Chinese entertainment for engineering students

Another pile of information was thrown out. Wang Xu ignored the two crying roommates and rode home on his big motorcycle. Digging or burying is a basic operation, isn't it?

The two roommates are not cowardly people. They are usually very capable people who are full of quarrels with the sky and the earth. The reason why they are crying is because Wang Xu has given them too much information.

From all kinds of firearms and small weapons to all kinds of cars, they are all hand-painted. They all look cool, but I have never seen them in magazines.

Don't be surprised, Wang Xu has always been interested in all kinds of ordnance. No matter in his past life or in this life, Wang Xu will subscribe to everything from weapons knowledge, aviation knowledge to ships. This is the main channel for obtaining this information in this era.

In other words, these naturally violent magazines are the favorites of many educated young people in this era.

In this life, Wang Xu went even further and subscribed to more magazines. Wang Xu subscribed to almost every magazine that could be found on the market. Who made him rich and leisurely in this life.

Of course, he would not let these magazines be thrown into the warehouse to gather dust. He donated the magazines to the grade group and asked the department teachers to set up a magazine reading room in the dormitory building.

In this way, almost all students in this building will have endless free magazines.

These magazines are not unusual for Wang Xu, but for classmates in the same grade, they are rare good things. Knowledge is only the lower limit of university education, and vision is one of the most important things to obtain in university education.

No matter in his past life or this life, Wang Xu has never had a half-cent relationship with the military industry. Well, the relationship in this life is more than half a cent, but Wang Xu didn't do anything directly, so instigation doesn't count, right?

Therefore, even though Wang Xu has never seen the design drawings of real firearms, it cannot be denied that he has skills. Props and firearms are one of the most important components of movie props. Who makes Ugly Movies use so many guns?

Forget about guns, he can make a heavy armored division for you. No matter whether it is easy to use or not, just make it look like it first. Well, it’s just a look.

Therefore, he drew concept drawings of various new concept light and heavy firearms that appeared in later generations, roughly marked the overall size, and then threw them to Dadong and the others. After all, they only needed to make a show, not the real thing. .

Model making is not a simple industry. Wang Xu naturally cannot let go completely, but he only leads them to do one or two things, mainly leading them through the process.

What kind of workers to use, what kind of materials to use, how to make it look real, this thing is very interesting to talk about.

In movies, real things may not necessarily look real. For example, the flames from the muzzle of a gun. We can often see a wisp of orange flame coming out of the muzzle of a gun, which looks very powerful.

But if a real gun is used, without the use of a special ultra-high-speed camera, you cannot see the muzzle flame, not even a bit of smoke.

What you see in the movie is actually the special effects of a prop gun.

Another example is various explosions. How can there be such a big fireball? The big fireball is the result of other things such as extra gasoline being mixed together and exploding to create the effect.

The real thing is about power and destructive power, not visual effects, while movie props are just the opposite.

Therefore, special effects is a brand new industry, and in China, there are really not many people engaged in this now. It’s not that there are none, but there is no scale or establishment.

Diying has several teachers who specialize in special effects, and they have some skills. But firstly, there are too few people, and secondly, they all have their own specializations. You can ask for advice when needed, but Wang Xu really hasn’t bothered to dig into it. people.

Military Film also has a few experts who can do explosions, and other major film studios also have people who can do some special effects, but there are only so many. This is a dilemma caused by the film production and distribution mechanism in the past. Every place has to have a little bit of it. , but cannot form a joint force.

The current structure has historical reasons, and it doesn't matter whether it's good or bad, but it's completely impossible to use a ready-made team. Of course, Wang Xu really doesn't like their technology very much.

His skills are no joke here. It is no exaggeration to say that his special effects production skills are first-class around the world, whether physical or virtual.

But such skills are of little use to one person, so Wang Xu can only pass them on as much as possible.

When Wang Xu took Dadong and Ershui to start making models, Wang Xu did not forget to bring a record-keeping secretary with him to record what he taught at any time so that he could compile it into teaching materials later and save himself from having to teach by himself every time.

