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After completing the first large-scale stage magic, the crew got up early the next day to set up the second stage and start filming the second stage magic.

This magic trick is also really done, and it was not synthesized with lens editing, because the relevant magic props have already been prepared, so there were not too many twists and turns in the shooting process, and it only took 3 days to shoot it all.

At this time, due to the fact that there were more extras hired, part of the information of "Shocking Demon Thieves" was also leaked and circulated quickly on the Internet.

"'Thieves' is a movie about a magician robbery."

"I heard that there is a scene where magic is used to rob a bank, and it is said that in the movie, the bank robbery was successful."

The news of these news immediately caused a big uproar among Wang Shang's fans.

"Isn't magic just about playing a few cards and cutting off a few heads? Can it be used to rob a bank? ”

"It means that I don't know much about magic, and it seems that there are no famous magicians in Huaxia, right?"

"I've watched a lot of movies about bank robbing, there are sewers, there are holes, there are zha drugs, but it's the first time to use magic to rob a bank."

"I checked it, and the magician named Li Gaofei turned out to be a great magician with a certain reputation in Europe."

"I don't know what surprises the king will bring us this time, I look forward to it!!"

All fans don't believe it, surprise it, look forward to it, and so on.

There were also a number of newspapers that joined in the excitement and published the news in the newspapers. And some fans of Wang Shang abroad expressed their surprise and expectation at the news.

After several domestic film companies heard the news, they felt that Magic robbed the bank or something was quite gimmicky, and they couldn't help but increase their film plans about magic.

On the cover of that week's Huaxia Film Weekly, it was written: "Seven domestic film companies have launched new film projects to prepare films related to magic." ”

After Wang Shang saw this news, he immediately felt a burst of pain coming from the two balls between his legs.

Wang Shang knew that it was impossible to keep the whole process secret, but he didn't expect those film companies to be so ruthless, and the copycat speed was so fast, and they began to imitate it not long after the news came out.

"It's madness!" Wang Shang looked unhappy.

What Wang Shang didn't know was that now there is a professional team of people in the film industry who specialize in studying Wang Shang. Study Wang Shang's thinking, study Wang Shang's films. And all this is caused by Wang Shang's brilliant achievements in recent years, and there is no subject matter that Wang Shang is eyeing that is not popular and not popular. thereupon

is also because of the influence of the movie "Shocking Demon Thieves", some magicians in China who were originally inconspicuous finally ushered in the spring of their careers, and their reputation and social status are rising gradually. However, the magician who benefited the most was Li Gaofei, who assisted in the filming of "Shocking Demon Thieves". At this time, it can be said that he is famous, and there are already theaters or plaza businesses that have invited him to hold magic shows to boost his popularity.

No matter how uproar there was outside, the crew of "Shocking Demon Thieves" still did not make any statement, as if they had no quarrel with the world.

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On July 15, Wang Shang, who was directing in the crew, received a call from the American Tianwang Special Effects Company. The R&D department has finally developed a more advanced "motion capture technology".

The so-called motion capture technology is to attach sensors to people's limbs and faces, and then use a high-tech video capture device that can accurately measure the movement of moving objects in three-dimensional space, record the movement of moving objects in the form of images, and use computers to process the image data to obtain the spatial coordinates of different objects at different times, and then add the appearance of animals, monsters, aliens or uniforms drawn by computers on this basis.

The most famous application of motion capture technology is Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings", which was released last year. conquered countless audiences with his outstanding performances, and its actor Andy. As a result, Serkis is also known as "the first person to perform motion capture".

After the acquisition and merger of Tianwang Special Effects Company in 07, it began to develop this technology, and it has also been applied in some movies, adding a lot of color to the movie.

However, at that time, the "motion capture technology" owned by Tianwang Special Effects was not as advanced as the technology mastered by Industrial Light & Magic, Weta Data, and the digital field. Wang Shang, who knew the role of this technology in promoting future films, also allocated funds to increase personnel to research and develop this technology.

Through the network transmission, Wang Shang soon received the information from the special effects of the American king, which contained two videos.

One of the videos shows an actor wearing a sci-fi-style headgear. Doing some facial movements, the headgear looks weird, and there's a pole with a small camera stretched out in front of the face.

In another video, Wang Shang saw the head of an orangutan, and the facial movements of this orangutan were consistent with the facial movements of the human actor just now.

"It's pretty good."

After thinking about it, Wang Shang wrote the words "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" in his notebook, and then dialed the international call. Talk to Egil, the head of the R&D team of the technology, about the details.

Egil explained some of the features and advantages of this technology to Wang Shang in detail: "Our 'headgear expression capture system' can completely copy the actor's expressions and body movements to his digital double. Moreover, 'motion capture' and 'facial expression capture' can be recorded simultaneously, so the emotions conveyed by the CG characters are the real acting skills of the actors. Instead of cold data, it is completely possible to convey the actor's acting skills to the audience through 'monsters/aliens'. ”

Wang Shang thought of the name Cameron gave to this technology in the previous space-time space, so he said with a wicked taste: "I think it is no longer enough to call it 'motion capture technology' to reflect its advantages, even if it is called 'expression detail capture technology'." ”

The boss was happy, and Egil couldn't help but rejoice: "'Expression capture technology' is a good name. ”

Wang Shang: "Although it has been successful, you can't relax, in the future, in addition to perfecting this technology, you must also try to find a way to realize the technology of shooting outside the studio/multi-person simultaneous capture, which will be of great use in the future." ”

"No problem, boss."

After explaining a few points that need to be paid attention to in the follow-up, Wang Shang hung up the phone. Wang Shang thought of the next film plan "Avatar" at this time, because half of the characters in "Avatar" are n"a--v"I people, and they naturally can't use blunt computer technology to do it, so this expression capture technology just comes in handy.

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On July 15th, "Home Alone" was released in China for a total of 45 days, with a total box office of 650 million yuan.

Because the release time is 20 days longer than "Finding Nemo", the total box office is higher than "Finding Nemo".

At this time, the game company that cooperated with Tianwang Film and Television Company developed a puzzle game full of fun and traps, which was widely sought after as soon as it was launched in the market, and the number of downloads increased by leaps and bounds, and the praise was rave reviews.

After the popular release in China, it gave "Home Alone" a lot of confidence, and then began to be released in Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, South Asia and other regions, and its box office performance is also the same as that in China, extremely prosperous, and the main consumer groups are concentrated in the family collective, countless families brought their children into the cinema, relaxed as much as the whole family wanted, and laughed.

At this time, Tianwang Film and Television Company also began to plan to take advantage of the summer vacation to release "Home Alone" in North America and the European Union, two large film markets.

During this time, in addition to "Home Alone", there is another movie that is being vigorously promoted in China.

"My Sassy Girlfriend", on August 16 (Qixi "Qingren" Festival) will be released nationwide."

"The hero is gentle and virtuous, and the heroine is savage and rude......"

"As soon as I entered "My Sassy Girlfriend", the three views were passers-by from then on, ......".