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There are 2 special effects in this world
One is the 5 cent special effect
The other is called weta studio special effects
You may not have heard of Vita Studios, but you must have seen their work. There is a saying in the film special effects industry around the world: There are two kinds of special effects in this world, one is called Wumao special effects, and the other is called weta studio special effects.
Epic wars in The Lord of the Rings
Fantastic scenes from Avatar
Realistic equipment and weapons from warcraft movies
Weta Studios tells us that there is no boundary between illusion and reality.
Sister Shi actually wanted to open an issue long ago to talk about the special effects of film special effects, and today the opportunity has finally come! Film special effects are an extremely important part of the entire film art production, and special effects provide strong technical support for the film and create a unique visual environment for the audience.
In the centenary history of the Hollywood film industry, these films can be called milestones in film special effects. The nearest ladder is difficult to use, but The sister still found it all for you
Produced in 1982, Electronic World Wars is far from being the best film of all time, but it is one of the most creative films of all time.
In fact, "Electronic World Wars" is also the first film in history to make extensive use of computer-generated graphics. The production process of the film was very complicated, involving more than 500 people in post-production alone. And because computer equipment was scarce at the time, a team of eight people in charge of CG had only one computer available in total, and this guy was equipped with a 300MB disk module the size of today's dishwasher.
Although "Electronic World Wars" did not end up as a box office hit as "Star Wars" or become a film history classic like "2001: A Space Odyssey", it opened the door of cinema to the computer world and became the first science fiction film to depict virtual space in the true sense.
Terminator 2 is a 1991 sci-fi action film, the sequel to the 1984 film Terminator, directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
It was also the first film in history to invest more than $100 million. It should be said that the large number of special effects shots used in the film of "Terminator 2" is also a big reason for the film to win the Oscar that year.
Among them, the transformation of the villain T-1000 alone took a full 8 months and cost $5 million to finally complete.
Jurassic Park is a 1993 science fiction adventure film based on the novel of the same name published by Michael Clayton in 1990, produced by Universal Pictures. In order to truly present the behemoths of ancient times in the film, Spielberg specially hired two gold medal producers to make electronic dinosaurs and dynamic dinosaurs in the long-range picture.
Among them, the famous film special effects production company Industrial Light and Magic successfully created for the first time in this film that can breathe with real skin, muscle and action texture created by digital technology.
Premiering on June 9, 1993 at the National Museum of Architecture in Washington, D.C., the film grossed $81.7 million in its first week and eventually grossed more than $900 million worldwide, making it the most successful commercial film of its time, a record that was not broken by Titanic until five years later.
Toy Story is a three-part Pixar animated series of films, launched by Walt Disney Pictures in collaboration with Pixar Animation Studios.
Toy Story 1 was the first animated film to use entirely computer animation technology, and was released in North America on November 22, 1995. As the first fully computer-generated animation, Toy Story 1 takes between 4 and 13 hours to make each frame according to the complexity of the camera.
The entire working system consists of 87 dual CPUs and 30 Sparc workstations with 4CPUs, aided by a Sparc1000 server. The film is revolutionary in terms of theme, technology, processing and other aspects, and spent hundreds of millions of production costs, took four years to complete, the project is breathtaking.
The Matrix is a 1999 action, sci-fi film by Warner Bros. Pictures about a young cyber hacker, Neo, who discovers that the seemingly normal real world is actually controlled by a computer artificial intelligence system called The Matrix.
Neo is guided by a mysterious girl to meet Morpheus, the leader of the hacking order, and the three embark on a journey to fight the Matrix. Audiences who watched the film for the first time at the time probably had the feeling that they had no idea what they were watching, because they simply couldn't imagine how the shots were made.
In the entire film, "bullet time" is perhaps the most widely circulated set of shots. It is reported that before shooting this set of shots, the crew will first preview the action scene of the bullet moment, which will involve a lot of martial arts action and stunts, to imagine such an action scene in advance, and then make a CG preview effect according to this idea. After understanding the scene to be made, then use the creativity to piece together the entire action in the mode of 3D scene.
Ancient Roman epic blockbusters like Gladiator are no stranger to us, but since actor Oliver Reed died of a heart attack during filming, the producers had to recreate some scenes where he appeared and use his 3D CGI face.
Although the total length of this retrospective is only about 2 minutes, its special effects production costs as much as $3.2 million.
