In modern times, movie special effects are no longer a new element, whether it is a five-cent special effect or a Hollywood special effect, the purpose of the special effects is always the same, so it expresses a better picture effect.

There are many different types of special effects in modern movies, in Hollywood movies, you can design special effects with gorgeous visual effects through computers, from this point of view, 3D animation itself is a movie composed of countless special effects, on the other hand, some special means can also be used in 3D animation movies to achieve better visual effects.

For example, motion capture technology or expression capture technology, when a 3D animation film needs to shoot a more complex battle, it is difficult to make the action of the character with a computer, motion capture technology can come in handy, so that the performer wears special equipment, and the performer's own action information will be collected by the computer to simulate the performer's every move in the animation, and the animation that originally took a lot of time to produce only needs to spend less than one-tenth of the effort to complete.

The same is true for expression capture technology, but it is not suitable for use in Degini's animated films, where the facial expressions of real people are not as rich as those of Degini's animated characters.

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"There is a special effects artist, Helen is very suitable to play Anna, and there is still one Elsa missing." Harvey was not satisfied with summoning the ice stone fairy, and asked Helen, the diamond fairy, "Helen, is there a gem fairy with a more lively personality?" ”

"Lively?" The diamond fairy jade finger tapped his chin in consideration.

Harvey added, "Yes, it's the kind of personality that is not very mature, similar to the grass and tree fairies. ”

"In that case, there is indeed a gem elf who is a good friend of mine, do you need me to contact her? I'm not sure if she'd like to come here. ”

"Then ask."

Helen jumped into the mirror, and only Harvey and the Ice Fairy were left in the alchemy workshop, the Ice Stone Fairy with a pure white body was lying on a metal plate, her eyes closed and she looked drowsy, and Harvey also noticed a moist water around her body. Remembering Helen's introduction to her, Harvey took a basin of water, cast a spell and handed it to the icestone fairy, who stood up in a daze, struggling to climb onto the top of the basin containing the ice cubes.

"Click~"

The slender arm of the ice stone fairy broke, this time there was no terrifying cold, she turned around and glanced at Harvey innocently, took back her arm and gave up the intention of climbing up, the ice cubes under her feet condensed into a small platform to support her body, she lay on the ice cubes with her severed hands, yawning and quickly falling asleep, her indifferent expression was slightly relaxed.

Harvey found that the ice was really starting to mingle with her body.

"Elves are truly magical creatures." Seeing this scene, Harvey sighed speechlessly.

Through the method of summoning the ice stone goblin, this time Harvey retrieved a gorgeous red gem from the mirror, and as soon as he retracted his right hand from the mirror, the ruby in his hand emitted a dazzling red light, with a little scorching aura, the red light condensed into a gem goblin with ruby hair, she looked around curiously, her eyes fixed on Harvey's face and said excitedly: "Oh oh oh ~ You are Helen's contractor Harvey, and it is really the same as I imagined!" But the body is really big, and so is this room, I'm Ruby, so if you need help, just ask! ”

At first, he looked enthusiastic and lively, contrary to the ice stone fairy, which completely met Harvey's requirements and Elsa's character.

"Nice to meet you, it seems that I don't need to introduce myself." Harvey smiled as he held the ruby elf in his right hand.

Ruby Fairy stretched out his arms and nodded vigorously: "Of course, you don't know how famous you are in Fairy Township, just like Super Mario, everyone who has played this game knows your name, I mean those little games you make are very fun..."

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Harvey named the Ice Goblin Ace and the Ruby Elf Ruby Ruby, both English transliterations of their names.

The three goblins have their own duties, the diamond fairy Helen and the ruby fairy Ruby are responsible for playing the two sisters, Anna and Elsa, and the ice stone fairy Ace is responsible for the ice and snow special effects, although Harvey can make the animation of "Frozen" without them, but it will definitely cost more than ten times more manpower and material resources.

Harvey spent the whole day instilling the animation knowledge of "Frozen" to the three goblins, Helen belongs to the more obedient type, as long as it is Harvey's orders, she will do her best to do it, Ruby is also very interested in the so-called animation after listening to Harvey's explanation, patting her small chest to ensure that it is okay, Ace is a lot lazy, lying on the ice and dangling her feet, and it took a long time to hold back a word of promise, or only one "Hmm." Word.

In the room used for animation, Harvey built a magic circle to collect information about their movements, first the scene where Anna and Elsa were playing in the empty room before, there is an animation reference, Helen and Ruby can easily simulate Anna and Elsa's movements, and then integrate into the "Frozen" animated movie to make the characters' movements more silky and natural.

"I'm a little unused to wearing clothes made of so many fabrics." Ruby tugged at her skirt and complained.

Harvey didn't hear it and continued to order: "Next, Ruby, you jump forward, Ace is responsible for making snowdrifts to catch Ruby, Helen, you just do the action." ”

The character action shooting of the animation continues.

"It's a pity that only Anna and Elsa can use motion harvesting, and Helen's movement habits are not suitable for playing some male roles."

Harvey looked at the elves and thought with interest, "Maybe we can launch fairy animations or something in the future." ”

Goblin animation, rather than puppet animation, in 3D animation movies did not have the mainstream "3D" animation mode before the popularity, you need to make dolls and scene props first, and then shoot a picture by constantly setting up dolls, and these pictures are coherent together to form a puppet animation, the more well-known puppet animation in Europe and the United States on the earth has "Ghost Mother", "Zombie Bride", "Christmas Night Terror" and so on, in China, puppet animation is a traditional culture, but it has not been successfully transformed, the only famous is " Golden Puppet Play" has many loyal fans.

In addition to the European, American and Chinese markets, the Jinguang cloth bag was also favored by a famous animation scripter in Hinomoto, Xuan Xuyuan, and produced "Dongli Sword Travel" and gained a good reputation in Ninomoto.

Puppet animation is a branch of animated films, and many successful examples have proved the artistic value of this model, but in this world, there are goblins with bodies about the same size as dolls, and the troublesome steps of posing can be omitted, so it is more fairy animation than puppet animation.