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Chapter 486 The "Soul" of the Space Trilogy

Inside the huge photo studio.

A towering and huge curved LED virtual screen stands in the middle, showing the red wilderness.

There are gravel and rocks in front of the virtual screen. Lei Jiayin is wearing the field work spacesuit from "The Martian" and walking in front of the LED virtual screen.

As Lei Jiayin's movements change, the scene on the virtual screen also changes in real time. The picture is extremely realistic. A strange-looking robot on the screen follows Lei Jiayin's footsteps outside the screen, driving in the vast wilderness of Mars.

Several cameras on the outside are also constantly moving along the track, adjusting the shooting angle.

After a long while, a clip was finally shot. With the help of the staff, Lei Jiayin took off his mask, walked outside the camera, and watched the changing scenes on the curved virtual screen with some novelty.

"How about it? I told you, half a day is enough."

Chen Jingxing stood next to Lei Jiayin with his chest folded, obviously he had been watching Lei Jiayin's performance.

Lei Jiayin exclaimed: "Let me tell you, you can distribute one short film of the animated movie "WALL-E" every week, and the special effects are quite realistic. This black technology is amazing."

This is not something that can be solved by a sense of belief. The better the actors, the more they value and rely on feedback.

There was a hint of regret in Lei Jiayin's tone, and even a little bit of inexplicable unwillingness.

Chen Jingxing certainly understood Lei Jiayin's thoughts and comforted him: "Don't worry, the current virtual production is actually more suitable for TV series than movies."

"Wall-E" is the only movie released by DreamWorks in the Spring Festival of 2019. It is an animated movie. It is not a big IP, and it does not have the blessing of well-known symbolic cultural elements. There are many disadvantages. Even if there are famous figures from DreamWorks,

It’s not easy to stand out during the Spring Festival when everyone is vying for the top spot.

Lei Jiayin looked like he had no problem and raised his voice: "Don't worry, director, I know Director Cheng well. I called him last night. I will definitely be able to spare time. I can't do any of the Space Trilogy."

Without me, wouldn’t you lose your soul without me?”

Similarly, Luo Chen is also a superstar promoted by Chen Jingxing. As a young actor and a representative of high-quality idols, Luo Chen naturally cannot escape gift films.

However, special effects themselves are closely related to animation. Of course, what we are talking about here is mainly 3D animation. In the world, except for weird countries like Japan, the box office and revenue of 3D animation in all countries far exceed that of 2D hand-drawn animation.

"In the future, wouldn't there be no need to go out on location for filming? There would also be no need to build real scenes, it could all be done in the studio?"

Chen Jingxing seduces Lei Jiayin with real shots.

In addition, DreamWorks' own projects are already very full and it is difficult to allocate more resources. We can only say sorry to the Air Force.

When the DreamWorks Digital Film and Television and Animation Production Base in Shanghai is completed, DreamWorks will have the largest digital virtual production studio in the world. At that time, it will become the virtual production center of China and even Asia.

resources and money to cultivate their own technology.

For DreamWorks, the improvement of special effects is also equivalent to the improvement of animation technology, and vice versa. Aren't the scenes displayed on the LED virtual screen in virtual production also CG renderings, so there is no distinction between them.

Of course, in the eyes of other actors and audiences in the industry, this is an affirmation of their status and a kind of honor. I don’t know how many stars in the industry are struggling but can only play supporting roles in tribute blockbusters.

However, it can greatly increase the lower limit of special effects, so it is suitable for TV series and small and medium-cost movies.

In a sense, the positive role that Lei Jiayin established with the two space movies with the main themes of "The Center of the Earth" and "The Martian" has a great influence, and he has become a deeply rooted image of a Chinese hero. Or is it space?

hero.

Only a director like Wu Jing who has "Spike III" to shoot can be exempted from taking the role.

In fact, Air Affairs also approached Chen Jingxing. After all, all the military blockbusters with main themes and good reputations and box office so far are related to DreamWorks. It would be unreasonable not to seek Chen Jingxing.

In Chen Jingxing's opinion, he looks a bit like Wu Jing from his previous life, and to a certain extent, he occupies part of Wu Jing's ecological niche. He is named in all the main theme blockbuster films.

