Chapter 1419 1419 Technical Otaku

Hugo only felt that his head was big, because he knew very little about these technical things, but now George's piercing eyes made him unable to retreat, and he could only bite the bullet and explain, "I just heard there's a technology called optical motion capture..."

"Yes, I know this, I have heard of it, Motion. Analysis." Hugo was not familiar with this, but George was very familiar with it, and he mentioned it, "At that time, Arnold was shooting 'full Recall (Total. Recall)' has used this technique." George is familiar with it, "but this technique is very troublesome. During the shooting process, the actor needs to be connected with wires all over his body, and then every light point is recorded by the computer, Edit again."

Hugo nodded immediately, "Yes, this is the kind of technology I'm talking about." Anyway, he didn't know that such a technology was used in "Total Recall", but it sounded like, "But have you considered, Through more light points - but not the light points directly connected by wires, it may be similar to the green screen technology, which uses the light source and the contrast of the light to create light point sensing, which can be sensed through the air without wires. Then The actual performance of the actors is recorded with camera footage, back in the studio, and then computerized effects are used to create incredible characters...like, uh, orangutans? Monsters? Aliens?"

Hugo said only scales and claws, and he was very amateur. He could only try to explain it according to his understanding. As for the working principle and production method, he knew nothing about it.

But these words sounded like a thunderbolt in George's ears, and the layers of fog were cleared away to reveal a whole new world.

"If this is the case, it will not only save countless hours of work, but also take the computer effects to a higher level!" George's eyes lit up immediately, and he punched Hugo hard on the shoulder, and the hard fist clearly showed At this time, George was excited.

Before the maturity of motion capture technology, special effects workers had to use computers to make pictures frame by frame, which is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also the most important thing is that the images produced by the computer are still different in terms of realism, even if the computer No matter how realistic the special effects are, there is still a gap in texture.

However, through motion capture technology, the staff can improve on the basis of the actor's performance. In layman's terms, it is to create a character with a computer, and then put the character on the actor like a dress, and the actor completes the performance. This greatly reduces the workload of computer technicians.

More importantly, the effect presented is more realistic, especially the facial expression capture technology has really reached a mature stage, which allows the staff to collect the expression data of real actors, and then use the computer to simulate the most realistic expressions of virtual characters—— Every detail makes it impossible to tell whether the character is a computer character or a real actor.

Of course, computer-generated characters are still different from real actors. After Robert Zemeckis was completely immersed in the world of motion capture special effects, he created "The. Polar. Express" and "Beowulf (The. Polar. Express)". Beowulf)” is a representative, in which the characters are lifelike, but there is always a strange valley effect - that is, the eyes of real characters cannot be captured, which leads to the computer characters always having a pair of dead fish eyes, It looks very weird.

Therefore, even if the motion capture technology has gradually been perfected and crossed the weird valley, in addition to special works such as "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", this technology is still more used for virtual characters, such as " Avatar", such as "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". It is most appropriate to use an actor to play a live-action role directly.

"Tell me more about your thoughts." George looked at Hugo with great interest, which made Hugo feel a little overwhelmed, because he didn't know much about the truth.

"No, that's all I know." Hugo had already passed the first difficulty, and he would never let himself fall into another difficulty. In fact, Hugo didn't lie either, and that's all he had about his superficial knowledge of motion capture technology.

George didn't understand Hugo's shirk at all, and waved his hands again and again with a smile, "I'm not asking what you know, but what you're thinking. As I said just now, a person's wisdom is limited, we Need to communicate, more communication, let our thoughts collide, and then generate more sparks. Didn't you say it too? Many times, it is the most interesting thing to turn whimsical ideas into reality ."

Without waiting for Hugo to refuse, George excitedly walked to the extension on the side and dialed the extension number, "Let all the guys who don't have jobs at hand come to the battle room, and we will have a small tea party."

Then Rick and the others, who were resting outside, saw that the whole building began to riot, and people appeared from all corners, swarming towards the battle room, as if preparing for some kind of celebration. Rick and Joseph looked at each other, they both knew Hugo was in the battle room, but... so what's going on?

