And over the years, I've gotten to amass fun collection

這些年來，我已經積累了一些有趣的收藏品

of props that I've used in my magic videos.

的道具，我在我的魔術視頻中使用。

Like this one, the giant toy car.

像這個，巨大的玩具車。

So I'll take you in the studio, show you around.

那我就帶你到工作室去，帶你四處看看。

[whooshing] [upbeat music]

[嗖嗖] [歡快的音樂]

[whooshing] All right.

[嗖嗖] 好吧。

So this is my office and this is where I not only work,

所以這就是我的辦公室，這裡不僅是我工作的地方。

but also keep some of my favorite things

但也保留了一些我喜歡的東西

throughout my childhood and little things that have

貫穿我的童年和小事，已經

inspired me, as well as memorabilia from my videos.

啟發了我，以及我視頻中的紀念品。

Like this one, the souvenir of France.

像這個，法國的紀念品。

It's a Vine video where I grab it and take the Eiffel tower.

這是一個Vine視頻，我抓住它，把埃菲爾鐵塔。

Merci beaucoup.

謝謝你，非常感謝你。

The fun part about working with miniatures to me

對我來說，與迷你模型一起工作的有趣之處在於... ...

is it's really tactile.

是它的真正觸覺。

It's something you can grab, you can play with,

這是你可以抓住的東西，你可以玩的東西。

you could block in the frame,

你可以擋在框架內。

but it also means you have to get it 100% perfect.

但這也意味著你必須讓它100%完美。

So that means your distance from this to the camera,

所以這意味著你從這裡到相機的距離。

but also the item in the background has to be perfect.

但背景中的項目也必須是完美的。

So you're lining up these three different elements

所以你要把這三個不同的元素排列起來

and it's fun, but it takes a ton of time to get it perfect.

它的樂趣，但它需要一噸的時間來得到它的完美。

If it's not perfect, you know,

如果它不完美，你知道。

you gotta fly back to France and re-shoot.

你得飛回法國重新拍攝。

One of my favorite videos that I've done on TikTok

我最喜歡的視頻之一，我在TikTok上做的。

was based on one of my favorite books growing up,

是根據我成長過程中最喜歡的一本書改編的。

"Harry Potter."

"哈利波特"

Of course, everyone wants to be able to fly on a broomstick.

當然，每個人都希望能騎著掃帚飛行。

So we created this illusion where,

所以我們創造了這種幻覺，在那裡。

with a mirror and the broomstick and pants glued to it,

有一面鏡子，上面粘著掃把和褲子。

it looked like I could be floating.

它看起來像我可以漂浮。

[gentle music]

[輕柔的音樂]

You know, there's always challenges when we're filming.

你知道，當我們在拍攝時，總是有挑戰。

The hardest one on that video is we were riding

那段視頻中最難的是我們騎著

and we'd chipped the mirror a little bit

我們把鏡子弄壞了一點。

or the Boosted board like,

或升壓板一樣。

dance between the cameraman and myself in the videos

攝像師和我在視頻中的舞蹈

is always an intense choreography, and that one especially,

總是激烈的編排，尤其是那個。

because I'm on an electric skateboard

因為我在電動滑板上。

and I have to control that as well as hold this rig

我必須控制它，以及保持這個鑽機

of the mirror and the broomstick and the pants,

的鏡子和掃把和褲子。

which is actually rather heavy, with one hand.

這實際上是相當沉重的，用一隻手。

It's fun though, when you get that choreography down,

不過很有趣，當你把這個編排下來。

it feels like you just had an amazing dance,

感覺就像你剛剛跳了一支很棒的舞。

and you know, the video turned out awesome, I love it.

你知道，視頻變成了真棒，我喜歡它。

I also love exploring ideas that kind of bend reality.

我也喜歡探索那種彎曲現實的想法。

And a good example of that is this chair,

而這把椅子就是一個很好的例子。

which I keep in my office.

我把它放在辦公室裡

It looks like a regular chair, right?

它看起來像一把普通的椅子，對嗎？

But if I sit down, it's not quite a regular chair,

但如果我坐下來，它就不是很正規的椅子。

it's actually what we call an illusion chair.

它實際上是我們所說的幻覺椅子。

So it's based on the perspective of where the camera is.

所以它是基於攝像頭所在的角度。

It's actually, as you can see,

其實，你也看到了。

a bunch of curved cut wood perfectly to line up

一堆彎彎曲曲的木頭完美地排成一排。

just from one single angle over there.

