"Ghost of the Abyss" is a short documentary film directed by James Cameron, under his leadership, the film crew went deep into the Atlantic Ocean and recorded everything related to the wreckage of the Titanic at close range, allowing the audience to deeply feel the horror of the shipwreck, and also revealing the reason for the tragedy of the Titanic.

For example:

From a geographical point of view, it tells people that the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean are connected, so it is not surprising that there are large icebergs drifting down from the Arctic Ocean in the Atlantic, and it also tells people that the North Atlantic Ocean is in a state of warm and cold every April, and the sea water is very cold, so it will cause a large number of survivors to freeze to death after the ship sinks due to the bad temperature.

Another example:

From an industrial point of view, it tells the technological innovation accompanied by the industrial revolution in the twentieth century, although in the eyes of people at that time, the technology of forging steel has been against the sky, but compared with the current mature process, there were too many impurities in steel at that time, so it affected its toughness and strength, resulting in the "strange" phenomenon of "iron hitting ice and cracking itself" that is difficult for modern people to understand.

For example:

While revealing the reasons for the sinking of the Titanic, the concepts of physics, biology and chemistry are introduced, and the audience is introduced to the bacterial groups that appear around the wreckage of the Titanic, telling people that those bacteria are constantly decomposing the iron metal of the Titanic, and constructing a small ecological chain accordingly, so that more lives can live according to it.

Of course, although the whole documentary short film is very detailed, in Roland's previous life, when the documentary was released, James Cameron, as a director, was attacked like a tsunami by the outside world.

Countless people believe that James Cameron, who set box office records and swept the Oscars, has run out of skills.

As a director and a creator, he can't come up with another new idea at all, so he can only continue to develop the IP of Titanic, trying to lie on the merit book of history and eat the old book.

If James Cameron were Zhang Chengen, then he might have leaned back and asked the reporters on the sidelines, 'What is an international superstar?' But alas, he wasn't.

No way, who made him know better than anyone else why he made this documentary?

No way, who made him understand better than anyone else what he was using to make this documentary?

No way, who made him more sober than anyone else, the more the outside world scolded him for eating his old book, the more successful it proved that he was?

This kind of success does not refer to "Titanic", but "Ghost of the Abyss".

Because, people, do not reject the new technology he used on "Ghost of the Abyss"!

Because "Ghost of the Abyss" is the first film in history to be shot using a 3D virtual image capture photography system!

And the 3D virtual image capture photography system is the root of "Avatar"!

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However, although the final result of "Avatar" was a great success, no one knew what the effect of the 3D virtual image capture photography system would be until the results appeared. In the case that the future scenery cannot be realized in advance, the current James Cameron is so anxious that in the evening, when he rushed to the farm to meet with Roland Allen, the guy who came with a report of nearly 100 pages was like eating gunpowder, and he couldn't wait to sell his inspiration to Kaizi who had time.

"Roland, do you know what 3D is?"

"Yes!"

"Nope! You don't know! ”

“What？”

Roland glanced at the truck driver inexplicably, "James, what do you mean?" Isn't 3D stereoscopic imaging? ”

"Huh! What you say is not accurate! ”

Hearing Roland's answer, the truck driver was even more interested, opened the manuscript he was carrying, and explained to Roland: "In fact, in the thirties of the nineteenth century, the Belgian physicist Joseph Prato invented 3D film and made splash screen animation, but unfortunately, because the photosensitive emulsion used required a lot of exposure time to render the image, it could not capture the movement of the object, so it could not be used for photographic recording, so it was abandoned.

Until the beginning of the twentieth century, there was an oversupply in the German film market, and in order to compete for the market, capital had to let the bottlenecked creation embark on the road of technological development, so the three-dimensional film that had been dormant for 70 years was recalled.

In 1922, the world's first 3D film, The Power of Love, was born.

But unfortunately, people at that time were not interested in 3D movies.

Because there are so many problems with 3D movies.

