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After Wu Jing was sent to the hospital, Wu Yuan immediately stopped filming and went to the hospital to accompany him.

Soon, Wu Jing's comprehensive examination report came out that afternoon. Although it was not to the extent of fracture and plaster, the trauma caused by the fall from the horse still required Wu Jing to rest for about half a month before he could fully recover.

In fact, given his current situation, even if he only rested for two or three days and completed a simple bandage, he could continue filming with the injury.

But Wu Yuan still rejected this dangerous suggestion.

Wu Jing still had a lot of circus scenes to shoot next. If he was allowed to shoot with injuries, there was no guarantee that there would be another accident.

This time he was lucky. After he fell off the horse, the group actors behind him reacted immediately and stopped their horse steps, so that a serious stampede accident did not occur.

You know, falling off a horse is not terrible. Being trampled by the horse team behind after falling is terrible.

So on the battlefield in the past, the chance of surviving after falling off the horse during a cavalry charge was very low, and even if they were lucky, they would break their arms and legs.

It was because of the secondary injuries caused by being trampled by the war horses of his own people and the enemy, and sometimes his comrades would be tripped and die on the spot.

Thinking of this terrible scene, Wu Yuan did not dare to let Wu Jing continue filming with injuries. This kind of luck-based thing cannot be lucky.

So he simply forced Wu Jing to rest in the hospital for half a month and recuperate well. When the injuries and bruises on his body were all healed and there was no pain, he would return to the crew.

As for the crew during this period, they naturally filmed other scenes first.

"Ride the Wind" is not all war dramas, there are also many literary dramas, most of which are concentrated in a small village in Jinzhong, which is the village where the heroine Da Chunzi is located, and it is also one of the anti-Japanese bases.

This part of the play is mainly Da Chunzi and the villagers who take the lead, in order to reflect the heroic behavior of the people in resisting the Japanese at that time and the people bravely resisting foreign enemies.

Da Chunzi even helped to transfer the injured soldiers while pregnant.

This part of the play can also be filmed for ten days.

Moreover, this part of the play is relatively easy to shoot, and only half a day is needed to shoot, which is half shooting and half resting.

There is no way. The male lead's play cannot be shot, and this kind of scheduling gap is bound to occur.

The behavior that the male or female lead joins the crew a month late, or only joins the crew for more than ten days, and the remaining scenes are mostly shot by stand-ins, can only be tolerated in TV drama shooting.

Who said that the content of the TV series is long, and there are many characters on the stage, and the male and female leads are absent for a period of time, and the crew can indeed adjust.

Movies are not like this. Most movies have only three or five main actors, and the roles of the male and female leads account for at least half of the whole film. If one is missing, it will not be possible to shoot smoothly.

Therefore, TV drama crews often overlap, but no actor dares to do so in movie crews, and no director can tolerate it.

Without Wu Jing, the shooting of "Riding the Wind" was inevitably suspended, and Wu Yuan could enjoy more rest time.

Shooting only half a day of scenes every day, he can have half a day of free time.

It just so happened that Liu Yifei was in the crew with him again. Whether the two of them were playing games and reading books together in the room, or going out for a walk and playing together, it was a good thing.

Even after the filming was completed, he had to squeeze out time to check the post-production of "Ready Player One", which became more comfortable, and Wu Yuan could pay more attention to the special effects production of this movie.

To be honest, the post-production of this movie was really difficult.

Shooting was difficult enough, using many new technologies and many firsts, and it was even more difficult when it came to post-production.

This time, Wu Yuan found a total of three major special effects companies, namely his own light and shadow special effects, Hollywood's Industrial Light \u0026 Magic, and New Zealand's Weta Digital, all of which were old acquaintances.

At the same time, these three companies also outsourced some of the less important special effects shots they were responsible for, involving more than a dozen special effects companies around the world.

Despite this, the special effects work of "Ready Player One" is still progressing very slowly.

It is really not an easy task to build a real virtual world.

Even if it is just in a movie.

In the process of making the special effects for this movie, the special effects artists of the three special effects companies have expressed their feelings more than once.

If this kind of real virtual world and second universe is to be born in reality, it is definitely not something that can be done within ten or twenty years.

Just using computers to render a "virtual world" for a few minutes requires more than a dozen companies to work together and work day and night for about half a month to complete it.

It is hard to imagine that a virtual world that can be calculated in real time and accommodate thousands of people playing together can be born.

Even if a supercomputer is used for rendering, the amount of calculation is not enough!

It is obviously a movie that imagines the future virtual world, but the more it is made, the more several special effects companies feel that this kind of virtual world is impossible to be born.

It is even more desperate than making a space special effects movie.

Although space is vast and far away, at least human spacecraft can really send people into space. Maybe real spaceships will appear in the future.

And the virtual world.

"Director Wu, your idea is really crazy."

The head of the lighting and special effects department, who was constantly communicating with Wu Yuan on the phone, cried on the phone: "This is really too difficult. It's extremely difficult to just make a fake virtual world in the movie!"

"The special effects artists in our group have been suffering from severe hair loss in recent months. The one with the most severe hair loss is almost bald."

"The workload and rendering volume are really too huge!"

"Each frame is composed of a large number of special effects shots, and the protagonists have to be completely virtualized. This is crazy."

Wu Yuan's mouth twitched wildly after receiving the call.

How did he remember that Guo Xiaosi's "Legend of the Exorcist" had all the characters 3D modeled.

And it seems to be real shooting + post-rendering.

Apart from the plot content based on the defense, just looking at the picture effect, it is still quite good. It looks real and feels like a virtual character.

Why did he find the world's top special effects production company, but they all complained about the difficulty?

It can't be just because he made this kind of movie a few years earlier, right?

The current technology can already do it!

After expressing his doubts, the person in charge on the other end of the phone became even more angry.

"Director Wu, there are differences in virtual worlds!"

"Can the kind of surreal sci-fi future virtual world you requested be the same as the kind that other directors wanted, which is just a simple 3D virtualization of characters?"

"Can the workload of a virtual world full of ice and snow be the same as a virtual world full of sci-fi, technological charm, and the appearance of a future world be the same?"

The topic was awkward.

Wu Yuan could only end the call by saying that he spent a lot of money and you deserved to work so hard.

For "Ready Player One", he prepared 400 million yuan for special effects!

The production cost and shooting cost of "The Wandering Earth 1" added up to less than 400 million!

Party A spent so much money, shouldn't it be reasonable to ask for good effects! (End of this chapter)