OH My God! The creativity behind YOOZ 2nd Gen’s “Fantasy Forest” actually came from…
The rendering time alone took 5000 years…Yes, I didn't make the wrong number. When I found out, I was confused!The special effects crush Avatar, and the plot is comparable to the gourd baby! Horizontal criticism: Otaku subverts Hollywood
I sorted out what I collected..
The Chinese translation of this movie is actually called "Fantasy Forest." To be honest, I am really dissatisfied with this translation. If it weren't for the kindness of others, I would never want to watch a movie called this.
Why don't you call it Animal World?
In fact, this movie can really be called the Animal World because there are thousands of animals in it, and there is only one actor. Moreover, all scenes, including the animals, are made with special effects!
For example, this cute, lazy and greedy brown bear-all special effects!
Don't believe your eyes! It's all illusions!
This story tells the story of a popular Disney story. A baby falls into the forest, is adopted by a wolf pack, is chased by a tiger that has been bullied by humans, and finally conquers the tiger and grows up
Yes, the plot is over in four sentences.
Speaking of which, this is the female wolf who raised the protagonist. She has deep feelings, loyalty and courage, and every hair is filled with tenderness
It's actually all special effects! Ah, blind my writing wheel
On the third day of release, the box office in mainland China had reached 300 million yuan, and the box office in North America also exploded across the board.
Picture: Cheetah, in the story, is equivalent to the role of the male protagonist's father
The creators said that some viewers who did not know the truth asked them:
"How long have you been in the Indian forest? To take such a shot?"
Then the director said,
"Hehe, all our shots were taken in downtown Los Angeles."
For example, the screenshot above actually looks like this.…
Please note that in the monitor on the left, you can see the effect after adding CG in real time
(Popular science, what is CG: It refers to using computers to create animations, which almost means computer special effects)
After watching the behind-the-scenes production process, I really think this little boy's acting skills are excellent.
Another example is the scene of the giant python dubbed by Scarlett charming the young male protagonist with her eyes and voice
Here's the scene
Ah! Movies are all lies!!
In order to get the young male protagonist into the play, there were also many "stunt actors" on the scene, responsible for imitating the movements of CG animals
For example, there is a scene of teasing small animals
The scene at the scene looked like this!
The "actor" who cooperated with him actually had finger puppets!
"Stunt actors" are also quite hardworking
There is also this shocking scene. When the children were performing it, they could not find the state of being suddenly attacked by a tiger and scared out of their wits.
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Finally, the director himself took part in the battle and suddenly roared, which startled the children.
The camera capture was successful! The director also showed a shy smile
Mengwa recalled:
"The director quietly hid behind me. When I saw him, he shouted at me with all his strength, and I was startled."
How did such a powerful special effect be accomplished?
Let's start with this director, who is also the director of the famous Iron Man series
Jon Favreau
In fact, he was originally a Hollywood role player, often showing up for a few seconds in various lame comedies. In 1992, he was favored by the director in "Chasing Dreams with a Pure Heart" and starred in a supporting role. He finally gained some fame
He even made a guest appearance in "Friends"... Now that I said that, I really remembered that it was Monica's rich boyfriend who insisted on practicing boxing. In the end, he was beaten until his mother didn't know her.
However, in Hollywood, where superstars are everywhere, it is difficult for a short-lived little star like him to make a difference. For most of the 1990s, he remained a b-list actor who did not become popular
Probably because he knew that he wasn't good-looking enough and felt that he couldn't become a top actor. So in 1996, he began to try to be a screenwriter."Full Time Prodigal" was the first comedy work he wrote and starred in
He starred as the male lead himself, but he did not attract much attention. On the contrary, it was the second male lead, Vince Vaughan, who received unanimous praise. But no matter what, the film was a success, and he and the second male lead became close friends
It was Vince Vaughan, who stole the scene. With his support, in 2001, Ferreau finally had the opportunity to serve as the director of "Make". From then on, he officially transformed into a film director
In 2003, he directed "The Christmas Elves" was released
In the same period as "The Matrix 3", it actually earned a box office of US$31.11 million in the first weekend. After that, it continued to climb, and finally the global box office was locked at US$220 million.
Fei Ru proudly entered the 200 million yuan directors club and immediately became a hot commercial film director.
Of course, his greatest success was the Iron Man series
He is known as the father of Iron Man's screen
This second-rate actor, who does not have much attainments in acting but loves acting, often arranges for himself to appear in his movies, such as Tony's bodyguard and driver in "Iron Man 1"
This time, Disney turned out to be the one who came to him to shoot a live-action version of the famous animated film "The Forest Prince"
"The Forest Prince" is a very successful animated film released by Disney in 1967. The style of painting at that time was like this
When he first saw it, Fei Ru was still a child. He never dreamed that one day he would have the opportunity to direct this film
To this day, he, who is already a major Hollywood director, can still clearly recall the spectacular scene of the elephant herd marching in the film, the python Khao's "kaleidoscope" that bewitched humanity, and Mowkley riding on the belly of the brown bear Balu and drifting along the creek leisurely.
Fei Ru said:
"When you make a movie like this, you are paying tribute to a lot of masters. You want to remember those precious memories, those memories that have grown up with many people and are deeply emotional, but you also want to make a movie that will appeal to all audiences. This is also the starting point for Disney to make this film."# p#pagination title #e#
When he first received Disney's invitation, Ferreau hesitated because he was so impressed with the original that it was difficult to determine how to improve and expand it.
