl who was so frightened that he sat on the ground that he was scared, and comforted: "Don't be afraid, it's all fake...... and then got up and walked to Gran's side and asked him: "Do you still think that the people in your special effects makeup team are okay?" They didn't even think of these zombies as human beings......"

Gran listened, turned his head to look at the two leading actors who were still smiling with prop guns, and also lifted his chin with his hand, as if he also felt that something was wrong, but he was just a makeup artist and didn't understand the details of the characters in the story, so he just turned his head and pretended to be calm and asked Li Xiaole: "I don't think there's anything wrong with it......"

"No problem?" Li Xiaole walked over with a cold face and stared at Gran's eyes tightly:

"I'm telling you, Gran, do you know what type of scene is the most human in this series? That is a close-up of their faces when they pick up a gun and aim it at a zombie, because this kind of drama between life and death can best reveal a person's personality and characteristics.

I'll tell you how to explain this behavior in the "Psychology of Killing", it is extremely difficult for normal people to shoot at a person, most people can't do it in nature, only about ten to fifteen percent of human beings can kill people naturally, because this nature of protecting the human race is innate......"

Gran suddenly felt a huge pressure from Li Xiaole's angry eyes, he didn't understand how a child could give him such a sense of oppression, and unconsciously stammered and explained: "He...... Aren't they trained? What's more, Lincoln is still playing a cop, and it's normal for them to dare to shoot people......"

"Do you think that makes sense?" Li Xiaole interrupted him and said coldly:

"Haven't you read the historical materials? During the Civil War and the Napoleonic Wars, the two armies faced each other, and the first round of close-range shooting was supposed to have a hit rate of more than eight points, but only a few people fell to the ground each time, because most of the soldiers had never shot at anyone, either into the sky, or to the side, or pretending to be busy, saving the wounded, and pretending to be busy...... These characters of mine are not devils, they are ordinary people, and they should also have this kind of psychology when they see people turning into zombies, instead of exploding the head of a monster here. ”

"Wow...... This kid really has a set" After listening to Li Xiaole's reprimand, Gran couldn't help but open his mouth slightly, secretly admiring in his heart, he is a long man today, he can actually feel some of the problems before, but no director can sort out the key as clearly as Li Xiaole, but he is still unwilling to admit defeat, just silent, he spent half an hour looking for someone to re-make a zombie special effect makeup for the little girl, and let Gran and Wu Yan shoot again, I didn't expect these two guys here to shoot cleanly......

Except for the special effects makeup artists, everyone didn't know what they were doing, and thought they were training extras with guts.

Because Gran was disappointed, they could only try again, this time he changed to a zombie method, this time he took out the effort to press the bottom of the box, and it took an hour to complete the production before the little girl was re-put on makeup, but the result still made him speechless, Wu Yan Group, Lincoln The two actors still shot the little girl's head without hesitation......

"Damn it~!" Gran couldn't hold back any longer, he couldn't help the beard on his chin and pulled it off, so angry that he only kicked the prop bucket next to him, and hated himself for his lack of ability.

On the contrary, the special effects makeup artists next to him couldn't help but persuade him: "Gran, don't pay attention to what the Chinese kid said, where can makeup be so magical...... The camera depends on lighting and music, and makeup alone can play a role. "That's it, this kid is a blind request that is out of reality, in fact, it would be good to let the actor play a painful and hesitant reaction, why bother us special effects artists~"

"Shut up, you know what." Gran had a gloomy face and yelled at those subordinates, and everyone immediately didn't dare to make a sound.

Gran understands that if you tell Wu Yangu and Lincoln the psychological conditions of the characters, of course they can perform the complex psychology of hesitation and fear, but this is all the credit of the actors, and this result is equivalent to the complete failure of his performance as a special effects makeup artist on the screen, and his performance is to use his "zombie" works to convince the audience, if his zombie can't make the audience feel that he is a "living person", then it means that he is useless as a special effects makeup artist.

Li Xiaole also watched from the side for a long time, he had already determined that Gran had gone all out, the little girl's sculpture mold, coloring, and human body structure were perfect, and the zombie actor looked decent from a distance, but the problem was that as long as he looked closer, he obviously didn't look "angry", right...... is the lack of "anger", it is not difficult to make zombies scary, and the transformation of "anger" can play the finishing touch.

After looking at the little girl's face for a long time, Li Xiaole finally found that these zombie actors looked lifeless, because of blood...... The layers of zombie blood in the original "The Walking Dead" are very detailed, and the skin tones look like the "living dead", but Glenn's work looks a little fake, either too dry or too damp...... Didn't give a real feeling.

"Gran, I'll tell you about it." Li Xiaole asked Gran to come over and explain the key to the problem for him:

"You have nothing else to do, but the level of blood is not good, it doesn't look like a 'living' creature, in fact, it is like this, the decay of the flesh is roughly divided into three stages: the first stage is that the skin is very pale with a lot of fresh blood, the second stage is that the wound is wet, the skin begins to break down, there are a lot of ecchymosis, mostly blue and green, and the third stage is the most severe, the bones begin to be exposed, the wound has dried up, and the skin is completely peeled off and turns oily black.

According to these three stages, the blood also has corresponding differences, for example, the blood in the first stage has a standard red and fluidity, while the blood in the second stage tends to be brown and very viscous, and the third stage becomes black and oily, but your zombie is too dry, too fake, the zombie is not completely lifeless but the 'living dead', you have to express the blood of the first two stages, and fuse it together in layers......"

Gran's eyes lit up when he listened, and he only felt like an initiation, and the questions that had accumulated in his mind were all broken by Li Xiaole, but he immediately thought of a question, frowned and asked, "I can do this, but if the lycopin we make blood is mixed with brown sugar syrup, it will cause discoloration...... When the two levels are mixed together, they are not like that. "The traditional method is to use lycopin for thin blood to water, and brown sugar syrup for thick blood to add coloring, but once these two liquids are mixed, there will be a chemical reaction, and there is no overlap at all......