Die-hard fans of Star Wars and Star Trek have always been sworn enemies, and they are the same as Duke for Simon? Peggy prepares a different character who always wears a mask, Bendinik? Cumberbatch wants to compete for the leading actor, and this kind of thing that is seriously contrary to the opinions of the core audience, if there is not enough interest, Duke will definitely not do it casually. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Besides, he's going to use Daniel on the second protagonist? A Chinese-American actor like Wu, the third lead actor is Latino, Bendinik? Cumberbatch simply does not meet this requirement.

Although Bendinik? Cumberbatch showed an aggressive fight for the role, and his popularity and popularity were higher, but Duke chose to refuse.

For the "Star Trek" series, Duke doesn't know much about it, and in his spare time for preparations, he also watched several of the most classic "Star Trek", after all, a series can be made for so long and has so many fans' support, it must have its merits, and maybe you can learn something from it.

However, after watching a few Star Trek films, Duke found that it didn't help Star Wars in any way.

"Star Wars" and "Star Trek", although they are both science fiction films about space wars, are fundamentally different, and the emphasis of the two series is completely different.

In "Star Wars", as with other typical Hollywood blockbusters, the most important thing is to punish evil and promote good, and everything else must give in, and the evil forces cannot defeat the forces of light, otherwise it is politically incorrect. In "Star Trek", the most important thing is the development of science and technology, the spirit of exploration, good and evil are not important, strength is the foundation of survival in the universe.

So "Star Wars" is pseudo-science fiction, just a drama blockbuster dressed in science fiction.

In "Star Wars", it doesn't matter whether technology is developed or not, as long as you have the Force, you can defeat everything, and the Force can transcend the laws of physics and produce supernatural phenomena. This setting greatly reduces the sci-fi nature of "Star Wars" and is more like a magical story.

To a certain extent, the Star Wars series belongs to space opera, which is very epic. The scene is very grand, and there is also a very clear plot flow; "Star Trek" is a space cowboy genre, and the movie version often mentions the core of his plot, exploring the unknown and moving forward.

While Duke was preparing for the film. Lucasfilm has also signed promotional cooperation agreements with a number of companies.

In February, VR followers and Star Wars fans got the news they've been waiting for, Star Wars is about to fully enter the virtual reality experience, Lucasfilm and Google have a strategic cooperation to develop, and the virtual reality full experience officially begins production, which will open a new Star Wars universe.

This virtual reality full experience will include a compelling story and exclusive never-before-seen content, and it's directly related to the new Star Wars series kick-off, which fans will be able to experience by visiting the official Star Wars app on OD.

Google isn't just doing Star Wars 7 VR, they've tied in every app involved, asking users to choose between the light or dark side. There is a dedicated department that closely tracks the relevant information.

This spring, news about Star Wars 7 basically dominates the front pages of most entertainment media, and whenever the heat drops slightly, Lucasfilm and Warner Bros. will break new news to catch the attention of fans.

However, the current time period is awards season after all, and the news about the awards season still steals a lot of attention, just when the Oscar nominations were announced and the media's attention shifted, Duke and Lucasfilm and Warner Bros. jointly convened a press conference. The official announcement of Star Wars 7 is titled Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

This news has brought back the attention of fans.

With three months to go until the start of filming for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, special effects work has already begun, with a focus on designing a new robot in the sketch of the setting that Duke submitted to ILM. The robot, named BB-8, doesn't fight enemies in the film like R2D2 does, and its main job is to sell cute.

The BB-8 will be responsible for promoting and driving sales of peripheral products.

Although the level of drawing is limited, as early as last year, Duke made a prototype of the BB-8 and drew the first sketch of the BB-8 on a piece of drawing paper.

Considering the warm and handcrafted style of the Star Wars films, as well as the atmosphere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Duke's hand-drawn sketch of BB-8 is composed of two spheres stacked on top of each other, with a small dot representing the eye on the top sphere, and this artwork became the core concept of the BB-8.

Duke's idea also prompted ILM's designer, Christin? Alzman completed the final design of the BB-8.

To complete the design work for this robot that rotates on a sphere, Christin? Alzman experimented with different approaches, juggling Duke's ideas with new features.

