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In the spotlight, the crew of "Iron Man" was officially launched, because of all the courage shown by Li Xiaole at the press conference, the entire crew was infected by his indomitable spirit and was full of fighting spirit, whether it was actors or behind the scenes, more than 800 (including extras) cast and crew, all of them were running like a good team.

In addition to the all-star cast, Daniel Mindel, the cutting-edge cinematographer of "Mission Impossible 3" invited by the crew photography, Li Xiaole likes the photography style of the future director of "Star Trek: Dark and Borderless" very much.

The set designer is Xu Zhen, Li Xiaole's old Korean partner, and Patrick Tatpoulos (representative works "Independence Day", "Mechanical Public Enemy"); Art design David F. Klassen (masterpieces "The Heroes of the Sea", "Thunderbolt"), Kevin Kavanaf (masterpieces "Mission: Impossible 2"); costume designer Shanna Milkovic Hayes (Star Trek 9, Battle for Los Angeles); The prop chef is Drew Petrota (masterpiece "Big Fish", future "Transformers 2,3").

These people are all current or future Oscar-nominated industry leaders, and with the joint efforts of such an A-level crew, the filming went exceptionally smoothly at the beginning.

According to Li Xiaole's Jihua, "Iron Man" will be filmed according to the progress of the story, first filming some scenes in Stark's company in Los Angeles, and scenes of Tony Stark being trapped in the desert. Li Xiaole has already designed the sketches for these scenes, and the props team and the set team only need to completely reproduce the design drawings, and there is no difficulty in building while shooting.

In terms of the current story, Tony Stark's playboy plot at the beginning is very familiar to the crew at this level......

However, in addition to directing, Li Xiaole also has a job, that is, props, the chief designer of the special effects team, which is the most energy-consuming, when the production team was filming the cave scene, Li Xiaole led the four-time Oscar winner Stan Wince, and Dun led his makeup and special effects team to create the steel suit worn by the protagonist "Iron Man".

"Well, it's good, but I think this angle needs to be polished a little more, and it's about 0 thicker. 25 cm ......" Li Xiaole fiddled with the parts of Iron Man's several sets of steel suits placed on the round table, and commented with a slight frown.

Before the filming of "Iron Man" started, Li Xiaole had already put the most important props needed in the movie, 3 sets of Iron Man's steel suits, and asked the "Black Sails" team to make a virtual model in the computer.

To present the real Iron Man in the lens, the 3 sets of Iron Man evolved armor needed need to be made in reality to be completely consistent with the gorgeous steel suit in the computer, and the first two sets are quite simple designs, and the props team made a very good finished product with plastic models, because these two sets of scenes are not the main suits of Iron Man in the crew, so the requirements for details do not need to be too high, the only difficulty is to reduce the weight of the mark1 model like a small tank,

Mark 1's criterion was to make sure that Tom Cruise and the stuntman didn't act clumsy because they were too bulky to wear costumes. Zuihou, the costume weighs about 90 pounds, because they have to make sure that the internal structure of the garment is sound, otherwise it will not be strong enough in the fight. Li Xiaole also made the clothes so that all parts could be disassembled and worn, so that Tom Cruise and the stuntman could wear the upper body and the lower body separately, which was more convenient for them.

In short, the props team stopped Mark1's results, and Li Xiaole was very satisfied.

And the one that really appears the most in the movie, that is, the red set of mark3 complete shapes, the props team has made many times Li Xiaole is not satisfied, and it has been revised 43 times......

"I think this arc is the most haode, which has been repeatedly improved by us many times, and no one can feel the difference of one-quarter of a centimeter?" Stan Wens was already a little crazy when he touched his bald head, he felt that Li Xiaole was deliberately torturing him, how could he put a piece of armor in his hand and know the ...... of 1/4 cm thick!?

The design of scientific and technological equipment in this kind of movie is usually based on cool appearance and style, and the requirements for accuracy are not too high, who cares about such small details?

This steel suit is only made for close-ups, does it need to be so precise?

"Well......" Seeing that these prop masters were all complaining, Li Xiaole also felt a headache, if he just made a set of steel suits, it would be good for him to modify them himself, the problem is to shoot Iron Man, this plastic steel suit is not strong, and 15 units were lost in the original version, and the fight scenes in his adapted script this time are more exciting and more, and the loss will naturally be greater, at least 20 steel suits must be prepared to be replaced often, or there will be no steel suits halfway through the shooting, it will be embarrassing......

