Brad Payton told Zhang Junsheng that in 2012, the crew used a mechanical platform to build a steel, and after the scene was set, the hydraulic and pneumatic control platform mechanical movement was used to simulate the arrival of earthquakes...

The effect of ground cracking can be synthesized using CG, but this part of the ground vibration effect is a real shot.

This platform is very large and is enough to accommodate dozens of people. In this case, the actors' performances are also real...

As for the earthquake plug-in, it was purchased from Hollywood and the price is not high, less than 500,000!

To be honest, Zhang Junsheng meant to let the special effects company develop plug-ins independently, but the time was a bit too short...

And the funds to be invested are a bit too scary!

In fact, the special effects production industry is a low-profit industry.

On the one hand, labor costs are high, and, most importantly, R&D investment is quite large.

Because the technology is updated too quickly, in order to achieve an effect, a software was developed. In less than half a year, the software needs to be upgraded and new software must be continued to be developed in order to catch up with the demand.

Fortunately, many countries are now building their own film industry. For example, Zhang Junsheng’s special effects company has purchased more than a dozen of the top special effects plug-ins at one time...

From the perspective of cost-effectiveness, special effects companies should make advertising special effects, and should be the most cost-effective.

Movies are more about building brands.

In fact, Yuehua Special Effects Company had already participated in the "2012" - it was included in the industry's relatively famous post-production special effects engineers, and then they were responsible for the work, split it up and did it for different small teams, and then finally joined together, Yuehua Special Effects belong to one of them!

Yuehua Special Effects is better at making two-dimensional + three-dimensional backgrounds and animal hair. After all, Yuehua Special Effects cooperates with animation companies every year, and Tian Xiaopeng has a high requirement for animal hair.

...

In the studio, Zhang Junsheng held the horn and shouted: "...No, do it again!"

So far, this shot has been taken four times and there are always flaws.

When a major earthquake arrives and the ground cracks, people often cannot stand firmly. When the ground cracks, the actors should fall.

But during the performance, the actors either fell too early or too late, and their cooperation was not good...

This is normal. Although the platform can simulate the effect of earthquakes, it is still very different from the real earthquake. At least no buildings collapse...

Just as Zhang Junsheng finished shouting, the makeup artist standing by quickly came and went over the actor's face and body, imitating dust.

After about ten minutes, the shooting started again.

The extra, who had already been in place, immediately ran in panic. After only a few steps, he felt the vibration of the crack device under his feet and fell to the ground immediately. At the close-up, Yan Bingyan collapsed to the ground and saw that the ground was torn apart, revealing a huge crack.

The camera continues to move forward with the ground crack sign that had been drawn on the ground, pushing it to the green screen...

In fact, the ground crack model can also be created, but this thing is too time-consuming, and you can use CG to pick it out later. During the preparations in the early stage, you did not deliberately ask for this...

"…How about it?"

“…it should be OK!”

"I also want to take aerial photos at this time to take pictures of the entire Tangshan earthquake..."

"…This is OK, we have prepared for a long time!"

"That's fine!"

I discussed with several special effects engineers and Zhang Junsheng in the group and said that this shot has passed...

This kind of large-scale special effects production, special effects artists and painters who especially hope that later stages must be followed. Just so, Su*zhou Studio is in the film and television city, and there is a special effects company adjacent to it...

Guo Fan: "Director, I want to go to the special effects company to see..."

"I have to go...together!"

...

The audition shooting in Tangshan has ended long ago, and it is now early June!

Abstinence makes people healthy!

Zhang Junsheng is extremely energetic during this period!

He became energetic, and the people under his command were in trouble!

Especially for the special effects company, after every day shooting, he pulled the special effects engineer to talk about the effects of the earthquake...

It's normal. "Tangshan Earthquake" has invested 380 million yuan so far. According to the special effects company's estimates, it will not be able to obtain 500 million yuan!

Just relying on the mainland market is unlikely to recover costs...

So, there must be a big scene!

It is difficult to sell overseas without big scenes. Ma Xiaokang's "Tangshan Earthquake" has a box office of only tens of thousands of dollars in North America. Why?

There are too few special effects shots, and they are almost all partial shots. Without large scenes, they look particularly stingy and cannot be compared with Hollywood blockbusters, and are not attractive to overseas audiences.

Guo Fan followed Zhang Junsheng to Yuehua Special Effects.

Xie Ning proudly displayed the designed 3D model picture!

It is a panoramic view of Tangshan from the air. The picture is black and white, a monochrome 3D architectural model, and there is no colored sticker yet.

The coloring stickers were outsourced and handed over to Tiangong Qicai…

Although it is monochrome, it is all 3D-made architectural models, and it is still quite shocking to watch on the screen!

Guo Fan widened his eyes and couldn't help but exclaim: "Wow!"

"…This is where you go? Let's look down!"

Guo Fan quickly stared at the screen, and suddenly, a shocking scene appeared.

The whole picture begins to sway, and the houses in the picture begin to collapse, first bungalows, then cement buildings; the collapse states of houses are completely different, some houses collapse in whole, some are connected together, some are collapsed from top to bottom, and some are slowly tilted before collapse...

Not finished yet, the close-up scene was cut, and the character model also appeared in the earthquake...

Yan Bingyan escaped desperately, then looked helplessly at the collapsed house behind her...

After looking at Guo Fan who was a little stunned, Zhang Junsheng was a little proud: "How is it?"

“…Shocking…How long did this scene last?”

"It will last for five minutes no matter what, and there will be two aftershocks..."

"Then... is there time?"

"…It's probably too late...it's up to you to celebrate the New Year!"

"ah?"

"So, hurry up and shoot "You, My Deskmate"!"

"Tangshan Earthquake" is no matter how fast it is, it will take at least eight months to make it impossible to catch up with the Lunar New Year holiday...

But Zhang Junsheng didn't want to give it to him with a wave of his hand.

Six months is enough for a youth film to release and make money...

Guo Fan changed the topic: "Director, we really can't convert the 3D version?"

“…Old Xie, is it difficult to convert this part to 3D?”

"It's not difficult at all, special effects lenses are very suitable for converting 3D!"
Chapter completed!