to capture Robert Patrick’s form
来拍摄罗伯特·帕特里克的体态和表情
and expressions that will enable them to animated
从而能够模拟和塑造
and model a realistic computer version of the actor.
那个演员逼真的计算机形态
It was a lot of breakthrough we have to get that show done,
我们运用很多突破性技术去完成那部电影
to get the CG to work,
完成CG效果
all the reflection map on him
他身上所有的反射位图
not having just rip the geometry apart.
不仅仅分割了几何图形
And being able to pan the computer camera
通过追拍 计算机摄像机能够
to match the background live action camera,
与拍摄现场背景的摄像机达到同步
so we can follow the guy’s feet
这样我们才能
as he walked across the checker board floor
跟拍他走过棋盘地板的脚步
and up from that grows this head.
以及地板上冒出的人头
And that was really really tough stuff to do.
这是非常艰巨的任务
you know, it was on the cutting edge.
是最前沿的技术
So everybody in this industry is saying,
所以这行的同仁都说
wow everything is changing now.
一切都在变
So then there’s this general awareness
然后大家都意识到
that the technology is coming into this industry.
科技进驻到了这个产业
So with that film may they aware
希望通过那部电影大家能够意识到
that something biggest thing is coming.
重大的改革即将到来
I was perfectly happy to do the dinosaurs,
能够参与恐龙制♥作♥ 我非常开心
the technique that fill tipped head
对充满填充物的头部
honed to a fine point,
进行精确打磨的技术
and we have settle down that for Jurassic Park,
已被运用到《侏罗纪公园》当中
Personally I did’t think the CG
我个人认为对于《侏罗纪公园》来说
was ready to do Jurassic Park,
CG技术还不够成熟
ferly for the close-ups of the dinosaur,
恐龙的特写奇景
I thought maybe we can do like
我认为我们或许可以制♥作♥
some stained PE sequences,
一些彩色的计算机序列
’cause what computer are good at is
因为计算机最擅长复♥制♥
like a word ** you can clone something in any times,
就像是***可以把某样东西克隆许多次
you can copy a word and
你可以拷贝一个字
duplicate 100 times on the page or anything you want,
在纸上复♥制♥一百次 或者更多
was true also a model, so you can do with dinosaurs,
恐龙模型也是如此
you can make one gallimimus dinosaur
你可以制♥作♥一只似鸡龙
and colone 20 of them,
然后复♥制♥20份
and have them all running the same run cycle,
让它们以同样的周期奔跑
that’s some sort of thing hard to do
在自停技术中
in stop motion or anything like that.
这很难做到
But we started doing these tests
不过在电影上映前
in CG before the show was going on.
我们还是在用CG技术 做类似的测试
and our tests are looking better and better.
测试结果越来越令人满意
And until one day
直到有一天
Denis Miron came over to me and said,
丹尼斯·米伦来找我说
you know I really think we should do this in the computer,
我觉得我们真的应该利用计算机来做测试
and let me shoot the test and show you.
我来做给你看
Denis was working off in the corner,
丹尼斯在角落工作
we’re going along with normal
我们应该这样做
Denis then got the audience with Steven,
丹尼斯把斯蒂文和观众们聚集到一起
and part of it is to convince Steven
一来是为了说服斯蒂文
and part of it was me think, we can do this,
二来是我认为我们可以做到
I’ll guarantee it, it’ll be fabulous.
我敢保证 效果一定会非常好
The test was a herd of running gallimimus,
测试中是一群奔跑中的似鸡龙
and he didn’t flush them out,
他并没有将它们制♥作♥完整
he just basically put the bones in motion,
行进中的只是一群骨架
it did’d have that artificial look,
看上去没有人工制♥作♥的痕迹
it looked completely realistic,
非常真实
like skeletons come to life
就像是一群恐龙骨架被赋予生命
and running out through Hawaii,
奔跑着穿越夏威夷
and all onus of stop motion photography
自停摄影技术背负的重担
was suddenly eradicated,
一下子消失了
We were both kind of wondrous about the promising,
我们都为这个产业的前景
this industry.