If these American prop masters with rough work style can't be strictly polished according to his requirements, he can't make the remaining ten or so by himself, and he can only let them understand the truth, and these prop masters will be convinced.

Thinking of this, Li Xiaole stepped forward and simply threw a piece of the steel suit directly to the bald Stan Wins, pointed at him and said, "You put it on and try it." ”

The prop masters were stunned for a moment, but they soon understood Li Xiaole's intentions, he wanted to speak with facts...... Give Stan Wins a try playing Iron Man.

Although Stan Wince, who is similar to Tom Cruise, felt a little ridiculous, but in order to prove that he was right, he also nodded and put on the steel suit, and looked at Stan Wince wearing a steel suit, very struggling, and the crew couldn't help laughing.

After Stan Wence got used to it, he slowly moved for a while, but he was more and more surprised...... Although this steel suit is not very suitable for him due to its size, it is easy to wear on his body, and it is almost not very difficult to do various movements......

This may not seem like much to the average movie fan, but an Oscar-level prop maker like Stan Vyns knows how difficult it can be to do that...... Anyone who has done industrial design knows that a fully fitting human body device like a steel suit is not difficult to achieve a stylish appearance and be cool, but the difficulty is to make "it" move on this basis.

This kind of armor cover to be in the internal line has been combined at the line is completely in line with ergonomics, requiring the model industrial design to be extremely fine, a little mistake will make the steel suit indescribable, this Mark3 complete steel suit model, a total of 312 pieces of parts, any piece must be extremely 100% perfect superb design to achieve the effect of "good looking and easy to use".

The first version of this director was designed to work so well on the computer...... It's amazing.

However, although Stan Wens was shocked in his heart, he did do "radio gymnastics" with a serious face on the surface, and even looked at Li Xiaole and shook his ass easily, which means "How is it, this steel suit is completely fine." ”

"You leap forward." Li Xiaole pouted and walked to the right front of Stan Wins.

Stan Wins squatted with his legs together very easily, and then jumped out of a small step with his legs, but as soon as he used force, he clearly felt a card in his waist, and the steel suit suddenly stiffened and the whole person lost his center of gravity, and he was about to fall into a......

"Be careful~!" "Oh my God~" At this time, everyone was in shock, and when they saw Li Xiaole dodging in a step, they grabbed the armor of Stan Wins's back collar and carried him away.

"That's the frictional resistance of this armor that's 1/4 of a centimeter thicker." Li Xiaole helped Stan Weins up, and flicked the piece of composite plastic armor around his waist with his fingers.

Stan Wens looked at Li Xiaole in shock, grateful that he didn't make a fool of himself, and said in disbelief: "This is impossible, how can this armor on my waist hinder my jumping." ”

The prop designers next to him also nodded with the same disbelieving expression, although this steel suit is a bit problematic, but Li Xiaole's statement is a bit far-fetched, after all, it is almost impossible to describe Stark-level industrial design in the movie for movie props......

These prop masters are all scientific and technological craftsmen, and they still know too little about the laws of human movement, Li Xiaole was speechless, and had no choice but to take a screwdriver to remove the piece of armor on Stan Wens's waist, and then sharpen it in front of everyone, and after repeated comparisons under the light, he nodded with satisfaction, re-installed Stan Wens's waist, looked at him and said:

"You jump again like you did just now."

"Jump again......" Stan Wens was obviously a little scared and hesitated, but in order to prove that Li Xiaole was wrong, he gritted his teeth and nodded, but pleaded with Li Xiaole with an expression of death:

"Li, you still stand in the position you just ...... Catch me. ”

"You can jump with confidence." Li Xiaole had already found a good position to stand, and the prop masters were all smiling at this good show.

Stan Wens shook his hands back and forth, took a deep breath several times, mustered up the courage and wanted to jump, but he still couldn't help but stop, and said to Li Xiaole again: "Li~!" You must catch me~! ”

"Jump!" Li Xiaole finally couldn't help yelling at the prop master who was torturing the ink.

Stan Weins had no choice but to close his eyes and put his legs together as if he had just done and jumped forward, and this time, to everyone's surprise, Stan Weis, who was wearing a mark3 steel suit, easily jumped 2 meters and landed firmly on both feet......