Coquettish Rebirth

That's right, Jia Hongjian has actually already designed what kind of path he will take in the future trend of special effects.Although generally speaking, his surname Jia never thought of becoming the number one in the world in this industry.But as a reborn person, it is impossible for us to say that we have not made a preparation for the future when we have already entered this industry and know the direction of this industry in the future?And the preparations he made are also obvious, that is, at least before his knowledge becomes obsolete, he can give his company an advantage!That's why he designed his company to use the United States as the "R&D center" and make China the "world factory" in the future.

In fact, he is not willing to let the United States do the "R&D center", but there is no way to do it because the United States researched it early, and various high-end equipment, advanced graphics workstations and so on may be required Embargoed on China—even if Batumi is disbanded, it is also embargoed on many civilian high-tech products.For example, there are many high-tech equipment in the field of scientific research. If you do research abroad, you can use them quickly, but if you are in China, you have to wait for several years before you are allowed to buy them!

No matter from which point of view, the American side has a long history of research and rich experience, and the American side is also Jia Hongjian's company. He can't give up his company's personnel, and then develop in China?Relatively speaking, it is impossible to get American personnel to China and let them accept Chinese standard wages.At the same time, the United States does not have the same effect as South Korea, where there are few meats and vegetables.There is no way to say that relying on the standard of living and the abundance of food to attract American employees, right?So after much deliberation, it might as well set up a research center in the United States.

As for Huami Animation in China, through the nonlinear editing system introduced from the United States and various animation techniques learned from Pixar over the past few years, at least now Huami Animation is a well-known special effects production company in China. !For example, Zhang's bearded version of "Swordsman", which is the version starring Li Yapeng, has already been negotiated with Huami Animation, and Huami Animation will soon be used for post-production. It is estimated that in March 2001 It will be released nationwide this month!From this point of view, at least in mainland China, this gorgeous animation has become a technological benchmark!

So I thought about it.Let Huami Animation become a "world factory".And let Pixar become a visual effects research and development center, it can be said that it is the best effect!

But having said that, such a design is still a future design after all, what Jia Hongjian has to do now is to discuss the overall art style with Nolan and others.After denying expression capture.The next thing to do is to discuss the overall shape of Monkey King.If you don't discuss the shape of Monkey King.Before that, I didn't talk about capturing things with facial expressions.This is the overall image design of Monkey King.Jia Hongjian wanted to get close to the orangutan.

Of course, this is made into the shape of an orangutan, and some details still need to be made to resemble a human.For example, the proportions of the limbs.If it is really like an orangutan with long hands and short feet, walking on all fours and then walking on the ground like clenching fists, this is too "animal" and not handsome at all!However, the whole can't be made too anthropomorphic, so the overall style needs to be more orangutan, and then the details should be more "human".

However, although the overall style is like this, it will still be more troublesome to do the details.For example, what color should the monkey's fur be?In the version of the TV series, Monkey King's hair is made into golden hair, like a golden monkey.Jia Hongjian didn't know why he did this, maybe because the golden hair looked more noble?In fact, in the very early cartoons such as "Havoc in Heaven", although Monkey King borrowed the facial makeup of Peking Opera, it can be clearly seen that the color of the hair on the face is brown. From this point of view is compared and imagined by macaques.At the same time, there is also a character of a six-eared macaque in the whole story of Journey to the West, so it should not be a problem to think that Monkey King is a macaque.

Even with the original words in "Journey to the West", according to Wu Chengen's description, this Monkey King is almost 4 feet tall, which is 1.2 meters by 1.3 meters in height, and his face makes Tang Seng feel that he is in his 20s.Then the original book also described that the Monkey King's overall appearance is more similar to that of a human, but the sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks have a thunderous face.Of course, Jia Hongjian and the others would naturally not follow such an original setting.The original version made Sun Wukong look like an ape, but Jia Hongjian wanted to be an orangutan!If you want to be an orangutan, how can you have a good coat color?gold?red?or black?Or is it the source of Sun Wukong according to Hu Shi - Huaisi Water Monster Wu Zhiqi?This Wu Zhiqi is the water depth of the Huai River, and is listed as the god of water along with Dragon King, Gong Gong, and Ying Long.

