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"Where did this come from?" Zhang Zirong asked curiously.

"Haha, this one was rented by Aurora and the zoo, not only this one, but also the others." Chen Shaojun couldn't help laughing.

During this period of time, he has also settled down and has been discussing the special effects of "King Kong" with the Aurora special effects people at the special effects company.

It is not that simple to make a special effect.

For example, the special effects of "King Kong", this kind of special effects, in fact, the most difficult problem involved is the concept.

Concept designs are often used for pre-production reference. For example, there will be a monster in the movie. The protagonist of "King Kong", King Kong is actually better. He directly refers to the gorilla and then modifies it. But what do other monsters look like?

At this time, the director needs to speak out in words, and the concept designer of the special effects company draws it in the form of pictures according to the director's requirements. After the image is determined, it is handed over to the 3D special effects to make various lifelike monsters.

Then there is digital painting. For example, a panorama of an ancient city appears in a certain film, involving thousands of ancient dwellings or palaces, flowers, trees, small bridges, and flowing water. If 3D software is required to make it, the cost will be very high, and it usually takes many It can only be completed by the cooperation of people, but with a digital painter, he can draw all these into one picture by himself.

"King Kong" also needs to use digital matte scenes, such as the scenery of Skull Island, etc. It is impossible to use real shots to complete all of them, and it needs to be achieved through digital matte scenes and 3D synthesis.

"We decided to use "miniature model" and "scene construction" combined with motion capture technology to realize most of the special effects of "King Kong"." Ou Yangming, the person in charge of Aurora special effects, explained.

“We want to make a flesh-and-blood, emotional, and expressive King Kong, as well as a savage Tyrannosaurus rex in the jungle, a fantasy-filled Skull Island, and a completely realistic city street scene. It is realized through the combination of digital animation and special effects in post-production.”

"Do the city street scenes also need special effects?" Zhang Zirong asked with some doubts.

"Of course, after all, it is impossible for us to get Zhonghai Municipal Government to agree to open the real streets for us to shoot, and during the shooting process, it will also involve King Kong destroying buildings and so on. Therefore, we need to use miniature models and After all, we can’t really let King Kong climb to the roof of the Pearl Building to shoot, and also create all kinds of damage..." Hearing Zhang Zirong’s question, the other party explained with a smile.

"Our modelers will make a series of models, depicting the expressions at different moments on the same bone tissue structure, and carefully depicting details, such as the sunken forehead, the claw marks on the head, the distorted jaw and even the eyes. Muscles sagging due to muscle atrophy, so that an emotional King Kong can be presented to the audience."

Zhang Zirong nodded. As for the production of special effects, even if Wang Yifan has made several special effects movies, he is not too clear about how to make them. Usually he only cares about whether he can achieve the effect he wants and how to do it. Come out, the so-called art industry has specialization, he can't cover everything.

The same is true for Chen Shaojun. He is here mainly to communicate with the special effects technicians and tell them the effect he wants.

The biggest difference between "King Kong" and many monster movies is that "King Kong" is flesh and blood, which requires King Kong to be endowed with human-like emotions, but King Kong is a monster, it can't speak, so how to express this emotion? ? Naturalness comes through body language and facial expressions.

For this reason, Aurora Special Effects was designed according to Chen Shaojun's requirements, and multiple King Kong models were designed, and each model would have a different use.

"Actually, it's okay to say that the protagonist gorilla in "King Kong" is the most troublesome, but other monsters on Skull Island, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, etc. Because we don't have physical references, the design progress is much slower."

In fact, Zhang Zirong came to Aurora Special Effects this time because Zhang Zirong was curious. On the other hand, Wang Yifan did not come to find Chen Shaojun at all. He has been doing Aurora Special Effects for some of his new movies.

It's just that he was pulled over by Chen Shaojun to see the animals.

Then, Ouyang Ming brought Wang Yifan and others to another design room.

"This is the first version of the exoskeleton mech model we made according to your request, Director Wang." Ouyang Ming smiled and pointed to a silver-white exoskeleton mech model in front of him.

"According to Director Wang's requirements, an exoskeleton is not a power armor. One of the important reasons is its highly modular main frame. Therefore, we have calculated the suit's flexibility, armed forces, and defensive power, and came up with Relatively balanced relationship data, focusing on protecting the torso, forearm, and legs, which are more important for combat. This concept comes from the cuirassiers in the era of queuing and shooting. They only protected some main torso in order to increase flexibility. .” Ouyang Ming began to introduce Wang Yifan and the others.

This exoskeleton mech looks a bit like Iron Man at first glance, but it is not, because this exoskeleton mech is not like Iron Man, whose whole body is covered with iron bumps.

"Then comes the attack method. The main weapons used for the firing effect are gunpowder and Gauss propulsion, and its fire control system and weapon insurance are integrated in the handle of the forearm weapon rack, and some are operated by buttons. In our design, This set of exoskeleton mechs has a total of 4 firing points that can be fired at the same time: the firearms of the two-handed assembly, and the weapons stored in the retractable mechanical arm on the back, small-caliber guns and guided rocket pods.”

"In terms of weapons, according to Director Wang's request, the more guns and ammunition you bring, the better, and the more intense the firepower in the same period of time, the better. So for the time being, we just reserved the positions for the guns, and we can see them in the second edition. We have arrived at a relatively complete exoskeleton mech model." Ouyang Ming said with a smile.

Wang Yifan's new movie is "Edge of Tomorrow".

The reason why I chose "Edge of Tomorrow" is that on the one hand, it is easier to change the background of this movie to Huaguo. On the other hand, although the plot of this movie is simple, it is a very special science fiction movie.

In a way, "Edge of Tomorrow" is a suspenseful sci-fi blockbuster. At the same time, Wang Yifan liked the fighting method in it very much in his previous life, because it is really cool.

The second is the issue of special effects. The special effects of "Edge of Tomorrow" don't need any advanced special effects technology. With the current domestic special effects technology level, it can be done.

In the end, despite the high evaluation of Wang Yifan from the outside world, he knows his own affairs.

Undoubtedly, a movie with a cast like "Edge of Tomorrow" and a sci-fi movie of this scale are more suitable for him now.

Everything must be done step by step. It doesn't matter if others fail, but at least he can't fail too badly!

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