Chapter 812: The feat of slaying the dragon

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In between shoots on set, Tina? Fei walked over to Duke and said to him, "They think that these will be helpful for the development of Chinese films, but they are not suitable for making movies at this stage." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Hearing this, Duke was not surprised, but just to Tina? After that, he returned to his work.

It's December, and all that's left for the crew at Warner Studios is the 'Battle of New York' scene, where Duke uses John? Schwartzman's suggestion – to take aerial photographs around every member of the Avengers.

It was a challenge for everyone on the set, and Duke knew exactly what he wanted — that the Avengers working together — but the difficulty was how to put the idea into practice so that the heroes were connected to each other rather than filmed in isolation. And the combat skills of each character are very different - some can fly, some can move in a large instant, and some can only perform range activities under a single shot.

If you want to achieve the desired effect, you need the cooperation of all departments of the crew.

Filming soon kicked off, and Mark, with a motion cap hanging from his body? Tom dressed up by Ruffalo and Loki? Hiddleston appeared in front of the camera lens on time, and the shooting location in front of the camera, @⊙@⊙@⊙@⊙, m.≦.c▼om has long been arranged as a floor of Stark Tower.

All the departments were ready, and Duke gestured for a moment.

"Scene 396, Act 126,"

The clerk placed the tag in front of the main camera lens, "Start now!" ”

Surrounded by equipment dedicated to shooting motion capture, Mark? Ruffalo made a Hulk slam the ground in a rage, towards Tom? Hiddleston ran.

"Enough!" Tom? Hiddleston was a little crazy, but he appropriately expressed Loki's state of mind at the moment with his body movements, "What are you?" I'm a god, you green-skinned idiot, you ant don't want to humiliate me......"

That's not the end of the story, Tom? Hiddleston fell to the ground.

The shooting continues, but all the shots are on Mark? Ruffalo, Tom who fell? Hiddleston quietly exited the set as planned.

In front of the camera. Mark? Ruffalo was furious, waving his right hand, slamming the floor against the air, looking at his empty hand in the middle, and then walked towards the window.

As he walked, he turned back to the empty floor and said, "I've never seen such a scummy god." ”

After Duke called a halt, the shot passed through without incident, and like any other shoot, much of the effect of this scene had to be added in post-production.

While ILM has produced a lot of virtual doubles, digital characters, and aliens for Duke's crew. But the most eye-catching special effects achievement is Mark? A new version of the Hulk played by Ruffalo.

In the first part, most of the Hulk's scenes were Mark? Ruffalo played alone, because the special effects team at the time couldn't capture Mark at the same time? Ruffalo's body movements and facial expressions, Mark? Ruffalo had to play separately, which was painful because he had to sit there with his head motionless after filming the body action scene. Perform facial movements.

But when filming the film, ILM managed to come up with a way to mix head and body movements. That is, Mark? Ruffalo was finally able to interact with the other actors on set as the Hulk, as he had done in previous shoots.

Compared to the technology that Industrial Light & Magic used on the Hulk this time, the digital doubles in the previous Hulk films are simply not commendable.

Ang Lee's first "Hulk" filmed in 00 was a failure in showing Hulk's super strength, huge size, agile movements, wild rage and superb performance, and was also criticized by the audience in terms of character credibility.

In all the film and TV series versions of The Incredible Hulk, Mark? Ruffalo was the first to play both the transformed Hulk and the suave Bruce? Professor Banner actor.

The Hulk in 00. Hulk's motion capture was done by Ang Lee himself, but the effect could only be very mediocre.

In the special effects shots that have been completed, ILM has successfully showcased the most successful Hulk of all time, with spectacular action scenes and humor.

In order to achieve this effect. Industrial Light & Magic uses advanced motion capture and a new facial animation production system, according to Mark? Ruffalo's mock-up of his face was digitally modeled, then reworked and finalized in specialized special effects software, so the actor's facial features were still retained.

Actually, it's not easy to make the Hulk green.

One of the problems faced by ILM was that since the Hulk had to interact with other characters, the VFX team had to reduce his color saturation to gray so that it didn't look too obtrusive, and then re-create the green effect to add credibility.

