工业光魔：创造不可能（2010）

Industrial Light and Magic has created
工业光魔创造了
some of the most iconic imagery that cinema has ever seen.
电影中最具标志性的影像
For the past 35 years
在过去的35年里
they have transported us to worlds
他们把我们带入了
beyond the reach of our imagination.
无法想像的世界中
Their pioneering in breathtaking visual effects
他们是创造激动人心视觉特效的先驱
have transformed the way we see movies.
已经改变了我们看电影的方式
We are all devoted when we go to the movies we aren’t watching
过去我们去看电影的时候都会很投入
all kinds of stuff we are supposed to be looking for,
并没有看那些我们该看的
we are looking for the seams,
我们努力找接缝
we are looking for cracks,
找拼接的痕迹
but when they make you forget all that
但是当他们让你忘记所有这些事
and pull you into the magic that is the story,
把你全身心带入故事里
then they’ve succeeded.
他们已经就成功了
Through the masterful blend of art and technology,
通过艺术和技术的完美融合
they have revolutionized movie-making,
他们彻底改变了电影制♥作♥过程
and helped to define popular culture.
重新定义了现代文化
From the sublime to the ridiculous,
从雄伟到荒谬
from E.T. to the amazing “worth it” on transformers,
从外星人到惊人的变形金刚
ILM was defining different ways
工业光魔开创了多种方式
to telling stories visually.
来视觉化地叙述故事
They’ve made us wonder,
他们让我们惊讶
they’ve made us marvel,
让我们大开眼界
they’ve made us belief.
让我们相信
It’s wonderful to know that the tools are there,
知道他们有那些工具
to really begin to get what’s in here,you know,
能让我们把头脑中的东西展现给全世界
out there in the world,
真的是太好了
and ILM has been in the charge in that quest since begin.
工业光魔从一开始就应运而生了
The digital area that dominants modern day visual effects
工业光魔引入了数字化技术
was ushered in by ILM,
使它占据了视觉特效的主要地位
hundreds of artists were collectively
数百个艺术家聚集到一起
to create complex imagery,
创造复杂的视觉图像
from a variety of elements that combined to perform
各类不同的元素混合到一起
a masterful illusion.
形成了这些大♥师♥级的视觉
“Action!”
开始
through the technology
通过工业光魔的这些技术成就
ILM is given film maker the means to achieve anything.
电影制♥作♥人能做到任何事
Photo-realistic characters and environments
可以从无到有地创造
can be created from scratch,
照片级真实的角色和环境
such as an Iron Man to an Avatar.
比如钢铁侠 阿凡达
But these high-tech advancements not come easy,
但是这些高科技来的很不易
nor they come over night,
也不是一夜就有的
the roots of today cinema magic goes back over a hundred years,
今天的电影魔术可以追溯到100年前
but the revolution of modern visual effects
当代视觉特效的变革
began with a story in a galaxy far far away.
在一个很遥远的星系的故事中开始了
Industrial light and Magic was formed in 1975
工业光魔于1975年成立
to realize the complicated special effects challenges for a new film
为了实现一个新电影中的复杂特效
called Star Wars.
《星球大战》
A space advanture dreamed up
一个年轻电影制♥作♥人
by a young film maker George Lucas,
幻想出来的太空历险电影
his vision was unlike anything Hollywood had heard before.
他所想象的世界在好莱坞也是第一次听说
The Star Wars,
星球大战
I wanna do an action picture,
我想做一个动作片
I wanna do in where I can pan with the spaceships,
我想要做一个里面有宇宙飞船
I wanna do with really short cuts, there was a lot of rhythm,
我想要有很多短小的剪辑 充满节奏感
a lot of pace, a lot of movement on the screen.
步调和动作在画面中
I want it to be very very cinematic,
我想要它特别有电影的感觉
and at that point in time,
而在那时
that was impossible,
这是不可能的
you just could not do that with special effects.
用特效就是做不出来
So when the studio said how are you gonna do this,
所以当工作室问我该怎么做这个的时候
I said ah don’t worry We’ll figure it out,
我说哎呀没事 我们能搞定
you know, I’ve got to you know,
可是你知道我必须得这么说
but I had no idea what I was gonna do with it.
虽然我完全不知道该怎么搞定它
At the time,
这时
the special effects departments at the major studios were all begone,
许多大公♥司♥的特效部门都被撤掉了
so George Lucas was able to buy up old equipment
所以乔治·卢卡斯用了很少的钱
for pennies on the dollar
买♥♥到所需的旧设备
and set up ILM in a Vanice California warehouse.
