For the entire week leading up to Christmas, Duke was working on the interior of Marvel Comics, working with the people on the Creative Committee and Kevin? Feige talked several times, and at the new shareholder meeting, he also served as the chairman of the Marvel Group. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infox √ Yawen ○△ novel △

Duke's attitude is clear that the creative committee will not be disbanded.

Is he really trying to keep Kevin? Feige, it's just that if the other party is trying to dissolve the creative committee and wants to get more power that shouldn't belong to him, Duke doesn't mind accepting Kevin? Feige's resignation.

As Duke said, even if this Hollywood is leaving himself or James? Will Cameron also function normally, let alone Kevin? Feige is gone.

Good thing Kevin? Feige is also not a fool and megalomaniac, and does not act too irrationally.

Duke won't upset the balance of Marvel's power structure, in his relationship with Kevin? After Feige talked, at the new board meeting, Kevin? Feige's annual salary and option dividends have increased to a certain extent, and the creative committee's intervention in Marvel Studios has also been appropriately reduced, and the relevant suggestions they put forward must be reviewed by Duke before they can be implemented.

Of course, this is limited to Marvel films, and the power of the creative committee to oversee remains.

The battle within Marvel Comics was temporarily quelled, and Duke stayed in New York to spend Christmas with his mother and rushed back to Los Angeles, less than half a year before the release of "The Avengers", and post-production had to start as soon as possible.

In addition to taking Mike? Dawson's editing team was recruited to Warner Studios, and Duke's focus was on the special effects production of Industrial Light & Magic.

Film special effects production is a complex and vast project, and it is difficult to say that a single factor can achieve it, just as for the human body, it is difficult to sort out the importance of organs such as the brain, heart, and lungs, because people cannot live without them.

Factors such as funds, cycles, talents, processes, communication, and design also jointly determine the fate of the special effects of the movie. If the special effects of a movie are not done well, it means that at least one of the links is wrong.

As everyone knows. Making special effects for movies is a very money-burning thing, but specifically, where is all this money spent? How much does it cost a movie to make satisfying special effects?

There are many places where it costs money to make movie special effects, and the largest proportion of them is labor costs. Hollywood commercial blockbusters like "The Avengers". Duke had to use a team of thousands of people in post-production, not just Industrial Light & Magic, just as many big-budget movie special effects were handled by dozens or even more than 20 special effects companies and studios, and many other special effects production teams also joined the huge special effects production of Warner Studios.

Many of these people are animators, compositors, etc., with many years of work experience, and the remuneration will certainly not be low.

In the budget of The Avengers. Fifty percent of the budget is spent on special effects, with Duke and the actors and other staff paying about 35 percent, and the remaining 15 percent going to the shooting.

To put it bluntly, this film is not only selling stars, but also special effects.

The scale of investment in a film determines its special effects, which will not change in any country in the world.

For example, Duke still remembers that the "five-cent special effects" of the online drama "Notes on Tomb Robbery" once caused heated discussions among netizens, and the show claimed that the production cost of a single episode was tens of millions, but the audience's feeling was that the special effects were "scum anymore".

Assuming that the filmmaker's publicity on the production cost is not mixed, the money that should be spent on special effects is also spent. But the length of the three episodes of "Notes on Tomb Robbery" is already equivalent to a movie, and a movie with an investment of 3ooo is not a big production even on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

For a work like "Tomb Robbery Notes", which is mainly selling with visual spectacle, this investment is bound to be a drop in the bucket, and who can expect to bring good special effects?

This is a very simple truth, but not everyone can accept it. x■?Yawen Xiao■ said?

Special effects production is a highly industrialized industry, and a good process can achieve twice the result with half the effort, but a good process is not achieved overnight, it needs to be repeatedly polished in practice.

While the process of creating special effects is much the same, there are often big differences in the execution process. However, the current mainstream Hollywood VFX team is mature and rigorous in all aspects, they have a complete industrial process, whether it is post-production management or technical capabilities are very mature.

The representative of this is undoubtedly ILM, which was pocketed by Duke.

