Chapter 1913 Special Effects Ready

This year's Oscar, Yin Jun got his wish, but there was a little boy who was very depressed.

He is Gu Tianle.

He finally got selected for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor with the excellent reputation of "The Sixth Sense", but he didn't get it. Naturally, Goo Jai was not happy.

He didn't care at first, but in order to gain attention, newspapers and TV broadcasts boasted that he had a high chance of winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. This gave Goo Jai great expectations.

As the saying goes, the more you expect, the more you will be disappointed.

In the end, his hope failed. Goo Jai stayed alone at Lin Qingxia's manor for two or three days before he was in the mood to go out for a walk.

When Yin Jun returned to Los Angeles, he met Stan Winston at his digital domain headquarters.

Since acquiring Stan Winston's studio in April 1980 and reorganizing it into the digital field, the special effects company has been developing at a rapid pace.

When Yin Jun didn't have much money before, he promised to inject at least US$10 million every year to help the company develop without diluting his shares.

When Yin Jun got rich, and with the consent of Stan Winston and others, Yin Jun started in January 1984 and injected a total of US$100 million in three years to help companies in the digital field continue to develop.

In this way, although Yin Jun's shares have increased to 90%, the value of the shares in everyone's hands has increased a lot compared to before.

The most important thing is that because of its strong strength in the digital field, the company has a total of 760 employees. In the past few years, it has taken over 30% of Hollywood's special effects production work.

The remaining 40% is obtained by Industrial Light and Magic, the largest company in Hollywood, and all other special effects companies combined only have 30%.

Industrial Light and Magic is backed by Lucasfilm and has two major series of "Star Wars" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to help it. It is certainly the fattest piece of meat it can eat.

The biggest special effect that Yin Jun's Digital Domain has done in the past two years is the invisible people and alien monsters in "Predator". This was done very well and made Cameron very satisfied.

There is another one that is similar, that is "Resident Evil" directed by Spielberg. However, in the first episode of this drama, it is more about special effects on makeup, so it is not as comprehensive as "Predator". mechanical and special effects resources.

One of the biggest expenditures in the digital field today is the expenditure on special effects hardware and software.

Hardware naturally refers to the production of various models. This requires countless people to spend time and slowly make it. Labor and materials are the biggest expenses.

On the other hand, software special effects are much more expensive than hardware.

Not only are hundreds of workstations constantly producing drawings and compositing various images, but they are also constantly purchasing computers and various computer software.

Yes.

In the past few years, the digital field has been looking to software companies around the world to purchase various software for computer production of movie special effects.

They all offer high prices, so many software companies have increased their investment, and one after another they buy more than a dozen professional software every year.

This not only requires more funds, but also requires more technical personnel to understand and thoroughly understand these software, so that they can better utilize these software to produce special effects.

For example, the invisible effects of the alien monsters in "Predator" produced using software are much more detailed than those seen by Yin Jun in his previous life, which greatly shocked people's visual senses and caused the box office to skyrocket.

Therefore, the digital field requires 760 employees to support the entire company's structure.

And according to Stan Winston, I am afraid that in the next three years, they will add 200-300 employees to keep up with the upgrading of various technologies and the production of larger-scale special effects scenes.

This is also an important factor why they actively accepted Yin Jun’s capital injection of US$100 million over three years.

For this group of technical nerds, any shares are secondary. Being able to meet their own needs and making the best special effects technology is the most important thing.

Although Yin Jun diluted their shares, he did not treat them badly in terms of treatment.

Stan Winston, the CEO, has a salary plus bonuses of at least 1 million US dollars a year. The other technical team leaders also have 600,000 to 700,000 US dollars. The technical backbones have at least 400,000 US dollars. Even ordinary new employees have a salary of at least 400,000 US dollars. The annual salary is no less than 100,000.

In a country like the United States, people in more than 30 states can be classified as the middle-income class if they have an annual income of 50,000, and people with an annual income of more than 120,000 can be said to be wealthy.

Naturally, everyone is very satisfied with such salary and remuneration.

Shares are one thing, and salary is another. Only when both meet their needs is the best job, and the job that gives them the most peace of mind.

After all, the time you spend in the company all day long is at least more than 10 hours. If you work overtime or something, 12 hours a day is very common.

