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However, after returning to London, things related to the "Harry Potter" series only occupied a small part of Charlotte's time. \u00261t;/p\u003e

After handing the matter over to Alexis and asking her to request an entrustment from EA, he ignored the matter for the time being. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Currently, Charlotte's main focus is still on the filming of "The Mummy". \u00261t;/p\u003e

Different from the filming in Morocco, the filming in the British Isles was more of some green screen photography shots, as well as some shots that required a lot of scenery. \u00261t;/p\u003e

- Simply put, it's the scenes in the movie involving resurrected mummies and adventures in the catacombs. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Rather than painstakingly arranging such a shot on location, it would be better to craft it carefully after returning to the UK. \u00261t;/p\u003e

In particular, in addition to ordinary green screen photography, this time Spectre Studio also used motion capture technology. \u00261t;/p\u003e

——Mainly used when the High Priest Immorton is resurrected and does not turn into a human form, but is still in the form of a mummy. \u00261t;/p\u003e

In that case, using motion capture technology is naturally more realistic than pure CG action production. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Of course, Charlotte, who had magic effects to use, would not let her own advantages go unused. \u00261t;/p\u003e

In fact, many of the shots of Immorton in his mummy form were originally shot by Charlotte using magic special effects. \u00261t;/p\u003e

——Just like when shooting the headless horseman scene in "Sleepy Hollow". \u00261t;/p\u003e

This time, he used magic to secretly steal a fragment of a real mummy from the Egyptian Hall in the British Museum. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Then, based on this fragment, combined with the collected broken soul fragments, Charlotte directly created a mummy-like ghost. \u00261t;/p\u003e

——Of course, it’s just a physical resemblance. Although there are also ghosts and ghosts with a cold and terrifying aura, they do not have entities like real mummies. \u00261t;/p\u003e

However, for the filming of "The Mummy", this was enough. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Many of their motion capture shots are actually just for show. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Under the lens of Addison Young, who was in charge of the filming, the ghost of the "mummy" attached to the body of the stuntman had already turned it into the appearance of a real mummy. There was no need to use ordinary motion capture lenses at all. Post-processing is also required. \u00261t;/p\u003e

However, not all lenses can be processed this way. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Some actions that violate the human body structure, or exaggerated shots, and the special effects of spells are not ideal. \u00261t;/p\u003e

These parts really require the use of computer special effects for post-production improvement. \u00261t;/p\u003e

It can be said that although Spectre Studio has an advantage over other computer special effects companies in terms of cost and effectiveness of many special effects due to Charlotte's spell effects, they also have a unique problem -\u00261t;/ p\u003e

That's how to organically combine ordinary computer special effects with Charlotte's spell effects. \u00261t;/p\u003e

At this point, in order to keep it confidential, other technical staff can't help. The only one who can help Charlotte is Alexis, the nominal technical director.

In fact, he spends most of his time working as Charlotte's secretary. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Fortunately, as a Valkyrie, Alexis has the ability to borrow the abilities of others. \u00261t;/p\u003e

——Just like when he borrowed the wisdom of General Ying to deduce the rules of Quidditch in his dream. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Therefore, Charlotte was not worried that this technical problem could not be solved. Instead, Alexis deliberately gave everyone an extra hour of lunch break at noon in order to borrow the skills of the employees in the special effects department, which made him speechless. \u00261t;/p\u003e

"Well, I am a good boss who cares about the quality of employees' sleep!"\u00261t;/p\u003e

Charlotte complained about herself. \u00261t;/p\u003e

In fact, he also understood the reason why Alexis wanted to do this——\u00261t;/p\u003e

Even if you use spells and borrow the wisdom from other people's minds, it will be much easier when you are sleeping than when you are awake. \u00261t;/p\u003e

What's more, without Charlotte's magical support, Alexis would not be able to cross spatial distances and pull people from different positions into the same dream like when deducing the rules of Quidditch. \u00261t;/p\u003e

