In the recent e3 2019 game show, Cyberpunk 2077 came out on top.
Among the three awards of the exhibition, "2077" alone won the first place in the two awards of "e3 2019 Favorite Game" and "Most Anticipated RPG Game", and threw off the second place.
Someone even shouted: "There are only two games in the world, one is Cyberpunk 2077 and the other is a garbage game." ”
The reason is that in addition to the game's well-made, the cyberpunk theme has also added a lot of points. Why do modern young people love cyberpunk so much, then we have to start with science fiction movies.
For the post-00s, the most moving scene of science fiction movies is a psychedelic dark night in the future, with a lifeless, damp and oppressive street environment, mixed with dark and crowded buildings, and the image space composed of chaotic telephone poles under the uncertain neon lights, a slender sexy punk girl, gloomy, lonely, and resolute, seeking the opportunity to fight back.
Rebellious Cyborg
In the 1980s, the American science fiction writer William Gibson proposed the term "cyberspace" in his novel Neuromancer to describe a "sympathetic illusion", pointing out that cyberspace is a geographically infinite, non-real space in which connections and interactions occur between people, computers and computers, and between people and computers.
The survivors in the cyberspace are the cyborgs, and the rebellious, unconventional cyborgs are the cyberpunks we understand.
Cyberpunk is composed of two words, cyber, which translates as computer, network, high-tech, etc. Punk, originally a musical form, was born in the mid-1970s, and punk music was more about the emancipation of ideas and the anti-mainstream stance. The soaring progress of science fiction has not only promoted the development of the creative industry, but also derived a rich cyberpunk culture.
The so-called cyberpunk culture refers to the post-human men and women in the dystopian future, living and trapped in a world of overpopulation and urban degradation ruled by technology, which is controlled by the infinite divine power of computers, and the daily life of cyberpunk is to fight against this absolute control desperately but completely, and in the end, to become a winner with difficulty.
How cyberpunk looks are crafted
Science fiction movies first set the visual task for the audience, is to help the audience identify the environment and the promoter of several narratives, because the audience often distinguishes the primary and secondary characters through the appearance and timbre of people or objects, and the characters mainly use "face", makeup and dress to verify their position and function in the film narrative, so interpreting the "face" and dress of the characters is the most practical visual task.
So this time we want to explore how the cyberpunk look is achieved.
Cyberpunks in live-action sci-fi films generally have the following aesthetics: techno-tech, rebellious, icy, dark, gloomy, and powerful. In the film, the above characteristics on the one hand through the clothing color, high-tech sensing emphasis on the shaping of functionality - in the design of clothing, weapons, armor and military uniform style are indispensable for combat, hard materials with dull colors, the use of low-brightness colors, embellished with fluorescent colors, presenting a dreamy and strange scientific and technological color.
On the other hand, makeup is used on makeup, such as exaggerated smoky makeup, blood basin mouths, and lip balm that seems to be badly painted with exaggerated eye and lip contours, or eye shadow balm, which is used to highlight the post-human characteristics of the fusion of the human body and the machine.
In live-action animated science fiction movies, because the heroines are not real people in essence, but human-machine fits, stylists usually give them a full face and lip contour, and this silhouette is full of human vitality and attraction. Remember the geisha robot in Ghost in the Shell? She is a super supporting role with a winning style, only showing a small face in the opening scene, but triggering a trend of imitation makeup on the Internet.
Blogger imitation makeup
The book "Ghost Art in the Shell" records the stylistic secrets of the team's creators: "The image of the geisha has a prototype. Japanese actress Lila Fukushima is a model for the mask, and Weta Studio scans her face, combines modern electronic and vintage clockwork designs, and carefully crafts and wears it on the actor's face. The mask is driven by a servo motor hidden in a bun, and wires are secured along the edges of the kimono. ”
Lila Fukushima
This mask, which can present dynamic expressions, allows geisha actors to play directly with others on the set, avoiding the embarrassment of capturing green screen movements and post-processing them in the past. Geisha's "mechanical guts" are equally sophisticated, with director Rupert Sanders and creative director Richard Taylor scouring antique shops for brass artifacts, and even famous watches and music boxes flowing from the Japanese imperial family, just to show the delicately run elements and gears underneath them when the mask opens like petals.