If you don't lower the saturation first, it will appear very abrupt and very distorted.

In order to further enhance the realistic effect of the skin, the special effects team also scanned the Mark? Ruffalo's own skin to mold.

Of course, Mark? Ruffalo was also very cooperative with ILM's work, patiently 'enduring' all kinds of tosses, such as allowing ILM to open his mouth to scan his gums and teeth in order to obtain data, in addition to processing his head with a full range of special effects, obtaining great geometry and textures.

The set is being rearranged, and after filming a Tom? After the shot of Hiddleston lying on the floor**, all the Avengers appeared on the set together.

"The lights are ready!"

"Photography ready!"

"Props are ready!"

"Makeup ready!"

"The actor is ready!"

As one department after another got ready, Duke gave the order to shoot again, and the whole crew was up and running again.

Tom? Hiddleston crawled out of the dimple in the floor, struggling to get to his feet, and the main camera gave him a close-up of his hands and facial expressions.

Seems to sense something, Tom? Hiddleston looked back and saw the Avengers standing there, glaring at him, Clint? Patton's bow was also aimed at this side.

In the face of these freaks who he had previously ridiculed as ants, Tom? Hiddleston didn't have any fear on his face, instead said, "If you don't mind, I'd like to have a drink now!" ”

“cut!” Duke shouted to stop, then shouted into the set, "Tom, your expression isn't in place, start again in fifteen minutes." ”

It was already the last shot in the Warner Studios studio, and the afternoon had just begun, so Duke had plenty of time to finish the shot and then lead the crew to New York for the final location scene.

Most of the New York shots in the film are digitally produced, and ILM's special effects team just finished producing "Transformers" in the first half of the year, and the digital Chicago in it works very well, because it allows helicopters to hover over the street at will, but New York is different, Duke requires that the plane cannot be 500 feet above the building, and ILM has to rebuild the building to complete many shots flying around the building.

There is also the forest battle of Thor, Iron Man and Captain America, Duke originally wanted to shoot in the forest park in New Mexico, but an environmental protection organization targeted his crew and asked the crew not to damage every grass and tree in the forest park during filming, which is obviously impossible.

Duke knew very well how troublesome those extremist protectors were, so he simply completed this part of the scene in the huge studio of Hughes Aircraft Factory through green screen construction.

Although this will cost a little more money, it will reduce a lot of unnecessary trouble.

No Hollywood crew wants to deal with organizations like animal protection or environmental protection, and that means endless troubles.

Every year, Hollywood shoots and produces hundreds of films, and there are many mainstream productions with hundreds of millions of dollars, including Duke's crew, as well as other companies' crews.

Heading south from California and across the Panama Canal, you'll find South America, a land of boundless passion, especially Rio de Janeiro, a world-famous city and one of Hollywood crews' favorite locations.

There are a lot of crews that have been filmed here.

For example, "Fast and Furious 6", which has entered the end of filming, is in Rio de Janeiro for the final filming.

The crew cordoned off several streets in Rio de Janeiro to film some crazy car chases, and as the actual investor and producer of the film, David? Ellison was standing on a nearby building, watching cars speeding down the street through a telescope.

He has invested a lot of money in this film, and it has taken more than two years from preparation to now, and every detail has been carefully weighed and considered, and it will definitely be the most elaborate film made in Hollywood.

But David? Ellison knew that this alone was not enough, and that if a well-made film was sure to be a big hit, Hollywood would sell countless films every year.

What's more, the opponents he and "Fast and Furious 6" face are too strong.

If you want to perform the feat of slaying a dragon, you have to be prepared enough, David? Ellison is well aware of this.

So, from time to time his telescope will find Fan? Diesel.

Standing next to David ? Ellison's assistant, who is also the most popular with him, is also staring at the bald head on the set.

There was no one else here, and the assistant asked in a voice, "I've found the right person." ”

"Wait, be patient." David? Ellison put down the binoculars, "Wait until all the filming of the film is complete and the publicity plan is in full swing, then let's do it!" (To be continued.) )

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