"I didn't expect this kind of special effect. ”

In the digital field of the Beijing Branch, the other three actors of the male protagonist of "Rejuvenation", Mr. You Bencang, Mr. Chen Daoming, Mr. Zhang Hanyu, and Chen Kun himself gathered in front of the computer, watching the special effects director Rob demonstrate that in the first half of the year, the male protagonist they designed was fifty, sixty or seventy years old, and the appearance models of the characters of these three ages, as well as the countless facial muscle changes collected according to their three previous film and television works, which were breathtaking.

Rob laughed, "The main special effects are the combination of CG avatars and real human bodies, which is a troublesome task, our team has collected more than 200 expressions from you, and it is estimated that at least 1,000 will be needed in the future."

By putting this information into different 3D models, we created tens of thousands of character models, so that with 3D stereoscopic technology and real-time images, you can connect each of your performances together, so that the audience can't see that the actors have changed. ”

Hearing Rob say this, the four actors became more and more surprised, and Chen Daoming couldn't help but say, "In other words, if we want to constantly reconstruct the expressions of each of us into a personal character model, there will be tens of thousands of such character models?"

"That's right. ”

Li Qian answered this question for Rob, nodded and said, "This is different from most movies that span a long era, from your twenties to your seventies and eighties, and your appearance is basically different from that of a person, and no one looks the same from young to old, which is too fake." ”

Mr. Yu Motokura said with a smile, "Yes, after decades, it still looks the same, although it will look like a person, but it does not conform to reality, if you put the photos of my youth and the present together, you can't see that it is a person." ”

Chen Daoming smiled, "But one thing is the same. ”

"Oh, where is the same. ”

"You're still so energetic. ”

"Hahahaha, I'm not old at heart. ”

Mr. Yu Bencang looks like he played Jigong, with the same smile on his face all the time, and he is smiling at all times.

"So, one of my expressions will appear on Chen Kun's face?"

"To be precise, on the face of the character, after he is in his fifties, it is not Chen Kun's face, it is a CG face, plus the expressions of the two teachers, Brother Han Yu and Chen Kun, the eyes are mainly Chen Kun's. ”

"Four different people's expressions are put together, can they look good?" Mr. Yu Motokura was a little curious, and kept asking like a child.

Li Qian explained, "Therefore, it is necessary to go through continuous reorganization, not a certain expression, but a subtle muscle change, and after tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even more reorganizations, it constitutes a human face." ”

"It's amazing, that's the power of technology, how could we have this back then. Mr. Yu Motokura sighed with surprise on his face.

"However, how can Director Li be sure that we will definitely be willing to participate, it seems that you have been collecting materials for a long time, right?" asked Chen Daoming.

""Rejuvenation" is not only a romance film, but also an epic since the founding of the Republic, an epic of a powerful country standing proudly on the top of the world, I think such a movie will not disappoint the two teachers and Brother Han Yu. ”

Li Qian said with confidence, "Moreover, among the actors in the forties, fifties and sixties, the three are also the most suitable, Mr. You Bencang's hearty smile, Mr. Chen Daoming, your wisdom and style, are all necessary characteristics of the male protagonist in the movie." ”

You Bencang smiled even more happily, and did not forget to correct it, "I was born in the thirties. ”

Li Qian hurriedly said, "But don't you say it, people who often laugh look young." ”

"What about me, there is a big difference between me and Chen Kun. Zhang Hanyu interjected and asked, and co-authored him and missed him.

"As for tough guys, who are you Brother Hanyu. Li Qian said with a smile.

The filming plan was determined a long time ago, and the actors of the three age groups of five, six, and seven, Li Qian also decided on You Bencang, Chen Daoming and Zhang Hanyu after careful consideration.

Sincerity, kindness, cheerfulness, wisdom, masculinity, hesitation... The qualities required for the characters in these movies are all there.

Although there is such a sentence, the acting skills on the big screen all depend on a pair of eyes.

However, it is not enough to look at the eyes, and the slightest muscle changes on the face are another important point in composing the expression.

Thousands of expressions, countless muscle changes, forming tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands of celestial models, and this face has to look like Chen Kun, after all, it is an elderly Chen Kun.

20 years old and 70 years old, although the appearance is definitely different, but 99% of people will always look a little alike.

Not only the face, but also the limbs, of course, not with the limbs of the four actors to reorganize, the size and length are different, take the amplitude, force, angle of the limbs of the movements, data collection, and then modeling to make countless models, scanning adjustments.

Facial expressions, eyes, body, and language are the basic elements that make up a person's behavior.

Doing the same thing, what kind of expression with what kind of language, eyes and body, different actors have the same expression, and other eyes will be different.

All elements must be coordinated, and the presentation must be a real person, not the slightest awkwardness.

After determining Chen Kun as the leading actor, he was given a week to familiarize himself with the script, and he was brought to the special effects company to start collecting expressions and eyes, and put them into the model for processing.

