The Disney D23 Expo, which is being held in Anaheim, California, seems to have once again become an AR/VR industry event overnight. From the Jedi Knights to the Marvel Super League of Legends, Mickey Mouse’s large IP possession for many years has become a savior to save the industry's market. Or the phrase: For the mass market, what technology is not as strategic as a big IP. In fact, IP cooperation with Lenovo or Oculus is only a "little thing" that has caused the attention of the tech industry. D23's focus remains on Disney's mainstream business in the movie and entertainment industry: movies and the periphery.
Already among the technical areas of Disney, how can we meet only the IP world? Its own exploration of animation production, visual effects, and VR/AR immersive narrative is not only weak, but also leads the trend of technological innovation at any time.
Related to the VR/AR field, in addition to the newly announced Star Wars AR Helmet and Marvel VR games, also on the weekend of the D23 scene, Disney has also opened a remake of the "Lion King" "facts" for fans.
The new version of Simba, which has made over 7,000 fans on the scene, is a movie that combines live action and CG animation. The live show shots were shots of real-life footage taken by the crew in Africa, including scenery and animals (elephants, lions). This "piece of flowers" will only be broadcast in the field and will not be released on any digital platform. It is said that this set of gifts dedicated to D23 fans at the scene, the last shot is still familiar with the old Rafiq holding a small Simba standing on that big rock.
The new "Lion King" announced that it will be released in the summer of July 2019. Jon Favreau, director of the classic remake, is the director of "Fantasy Forest." The special effect team is still the VFX team of "Fantasy Forest" who won the Oscar nomination for best visual effects.
Directors and VFX teams who have already entered film production in Los Angeles have announced that they are using virtual reality tools and production techniques to build the film. In fact, back at the NAB show in April this year, Rob Legato, MVP's VFX supervisor, said:
We will make extensive use of virtual reality production tools to give viewers an experience that seems to be sitting in the stories they are watching. (wearing a VR helmet) You can "walk into" a real scene in a movie like a photographer. Our actors can now move around in these scenes and they can see each other because the trees and characters in the entire environment are 3D, so walking in is just like being in the real world.
Although Disney may not be able to expose any point of production, it is indeed a movie experience that allows the audience to enter and move around, in view of the above description of special effects artist. It is just not certain that it will not set up more interactive non-linear stories for the audience. The "Fantasy Forest" released last year has only a simple 3D 360 video. Broadway's "The Lion King" stage play is just a 360-degree video. It seems that the new "Lion King" that will only come online two years later is enough for Disney to engage in new meanings in the immersive narrative.
The last Disney breakthrough in the immersive narrative was "" released earlier this year. The movie itself is very general, and the VR experience is really good. Especially with the interactive version of Oculus Touch, the audience can finally “hands-on†in Disney movies. Our confidence in VR story innovation is not only based on Disney's stride in this area, but also on the merits of being a veteran of visual effects.
We have reported in detail that the most visually sturdy Hollywood lineup is how to synchronize this year's old Scott's latest Alien: Compact and its VR experience. For these Hollywood special effects veterans, to create a movie VR experience or simply a VR movie, the VR content team is relatively skilled and experienced.
In the use of CG to create a virtual reality environment, as well as to build a virtual scene previewed by actors, MVC's VFX team should be even more familiar. When creating special effects for the film "Fantasy Forest", a CG animation and live action film, the team spent several weeks studying trees in the Indian jungle, and then created a CG tree and moss world. This world has Branches of dense plants and their scattered branches and leaves. The young protagonist, Neel Sethi, is integrated into this digital jungle and plays with his CG animal friends.
With such a virtual scene production, as long as certain “plays†of the characters in the play are reserved for the audience, it can save a lot of resources and time for realizing an interactive immersive story. The long-term development of film visual effects technology has enabled the VFX team to have strong advantages in terms of material acquisition, production tools, construction of virtual scenes, or CG technology, workflow, and resource management.
In addition, MVC's VFX team has also achieved the simile effect of animated characters and voice actors in the facial recognition technology. Everyone remembers how the old fat bear in "Fantasy Forest" looked like the actress Bill Murray who had dubbed it. Because the effects team spends a lot of time watching animal videos, studying their biological characteristics to capture their image. Combining the features and characters of the stars who are dubbing the animated characters creates the “star animated†image of CG. For this reason, special effects artists turned into anatomists, sculptors, physicists, and actors. To make these effects requires these skills to be blessed before you can create and render a realistic animal image.
The superstars for the 2019 version of the "Lion King" include Donald Glover (Sinba dubbing, Afro-American actor, hip hop singer), James Earl Jones (old opera bones, works are a bunch of Star Wars and the 1994 Lion King dubbing) and so on. Can imagine the appearance of the new generation of CG animation stars.
In the new world of VR/AR entertainment content creation, relative to the tech giant such as Facrbook, Disney is more like the veteran Raffix in "The Lion King": You follow old Rafiki, he knows the way!
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