After dealing with Bao Qingtian's turmoil, Yingshuai rushed back to the crew non-stop.

The filming of A Chinese Ghost Story has also reached the final stage, and the last big scene is basically left for filming.

Although the film is a romantic drama packaged in a magical package, since Yingshuai regards the film as the beginning of oriental magic movies, he naturally wants to take the battle between Yan Chixia and the old demon of Montenegro as the top priority of the whole film.

Chen Xiaodong and Xu Ke teamed up to create a bizarre magical world, and the new visual effects studio founded by Xu Ke himself was responsible for the special effects, which promoted the special effects of Xiangjiang and even the entire Huaguo at that time.

After all, no one paid so much attention to movie special effects except Xu Ke at that time, and this studio did create many classic movie special effects scenes, such as Dongfang Undefeated, Shushan was an insurmountable classic before the original time and space heroes crossed over.

In an environment where film special effects are generally not valued, even Xu Ke's prestige is useless, New Vision still declared bankruptcy in 2004, and the fuse of bankruptcy was Shushan, which was later regarded as a classic, but was regarded as a bad movie at that time.

The special effects of Shushan are still full of most domestic special effects even after more than ten years, and the scene where Zhang Baizi's face at his peak is broken into pieces on the screen is still fresh in people's memories even after more than ten years.

In order to produce the special effects of "The Legend of Shushan", Xu Ke spared no expense to hire four Hollywood computer stunt companies to help, and in the process of production, he also used a large number of professional software used in Hollywood movies, such as Maya and Softimage, to create an unreal space that does not exist in the real world.

In terms of image computing, the images were created using more than 100 computers, which took a year to complete and cost more than HK$40 million.

But the excessive pursuit of special effects also increased the budget of this film, and finally invested more than 100 million, which was 100 million in 2001.

This film, which cost to set a record for investment in Xiangjiang films, failed miserably at the box office in the end, with a box office of only 11 million.

Later, people commented on the failure of Shushan, basically attributing it to Xu Laowei who was too advanced, paid too much attention to special effects, and the subject matter to be expressed in the film was too big, far from being a film that could be finished, and it might be better if it was made into a trilogy.

Having said all this, Yingshuai still decided to repackage A Chinese Ghost Story with special effects.

The special effects of A Chinese Ghost Story caused a sensation at the time, but after all, it was a work of the 80s, and a movie that cost only a few million dollars, it is unrealistic for you to want the special effects to be as detailed as possible.

For example, the terrifying tongue of the tree demon grandmother in the film will be dyed by Chen Xiaodong himself, who spent two weeks dyeing it with a sponge, which shows that the director is responsible, but it also shows the tight funds of the crew.

Therefore, from the perspective of the hero, although the special effects in the film are imaginative, they can't stand up to careful scrutiny, and they are still too rough.

This reshoot, he naturally wants to shoot this big battle perfectly.

It took the special effects team three full days to build the exterior of the skeleton battlefield, and in addition to a large number of skeletons made of plaster, they actually rented hundreds of real human skeletons from medical schools in a frenzy.

These realistic skeletons are meant to be used in close-up shots, and that texture is definitely not something that can be seen in a plaster cast.

The special effects team built a 25-meter-tall skull Jingguan (similar to a pyramid) to serve as the base camp of the old demon of Montenegro. The first time the handsome man came to the scene, he was shocked by the momentum of the magnificent skull hill, which was by no means the effect of the humble set of the original film.

Yingshuai couldn't help but sigh, it turns out that you can really do whatever you want if you have money.

"Exon!"

With the command of the commander, the battle, which had been prepared for a month, finally began, and hundreds of group performers dressed as skeleton corps began to attack like a tide.

In this scene of the original time and space, it was just dozens of group performances rushing around, and the picture was on fire with the black light, and even the faces of the skeleton corps could not be seen clearly, let alone any momentum.

Therefore, Yingshuai specially consulted the experts of the ancient battle array this time, and designed a battle array based on the original time and space games and the scenes of the classic magic war.

Yingshuai is really envious of the mature shooting conditions of the original space-time CG technology, and the scene of a million armies charging into battle can be virtualized, and his battle is a battle that imitates the last few races of the ring.

In addition to the skeleton army of the original film, dryads and ghosts have also been added, of course, with the current technical conditions, it is really impossible to complete the scene with a full computer, so the special effects method of Star Wars is still used, miniature model plus real shooting plus post-processing synthesis.

However, there is an advantage to Daming's filming of large scenes, labor costs, Yingshuai found more than a thousand group actors to play the skeleton legion, the dryad legion and the ghost legion respectively, which is unthinkable in the moldy country, so they can only use miniatures to shoot similar scenes.

Of course, to mobilize such a large group performance team, it is a great challenge to the director's command skills, after all, it is not the kind of army that is skillfully trained in battle formations in ancient times, and the difficulty of appearing a neat battle formation can be imagined.

Although the marshal specially asked Zhu Lao to coordinate and seconded the army, there was a big gap between the modern military array and the ancient battle formation after all, and it took a week of training in advance to barely form a complete battle formation queue.

Of course, it is impossible to show the scene of thousands of troops in battle with hundreds of people, and it still requires a large number of miniatures, and every time you shoot a frame, the miniature moves once.

Although it is impossible to make tens of thousands of miniatures, there are thousands of them, and all the miniatures in each frame must be moved a little bit, which is a huge project that tests patience.

Of course, it is more time-testing, this is the same as anime shooting, twenty-four frames of one second, so the scene of the Skeleton Legion charging for only half a minute took three days to shoot.

This also requires the editing and synthesis of different angles in the later stage to complete a complete charging scene.

At the same time, the operation of the Dryad and the Ghost Legion is also completed, these two legions are more spectacular than the Skeleton Legion in the film, but the number is much smaller, and one Dryad is a two-foot tall giant in the film.

In fact, the difficulty of this shooting is much smaller, the Dryad's movements are stiff, and it only takes twelve frames a second to get it, plus the number is small, and it took more than a day to complete the actual shooting.

After filming the legion under the old demon of Montenegro, the special effects team was almost tired, but if they wanted to rest, there was no door, and more difficult tasks were still calling them...