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The crew did a lot of work to help the actors find the feeling and not have to imagine the scenes in space themselves.

When filming on the set, the actors completed their performances in the space capsule. Looking out the porthole of the space capsule, they saw not a studio but a landscape of outer space composed of LED displays.

In order to present a realistic space landscape, the team studied tens of thousands of space photos and constructed this scene under the guidance of NASA experts.

This part of the content will also be processed as material when producing CG.

This time the special effects were created jointly by Industrial Light & Magic and Orange Studio. The two special effects studios joined forces to develop new rendering software.

Through continuous rendering of shaders, tens of thousands of lines can be rendered in a day. Among them, the graphics card developed by NVIDIA played a key role.

Graphics card replaces CPU and plays an important role.

In the words of special effects supervisor Lyle Wesley: "If a single-core CPU is used for rendering, it will have to be rendered from 10,000 years before history to the next century in order to catch up with the August schedule."

"Gravity" is tentatively scheduled to be released in August, which is right at the end of the summer season and close to the awards season, which not only takes care of the box office but also provides a favorable time to impact awards.

During the early preparations, the production of special effects shots had already begun.

One of the important tasks was to use CG lenses to create several shots of explosions and debris impacts in space. Because the gravity environment is different, these things cannot be shot on the ground, so they can only be shot using CG.

Charles Roven also joked: "I never thought that our explosion fanatic would one day give up the idea of ​​shooting real explosions."

Little Gilbert smiled helplessly: "There is no way, Charles, we can't go to space to shoot yet."

In addition to special effects shots, another job is to shoot with the Titan robotic arm. After training in several films, the photography team is very proficient in using the Titan robotic arm.

There are three Titan robotic arms in the world, but two are on Gilbert Jr.'s crew.

And this thing is really easy to use. By designing the trajectory through a computer, the robotic arm can achieve precise shooting according to the trajectory. It is very powerful.

Many unexpected shooting angles are difficult for photographers or ordinary robotic arms to achieve, but for the Titan robotic arm, it is a piece of cake.

By controlling the Titan to change the angle, actors can save time and effort to complete the shooting without having to rely on their own muscle strength to control the feeling of weightlessness.

Of course, many times the actors still have to be hung up to complete the filming.

Another innovative design was the light box, which was designed by director of photography John Schwartzman and special effects supervisor Lyle Wesley.

Based on the Titan robotic arm, it consists of LEDs and a movable basket in which Anne Hathaway performs.

For example, shooting a scene where Anne Hathaway throws herself at the camera.

In fact, the actor does not need to be in the basket, just complete the physical performance. The Titan robotic arm controls the camera to hit the actor to complete this shot.

If manual control is used, safety cannot be guaranteed. If the force is too small, the effect will not be achieved, and if the force is too large, Anne Hathaway may be easily injured.

Gilbert Jr. was helping Anne Hathaway win an Oscar, not trying to murder her.

Therefore, the advantage of the Titan robotic arm is that it can achieve precise control of shooting. After the initial few times of adaptation, Anne Hathaway was able to perform in the light box skillfully and freely.

However, the light box still has disadvantages, because LED light sources generate heat, it will be very hot in the light box, and Anne Hathaway has to wear a thick space suit most of the time.

But compared to the trouble and fatigue of normal filming, this heat is not unbearable. Tom Cruise watched Anne Hathaway's hard performance in the light box and complained to Gilbert Jr.: "The temperature inside is about 40 degrees. I was almost steamed.

Jacqueline is more patient than I am. I really admire her."

Even the dedicated Tom Cruise couldn't stand the intensity of the light box, so one can imagine the difficulties Anne Hathaway had to endure to complete her performance.

Even so, Gilbert Jr. still made strict demands on Anne Hathaway.

“If you want to win an Oscar, you have to give something that ordinary people cannot give.

Think about the actors who paid the price for the Oscars, who were willing to make themselves look ugly, act crazy, and sacrifice themselves for the roles. "

Little Gilbert said to Anne Hathaway seriously: "Compared to that, what you paid was just some physical fatigue.

Compared to those people, this little suffering is nothing.”

Anne Hathaway listened silently and complained in her heart.

I have worked so hard to serve you, isn't the price I paid high enough?

Of course, she was just saying that out of anger, but she also knew that little Gilbert was doing it for her own good, so she worked extra hard.

In addition to the filming of Gravity, Gilbert Jr. also keeps an eye on the promotion of The Dark Knight Rises. As Warner's most important work this year, this film has received full support from Warner.

Since March, Warner has held a series of events to lead movie fans to review the glory of the past two films.

At the same time, Warner also used the Internet's water army to lead the pace and use methods of pulling down and criticizing to attract attention.

How to pull down and criticize? It is to compare other superhero movies, especially Marvel movies, through the ceiling of the superhero movie "The Dark Knight".

What makes people laugh is that when the netizens were leading the trend, the movie they were criticizing was "The Avengers". This movie was also directed by Gilbert Jr., and more importantly, the box office of this movie was quite explosive.

Although "Avengers" is still showing in some remote theater markets, it has come to an end. The film eventually became the second movie to break the $20 billion box office, ranking second in film history with $20.63 billion.

Such a movie can definitely not be said to be bad. In fact, in the eyes of most people, "Avengers" is a rare big-screen entertainment masterpiece.

But if compared with "The Dark Knight", even casual viewers who are not fans of the two movies will think that "The Dark Knight" is better.

So Warner was very smart to use one of Gilbert Jr.'s movies to drag down another movie and create a topic.

Then he turned the topic to "The Dark Knight Rises", saying that "The Dark Knight Rises" will definitely surpass "The Avengers".

Because the rhythm was led by the water army, and this kind of thing actually consumed Gilbert Jr.'s reputation, Warner did not communicate with Gilbert Jr. in advance.

What they might be thinking is that since you have already broken up with me, there will probably be no chance for cooperation again in the future, so you might as well take advantage of it.

Although Cameron Diaz lodged a stern protest to Warner, Warner claimed that the rhythm on the Internet had nothing to do with him, which made Cameron Diaz so angry that she cursed privately.

Little Gilbert doesn't care. After all, judging from the results, his films are all very successful. No matter how much you criticize him, it can't change these facts. (End of this chapter)