Lu Beijing entered the set on time - although, he did not meet the director.

The director is in Japan.

However, there is a full set of animation film camera crew, makeup crew, costume crew and other personnel here. These people used to work as outsourcing animation production and are already very familiar with CG characters.

This is the first time for Lu Beijing to cooperate with such a complete animation film production company, everything is a new experience.

First of all, the company bosses and a large number of middle managers are all Japanese, Americans, Koreans, Indians, and a small number of Chinese.

The common languages ​​in the company are Japanese and English, with a small amount of Chinese and a large amount of hodgepodge. It is very normal to say Japanese, English and Chinese together in one sentence. Indian-flavored English is also very contagious.

Secondly, the company’s management is very strict and has a rather troublesome hierarchy.

When Lu Beijing came back here for the first time, the company boss and middle management lined up at the gate to greet him, and there were flowers after he entered - this was the first day.

From the first day, whenever he appeared, whether it was the elevator, the lobby or the corridor, a bunch of people would give way when they saw him, stand aside and salute him and say hello, and even those who almost hid in other offices quickly to prevent him from seeing him.

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This allowed Lu Beijing to experience Japanese company culture even though he did not go to Japan.

Finally, as a big star who came to film a movie, Lu Beijing received the highest standards of treatment. The company assigned him a special car, two assistants, a translator, and a supervisor who followed him every day and was responsible for handling everything about him.

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Fortunately, as long as you enter the studio, all this can be overcome.

Japanese directors still work hard, and they do a pretty good job.

There is a problem with Lu Beijing's image this time. Brother Monkey has long hair. But the investor, Du Haifeng, believes that it is impossible not to show Lu Beijing's handsome face, which is contradictory.

With hair, a person is not handsome enough; without hair, he does not look like a monkey.

A Japanese director designed a process of transforming a human face into a monkey face, with burning music, cold white clouds, golden light and other special effects.

As soon as this crude little animation was created, it immediately captured the hearts of investors!

Even Lu Beijing was a little moved after watching the short animation.

——Although its essence is the famous transformation link of Japanese animation.

Lu Beijing's first shooting plan after joining the group was to shoot this transformation session.

It’s not just about shooting one shot, it’s about shooting a few more, and then you’ll have to make a choice when watching the movie.

The Japanese director designed many scenes.

The first and most glamorous one is during the riot in the Heavenly Palace. Brother Monkey is wearing a robe, a purple gold crown on his head, holding the sea-fixing needle in his hand, and transforming in the sea of ​​clouds and the universe.

The first one is being crushed at the foot of Wuzhi Mountain, surrounded by rocks, earth and trees falling from the sky. Monkey Brother transforms in grief and anger but is still crushed. This must be accompanied by heavy rain and tragic burning music.

The third one must be the transformation that jumped out from under Wuzhi Mountain, with thousands of auspicious auras and golden light.

These three are the more important transformations and must be photographed.

The other two are about quick transformations when fighting monsters, which require local materials. The Japanese director designed the scene of the Flame Mountain according to the preferences of the Japanese people, and the whole body is on fire. There is also a fight against the White Bone Demon, in the White Bone Mountain.

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I also designed a funny transformation, with flowers, flocks of birds, warm sunshine, and a cute style.

Japanese directors believe that transformation is the most important part, and it is also the easiest part to make a character stand out. It can easily boost morale in a movie, and the audience loves to watch it.

Investors agree very much with his point of view, after all, the transformation is really beautiful when photographed.

Lu Beijing: "..."

He had nothing to say.

He had no choice but to work hard on filming the transformation.

Liu Wei originally wanted to watch, but when she heard that he had been filming for a week without any plot, and kept doing "spinning and jumping with eyes closed" in front of the green screen, she gave up the idea of ​​going to the studio.

Lu Lu was also helpless. He knew that Lu Beijing didn't want to play a simple character without any connotation, and he didn't like this kind of performance that only focused on special effects. But this is the current trend. The previous movies that focused on shaping characters and exploring the characters' hearts have gone out of fashion.

, the audience may still like to watch it, but it is not their favorite.

But shooting like this is not hard work, nor is it easy.

During the first week when Lu Beijing joined the team, Liu Wei heard that he hadn't finished filming yet, so he went there with a coffee sandwich from the visiting team.

When she passed by, Lu Beijing was filming the transformation scene of being crushed under Wuzhi Mountain.

The studio is covered with green screen, and the staff are standing on the far periphery. There is only a sloping high platform in the middle, about three meters. The high platform is also covered with green screen to facilitate future special effects.

Lu Beijing wore tight-fitting black clothes, and his exposed limbs, head and face were all painted with oil paint, and his face was densely covered with spacers to capture expressions.

