v2 Chapter 655： Special effects production

In the studio converted from the Hughes Aircraft Factory, several agents protected a gray-haired old man, constantly shooting the opposite side with shotguns, as if there were powerful enemies in the opposite air.

"The Air Force has already responded!"

A capable black agent hid behind a computer desk and shouted, "They will send the F-22 Raptor to Las Vegas."

"Cut!"

Behind the director's monitor, Duke called to stop, "This one is over!"

More than a dozen staff members immediately walked into the shooting venue to clean up the mess, and Duke led the crew to film.

In the shots just taken, black people can be said to be a very necessary choice, but Duke did not make a funny non-mainstream. He is not Michael Bay, he will not join in absurd and funny shit, and directly cut off the black character. Reappointed by a black agent in the seventh district.

Each director has his own style, even if they are shooting commercial films, there is a huge difference between the styles of Duke and Michael Bay.

The crew left this venue, which was almost completely destroyed in the shooting scene, and moved to the other side of the studio. The most eye-catching feature here is the tall Megatron model, although it is only made of polystyrene. Quite vividly, ▽↓ is processed by the camera lens, even if it is human eyes, it seems to have vitality.

Just like Duke said, what the film needs is not a heavy, thick and cold machine, but a high-level intelligent life like human beings.

Duke orderly directs the operation of the entire crew, and it has been nearly a week since he returned to the studio to shoot. Compared to filming "The Dark Knight", his performance requirements for "Transformers" are not so strict, no matter Sam or There is not much room for actors to play in Michaela, let alone Andrew Garfield and Amber Heard acting more than one level worse than Heis Ledger and Christian Bale. Even if their acting skills are similar, these two roles make it impossible for them to play.

Sam is just the spokesperson for young audiences on the screen. Michaela's existence is simpler, that is, a vase.

The relatively simple requirements also made the shooting go smoothly, although Duke perceives a sharp contradiction between Andrew Garfield and Amber Heard. But he didn't pay much attention to it. After he warned, both of them wisely did not substitute the contradiction into the shooting.

At least it did not affect the shooting.

This is enough for Duke. The Hollywood crew is never friendly. As long as it doesn't affect the film, Andrew Garfield and Amber Heard have nothing to do with him even if they regard each other as their number one enemy.

Duke would not be so stupid that he would say a word, Andrew Garfield and Amber Heard would put aside their conflicts and become dear friends.

Actually. Most of the Hollywood crews are in this state.

In this circle of fighting for fame and fortune, there are not no actors who have a strong relationship, but no one will just believe and be close to other people casually.

Shoot a film, and then the main actor of the film will become his friend, and only the director with a watery head can do such a stupid thing.

For example, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, how do you think they are good friends, but Duke in the circle knows that the cooperative relationship between the two is far greater than the friendship between them. .

Most of the actors who have worked with Duke. It's just a simple working relationship.

After so many years of fighting in Hollywood, Duke is well aware of the complexity and change of this circle. Not to mention friends, even former besties like Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts will turn against each other because they compete for a role.

You can also put it another way, none of the actors that Duke has worked with will become a member of his team, including Tom Hanks.

His production style is also determined. The acting skills of an actor is not a particularly important part.

From entering Hollywood to the present, in the films that Duke has shot, the only roles that can really allow actors to fully play are Captain Miller and the Joker.

The various departments of the crew were in place one after another, and Duke also walked to the huge Megatron model. I explained a few words to Andrew Garfield and Amber Heard. The former must explain the true purpose of Megatron’s coming to the earth through lines, while the latter has basically no lines, but the camera will still take care of it properly. She must As always, show a **** figure.

"Scene 27, Act 19..."

The scene note's voice soon sounded, "Start now!"

A group of people looked at Megatron with surprised eyes, and walked towards it. Agent Simmons in District 7 introduced, "This is nbe-1!"

"Sorry, sir." Andrew Garfield interjected with his hands in his pockets, "I didn't mean to interrupt you on purpose, but this is Megatron! He is the leader of the Decepticons!"

"He has been in a frozen state since 1935." Another agent pointed to Megatron and said, "Your great-great-grandfather discovered it. This is the greatest discovery in human history."

The close-up camera swept past Andrew Garfield and Amber Heard who was next to him. It stayed on Amber Heard for two seconds and gave her a close-up close-up. Then he turned to Simon St.

