"But there are a few things that need to be improved, one is that you can slow down the picture a little bit, and then combine fast and slow, and the moment the knife slashes at the opponent, you can have a short freeze frame, and when it's over, you can go faster. The second is that I want you to make the red costume of Sparta a little brighter, and the uniform of the Persian warriors a little darker, I need a strong contrast, a fierce contrast! ”

Ciro suppressed his smile and nodded: "Okay, boss, I'll finish it soon." ”

Saying that, Ciro arranged the task, and a large group of people were typing on the keyboard again, taking advantage of this vacancy, the special effects artist of Industrial Light and Magic on the side handed over the production of the previous scene that had been completed to Zhou Shaoming.

It's a scene where Kelly dances in the water and becomes an oracle.

Holding his breath, Zhou Shaoming watched this scene appear in front of him with great anticipation, that day at the shooting site, the strange and seductive dance of the underwater oracle made the well-informed himself a little unbearable, and now, what will it become?

Through the software, ILM's VFX artists made the water in the pool completely disappear and replaced it with an ethereal, dark background.

And the biggest difficulty in this scene is the production of smoke. In this scene, the character "Oracle Oracle" has to interact with the wisps of smoke around her. The special effects team at ILM did some research and finally decided on a method of using cloth operations on the 3D geometry and deforming it through bone chains, which was a good idea. But it takes a lot of post-cleaning work.

The smoke had to be produced from hot coal, the smoke had to be meshed in Fusion, masks specific areas, color corrected and glowed to simulate the lighting, and finally the transparency was adjusted to blend the smoke into the scene. Smoke from film shooting was also incorporated into the fusion, and all the elements were matched by color correction, so that the real smoke looks the same as the smoke of CG.

Ember from the fire and plenty of sparks. This can be done with Fusion, and the details of Mars' movement, rotation, and randomness are exactly what reality requires, and all of this doesn't look like it was filmed using computer technology. That's God's handiwork!

Yes, the god of the film industry is the director who gives life to the film, and the people at all levels who make it flesh and blood.

Everyone in the film industry is creating wonderful, imaginative, and stunned worlds!

And Zhou Shaoming is slowly creating his own world, and those movies that make people applaud and even love them crazy. It's his masterpiece!

Listening to the detailed explanations of the special effects personnel of Industrial Light & Magic, I was shoehorned into a lot of technical terms. After Zhou Shaoming watched the clip carefully, he nodded with satisfaction, and decided that this scene was OK!

This dance, with the help of modern technology, is really weird and enchanting!

Xi Luo also quickly finished the special effects of the previous scene, and Zhou Shaoming finally smiled with satisfaction At this time, Xi Luo said to Zhou Shaoming: "Boss, look at it, here are the war monsters you asked to design before." I've designed them based on the characters in some other games and comics, and if you want to see which one first, I'll show you all his movements. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Shaoming nodded, and then looked at the desktop of John's special computer, but there were many strange creatures on it.

"Let's take a look at this first." Zhou Shaoming pointed to the image of a giant elephant and said.

According to Zhou Shaoming's words, Xiluo directly pointed out the image. Then several elephant images appeared in front of Zhou Shaoming, and they were all running, and at this time, all of them were skinless elephants. You can even see the muscles on their bodies contracting as they run.

This made Zhou Shaoming sigh at the strength of Xiluo, it is not easy to simulate the virtual image completely according to the real species.

This greatly ensures the vividness of the creature, and will give the audience the illusion that the creature seems to exist in the first place, but in fact, these are made by computer special effects.

"Boss, which image do you need?" Ciro said with a smile, seemingly satisfied with his work.

Looking at these elephants, Zhou Shaoming's thoughts seem to have drifted to the Lord of the Rings, speaking of fantasy colors, the Lord of the Rings can be full of such fantasy creatures, Zhou Shaoming still remembers that in the Lord of the Rings series, in the third part, it seems that there is a terrifying war giant, this kind of giant elephant is as high as a city wall, and there is a tower on it, which can make people sit.

Zhou Shaoming doesn't mind borrowing the idea in a few years now, but he doesn't want to be too detached from reality, after all, The Lord of the Rings is a magical masterpiece, the richer the imagination, the better, and his own three hundred is just a reproduction of history, although it can be strengthened and rhapsodic, but it is impossible to make an elephant more than ten meters high.