Of course, the robot in the original sketch seemed mild and likable, so he couldn't have designed the character in a serious or irascible direction, and Duke had to give feedback every time he designed a new BB-8 character, and finally had a full version of the BB-8 concept art.

Christin? Alzman confessed to Duke that he had been looking at all sorts of spherical objects for inspiration when designing the BB-8, until he saw a soccer ball rolling around in front of him, and he thought it was really the feeling he had dreamed of.

Once Alzman had decided on the basic design idea, the next step was to integrate the concept into practice.

After repeated trials and deliberations, the designers from ILM's biology team came up with the final BB-8 image - a rotating spherical body and a hemispherical suspended head, which looks simple but not simple, typical of Star Wars style.

And in order to make the actual shooting cheaper, the designers can remotely control the BB-8 to make various movements.

Completing the conceptual design is only half the success, how to materialize the concept is the key to success.

To that end, the Star Wars: The Force Awakens crew hired Industrial Light & Magic legend Neil? Scanlon served as the director of the mission.

At Duke's behest, Neil? Scanlon followed the design philosophy of the other two designers, but bringing the BB-8 to life was still a huge challenge.

This by Neil? Scanlon's modeling team first set out to create multiple puppet versions of the BB-8.

When the concept is applied to practice, there will inevitably be some changes, and Duke is well aware of this. Scanlon's model team worked on different versions of the BB-8 to find the most suitable one.

Neil? Scanlon, and Duke discuss a lot about how the BB-8 robot moves, such as whether it needs a retractable neck.

But Duke didn't see the need for it, and to prove his idea, he had the model team spend half a day building a puppet robot that could move.

The puppet's robot is astonishingly flexible, its head and arms can move freely, and everyone agrees that this robot is great, and this puppet version of the robot lays a solid foundation for the eventual materialization of BB-8.

After making a puppet, how do you do a puppet to actually shoot it to become Duke and Neil? Another thorny problem faced Scanlon's team.

The two crew members who were BB-8's C controllers hid in the Warner Studios studio and spent two full weeks mastering BB-8's movement routines and expressions.

Meanwhile, Duke asked John? Schwartzman sent a camera assistant to record BB-8's various facial expressions with the camera in the studio, and constantly adjusted and practiced until BB-8 could make rich and coherent movements and expressions.

After going through the process of making the model and the actual C-longitudinal, Neil? Scanlon's team showed Duke the fruits of their labor, and when he saw the agility and richness of the BB-8's expression, Duke was relieved to finally let go of the burden he had been carrying on his shoulders for so long.

BB-8's wonderful performance also conquered the crew of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", as if it was not a puppet model, but became the real BB-8 in the movie.

At the same time, in order to better serve "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and the subsequent series, Lucasfilm deliberately asked ILM to set up a studio in Los Angeles, which was led by Ross Ross? Urban was in charge, and Duke also made him the VFX supervisor for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Today's industrial light and magic, like Russell? VFX directors like Earl still carry on the tradition of "serving filmmakers", a tradition that was first developed by George Ander. Lucas was established in the 70s of the 20th century.

Russell? Earl joined ILM in 1994 as a technical assistant and has worked on special effects for blockbuster hits such as Mission Impossible 2, Pirates of the Caribbean, Transformers and The Avengers.

If a director wants to add a spaceship to a movie, or make Iron Man fly all over the sky, or stuff hundreds of animals into Noah's Ark, then he definitely needs a VFX supervisor to lead the entire VFX team, and Duke is no exception.

Directors like Duke always want to take special effects to the next level, and in today's Hollywood, every bit of special effects has to be upgraded, and at the same time, the production time is shrinking.

Therefore, in all Duke projects, the special effects work always starts from the time the project is established, and even some of them have to start before the project is approved.

Luckily, Duke has always had ILM by his side over the years, and now ILM has become his asset, and there is basically no need to make a mistake in terms of special effects.

When these preparations came to an end, Duke received a call from Erin? A call from Lauder's cousin, a billionaire from New York who wants to talk to him about the film's heroine. (~^~)

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