There are already finished products coming out, and when I saw those few people who looked like Chen Kun, but they didn't look like Chen Kun at all, and they didn't look like You Bencang, Chen Daoming, Zhang Hanyu and their own CG old men, I was amazed again and again.

"Unexpectedly, the domestic special effects are already so powerful. ”

"In fact, the difficulty of expression capture technology is not in the technology, but in the workload, if in Hollywood, there is a lack of enough animation engineers, the work is too tiring and complicated, but the animation engineers in Huaguo are much more dedicated than Hollywood. Rob explained.

This kind of busy, tiring, many, miscellaneous, and detailed work doesn't necessarily have a lot of money, and Hollywood's skilled animation engineers are really not willing to do it.

Although the Hollywood special effects industry has encountered a crisis and many people are unemployed, the global film industry is developing, and it is impossible to lack special effects.

It's so troublesome, there's not much money, and naturally no one does it, but it's different in China, especially in the area of animation engineers, there are a lot of them in China, and the Chinese people have never lacked hard work, and in terms of hardship, it's one of the best in the world.

Of course, only if the salary is in place.

The whole movie has to use 500 special effects personnel, don't look at the lack of people, "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" will be 2000, but these 500 people don't do other kinds of large-scale special effects, there are no these in the movie, only expression capture.

Then, Li Qian asked the three of them to familiarize themselves with the data collection work in the future, after all, what they collected before was only the data in their previous works, and they still had to be collected by real people.

And Chen Kun, seize the time to ponder the script and characters, what should be told to him, Li Qian also explained, in fact, it is not difficult for an actor with his experience to analyze a role.

.......

Li Qian was also preparing for the upcoming shooting, and spent ten days going to live sets across the country to watch it.

Including the two major battlefields of Changjin Lake and Songgu Peak, they are also the two most fierce positions in the North Stick Battlefield.

In this regard, the Northeast Military Region gave a certain degree of cooperation, and all the equipment of that era was provided by the army.

As for the money ...

Just kidding, the army is still short of equipment, and a test launch of a Dongfeng missile will cost hundreds of millions.

What's more, the Soviet-style equipment of that era had long been outdated, and it was not necessary to sell it to the Asan family, as long as they were beautiful, they would sell it to Africa at most.

Sell to Africa, it is better to support Li Qian.

When the script was submitted for review, all departments, including the military, agreed with it, and even photoelectric vaguely reminded that if they could, there would be more war scenes.

What Han Sanping said should not affect Sino-US peace and do not scandalize the US military, and no one mentioned it at all.

Even the battlefield was specially arranged by a staff officer of a certain division of the Northeast Military Region.

In addition, there is a relatively large movement, Li Xuejian's speech on the Gobi Desert, which is enough for only one person, but there is no problem.

There is also the return of Xiangjiang to raise the national flag in 97, this can be filmed directly, this is not like the Bird's Nest Olympics, there is no way to reshoot, you can only shoot a part around the protagonist, and it can be completed by switching lenses.

Everything is being prepared in an intense and orderly manner, and Li Qian has also determined the rest of the actors.

In fact, except for the hero and heroine, no one else is important.

has a lot of scenes, that is, the daughter of the hero and heroine, the smooth growth of this daughter is that the actor gave up his life with his lover in exchange for his departure.

Therefore, this daughter must be as perfect as possible in order to meet the sacrifice and expectations of the male protagonist.

is also the common standard of Orientals, close to perfection in actresses like Zhang Ziyi, Liu Yufei is not good, and Fan Binbin's kind is even worse.

After thinking about it, Li Qian still chose Gao Yuanyuan, the actress in the circle, the most in line with the general aesthetics in China, except for her, there is no more suitable.

Even if it's not perfect, at least eighty or ninety points.

The elderly heroine, Teacher Qin Yi, looks kind on the outside, but she has been through hardships and hardships.

In order to make the character fit Tong Liya, it is also necessary to use expression capture technology, at least the eyes and demeanor must have some looks.

Working in a nursing home and adopting the hero's mother, she needs to be gentle and kind, take care of so many people at the same time, and be smart and capable, so she found Liu Mingtao in Chinese opera, that is, the eldest sister in "The Pretender".

is the same age as Chen Kun, both of whom are 76 years old, but unlike most actresses, her appearance is what she should look like in 76.

The military actors needed for the two major battlefields of Changjin Lake and Songgu Peak are easy to find, and Duan Yihong plays the company commander of the male protagonist.

Li Xuejian in the Gobi Desert.

Erma is still the second horse in his true colors, just find two young actors who remind the same.

The crew of "Journey to the West", Teacher Six is very willing to act in his true colors, and Sun Wukong is a little better, after all, he has a pretend on his face.

Tang Seng and a few of them, when they are old, they still have to use expression capture technology to restore the four masters and apprentices when they were young.

In the scene in which the protagonist participated, Li Qian chose the daughter country, and Mr. Zhu Lin played the king of the daughter country again.

