fantasy blockbuster era

Chapter 103 Explanation
Generally speaking, for a movie, especially a big special effects movie, during the shooting stage, the special effects company will arrange professional personnel to follow up the shooting.

These people are usually the visual effects directors of many crews.

This is the case with the movie "Shading the Sky".

In addition to Rhea and Xingguang, Wang Fei later found three special effects companies from abroad, and a total of five companies sent representatives to the group to follow up the shoot.

During shooting.

Zhang Yang will discuss with them which shots need to use special effects and what these special effects should look like. At the same time, he will also take out the special effects drawings designed by the art team to explain the correspondence.

such as.

What should the 'Kowloon' in the coffin of Kowloon look like?
What should Kowloon be like?
Are the nine dragons from top to bottom or from left to right?
How big should the coffin be?
How can we not affect the beauty of the whole picture?

How should the lighting be set up?

How should the picture be taken?

Where should it be brighter and where should it be darker?
All these problems need to be resolved through consultation between the director and the visual effects director.

According to the drawings issued by the art team, after rough cutting of the shots shot on site, the division of labor and cooperation sent them back to the special effects company.

The special effects company will start to produce preliminary special effects according to the requirements put forward by the on-site director.

Because "Shading the Sky" is an oriental fantasy blockbuster.

The two domestic special effects companies, Rhea and Starlight, will be able to better grasp the oriental mystery.

However, the three foreign special effects companies need publicity and visual effects guidance, repeated explanations and discussions, and can finally determine the preliminary special effects results.

Even sometimes, even though Zhang Yang spoke dryly, the three foreigners still couldn't understand.

The inherent impression in their heads is the feeling of Western special effects, and it is difficult to understand the mysterious oriental beauty that Zhang Yang wants to express.

This also led to several sets of special effects shots, and the people from Rhea and Starlight nodded while listening.

And those three foreigners are full of confusion, don't understand why they are like this?

Take the simplest shot as an example: use special effects to make a certain dragon in the coffin of Kowloon.

The people from Rhea and Xingguang, after Zhang Yang's explanation, showed some pictures from the previous TV screen, plus the drawings drawn by Liang Bing.

The two companies were able to grasp the essence very quickly, and produced an oriental dragon with rabbit eyes, deer antlers, cow ears, camel head, mirage abdomen, tiger palms, snake neck, fish scales, and eagle claws. image.

It gives the audience the impression that dragons in oriental mythology should look like this.

And the other three foreign companies.

Even if it is publicity, he took the drawings and explained repeatedly, showing some images of dragons that have already appeared on TV.

They nodded repeatedly at that time, but the effect they produced was completely different from the image of the dragon in traditional Eastern mythology.

The dragons they drew also have such symbols as rabbit eyes and antlers.

But the image is more similar to the snake.

The dragon head has a ferocious expression, the dragon face is ferocious, the dragon body is long and winding, and the background is dark and depressing, giving the audience a feeling of 'this is just a beast called a dragon'.

There is no such thing as the ancients said, "The dragon's breath becomes the cloud, and the cloud is solid and powerful in the dragon. However, the dragon rides on the breath, and the vast ocean is as poor as the sky. In Miling Valley, the cloud is also spirited and weird!" That kind of fairy, sacred, ethereal feeling.

This is the case with the foreign movie "War of Dragons".

In Zhang Yang's view, the dragon in this movie is a beast named dragon, not a sacred dragon or a fairy dragon that travels in the clouds and rains, rides the wind and clouds, and roams the sky.

Of course, you can't blame them either.

The cultural edification received from childhood, as well as the background differences between the East and the West, and people's cognitive differences will all cause this result.

"Zhe Tian 1 - Journey to the Beidou" wants to achieve better box office abroad. Using this style of painting may have better results, but Zhang Yang is not willing.

What he wants to convey is an oriental and fantasy thing, and what he exports is fantasy culture. The purpose is to let foreign countries accept the fantasy of Dragon Kingdom, rather than the fantasy of combining Chinese and Western.

Moreover, "Shading the Sky" is a purely oriental fantasy novel. If it is about mystery, that would be a different matter.

In the studio.

"Smith, look at this drawing."

Zhang Yang was holding a piece of paper in his hand, and he was explaining it to a blond foreigner beside him.

"This is the scene of the Great Hall of the Taixuanmen in the movie. I want you to make the effect like the ancient palace of the Dragon Kingdom, with carved beams and painted buildings, golden tiles and white walls.

There are cranes fluttering outside and white clouds surrounding it, while the inside is magnificent, majestic and mysterious.

on top of the mountain.

There should be green grass, surrounded by trees, and there should be all kinds of rare animals running and jumping in the forest.

Instead, you told me the feeling of the Western Temple, do you understand? "

Zhang Yang kept explaining, but Smith seemed to understand.

He looked around with the drawing, listened carefully to Zhang Yang's words, and tried to imagine the picture Zhang Yang described in his mind.

After a long while, he came back to his senses.

"Oh. I see. Is it this?"

He found a video on his phone.

In the video, it is a CG of a 3D game masterpiece.

There is a palace in the picture, which is quite mysterious and beautiful.The huge stone pillars support the sky and the earth, and the outer walls of the palace are engraved with various mythological reliefs.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, and thunder and lightning flashed.

outside the palace.

In the darkness, all kinds of ferocious beasts roared one after another.

A big black crane with black feathers, fierce eyes, extremely sharp beak and flashing cold light is particularly conspicuous.

This big black crane let out a sharp and long roar as it swept across the sky.

The dark clouds can't block its light, and the thunder increases its majesty. What a prehistoric giant crane!
Looking at this video, Zhang Yang was dumbfounded.

Rare fairy beasts, green grass, fluttering cranes, surrounded by white clouds, all of them are in the video, but they are completely different from what he expressed.

"It's not like this!"

Zhang Yang roared angrily.

He continued to explain with the sketches again, and took out various videos to analyze one by one. After talking for more than half an hour, he finally let Smith understand what the crane he wanted, the Asgard, looked like.

"This is what I want, understand?"

"I should understand."

Seeing Smith's hesitant expression of understanding, Zhang Yang waved his hand impatiently.

"Go."

He is really tired.

There are thousands of people in the entire production crew, big and small, and he is required to coordinate and arrange them all.

He has to direct the actors and be responsible for filming. As a result, Smith and the other three still can't understand what he wants to express at all, and he can't help but feel exhausted both physically and mentally.

[It's really not easy to shoot a blockbuster special effects movie! 】

[The special effects department of the company needs to be further burdened, and it must be cultivated one day earlier to become the truly top special effects company in China! 】

Very emotional.

Zhang Yang determined in his heart that one day, he would build Xuanyu's special effects department into a top special effects company in the world!
In the future, he will no longer need to find outsiders for all his special effects in movies.

(End of this chapter)