感到惊奇
We literally doesn’t know
我们真的无法预知
from one day to another how stuff is gonna look,
事物日新月异的变化
everyday we’d be looking at the daily thing,
每天 我们看到日常事物
and saying did we do this,
会问自己 这是我们制♥作♥的吗
did people make these images,
这些图像是我们制♥作♥的吗
never seen anything like this before,
以前从来没见过
you know, where is the tricker we’ve been
我们看了八十年的电影
seeing movie for, you know, eighty years
幕后的魔术师在哪里
there’s nothing there, it looks real.
其实什么都没有 它看上去很真实
The visual effects shots start with a line
视觉特效的拍摄开始于
in the script that describe something,
剧本中一条叙事的线索
let’s say a dinosaur runs across the field,
比如说一只恐龙在陆地上奔跑
you start by going in the live action set
我们首先到达实景地
and shooting what’s called a plate,
拍摄一个背景
the plate is the background
最终我们会将
that you ultimately you’re going to
数码动画角色
insert that digital character in this example.
插入到这个样品中
the plate comes back to the artists,
画家拿到这个背景后
they create a virtual topography
会绘出一个虚拟的地貌
that would reflects what they’ve seen in that shot.
也就是背景中我们所看到的景象
They build a character in the computer,
然后他们在计算机中绘出一个角色
They build its bones, they build its structure,
包括骨架 结构
they then come up with surfaces and skins,
然后是表面 皮肤
Before they color it, they give it eyes,
在上色之前 他们会画出眼睛
they give it emotion, they give it fingernails,
赋予它们表情 画出指甲
they rig it so that it can be animated.
他们操纵角色 使它鲜活
So they take that photograph background play,
然后他们拿来做好的背景图片
they take that character,
以及角色
and they animate the character in the computer space
使角色在计算机空间中活动起来
to fit into that photographic play.
以融入背景图片
When that’s done to the director’s satisfaction,
当导演满意之后
they acctually composite it into the scene,
他们将它与场景进行合成
Once it is composited it into the scene,
合成之后
it is film without the computer,
它就成为了不依托于电脑的胶片
and cut into the film and
进行剪辑之后
hope that everybody loves it in the movie house.
就能在电影院与观众见面了
Here there was not even going to be a thought in the audiences’ mind
观众们不假思索便知
that ward they were seeing was not absolutely real.
电影中的魔杖并非完全真实
And because Stan Winston
斯坦·温斯顿制♥作♥了一个
did some amazing job of creating full size
标准尺寸的食肉恐龙
life replicates of a T-Rex,
塔雷克斯的复♥制♥品
we were able to effortlessly
由于这一惊人创举
cut together, the digital dinosaurs
我们可以毫不费力地 将数码动画恐龙
with the Stan Winston full size dinosaurs.
与标准尺寸的恐龙模型剪辑到了一起
And the audience was as confused as which was which.
观众根本无法分清♥真♥伪
The major breakthrough really was
重大的转折在于
when Stev bought all for the idea of making
斯蒂文开始接受由模拟信♥号♥♥
that link from analogue to digital.
到数字信♥号♥♥的转变
And that really was changed everything.
这改变了一切
Once we did those dinosaurs,
当恐龙制♥作♥完成后
I saw that we have unlimited posiibilities.
我预见到了未来无限♥量♥的可能性
From the point view of the industry,
从电影产业的角度来看
the turning point was Jurassic Park.
《侏罗纪公园》是一个转折点
When Jurassic Park happen, then that was like
《侏罗纪公园》制♥作♥完成后
this big switch was thrown,
转变开始发生
like the world has changed.
仿佛世界被改变了
It started kinda of a revolution,
这是一场变革
and revolution that began to move faster than the speed of light.
其速度甚至超越光速
It’s a… It’s a dinosaur.
那 那是个恐龙
I was amazed of how much ** was able to accomplish
***的成就令我感到惊奇
and go beyond the dinosaurs
在接下来的几年中
with everything else I did in the next several years.
我所做的每项工作都在试图超越侏罗纪
Transfering the culture from
从模拟信♥号♥♥
an analogue culture to a digital culture
到数字信♥号♥♥的文化转变
was huge, huge problem.
举步维艰
Lots of pain, lots of heartache,
几多痛苦 几多悲叹
lots of emotions for people who ware,
被迫转变的人们