Chatty Hollywood

In fact, how to show sufficient acting skills during motion capture has always been a problem.

The difficulty is both technical and performative—

Technically, the current motion capture technology is still very poor at capturing expressions. Until 2004's "The Polar Express", the expressions of characters created using motion capture technology still looked very stiff.

——Even if the actor who captured the action in that animated movie was Tom Hanks, a double Oscar winner.

In terms of performance, the performance required for motion capture is also different from the normal performance method.

——This kind of performance requires more imagination and expression.

Many actors who have excellent acting skills and images during normal filming sometimes perform very average in this aspect.

On the contrary, some actors who are not very good-looking and usually not well-known have unique experience in motion capture performances.

——For example, Zoe Saldana, who became famous in "Avatar" and later became Gamora in "Guardians of the Galaxy", or Andy Serkis.

Especially Andy Serkis, who is known as the king of motion capture.

His portrayal of "Gollum" in the "Lord of the Rings" series and "Caesar" in the "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" series can be said to be milestone achievements in motion capture performance.

——Of course, these are all in Charlotte's original time and space.

In the current time and space, due to the guidance and promotion of Charlotte, the time traveler, Specter Studio has mastered motion capture technology that is much higher than the level of Hollywood at the same time in another time and space.

What's more, as early as when she was filming "The Mummy", Charlotte had already guided people from Spectre Studio and secretly opened the motion capture skill tree.

In the original time and space, it was not until "Avatar" that Cameron gradually solved the problem of capturing facial expressions. Charlotte also directly broke through the window paper.

——Although it is still a bit troublesome to develop miniature motion capture cameras that are hung above the heads of actors and specially used to capture facial expressions, it is considered a dead-end method compared to the dead-end method of relying entirely on external machines to capture facial expressions. A shortcut to the south...

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In short, up to now, the motion capture technology used by the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is much more advanced than Charlotte's original time and space.

——Although it may not have reached the level of "Avatar", after the intensive research of the technical staff of Spectre Studio, it is not far away.

However, because the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean" requires a lot of outdoor shooting, especially the second and third installments, this requires a lot of motion capture work to be done outdoors.

To a certain extent, this will naturally cause additional technical difficulties.

——After all, "Avatar" was shot entirely in a studio.

Fortunately, Charlotte also has a plug-in method called spell effects.

... Generally speaking, in terms of technical aspects of motion capture technology, there is no problem for the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean".

However, the problem of performance experience,

But it can’t be accomplished overnight——

You know, in Charlotte's original time and space, the first large-scale successful application of Hollywood motion capture technology was recognized as "Gollum" in "The Lord of the Rings".

But in this current time and space, it is still only the end of 2000, and the first part of the "Lord of the Rings" series, "The Lord of the Rings," will not be released until next year.

And "Gollum", played by Andy Serkis, will not officially appear until the second "Two Towers".

This leaves Hollywood as a whole with not many actors who are good at motion capture performances.

The crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is certainly no exception.

However, whether it is the crew of the "Black Pearl" who were cursed by the gold coin treasure and turned into "Moonlight Skeletons" in the first part, or the sea monster crew on the "Flying Dutchman" in the second and third parts, , to shoot them well, they all need to perform under motion capture technology.

Especially the octopus-headed captain Davy Jones, his role is very important, comparable to "Gollum" in "The Lord of the Rings".

——It can be said that because of the advance of time, "Pirates of the Caribbean" replaced "The Lord of the Rings" and became Hollywood's pioneer in motion capture technology.

——This is why Charlotte asked Depp and River to study more on how to perform during motion capture.

Of course, he also made other preparations——

Among other things, Andy Serkis, the future "Gollum" and the king of motion capture, was dragged by Charlotte to the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" to follow up on the research on motion capture performance.

To a certain extent, this is actually a case of Charlotte pretending to be self-serving.

After all, Disney is the major investor in "Pirates of the Caribbean". The "Lord of the Rings" series is mainly based on investment from Charlotte's own Spectre Studio.

In this case, Charlotte used Disney's money to research and experiment with motion capture technology, and then let Andy Serkis master it before performing it in the "Lord of the Rings" series she invested in. Naturally, she was taking advantage of Disney. .

However, this is not a problem.

In fact, borrowing other people's money to develop your own technology is very popular not only in Hollywood, but also in technology development fields around the world.

To a certain extent, this can be regarded as an unspoken rule in the industry.

The people at Disney knew this very well, but this part of the investment was inevitable after all, so they allowed Charlotte to do whatever she wanted.

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Currently, the main problem faced by the "Pirates of the Caribbean" crew in terms of motion capture is that the actors generally lack experience in motion capture performances.

Or, according to Charlotte, everyone lacks some imagination more or less.

Charlotte is not helpless about this.

In fact, he used a very good method when filming "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", "The Mummy" and "Sherlock Holmes".

——It is to connect the dreams of the actors participating in the filming.

——To put it simply, let them daydream and shoot at the same time.

In the dream, Charlotte can guide the imagination of the actors to form the illusion they need.

——In this way, the problem of actors’ “lack of imagination” will no longer be a problem.

However, in order to connect everyone's imagination, the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" first had to complete the design of the monster images, so that he could guide and unify everyone's imagination in dreams.

In this regard, Charlotte has been asking the art and special effects department behind the scenes to design it early on.

——After all, he believes in the American view of "prioritize the use of the largest gun".

——This is true whether he is facing ghosts, filming a movie, or his wife Charlize.

What's more, since Spectre Studio has determined the profit maximization policy of movie-game linkage, the various monster image designs in the Charlotte movie can be reused in the linkage game. Naturally, this work cannot be relaxed.

Now, the design of the art and special effects departments is about to be completed, and Charlotte can finally use her ultimate move...

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