You know the green screen (and blue screen).
你们都见过绿屏和蓝屏。
You know it becomes the: Mist-covered planet - Deserted jungle - Background for a bar - Packed athletic stadium - Panoramic waterfall...
它们后来会变成烟雾笼罩的星球、无人的丛林、酒吧的背景、人山人海的体育馆、全景瀑布等……
What happens when the imaginary planet...is already there?
当想象中的星球就在那里时会怎样?
"The moment you step in the middle of the Volume, you're just, you're just there."
“当你进入片场时,你就身处于那个场景。”
"The Volume" is the epic sounding name for the combination of high resolution LED panels -
“The Volume”是高清LED显示屏的另一个很酷的名字,
imagine awesome huge TV screens wrapping around a stage -
想象一下,巨大的电视屏幕环绕着舞台,
the physical set design matched to the panels, and 3D models plopped into an environment the same way they do in a video game.
物理布景设计与板子相匹配,3D模型像视频游戏一样被注入环境。
Then it can respond to camera movement to simulate the real world.
然后,它可以响应摄像机的运动来模拟真实世界。
Disney +'s the Mandalorian, a live action Star Wars TV show, used this technique.
迪斯尼+的《曼达洛人》使用了这一技术,它是《星球大战》的真人剧集。
"My name is Charmaine Chan and I'm a lead compositor at Industrial Light and Magic."
“我叫夏尔曼·陈,是光影魔幻工业特效公司的首席合成师。”
"Is it, is it physically, like, confusing being on this set?"
“身体上是不是感觉有些别扭?”
"Oh absolutely, I mean, the thing is like you're, you're shooting all day,
“哦,当然,我是说,你一整天都在录制,
let's say in the same exact scene and like you're at that location, it doesn't feel like it's something fake.
在那个场景中,你不会感觉它是假的。
It just feels like the extension of a regular stage.
感觉就像是一个常规舞台的延伸。
You gotta be careful because there are times people don't see where the edge of the stage is and where the LEDs are."
你必须小心,因为有时候人们不知道舞台的边缘在哪里,也不知道LED在哪里。”
"You have Wiley coyote and Roadrunner situations where somebody is like running into the wall or something."
“你要呈现出威利狼和走鹃鸟的场景,有些人像是跑进墙里之类的。”
"Yeah. We, we definitely made sure that no one's running in that stage because of that reason."
“嗯。我们肯定要确保别人不会因为这个原因而在舞台上跑步。”
Charmaine is credited as part of the Brain Bar - the group of visual effects artists that operated this system.
夏尔曼是智囊团里的一员,他们是一群操作这一系统的视觉效果艺术家。
One might adjust models, like a rock or spaceship, in the panels, while another might tweak live animations, like a burning fire.
一个人可以调整面板中的模型,比如岩石或宇宙飞船,而另一个人可能会调整实时动画,比如燃烧的火焰。
Charmaine often adjusted color.
夏尔曼经常要对颜色进行调整。
"It was funny cause it, it looked very much like, you know, back in the day when you would have telephone fundraising stuff,
“很有趣,因为它让你回想起以前用电话筹款的日子,
like on PBS and it was just like rows of people phone's ready to go, but instead of phones we had computers and our walkies."
就像PBS上展示的那样,一排排的人把电话准备好,但我们不是用手机,而是用电脑和对讲机。”
As Mandalorian VFX supervisor Ian Milham Tweeted,
就像《曼达洛人》的视觉特效总监伊安·米尔汉发的推特所说,
the set crew and Brain Bar operating the panels let them radically change environments in just a few hours or be on set...as they launched it into hyperspace.
摄制组和操作面板的智囊团可以在几个小时内彻底改变环境,或者弄成多维空间。
"My normal working life is very much behind the computer in a dark room, somewhere in the corner.
“我平时就在一个昏暗房间里的电脑后面工作,缩在一个角落里。
Now I'm actually in there with the gaffer, with the prop designers, with the set designers, most people that we would never see because we're in the post production process.
现在我和灯光师、道具设计师、布景设计师们在一起,他们都是大家不会见到的人,因为我们做的是后期制作。
It was very exhilarating."
这非常令人兴奋。”
But sets like this one weren't just fun for Charmaine.
但像这样的场景对夏尔曼来说不仅仅是有趣的。
They helped remove creative roadblocks.
他们帮助消除了障碍。
"As a compositor, we're the ones who kind of take all the renders, take all the CG elements and put them together to make it look like it's a seamless, integrated photo.
“作为一个合成师,我们负责所有的渲染,把所有的CG元素组合在一起,让它看起来像是一个无缝集成照片。
So think of it as like advanced Photoshop, but we're dealing with moving imagery."
因此,我们可以将其视为高级版的Photoshop,但我们处理的是动态图像。”
Charmaine worked on this scene in The Last Jedi.
夏尔曼在制作《最后的绝地武士》中的一个场景。
"We get this footage of Kylo in front of a green screen. If you're lucky, this green screen will be evenly lit, with no seams.
“我们在绿色屏幕前看到了凯洛的镜头。如果你幸运的话,这个绿屏的打光会是均匀的,无缝衔接。
And it's piece of cake. That's never the scenario.
这就是小菜一碟了,但从来没有这样的事。
We're spending the time, almost frame by frame, making sure we can remove that green screen so that we can put Kylo on top of that."
我们几乎是一帧一帧的来做,确保我们可以移除绿屏,这样就可以将凯洛放在最上面了。”