Chapter 596: Successful R&D
When Zhang Ran and his party walked into the Tiangong heavy color screening room, Sun Kewang, who was responsible for the research and development, had been waiting for a long time. Sun Kewang didn't say anything, smiled at Zhang Ran, showing confidence in the next display.
After Zhang Ran and the others sat down, Sun Kewang took a deep breath and turned on the produced special effects in the player.
What appears on the big screen is the large panoramic view of Tangshan taken from the air. The picture is black and white, a monochrome 3D architectural model, and there is no coloring map yet. However, although it is monochrome, it is all 3D architectural models, and it is still quite shocking to watch on the big screen. Suddenly, a shocking scene appears.
The ground ripples like water waves, like a ripples on the calm lake surface, swinging from near, quickly disappearing at the end of the picture; then the houses in the picture begin to collapse, first bungalows, then brick buildings, and then cement buildings; the collapse states of houses are completely different, some houses collapse entirely, some are connected together and collapsed in pieces, some are collapsed from top to bottom, and some are slowly tilted before collapse...
As the building collapsed, the camera's camera began to push forward. When passing by a seven-story building, you can clearly see the building collapsed, and people screamed and fell down from the building. Different things such as benches, beds, tables, etc. poured out of the building, making people's hair numb.
The camera lens continued to move forward and quickly pushed to the building where Wang Luodan and Cao Bingkun were, pushing into their room, and the picture instantly turned into color. This part is a real shot, which is the effect of combining the CG special effects lens and Wang Luodan and their real shot lenses.
Zhang Ran nodded slightly. Although these two shots are connected in groups, they cannot see the contact at all. They are like a shot, which is perfect.
On the screen, Wang Luodan was completely frightened and didn't know what happened. Cao Bingkun reacted quickly and shouted: "Earthquake, earthquake!" He suddenly opened the door, pulled Wang Luodan and ran out. When they rushed out of the room, both of them were stunned, and the corridor was full of red.
When Zhang Jingchu and Yu Feihong saw this scene, they both exclaimed!
It turned out that the earthquake shocked the coal ball stove for cooking in the corridor. The corridor was filled with red coal balls, which looked very cunning. But now it is important to escape. Wang Luodan and Cao Bingkun came to their senses and didn't bother to avoid the coal balls and ran directly towards the entrance of the corridor.
"Okay, it's really great!" When the entire camera was played, Zhang Ran stood up and applauded. Ding Sheng, Zhang Jingchu, and Yu Feihong also stood up to applaud. Everyone's face was filled with excitement. This special effect was fully at the level of a Hollywood blockbuster. The scene was grand and the details were realistic, which was simply amazing!
Zhang Ran looked at everyone and said, "Everyone, what do you think? Is the effect acceptable?"
It’s not just about being a good person, it’s simply shocking!
Yu Feihong was really shocked and didn't know what to say.
Zhang Jingchu said excitedly: "The effect is much better than what I saw last year, it's so real!"
Recently, Ning Hao is busy promoting "Crazy Travel", and Ding Sheng took over his job and served as the director of the second photography team. Ding Sheng followed Zhang Ran to film "Time and Space Warriors" and participated in the discussion and production of special effects. He has seen the special effects production of Hollywood A-level movies, but he is still shocked now.
Ding Sheng sincerely exclaimed: "I think the reality of the special effects should be like this, with details full of life!"
Zhang Ran nodded slightly. The most important thing about this movie is reality. The reality of the details is particularly important. The more realistic the movie is, the more touching it is! He looked at Chen Ningyu, then at Sun Kewang, and smiled: "These shots have been hanging in my heart for nearly a year, and now they have finally landed!"
In fact, even if the earthquake plug-in is not developed on time, Zhang Ran will retain the large-scene scenes as they are conceived, but no longer consider the real physical reactions. Both Zhang Ran and Tangshan hope that the movie will perform well overseas; if the movie does not have large-scenes, they will almost never be sold overseas.
Feng Xiaogang's "The Great Tangshan Earthquake" is only tens of thousands of dollars in North America. The main reason is that there are few special effects shots, and they are almost all partial shots. There are no large scenes, and they look very stingy. They cannot compare with Hollywood blockbusters and are not attractive to overseas audiences.
Now that the earthquake plug-in has been developed successfully, the movie’s special effects can finally be produced in the ideal state!
There was a stone hanging in Sun Kewang's heart, and now he could breathe a sigh of relief: "We have been working overtime to do research and development, and finally we have not disappointed your expectations!"
Zhang Ran patted Sun Kewang's shoulder hard: "Thank you for your hard work! I will treat you tonight, call everyone up, and I will celebrate everyone!"
The successful development of the earthquake collapse plug-in is indeed worth celebrating. Not only can it produce ideal special effects, it also improves Tiangong Heavy Color. Before the plug-in was developed, Tiangong Heavy Color could only be considered a third-rate company in the world. Now it has collapsed one step forward and is considered a second-rate company.
Now Tiangong Chongcai is still far from first-class companies like Piondo, and even further from top companies like Vita. However, this is a good start. In the next few years, more and more blockbusters will be produced at the peak of the Middle Ages. Tiangong Chongcai will inevitably grow rapidly and move towards top special effects companies.