In the early days, Hollywood's special effects companies didn't pay much attention to the process. ILM spent a lot of time researching this issue, and it became almost a standard for the entire industry, and now every company wants to use ILM's processes.

ILM's work is continuous, including a set of strict procedures for each link from opening to review, communication, and finalization.

This is also an important reason why Duke's special effects partner has always been an important reason for ILM in his 20 years in Hollywood.

In Duke's crew. The special effects team is a very important part, and since the earliest times, he has never separated the special effects team from the crew.

Any job that requires multiple people to work together requires communication, and this is not limited to the film field, let alone the special effects industry.

However, due to the natural technical barriers of film special effects, many crews divide the pre-preparation, shooting and special effects production into two parts that rarely intersect, and this is the taboo of film special effects production.

Before production begins, Duke makes sure that all the VFX companies have a good understanding of what they are producing.

ILM's VFX director in the director's studio with Duke, editor Mike? Dawson and assistant director Anna? Prinz first communicated fully to confirm Duke's idea and the production requirements for all shots.

For the key scenes, Duke first confirmed the environment, location and other key factors through simple pictures, and after the pictures were confirmed, the special effects company produced a primary animated shot, and then confirmed with him, and finally made the final effect shot.

Of course, different directors have different attitudes towards special effects production.

Like Duke and Steven? A director like Spielberg doesn't ask too much about the details of the special effects production, but just tells the special effects team exactly what they want, and the special effects team has a clear goal to produce exactly the pictures and shots they want.

Another category like James? A director like Cameron is very attentive to the process of special effects production, and will want to see different versions and learn about the progress of the production, which is also a very good communication model.

There are also some directors who know little about special effects production, and they can't accurately describe the final effect they want to present, or they don't pay enough attention to special effects production, and rarely consciously cooperate in the early preparation and shooting, the result is naturally that the quality of special effects is difficult to guarantee, and repeated modifications will also increase the cost of special effects production.

In addition to the feature film, Duke is constantly communicating with his team about the end of the film.

Just like the movie itself, Duke wanted to have a lot of different elements in the end credits, so that each character would show their faces once, while also showing their main characteristics.

It's best not to have a real person, but to have each character's most distinctive object appear once, such as Iron Man's helmet, Thor's hammer, Captain America's shield, Hawkeye's bow and arrow, and so on.

It's a bit difficult to keep from the story, and there's not much to show for characters like Hulk and Black Widow.

Bringing together a core post-production staff, including the head of ILM's VFX team, Duke brainstormed some great solutions.

Can the end of the credits add Nick? Fury's pistol holster, as well as Black Widow's gun, were added to her belt when it was actually made.

Hulk Hulk is the most difficult character in this regard, as he has no suit, no armor, and no weapons.

So, Duke decided to focus on Bruce before he transformed? On Banner, Professor Banner's glasses, his laboratory, and what he wears are all added to the credits.

Duke hopes that the title will not only catch the eye, but also make the audience miss the movie after it ends.

The crew worked hard to take the audience's gaze from one place to another, so that they could see the beautiful picture, and in order to achieve the effect beyond the picture, the characters and the plot also needed to be more vivid and interesting.

As the release date of "The Avengers" approached, the publicity offensive of Marvel Studios and Warner Bros. was also carried out step by step, and by mid-January, Duke had taken the lead in completing a 30-second commercial, which would also appear in the halftime ad of the February Bowl.

In addition, some of the film's cast members also appeared at this month's Sundance Film Festival, especially Robert Jr. Downey and his car in the film easily stole the limelight from all independent films, the ruby red sports car with a market value of $9oo dollars, murdered a group of reporters and film, blinding the fans at the scene.

It also caused a huge discussion afterwards.

It was busy at Warner Studios until the class bowl, and when the forty-sixth class arrived, Duke left Los Angeles and flew straight to Indianapolis to watch the class bowl.

His Los Angeles Raiders eliminated the New England Patriots in the American League finals to reach the Division Bowl for the second year in a row. (To be continued.) )

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