At that time, if you want to show a 3D movie, you must be synchronized by two projectionists, projecting two pictures at the same time, once there is a mistake, resulting in the print or blinds are not synchronized, even if there is only a difference of one frame, it will make the final image unwatchable, and even if there is no accident, when playing 3D movies, the theater must also carry out a mandatory intermission, not only because the projectionist can not work for a long time, but also because people watch 3D movies for a long time, A range of adverse conditions such as headaches and eye strain can occur.

But with the ubiquity of computers, all of these problems have been solved.

Using a computer for 3D rendering can eliminate the problem of eye fatigue and brain pain caused by the geometry of previous 3D movies due to overlapping images, which caused long viewing periods of time, and IMAX's polarization technology has also made the case of two projectionists showing the same movie at the same time a thing of the past.

Many 3D movies on the market are post-production, and the director shoots the film according to the normal shooting process, and after shooting, the copy and overlap frame by frame, so as to create a three-dimensional world.

Although this approach is fine, the visual impact is still not strong, and there is still a big difference from the real 3D, and in order to solve this problem, I developed a 3D virtual image capture photography system.

To put it simply, when shooting, use two cameras and put them side by side. The camera numbered A starts shooting from point 1 and moves to point 2 between exposures, while the other camera numbered B uses a mirror to expose and intersect with moving A to simulate a human visual baseline.

The picture shot in this way is three-dimensional in the true sense of the word.

And after shooting with a digital HD camera, the cost of film due to a lot of trial and error can also be erased.

Roland, believe me, this is definitely a revolution in the history of cinema!

It will be the same as "Star Wars", which promoted special effects technology, and "Jurassic Park", which promoted CGI technology, and became another benchmark in the long history of movies!

And now, you only need to sponsor me for 30 million and you will be the first to see the final result!

Thirty million is just the price of a necklace for you, but for this technology, it is an opportunity to change history!

How's that a good deal, right?

Since it's a good deal, do you want to sign it? ”

When James Cameron poured beans into a bamboo tube to tell him about his new project, and desperately hoped that Roland Allen would invest in him, the excitement made Roland Allen want to laugh.

Because the old man's current performance is the same as Li Jiaqi, the king of goods, buy it there! BUY IT!! Buy it!!

However, even if this sentiment is really inflammatory, it is of no use to Roland.

No way, who let him know the old man for so many years?

As soon as the old man pouted, Roland knew what kind of fart he wanted to put out!

"No, calm down."

Roland waved his hand and motioned for the old man to sit down, "Are you so excited, is it because you can't attract investment at all?" ”

Hearing Roland say this, the old man who was still pretending to be earnest stopped acting, and directly threw the document in his hand on the table, leaned back, slapped his thighs with both hands, and said helplessly: "Since you know, why didn't you interrupt me just now?" ”

"After talking for a long time, my mouth is dry!"

As he spoke, he also picked up the juice on the table and poured himself a glass, which he poured down very naturally.

This situation also made Roland happy.

Hey!

You guy even sue the wicked first!

In fact, in the early stage of the development of the 3D virtual image capture photography system, there was no capital at all that was optimistic about this technology.

Because 3D technology has been verified by the world for 170 years, in such a long time, under the innovation of generation after generation, it has not bloomed its own brilliance, so how much potential does it have?

Capital from all walks of life is not optimistic about the technological innovation that James Cameron said, and no one believes that James Cameron can do what Thomas Edison and Walt Disney have not done.

Because of this, in Roland's previous life, the documentary "Ghost of the Abyss" was actually made by James Cameron himself, and the so-called friendly production company Earthship Productions was his sole proprietorship.

Of course, that's not the point.

What really embarrassed him was actually the release after the production was completed.

After the filming of "Ghost of the Abyss", James Cameron couldn't even find a company willing to release the movie, and even if he used the banner of "Titanic" archive content, Paramount, as the North American distributor of "Titanic", and Fox, the global distributor of "Titanic", only said that it would be included in the DVD released in the future.

In this way, the most embarrassing thing happened!

