During the filming process, the crew also borrowed some of Duke's personal belongings, such as the black Rolls-Royce sedan and private business jet. Marvel Studios originally proposed to use the Duke Manor as Tony Stark's mansion in Malibu, but Duke rejected it on the grounds that the future sci-fi feel is insufficient.

Those personal belongings can be used as long as possible. Duke will not charge even a dollar fee, but using his home as a shooting place is still exempt.

Although as information exchange speed accelerates and celebrities' secrets become increasingly difficult to keep secrets, Duke does not want to put his home in a movie so that the public can see it at a glance.

The interior of Tony Stark's mansion can be taken with a seaside villa, and the panoramic view can also be easily achieved through a reduced-scale model.

As time goes by, some literary scenes are gradually finished filming. After the blue screen venue of Warner Production Studio was built, the scenes of Tony Stark, who was filmed using motion capture, were also put on the agenda by Duke.

"Andy, Robert, how are you doing?"

After checking the work of other departments, Duke walked to the blue screen. Andy Serkins turned his head and said, "Don't worry, Duke, with me here, Robert will definitely be in the best condition."

After answering Duke, he looked at Robert Downey Jr., who wore a face mask-free steel suit helmet and a motion capture suit specially designed by Vita Studio. There were dozens of motion capture machines distributed on it. In addition to the special camera used by the crew, Robert Downey Jr.'s movement trajectory will be recorded without any omissions.

The filming is about to begin, Andy Serkins made a final explanation to Robert Downey Jr., "Rober, forget the capture device on you and the green screen behind you, just treat this as a real performance! Remember, real! How you performed before and how you performed now, you don't have to care about motion capture, but all the motion capture systems are cooperating with you."

Of course, this does not mean that Robert Downey Jr. can do whatever he usually does, but now he can do it. Although Mark's second-generation suit is set up, it is completely designed and made according to Tony Stark's figure and various habits, wearing this metal suit will not be unaffected.

This is what Duke intended to find Andy Serkins. He conducted some simulation training on Robert Downey Jr. so that his walking style during motion capture can change the way he walks in motion capture. This change cannot be too big, but it can be seen in the camera.

Otherwise, the setting about Mark II will be overturned by the film itself.

Duke is just controlling the overall situation in the motion capture scene. The specific technology, scene layout and computer generation are all handed over to the professional and technical personnel of Vita Studio. However, the initial shooting was not smooth. After all, Robert Downey Jr. is just a novice in motion capture. Even with the help of Andy Serkins, it is impossible to become a master in this field in an instant.

Everyone's talents vary, and when it comes to live performances, maybe Robert Downey Jr. could have gone four streets, but he kept making mistakes in motion capture.

However, Duke had long expected these things, and had enough patience and set enough time.

There is also Wita Studio, which is different from Duke's shooting and producing the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Wita Studio has completely updated its motion capture technology. The motion capture equipment Duke has used before has been eliminated by Wita Studio.

Through the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Wita Studio became famous all over the world. While it became famous, it also received a large number of special effects orders, including Disney Pictures' "Pirates of the Caribbean" series. When filming "Pirates of the Caribbean", the shooting environment used for motion capture was far worse than when Duke was shooting the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Giant Lake set dug by James Cameron was both humid and stuffy, and had extremely high requirements for equipment.

Vita Studio used this to update its equipment and comprehensively incorporate various technologies to establish a motion capture system called iTopcap. The second generation of this system was used for filming of "Iron Man".

ITouch Cap is different from previous motion capture systems. It is not based on optics, or magnetic fields, machinery, or ultrasound, but directly recognizes the movements of characters from the video images captured by the camera. This huge innovation makes ITouch Cap almost not limited by the environment. As long as the images captured by the camera are recognizable, motion capture can be performed.

In other words, this system does not have to be bound by the blue screen. If necessary, it can be used in a real environment.

In fact, in Duke's view, any motion capture is not a 100% solution, but just the starting point for cgi production.

Based on the concept of director Duke, the upgraded version of the iTop Cap brought by Vita Studio is not particularly concerned about. It is light and easy to use, and has good maneuverability. This is its advantage.

