Regardless of the shape, the Iron Man jacket needs to reveal traces of industrial crafting. A perfectly fitted jacket can keep the heroic spirit unhindered. The freedom of the comic version can ignore the part that destroys the silhouette of the suit, and the movie version does not have this freedom. The solution is to create a system that allows overlapping panels to slide or distort each other.

Creating metal images that look real and credible can be said to be a very difficult challenge, especially for digital coats that can be constantly combined and realistic.

The realistic brush-plated metal jacket has excellent detail performance, and the digitized rugged brush-plated surface will also require more rendering to solve the picture without flickering and anti-aliasing.

Special effects production must use the latest technology to simulate changes that will occur on the brushed metal surface. No matter how far away the lens is or how close it is to him, it is a necessary job. All of this depends on the strong technical capabilities of Industrial Light and Magic and Vita Studios.

Surprises are often born during the production process. Some tasks are often simpler than expected, and sometimes they have effects that exceed Duke's imagination, such as the fight between Iron Man and Iron Overlord who rely on special effects to synthesise in front of the Chinese Grand Theater in Hollywood.

The initial plan was that Duke wanted the two of them to fly over and destroy the theater with a devastating momentum, but several special effects artists produced a copyright. The fight between Iron Man and Iron Overlord only destroyed the most criticized arch of the theater. Then the contrast formed by the Hollywood Chinese Theater was more in line with architectural aesthetics than before, creating a different sense of humor.

So, Duke simply gave up his original plan and adopted this version.

As long as it matches the theme and style of the film and does not drag down the entire post-production plan, Duke is also willing to try and implement some interesting new ideas instead of simply mechanizing the use of G special effects. The effects brought by those will definitely be more or less restricted.

Looking at Hollywood, it is common to make movies for more than half a year or even longer to produce special effects. "Iron Man" is no exception.

In fact, from the preparation period, some special effects productions are ahead of the shooting. Although these special effects will not be used all, they will also occupy a considerable share in the film. Others will be constantly modified by the crew in post-production, and gradually added to the appropriate places of the film in a different way than before.

In addition, Stan Lee seemed to want to show his importance to the entire Marvel, and he led his screenwriter team to try to get involved in post-production, but Duke refused without hesitation. Even if there was a conflict between the two sides, he would not be able to let the screenwriter participate in the post-production of the film.

The reason is very simple. It is true that scripts are one of the basics of the film, but what the screenwriter writes is not what is eventually produced into the movie.

For example, Stan Lee did not follow the script. He asked the actor to improvise during filming, but Duke ignored his suggestion to eliminate this part of the content, and even an argument broke out between the two sides.

However, Duke holds the final editing rights. Even Stan Lee, the father of superhero, cannot affect his decision.

This kind of quarrel is also normal. Everyone has their own ideas. Stan Lee wants to continue to influence Marvel's operations in order to highlight his importance and gain a more favorable position in the share negotiations with Marvel. But Duke is very clear that Stan Lee does not belong to this era, and playing soy sauce in the movies is the most important thing he needs to do.

Duke has his own ideas for characters and films. Some improvised scenes were even prepared for seven versions during shooting. He could choose more suitable scenes according to the requirements of post-production editing.

No director is an all-rounder, and Duke never thought of taking over all the work in the crew and filming and production. He just grasped the general direction and used his own ideas to drive and inspire others. This is not something that can be done easily. Once successful, the crew will burst out with great enthusiasm for work and creative work and become a highly efficient team.

In turn, these people's ideas will bring various creative inspirations to Duke, thus forming a virtuous cycle in the entire production process.

Duke will never let people like Stan and Lee destroy the tacit understanding formed by the crew.

Cooperating with a tacit team can also make up for some of the problems that Duke ignored. After all, he is just a person, not an omniscient and omnipotent Encyclopedia Britannica.

For example, when post-production used g to modify the terrorists to imprison Tony Stark's cave, an assistant from Vita Studio made a suggestion.

"I have lived in the mountains of Afghanistan and have some knowledge of the geology and climate there."

