Of course, although not optimistic about the prospects of "The Polar Express", Charlotte still asked IMAX and Ghost Party Studios to support Robert Zemeckis as much as possible.

After all, the one who received the money!

What's more, for technology companies, the success or failure of such outsourcing projects does not matter. The most important thing is to be able to take other people's money and improve the technical level of your own company.

In fact, George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic was a dominant player in the field of film special effects, which is also related to the fact that they have participated in a large number of film projects and have been trained for a long time.

As for Charlotte herself, she doesn't plan to rush forward so wildly-

"It's easy to pull the egg when you take a big step!"

Charlotte complained in her heart.

Because of his experience in the original time and space, he always felt that it was somewhat early to start shooting 3D movies in 2002.

- Even in this time and space, because of his reasons, the development and promotion of certain film technologies have been faster than in his original time and space.

But his mind remained the same.

"Even if you don't have to wait until 2009 like Avatar in the original time and space, at least you can get 2005 or 2006......

Charlotte estimates based on the current rate of technological progress at IMAX.

This is one of the biggest benefits he has gained from taking control of IMAX.

"I'll start with the relatively mature IMAX technology in Inception!"

Charlotte decided to set herself a small goal first.

Anyway, even in his original time and space, when "Inception" was released in 2010, it also did not use 3D technology.

This is actually very anti-trend in that era when the 3D movie boom caused by "Avatar" was surging.

However, with an excellent story and imaginative graphic performance, "Inception" is still a god.

However, Charlotte also knows that this will happen, largely because it is too late-

After all, when "Avatar" was released, it was already the end of 2009, and "Inception" was released in 2010.

- In less than a year, even a director like Charlotte with all kinds of cheating methods has a hard time making a movie.

And for those normal directors who can't cheat, it's simply impossible.

- Generally, the time it takes a director to make a film is generally between 2 and 3 years.

In other words, "Inception" is actually filmed before the release of "Avatar", and it is very likely that it has been filmed, or even completed.

In the following year or so, it was actually used more for post-production and publicity preparation.

After all, it is difficult to achieve a big scene like "Rewinding Paris" without relying on digital technology to make and correct it in post-production.

- At least, without Charlotte's spell cheating, that's right.

In this case, Inception lost the opportunity to shoot into a real 3D movie.

Of course, with the way of post-production, "Inception" can also be converted into a 3D movie or a "pseudo-3D movie".

This is the post-3D conversion technology that Charlotte and IMAX CEO Jerlock mentioned.

In fact, most of the 3D movies released in 2010 in Charlotte's original time and space were this kind of "pseudo-3D movies".

As with Inception, most of the films released in 2010, especially the big commercial ones, were filmed by the end of 2009.

They will be transformed into 3D movies through post-production technology, but because the moviegoers at that time were more hungry for 3D movies precisely because of "Avatar", so they took the opportunity to fry the concept, catch up with the craze, and cheat the box office.

In this regard, the most typical is Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" -

The quality of the film itself is actually not outstanding, but just because the post-3D conversion was completed in time, it became the second full 3D movie after "Avatar".

- This kind of "pseudo-3D" created the second place, so that "Alice in Wonderland" easily swept up more than 900 million US dollars at the global box office.

In this case, how many other Hollywood studios will not see the money?

Christopher Nolan, the director of "Inception", out of his own pride and stubbornness, coupled with the fact that there were too many "pseudo-3D movies" that appeared in a swarm at that time, made the audience somewhat aesthetically fatigued, so this non-3D movie has achieved exaggerated success in the era of the arrival of the tide of 3D movies.

There are so many market and epochal factors that this success can be replicated even if Charlotte has spell cheats.

However, to put it another way, Inception is another movie that is very suitable for Charlotte.

- Especially since he moved into this world, before 2002 or 2003.

First of all, as mentioned earlier, "Inception" is not a 3D movie because of the influence of time factors, which allows Charlotte to directly copycat in this era when 3D technology is completely immature;

Secondly, because of director Christopher Nolan's insistence, the use of digital special effects in "Inception" is very restrained.

- In Charlotte's original time and space publicity, it is said that most of the special effects of this movie are done using traditional special effects technology.

In 2010, such a film could be said to be against the trend;

But back in 2002, Charlotte did it in a very realistic way-

In 2002, digital special effects technology was not as developed as it was seven or eight years later.

Considering the cost and time, it is a very reasonable approach to use digital special effects to overcome some difficult scenes and leave the rest to traditional special effects technology.

Like the giant Vientiane Ring specially built in order to shoot the fighting scenes in weightlessness, everyone in the crew was amazed;

And in addition, it was planned to be used at the beginning of the movie, and the shocking scene of the flood pouring into the Japanese palace was also shot using traditional special effects technology-

For the reality shoot, the special effects team set up the interior of the sprawling palace in Warner's studio, and stored a total of 5,000 gallons of water in 26 tanks carefully arranged at the windows of the set.

When the time comes, these tanks are opened in sequence under the drive of the mechanism, and the scene of "flooding the golden mountain" is born.

- Compared to the previous weightless combat, Charlotte in this "flooded gold mountain" scene did not even use spells to cheat at all.

In the same way, there is also the first dream of Fisher in the story, the train that exaggerates on the streets of Los Angeles -

If in a few years, digital special effects technology is more developed, Charlotte can indeed use digital special effects to build trains.

However, the world is still in 2002, and the technology is not so advanced, and the use of digital special effects means that the performance of other living actors in this scene will be greatly limited.

So Charlotte simply adopted the method used by the crew of the original "Inception"-

He really got a train out!

The inside of this big guy is driven by trucks and several trailers, and the exterior is covered with a fiberglass train shell to make it look real.

During the filming, everyone really performed by this fake train.

Of course, the digital effects team is not without work to do here.

In post-production, they still need to use a computer to replace the car tires with train wheels.

However, it's much easier than creating a train......