No way, this is a technology monopoly. By the end of this alone, its production company will earn nearly a billion dollars in revenue every year.

Therefore, regarding facial expressions, Han Li and they can only use the method of hand-k.

Of course, the production team has also put a lot of effort into the actions of the characters in the animation this time.

And this motion capture is not just a matter of finding a few people to perform. Therefore, the project team recruited several professional actors with acting skills to serve as motion captors and specialize in character motion capture performances.

As for these professional actors, they are not as mysterious or famous as everyone thinks. In fact, there are many people who graduate from domestic acting majors every year, and only a few lucky people can stand out from them and become a somewhat famous actor.

The vast majority of people are still living in the lower classes.

And the people recruited by the animation project department this time are also all graduates of performance majors from well-known domestic colleges. It's just that because of the lack of social resources, it can only survive at a low level. This time, they were recruited by the company, which can be regarded as giving them a stable job.

Although it can't be compared with those actors and stars who are somewhat famous, this job is still good in the hearts of these people compared to the unstable income of tricks or supporting roles.

At least they haven't given up their original acting profession and can still have a stable income to survive, so these people are working hard.

As for the character expressions, the production team still thought of a lot of ways. Although they can't use that facial capture system, they also use the most advanced facial expression production software in the foreign animation industry.

And with a set of production technology developed by them independently, the expressions of the characters produced are not as vivid as those captured by real people, but they are also very vivid and not so dull and stiff.

Once that's done, the next step is to compose the characters and the scene. Then we design the shots, which are 3D software, usually virtual cameras in Maya.

Based on these designed shots, lighting and line rendering are carried out.

Because it is a realistic style, there are high requirements for the rendering of this cartoon. In this way, it is not only very difficult, but also a lot of work.

Therefore, the rendering team close to the animation project department could not do it alone, and although the company had its own rendering farm, it was still insufficient.

As a result, they need to submit these shots online and then distribute them to other servers in each company, or companies that specialize in this kind of rendering. This is also known as cloud rendering, or remote online rendering.

The whole rendering work takes a long time, and it is also inversely proportional to the number of servers invested and the quality of the servers. The more servers, the better, and the shorter the rendering time.

Finally, after the rendering is completed, the images rendered from each server will be recycled, and then each shot will be composited, that is, a short video.

Next, it's the post-production of special effects, and compositing. In fact, the scene and the characters are rendered separately.

The reason for this is also to facilitate post-production. According to the needs of the plot and the action design, the special effects team will add some special effects to the actions of the characters, that is, we usually see, light, water, fire, explosion, fog, smoke, and other special effects shots.

Finally, it's compositing, compositing the characters, scenes, and special effects, and then the movement is graded and the associated editing is complete.

When the picture was finished, it was only 70% of the way the production process was completed.

Next, according to the content of the picture, the soundtrack, foley, and dubbing are carried out.

The soundtrack, in fact, is the background music in the film, according to different pictures and plots, with different background music, which can better set off the atmosphere of the whole film.

For example, in the dark and terrifying picture, with thrilling and sharp music, and in the scene of multiple people fighting, with laughing music, can enhance the audience's sense of substitution.

Therefore, regarding the soundtrack, the project team specially invited teachers from the Conservatory of Music to do it, which can be said to be very good.

As for foley, it is also in charge of the professional team. Foley is the simulation of real-life sounds in films. To put it simply, it is all the sounds that come out of the film except for the language of the characters.

For example, the sound of birds, the sound of water, the sound of explosions, the sound of traffic, the sound of chopping, etc. The whole foley work is amazing and fun, and it's hard to imagine that those foley artists can simulate all kinds of sounds in nature with a few ordinary-looking objects.

As for dubbing, the animation project department already has its own professional dubbing team. The members of the team are either graduates of well-known broadcasting majors, or they are folk cattle or monsters who are very good at dubbing.

It is said that it is a cow and a monster because these people are able to imitate the voices of various characters. The first second it was a loli voice, and then it directly became an old woman's voice. And in order to recruit these cattle, Fan Xiaoya spent a lot of thought.

To this end, Han Li also promised these people that if they performed well, he could agree to set up a special dubbing studio for them and let them operate independently.

So these people are working hard, and this time it took a lot of effort to dub this film.

No way, as for the animation dubbing, we have just started in China. Unlike a certain island country, the animation industry is thriving, so there is a group of excellent voice actors who specialize in dubbing cartoons.

Although some domestic cartoons have also invited professional voice actors or stars to dub, they are still much inferior to these voice actors who have been engaged in cartoon dubbing for a long time and understand the industry.

So much so that many domestic cartoons, after being dubbed with the Japanese voice of other people's voice actors, are simply two looks.

It is also because of this reason that many anime fans do not like domestic animation.

So if they want to go long in the animation industry, they must need an excellent animation dubbing team. After considering these, he finally allowed Fan Xiaoya to recruit these people back to form this dominant sound team.

It is precisely because of their quality control in the production process that they have been unanimously praised by the audience at the beginning of the broadcast.

Behind the praise, in addition to the efforts of the production team, there is also the investment of funds.

The production investment of this cartoon also exceeded the production cost of all their previous cartoons, setting a new record for the highest single episode of a domestic cartoon. The production cost of a single episode is more than 250,000, and like some dramas with more fighting actions and special effects, the production cost is approaching 400,000.

Officially, because of such a huge investment, the quality of this film was ensured and appreciated by the audience.