Standing in front of the big screen, the assistant pointed at Robert Downey Jr. who was breathing in the picture, saying, "The caves in remote mountainous areas of Afghanistan are very cold. Some caves have temperatures close to freezing point, and people's breathing will inevitably bring out white air..."

On the screen, all the actors couldn't see the breath of white breath.

After the assistant's reminder, Duke immediately asked someone to check the information. Some videos introducing Afghanistan, especially the scenes of TV station visiting Talibans in caves in recent years, can clearly see their breath.

So Duke instructed the special effects production department to use post-production technology to make necessary adjustments to all scenes in the cave so that these scenes can become 'cold'.

Their job is to use g to add breath to the actors.

After these tasks were completed, Duke found that the effect was very good, making the actor breathe, showing the harsh environment of the captive life, especially a billionaire like Tony Stark who is used to living a good life would definitely feel uncomfortable, and it also added a little convincing to his later transformation.

However, the various special effects production completed by the special effects group is on one hand, and Duke makes choices through the late-stage fine cutting is on the other hand.

"Iron Man" still maintains the traditional Hollywood commerciality first. In this commercial film that is mainly entertaining, the so-called profound theme or artistic value must give way to visual effects and entertainment.

Duke is very clear that the main audience of this type of movie is obviously an audience between the ages of 14 and 35. They just like hot scenes and high-intensity visual impacts, using fast editing and high-decibel sound effects to stimulate their nerves and get satisfaction from them.

Compared to the previous film "Batman: The War Moment", the original film "Iron Man" will contain much more special effects scenes.

Keeping as many excellent special effects scenes as possible is one of the concepts that Duke adheres to when cutting fines.

In addition, Tony Stark's character charm is also an aspect that he needs to focus on.

Iron Man's appearance looks too bulky and not handsome enough, but Duke is not worried about this at all, because the audience will only be conquered by his extremely oppressive charm.

Iron Man is different from comic heroes like Spider-Man and Batman. He cares a lot about his appearance. To put it bluntly, Iron Man is just a battle armor, a weapon, so once measured with the eyes of traditional comic heroes, it is easy to cause certain misunderstandings.

And most of the time, Tony Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr., is still shown in his true form, and his image is enough to fascinate a female audience.

Duke also retains scenes and lines that show Tony Stark's personality and mouth-blindness as much as possible during the fine cut.

The character Tony Stark is very charming, which is not only reflected in picking up girls.

Although superheroes fight against evil forces is their main task, they are not robots, but people with flesh and blood, especially Marvel superheroes, often have shortcomings that ordinary people have. Whether the audience likes them is extremely important.

Robert Downey Jr. is not a good person who follows the rules. He always exudes wildness and restlessness, and has a toughness and difficulty in compromise. His unique charm is well played out in the filming of the film. Because it is very different from previous heroes, it is very likely that the audience will feel an alternative freshness.

In addition, Tony Stark is good at joking and flirting, and most importantly, he is very rich, and women have basically zero resistance to this.

Iron Man is not as serious and dull as other heroes usually do. Tony Stark is always straightforward and relaxed, splashing his sense of humor around him, and even refusing his verbal nature when he is with a robot. However, he is steady and not frivolous, and with a leader's aura, everyone around him is impressed and willing to be merciless.

It can be said that Tony Stark, who is not wearing armor, also has a superhero style.

To a certain extent, in the rough sample cuts completed by Duke and Mike Dawson, if Robert Downey Jr. said a total of 100 sentences, at least ninety sentences would make the audience laugh.

In Duke's words, it's Tony Stark's personal charm is enough to conquer many people. If the combat power is also strong, how can the audience not love him?

Next is the soundtrack. Since it is a movie full of metal texture like Iron Man, the main soundtrack will inevitably be mainly heavy metal rock, but it is like the protagonist of the film. It is very naughty and often does not play according to common sense, which is difficult to predict, and often transmits a little humor.

By March, Duke's fine cutting was basically completed, but many clips of special effects were not done well, and they had to wait for the progress of the special effects group.

That is, this month, Time Warner and News Corporation's work on the other side of the Pacific, which had secretly reached a cooperation agreement, created certain results. The other party sent an inspection team to Los Angeles to contact Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox on the spot, and Duke, the original proposer, was also the focus of their contact. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!