工业光魔：创造不可能（2010）

and that takes a good team and a lot of concentration
需要一个好团队 每个人都十分专心
that to get a high speed model to blow up quick enough in right way
比如把一个模型炸开 速度还得恰到好处
or stop motion characters to walk across a scene
或者花12个小时的时间
in over a period of 12 hour shoot
拍摄一个角色走过一个场景的定格动画
that was only going to last 4 seconds.
而这个镜头最后只是出现四秒
You can’t be anything wrong,
你哪里都不能搞砸
light bulbs can blow up
灯泡可能突然坏了
nothing in the way between each frame of the film,
然后胶片里就什么都看不见
so it’s really hard to do that.
所以真的很费劲
It had to look real,
它得看着很真实
so that was the trick we were pinning ourselves into a corner,
所以我们把自己憋在一个小角落里
you have to invent a way out of it.
你得想出个方法来
we all knew we could pin up each other,
我们都知道我们可以联合起来
there was this kind of spirit of camaraderie
就是有这种意识
and so many of us gave our best ideas to the show.
大家都把自己最好的创意贡献给这个片子
John Dykstra designed a revolutionary Dukstraflex,
约翰·戴克斯特拉设计了革命性的Dukstraflex
this computer control system allow for the programming
这个计算机控制系统能编写程序
of dynamic and repeatable camera moves.
来控制动态的可以精确重复的摄影机动作
The Dukstraflex facilitated to combine numerous elements
Dukstraflex使大量的元素
into a single dynamic shot,
混合到一个动态镜头中成为可能
freeing up the stationary camera
解放了100年来
that had been normed in model photography for over 100 years.
摄像机只能静止拍摄的束缚
It wasn’t like
就好象
we were in Florence during the renaissance
我们当时是在文艺复兴时期的佛罗伦萨
there were so few places that did that type of visual effects
能做的艺术家也很少
and there were so few artists can do it,
那时很少有地方做这种特效
it was very rare, very wonderful,
太罕见了 不过很爽
and it was that rebirth of the industry.
真算是这个行业的新生
Star Wars was the beginning of the renaissance of visual effects,
星球大战是视觉特效复兴的开始
and Star Wars woke up the sleeping giant,
摇醒了这个沉睡的巨人
George anthropologically look out the world, it’s um,
乔治用全人类的角度看这个世界
“What’s missing here?”
还缺什么呢
First day that I saw Star Wars,
我第一天看星球大战的时候
I was one of those people along with my wife Cheryl
我和我妻子和那些人一样
that saw and immediately went back
看完一遍立刻冲回到后面
and got into the 2 hour line again to see it right away.
继续排两个小时的队再看一遍
I saw it twice in the first day
我在那天看了两遍
and it was just this transformative mind blowing cinematic experience,
简直就是一种全新的无法比拟的观影体验
and I called George,
然后我打给乔治
he said,”unfortunatelly we only got maybe 30 40 percent
他说很不幸我们只能做出三四成
of what I really want it there.
我们真正想要达到的东西
I’ll never forget seeing Star Wars for the first time,
我死也忘不了第一次看星球大战
I was in film school and it was like,
我当时在电影学院
I was there an opening weekend,
那个周末首映
the Chinese Theaters, standing in line for 6 hours
在中国剧院 我排队排了六个小时
and the way that film entertained audience
那电影用历史上从没有过的方式
was unlike any film in the history.
娱乐了观众
For the world famous Chinese Theater come the stars
世界闻名的中国剧院迎来了
of the biggest blockbuster*** success in motion picture’s history.
电影史最大的成功之作
I think the success of Star Wars
我觉得星球大战的成功
opened the doors for a whole series of genres of film
为一系列不同风格的影片打开了一扇新的大门
that hadn’t been done before
从没有人完成过的
because people simply couldn’t figure out how to make the images.
因为他们不知道该怎么创造这些图像
ILM was born out of sort of rebirth of the beginning of cinema,
工业光魔在一场电影重生的戏码中诞生
which is I say it’s all a trick,
要我说这就是一场魔术
and we are in the business of, we are the tricksters.
我们就是变魔术的人
The historic success of Star Wars
星球大战历史性的成功
allowed George Lucas to establish a film making center
让乔治建立了一个电影制♥作♥中心
outside of Hollywood,
不在好莱坞
he relocated to Marin county, northern California,
而是北加州的马林郡
and eventually built Skywalker Ranch.
*最终建成了Skywalker Ranch
ILM was set up shop in a nearby town San Rafael
工业光魔在San Rafael的
inhabiting a nondescript building
一个平淡无奇的大房♥子里建立了工作室
known as Kerner Optical,
名叫Kerner Optical
their home until 2005.