As for the kimono style that is very heavy in the film, the film crew used the imitation glass fiber material developed by the famous Japanese textile designer Reiko Sudo, and processed the hollow patterns such as cherry blossoms with the help of laser cutting, and the gradient dyed silk lining was printed by 3D, which was almost eerie, not inferior to the silicone skin jumpsuit of the heroine Scarlett.
In addition, in the "Alita: Battle Angel" released at the beginning of the year, the shape of the heroine Alita can be described as a "big shape". The film Alita: Battle Angel is based on the novel "Dream" by Japanese manga artist Yukito Kishiro, and is set in the 26th century. Veteran geek James Cameron focused his inspiration on his eyes when creating Alita. "I've been working on this character for 20 years, and I hope that Alita's visual appearance is the same as in the original book, like coming from another world, but very human."
In the film, the heroine has 71 digital special effects costumes, using a total of 125 different wearing styles; more than 2,500 framed images of facial expressions make up her various expressions; and One of Alita's eyes is made of nearly 9 million pixels (The Gollum eye in The Lord of the Rings is only 25,000 pixels).
For the best results, the areas of the mouth and jaw alone took hundreds of hours to study – Alita's face has undergone up to 5,000 renewals, and the team has produced 200 designs through the fusion of various parts of the facial features, through static and dynamic changes, skin texture to light response and other aspects of the test control. For example, in the film, Alita eats oranges at home for less than two minutes, more than 2,000 versions were filmed before and after, and the mouth structure and dynamic adjustments were adjusted more than 100 times in the process.
Mechanization wrestles with nature
Recently, Netflix netfilx's science fiction series "Love, Death and Robots" explores the relationship between man, nature and machinery. The show consists of 18 episodes, each of which is 15 minutes long. At present, the Douban score is 9.3 and the imdb score is 9.0. The series brings together almost all the elements of science fiction: mecha, science fiction, spaceships, blood, eroticism... In the words of director David Finch, "This is a love letter to Geek".
Among them, the audience can see both the live-action animation image and the traditional exaggerated animation image. The character modeling ranges from the traditional 2d to the 3dcg, which is even the pores realistic, with a beautiful comic style with thick lines and a small freshness of the Pixar painting style.
Compared with live-action animated science fiction films that rely entirely on high-tech productions to add points to the modeling, cyberpunk film and television works adapted from novels have reserved more design space for the modeling. For example, Priscity in Blade Runner, the basic entertainment model, "standard equipment for the military clubs of the outer colonies". The character's makeup is bizarre: the face is surprisingly smooth and wrinkle-free, and the makeup artist here seems to use some kind of facial paint for the actor, with a mixture of soft and hard light, so that Prisse's skin looks more like a strange silicone, which immediately reminds people of silicone "dolls".
Charlize theron plays Furiosa in Mad Max 4: Fury Road, she appears in a flat-headed shape, the face T-zone always looks both frosted and smokey, the whole face looks neat, exuding the courage and ability to fight back with a strong and soft Jedi.
Since the development of the classic "Blade Runner" in the 80s, the theme of science fiction movies has always been the tense struggle between mechanized organisms and natural bodies in the apocalyptic world, and the human-machine hybrid undertakes a dystopian rhetoric that expresses similar "similar anxiety with organ transplantation and blood transfusion failure", from this level, as long as your intention is quite high, the post-00s seem to not mind a more avant-garde, weird and even more explosive cyberpunk image.
Cyberpunk's runway use
Just as gothic can be a beauty trend, and space makeup styling can be a tribute to human exploration of space, cyberpunk has also developed into a dress-up culture.
At the AW19 show, the area crystal mesh headdress collection makes people feel dazzled no matter from what angle they look at. The designer also added a bright diamond chain, making it intertwined in this beautiful Bantu knot, permeating a cyberpunk feel.
London makeup prodigy Isamaya sprays a punk-inspired design at the eyes of the model in the eckhaus latta show, like a moving face painting.
Burberry's runway was equally spectacular, with a tight, damp bun of knotted buns created by hairstylist Guido Palau that lingered across the model's forehead like baby's hair, emphasizing a damp hairstyle that complemented London's rainy weather, while also taking on an avant-garde futuristic feel.
The cat's eye makeup on the ASAI runway, as well as the gold leaf decoration on the hand, are still full of future, technology, and a sense of killing cyberpunk.
Although it is not known where cyberpunk will go in the future, it is foreseeable that the combination with fashion and beauty is becoming more intimate, and young people seem to be more accepting of such a closer and closer future.
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