"What you see is the source of modernization." The agent in District 7 walked proudly with his hands behind his back. "Chips, lasers, space flight, and cars were all reverse-engineered on him. obtain."

He walked to the side of Andrew Garfield, and emphasized his tone, "nbe-1, that's what we call him!"

Perhaps it’s not very demanding for the actors’ performance. The several scenes in the morning went smoothly. Even in group scenes, the number of ng appearing was relatively small. In the afternoon, several scenes involving fire sources and robots were also It didn't take a few shots before it was passed, and the crew was able to close ahead of schedule.

Although the crew closed ahead of schedule, Duke did not finish work and returned to the Warner Studios in Burbank. He went to the special effects studio set up by Industrial Light and Magic to check the progress of special effects production.

The number of special effects shots used in this movie far exceeds that of "Iron Man".

The opening work of "Transformers" can be said to have the best professional reputation and the most organized plot in the entire series, but it is also the one with the least appearances of Transformers, let alone the first actor Optimus Prime. It's too late, even with other lenses, the Transformers are basically a flash.

In Duke's hands, he performed a considerable amount of surgery on this movie, the most typical of which is to streamline the plot and characters, thereby giving more time to the film to Transformers.

Especially Optimus Prime, according to his vision, Optimus Prime must appear on the stage at most 25 minutes after the beginning of the film.

What follows is the reduction of human drama.

This will inevitably lead to criticism from some professionals, but who cares about them?

After the film is released, the audience will care about the fate of Transformers, fighting scenes, audio-visual effects and special effects.

The number of Transformers appearances increases, and the number of special effects shots will also increase. One year’s time is quite tense to complete the special effects of such a film. Starting from determining the design of Transformers, the special effects artists of Industrial Light and Magic In the busy special effects production.

However, Duke will also limit the dependence of Transformers and background elements in action scenes on computer graphics. Most of the crashes and explosions are taken in real scenes, and the camera lens is placed in the scenes of vehicle collisions and explosions so that the scene can be seen. It's more exciting.

The design of Transformers is extremely complex. Even a simple movement like turning the wrist requires dozens of visual components. Each gun of the iron sheet is composed of about 10,000 parts. The Hornet uses a panel to act as the eyebrows. It also needs to rotate multiple parts of the face to show the effect of a smile. The eyes of all Transformers characters have been designed with pupil dilation and brightening.

Among them, Duke also specifically instructed Industrial Light and Magic to lighten the eyes of Optimus Prime and other characters moderately, so as to avoid some audiences who cannot distinguish Autobots and Decepticons because of the chaotic scene.

This distinction will become very simple, the red eye is the Decepticon, the blue-green eye is the Autobot.

In the past few months, Industrial Light and Magic has been designing and producing computer animations of Transformers deformation. They carefully compared every detail on the car model. At first, the deformation process they designed followed the laws of physics, but this The result is that it looks neither stimulating nor smooth enough

For such a movie whose main selling point is special effects, this is simply fatal.

Later, Industrial Light & Magic also proposed an unreliable solution to use liquid metal on the surface of King Kong's characters. Duke was trained to go bloody, and he only replied to Industrial Light & Magic-this is Transformers, not t1000!

Up to now, Industrial Light & Magic has chosen the ‘Magic’s Cube’ style that completely abandons the laws of physics, so that whether it is static or dynamic deformation, Transformers will look more interesting, real, dynamic and fast, rather than clumsy beasts.

An important decision in the process of industrial light and magic special effects is to keep the wheels in contact with the ground for as long as possible, so that the Autobots can keep moving while deforming, thus maintaining the basic sense of reality.

These plans have also been recognized by Duke, he knows where the selling point of the movie is, the boxy and heavy Transformers, for such a commercial science fiction film, is simply a disaster.

In addition, Duke specifically asked action director Jimmy Carter to collect videos of several free fighting performances and multiple action movies that incorporate fighting methods such as judo and Muay Thai, and provide them to the special effects animators of Industrial Light and Magic for observation, hoping to make the movie The fighting scene looks more beautiful.

Special effects production is undoubtedly the top priority of this film. During the studio shooting, Duke and Industrial Light & Magic kept communicating and exchanging views on this. By the time Duke left Los Angeles and went to Las Vegas, the special effects production had already Basically on the right track. (To be continued...)

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