In this case, Alexis's simplest way to achieve this was to let the employees who needed to borrow technology dream while working in the company, no, during their lunch break. \u00261t;/p\u003e

"She probably wants to complete this work independently without using my magic power!"\u00261t;/p\u003e

Charlotte sighed. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Since Miss Valkyrie has this ambition, Charlotte is naturally not in a position to attack her. \u00261t;/p\u003e

In addition, if the other party succeeds in doing this, it will indeed greatly reduce Charlotte's burden. \u00261t;/p\u003e

So Charlotte agreed. \u00261t;/p\u003e

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In addition to parts such as the mummy's movements that require a combination of motion capture and magic special effects, many other parts of the movie also require the use of conventional computer special effects such as green screen technology. \u00261t;/p\u003e

For example, when exploring a tomb, the shot of encountering a large group of corpse beetles is a typical special effect. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Naturally, it was impossible to get a large number of beetles to surround the actors during filming. \u00261t;/p\u003e

——Even if Charlotte can use magic to control beetles, where can she find so many big beetles? \u00261t;/p\u003e

Not to mention that if there were so many beetles, most of the actors would be so frightened that they would be shaking all over, and they would not be able to show off their acting skills no matter how good they were. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Therefore, this part of the shot must be improved through post-production special effects. \u00261t;/p\u003e

At present, the actors can only perform various performances in front of the green screen in front of the air. \u00261t;/p\u003e

——Honestly, judging from the scene, it was indeed a bit embarrassing. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Just like some shots of extra actors screaming and being swallowed up by a swarm of corpse beetles, during the filming, it seemed that it was as fake as possible and as exaggerated as possible. \u00261t;/p\u003e

"Although after adding special effects in the later stage, it will look much more realistic, but..."\u00261t;/p\u003e

Lao Qiang, who was watching the original samples with Charlotte, frowned and did not continue, but Charlotte already understood what he meant. \u00261t;/p\u003e

——The actors are still not used to green screen photography, especially this way of performing into the air. \u00261t;/p\u003e

This kind of problem is actually very common in special effects blockbusters. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Even if technology gradually improves in the future and there are more than a dozen movies in the Marvel Universe series, this problem will still exist——\u00261t;/p\u003e

The actors are acting in front of the air. After all, it is difficult to find the down-to-earth and mutual excitement feeling when acting with real people. \u00261t;/p\u003e

It can be said that even some veteran actors with superb acting skills will feel somewhat unnatural when filming with a green screen and acting in front of the air. \u00261t;/p\u003e

——Of course, most of the time, the audience’s requirements in this regard are not too demanding. \u00261t;/p\u003e

In addition, in special effects blockbusters, acting skills and subtle expressions are often not the focus, so it is enough to reach a similar level. \u00261t;/p\u003e

In fact, Charlotte had encountered similar situations in her previous filming of "Sleepy Hollow" and "Hell Detective." \u00261t;/p\u003e

But in those two movies, there were far fewer special effects shots than in "The Mummy", the structure was simple, and there were fewer actors involved. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Therefore, after repeated shooting several times, you can get shots with a better performance level. \u00261t;/p\u003e

But the special effects shots in "The Mummy" are not that simple——\u00261t;/p\u003e

On the one hand, there are many, and on the other hand, there are often many people in the scenes that need to be shot, and many of them are temporary hired extras. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Their acting skills vary greatly, and it is more difficult for Charlotte to control their acting skills. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Although you can also use repeated shooting to get a feel, the more people involved in a shot, the greater the possibility of errors. \u00261t;/p\u003e

If you really want to take all the photos, it may cost a lot of time. \u00261t;/p\u003e

"It's a bit like when we were filming "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", we had a bunch of unstable actors..."\u00261t;/p\u003e

Charlotte thought so, but suddenly had an idea...\u00261t;/p\u003e

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