由“拍”至“做”:数字技术开启电影的虚拟制作时代

On The Virtual Production Era of Films Opened by Digital Technology

当下数字技术已从主要解决场景空间与异类生物的可实现性问题,进入到"生物工程"时代。数字化表演技术作为生物工程的重要组成部分,要解决的核心问题是"表演问题",即更有效地为数字角色注入情感和灵魂。虚拟制作技术的广泛运用,对当下电影工业的产业建构具有规范性作用。这其中,实时光线追踪渲染技术,与数字化表演一样,都是当下国际上热度较高的技术研发领域。虚拟制作技术不仅是一种技术,更是贯穿于当代电影创作过程的一种观念和思想。

Digital technology, which was used to realize the space of scenes and heteromorphic creatures, has now embarked on a new era of "creature work". As an indispensable part of creature work, digitalized performance technology aims to get to the core of the problem – performance, that is, to render emotion and soul more effectively to digital characters. The popularization of virtual production technology promotes the standardization of film industry nowadays. Among all the techniques, realtime ray tracing, the key part of virtual production, is as popular as digital performance, both of which are worldwide research hotspots. Virtual production is more than technology, but a concept and philosophy running through the whole journey of modern film production.