What High - tech Secrets Lie Behind "Ne Zha 2"?

Guys, the film market during the 2025 Spring Festival 档 was simply on fire! Films like "Ne Zha: The Demon Child's Return to the Sea", "Creation of the Gods II: The Western Expedition", "Detective Chinatown 1900", and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Hero" swept in strongly with the support of major IPs. Among them, "Ne Zha: The Demon Child's Return to the Sea" soared all the way, successfully surpassing "The Battle at Lake Changjin" and powerfully topping the list of China's all - time box - office rankings, with its box - office continuing to climb. According to the official Weibo of Ne Zha, as of 3 p.m. On February 8th, the box office had already exceeded the 7 billion mark! This overwhelming popularity is sufficient to prove the extremely high popularity of Ne Zha!

The success of Ne Zha 2 lies not only in its innovative content, cultural resonance with the audience, and a solid market foundation, but also inseparably from the strong technical support behind it. Ne Zha 2 has a production team of over 4,000 people, encompasses more than 1,900 special - effects shots, and adds special effects to over 200 million characters. Even just one shot was polished for 3 years. The film combines cutting - edge technologies such as AI - assisted animation production, physical rendering, and motion capture, reaching a top - notch domestic level in terms of lighting and shadow effects and detail presentation. These technologies together create a vivid and fantastical mythical world, presenting a visual feast for the audience. It is not only sought after by the audience but also creates a film miracle, achieving a double harvest of box-office and word-of-mouth.

Among the many technologies, the application of motion capture technology undoubtedly adds a lot of luster to the visual and character portrayal of Ne Zha 2. The beloved character of Ne Zha, with the delicate support of motion capture technology, appears more lively and vivid, and both its character traits and expressiveness have been significantly enhanced. Based on the application of motion capture technology, the production team can collect and record the movements and facial expressions of real actors, and accurately and real - time map every move, martial - arts scenes, and emotional expressions of the actors onto the character model, making every movement full of vitality, more real in character expression, and richer in emotional expressiveness.

As a powerful catalyst in the creation process of film, television, animation, and games, with the support of motion capture technology, not only can more vivid and lifelike character images be created, bringing a more shocking visual impact, but also the creative efficiency can be greatly improved, saving time and labor costs. From the first film to use motion capture technology, "Total Recall", to the wave of attention brought by "Avatar" to the application of motion capture technology, and then to "Black Myth: Wukong" being sought after by global players, the support and application of motion capture technology have been continuously shaping classics and creating one industry miracle after another!

Motion capture has diverse application scenarios in film and television animation production, providing unique and highly advantageous technical support, making the creative process more smooth and efficient while ensuring the production of high - quality works.

1. Character Capture

How to make character creation more vivid and realistic, getting rid of the long - cycle, time - consuming, and labor - intensive dilemma of traditional key - frame animation? The birth of motion capture technology has successfully solved these problems. Through motion - capture cameras to capture the movements, limbs, and facial expressions of single or multiple people, and with the help of rendering software or systems, the performances of people are real-time mapped onto digital models, making the expressions of animated characters follow the movements of the body. Whether it is an intense fighting scene or a delicate emotional expression, motion capture technology can accurately restore every movement and expression of the actors, injecting real life into virtual characters and creating character images indistinguishable from real - life expressions, thus enhancing the visual presentation effect.

Motion - capture scene of "Love and Redemption"

2.Prop Interaction Capture 

In film, television, animation, and game production, there are usually scenes of human - prop interaction. For example, the golden cudgel used by Wukong in "Black Myth: Wukong". Relying solely on post-production processing not only results in an unsatisfactory synchronization effect but also prolongs the production cycle. Through motion capture technology, while capturing the characters, it can capture the spatial position of the props and their interaction states with the characters, achieving a complete and integrated effect, making the martial - arts scenes and prop - interaction states more smooth and natural, as if watching on - site.

Motion - capture demonstration by CHINGMU

3. Creation of Immersive Interactive Scenes 

With the help of motion capture technology, it can provide solid technical support for XR/VP shooting, etc., achieving a what - you - see - is - what - you - get visual effect, deeply integrating the characters with the virtual scene, completing shots that are difficult to shoot in reality, and breaking through technical bottlenecks in the creative process. While improving shooting efficiency, it ensures the final visual presentation effect.

A 1600 - square - meter VP virtual world at Beijing Xingguang Film and Television Park, a cooperation project of CHINGMU

4. Previz Virtual Pre - rehearsal 

Motion capture technology is not only used in formal shooting; it also changes the film production process - by "virtual pre - rehearsal" to bring post - production forward, thereby improving shooting efficiency. With the virtual pre- rehearsal function, directors and actors can experience and intuitively understand the shooting effect in advance, such as feeling the details of the interaction between character movements and the scene. This enables the creative team to have a clearer prediction of the overall effect, adjust performance details and camera design in a timely manner before formal shooting, thus minimizing the risk of post-production reshoots.

CHINGMU, as a leading optical motion - capture brand in the industry, has completely independently developed its optical motion - capture system, which is purely domestic. It has advantages such as high precision, low latency, and strong robustness. It can achieve a position accuracy of ≤0.1mm and an angle accuracy of ≤0.1°, and can realize the capture of 40 + people, as well as the capture of fingers, quadruped animals, rigid bodies, flexible bodies, etc., meeting motion - capture scenarios from a few square meters to thousands of square meters. It is widely used in scenarios such as film, television, animation, games, digital humans, virtual shooting, virtual simulation, and large - space VR, and provides full - process solutions for various scenarios, controlling every production link to help customers produce high - quality works.

CHINGMU has cooperated and supported many well - known films and film and television animation works, such as "The Wings of the Wind", "The Battle at Lake Changjin II: The Watergate Bridge", "My Country, My Parents", "Passionate", and domestic animations like "I Am What I Am 2", "Love and Redemption", "Perfect World", "A Record of Mortal's Cultivation to Immortality", "Jianlai", etc., boosting the development of China's film and television industry, promoting Chinese animation to create miracles and go global. In the future, CHINGMU looks forward to cooperating with more high - quality creative teams, jointly exploring the infinite possibilities of motion capture technology, and helping China's film and television industry reach new heights.