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400,000 hairs, 900,000 pores all over the body... Demystifying the secret behind The Assassination of a Novelist: Marvel visual effects are all done by the Chinese filmmakers themselves

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(CCTV Finance "Tianxia Finance") Although the ticket price of this year's Spring Festival is high, many popular movies have been produced with high-level special effects, which has made many people exclaim that such a visual feast is worth the money. Behind the dazzling big screen is the rising Chinese special effects industry.

In the post-production machine room responsible for the Spring Festival film "Samurai Shodown", the visual effects supervisor restored the production process of the special effects scene of "Scale Tower Melting" to reporters. In order to vividly show the details of the process, the team spent more than half a year, and this special effects production, the technical level is comparable to Hollywood.

400,000 hairs, 900,000 pores all over the body... Demystifying the secret behind The Assassination of a Novelist: Marvel visual effects are all done by the Chinese filmmakers themselves

Liu Song, visual effects director of the Spring Festival film "Samurai Shodown" visual effects company: As early as 20 years ago, Hollywood's strong industrialization system has already made a film as excellent as "The Mummy". In the "Samurai Shodown" project, we also made a bold attempt, a breakthrough from "0 to 1". For example, the assets of "Big Snake Xiangliu", the director is still not satisfied with the snake in the shot to adjust, the previous way we basically have to re-overturn the re-production, but we have this set of settings, it will greatly save time and cost. In our industry, time is of the essence, and we calculate costs by frame and by second.

400,000 hairs, 900,000 pores all over the body... Demystifying the secret behind The Assassination of a Novelist: Marvel visual effects are all done by the Chinese filmmakers themselves

Industry insiders told reporters that in the past, large-scale films that were only available in Hollywood in the United States are now appearing more and more frequently in China. And among them, special effects are a very critical part. For example, the "red-haired ghost" character in the Spring Festival movie "Assassination of a Novelist" is extremely detailed, including 400,000 hairs and 900,000 pores on the whole body, which took two and a half years to complete.

400,000 hairs, 900,000 pores all over the body... Demystifying the secret behind The Assassination of a Novelist: Marvel visual effects are all done by the Chinese filmmakers themselves

Xu Jian, CEO of the Spring Festival film "Assassination of a Novelist" Visual Effects Company: The pore system is actually a worldwide problem. If the pores made of textures, it can only be displaced with the expression, and will not produce the squeezing and stretching deformation of the pores like the pores of real people, and then there are fine lines between the pores, which cannot be done.

Lu Yang, director of "Assassination of a Novelist": It has very powerful visual effects, and it is a very proud thing that these amazing visual effects are all done by Chinese filmmakers themselves.

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(Edited by Zhang Xiaoxuan)

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