Coquettish Rebirth

Of course, apart from Chen Daoming, it's not that there are no other people who are suitable to act.Jia Hongjian thought about it, and it seems that Liang Jiahui from Hong Kong can also come to play.Needless to say, Liang Jiahui's acting skills are at the level of a movie king, but compared to Liang Jiahui, Jia Hongjian still likes Chen Daoming more, maybe because Chen Daoming's whole aura is more restrained?

After roughly setting the role of Tang Seng in his mind, Jia Hongjian next thought of the role of Monkey King.Although logically speaking, this Monkey King is a real monkey, or an ape.But do these apes usually walk like a human or an ape?To be honest, Jia Hongjian tended to let Jiang Wen play such a Monkey King, because if Jiang Wen's facial features showed such expressions as "mocking", "looking down" and sneering, it was simply unnecessary to act. Raise the eyebrows a little, and you don't need to deliberately make expressions on the face, and the corresponding effect will appear directly!

But, such an orangutan is an orangutan after all, an ape after all.Jia Hongjian and the others want to shoot, but it is impossible to say that Jiang Wen will put on a whole body of fur and act like a six-year-old boy!What age is this, can we use some high technology?But having said that, in fact, even if Liu Xiaolingtong is hired, he may not be able to perform the effect Jia Hongjian wants.why?Because Liu Xiaolingtong is from a family of operas, although it is said that he plays Monkey King on TV now, but in fact, he has practiced the image and movements of Monkey King in operas since he was a child!

So to be precise, these six-year-old children can act.In fact, it is a fixed traditional monkey character in "Journey to the West", not the ape-like incarnation of pure male hormones in Jia Hongjian's version!For Jia Hung-chien, he can accept that when an actor plays an ape, he has a lot of gorillas' habitual movements, but he can't bear to play an orangutan as a monkey!Ordinary people may think that orangutans are bigger monkeys, but in fact they are completely different. Orangutans can actually round up and eat monkeys!It's like a cat and a tiger. Although they are very similar, in fact, their momentum and movements are completely different, okay?Although tigers will stand up and slap each other with their front paws like cats when fighting, but what is the effect of a tiger's slap.What is the effect of a cat's slap?The same movements are cute for cats.The tiger is majestic!

In the real world, tigers are not the same size as cats.But in the movie, Monkey King is at most one or two heads taller than ordinary people, at most about 2 meters.This head is not as big as the size difference between a cat and a tiger!The size gap is gone.Then more action details are needed to reflect different character characteristics.Otherwise, it is obviously a gorilla weighing 2 meters, 400 kilograms, a violent muscle maniac, and it turns out to be laughing all day long.A monkey that is frizzy all day long, what a shame!

So if Jia Hongjian wanted to look for him, he definitely couldn't look for Liu Xiaolingtong.At the same time, he felt that Jiang Wen's facial features were very suitable, but he wanted to create such an orangutan character through cg special effects...how can this be done?Could it be that computer experts should follow Jiang Wen's face?Jiang Wen probably wasn't happy about this?Because he only showed a face, and didn't participate in any performances at all... And if it's just cg production, it still can't do it when it comes to character expressions, not to mention computer games and console games, which are beautifully done In fact, the expressions of the characters in the CG animation are a little different from real people. There are too few small movements, and there are too few eye movements, so that people can tell that they are made and not real people!

After all, no matter how you do it, the production of cg characters in this year relies on art and modeling to adjust the movements of the characters bit by bit, and it depends on manual adjustments and settings to make the characters move. Under such circumstances, some distortion is inevitable!

Jia Hongjian asked, how can the character of this CG animation be like Gulu?How good is Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings"? Although he is also a CG character, Gollum feels much more real!etc!If Jia Hongjian remembered correctly, this Gulu actually had an actor?This actor doesn’t seem to be saying that it’s the same as the traditional shooting, that he put on various masks and went to play the monster Gollum himself after special effects makeup, but that he used motion capture and other methods, and then cooperated with the camera to shoot and collect Actions and even expressions, and then match the cg animation characters!

