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Under the premise of tight time and heavy tasks, the three directors jointly directed it, divided the work and collaborated, and finally merged into a unified style. Especially as a war film, the film has a huge amount of special effects, and the special effects team has completed almost impossible tasks. Beijing News reporter interviewed Xu Jian, the special effects director of the film and the founder of the special effects company MORE VFX, and listened to him telling the story of the film's special effects production. MORE VFX is the main special effects team of the science fiction film " Wandering Earth " directed by Guo Fan. " Assassination of Novelist " directed by Lu Yang and will be released next Spring Festival, currently being produced by Xu Jian's special effects team. Because of the cooperation, the cooperation between "King Kongchuan" has become more convenient for communication, and everyone is familiar with each other's work and creative habits.
"King Kong River" poster.
movie special effects and crew preparation work were simultaneously carried out
"King Kongchuan" To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army's going abroad to fight against the U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, it intercepted a history of the Jincheng Battle in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. On July 12, 1953, if the Volunteer Army's wanted to arrive at the main battlefield of Jincheng, it had to pass a bridge before 5 a.m. the next day, and the US military sent bombers to bomb the bridge body many times. The film presents this story from three perspectives: the Volunteer Army Engineer Company who built the bridge, the US Air Force and the Volunteer Air Defense Anti-aircraft Artillery. The last three lines gathered together to complete the crossing of the Volunteer Army's large forces. The special effects of the
movie and the preparations for the crew are carried out simultaneously. When the movie was just being prepared, Xu Jian followed the crew to Dandong to watch the scene. After just watching the scene, the director basically completed the storyboard . Xu Jian conducted 4 days of virtual shooting based on the director's storyboard and cut the materials for another 3 days, laying the foundation for the subsequent work.
Stills from "King Kong River".
The entire air force part of this film, including the air combat footage in the sky, the ground part seen from the sky looking down at the camera, the entire mountain, woods, cornfields, bridges, and troops soldiers across the bridge. The ground was blown after the B29 bomber dropped the incendiary bomb, is basically made in pure CG. Because if you use the drone to shoot the camera from the sky, the speed and altitude will not achieve the desired effect, and the entire shooting conditions are extremely difficult. Several groups are stationed there, and the woods and corn fields on the ground are basically shot in real time. Xu Jian did not want to cause trouble for the crew of the actual time, and most of them were completed with digital special effects.
We have prepared the materials and distributed them to everyone to
fighters who build bridges, fighters who cross the river, and fighters who carry bridges below. These special effects have a lot of intersections, all of which require a large number of cluster animations, and the clouds in the sky also require a lot of calculations, and the technical difficulty and workload are extremely large. Xu Jian is responsible for more than 400 special effects lenses, and more than 100 of them have been completed within MORE VFX.
Xu Jian said that the special effects of "King Kongchuan" that the audience sees on the screen now is a work completed by many domestic special effects companies. The MORE VFX is also subcontracted to many domestic and foreign teams, and these companies help with special effects assets, scanning data repair and other work. Xu Jianhe's team first completed all the special effects assets, shots, and animations, and then distributed them to these partners. They then used the digital assets and special effects assets that had been tested to refine the animations to complete the final things. Xu Jian compared his team to Central Kitchen . "We prepared all the ingredients, then stir-fry the key dishes and sent them to various chain stores. Everyone took our ingredients and made them according to the dishes we had cooked. This is probably the same pattern."
is so tired that he can't sleep.
. The time is tight and the task is heavy. After receiving the project "King Kong River", Xu Jian formulated a strict periodic process table. "You can't work without a periodic table." How long does the assets take, how long does the animation take, how long does the special effects take, and how long does the synthesis take, are all planned. Before "King Kong River", Xu Jian's team had several projects on hand, and several films were to be in the Spring Festival next year. After receiving "King Kong River", he focused all his strength and energy on the production of "King Kong River".
In the past few months, Xu Jianhe's team has overloaded every day, working for 17 or 8 hours a day, sometimes nearly 20 hours. "If you are so tired, just sleep." A colleague was too tired to work overtime, but accidentally fell to the ground and knocked off his teeth. Although
is facing high-intensity work, after finishing this film, Xu Jianhe's team has a great sense of accomplishment, as if he was reborn in a fire, and making this film does have great practical significance. "Everyone can really feel that we are making this movie for the hero who is sleeping, and doing it with vision This is quite exciting. The
aircraft lens is based on CG plus model
films of the Air Force lenses are basically completed by CG, but some mid-shots with performances or close-up parts of people are shot in the studio. At that time, the special effects team made several aircraft cockpits of different sizes, and the actors sat in the cockpit model built to complete the performance. The
aircraft air strike lenses are basically completed by special effects and models, and the workload is very large.
night scenes add difficulty to the production. There are many night scenes in
films, which have advantages and disadvantages for special effects production. Xu Jian said that because the brightness of night scenes is not high, many things are not seen so clearly, and there are some ugly things for the special effects production, which is a little more pleasing. However, because the light in the night scene is very difficult to control, it also increases the difficulty of the special effects production. If the light is not done well, it will not only be bad, but it will also appear particularly fake. The light during the day will not change much, and a constant light source may be enough. But the lighting information of the night scene is complicated, which will increase the difficulty of some explosion and ballistic special effects production.
Beijing News reporter Teng Chao
edited by Huang Jialing Proofreader Liu Yue
Source: Beijing News Network
