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All disputes surrounding Oscars are fame and fortune.

In addition, regarding the Oscar fame and fortune dispute, even the US Internal Revenue Service has intervened, and they have to collect tax from the gift package presented by the college to the award-giving guests!

Since 1989, the college began to give gift packages to Oscar guests, and it has since become an Oscar tradition. In addition to the finalists, the presenter can also get a copy to express gratitude to the star guests who attended the Oscar ceremony for free.

Under commercial hype, this tradition has become a business with an output value of hundreds of millions of dollars. In this year’s Oscar package, a diamond-encrusted bra and panties, a 22k gold leaf and a mallet made of crystals are worth nearly 100,000 US dollars. , And this is just part of the gift bag.

Although the Oscar's gift package is different due to different gifts, the content is also different. For example, the "Victoria's Secret" underwear with gold and diamonds worth 15,000 US dollars is only available to the finalists of the heroine.

In addition to the gifts for attending the awards ceremony, Oscar also specially prepared gifts for the unsuccessful actors and actresses and directors, which will be given out after the awards ceremony. This year’s Oscar’s frustrated person’s gift bag contains a piece for soothing the injured soul. Free 3-day accommodation voucher for a luxury hotel in Las Vegas.

Hollywood stars participate in the awards ceremony and receive gifts at the same time. This is indeed enviable, but the US Internal Revenue Service has focused its attention on taxation this year.

Just a day after this awards ceremony, the IRS stated that the stars who received the Oscar gift packages must pay taxes for these gifts. Its spokesperson said in a statement that when global attention is focused on these stars, They should also know that they are obligated to pay taxes like ordinary people, and hope that these stars will also be able to'push ahead' on the issue of taxation.

Only death and taxes are eternal.

In a country where tax resistance started, paying taxes is definitely a big issue. Although Murphy received the Oscar gift package and gave it to the driver who provided service for him, he should notify the accountant. When filing the tax next month, don’t forget this. Gift package.

The reputation of the country of ten thousand taxes can also be seen from this gift package.

As the disturbances about Oscars gradually subsided, Murphy threw the golden man into the safe and restarted his work. This golden man represents the past, not the future.

He needs to continue to work hard in the future.

The post work of "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones" continues.

Before, Murphy had completed the first cut of ten episodes with Joel Griffith, temporarily handing over the finishing work to the editor team, and he rushed to the small city of Venice to supervise the special effects production in the digital field.

In the whole series, there are not many pictures that really use computer CGI special effects. The three young dragons hatched by Daenerys Targaryen in the last episode are undoubtedly representative of them.

This is also one of the two most important special effects production scenes in the service provided by the digital field for "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones".

According to Murphy's understanding, dragons in Western legends are simply large lizards with wings, or dinosaurs with wings are more suitable.

Therefore, the special effects team referred to his requirements. When initially designing the model, it referred to a lot of jurassic park images of juvenile dinosaurs.

But this is just a reference. If you want to make a dragon that is unforgettable at a glance, it is definitely not enough to put a pair of wings on the dinosaur. It needs to determine its core and skeleton based on the reference.

Murphy only put forward ideas and goals that should be achieved, and how to do it specifically requires the meticulous work of a professional team in the digital field.

The "sculpting" of the digital realm is carried out from the inside to the outside. The skeleton is first built, then the muscles are wrapped, and finally the skin is covered.

They took Murphy’s dragon as a core concept that is generally a flying dinosaur, and decided that the design of the dragon’s bone structure is similar to that of birds. Therefore, in order to build the original skeleton of the dragon, the special effects team found the "easiest bird to find"-one Chicken that has only shed hair.

This chicken that has lost its life is thus endowed with important value.

The special effects team performed a comprehensive scan of it, and then attached controllers to key parts such as wings to track the dynamics of bones and muscles during movement, and then transformed it into the special effects software to become a juvenile dragon while crawling. Muscle movement.

Special effects artists who are good at observing also discovered that when the chicken's wings are opened, the skin at the junction with the body is almost transparent, so when the dragon stretches its wings in the play, it is also processed into a translucent film.

What this hairless chicken can provide to the special effects artists is the dragon's muscle and bone movement; the appearance of the dragon is even more troublesome for the special effects team.

In fact, in order to make the fictional dragon appear more realistic in appearance, the special effects team studied more than one hundred animals. Just to find suitable skin textures and scales for the "young dragon", it referred to more than a dozen lizards.

