Game movie Benefits More, game film is not a Cross-border

With the 2015 Spring Festival approaching, the year-end Lunar New Year file will start a dragon, movies and stars will use their own housekeeping skills to attract people's attention, and this year to bat as the representative of the Internet giants have joined the war, and quickly become the "protagonist" : Ali and Tencent two big giants and Huayi brothers reached 3.6 billion yuan strategic cooperation; Baidu's Archie Art and China Strategy film and television set up a joint venture, millet to 1.8 billion yuan investment in China policy film and television, recently, Light Media and Qihoo 360 set up a joint venture, responsible for Internet video business ... In the Internet companies have with the film and television companies in the Cross-border integration of the LED, more and more video sites, gaming companies also carry out the Cross-border business with the film and television industry.

For the game Enterprise, and the film and television industry cross-border business is not new, to "perfect World" game started perfect time and space, in 2009 has invested in the film "Very perfect", the box office up to nearly billion. In the traditional industry and the Internet has become increasingly integrated with the current, itself is a cultural industry category of games and film and television, the trend of mutual integration is more obvious. So why not make a pure game movie?

Game Movies Benefit More

Here's the game movie, not by the game theme adaptation of the film, nor is the pure virtualization of the game theme CG movies, but the use of game scenes, characters and special effects, such as game resources, through specialized film production means to complete the game video, this game video has a complete narrative and plot, It also has a cinematic artistic expression, which is closer to the movie than the general video.

Game movies have many advantages for small players in the game circle. The first is the full use of game resources, in the game development, most of the art and special effects resources are specially produced for a game, only a small part of the resources can be recycled, if the scene and the resources used to make game movies, not only low-cost, but with the game can form a complementary relationship.

Second, game movies can play the role of cultivating their own game IP, the value of the game IP believe that the small partners have experience, Tencent, swim, perfect in the acquisition of Jin Yong and the day after the IP raised the rights "stick", some well-known network novel IP to tens of millions of dollars in price by the game giant scramble ... If can be produced by the game of video game film with the game to promote, not only the game itself has a great help, but also through the film to let the game have a more stereoscopic image, conducive to the formation of the game itself IP.

At the same time, game movies are also cost-effective marketing resources. Game movies can be launched to the video site for game promotion, you can also make a series of skits to broadcast, video from the media platform to operate the way.

The game movie is a kind of derivative culture work outside the game, and the game itself is a pulse. Can play with the game, mutual borrowing force to participate in the fierce market competition, can also be alone wandering. Can be more than 10 minutes of micro-film, can also be comparable to professional film and television works monumental, depending on financial and technical means, can fully meet the different needs.

Make a movie like a game

Game movies have a lot of benefits, but only enough art, special effects and scene resources, still can not say that the production of the film is completed in half. How to splice it into a film and television masterpiece? It still takes considerable effort.

The first is the preparation of the script, the producers need to know what kind of film they want to make, the script to determine their own ideas, equivalent to the game plan.

The second is the preparation of additional resources. When the available art resources are not enough to complete the shooting and editing of the game movie, it is necessary to prepare additional characters, scenes, special effects resources, and require some special treatment of resources by technicians to ensure that the game movies play according to the requirements of the script.

In addition, the editor and other necessary development tools, like the development of games, in the production of game movies, the editor is also a very important tool. Through the editor, the production staff can control the characters and scene movements according to the requirements of the script to move, and in the editor see the effect of rendering.

Given that the game has 2D, 3D, and 2.5D types between the two, the editors used are very different. If you make a 2D game movie, the Flash based editor is sufficient, and this type of editor can directly make a fluent 2D animation. To make 2.5D game movies. You can use the editor of World of Warcraft directly, the editor supports external model import, it is easy to create.

The most exquisite 3D game movies, the editor is also the largest, such as Ubisoft's work "Island Fright" released by the map editor, although this year Ubisoft because of "Assassin's Creed" and other game bugs and received widespread criticism, but still want to admit, "Island 4" map Editor is a very good production tool. In the related videos released, the editor can be on the terrain, grassland Forest Lake, the setting of the House to make arbitrary settings, the scene of the characters, animals and the location of the vehicle can also be laid out, you can create steam scene, can also make a breakthrough encirclement of the hot action scenes, can create a very large space. But currently do not know whether to support the external model and AI writing, if supported, then the film type will be very rich, if you do not support external model import, you can only use the "isolated" in the existing material to make.

After the use of the editor to make the appropriate video footage, after selection and editing, add voice, soundtrack and subtitles, conditional can also join the title and the end of the film, a pure game movie is completed.

Use game material to make the game movie and the game video has the essential difference, the game video is uses the game own resources to carry on the simple clip, the game movie is to the game thorough reprocessing. And compared with the pure CG game movie, the film development cost is very low, the game development team's manpower and the technology can satisfy the production request. Game Circle of the small partners, to enter the film circle does not need to cross the border, oneself may be the art of the game movie Master!