只是從一個單一的角度那邊。

So there's a lot of meticulous work that goes up front

所以前期有很多細緻的工作要做

in designing these illusions, from sketches, design,

在設計這些幻象時，從草圖、設計。

3D blueprints, and CAD models.

3D藍圖和CAD模型。

And that's only half of it.

而這僅僅是一半。

Then we take that into reality.

那我們就把它變成現實。

When you're talking about making a piece of furniture

當你在談論製作一件傢俱的時候。

or a set, you actually have to just line up the camera,

或一套，其實你只要把相機排好。

and have it there during the entire construction process.

並在整個施工過程中，有。

And it's a bummer because a lot of times

這是一個無賴，因為很多時候。

you end up building it and if you didn't

你最終建立了它，如果你不這樣做的話

line up the camera right, you have to redo it.

對準攝像頭，你必須重做。

So you gotta be detail-oriented.

所以你要注重細節。

So this next room that we're gonna be going to is

所以，下一個房間，我們要去的是

one of my favorites in the studio.

我最喜歡的工作室之一。

It stores some really fun treats.

它儲存了一些非常有趣的食物。

Let's go check it out.

我們去看看吧

[whooshing] Okay.

[嗖嗖] 好吧。

So this is special room because this is

所以這個房間很特別，因為這是

where we store our medium to large props.

我們的中大型道具就存放在這裡。

Now, we store the extra small props in a special other room,

現在，我們把多餘的小道具存放在一個特殊的別室裡。

which I'll show you in a second.

我馬上就給你看。

So what you see in here is pretty much all the props

所以，你在這裡看到的幾乎是所有的道具。

I've used over the years ranging from snack items,

這些年我用過的東西，從零食項目。

like this giant Oreo here.

像這個巨大的奧利奧在這裡。

We've got this little miniature plane.

我們已經得到了這個小微型飛機。

I was thinking about the name of the Wright brothers,

我在想萊特兄弟的名字。

you know, who were some of the first inventors of flight.

你知道，誰是一些最早的飛行發明者。

And I was like, wouldn't be funny if there was like,

我當時想，不會是有趣的，如果有喜歡的。

what if there was a wrong brother,

如果有一個錯誤的兄弟。

like what was his invention have been like,

比如他的發明是什麼樣子的。

and he would take a miniature, wind it up, throw it.

他會拿著一個小模型，把它捲起來，扔出去。

And then the plane would circle back and it'd become real.

然後飛機就會繞回來，變得真實起來。

And it would almost crash into him.

而且幾乎會撞上他。

That's where that idea came from.

這就是這個想法的來源。

So I got this prop online the night before we had the shoot.

所以我在拍攝的前一天晚上在網上買了這個道具。

It arrived and I thought it came assembled,

到了，我以為是組裝好的。

like ready to go out of the box.

像隨時可以開箱。

But no, I had to build this, it actually took me hours.

但不，我必須建造這個，實際上我花了幾個小時。

And look, there's even a complicated rubber band system

你看，甚至還有一個複雜的橡皮筋系統。

to how they make these spin and turn on.

到他們如何使這些旋轉和打開。

I spent way too much time Super Gluing

我花了太多的時間超級膠水。

and burning my fingers making this.

燙傷我的手指做這個。

But you know, that actually happens a lot.

但你知道，這其實經常發生。

I always try to look in the fine print

我總是試著看清楚字裡行間的內容

when I'm buying props online now, it's like, is it prebuilt?

我現在在網上買道具的時候，就會覺得，這是預製的嗎？

That is absolutely key if possible.

如果可能的話，這絕對是關鍵。

Now a lot of the props that we make here are actually made

現在，我們在這裡做的很多道具，其實都是做的

in-house using design and 3D printers like this one.

內部使用設計和3D打印機，比如這個。

So I wanted do a video where I was

所以我想做一個視頻，我是

playing catch with myself.

和自己玩接球遊戲。

I would throw it this way and then catch it

我會把它扔到這邊，然後再接住它。

close up to frame with this small little football.

近距離用這個小足球來定格。

And you can see, this one is actually just a perfectly

你可以看到，這個其實只是一個完美的。

printed replica and we'll paint it brown.

嵃，嵃複製品，我們會把它塗成棕色。

It's all hand-painted with the little Wilson logo there.

那裡都是手繪的威爾遜小標誌。

But it's fun that we can make things really accurate to size

但我們可以把東西做得很精確，很有趣。

and just to the size that we need

並且剛好是我們需要的尺寸

so it's at the right distance from camera.