At a time when even the Oscars had to start acknowledging actors who appeared in movies only through computer-specific effects CG, Andy Serkis' role in The Lord of the Rings was the most well-known fictional character.
In fact, The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson originally planned to use computer animation to generate the image of Gollum, so Serkis's initial job was to voice the character and briefly play Smegger when Gollum was in the mirror. But things didn't go as smoothly as expected, and despite Serkis' efforts to inject emotion into the voice, he found himself completely unable to fit in, so he consulted with Jackson and asked for the use of motion capture technology to play the role himself. As an important character in the "Lord of the Rings" series of movies throughout the book, Gollum's infinitely old body and gray and rough skin are all derived from computer special effects, and the complexity of the double personality alternating madness, perversion and desire is entirely due to Andy Serkis's excellent acting skills.
Except for the main cast, all the scenes in the film "Colonel Sky and Tomorrowland" were generated by computers, and all the filming work was done through blue screen technology.
It is reported that there are more than 2,000 special effects shots in this film, and the whole film took only 29 days to shoot. If it is not all blue screen technology but the traditional shooting, the film may take 1 year to shoot.
Directed by Cameron and directed at nearly $500 million, Avatar is undoubtedly one of the most complex films of all time. The 2.5-hour film contains 1,600 shots, and the difference between films like Avatar and King Kong is that it's not about one, but about hundreds of photorealistic CG characters.
In fact, at the beginning of the film' preparation, Cameron had done special effects tests, but the results of this multi-million dollar test were not ideal, because the computer-generated "Avatar" was like a dead man. That's why he finally decided to use motion capture technology, which requires the actor to wear a special costume with a lot of induction balls on it, and the actor's expression movements are transmitted to the computer through them and attached to the virtual characters generated by the computer animation.
Fortunately, the actual effect of this device is very good, it can track many subtle movements of the actor, such as frowning, twitching nose, glance of the eyes, lips, teeth, tongue and chin linkage, etc. 95% of the actors' performances are perfectly copied to their animated characters, which was completely unimaginable before.
"Inception" tells the story of a dreammaker played by Leonardo who leads a team of agents played by Joseph Gordon Levitt and Ellen Page into other people's dreams, steals secrets from others' subconscious, and reconstructs others' dreams.
Moreover, the film's director, Christopher Nolan, has never been a conformist director, and he has successfully expressed his unique style in this film. Because Nolan likes to set up and shoot live, and likes traditional model technology, the film does not rely on computer CG technology much. As a result, the producers did a lot of mechanical engineering for the film, such as building spectacular sets in the huge airport shed, including a bunker in the snowy mountains of the third floor of the Dreamland, a Japanese palace in the "Lost Domain" dream, a hotel lobby bar that can tilt 30 degrees, and an elevator that sits horizontally on the floor.
Moreover, these mechanical sets also succeeded in achieving results that computers could not, and won the film eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
Relevant institutions
Art and design colleges in many countries will set up such related majors, and some majors will involve special effects courses, such as film and television production, editing, animation, etc. Students who love this industry and want to embark on the path of special effects masters from now on may wish to learn about these Visual Effects Schools.
Savannah College of Art and Design
(SCAD)
The Savannah School of Art and Design offers visual effects programs at its Savannah headquarters, Atlanta and Hong Kong campuses, including motion capture venues, and a program called "SCADpro" offers students the opportunity to work with the real world, such as NASA, Google and others.
Academy of Art University
The University of the Arts of San Francisco offers campus and online teaching programs in animation and visual effects, as well as bachelor of arts, master of arts and master of arts degrees, as well as "StudioX", which is an advanced set of courses in which students simulate actual project scenarios and complete specified creative content under the guidance of tutors. Wishing Box, an animated short film from StudioX, directed by Lizzie Zhang, a graduate of the school, was nominated for the 2019 Oscar.
Vancouver Film School(VFS)
The school's School of 3D Animation and Visual Effects offers one-year software teaching programs, including Maya and Nuke, while also combining one-on-one coaching sessions with experts from Vancouver's locally renowned studios such as ILM and Imageworks. Vanessa Jacobsen, director of animation and visual effects, the director of animation and visual effects, believes that the entire major will continue to work hard to maintain a leading position in different directions, especially three-dimensional animation.
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