并且在加州的威尼斯的一个厂房♥里建立了工业光魔
The 20th Century Fox on board,
20世纪福克斯那时候负责这个
George Lucas and producer Garry Kurt****
卢卡斯和制片人凯里·库尔特
and photographic effect expert John Dykstra to lead the effort,
还有光学特效专家约翰·戴克斯特拉来领导团队
Dykstra brought together a rag teg group of college students,
戴克斯特拉聚集到一个大杂烩的小组
artists and engineers whose make skills in photography,
里面有学院的学生 艺术家还有做摄影
model making and mechanics.
模型和机械的工程师
with set the stage for the fantastical space saga.
就这样开始了制♥作♥这个太空传奇的旅程
Creating ILM to do the work for Star Wars
为了给星球大战做特效
was like gambling high odds bets,
而建立工业光魔是一个很冒险的事
we knew we were taking a huge number of risks,
我们知道当时承担巨大的危机
we were incredibly naive to think
不知哪来的天真
that we were going to be successful
就觉得我们最后能成功
in doing that, and we were incredibly fortunate
也很难以置信地知道卢卡斯甚至福克斯
that George and even Fox in its own way will willing to back us.
用它们的方式 愿意支持我们
When I read the script,
当我看剧本的时候
I was just saying
我就说
“my god, what is this movie!?”,
我的天 这是个什么片啊
all these different genres
所有的体裁风格
were kind of together in this massive space film,
都被放在这个太空大♥片♥里了
and you read in that last 30 40 pages,
最后三四十页里
in every page was full of another effects shot in the battle,
每页都是新的战斗特效镜头
every page, it’s like
每一页都是 简直就
“this thing will never get done”.
这东西永远也做不完
When I first read the script for Star Wars
当我读到星球大战的剧本时
I think, I came across a few lines
我只扫了几行
and were worrisome.
然后就感觉压力很大
The description unlike anything you’ve ever seen before
里面的描述不像以前见过的任何东西
to most studio executives and to producers and even to directors
任何大公♥司♥的领导和制片人甚至导演
was daunting.
都会望而生畏
We have 365 shots to do for this movie
我们有365个镜头在这电影里
which is never really been done for effects movie,
任何特效电影里都没做过这么多
it was really fun ’cause we all know that we can do it,
确实很有意思因为我们知道我们能做出来
we have this nexus of talent that we were just outrageous.
我们这个人才网络里所有人很不得了
To create a believable universe in the pre-digital age,
在早期数字时代
known as the photochemical era,
也被称作光化学时代
ILM had to advance the use of
创造这样一个让人信服的世界
traditional handcrafted effects technique,
工业光魔需要提升传统的手工特效技术
such as animation and rubber mask creature work.
比如动画和橡胶头套角色
Artists would use matte paintings
艺术家能够使用绘景技术
to increase the scope and production value of scene,
增加场景的范围和实际效果
by extending environments painted on glass,
用画在玻璃上的图像
that will be photographed and combined with live action elements.
拍摄之后和实拍的素材结合在一起
Detailed miniatures and models were built and shot against blue screen
精细制♥作♥的模型在蓝幕前拍摄出来
to allow the placement of other elements into the scene.
允许他们把其他元素放在场景中
And a process called Optical Compositing,
有个过程叫光学影像合成
ILM retooled the Dooman optical printer
工业光魔重新设计了Dooman光学印刷机
that allowed for record number of several film strips
可以记录多张光学软片
to be rephotographed and combined onto a single layer of film.
用来重复拍照 合成到单张胶片上
I knew what I was up against,
我知道我要面对什么
I knew how I wanted to do it.
知道该怎么做
But I was constantly bumping against technology ceiling.
但是我经常受到技术水平的限制
Sometimes you have many as
有时候你将上百个
a hundred different elements going through
不同的元素合在一起
and it takes 24 hours to do it,
可能花费一天一夜的时间来做
and if you make one mistake on one element,
这时候只要在任何一个元素上出了点错误
you have to start over again.
你就得全都重来
There’s no second chance,
没有第二次机会
if anything goes wrong during something,
如果有什么事情出错了
it’s over
就完蛋
and you have to sort of stop and start the entire process over again
你就得停下然后把所有程序从头到尾再来一遍
and that is really difficult
相当的难弄