Monster Factory

Director Ding Qin said this, Ye Qing remembered.

Earlier, when Disney and several foreign companies came to Zhongyun to order alloy art, Ye Qing did show them the unparalleled modeling skills of Beast Heavy Industries.

But that's a masterpiece of three-dimensional cameras with entities to shoot.

Starship...

Ye Qing wants to cover his face. Where can I find this thing? Can't grab the camera and shoot the stars?

“Director Ding, I have a question for you.” Ye Qing hesitated for a moment or asked the question: “Why do you have to use computer technology to create special effects? ”

“For example, an interstellar spacecraft like that could make a 1: 1, or 1: 0.5 entity for shooting. ”

“This saves a lot of time, not only because of the authenticity of the image, but also because it transcends all special effects. ”

After hearing Ye Qing's question, director Ding lured silence for a few seconds, some helplessly said: “We also want to say that the benefits of shooting with a real spaceship cannot be said at all. But building a movie model domestically is not even as effective as special effects. ”

“In terms of special effects, there are at least foreign technologies for reference. If you're an entity, you don't dare to compliment domestic technology. Especially this hard-scientific starship, domestic as an entity, must feel like a World War II warship, or a domestically produced warship. ”

“How much are you going to spend on the special effects on the Starship? ”

Now that the monster factory is in its fourth phase, there are no urgent tasks at this time. If Ye Qing thinks the price is right, it's not that you can't take advantage of the special effects of this movie.

“CG effects are bottomless, and CG effects are charged in seconds, both domestically and internationally, and we expect to spend 30 million on the ship's effects for the entire movie. ”

“Thirty million?” Even Ye Qing, who is used to big money, is somewhat surprised.

It actually cost 30 million to do the kind of interstellar spacecraft CG that only exists on the USB drive.

“This is just a special effect on the ship.” Director Ding laughed bitterly: “They all said special effects burning money, I'll tell you a joke. When Director Chen filmed Tianjin, everyone asked where his special effects money was spent. ”

“As a result, Chen Gui is estimated to have a selective phobia, according to the Special Effects Company. Let them ask for green, blue, purple, yellow, white, black, forget about it, this effect is no longer needed... Then say no, and then change to the first version of red. ”

“Then the money burned down...”

“So that's how it is!” Ye Qing smiled very happily.

Director Ding Qing insisted that Ye Qing had unparalleled modeling technology, so he promised to add 20% to the original price if Ye Qing promised to help them.

At the same time ~ After learning about the modeling technology of the giant beast company, he felt that the modeling of industrial products like Starship, of course, was also the specialty of giant beast heavy industry.

No, like those trees that can magnify many times, as long as the details are in place, the swing of the bottom backlash engine, and the attitude roll in the course of the ship's descent, are all mechanical.

The hard-bridge hardhorse industrial data, the more director Ding thought about it, the more he thought that Beast Heavy Industries was the choice.

Look at the domestic special effects company we worked with before. It's okay to be a Immortal Wind.

As soon as this kind of hard science fiction was done, the bottom of the horse and foot were exposed, and when the ship was forced to land, it was like a wind-blown paper plane.

“Master Ye, why don't I send you the previous model data and the advance effects? ”

“OK ~ Then send it to my email first, I will refer to the reference. ”

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In the crew at the old site of Chengzi Lake, director Ding lured off the phone and quickly asked his assistant to send the previous [Tianyun Film and Television Technology Company] to Ye Qing's mailbox with vigorous efforts and time, the advanced effects video made, and the model of the Starship.

To be honest, since the first 86 editions of the Journey to the West, the level of domestic effects has improved considerably since the application of a large number of special effects technologies.

The special effects of the Westbound Journey were done entirely by the kind of heavy linear editing machine. Pick up the images of Sun Wukong's flight and synthesize them into the sky.

Now the big domestic production special effects have been completed by CG technology, the actor acts on the air, and the special effects company uses digital technology to build the model, through rendering, mapping to achieve the fake mess real effect.

Domestic and foreign disparities, lost in the accumulation of technology, are not disparities that can be caught up with money.

By doing the same, domestic companies may have only a few effects to choose from, while foreign countries may choose hundreds of effects from a rich database.

This is also a domestic effect, and many scene audiences are familiar with it. Isn't this a Hollywood movie or a foreign game scene?

Because I couldn't help investing a lot of money in new designs, I had to buy mature models and maps from abroad and change them myself.

Director Ding Jin doesn't want to do this, he wants to innovate, he wants to blend the elements into the country, he wants to make an authentic domestic science fiction film.

So long before the movie was officially filmed, he spent a lot of money going to Sky Cloud Effects to tailor a unique model of the ship.

When the effect came out, however, he dreamed that in front of the ruthless effect video, like a beautiful soap bubble, it burst.

Good thing another investor in the film, Xu Jingong.

She was watching the signing ceremony in Sheraton, and Ye Qing showed the alloy tree model, even the entertainment giant Disney, was amazed.

So she told director Ding Qin that he could hand over this industrial starship to Heavy Industries.

The model is well built and the rendering technique will certainly not be poor.

Directed by Ding, Ye Qing promised to take a look at the model and immediately rejoiced, feeling that the most important starship design had finally landed.

Yet Ye Qing and director Ding Qin's ideas differed greatly.

Film and heavy industry are entirely two industries, and the idea between the two industry leaders will naturally not be the same.

Director Ding Jie has always believed that only by working hard on modeling and seriously making every detail of the ship can he achieve the results he wanted.

Ye Qing has always believed that modeling is better, which is also a virtual model, something that does not exist.

So after obtaining the 3D model and data, Ye Qing looked closely at the possibility that if not, it could create a 1: 1 entity.

If it can't be made, Ye Qing will refuse to direct Ding Jin. If it can be made, Ye Qing will make it.

This is a small interstellar spacecraft, 60 meters long and five meters tall, possibly taking into account atmospheric flight, which is quite streamlined in its entirety, with flat bows like blue whales, stern shears, and hexagonal diamond-shaped two-engine structures.

This is not just an enclosure drawing, because when the ship is forced to land, the heroine treats the ship as a temporary home, with plenty of footage inside the ship.

So even the space inside is made, and the structure of the warp engine room, the cab, the lounge, the energy chamber is shown.

Nice construction and shell design, very sci-fi and aesthetic. It's just color rendering, and it doesn't do very well on the map.

After looking at the 3D model, Ye Qing opened the video to see the early effect.

“…” After a few dozen seconds of CG, Ye Qing had some sympathy for the director Ding Yin.

When the ship was flying in outer space, it revealed relatively obvious distortions and rigidities as soon as it entered the Earth, in contrast to the abundant colors surrounding it.

And it's a second-hand spaceship, and it's bound to highlight its old-fashioned feel. But its maps don't reflect this at all. The old parts on them, they don't have the natural sense of obsolescence of machinery at all, but rather they work with moldy cakes.

To be honest, this CG set aside for another director is already qualified. Dante can't. He's the best director in the country for special effects. Using this image is a self-destructing sign.

Ye Qing sat on a mechanical engineering chair, holding onto his chin, and carefully studied the possibility of building a 3D model.