所以，它是在正確的距離從相機。

You know, my videos tap into a lot of different themes

你知道，我的視頻挖掘到了很多不同的主題

and one of 'em tends to be games and sports.

而其中一個往往是遊戲和體育。

So I've got things that are golf clubs.

所以我的東西都是高爾夫球杆。

I've got little mini bikes.

我有一些小的迷你自行車。

I've even got, this is a special one,

我甚至已經得到了，這是一個特殊的。

because I did a video with Tony Hawk

因為我做了一個視頻與託尼霍克

where I was skateboarding, showing him a skateboard trick.

我在哪裡滑板， 顯示他的滑板技巧。

And during the trick it transitions

而在變戲法的過程中，它轉換

to this little miniature.

到這個小縮影。

And he actually signed this one for us, so that's cool.

而他居然為我們簽了這個，所以這很酷。

Some props are a mix of 3D-printed as a base,

有些道具是以3D打印為基礎的混搭。

and then covered with fabric,

然後用布料覆蓋。

like this one that was used in a safety video commercial

像這樣的一個安全視頻廣告。

we got to do for an airline.

我們必須為航空公司做。

And this is actually, really amazing craftsmanship.

而這其實，真的是驚人的手藝。

All real zippers done.

所有真正的拉鍊都做了。

And in terms of the 3D printing,

而在3D打印方面。

like things like this, my team will do that.

像這樣的事情，我的團隊會做的。

They'll design it in 3D software like in CAD,

他們會像在CAD中一樣用3D軟件設計。

and then we'll 3D print it.

然後我們將3D打印它。

And we'll usually do several different sizes

我們通常會做幾種不同尺寸的

so that when we show up on set,

這樣，當我們出現在集，

we don't know exactly where the position's gonna be,

我們不知道確切的位置會在哪裡。

based on it could be a different camera.

基於它可能是一個不同的相機。

It could be a different lens that we're using that day.

可能是我們當天使用的鏡頭不同。

So it's crazy amount of work,

所以這是瘋狂的工作量。

but we make three or four different versions

但我們做了三四個不同的版本

just to scale the size.

只是為了縮放大小。

This one was a completely custom design

這個是完全定製的設計

where it's a little penguin.

在那裡，它是一隻小企鵝。

We needed to do an illusion which was

我們需要做一個錯覺，這是

having the audience guess which belly color

猜腹色

of the penguin is darker.

的企鵝比較黑。

And so we printed a series of these to show off

所以我們印了一系列的這些東西來展示一下

just little tricks that your mind and your eyes play on you,

只是小把戲，你的頭腦和你的眼睛玩你。

even though it's not reality.

儘管這不是現實。

When we're designing these tricks that actually play off

當我們在設計這些技巧時，實際上是在玩弄這些技巧。

of real life principles, such as color illusions,

現實生活中的原理，如色彩錯覺。

where it has to trick your mind,

在那裡，它必須欺騙你的頭腦。

those take a lot of time 'cause we actually have to have

這些需要大量的時間，因為我們實際上必須有。

all of our team and our friends go through these surveys

我們所有的團隊和我們的朋友們都要通過這些調查

and seeing what really works,

並看看什麼是真正有效的。

and what's the science behind it.

以及背後的科學原理是什麼。

And again, if that doesn't work for somebody out of the 99,

再說一遍，如果這對99人中的某個人不起作用。

and there's one person that doesn't work for,

而有一個人，不為。

we still try to engineer it so every single person

我們仍然試圖設計它，所以每一個人。

that sees it can have the same effect.

看到的，也可以有同樣的效果。

So things like color illusions are difficult to create.

所以像色彩幻覺這種東西是很難製造的。

I think a lot of people, if they were to come here,

我想很多人，如果要來這裡。

they'd be like,

他們會像。

"You love these miniatures and dollhouses stuff."

"你喜歡這些迷你模型和娃娃屋的東西。"

And it kind of looks like that because we have

而它看起來像，因為我們有。

a miniature house set that we just used in a recent video.

我們在最近的一個視頻中使用的微型房子集。

And it's got a mailbox, and what we did is, in the video,

它有一個郵箱，而我們做的是，在視頻中。

I walk up and I ended up realizing I'm really large.

我走上前去，結果發現自己真的很大。

And you see that this was scaled down,

你看這是縮小的。

but it was like a forced perspective trick.

