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Chapter 430 Leaving a Name in Film History?.1.

Johnny, after the praise, also raised his own concerns: "But, Director Luo, this outfit

I don't dare to make a conclusion about the effect of the setting. ”

"Of course, only practice can lead to the truth!" Luo Mo smiled: "Of course we can't mention it now."

before making an affirmative ...... Rather, we have to wait until the device is actually made before we can conclude that it is well done

Not good. ”

"You're right." Johnny rubbed his hands together and said a little impatiently, "Let me go now."

Look, I've got to look at this big guy first, and then we'll see how we're going to light it. ”

"For this matter, we have been studying space and the universe for a long time." Johnny said, "We

Even spent more than ten days at the Astronomical Bureau, oh my God, you should really go and see, how boring it is

Boring place! But the universe is beautiful! ”

"Thank you." Luo Mo smiled and said: "We have a saying in China called sharpening knives and not cutting wood. ”

"Ha Luha, then our current knife can be sharpened to cut through iron!"

Next to Johnny, there is also a special effects staff member named Huang Weihao, whose English name is Frank,

is of Chinese descent.

In fact, if you go to the United States, there are a lot of Chinese people working in many special effects studios...... In fact

There are still a lot of outstanding Chinese people in the United States, and in the film industry, there are also many amazing talents

Figure...... Needless to say, Ang Lee is a superstar who has learned both Chinese and Western cultures, and will be the best at the Oskar Academy Awards in the future

Director. Others also have Wen Ziren of "Chainsaw", and the first part of "Chainsaw" was filmed by him

is angry, the plot characters are complex and reasonable, and they are very classic, but after he stopped directing, "Electricity

"Saw Horror" has become a pure plasma movie. The fate of "The Grim Reaper is Coming" is similar, first

One is also directed by Chinese director Huang Yiyu, so in the first "Death is Coming", the plot is repeated

Miscellaneous, lightly conceived, and there is a unique flavor of Chinese fatalism in it, which turned out to be the second part

The third and even the fourth, Huang Yiyu is no longer directing, and all of them have become movies about his plasma, of course

The guy has also received a flood of bad reviews because of a "Dragon Ball", and the tragedy has been so far, but no matter how big the director is, he has missed the past

Hoof of the day.

In the United States, Chinese Americans are discriminated against at the bottom and have a lower status than blacks, but the elite class does

High social status and social achievement.

At this time, Huang Weihao frowned slightly, and said to Luo Mo in Chinese: "Director Luo...... But this...

… To be honest, if you really use your plan to do it, our workload will increase a lot, and I believe you too

Zhilu said, cutting out pictures in a green screen and cutting out pictures in many images, that is definitely not the same......"

"Then it's only hard work for you." Compared with Johnny, Luo Mo is still closer to Huang Weihao after all

Feel it closer, after all, no matter what nationality everyone is, they are all Yan Huangzi who has broken bones and tendons

Grandchild.

"Hmm......" Huang Weihao raised his head and smiled: "But, Director Luo, I have to say that you are really open."

Creative Achievement...... Those who want to make space movies in the future can be regarded as standing on the shoulders of a giant like you

It's on. ”

…… The huge installation was quickly completed, it was a cuboid, about five meters high, with a ground area

It's about fourteen square meters.

Inside the huge installation, the four walls are all made up of LED screens, which simulate the surrounding environment

Video or picture, the camera controlled by the robotic arm rotates flexibly in this space.

When the time comes, the VFX team will create a pattern of the virtual scene on the LED screen to match the subjectivity of the actors

Visual angle. In this way, the picture displayed on the LED screen will illuminate the actor and put the actor in the environment, which

It's like space revolves around the actors.

This lightbox unit solves two major problems

The first major problem is the lighting problem, and the large amount of CG production of "Gravity" brings a huge difficulty

The question is how to make the real-life picture and the CG environment composited seamlessly. After all, filmed on location

In this case, the lighting of the actors is usually different from the CG environment, but if the lighting is not right, the effect of the synthesis will be combined

It looks unnatural, which requires finding a way to match the live lighting with the CG ambient lighting.

In the past, the method of using a robotic arm to shoot light was actually not enough at all, and it was difficult to simulate space light.

With this huge LED light box, the actors will have an LED screen controlled by the special effects team inside

The subsurface solves the lighting problem.

For example, to shoot a shot of an astronaut spinning in space, set up the lights in green screen conditions

It's going to be a lot of trouble. But in the light box, you only need to adjust the content on the LED screen.

Each pixel of the LED screen is a light, about 1.8 million, and each can be controlled individually.

Of course, 1.8 million light bulbs are no joke, and this huge LED light box is expensive to make

Up to 10 million.