What is motion capture?In fact, to put it bluntly, it is to collect various movements of human beings during natural movement, so that the collected data of each point can describe a model of human skeleton movement, and then apply a layer of "skin" to the outside of the skeleton for binding Sure, isn't that a special effects character with live action effects?The earliest action collection was first adopted in various sports games, because the game manufacturers found that the movements of stars' signatures are different, and even the movements of each person's dribbling and shooting are different. In the game, the actions of the stars in the real world are almost perfectly done?This requires employees to adjust one by one, and it may take ten or eight years to complete it!So they wanted to start motion acquisition, by putting electronic signal sensors on the stars to transmit the data of the overall movement of the star player's body, and then make the bones and bind the skin, wouldn't it be simple and fast?

Then, this technology was quickly used in movies, just like "Lord of the Rings", which was the first movie to use motion capture on virtual characters for shooting!There is actually an actor behind the role of Gulu, but when this actor is acting, he is equipped with sensors all over his body, and then he has to perform in front of special equipment in a closed cabin. After he performs, every movement of his body will It was collected, and finally changed to a skin and became Gulu!

And after about 10 years of development, this kind of motion collection has accurately developed into expression collection—that is to say, the expression of virtual characters does not need to be adjusted frame by frame by artists, but directly collects the expressions of real actors. , to make a bone-like effect, and then change the skin on the outside to become the face and body of the virtual character!Then, can Jia Hongjian let Jiang Wenlai play the role of "Monkey King" through motion collection?

In this way, a nearly perfect Monkey King can be made, right?At that time, the fur and appearance can be completely faked to look like real animals!And this kind of special effects without special effects makeup, but with a huge investment in CG special effects, to integrate real people and virtual characters, although this in itself is more risky and more investment, but it is also a huge gimmick at the same time!You must know that in the past two years, all kinds of virtual cg characters are really popular and have become a trend!From time to time, people all over the world are discussing whether real actors will be needed in the future. Everyone is imagining whether virtual actors can replace real actors in the future!

Such views and fantasies are simply a joke in 2012, because people at that time knew that virtual things, no matter how awesome they are, are not as good as real ones, so to do well in virtual reality, it is still necessary to use real people as the foundation!It's like "Avatar" and other movies, which are all based on real actors!But it’s different in this era, because like the well-known Japanese game manufacturer Square Enix, they announced an investment of [-] million US dollars to create a virtual idol movie-"Final Fantasy"!They want to take out such a strong game brand of their own, and then make it into a full CG movie, all the characters in it are created by computers!

This kind of technical attempt has attracted the attention of the whole world!That's why many people started to discuss whether virtual actors will replace real actors in the future!But Jia Hongjian knew that this "Final Fantasy" would suffer a huge loss in the end, and the loss of Square Enix's underwear was almost lost!On the one hand, the story that Square Enix made up has nothing to do with the plot of the “Final Fantasy” game they actually made in the 10th generation. The second is that the virtual actors are fine, but Acting is still not as good as a real actor!

So from this point of view, since Square Enix was able to create such a big gimmick through CG movies so awesomely, could Jia Hongjian and the others also be able to take such a ride?As a reborn person, isn't the most amazing thing about knowing what kind of general trend and what kind of trend can be used?Now that the natives on the earth are looking forward to the future, then Jia Hongjian can make a "future" and sell it to them!

In the history of "The Lord of the Rings", the combination of real people and CG virtual characters seems to be just an accident. In fact, the director did not expect to do this at first. Later, the actor who dubbed Gulu felt really uncomfortable. After discussing with the director, everyone temporarily changed it. Such a movie was created by accident only after the model was created!But Jia Hongjian was different. Jia Hongjian knew about it in advance, so could he challenge Square Enix and set off a wave?Can he call out in advance that fully virtual cg characters are impossible to be popular, while acting as a magic stick to predict that Square will die, on the other hand, like the great leader, he pointed out the feasible way in the future - let real people and Virtual bonding.In this way, does his movie become one of the focuses of everyone's attention?Is it true that after seeing Square's misfortune, will everyone look forward to seeing how the film of Jia Hongjian will turn out?With expectations, isn't there a market?

Even if such a big news comes out, isn't that just viral marketing?Isn't it just using exaggerated topics to attract potential consumers to help spread the news?Looking back, Jia Hongjian and the others did not need to pay any publicity expenses, and the whole world could know about their movie. What a good publicity it is!Compared with the rising cost of using cg production instead of special effects makeup, this promotional cost is actually the bulk of it!Almost half of the cost of a Hollywood blockbuster is used for various promotions, okay?The promotion fee is saved, that is the real money saving! (To be continued..)