他们2005年之前的家
They immediately began work on the next Star Wars film,
他们随即开始了下一步星球大战的电影
The Empire Strikes Back.
《帝国反击战》
All in all the real episodiv of ILM
归根结底工业光魔就是为了
was to keep a core group of creative people
维系一组核心的创意型人才
and the highly technological environment they needed functioning.
以及他们用武之地的高科技环境
It was really clear that
显而易见
in order for ILM to sustain,
为了维持工业光魔
we did have to find a model that would work for ,
我们得找到可行的工作模式
become a viable business
将其打造成有市场的行业
and working for multiple film makers.
并为了不同的电影制♥作♥人工作
ILM opened its stores to the outside film community,
工业光魔打开了影视圈以外的市场
becoming the first independent visual effects studio
成为第一个独♥立♥视觉效果工作室
to realize the visions of directors with unique stories to tell.
意识到视觉导演有其独特地位
First time I collaborate with ILM
我第一次同工业光魔合作
电影制♥作♥人
史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格
one was the “Raiders Of The Lost Ark”.
是在《夺宝奇兵》这个片子
Most of the effects of raiders came in the end
最后他们打开失落的约柜时
where they opened the ark of the covenant,
大部分骑兵们的特效
and the effects involved, you know,
以及相关的特效 你知道
creating the power of God I guess,
我想就是要创造出上帝之力
what was coming out the actual ark,
从真正的约柜中跑出来的
the spirits.
那些灵魂
It were a lot challenges one with the scene
有很多有挑战性的场景
were one bad Nazi’s face,
那个邪恶的纳粹分子的脸
kind of implodes,
有点变形了
and where Col’s head melts,
还有Col的脑袋化掉的部分
and where Belloq’s head explodes,
和贝洛奇的脑袋爆♥炸♥的部分
I didn’t know how to do this,
我不知道怎么处理
and I just left it to these guys that had done Star Wars.
我就把它们留给完成《星球大战》这些人
Well they can do Star Wars,
他们都能做出《星球大战》
they can certainly melt a head.
做个化掉的脑袋不成问题
And they did figure out how to melt this wax head they built,
他们知道怎么化掉这些造出来蜡质的脑袋
it was kind of genius.
算是天才了
And that was all the beginning of my relationship with ILM.
这就是我同工业光魔的合作开端
While ILM continue push the boundary of photo chemical effects,
工业光魔不断发展化学特效成像
George Lucas conceive the potentials from entirely new way
乔治·卢卡斯发挥潜能 找到全新的方式
of creating cinema magic.
来制♥造♥电影特效
In the same way, George has so much vision about
同样 乔治有很多想法
marrying computers to cameras optical printers,
将计算机和摄影光电打印机结合
he felt that there were probably ways to create all kinds
他觉得这样或许能用计算机创造所有那些
of the things he did in Star Wars in the computer,
他在《星球大战》里做的东西
he felt there were ways to do editing with computers,
他觉得用计算机剪辑是可行的
he thought there were ways to
他觉得用计算机
create and manipulate music with computers,
创作或合成音乐是可行的
and those 3 things led him to start the Lucasfilm computer graphics
这三样想法让他雇佣Catmull并开创了
division he hired Catmull to start.
卢卡斯影业电脑绘图部
I was asked to bring in computer knowledge *
我要求他引入计算机技术
and computer science, with the very sort
计算机科学 这些东西
to bring this into this industry.
将这些引入这个行业
Among PHD students, Ed Catmull relieved advanced computer technology,
计算机高才生中 Ed Catmull应用高级计算机技术
was the ability to create smooth curved surfaces,
能够创造出曲线平滑的表面
and wrap textures around them.
并在外表加入质地
This was a pioneering leap in computer graphics,
这是计算机图像处理的新飞跃
known as CG.
也就是所谓的CG技术
I think the charger was to make a system that might make images,
我觉得管理人想要一个能创作图像的系统
ultimately images, on the film that’ll look photo-real,
在电影中看起来像真实拍摄出来的图像
and in the process of that,
为了做到这个
the apple came out,
苹果机诞生了
and Denis Muren had said
而Denis Muren说道
“Can I take 6 months’ off and
我能请六个月假
just learn how to use this apple”,
去学学怎么用苹果机吗
so he was wonder put foot in the water,
而他想加入其中
and learned what the guys are all doing.
学学这些家伙做的东西
And that started a link,
而从此一发不可收拾
so that I can transfer the technology
所以我才能转变这个技术