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Chapter 816 The Fight Between Senior Brothers

After Qiye handed over the special effects request to Jiufeng's special effects department, he temporarily let go of the matter.

To be honest, whether today's special effects technology can make an actor rejuvenate in appearance is still unknown.

Although Qiye is not a professional technical worker, he has done so many special effects movies, and he still has a bit of a sense of film technology.

It is not that simple to achieve a complete replacement of an actor's face.

The special effects technology needed to rejuvenate the first emperor is far more complicated than that of the producer Ma Xiangyu.

After all, the audience knows that such inhuman characters are not human, so some details can be slightly blurred.

But it is not so simple to use special effects to "make up" people decades younger.

This is even completely different from the head-changing technology that appeared in "Captain America".

In "Captain America", showing the weak Steve Rogers is not so difficult.

Just let the smaller stand-in perform in front of the camera separately from Chris Evans.

Then just cut out Chris Evans' head and put it on the smaller actor.

There is basically no difficulty in the whole process, just pay attention to the position of the head and paste it correctly, and cut out the picture cleanly.

But the "rejuvenation" requested by Qiye is not such a simple job of cutting and pasting.

To make the special effects look like real ones, it is necessary to model the actor's face to ensure that every detail of the actor's face is seamless.

To achieve this, the special effects equipment must capture the facial data of the actors in as much detail as possible.

This requires high equipment precision, and Qiye doesn't know if Jiufeng's team can do it at this stage.

Qiye is very clear that the most troublesome and difficult part in the production of CGI special effects is the production of human faces.

No matter how subtle the expression on the actor's face is, when it is processed by the computer, it is the data of hundreds of facial points.

So far, even in Hollywood, there has been no attempt to "make up" actors with pure CG means.

After all, the cost is too high, and the price/performance ratio is so low that no special effects studio will develop related technologies.

The common practice in the film industry nowadays is to let the actors solve this kind of problem through makeup.

Or simply find another actor to replace the relevant passages.

The major Hollywood film producers are all smart, they would not be so kind to take the initiative to develop this kind of thankless technology.

And this situation will not change completely until a movie is born.

The name of the movie is "Fast and Furious 7".

Because the film's star Paul Walker died in a car accident during the filming of the film.

As a result, the film project could not go on for a while.

Generally speaking, when a film crew encounters this kind of thing, they can only change actors for reshoots.

But "Fast 7" had already filmed a considerable part at that time, and Paul was the leading actor.

If the actors are to be replaced, most of the previous materials will be wasted, and the investment cost will be greatly increased.

So Universal and film director James Wan made a very risky and unconventional decision.

They decided to resurrect Paul Walker on screen.

The stakes were high, but they worked out.

Not only does "Fast 7" retain the traditional flavor of the series, but it also makes people all over the world miss Paul Walker, an actor who was not very famous before.

And in order to make Paul Walker appear on the screen as perfectly as possible.

The method adopted by director Wen Ziren is to first let Paul's two younger brothers perform in front of the camera.

In the later stage, special effects technology was used to "make up" the younger brother in the camera into an older brother.

Although the price of doing so is very high, it even caused the delay of the film.

But the result of all this effort is worth it.

Relying on Paul Walker's sentimental card, the box office of "Fast 7" can be said to soar compared with the same series.

For the entire film industry, the special effects makeup technology applied in "Fast 7" can be regarded as a benefit for everyone.

But what is more interesting is that although Universal is the film company that developed this technology.

But it was Disney who was the first to use it on the screen.

The scene of Peggy getting old in "Captain America 2" should be the earliest screen result of this technology.

Earlier than this, there are not no movies that use special effects to "make up", but basically they all have big flaws.

I don't know if I have benefited from this technology. Disney will also use this technology the most in the future.

Disney has used this technology in films like Civil War, Pirates of the Caribbean 5, and Endgame.

Qiye now hopes that what Jiufeng's special effects part will do is to develop this "makeup technique" in advance.