Alan Horn, president of Disney Pictures, encouraged Ferreau to think differently and use the dazzling computer effects of "Pi" and "Avatar" to shoot the movie
Ferreau turned director from actor to director. His early works such as "The Falling Chef" were films with almost no special effects, but he dared to try and was fascinated by new things. Since "The Christmas Elf", he has gradually become a technology nerd, and the great success of his "Iron Man" is also related to his own understanding of technology
Fei Ru said:
If this kid walked 12 feet, then we made a 12-foot forest set. Each set is specially tailored for a specific shot.
We wanted to see what it would be like to take special effects to the extreme.
He built a technical team that was luxurious even in Hollywood, including photography director Bill Pope (photography director of the Matrix series Spider-Man 23), visual effects director Robert Legato (winner of two golden statuettes of Hugo and Titanic), production designer Christopher Glass, animation director Andrew Jones, live visual effects director Michael Kennedy, and visual effects director Adam Valdez from the MPC
The CG team he invited was the industry leader Moving Picture Company (MPC), which accounted for 90% of the production volume of the entire film.
The other is Weta Digital, which took on a scene with extremely high rendering volume. Both of these are the world's top CG companies
Even with this lineup, they spent a total of more than 5000 years rendering time, and the MPC alone has more than 700 artists, which took more than two years.
Each character must start with digital sculpture and then dig it bit by bit. Gradually, the characters gained color, hair, eyes, and expressions.
As the saying goes: "It is difficult to draw a person or a hand, but it is difficult to draw a tree or a willow." You can't fool what you ignore. To blatantly pretend to sing a real drama, but also to sing brilliantly, that is touching with emotion. Tell a short story with only the most ordinary eyes and voices. I have to say that the director and screenwriter are quite sincere. So we professional artists who are mothers with milk also found a sense of belonging for a moment in the process of bringing such a dream into reality.
--Words from a CG team member
In the end, they completed 1 billion leaves alone and more than 70 ultra-realistic full-CG characters
It is worth mentioning that there is a small Chinese representative team in the MPC. They are responsible for the production of water, scene lighting, and look dep inside.
Like this shot
In the final film, the brown bear Balu sprayed water on the young male protagonist's face, but when actually filmed, the painting style was like this.
During the actual filming, the little boy sang and rode on a piece of foam covered with artificial fur and the same size as Balu, while director Ferjou stood in front of him to guide him. He also used a water pipe to spray water on Sisi's face.
A scene like this when you encounter elephants halfway through a magnificent forest trip
This is mostly the case when filming
It seems that the director must have strong brain filling skills...
Actually, it's not exactly... Ferreau himself knew a lot about technology, and he knew that to achieve this, he would have to use virtual photography technology developed for "Avatar" by director James Cameron and visual effects director Robert Legato
Just like this, the screen on the left is the real scene, and the scene on the right is the scene you see after using virtual photography #p#pagination title #e#
Simply put, this technology can instantly display the special effects behind the scenes on the shooting scene, and the director can observe this rough "performance"
To create a real shot feeling, in fact, this is the exact opposite of CG, which is used to make things impossible for the lens to shoot.
This film completes a new interpretation of CG special effects films
One of the most complex scenes was completed by Weta Studio, which is the scene of the giant ape.
Weta Studio's famous work is "The Lord of the Rings".
Before "Lord of the Rings", they were still an unknown small workshop special effects studio. After the Lord of the Rings, Vita suddenly became the only special effects company in the world that dared to challenge George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic.
One of the most fighting scenes contained nearly 300 monkeys, as well as a large number of plants and stones (><)
Weta has the world's largest rendering farm, with nearly 4000 CPUs running at the same time, which also took 6 months. The total rendering time before and after exceeds 5000 years ~
RenderFarm's three-story building is all water-cooling. However, due to the excessive number of servers and dense, traditional methods have little effect. Weta creatively proposed a new solution to solve this problem:
- Hot air is sucked in by the radiator, the hot air passes through the water-cooled frame, and the air cooled by the water-cooled frame is then circulated from the front of the machine, and so on
- Temperature controlled by computer (~25 degrees)
At the same time, in order to ensure that multiple projects are carried out simultaneously and delivered on schedule, they also have a special security system responsible for the safety of RenderFarm. RenderFarm is guarded in turn and is on alert 24 hours a day
When asked why MPC would hand over this scene to other companies, MPC's friends said that the rendering volume was really too large and it might be difficult to put it in other companies.
Picture: Monkeys on a cliff
And is Weta's little friends struggling? The answer is that while doing this project, we were still rendering BFG, Independence Day 2…
All renderings are submitted normally... What else can I say?
They also made special promotional posters for the Hollywood big-name dubbing
A black panther as severe and loving as a father
A villain who makes people hate to the bones and has to admire his majesty
It not only exudes the aura of maternal love, but also has a brave and resourceful mother wolf
However, I actually went to see this movie just for her-my goddess Scarlett Johansson!
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This two-year production process is a challenge for all production members.
The main creative member said:
After I finished it, I saw a movie I thought about day and night, and I was a few years older.
This is probably the portrayal of many filmmakers.
When asked why he was engaged in this business, one member said casually:
Seeing that the water I made could make bubbles, waves and splashes so realistically, I felt amazing.
As a CG artist, maybe all I have to wait for is just such a simple moment.
Most people never have such a moment in their lives.