The master-apprentice model is a very unstable inheritance method. Whether in Hong Kong or the mainland, the inheritance of various special effects basically relies on the traditional master-apprentice model.

After all, this type of market is still too small, and the technical threshold is not very high. To outsiders, what sounds mysterious and even heirloom-like is actually not very technically difficult. As long as some small key points are clarified, most other people in related majors can figure it out.

Therefore, Wang Xu planned to simply write an encyclopedia and write down all the special effects tips he knew. However, these things were too scattered, so he had to find a secretary to record them anytime and anywhere.

Director Jiang, Ou, is the original Secretary Jiang. Now he is the deputy director of Wang Xu Laboratory, responsible for all management matters, so it is not easy to call him secretary anymore.

After he saw what Wang Xu planned to do, he told Wang Xu very considerately that you may need to apply for special qualifications for what you are doing. Sometimes it will explode, and sometimes it will simulate firearms. How about I help you apply for it?

So Wang Xu threw this hot potato to Director Jiang.

Wang Xu is doing many things now, but he actually has the right to act first and then act later. Even if he starts to do it, there is no problem in applying for qualifications. This is almost the same situation in this special effects studio.

Of course, the legal person can only be Wang Fei. Only in this way can we get the benefits. If we use another name, the superiors will not recognize it.

As for paying taxes, do you still have to worry about paying taxes after you have made money? Anyway, this young couple is not that interested in money. The wealth they have now is enough for them to last a lifetime.

But since Director Jiang has intervened, it means that he has seen something, so let him do it. The relationship between Wang Xu and the superiors is very ambiguous. You may say that they are closely connected, but in fact they have no real power. You may say that it does not matter. , as if Wang Xu was everywhere.

In fact, both parties delicately maintained such a decent balance and did not interfere. Wang Xu didn't care. He was the one who made the profit anyway. It was a win-win deal, so why not do it.

The qualifications were obtained quickly. From explosions to vehicle modifications, simulation firearms manufacturing and other special business licenses, Wang Xu was shocked when he saw it. Is this taking him to the arsenal?

Of course, Director Jiang wouldn't say that. He just helps Wang Xu solve practical problems, so he is a good person.

For example, he also helped Dadong and the others bring in several veterans who were engaged in demolition, driving, firearms design, and even a special forces soldier who was lame in one leg.

These people are all rare professional talents. If Director Jiang hadn't stepped in, Dadong and the others would probably not even have a trace of their connections.

Especially the special forces. China did not have this establishment before. It was not until 1988 that the first special forces unit was established. How can there be any retired soldiers now?

It's just that this guy was unlucky. He was seriously injured during training and had to retire from the army, so he was picked up by the superiors and sent to Wang Xu.

To be honest, Wang Xu is a little nervous. He doesn't know when he started, but he can clearly feel that the support from above has increased. This is just a special effects studio. In the final analysis, it is used to hide things. Yes, the higher-ups actually helped to create this situation.

Could it be that there are some ideas in those concept drawings?

Well, okay, Wang Xu wishes they would send more talents over. Anyway, one person can teach, and a group of people can also teach, right? However, this time, Wang Xu's teaching included some special things, such as the disassembly and assembly diagrams of the guns.

When it comes to props, we must strive to be realistic when making movies, so these guns are restored one-to-one according to the parts, but the material is made of hard plastic, and the processing method is injection molding.

So although these weapons cannot be fired, they can be disassembled, loaded, and even replaced with magazines. All parts are movable, which makes sense, right?

"This is a light weapon I envisioned. It consists of three modules and more than a dozen parts..."

This is Wang Xu's daily life. These 21st century light weapons are not necessarily better than the previous ones, nor are they necessarily cheaper, but they can provide good design ideas, and maybe they can gain something from them.

Anyway, it wasn't designed by Wang Xu, so he didn't feel bad. He talked about it as if he didn't need money, such as universal guide rails, laser aiming, modular design, ultra-lightweight design, small caliber, rifle grenades, smart ammunition and the like. What is not there is all kinds of nonsense.

