When the movie "Jianghu" was filmed, the computer special effects team also continued to follow up. It is worth mentioning that the special effects team this time is mainly composed of employees of the small partner company.

Only a small number of skilled special effects artists were recruited from Hong Kong and the United States.

It seems expensive to raise your own special effects artist. For example, when there is no special effect order, it is necessary to maintain a team and pay many salaries and daily operating costs.

But in fact, the small partner company has to launch a special effects blockbuster almost every year. The team has work to do for at least half a year, so it is more cost-effective to raise your own special effects team.

For example, the special effects in "Journey to the West: The Great Sage", if you do it yourself, you can do it at a cost of three million yuan in labor and technology. But if you ask the special effects team to do it, you have to double the cost price on the basis of the cost price.

Although "Jianghu" is a martial arts film, in fact, the computer special effects will only be more than three or four times more than "Journey to the West: The Great Sage", and if you invite other teams to do it, the cost of special effects is estimated to be no less than 2ooo yuan. But the little partner's own company to do this special effect, the cost of computer special effects, is only 1ooo yuan.

"Jianghu" is a martial arts film, and the special effects of the movie focus on strengthening the strike effect, just like the release of skills in the game, which requires continuous optimization of the animation of the strike effect. At the beginning, this Boxer, we are not describing the Boxer Rebellion in history, but the description of the setting in martial arts. For example, this person is practicing the golden bell jar, and after inhaling, the body should show a faint golden light, and the looming bronze bell will appear outside the body. Bullets hit him. The first wave is a rebound. In the second wave, the golden light faded, and the bullets began to scratch blood marks on his skin, and at the beginning of the third wave, the special effects of the golden bell jar disappeared, and he began to be killed by random bullets! This detail must be noted! Wang Qinian took the footage of a shot and said to several special effects artists around.

"The iron cloth shirt is a faint silver-gray color. Just like the color of steel, the palm of the hand of the master of the iron sand palm should be as black as iron when he is lucky! ”

"Understood!" The special effects artists nodded one after another and wrote down what Wang Qinian said.

"Inside. The Boxers knew some martial arts on the rivers and lakes. Compared with those people in the martial arts hall, they really look like people in the martial arts era, but the martial arts they learn are not considered the 'peerless magic skills' in the setting! Wang Qinian said, "In order to highlight the striking effect of martial arts." When the weapon is wielded. There also needs to be special effects. A trajectory that swings the weapon in the air. Give it out. Other than that. It is the swing of the weapon, and there must be some special effects such as firelight, cold light, lightning, etc. Blow on the ground, the human body. Buildings all need to have a blow effect. In the past, Hong Kong martial arts movies also paid attention to the striking effect, for example, the most commonly used thing is to sprinkle some talcum powder on the body, and the effect presented when being hit is that the striking effect looks very powerful and powerful. However, that kind of blow effect is too primitive and simple, and we must use advanced technology to depict the blow effect well! ”

"Guns and cannons must also use special effects to enhance the effect. When the soldier fired, the muzzle of the gun burst into flames, as well as bullets. We all need to give enough special effects renders! Modern weapons, such as the power of bullets, can pierce the body of a martial arts master, and the details must be more visually impactful! ”

Under Wang Qinian's continuous explanation tasks, the special effects studio of my partner began to work hard to make special effects according to his requirements.

If it doesn't work, you can rework and redo it.

Because, at present, the footage of the film "Jianghu" has been converted to digital format, which can be saved on the computer, and many copies can be copied and backed up. Therefore, the special effects team can continue to do it, and even if it fails, it is just a rework, and it does not seem wasteful.

And the special effects team followed up to make zuò, also because the workload of the entire special effects is very large, which is not less than the workload of film shooting. If you do it later, it will delay the release schedule.

So, not long after the film began shooting, the special effects studio had already begun to join the crew.

At present, there are 17 people in the special effects studio. Of the three special effects artists dug up from Hong Kong, one is an overseas Chinese from the United States, and the rest are all trained by the partner companies themselves.

The special effects artists trained by the small partner company are trained from the game production project.

During the game, you also need to use various animation special effects software. This also made the small partner company begin to accumulate some special effects talents.

The special effects of the game are often far inferior to the movie version, what is the difference? The main thing is not technology, but cost.

For example, movie special effects can use large servers to render every frame very well. If the game is based on the movie version of the special effects, the cost is not allowed.

To put it simply, the animation special effects shots that need to be used in the game may be hundreds of times or thousands of times that of the movie version, and every detail is done to the extreme. is not inferior to movie-level special effects, the cost will reach astronomical amounts, and it is impossible to earn it back.

However, through the guò game project to train talents, the company has indeed cultivated a large number of special effects artists, of course, can only be regarded as low-end special effects artists who can use special effects software proficiently. There is still a huge gap between those high-end special effects artists in Hollywood, who can program and research more advanced tools by themselves.

Most of the film and television special effects studios in Asia are basically at the low end of the industrial chain. Because the mainstream software used by special effects artists in Asia is the technology eliminated by Europe and the United States, the gap with Europe and the United States is at least five years.

It's not just a five-year gap in technology, but more importantly, a gap in research. To put it simply, in terms of film special effects, the research and development of new technologies are mainly promoted by Europe and the United States. Many of the special effects in some Hollywood blockbusters use advanced technology that is specifically customized for the movie.

As for some public sales of special effects software, it is not advanced anymore, so it will be sold on the market for money. For example, "Adobe AfterEffects", a special effects software launched in the United States, was already a technology that was about to be eliminated by mainstream Hollywood special effects studios when it was launched.

However, even so, there is currently no strength in China to develop special effects software of the same level as "Adobe AfterEffects".

Now the special effects team of the partner company only stays at learning to use "adobeaftereffenetbsp; However, Wang Qinian is convinced that in the future, the small partner company can also have more high-end research capabilities. (To be continued!u.)

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