The movie "Ghost of the Abyss" was released by Walt Disney, who dared to try new things!

This situation is outrageous for Nima!

A film's collection of tidbits is financed by the film director out of his own pocket? And then ask a third party to issue it? In the end, the copyright owner disliked the income into the collector's edition of the DVD series?

What does this behavior mean?

It means that all capital thinks James Cameron is crazy!

It means that no capital thinks that 3D is the future!

It's as simple as that.

Because of this, when the old man was in a hurry to sell his skills to Roland, how could Roland not understand his mood at the moment? After seeing the old man eating the food on the table angrily, he crossed Erlang's legs, and his heart was even less stressed.

Because—

There are no competitors now!

"Eh, eh!" Seeing that the old man was calm, Roland tapped his fingers on the table.

Although the old man heard Roland's call, he was in a bad mood and did not mean to raise his head, but said while eating, "What are you doing?" Want me to introduce you to the 3D Virtual Image Capture Photography System? Then you might as well see for yourself!

Everything is in that summary report, whatever you want. ”

Tsundere's remarks made Roland laugh, ignoring the emotions in the old man's words, putting aside the technical exploration, and going directly into the film and television creation, "I can't understand your report, but I can understand your creative ideas."

I can vote for you in this project, and even help you release it later, but before that, I want to clarify two issues. ”

When!

Such words made the old man directly throw away the knife and fork in his hand, wiped his mouth with the napkin that should have been in front of him, and when he looked up, his face also bloomed with a happy smile, "Eh! I'll just say it! Only those who have a creative background know how to create! ”

It was as if the state of Sichuan opera's face change was completely expected by Roland, who didn't care about these insignificant details, Roland said directly: "Is the 3D virtual image capture photography system one of the technologies you need for your next work?" If yes, then I would like to know, what other technology do you need besides that? Where are they? ”

This question made the old man blink, "Huh? How do you know that Ghost of the Abyss is just a test film? ”

As soon as the words came out, the old man realized that something was wrong and smiled wryly.

Because when he cheated investment in Hollywood before, he did blow "Ghost of the Abyss" to the sky, which is unique in the world.

And now—

It seems that the guys around him are used to his routine!

However, there is nothing to be embarrassed about, and after shaking his hand, he said: "That's right, the 3D virtual image capture camera system is just one of the technologies I need for my next film, and in addition to that, I also need motion capture technology."

This thing, Weta Digital has, I've seen the grunt effect in "The Lord of the Rings", it's great.

But this technology is not enough, because Weta Digital captures the movements of the action actors first, and then imports them into the model, so that the model follows them, and this import process has a lag, and my next film is a full CGI movie, so I can't have a lag, so I also need a technology that can synthesize the motion capture into the virtual character in real time and present it on the spot.

This technology is called a collaborative camera.

Of course, the reason why I can say so clearly is because this technology is already available, and it is in Steven's hands, and his "Artificial Intelligence" was filmed with this technology, so ......

Just borrow it in the past.

In addition to cutting out these three techniques, I also need to perform the capture technique.

The technology is similar to motion capture, but it is used to capture the facial expressions of actors.

And this thing, in fact, also exists, and it is in Industrial Light & Magic.

Robert Zemeckis you know, right?

He's tinkering with this technology right now at ILM and has developed a real-time restoration system.

As far as I know, he's going to use it for his next project, Beowulf, and I've seen the results, and it's great. ”

That's right!

"Avatar" is not the wisdom of one person at all!

Fourteen years in the pipeline, the best VFX team on the planet was all involved!

Motion capture technology is Peter Jackson's!

Collaborative working camera rendering technology is Steven Spielberg's!

The show capture is George Lucas's!

The facial performance capture restoration system is Robert Zemeckis's!

When the technology that made "The Lord of the Rings", "Artificial Intelligence", "Star Wars" and "Beowulf" all come together, this is truly a new technological revolution in the history of cinema!

After using the 3D virtual image capture photography system to construct a new world, the box office record of film history was born!

This......

In fact, it is the crystallization of a generation.