fantasy blockbuster era

Chapter 44 Live Motion Capture + 3D
Make an actor with special effects?
How to do it?
Several people at the dinner table didn't understand what Zhang Yang meant.

Zhang Yang explained: "It is to use motion capture technology and 3D technology to create a virtual actor through the computer."

This technology has been used in many foreign movies, such as the movie version of "World of Warcraft", "Avatar", "Battle Angel" and "Final Fantasy", and similar "Grand Trail" and "The Wandering Earth" have been filmed in China.

Some of these films are full CG, which means that all visual products (scenes, characters, objects, special effects, etc.) in the entire film are all composed of computer-generated CG animations or CG pictures.

There are also some films that are filmed in real scenes and mainly performed by real people, but interspersed with a large number of virtual scenes and special effects.The usual method is to apply CG technology in traditional movies to add objects such as virtual scenes, characters, things, special effects, etc., so as to achieve the purpose of making it difficult to distinguish between true and false and enhance visual effects.

What he means is to create a brand new virtual image through this method, so that even if no suitable actors are found, the shooting can be completed with this technology.

Since there is no actor, just be an actor.

"Is this possible?" Fu Yiming hesitated.

After Zhang Yang's explanation, he understood.

What he is worried about is that there are still many domestic movies using this technology, but he has never seen it used in TV dramas.

"I have to ask Rhea if it can be done." Zhang Yang also shook his head.

Motion capture plus 3D can indeed create a brand new virtual actor, but the technical requirements are relatively high.

Either it is all made by computer, and the characters are completely virtual, and everything has to be solved by Rhea.

Or ask actors to wear specific shooting costumes, capture the expressions and movements of real people through hundreds of cameras, and finally present a brand new image on the computer.

No matter which method is used, the image made must be real enough!

Every move, including the fluttering of clothes, hair, character movements, facial expressions, etc., must be able to fit into the original painting.

If it is not done well, it is not real enough, and the characters are too fake.Then it will give the audience a sense of fragmentation. The audience will know that you are fake at a glance. The characters are very different from real people. Then the audience will not be able to enter into it, which will affect the experience of watching the drama, but will affect the whole drama.

"Which one are you going to use?" Fu Yiming asked: "I think this method is only used by commercial blockbusters on movies, and the cost shouldn't be low, right?"

"Don't worry about the cost." Zhang Yang shook his head, thought for a while and said, "That's what I think."

"We can do both. While continuing to look for actors who meet the requirements, ask Rhea if he can do it." Zhang Yang pondered for a while, and then said: "If we can do it, then we won't look for an actor, and if we can't do it, we will settle for the next best thing. It’s okay to find actors who are close to the characters.”

"If it's feasible for Rhea, we can use live-action shooting to do it with motion capture technology and 3D. This is much better than creating a brand new character out of thin air, what do you think?"

All three were lost in thought.

Several of them have never been exposed to this method, and they really don't know much about it, so they are a little afraid to take this risk.

But now things are stuck here, and no suitable actors can be found. Perhaps there is only one solution.

After much deliberation, Fu Yiming still didn't dare to make up his mind: "Is it really feasible?"

Zhang Yang nodded affirmatively: "It is definitely feasible, as long as Rhea's technology can be as good as that of a real person, it will become the hot spot of the second season."

"Think about it." He waved his hands in the air, leading a few people to think: "As the first domestic TV drama to use this technology, as long as it can impress the audience, how popular will the drama be? "

"And we can also use this as a publicity gimmick to overwhelm the opponent in the early stage of publicity."

The three of them nodded involuntarily when they heard his thoughts.

Fu Yiming was also a little moved. The headquarters invested so much, and they definitely couldn't accept the result of failure. If it was true as Zhang Yang said, it would indeed give Dragon Snake another hope of victory in the second season.

Thinking of this, he made up his mind, gulped down the rest of the drink in his glass and said harshly: "Alright then, you and I will fly to Rhea in the afternoon to find out."

"Row."

After the matter was settled, in the afternoon, after the two handed over the work to Wang Fei and Pei Qian, they flew to the magic capital where Rhea was located.

The magic capital in August is astonishingly hot, and the whole city seems to be constantly churning with air waves.

After getting off the plane, neither of them had time to wipe off their sweat, and they immediately got into the special car sent by Rhea to pick them up.

Unlike Dongjiang City, where Xuanyu is located, Magic City is the economic and financial center of the Dragon Kingdom. There are high-rise buildings everywhere. The urban area is very large, with many vehicles and complicated roads.

The car drove on the road for more than an hour before finally bringing the two of them to a stop under a building with hundreds of floors.

Rhea's office is here.

Those who came down to greet them were Wei Zizheng, who had dealt with Zhang Yang before, and Xu Liang, the person in charge of Ruiya.

"Mr. Xu, Mr. Wei."

"Mr. Zhang, Mr. Fu."

The two parties greeted each other and got on the elevator directly.

In the elevator, Zhang Yang briefly explained the reason for coming here, and Xu Liang replied with a smile: "It should be possible. Rhea has taken similar orders before, but I will call the technical department for the specific details." Mr. Du, the person in charge, came over and asked about it."

"it is good."

When I got out of the elevator, I was faced with the words Rhea Special Effects and four young and beautiful beauties at the front desk.

A group of people walked straight into Xu Liang's office, and after sitting down, a slightly bald man in his 30s with thick myopia glasses walked in.

"Let me introduce, this is Mr. Du from our technical department."

After briefly shaking hands and exchanging a few words of greeting, Zhang Yang directly explained the purpose of his visit: "Hello, Mr. Du, the matter is like this"

Mr. Du nodded while listening, and was still taking notes.

After Zhang Yang finished speaking, Mr. Du put down his pen, pushed his glasses, and said thoughtfully, "I understand, that means we are planning to create a brand new virtual actor image through motion capture and 3D, right?"

Zhang Yang nodded: "Well, there are two characters in this show, and we haven't found a suitable actor, so I want to ask if this idea is feasible?"

The other characters are okay, in fact, they can find slightly similar people, namely the two characters of Ba Liming and GOD, the gap between the actors is too big, Zhang Yang actually wanted to ask Rhea to be these two characters.

"It's not a big problem." Mr. Du took a pen and said little by little: "We have done similar projects before, but it will be more difficult for you to ask for more real and closer to real people, but it can still be done."

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