Anyway, they are all things that already exist overseas, or will be available in the future. Wang Xu is just making out the appearance here, and it should have no impact on the world.

Domestic firearms have never been a strong point. In addition to the imitation AK47, which is durable and durable, the current hunting type 81 is not a very good standard firearm. The later type 95 also has many problems, but it is cheap. It’s just convenient for large-scale equipment.

It should be said that these things are of little use to China's military strength. The role of light weapons will become smaller and smaller in future wars, and even the role of infantry itself is shrinking.

But Wang Xu won't say much in this aspect. He just makes a movie, and it's the kind of fun movie where a bunch of people don't care about martial arts. What tactics does he know?

As for whether these guns are used or not, let’s get them out first. So what if they are not used? Can’t they be used for exhibitions? They can also be rented to other movies in the future.

However, when introducing the equipment, Wang Xu certainly would not forget about the business. After all, he runs a special effects studio, the kind that walks on two legs: physical special effects and computer special effects.

The content of physical special effects is basically taken over by the recruited veterans. Wang Xu leads them to play various experiments with the cooperation of several photographers.

In just over a month, Dadong and Ershui recruited various professional teams of nearly a hundred people and began to focus on the real computer special effects. Naturally, it started with training and various trainings.

The software is almost all ready-made, but being able to use the software to make a qualified video is not a level that can be achieved by training for three to five days. Wang Xu and the others have no other way but to polish it bit by bit.

Dadong has recruited many technical secondary school students studying art into its team. They are young, easy to accept new things, have sufficient art foundation, and have no good way out. Wang Xu's studio can be said to be the best they can find. Good job too.

No matter how stumbling it was at the beginning, the result was still very satisfactory. In almost a month, Wang Xu, two roommates and a few veterans opened the first special effects studio in China. got up.

I don’t know what it can do yet. Wang Xu’s plan is to do a few special effects scenes first to see the effect. Anyway, it will be used in later filming.

For example: the beauty in red is formed by the falling effect of green text produced by computer special effects.

This section can be said to be a classic scene from The Matrix. The animation is very simple, but it has the impression of a hacker with electronic technology and a bit of mysticism and fantasy.

By the way, this woman's back was taken away by Zhang Manyu. When they were chatting that day, Zhang Manyu still showed his interest and was willing to make a guest appearance. Wang Xu almost immediately thought of this. The woman in red appears for a few seconds.

As for the physical special effects, Wang Xu chose the scene where Cui Ying rushes into the building to save the male protagonist, which will use a lot of explosion special effects, action stunts, and even special photography techniques.

Cui Ying is stagnant in the air, and the camera rotates 360 degrees. The equipment for shooting is not completed by one camera, but by 48 cameras shooting at the same time. The scene is then displayed dynamically through editing techniques.

It should be said that this scene shocked countless people at the time and became one of the most memorable scenes in the film.

After that, various fierce and swift movements and a one-hit-kill fighting style established the fighting temperament of the entire movie.

In addition, the scene of tiles flying around cannot be expressed by simply burying a few explosive points.

The large amounts of flying debris shown in the film were actually secondary synthesis by computer software.

Therefore, this will also be a test of the co-ordination of physical and virtual special effects in the early and late stages. It will also be an excellent scene for the whole team to work together. It will even be a major challenge for those software that are still under development. test.

These are just copies, copies of the images that already exist in Wang Xu's mind. Wang Xu has not added too many of his own ideas. After all, there are too many immature things now.

At least he had to wait until all kinds of software, hardware, personnel, technology, etc. were almost fully integrated before Wang Xu dared to add his own new ideas and make the whole film have Wang Xu's style.

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(Dad has not been discharged from the hospital yet. He has so many ailments that I can’t fit them into a page of cases, but he is finally stable.

I actually didn't help much, but my cervical vertebra was so painful that I couldn't even turn my head, so I didn't update for more than a week.

Chijiu would like to sincerely apologize to everyone.

I will try my best to keep it updated in the future, and add more to make up for the debt when I have the opportunity.

Actually, I don’t know if it’s possible. It’s really tiring to roll up as I get older. )