"Director Li, may I ask how much is your investment in your new film?"

At the press conference, the reporter asked.

Zhou Xiao is familiar with Hong Kong Island, but after all, he is not a person in the film industry, and he doesn't know a lot of ways. A circle of red envelopes is sprinkled out, and the reporter naturally knows how to cooperate.

"This problem is more complicated," Li Mu said with a smile, "Actually, this time I invested in a film and television company on Hong Kong Island, which is specially prepared for the shooting of this new film and several films in the follow-up plan, and at the same time, the company also ordered a new set of film and television special effects software from Beijing 2048 Company, which is worth hundreds of millions of yuan - I can't get this money, so I can only pay in installments......"

Li Mu answered the question, obviously taking the opportunity to promote his film company, but the reporters all smiled kindly and took the red envelope to talk......

"However, these hundreds of millions of software are not spent in vain, this software can completely change the production mode of the movie, and the film will be subversive." Li Mu said, "First of all, the production of this film will subvert the traditional way of shooting live films, and all shots will be completed in the studio. Second, there is no need for supporting roles during the filming, and the entire film will be made entirely by computer, except for the protagonist and a few supporting roles with more shots. Third, all the actions, expressions, and voices, including the protagonist and the main supporting characters, will be collected using a green screen and then processed and synthesized. In other words, the characters you see in the film are mostly computer-generated. ”

Everyone was buzzing and discussing, obviously having some doubts about Li Mu's statement.

In fact, computer-generated characters are not a new thing, Hollywood has begun to use special effects to virtual characters more than ten years ago, and the more classic ones such as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings are typical special effects characters. The technology is now very mature, using a motion capture system to collect data from the movements of human actors, and then perform a lot of post-processing, to create any character image.

However, this method is more often used for anthropomorphic characters, or monster characters.

More advanced than this technology is called expression capture. The expression data of human actors can be recorded by scanning, and then the expressions can be transferred to other character images through post-production special effects, which can be human images or anthropomorphic monster images.

This technology first originated from the great director Lucas, as the earliest director who started and has been committed to the development of film special effects technology, Lucas has applied this technology to the Star Wars series many years ago, and has filmed a Star Wars series that uses all three-dimensional animation, and the characters all use expression capture to simulate, but unfortunately the technology is not mature enough, and the movie is not a blockbuster.

Now Li Mu is trying to imitate Lucas? All with simulated data? Should it be called a live-action movie, or should it be called an animation?

"Director Li, is your new film a 3D cartoon?" A reporter asked.

"No, I think it should belong to a live-action movie, because the character image is a real person, and the film style is also a live-action image."

"But don't you use actors?"

"No, we also need actors, and we need a lot of actors with good acting skills, we need to collect their expressions, movements, and voices, but in the end, the characters on the screen are not necessarily the facial features of the actors themselves. Well, the characters that have been confirmed to be retained at present are me and the heroine Miss An Ran......"

Li Mu made such a decision after some careful consideration. You must know that film production is not a simple job, a movie, even if the investment scale is relatively small, including screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, drama affairs, photography, recording, dubbing, lighting, editing, special effects, etc., the participants in the production process are as few as dozens of people, as many as hundreds of people, if it is a large production, it is normal to use thousands of group performances in a large scene, and it is not an exaggeration to have thousands of participants in the whole crew.

So, it's impossible for you to come up with a movie for nothing, but you can't find the participants, so it's not exposed?

Therefore, Li Mu simply used this way to reduce the number of participants, which is barely a reasonable explanation.

"Miss An Ran, have you participated in the creation of any film and television dramas?"

Facing so many reporters and cameras, An Ran said a little nervously: "I am a newcomer, and I have never acted in film and television dramas before. ”

"And you graduated from that film school?"

"I studied business administration, not acting." An Ran said with a weak heart.

Although girls have star dreams, but dreams return to dreams, An Ran doesn't want to be a star, the pressure is too great, but Li Mu admires An Ran's image very much, and his performance in the "movie" is very good, although Li Mu has the ability to change the appearance of the character, he did not make adjustments, and directly used An Ran's image.

"Huh? Director Li, why do you want to use someone who has no acting experience at all? ”

"Because Miss An Ran is very beautiful." Li Mu smiled, "Well, in fact, the most important reason is that I feel that An Ran's image is very consistent with the heroine, and this movie is not a movie in the traditional sense, all we need is to collect the data of Miss An Ran's expression, movement and voice, which is not very demanding for actual acting experience......"

After answering this question, Li Mu glanced at Qian Feng, and Qian Feng immediately greeted the pre-arranged reporter, and the reporter asked: "Director Li, when will your new film be released?" ”

"The shooting cycle may take three months to half a year, and the specific situation is still difficult to say." Li Mu said.

"Can you expect the box office?"

"Zero at the box office!" Li Mu said with a smile, "Because of this movie, I am ready to try a new way of distribution, that is, free distribution." At that time, all theaters can screen this movie for free with the consent of the company, and all box office revenue will be owned by the theater company, and our company will not charge a penny! ”

The scene suddenly buzzed with a fryer.

If Li Mu wants to try a new shooting mode and use three-dimensional animation to make movies, it may be a gimmick, enough for everyone to report and attract some attention, and even the actual effect is far less worthy of hype and reporting than inviting a big star to join.

It's free to distribute, and it's free to be screened in that theater, and that's breaking news!

What do film and television companies make money for making movies? Box office, of course! Although in addition to the box office, there are also modes such as DVD distribution, product placement, and online on-demand sharing that can make money, but there is not much in those aspects, and the real big head still depends on the box office.

But Li Mu didn't want money, so let the theater play casually? Then he can't pay for his death?

More mainland reporters thought of the leakage of the source of Li Mu's last movie, could it be that this guy tasted the sweetness of popularity caused by the leakage of the source? But no matter how popular it is, you can't lose money to play, right?

Looking at the excited reporters, Li Mu smiled with relief, this is what the buddy wants!