The second major problem is to some extent, to solve the actor's performance problem...... "Gravity"

's heroine must be an actress with particularly good acting skills...... It's easy to draw conclusions,

In general filming, there will always be someone to help you get into the film. For example, let's say make a costume film, a costume war film, Ben

It's a bit of a problem to come to the modern people to play the ancients, but I saw that everyone around me was wearing armor and tying their hair

Then you will be brought into that environment. But "Gravity" is different, this one

The space scenes of the movie all had to be made in CG, and when the actors were shooting, all they saw was the camera

machine, all those things, need to use imagination to get yourself into the play......

Once you have the light box, you can rely on some of the playback controls in the LED light box to get the actor to adjust his mind

state, better integrate into the surrounding environment, and enter the play much faster.

...... "Director Luo, let's get ready to start!" Johnny and Huang Weihao are both a little impatient now

and wait.

"Okay."

Luo Mo knew that these two guys couldn't wait to see this one who had spent countless efforts

What about the final effect of the LED light box?

"Robotic arm ready!"

A person was sent to the LED light box, he was not Zhou Xun or Luo Mo, but a generation

Substitute for the staff...... There is no way, in order to avoid danger, you can only let people try it first, this

It's not that who's expensive and who's cheap, but it's a question of who is more important and who is less important in the crew.

Luo Mo, Johnny and Huang Weihao were all nervously looking at the screen of the monitor...... Several types of lights were simulated

Light, it feels good to look on the screen, and after letting that guy come out of the light box, Luo Mo and they immediately turned it on

Start watching the replay...... Looking at the replay, the effect is really good!

The lighting falls on top of the actor's helmet and the entire spacesuit, creating a muted color.

"Hey! It worked! Awesome! That's great! Johnny was more easily agitated and stretched out his right hand all at once

palm, and Huang Weihao, who also stretched out his palm, high-fived, and then he said loudly to Luo Mo: "Awesome!" Incredible

Discuss! In this way, we have solved the lighting problem, congratulations to you, Director Luo, you will be left in the history of cinema

Name! ”

It's a really amazing thing to leave a name in the history of cinema, it's like

Tell the ancient literati that you can leave a name in history...... Of course, Luo Mo also knew that this was just a moment of excitement for him

As I said, it's not so simple for the name to remain in the history of film.

However, now that this thing has been done, everyone at the scene is really happy and surprised.

"Gravity" was originally a film that needed to be refined, and now it's underway

It is a matter of high precision. And the most important thing is that it is also quite well done, the creativity of this lightbox, in

They seemed to be really impressed.

However, while everyone was happy, Huang Weihao also said: "But in this way, we cut out the picture."

It's a lot of trouble. ”

That's true...... The principle of cutout is to use the color difference in two places, such as one

A man stood in front of a blue curtain, and a man stood in front of a complex hill to take a picture, the mountain

It is definitely much more difficult for the people of the mound to cut it out than it is for the people standing in front of the blue curtain:

This is also the principle that a green screen is needed to make a movie, and the green screen is a solid color, and post-production is relatively speaking

It's a bit easier, and in many cases just wipe the wire.

But now, they're trying to cut out a more complex image lightbox!

The lightbox is only used for lighting, not to simulate a space scene, and is claimed to be a $200 million investment

If Zi's movie uses LED screens to simulate space, it will definitely become a classic joke in film history

In this way, in post-production, the image of the lightbox is to be deducted...... In that way,

The difficulty of cutouts is much, much higher.

These are all special effects people's business......

At the beginning, Luo Mo budgeted that the special effects cost of "Gravity" should be about 50 million US dollars.

But after some negotiations, with the joint efforts of several major studios, the cost of special effects of "Gravity" was suppressed

It has shrunk to about $40 million, and now it is estimated that it may cost about $40 million plus the cost of cutouts

It can't be helped, special effects are a time-consuming and increasingly thankless job, and every frame is back

After all the hard work is made.

In Johnny's words, the amount of CG work required for "Gravity" so far is huge

to the point of unimaginable......

He deliberately made an analogy: "The CG work of "Gravity" is carried out with a single-core CPU

If you want to render it, you need to start from the ancient times of China's Yan and Huang Emperors, and you can only do it in 2013

The analogy of "...... is very surprising......

Of course, a special effects company can't just have a single-core CPU computer as inferior to their computer configuration

It's going to be higher, and there's more computers...... And the sum of several computers is not as simple as l+l equals 2, but

It's multiplication...... Therefore, the CG production of "Gravity" should last more than half a year.

With the lightbox, the efficiency of the next shooting is much higher.

After half a month of filming, the live footage of "Gravity" has been completed a lot, and it has been more than half a month

, a new experience for everyone in the crew, and even for the actors...... Everybody used to be

has never made a space film, and the most sci-fi "Inception" only involves a weightlessness

The camera is just ......

However, this also allowed Luo Mo and them to learn more things.