The dragon in the play is dynamic. When interacting with the outside world, the changes in appearance also need to be kept dynamic. For example, the dragon that broke out of the egg, the state of droplets dripping along the scales, and the eyes and skin of the dragon. Various colors and reflections under different lights require special effects artists to be authentic in every little detail.

To get the little lizard with wings, Murphy assembled a special effects team of up to 25 people to produce the title of the entire episode. They need to get the design concept to the final effect as soon as possible.

"The title is only ninety seconds away, why not do something that can't be done in the feature film?"

Before starting the production, Murphy called all the production staff together for a short meeting, "If it is done well, the audience can learn about the development of the character."

The title of a TV series can do many things. In addition to bringing the audience into the plot, it can also tell the audience about the time and space they will see, and can create their own world.

At the beginning, everything was very simple, there was no animation effect, it was all flat things.

The special effects design team came up with an original opening script as quickly as possible. A crow flew from Junlin City to Winterfell, but Murphy always felt that this would make the audience confused. Stories played out in the environment.

The special effects team produced five more maps. It is recommended that these maps can be cut out as soon as they change places in the TV series. They seem to work well, and they can clearly know where they are now, but they seriously interfere with the narrative of the series.

This way of changing the map will cause extremely serious obstacles and interference to the narrative. Murphy simply requested that the map be put into the opening of the film and become a part of the opening.

However, there will also be a problem, what else is outside the map?

Murphy has been thinking that the crew has enough budget and excellent technical staff. He can do whatever he wants. What should he do at this time?

His choice was to create the most complex and most exquisite map imaginable by mankind.

These will form the title of the episode.

It is not easy to produce the most complex and exquisite maps. Murphy led the special effects team to make enough efforts from design to production.

The first is to create maps that move like real objects. Accompanying each map is the family emblem of the controller.

According to Murphy’s philosophy, the crew’s art director Helena Espola referred to Leonardo’s mechanical design manuscripts. The design inside has a kind of eternal beauty. The world in the TV series looks simple and unpretentious, but there is still something to be done. The complexity that makes it lively, the emblems of each family must not be the product of modern society. The things inside should be made of wood, metal, leather, and cloth. Anyway, they are all handmade things.

What the crew has to do is to look like the real thing, not to make people feel like CG effects or the product of that kind of magic camera.

Murphy believes that a camera with a motion control system should be used to shoot the title. The reason why a motion control camera is used is mainly to make it look real.

Subsequently, Murphy asked him to make a sketch of the Red Fort. The Red Fort is one of the main buildings in Junlin City. The special effects team made the Red Fort template on the CG board and showed it to Murphy.

Murphy was quite satisfied, and the team of twenty-five people began to enter the state.

Second, we must be loyal to the original to a certain extent

Up to now, Murphy already has a map of Westeros and a hand-drawn map of Essos. These two are very beautiful, they were painted by George Martin himself. The special effects team put these two Go to photoshop and adjust their size until they match each other.

The size, location, and boundaries of the map are strictly in compliance with George Martin’s original map. Another point is very important. Murphy worked so hard to respect the original work because he found that since the establishment of the project, Fox’s vigorous publicity and hype in the 20th century are like The "Harry Potter" series of the year were average, and "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones" fans have become more and more enthusiastic.

I have been busy until April, when the 90-second film title was really finished.

In the opening of the film, the astrolabe is in constant motion, moving around the hot center, and the heraldry on the astrolabe shows the history of the story, lifelike.

Then, a complicated map came into view, overlooking the entire map from the eyes of a supervisor. As the gears turned, the city-states of various countries appeared on the map. War and politics promoted the growth and change of these city-states.

From the Red Fort of King’s Landing to the sacred woods of Winterfell, to the narrow sea with frequent storms, the 90-second opening will lead the audience to overlook the Seven Kingdoms from the air, which also implies many of the "Game of Thrones" information.

Editing the title to the finished episode, adding the soundtrack and editing the sound effects, the first three episodes of "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones" are basically completed, and the next few episodes have prototypes, but Murphy Don't worry, TV dramas are different from movies after all. You can wait for the audience's feedback before finishing the final work.

As the date of "Winter is Coming" is getting closer, Stanton Studio and Twentieth Century Fox have also stepped up their propaganda offensive.