In Hollywood, multiple crews are shooting blockbusters, including seven or eight Marvel-themed films.

"The Avengers" and "S.H.I.E.L.D." are both filming the latest series, and the location in Hollywood is only the first step, and the special effects in the later stage are the most important in Marvel after the storyline.

Similarly, Cameron, the famous director who is filming "Avatar 2", is also filming on set in Hollywood, "Avatar 2" has been eight years since the project was established, and three years have been from filming to now.

The main reason why the shooting has not been successful for a long time is the difficulty of framing.

Cameron is a director who strives for excellence, and the special effects and production in the later stage can make up for the lack of framing, but it cannot perfectly express the content of the movie, which will greatly reduce the enjoyment.

The main reason why "Avatar" was successful at the beginning was that Cameron gave up all the computer special effects proposed by the team to replace the live shooting, and he took the team to travel all over New Zealand, the United States and even Zhangjiajie in China in two years, which made the planet Pandora look undistorted.

Now "Avatar 2" is facing the same dilemma, with the improvement of screen resolution and the improvement of the audience's aesthetic level, it is no longer possible to fool the audience with the production special effects of "Avatar", which is the reason why "Avatar 2" has not made progress in filming for two years. In addition, with the increase in the cost of framing, props, special effects, etc., the budget of the film has increased from 320 million meters to 500 million meters now.

If the filming continues, the influence of "Avatar" will continue to decay, and the audience will not know if they will pay for it in the future. 21st Century Fox gave Cameron a time limit, if the filming of this film cannot be completed by the end of 2019, it will be announced that the project will be suspended, a film with an investment of 500 million meters, if the box office is not 1.5 billion, it will definitely be a blood loss, and 21st Century Fox does not have the courage to bet on 500 million meters.

Money is expensive now.

For "Avatar 2", Cameron has not rested well for two years and is physically and mentally exhausted.

Cameron watched the tourists coming and going, distraught and kept shouting.

He shook his head and finally said, "Let's call it a day if we do it again, that's it, post-production has to be bothered." ”

The cost of post-production and special effects will not be less, even higher than the actor's salary.

After filming the episode ended, Cameron received a tweet.

Because he is a filmmaker, he usually likes to pay attention to film information.

A video clip from the East attracted the old card, and the layman watched the lively insider's doorway.

The video of the scene of the ancient Chinese cold weapons fighting each other, as well as the footage of the siege equipment hitting the city gate, gives people a considerable impact, which is definitely filmed with high-level shooting techniques.

Especially in the editing, a close-up of the soldier (group performance) is given, after the sword penetrates the soldier's body, the soldier's expression from pain to numbness and finally despair is definitely not something that ordinary actors can perform, it is more like a real thing.

"Oh my God!"

Cameron took another look at the topic of the push - the super black technology of Bluestar Technology, shooting movies in the game server, and the film revolution will usher in a complete revolution.

"Shooting a movie in a game server?" Cameron has never heard of such a shooting technique, judging from the picture, this is a real experience, not at all special effects and unrealistic computer fictional characters.

Back in the studio, Cameron asked the team's technicians to test this part of "The Long Song of Years" with professional software.

It is also to blame the embargo policy of the United States on the technology products of the Blue Star Company, and until now Cameron's team is still using Intel's chips and Microsoft's operating system, and he doesn't even know that the Aurora chip and Starlight OS have brought great changes to the world.

Any video, if it has been processed with special effects in post, will leave traces in the software, but when the technician's analysis report came out, Cameron was surprised.

Very clean!

It's like shooting people with a mobile phone without filters and without any special effects.

Cameron couldn't believe it and took a look at the software analysis himself.

"There wasn't any post-production of special effects other than cut-and-stitch and dubbing and soundtrack," the technician said. ”

Images of Wei soldiers battering the gates with siege engines were repeatedly shown on the computer, which cracked and ash and bricks fell from the ancient walls.

Cameron would not have believed that the Chinese would actually make a log siege vehicle of such a weight, nor would he believe that the siege vehicle would actually hit the city wall.

He said: "No matter what method you use, find me a little more film of "The Long Song of Years" and analyze it well, the Internet says that these clips are all filmed in the server, not in the real world. In the server, the players are all real guns, and the feeling of death and injury is realistic, so everyone will shoot so naturally, but these pictures are clearly real! ”

The main surprise Cameron hasn't said yet, that is, the low cost!

As long as the server is set up, the prop fee (costumes, weapons), scenario fee (environment), and special effects production fee are all saved, saving money!

More cuts from "The Long Song of Years" are revealed, including a passage about beautiful natural scenery.

Towering mountains, magnificent waterfalls, and fireflies flying in the depths of the mountains and forests, such an environment is definitely not something that special effects can make, and even in real life there will be no such fairyland.

The beautiful environment is the most desirable place for Avatar 2, and Cameron is told that such an environment is created in the server.

"It's unbelievable, if "Avatar 2" can be filmed in such an environment, shooting scenes, props, and special effects can be created anywhere, and I guarantee that the filming can be completed in half a year!" Cameron is ambitious.

Cameron tossed and turned that night, and the next day he made an important decision - to go to Huaguo, to Jiangcheng, to meet Chen Nuo, to see what it was like to make a movie in the server.

"To Huaguo?" The Fox liaison disagreed with Cameron's decision, and he said, "When is it, you still go to Huaguo!" The top management will not agree, now is really a critical period for filming, after the Hollywood lens is filmed, we will go to New Zealand to shoot, you will not agree to the filming company now, if the shooting task is not completed on time, we will withdraw and stop loss. ”

Cameron is also angry, Fox's funds have not been able to keep up, he said: "If I don't go to Huaguo to see it, I will regret it for the rest of my life!" ”