DreamWorks is also the first company in China to use virtual production on a large scale, and it is the most diligent in updating its equipment.

It's just that Lei Jiayin is indeed a busy man. As one of the top A-list actors in China and internationally famous, he definitely can't escape the need to make a gift film.

But it seems that space movies are an exception. The male and female protagonists of "The Center of the Earth" and "Mars" not only have so many roles that they are almost one-man shows, but their characters are quite dazzling, and they are all classic roles that can be deeply remembered.

In fact, up to now, Mo's special effects business does not have much profit. Especially in order to attract domestic and foreign talents to join, Mo's salary and benefits are close to those of major Internet companies. As a result, special effects costs are rapidly approaching those of Hollywood special effects studios.

Since September, the promotional campaign of one "cute" short film per week has been effective.

It forms a subtle yet sharp contrast with the male protagonist in "The Martian". They are both left on a lonely planet and both have a strong will to survive.

Before the movie was released, this mute, dirty-looking robot named Wall-E had become a new generation of cuteness on the Internet.

——The "no real performance" mode of green screen shooting is not only embarrassing, but also more repulsive to good actors. Many actors in Hollywood have publicly expressed that certain movies require a large amount of green screen shooting.

Destroyed the performing arts.

Although this kind of virtual production "what you shoot is what you get" can save a lot of manpower and material resources in building real scenes and post-production time, and it can greatly reduce the difficulty of actors' performances compared with green screen shooting.

Chen Jingxing shook his head: "This is actually not a black technology. This is virtual production, or dynamic live shooting. When you and Sister Yue filmed "Gravity", the principles of many scenes were similar, except that they were shot in a spherical shape.

In the light box, it’s much more complicated and difficult than this.”

But Lei Jiayin actually prefers live-action shooting. Although the filming of "The Martian" in the Devil's City in Western Xinjiang was painful, looking back now it is a precious memory.

Not to mention that Chen Jingxing still hopes to replicate the glory of this year's Spring Festival "Kung Fu Panda", so he can only increase marketing efforts as much as possible.

Virtual production is equivalent to turning a green screen into an LED picture, which is definitely welcomed by actors.

The TV series "Once Upon a Time on Earth: Overture" produced by Chen Jingxing will use a lot of virtual production. It is in the greenhouse next door. He also wandered over from the greenhouse where "Once Upon a Time on Earth: Overture" was filmed.

This role suits Lei Jiayin very well.

Whether in terms of gimmicks or the completeness of the space trilogy, Lei Jiayin is the right person to do the job.

The film contract that Chen Jingxing issued after Chen Kun was given to Lei Jiayin.

For large productions, the visual experience brought by the virtual screen on the big screen cannot achieve first-class visual effects.

Of course, WALL-E's successful marketing is not only because the content of the short film itself is interesting and WALL-E's image and body language are really cute and cute, but also because it has enjoyed the popularity of almost all of DreamWorks' works.

There is also a tribute film to the Korean War, "Fenghuo Yunshan" which tells the story of the Battle of Yunshan in the first battle.

With Lei Jiayin's current celebrity status, it is usually impossible to play the male lead in a movie, but Chen Jingxing's movie is naturally different, and for him, it can be regarded as fulfilling his long-cherished wish.

That's why the opponent's reaction is important to the actor.

This allows the special effects department to have deep pockets for technology research and development and equipment procurement while maintaining labor costs that dwarf their domestic peers.

The other one turned into a somewhat selfish villain who did not hesitate to deceive the humans on Earth and also wanted to kill all the second batch of humans who came to the planet.

The character given is one of the first batch of people sent out to find a new home in the movie, but they find that the "new home" is not suitable for human survival, and they are not willing to die alone on the cold planet, and they do not hesitate to lie and say that "the planet is suitable for human habitation"

The false information caused the Earth to send the protagonist's spacecraft to murder the astronaut who returned to Earth but died due to a docking failure in the spacecraft.

From "Fatal Identity" to "The Matrix", from "Person of Interest" to "The Walking Dead", from "Battleship" to "Aquila", animated TV series and movies are all here.