Zhang Ran once saw an interview with Chinese reporters interviewing Peter Jackson. The reporter said that the Chinese film market is very prosperous, but the technology is very backward. What do you think? Jackson said that when we filmed "The Lord of the Rings", no one in New Zealand could do special effects. We were just a small country, so we bought computers and recruited people, which led to the current Vita. The reporter said, but we don't have Peter Jackson. Jackson said, you have many excellent directors. I just built my own special effects company in New Zealand. Do you have a director who builds his own special effects company? The reporter's answer made Zhang Ran very distressed, no.
In this life, Zhang Ran spent a lot of money to buy equipment and devoted his efforts to the Internet. Now he has finally built a decent special effects company!
There were no media or stars at the evening celebration banquet, only special effects engineers and R&D personnel, as well as the director teams of Zhang Ran and others, everyone was casual.
After the banquet started, Zhang Ran stood up and said, "At noon today, Ding Sheng and I watched the special effects. After watching it, Ding Sheng went to the bathroom. The picture was so shocking that he almost pissed his pants." The special effects masters burst into laughter, and Ding Sheng shook his head helplessly, why did he always make fun of me?
Zhang Ran smiled and said, "Just kidding! But to be honest, the effect is really shocking, and I was shocked. Moreover, we were still looking at a monochrome model, and there was no coloring map yet. I believe that when the special effects are completed, the audience will be shocked when they see these shots on the giant screen of IMAX!"
Slap
Applause rang out overwhelmingly.
When the applause stopped, Zhang Ran continued: "I have made A-level productions and worked with first-class foreign teams. I dare say that, these shots of our "Tangshan Earthquake" have reached the top international level. This time everyone has really reached a new level of domestic films, and it is the pinnacle of domestic film special effects so far! I believe that after the movie is released, foreign directors will be surprised. Wow, China's special effects are so powerful! When they want to do earthquake special effects in the future, the first thing they think of will be us, which will become our famous brand!"
The special effects engineer was very excited and stood up at the same time, giving the warmest applause.
"Thank you all for the past few months! I toast you this glass of wine! Come and cheer!" Zhang Ran raised his glass.
"Damn!" The special effects teachers present raised their wine glasses.
The successful development of plug-in made the most difficult piece of the puzzle "Tangshan Earthquake" fill in. The stone that had been pressed in Zhang Ran for nearly a year finally landed, and the entire shooting entered the fast lane. February soon entered, and the movie only had some final shots left, and the day of the movie was completed was getting closer and closer.
In the Beijing Film Studio studio, in front of the street built, the entire crew was ready. What we are going to film is now shooting the scene when a major earthquake occurred, someone jumped out of the window on the third floor of the hotel, and then was hit by the falling sign.
It is impossible to really drop a sign from the air and hit the actors. They can only be synthesized through computers. This shot requires three shots, the first time is to directly shoot the building; the second time is to wrap the building with a green screen, and the actor jumps off the window; the third time is to place a green dummy at the position where the actor lands, and then the sign falls from the air and hit the dummy; after shooting the three shots, the green screen is cut off and overlapping them, which is the desired effect.
Although he jumped down from the third floor, the floor was not too high and there was a wire hanging, which was absolutely safe, Huang Xie, who was responsible for jumping off the building, was still very nervous and his feet couldn't stop shaking.
Yang Mi and Huang Fu are enemies, and they always pinch each other when they are fine. At this moment, Yang Mi saw Huang Fu standing upstairs with a nervous face, and shouted gloatingly: "Little Cheung, jump! You jump! Zhaocang jumped, and Tangta jumped, you jumped!"
Huang Fu took a deep breath and sued him for a slander: "Teacher Zhang, Yang Mi is making trouble here, she affects my mood of jumping off the building!"
Zhang Ran glared at Yang Mi fiercely, looked up and said, "Huang Kai, come down and change Yang Mi to jump!"
Huang Qi was amused when he heard this: "Teacher Zhang, I'll come down right away!" He shouted proudly at Yang Mi: "Little Fox, I'll ask you next!"
Yang Mi was stunned. Xiao Ranran, you are too cruel. I am a girl. Do you want to be so poisonous? She ran to Zhang Ran and said pitifully: "Teacher Zhang, I promise not to shout again!"
Zhang Ran smiled and encouraged, "You are here to experience life. Jumping off the building is a rare experience. You can experience it well!"
Yang Mi thought to herself, why don’t you experience it? The hateful guy continued to beg: “Teacher Zhang, I have a fear of heights!”
Zhang Ran looked suspicious: "Are you really afraid of heights?"
Yang Mi felt that there was something wrong with this matter and nodded repeatedly: "I am really afraid of heights, more true than the truth!"
Zhang Ran wiped his chin and said with a smile: "Do you know? As an actor, you must not avoid martial arts scenes in the country, nor can you avoid hanging wires. As an actor, you are actually afraid of heights. What should I do if I hang wires in the future? This problem needs to be treated! A fear of heights means jumping too little by jumping on the building, just jump a few more times." He turned around and shouted: "Makeup artist, put on makeup for Yang Mi!"
Yang Fan almost fainted from anger and gritted his teeth: "The surname is Zhang, you are ruthless!"
Twenty minutes later, Yang Mi stood upstairs. After carefully checking the safety equipment on her body, the staff made a gesture of ok to Zhang Ran.
Light prop photography is also ready.
With the sound of the sound, the shooting officially began, Zhang Ran shouted loudly: "You can jump!"
Yang Mi cursed fiercely in her heart, Zhang Lu'er, bastard! Huang Shiren, bastard! You two are bastards! She gritted her teeth, closed her eyes, and jumped down from the window under the pull of Wia.
Chapter completed!