但這就像一個強行透視的把戲。

And I come down and grab the mail.

然後我就下來拿郵件。

But then the twist on it was when I turn around to go

但後來的轉折是，當我轉身要走的時候

inside the house, the house was miniature.

在房子裡面，房子是微型的。

That video took us literally months to concept and block.

那段視頻我們花了好幾個月的時間來構思和策劃。

We'd go out to the park for an afternoon,

我們會去公園玩一個下午。

figure out what was wrong, come back.

找出問題所在，回來。

And I think we did that several times.

我想我們做了幾次。

And finally, we went out and shot it.

最後，我們出去拍攝了。

And we just had a bunch of teenagers

而我們只是有一群青少年

standing out there eyeballing us, looking,

站在外面目不轉睛的看著我們，看著。

giving us the strangest looks.

給我們最奇怪的表情。

It sounds so ridiculous but the reason this video took

這聽起來很荒謬，但這個視頻的原因採取了

months and months to do and multiple attempts is

個月和幾個月的時間來做，多次嘗試是。

because we actually just needed

因為我們其實只是需要

the certain level of grading on the field.

場上的一定程度的分級。

We needed a field that went down

我們需要一塊能下去的場地

just like an inch every two feet.

就像每兩英尺一英寸。

And we actually spent a lot of time,

而我們其實花了很多時間。

our team, looking for that field.

我們的團隊，在尋找那個領域。

And so we found a field, finally made it happen.

於是我們找到了一塊地，終於實現了。

But yeah, the smallest little variables in our videos

但是，是的，我們視頻中最小的小變量

make a big difference, such as the grade of the field.

做出了很大的改變，比如場地的等級。

People chalk up a lot of our videos to CG and it's,

人們把我們的很多視頻歸結為CG，這是。

"Oh, it's a CG house that they replaced,"

"哦，是他們換的CG房子"。

but no, it's actually real, it has real windows and doors.

但不，它實際上是真實的，它有真正的門窗。

And that gives it a tactile feel.

而這也讓它有了觸感。

That's the reason I got into filmmaking is because

我之所以進入電影製作行業，是因為

everything was real.

一切都是真實的。

I'd watch "Jurassic Park" and "Indiana Jones"

我會看 "侏羅紀公園 "和 "印第安納瓊斯"

and you knew those tanks were real,

你知道那些坦克是真的

and you knew the dinosaurs,

你知道恐龍。

they have real creatures that they were

他們有真正的生物，他們是

interacting with.

與互動。

And that's why I love film because you can feel it on set.

這也是我喜歡電影的原因，因為你可以在片場感受到它。

You're not walking onto to a green screen room,

你不是走到一個綠色的螢幕房間。

and just pretending.

而只是假裝。

This is a special deck of cards because,

這是一副特別的牌，因為。

I made this video with my kids where it looked like we were

我和我的孩子們做了這個視頻，它看起來像我們是

creating a house of cards in the foreground,

營造出一個紙牌屋的前景。

but then one of my sons walks around

但我的一個兒子走來走去。

in the background and knocks it over.

在背景中，把它打翻。

We came up with this concept pretty last minute.

我們是在最後一刻才想出這個概念的。

So I just told one of my producers,

所以我剛剛告訴我的一個製片人。

"Hey, we gotta spray paint the symbols.

"嘿，我們得噴上符號。

"And what we do is we'll lay out these poster boards

"而我們要做的是，我們會把這些海報板鋪開

"and then project the image,

"然後投射影像。

"and then we'll trace it with paint

"然後我們會用顏料描畫它

"and create stencils and then spray paint it."

"並創建模板，然後噴漆。"

It's always fun to have large items.

大件物品總是很有趣的。

[cards crashing] That's a house of cards for ya.

[卡崩潰] 這是一個紙牌屋給你。

Sometimes I'm surfing the internet

有時我在網上衝浪

and I'll just see this giant thing.

我就會看到這個巨大的東西。

And I'll be like, "I don't know what that's for,

我就會說，"我不知道那是幹什麼用的"。

"but I'm gonna buy it."

"但我要買它。"

And so we bought this giant beach ball.

於是我們買了這個巨大的沙灘球。

So far, no ideas have come to mind yet, but I think,

到目前為止，還沒有想到什麼想法，但我想。

I think something cool will come out of that.

我覺得會有一些很酷的東西出來。

That also goes for things like this giant watch.

這也適用於像這塊巨型手錶這樣的東西。