In fact, how to show enough acting skills in motion capture has always been a difficult problem.

This conundrum is both technical and performative-

Technically, the current motion capture technology is still very poor at capturing expressions. Until 2004's "Polar Express", the expressions of the characters created by motion capture technology still looked very stiff.

- Even if the actor who captured the action in that animated movie was Tom Hanks, a double Oscar winner.

In terms of performance, the performance required for motion capture is also different from the normal way of acting.

- This kind of performance requires more imagination and expressiveness.

Many actors who have excellent acting skills and image during normal filming sometimes have average performance in this regard.

On the contrary, some actors who are not good-looking and usually not very famous have unique experiences in motion capture performances.

- For example, Zoe Saldana of Gamora in "Avatar" and later "Guardians of the Galaxy", or Andy Serkis.

Especially Andy Serkis, who is known as the king of motion capture.

His portrayal of "Gollum" in the "Lord of the Rings" series and "Caesar" in the "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" series can be said to be milestone achievements in mocap performance.

- Of course, these are all in Charlotte's original plane.

In the current time and space, because of the guidance and promotion of Charlotte, the time-traveler, the Ghost Party Studio has a much higher level of motion capture technology than Hollywood in the same time and space in another time and space.

What's more, as early as the previous filming of "The Mummy", Charlotte had already instructed the people in the Ghost Party studio to secretly click on the motion capture skill tree.

In the original time and space, it was not until "Avatar" that Cameron gradually solved the problem of capturing facial expressions, and Charlotte also directly pierced the layer of window paper.

- While it was still a bit of a hassle to develop miniature motion capture cameras that hung over the actors' heads to capture facial expressions, it was a shortcut to the dead-end method of capturing facial expressions by relying entirely on external machines......

In short, by now, the motion capture technology used by the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" during filming is much more advanced than Charlotte's original time and space.

- Although it may not have reached the level of "Avatar", it is not far from the intensive research of the technicians of the Ghost Party Studio.

It's just that because there are a lot of locations to shoot in the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean", especially the second and third parts, this requires a lot of motion capture work to be done outdoors.

To a certain extent, this naturally creates additional technical difficulties.

- After all, "Avatar" was filmed in the studio the whole time.

Fortunately, Charlotte also has a trick called a spell effect.

...... In general, in terms of technology, motion capture technology has no problem for the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean".

However, the problem of performance experience cannot be solved overnight-

You must know that in Charlotte's original time and space, the first large-scale successful application of Hollywood motion capture technology is recognized as "Gollum" in "The Lord of the Rings".

But in this time and space, the time is only the end of 2000, and the first part of the "Lord of the Rings" series, "The Lord of the Rings", will not be released until next year.

And "Gollum", played by Andy Serkis, will not officially appear until the second "Two Towers".

As a result, there are not many actors in Hollywood who are good at motion capture performances.

The crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is naturally no exception.

However, whether it is the crew of the "Black Pearl" cursed by the treasure of gold coins in the first part and turned into a "moonlight skeleton", or the crew of the sea monster on the "Flying Dutchman" in the second and third parts, to shoot them well, they need to perform under motion capture technology.

Especially the octopus-headed captain David Jones, the role is still very heavy, comparable to "Gollum" in "The Lord of the Rings".

- It can be said that because of the advance of time, "Pirates of the Caribbean" replaced "The Lord of the Rings" and became a pathfinder in Hollywood in motion capture technology.

- That's why Charlotte asked Depp and Rivan to study more on how to perform in motion capture.

Of course, he also made other preparations -

Not to mention anything else, Andy Serkis, the future "Gollum", the king of motion capture, was assigned to the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" by Charlotte to follow up on the research of motion capture performance.

To some extent, Charlotte is actually a fake public servant.

After all, Disney is the big head in the investment of "Pirates of the Caribbean". The Lord of the Rings series, on the other hand, is based on the investment of Charlotte's own Ghost Party studio.

In this case, Charlotte used Disney's money to research and experiment with motion capture technology, and then let Andy Serkis master it and perform in the "Lord of the Rings" series that she invested, which was naturally taking advantage of Disney.

However, this is not a problem.

In fact, borrowing other people's money to develop your own technology is not only popular in Hollywood, but all over the world.

To some extent, this is also an unspoken rule of the industry.

The people at Disney also know this, but this part of the investment is inevitable after all, and they let Charlotte play freely.

At present, the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is mainly facing the problem of the actors' lack of experience in motion capture performance.

Or, according to Charlotte, there is a greater or lesser lack of imagination.

Charlotte is not out of the question.

In fact, he used a very good method in the previous filming of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", "The Mummy" and "Sherlock Holmes".

- It is to connect the dreams of the actors involved in the filming.

- To put it simply, let them daydream and shoot at the same time.

In the dream, Charlotte can channel the imagination of the actors and construct the illusions she needs.

- In this way, the problem of the "lack of imagination" of the actors is no longer a problem.

It's just that in order to connect everyone's imagination, the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" first had to complete the design of those monster images, so that it was convenient for him to guide and unify everyone's imagination in their dreams.

At this point, Charlotte has been letting the art and special effects department behind the scenes design early on.

- After all, he believes in the American-style view of "giving priority to the biggest guns."

- Whether it's facing ghosts, filmmaking, or his wife Charlize.

What's more, since the Ghost Party Studio has determined the profit maximization policy of movie and game linkage, the various monster image designs in Charlotte's movies can be reused in the linkage game, and this work naturally cannot be relaxed.

And now, the design of the art and special effects department is almost complete, and Charlotte can finally make a big move......