Moreover, Duke has always wanted the versatility of motion capture equipment to be high enough, that is, as few restrictions on set and actors as possible.

Therefore, after Vita Studio improves, the iTop Cap system can use any type of camera, without any special treatment on the shooting site, nor does it require any other complex equipment to capture at any time.

In addition, even if there are occasional occlusion and jumping problems during capture, even if some of the data is incomplete, it will not affect the entire production. According to Duke's philosophy, it is necessary to simplify the requirements of real-life capture and leave the relatively complex processing process to the later staff.

This brings about the decrease in the difficulty of actors' motion capture, and Robert Downey Jr. can be said to be the biggest beneficiary of Duke's move.

This also benefited Robert Downey Jr. a lot. After the filming of several motion capture scenes, he asked Duke for extremely earnestly, reducing the number of times he wore props and steel suits, and instead used motion capture to shoot more.

"The Sanders group told me that those beautiful jackets are designed specifically for my body shape and must be thoughtful and comfortable to wear."

Just like Tony Stark in the setting, Robert Downey Jr. stood next to Duke's director's chair and kept talking nonsense, "But the fact is that the armor makes me very uncomfortable, seriously limiting my movements. It's difficult for me to pose the pose you want, or the script moves the way I want."

Facing the chattering Robert Downey Jr., Duke never said anything, but instead felt like Tony Stark was inexplicably running into the real world.

"Duke, dear director Rosenberg," Robert Downey Jr. squatted down and leaned against the armrest of the director's chair, and said earnestly, "Can you consider digitizing that set of armor in the future? When I saw that thing, my head hurts. I really don't like it."

Turning his head, Duke looked at Robert Downey Jr., and after thinking for a while, he said in Donny's infinitely anticipated eyes, "In that way, we need to do more special effects shots than expected."

"This..." Robert Downey Jr. couldn't help scratching his hair.

Just as he lowered his head and was about to leave, Duke suddenly said, "Rober, everything the crew did is to make the actors perform better and unhindered, so I can agree to your request, but you have to give a better performance than before."

"I can!" Robert Downey Jr. just raised his hand and sweared to promise.

"Really?" Duke showed an inexplicable smile. "Some shots that originally required a stunt stand-in wearing props to make you generate through motion capture are good. Why not do that? In the afternoon, we will take pictures of Tony Stark flying."

Although I felt something contained in Duke's smile, Robert Downey Jr. said without hesitation, "No problem, I'll prepare now."

But when it was time to shoot, Robert Downey Jr. found that even using motion capture equipment to shoot Iron Man flying was not uncomfortable. Although he hung under the boom, he only needed to pose the Iron Man flying style specially designed by the stunt team, and he didn't have to move at all, but for a while, he felt like he was about to fall apart.

Duke swears that he is definitely not taking revenge on Robert Downey Jr., and even if it is meaningful, he will not tell anyone.

The shooting here only requires Robert Downey Jr. to pose in shape, and he doesn't need to do anything more. When Iron Man is flying, the camera feels like a long shot covering the entire action.

Duke tried to make the picture move and tilt on a tripod, either with a slide rail or with a boom, and try to avoid the camera running through the space like magic.

"We need to deal with the action, but we'd better not hinder the actor's movements, and make the overall action like a silly comic action."

This is what Duke said to Anna Prinz beside him. Just like in the past, Anna Prinz will lead a set up group to take some shots.

Anyone likes to think the way they like, and so does the filmmakers.

Even though he has been working with many years, and is deeply influenced by his style, Duke never forgets the necessary explanation when necessary.

After the filming of this flight scene, Robert Downey Jr. was put down from his arms. Although it took only a few minutes before and after, he kept swaying around and seemed to fall down at any time when he walked towards Duke.

However, Duke ignored him because someone came to find him on the set.

"You're going to get engaged, Wallace?"

Duke was somewhat surprised when he heard Wallace Lee's invitation, "Who is the bride?"

Wallace Lee smiled embarrassedly, "You know her name is Kate Beckinsale."

Duke was not surprised at this answer. After thinking about it, he said, "I will participate on time." (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!