Thinking in his head, Zhou Shaoming opened his mouth and said: "I think that this elephant can't meet my requirements, what I need is an elephant that can be used as a war machine, you can try to exaggerate the elephant a little, enlarge it a little, and then arm the elephant with sharp knife-like armor, gallop over, shake the earth, and make all the audience stunned." ”

After finishing speaking, Zhou Shaoming painted the scene in his mind and looked at John with a smile.

After listening to Zhou Shaoming's words, Siro was also stunned for a long time, as if he was sketching the image in his mind, and then as if he thought of something, Siro hurriedly operated the computer.

It didn't take long for a new image of a giant elephant to appear on the computer, about four meters tall, and the Spartan warrior placed next to the giant elephant as a reference seemed to be worth fighting at all, and the elephant had two huge tusks that were completely out of common sense.

The giant elephant's skin was all wrapped in arms, and it was covered with shiny sharp knives, revealing the face of death hideously.

"It's incredible, it's a little crazy to think about it, boss, do you think a Spartan warrior can beat this behemoth?" Even Ciro was a little surprised by the monster he had designed.

Hearing this, Zhou Shaoming smiled slightly, and then said: "This is Sparta, don't worry, I will let the actors deal with this guy well!" ”

"Okay, boss, you managed to convince me, so should we use this image?" John still couldn't believe it.

Zhou Shaoming smiled helplessly, don't look at this giant elephant is already very huge, but in the Lord of the Rings, it is even more exaggerated, it is tens of meters high, just such a huge elephant, all of them were killed by a small arrow of the elf prince, at this time, the Spartan warriors can't solve this giant elephant that is only four meters high?

Well, the apotheosis of the Spartan warrior is normal, it's just a movie! Can special effects without impact still attract the audience to pay willingly?

This can be regarded as a small bad deal for the Lord of the Rings, so that they have to think of other tricks in the third part, and the trick of the war elephant already belongs to Zhou Shaoming!

Thinking of this, Zhou Shaoming smiled at Xi Luo and said, "Have you ever seen three hundred soldiers who dare to charge in red cloaks?" ”

Ciro was amused by Zhou Shaoming's joke, indeed, the Spartan warriors in history are not at all like Zhou Shaoming's movie, hundreds of people rushed to kill on the periphery as if they were in a no-man's land, chopping melons and vegetables as if they would never get tired, in the real history, Spartan soldiers were wearing heavy armor and attacking the enemy by virtue of the terrain of Hot Springs.

Zhou Shaoming's photograph of the Three Hundred Spartan Warriors is infinitely exaggerated the image of this Spartan warrior, but isn't this what the audience is pursuing?

Perhaps this world's literary film or a film that reveals human nature is more popular with media critics, but the willingness of most audiences is very simple, why take a Coke and popcorn to watch a popcorn movie?

Isn't it just about relaxing after hard work?

Isn't it just a simple, looking for a "cool" word?

Isn't it just that I want to give myself a chance to fantasize, so that my humble self in reality can imagine in this short two-hour period that I am also a fearless fighter wearing a red cloak?

Since any movie has people who like it and people who don't, then movies only survive for those who like it!

Looking at 300 people wearing cloaks and carrying scimitars who dare to charge, slashing and killing enemies is as simple as cutting watermelons, and completing miracles that only gods can accomplish, can the audience imagine that there is anything more refreshing than this in war movies?

Zhou Shaoming really captured the psychology of the Americans, after the 729 incident, the people all need something to vent, if Zhou Shaoming makes the image of the Spartan warrior decent, who will come to see it?

So at this time, Zhou Shaoming didn't care about Xiluo's skepticism, and directly asked that this image be exaggerated as much as possible, but it was within a reasonable range.

This is a bitter Ciro, every time he designs the image, he feels that the exaggeration is slightly realistic, and the reality is vaguely exaggerated, but Zhou Shaoming will still answer him without hesitation: "No, it has not reached the level that impresses me." ”

And whenever Xi Luo asked what was missing, so he didn't impress him, Zhou Shaoming answered him very calmly.

"Because this is Sparta! Go for it! ”

"Okay, you're the boss, I need to do my job well to the point of impressing you." Siro thought so in his heart, and then he could only use his brains hard to help Zhou Shaoming improve the visual effects to the point that he couldn't even believe it.

Whenever Ciro looks back at this past, he always sighs that touching Zhou Shaoming's heart is as difficult as conquering the moon, but once he is moved, even he will find that unconsciously, the visual effects have reached the highest level that can be reached during that time, and his progress and understanding of visual effects are also advancing day by day.

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