At the same time, "Shan Hai Jing" has a very detailed description of this Wu Zhiqi, saying that it "shape like an ape, with golden eyes and snow teeth, light and sharp", golden eyes!Did you see that, this is the source of the sharp eyes!Then the Shan Hai Jing also said that Wu Zhiqi was born in Huaguo Mountain, later married a dragon girl, and gave birth to three children, all of whom are supernatural monsters, and this Wu Zhiqi even claimed to be Huai The god of water.Later, when Dayu was controlling the water, this Wu Zhiqi also came out to make trouble. Legend has it that he led hundreds of thousands of mountain spirits and water monsters to fight Dayu, and after losing, he was imprisoned under Guishan Mountain.From this perspective, this Wu Zhiqi is obviously the prototype of Monkey King.The place of birth is the same, and the things they do are also very similar.At most, the matter of leading the mountain spirit and water monster to fight Dayu was changed to a havoc in the heavenly palace, but the final ending was similar, both of them were crushed under the mountain!

However, the image of Wu Zhiqi recorded in Shan Hai Jing is a little different from Sun Wukong—although they all have sharp eyes, and although they all have sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks and flat noses, this Wu Zhiqi has a white head and a green body!That is, the hair on the head should be white, and then the hair on the body should be blue.Even judging from the shape of ordinary animals, this Wu Zhiqi might have white hair on his chest and abdomen.

Of course, Jia Hongjian also told Nolan and the others about this image, and then he watched the artist draw an animal that looked like an orangutan and looked like a human in a blink of an eye—this guy looked quite tall, with strong muscles. One is well-developed, with dark skin, and looks quite fierce, and... Before the artist had time to draw the hair, Jia Hongjian wanted to interject and ask, "Dude, why did you draw LeBron James? gone?"

Well, this is a bad joke. In fact, the artist did not draw LeBron James, but it was indeed a strong "savage" image.Then, the face of this savage is more like an orangutan, and the nose does not look like a human nose at all. It may be because the mouth is too protruding, so the nose looks like a flat nose, and the nostrils are not round. And like an orangutan, there are two flat "air intake holes".Then there is a fang in the mouth, and there is a scar on the face, it looks like a black club... No, it looks like a biological weapon secretly manufactured by the US military!

This guy is so strong, the muscles on his body look like they don’t need money, and he is wearing some ancient armor. At first glance, these ancient armors are not the protection of the Middle Ages or China. The comprehensive armor looks like a breastplate plus some shoulder armor, and each of them is called thick. The thickness of the breastplate alone is estimated to be one centimeter!At the same time, these armors are still broken in various ways, as if they have experienced various battles!

Jia Hongjian appraised it, and felt that this thing should be an orc rather than Monkey King—yes, in fact, if he felt it, it seemed to be a change of the magical orc in European and American culture. Added some hair and changed it to the body of the orangutan!So at that time, he called back to let the artist continue to think, and even asked the artist to draw it according to Wu Zhiqi's style!However, when painting Wu Zhiqi's hair, when the artist asked Jia Hongjian what color blue was, Jia Hongjian felt a little troubled.Because cyan, he remembered, seemed to be a unique color in China!

In the folk, the range of cyan is very wide. Basically, blue, green, and green are called cyan. At the same time, blue and green are collectively called cyan, and even the color between blue and purple is also called by the tutorial. blue!For example, the old saying "green comes from blue and is better than blue" means cyan is blue-purple cyan, and cyan, which is not connected with cyan, means green, and in some dialects, cyan even means black!How would you describe this cyan color?

Jia Hongjian thought about it for a while, and felt that if the blue-green color was made into Monkey King's hair color, it would be too damn unorthodox!The color is too light, so it's as non-mainstream as pink!It looks like fake hair!Then, if it is blue and purple, it seems a bit too jumpy-don't forget that the character positioning of Monkey King in the whole movie is the kind that rarely speaks!A Monkey King with blue-purple hair looks very out of the ordinary!Just like a person who dyed his hair blue-purple, he must be a very lively person!After much deliberation, Jia Hongjian felt that navy blue was very good, a color between blue and black.In Europe and America, this color is also called navy blue!This navy blue is actually a color between dark blue and black!Isn't this navy blue?

Then after Jia Hongjian persuaded the artist to make Sun Wukong's hair navy blue, it immediately became more pleasing to the eye - black represents calmness, and there is a little blue in black, which gives people a similar The foot of the poisonous snake!Because it is a little vague, it makes people feel more dangerous! (to be continued..)