There are wires tied to his back and waist. One wire rope hangs his back from the ceiling, and the other hangs his waist from the ground. This way, when he jumps down, he can control the speed and direction, and move smoothly down the slope.

Running forward. It was shot like this in "The Legend of King Wu".

As soon as the director on the sidelines called start, Lu Beijing swung his legs and ran down. However, because Wia was controlling it, although his movements were big and exciting, his speed was actually not very fast, because he was just running on empty.

When he finally landed on the ground, he ran forward to the edge of the green screen before stopping. This time the shooting was over.

The staff moved and came to help Lu Beijing untie the wire rope so that he could move freely.

Lu Beijing walked to the sidelines and wanted to discuss the next scene with the director. This director was not a Japanese director. He was only responsible for telling everyone on the scene, including the actors, the Japanese director's instructions.

At this time, Lu Beijing saw Liu Wei.

He nodded to her, pointed to his assistant, and continued walking toward the director.

Lu Beijing's assistant came over and said, "Wei Wei, let's go to the lounge first. Brother Lu will be here soon."

She entered the lounge, and his assistant closed the door and helped put the food and drinks for the visiting team on the table.

She asked: "How was the filming? Was it hard?"

The assistant complained in a low voice: "It's so hard! I have to run and dance like this every day without even a single line. It's so torturous."

Liu Wei asked in a low voice: "No lines?"

The assistant's voice became softer and he shook his head: "No! There are no lines to say yet. It's all action scenes. I even want Brother Lu to use a stunt double. What's the point of shooting this kind of scene? What's more, it's shot here.

It’s finished. It will all be covered with CG in the later stage, and maybe the real person’s face won’t be shown.”

Liu Wei whispered: "You don't need a real person's face?"

Lu Beijing pushed the door open and came in, looking at the two of them: "What are you talking about when you squeeze together and whisper."

The assistant went out shouting: "I didn't say anything, I didn't say anything. Brother Lu, you can rest, I'll go out to smoke."

Lu Beijing went to the table to pick a cup of coffee and brought it over. While drinking, he asked her: "How is your dancing going?"

Liu Wei: "It still bothers me when I walk, but it doesn't bother me anymore when I jump. Brother Lu, what you took now..."

Lu Beijing: "It's transformation. I told you, that's it."

Liu Wei: "I heard that real people's faces are not used?"

Lu Beijing nodded: "It's almost the same. I'll probably use CG technology to make another face so that it's complete. I don't understand their technology either. It's probably a bit like oil painting."

Oil paintings and so on... This is beyond her scope of knowledge.

Liu Wei pretended to understand and said, "Then why don't you use a substitute?"

Lu Beijing: "I'm finally able to film, why do I need to use a stand-in?"

She looked at him.

He is confident.

She nodded: "I understand, camera hunger."

Lu Beijing: “Go away, you’re naming someone blindly again.”

Why are you talking nonsense? This is obviously what happened. This guy was so obsessed with filming that he couldn't walk when he saw the camera. For him, letting a stuntman film the scene was like giving delicious food to others, and he was still hungry.

Still sitting.

Lu Beijing saw that she had some misunderstandings about the scene, so he stood up and said, "This transformation is actually very beautiful. Come on, I'll take you to see it."

He took her to another conference room. The board in the conference room was covered with storyboards of his transformation. They were all hand-drawn drafts by the animators here. They were simply colored to make people want to take them back.

Beautiful sketches from my collection.

He took her to start from the beginning.

Lu Beijing: "This is my transformation in the sea of ​​clouds."

There was only one frame on the whole picture in front of me, and that was him standing in the middle of the sea of ​​surging and rolling clouds.

The first picture is a storyboard. From the head, to the arms, to the waist, to the legs, to the feet, golden monkey hair slowly grows, and his figure becomes larger.

In the third picture, he opened his eyes, filled with murderous intent. He had already put on the purple gold crown and held the Dinghai Divine Needle in his hand. He raised his head to the sky and rushed forward.

In the fourth picture, the galloping sea of ​​clouds and golden light follow him and turn into the shining armor on his body.

Lu Beijing: "This design means that Brother Monkey's armor is transformed from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and he carries it himself, so he can take it out and use it at any time in the future."

Liu Wei: "Oh, he's so handsome!"

The first transformation was when he was pressed under the Five Elements Mountain. Huge rocks fell from the sky. Brother Monkey transformed while running. The slightly dim golden light attached to his body and turned into armor, but in the end it was unable to withstand the power of the Five Elements Mountain.

The third transformation was Brother Monkey overturning the Five Elements Mountain with his own strength! Golden light fell from the sky, and the sea of ​​clouds rolled around him, turning into armor that was harder than before.

The fourth transformation is the flame transformation. Of course, the flames also turn into the armor on his body.

Liu Wei: "Beautiful is beautiful...but, it's really a Japanese manga style transformation."
Chapter completed!