On the contrary, "Gravity" was shot entirely in a studio, which did not make a deep impression on him, and he did not feel that he was creating and performing the role.

Performance with feedback and performance without feedback are two different things.

It's just a miracle of an individual who performed an amazing job with a strong will to survive.

Lei Jiayin became a chatterbox to relieve loneliness, while Walli responded to Lei Jiayin's words with cute body language and a voice that could only produce simple electronic sounds.

The special effects department is actually now mainly subsidized by the animation department. "The Return of the Monkey King" and "Kung Fu Panda" are constantly laying golden eggs until now. Especially for "Panda", the peripheral income is close to the box office revenue.

Best Actor Wu Yue got a lot of money, and if Lei Jiayin hadn't been unlucky enough to meet Zhang Yi from "District 9", Best Actor would definitely have gotten a lot as well.

Virtual production is actually "what you shoot is what you get". It uses a huge surrounding LED virtual screen to change the scene in real time according to the actors' dynamics, eliminating a lot of post-production green and blue coloring and other special effects work.

It's just a pity that Chen Jingxing really doesn't have many good aerial combat movies in his mind. If he wants to make one, he doesn't want to ruin the DreamWorks brand. A good script is a problem. Although DreamWorks has accumulated a lot of scriptwriting resources, the script

I'm afraid it will take a long time to create, and Kongzheng simply can't wait.

After "Eagle Attack" failed in both box office and word-of-mouth, the Air Force was still unwilling to give in. With this 70th anniversary gift, it cooperated with the National Film Festival to launch an air combat blockbuster "King of the Sky". The protagonist is Luo Chen, and this is also Luo Chen.

One reason to turn down Universal's offer.

No matter how realistic the picture of the LED virtual screen is, it cannot replace the real scene and the top CG rendering.

"How about it? Can you spare some time? I plan to shoot "Interstellar" in real locations, and I will also go to Northern Europe and Iceland to shoot, and the whole process will be shot in real time!"

"Interstellar" is undoubtedly the best in the industry.

He is the protagonist in one of the units of the gift platter movie "My 1949".

The short film is only two and a half minutes long and was shot in less than half a day.

Since the "Interstellar" project was established, many stars have started to become active. Chen Jingxing's film works have always treated the protagonists as tool men, and the light of the characters has been submerged under the astonishing science fiction creativity.

In each animated short film, WALL-E will appear in a certain scene of the film and television animation produced by DreamWorks and interact with the characters in the work.

It's just a pity that soon after the news that "Interstellar" was being approved was announced, the male lead was hand-picked by Chen Jingxing and given to Chen Kun.

He is the leading actor in the tribute war movie "Under the Taihang Mountains".

Lei Jiayin has already decided to make at least three movies.

After all, he has participated in "The Center of the Earth" and "Mars", so it will be a good story to continue to participate in "Interstellar".

This is also the reason why Lei Jiayin did not routinely call him to "complain" after Chen Jingxing decided that the male protagonist of "Interstellar" would be Chen Kun. These three movies were all blockbusters, which would keep him busy for two years.

This time it's the turn of "The Martian". After Lei Jiayin was dropped on Mars, he discovered the mysterious robot Wall-E, who was as timid and sneaky as a mouse. One person and one machine accompanied each other on Mars and grew potatoes together.

For various reasons, it is difficult to find a schedule for a star like Lei Jiayin. To shoot the short film for Wall-E today, he took a day off from the filming of "Under the Taihang Mountains" to fly to the DreamWorks Digital Film and Television Studio.

It's a show.

However, the treatment of ordinary actors, which is deeply hated by many directors and audiences, is naturally different from that of first-line actors like Lei Jiayin.

It's just that the expected shooting period of "Interstellar" will overlap with that of "Bell Fire Cloud Mountain", which cannot be completed in just one or two days.

Fortunately, he did not forget the man who dug the well. As a recognized leader of Chen Jingxing's direct lineage, Lei Jiayin overcame many difficulties and communicated with the director and producer of "Fenghuo Yunshan", and they agreed to try their best to coordinate at least half of the film.

months to match the schedule of "Interstellar".

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