It's a romance movie in itself, so it's best to choose a relationship drama.

Li Qian went to see Teacher Zhu Lin, although he was sixty years old, he was still very well maintained.

However, expression capture technology is still used.

There is a template for the original play, and there are original actors, and it is not a big problem to restore it, unlike the actor who wants to directly create a CG character.

Director Yang Jie was reluctant to participate at first, but Li Qian ran three times to invite her.

The most difficult thing is the Tiananmen Square military parade, and the movie will appear in the 60th anniversary parade in 09.

No matter what, I can't shoot this, so I can only use the material of the 09 military parade.

All aspects of the historical recreation are basically in preparation, filming started after eleven, and the filming was carried out one era after another, and the preparation of the scenes kept up with the filming schedule as planned.

is about to shoot, Li Qian can also rest for a few days, that is, he occasionally incarnates as Teacher Li to give Tong Liya a class and talk about drama.

.......

The whole month of September is coming to an end, and there aren't too many movies coming out of the school season.

"Witnessed by the Whole People" released by Future Pictures dominated the film market in early September, and Sun Honglei once again proved himself on the big screen after "Drug War".

Changing careers from TV series to movies is extremely difficult, after all, the Mesozoic Era has just risen, and Sun Honglei is one of them.

The box office is close to 200 million, and the reputation is also very good, which is very good in this unpopular period.

Moreover, it also surpassed "The Smurfs 2" in the same period, a well-known Hollywood animated film, the first part of which sold 250 million in China before last, and the second part was less than 150 million, which was firmly pressed by "All the People Witnessed".

Other films in September include Matt Damon's sci-fi blockbuster Elysium, and the polar bears' anti-war blockbuster Crossfire, which of course has little to do with the penguin game.

Another movie with some splashes is the Liaozhai movie "White Fox" starring Zhong Xintong.

More than five years have passed since the door incident, and except for Cheng Guanxi, everyone else has almost come back.

Known as the first "true 3D" magic ***** in China, it is a step further than foreign magic films represented by "Harry Potter", adding a large number of oriental metaphysical concepts, upgrading the magic theme to a fantasy theme, and having more oriental aesthetics and philosophical connotations.

As a result, it only got 30 million box office, and the movie didn't need to think about it to know that it was a bad movie.

The scenery of the stage, the plot of the mentally handicapped, the performance of the convulsions, the visual of the page game, a group of washing, cutting and blowing shapes, and the lines of the thunderous people

The whole film is even more vulgar to the extreme, the driving force of the story is how to, and the turning point of the story is who slept with whom.

Who looks at this, there are a lot of heroines on the Internet who are not dressed.

There are no good movies in September, and the beginning of the school season is normal.

Immediately after that, Li Qian rested for almost a week, and the National Day holiday was coming.

In this year's National Day file, there are no movies, except for "Beijing Meets Seattle", it is the action movie "Special Identity" starring Donnie Yen and Jing Tian, the suspense crime movie "Heart War" starring Ren Dahua and Zhang Jiahui, and the movie "Escape and Ascension" starring Gu Tianle and Liu Qingyun about fire fighting.

Li Qian also rested for almost a week, and he was going to start work after the National Day, so he couldn't keep himself idle, and he still had to come out if he had something to do, so he came to attend the premiere ceremony.

In addition to Xu Zheng who was busy editing "Thai Embarrassment", Wu Jing, who was preparing for "Wolf Warrior", Ning Hao, who was about to start filming in "Detective Chinatown", and Teng Huatao of "Waiting for the Wind" and other directors came to cheer.

asked about the preparations for Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior", and it was almost the same, it was also a large-scale war movie, not like an action movie like "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", which was much more troublesome.

"Detective Chinatown" is about to start filming, and Huang Bo is also back.

There is also "Waiting for the Wind", although I am not very optimistic about this film, but it is all invested by myself, Li Qian also asked about the situation and expressed condolences.

"Director Teng, it's really hard for you to finish the later stage of "Waiting for the Wind" to come so quickly. ”

"Introduction Li is serious, this is what I should do. Just after the end of the movie, Teng Huatao's face was still a little tired, but the movie was released in more than 40 days, and he was also very excited, and his face was full of spirit.

"Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" sold nearly 700 million, this achievement, Teng Huatao has the qualification to share the cake, "Waiting for the Wind to Come" In addition to Future Pictures and Huayang Media, Teng Huatao himself also invested a little, accounting for 15%.

There are only a handful of directors in the mainland who are eligible to participate in the investment, which also means that Tenghuatao has become a famous director in all aspects, at least the market recognizes it.

Now, he can't wait to prove himself again, and at the same time, let's see how "Beijing Meets Seattle", after all, the previous Double 11 schedule is still tentative.

Maybe, this movie will also be the biggest opponent of "Waiting for the Wind" this year, after all, they are all romance films, and Tong Liya starring.