At this time, Hugo was standing in the room, but his face was helpless. How did this matter develop to this point? Why did he say the wrong thing? Is there any room for recovery now?

Apparently not.

There were bursts of "hula la", and the entire battle room was crowded with more than 20 people. Hugo tried to stand in the crowd to hide his tracks, but was pulled out by George with a smile. As a result, Hugo Like a fool, standing in the center with George was baptized by the sight of countless people.

Hugo felt very embarrassed, even if he stood in front of the camera for the first time, even if he was on the stage for the first time, he was not so embarrassed, because this is not the field that Hugo is familiar with, to be precise, this is Hugo He is a complete layman in a field he doesn't know anything about, but now he wants to discuss motion capture technology with these technicians? This is definitely called "spiritual baptism".

Hugo stood in the same place and couldn't laugh or cry. George had already started to raise his voice to explain the conversation just now. He also put forward his thoughts in detail. In an instant, the surrounding voices came one after another. The lively scene was definitely not inferior to the United Nations discussion conference. Samora, who was standing at the door to watch secretly, was stunned and couldn't believe the scene in front of her.

"So, Hugo, tell us what you think." George interrupted the discussion and said, "I know you're not a technician, but you can talk to us about you as an actor. The idea. Or the identity of the screenwriter."

Hugo took a deep breath and cheered himself up, as long as he came, at least he knew how high the future motion capture technology had developed, didn't he? Now it's not for him to develop this technology, so... so, there is no need for his hands to tremble!

"Uh, this makes me feel like I'm teaching economic principles to Nobel economists, huh..." Hugo's joke made the whole room laugh, which gave Hugo a little courage - just A little bit, "Actually, I just thought, if you need to show me the changes of different age groups, how can you do it with computer technology? You also know that even if you look for actors of different age groups, they are still different from me, There are also differences in details such as performances, habits, voices, etc. Of course, I can't really rejuvenate. So, maybe you can achieve it through computers."

In fact, what Hugo is talking about is the effect in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Before that, the crew either chose different actors to play different age groups of the same character, or it was like "Boyhood". It takes twelve years for a film to truly document the growth of an actor, just like a documentary. But "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was performed by Brad Pitt from beginning to end. The crew used motion capture technology to record Brad's expression, and then used a computer to create the age difference, like a headgear, put it on To different stunt performers, showing differences in height, skin, and limb conditions at different ages, but the real performance is still done by Brad alone.

"Or you can use real people to play aliens, not aliens like 'Alien E.T', but aliens with real expressions, real emotions, you use real people to play the characters, and then Using computer effects to bring characters to life." Hugo is saying "Avatar," and while he doesn't know how it's done, the energy James Cameron and Weta Studios have brought to the work is enough to load history.

"According to what you said, we can use motion capture to record a database of people's movements, and then use the computer to create thousands of different people based on this action database when making a big scene where people gather, and then real It can complete the magnificent scene, and at the same time save time and money." One of the voices came out of the corner.

Then someone said, "But what about facial expressions? We can easily capture the movements of the characters, but what about the expressions and eyes?" Obviously, these professional technicians noticed the possibility of the existence of the Weird Valley for the first time.

"I heard James mention it last time. He said that he can use a headgear, and then use a head-mounted camera to record expressions at close range, and then make them through a computer..."

"Head cover? But facial expressions are made up of so many muscles, and there is no way to capture light motion so delicately!"

"George, James isn't talking to you about the extras today. I watch his big ship movie, and I can use this motion capture technology to create thousands of people based on the motion database. Anyway, these people are all It's the background, and the audience can't see their expressions."

"But is motion capture technology really reliable?"

"Optical motion capture technology is too immature now. If you need to use this technology, you should at least start from here. I personally think..."

The discussion in front of him became more and more lively, and Hugo was completely submerged in it, but he could not help but wipe the sweat from his forehead, fortunately he was finally out of focus, "The world of technical otaku is terrible, I'll still be a good actor. your job."