However, after returning to London, the things related to the "Harry Potter" series only took up a small part of Charlotte's time after all

After handing over the matter to Alexis and asking him to ask EA to commission development, he left this matter alone for the time being.

At present, Charlotte's main focus is still on the filming of "The Mummy".

Unlike on location in Morocco, what was shot in the British Isles was more of a green screen shot, and some that required a lot of sets.

- To put it simply, it's the scenes in the movie that involve resurrected mummies and explorations in the catacombs.

Rather than painstakingly arranging such a shot on location, it is better to return to the UK and craft it carefully.

In particular, in addition to the general green screen photography, this time the Ghost Party Studio also used motion capture technology.

- Mainly used when the high priest Immorton was resurrected, and did not change into human form, but was still in mummified form.

In that case, using motion capture technology is naturally more realistic than pure G-motion production.

Of course, Charlotte, who has spell effects to use, will not use them to her advantage.

In fact, many of the shots of Immorton as a mummy form were originally shot by Charlotte using spell special effects.

- Just like in "Guillotine Valley", when filming the footage of the Headless Horseman.

This time, he used a spell to steal a fragment of a real mummy from the Egyptian Room in the British Museum.

Then, based on this fragment, combined with the collected broken soul fragments, Charlotte directly created a mummy-like ghost.

- Of course, it's just a look. Although there are also ghosts with cold and terrifying aura, they do not possess entities like real mummies.

However, for the filming of the film "The Mummy", this was enough.

A lot of their motion capture shots are actually just for example.

Under the lens of Addison Young, who was in charge of filming, the ghost of the "mummy" attached to the stuntman had already turned it into a real mummy, and there was no need for post-processing like ordinary motion capture shots.

However, not all shots can be treated in this way.

Some actions that violate the structure of the human body, or more exaggerated shots, the effect of spell effects is not ideal.

These parts really need to be perfected with computer special effects.

It can be said that although the Ghost Party Studio has more advantages than other computer special effects companies in terms of the cost and effect of many special effects because of Charlotte's spell special effects, they also have a unique problem-

That is how to organically combine ordinary computer effects with Charlotte's spell effects.

At this point, for the sake of secrecy, other technicians can't help, and the only one who can help Charlotte is Alexis, the nominal technical director, who is actually working as Charlotte's secretary most of the time.

Fortunately, as a Valkyrie, Alexis has the ability to borrow other people's abilities.

- Just like when he borrowed the wisdom of a Premier League coach and deduced the rules of Quidditch in a dream.

Therefore, Charlotte was not worried that this technical problem could not be solved, but Alexis deliberately gave everyone an extra hour of lunch break at noon in order to borrow the technology of the employees of the special effects department, which made him speechless.

"Well, I'm a good boss who cares about the quality of his employees' sleep!"

Charlotte complained to herself.

Actually, he also understood why Alexis was doing this-

Even if you use spells and borrow the wisdom of other people's brains, it will be much easier to sleep than to wake up.

What's more, without Charlotte's mana, Alexis would not have been able to cross the spatial distance and pull people in different positions into the same dream as he did when deducing the rules of Quidditch.

In this case, it has become the easiest way for Alexis to let employees who need to borrow technology from themselves dream when they work in the company, no, it is a lunch break.

"She probably wants to do this work on her own without the help of my mana!"

Charlotte sighed.

Since Miss Valkyrie has this ambition, Charlotte is naturally inconvenient to strike.

In addition, if the other party can succeed in doing this, it will indeed greatly reduce Charlotte's burden.

So Charlotte agreed.

In addition to the mummy's movements and other parts that require a combination of motion capture and spell special effects, many other parts of the movie also need to use conventional computer special effects such as green screen technology.

For example, when exploring in the tomb, the shot of encountering a large swarm of corpse beetles is a typical special effect.

Naturally, it was impossible to get a large number of beetles to surround the actors during filming.

- Even though Charlotte can use spells to control beetles, where can she find so many large beetles?

Not to mention that if you really get so many beetles, most of the actors will probably be scared and tremble, and no matter how good their acting skills are, they won't be able to play well.

Therefore, this part of the shot must be perfected through post-production special effects.

At present, the actors can only perform in front of the green screen, in front of the air.

- To be honest, judging from the scene, it was indeed a little embarrassing.

is like the scene of some dragon actors screaming and being swallowed by the corpse beetle swarm, when filming, it seems that it is more fake and more fake, and how pompous and exaggerated.

"Although after adding special effects in the later stage, although it will look much more realistic, it is ......"

The old gun, who was watching the original dailies with Charlotte, frowned, and didn't continue, but Charlotte already understood what he meant.

- The actors are still not used to green screen photography, especially the way they perform in the air.

This kind of problem is actually very common in special effects blockbusters.

Even if technology gradually advances in the future, when more than a dozen Marvel Universe movies are released, this problem still exists-

The actors are acting in the air, and after all, it is difficult to find the feeling of being down-to-earth and inspiring each other when playing against real people.

It can be said that even some veteran actors with superb acting skills will be somewhat unnatural when shooting on a green screen and acting in the air.

- Of course, most of the time, the audience is not too demanding in this regard.

In addition, in special effects blockbusters, acting skills and subtle expressions are often not the focus, so it is okay to reach a similar level.

In fact, Charlotte's "Guillotine Valley" and "Hell Detective" encountered a similar situation before.

But in those two films, there were far fewer special effects shots than in "The Mummy", the structure was simple, and the number of actors involved was smaller.

Therefore, after shooting several times, you can also get a shot with a better level of performance.

But the special effects shots in "The Mummy" are not so simple -

On the one hand, there are many, and on the other hand, there are often many people in the shots that need to be filmed, and many of them are temporarily hired actors.

Their acting skills are uneven, and it is more difficult for Charlotte to control their acting skills.

While it's also possible to get a feel for shooting over and over again, the more people involved in a shot, the more likely it is that something will go wrong.

If you really want to shoot it well, the time cost may have to spend a lot.

"It's a bit like when you were filming Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and there was a bunch of actors with inconsistent performances......

Charlotte thought so, but suddenly had an idea......