Americans, Chinese, and Japanese are actually all the same. Not to mention they yearn for free jobs with high mobility.

In fact, the jobs with high mobility are those in low-level jobs.

For example, restaurant waiters, ordinary workers, ordinary clerks, etc.

Once people reach the middle class and above, few people are willing to change jobs frequently.

This is especially true for technology-related companies in the digital field.

Now that the boss has taken away their worries, they can devote themselves to their work more fully and do their work more accurately.

When Yin Jun came to the company, Stan Winston naturally showed him around and introduced the current development status and business progress of the company.

In fact, these are almost all written down in the semi-annual report, but it still feels a little more interesting when you look at it on site.

"Currently, due to the limitations of special effects technology, we dare not shoot movies that require a lot of special effects, so we usually limit the special effects shots of a movie to less than 10 minutes." Stan Winston said, "Our Qilin Group's movies We have to pursue perfection even more, and it takes about 15 minutes, which results in a huge increase in costs."

Yin Jun understood this in his previous life.

Let alone 10 minutes, basically it was controlled within 5 minutes in the 1980s.

Don't think this time is too short.

Because the time of special effects is calculated in seconds.

Scattered into various scenes, there are countless 3 seconds, 5 seconds, and 10 seconds. When dozens of such shots are mixed together, it becomes a special effects movie, and the effect is not bad.

Even in Marvel's hero movies in previous lives, the special effects time rarely exceeded 30 minutes.

The average cost of these 30 minutes of special effects is more than 100 million, and the maximum cost is more than 300 million US dollars. It can be said that every second of special effects is accumulated with money.

Some of the most exaggerated scenes, such as the thrilling special effects of Quicksilver rescuing everyone from the fire in "X-Men Origins: Days of Future Past" for more than ten seconds, burned tens of millions, with an average of more than 1 million per second! !

When Chinese films meet the pinnacle of these industrial films, they can only feel inferior and can only start with comedies.

Of course, the 10-minute and 15-minute special effects mentioned by Stan Winston here are completely two levels compared to the special effects after 2012.

The 10 seconds now are not worth the cost of 1 second in the future.

But in today's era, it is very enough.

At least the special effects of Cameron's "Terminator 2" are still not inferior 20 years after they were obtained.

Speaking of Cameron, he happens to be here now.

To be precise, he brought Gu Tianle here.

Cameron remembered the promise he made to Yin Jun. After he discovered that special effects in the digital field could make his own liquid robot, he started to participate with interest.

"Regarding the special effects in this area, we specially bought three software patents and are preparing to use more than 70 workbenches and more than 20 high-performance computers to create the liquid robot he wants." Stanwins Dun sighed and said, "I have spent so much thought and money, but I don't know if I can get my money back."

"Hey, Stan, you're not being kind." Cameron stared, "Will you lose money if you go see my movie? Let me tell you, this idea was given by Mr. Jun! You don't To make it well, I just doubt Jun Shao's vision... Of course, if you spend too much and the box office fails to meet the requirements, it's none of my business, because I am ready to present Jun Shao to the maximum extent, what do you want? To show the effect!”

Yin Jun was dumbfounded when he heard this, "It's my fault that it's so expensive!"

"Isn't that right?" Cameron spread his hands shamelessly and said.

Gu Tianle could already speak and speak English fluently at this time, and he laughed when he heard the words.

"Our Goo Jai is very spiritual and very suitable for our script." Cameron pointed at Goo Tim Lok at this time and said, "Now you give him to me. After half a year of filming, you can return him to me." is you!"

If "The Sixth Sense" only made Cameron feel that Gu Tianle was indeed qualified to star as the teenage leader in "Terminator 2", the hit "Home Alone" made him willing to let Gu Tianle star. .

As a commercial director, box office is still very important!

"You don't have to be so polite. You can give him some pointers." Yin Jun said seemingly casually.

Cameron himself doesn't even know how powerful he is over those actors.

If Gu Tianle gets his guidance, even if he cannot become a talented actor like Tom Hanks in the future, it will be more than enough to be Johnny Depp.

Louis Koo already knows that he will be the second male lead in Cameron's movie.

He likes Cameron very much as a director.

Especially when he was cast as a young boy in the future resistance leader in "Terminator 2", this was even more to his liking.

Children always prefer fiery performances!

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February has passed by in a blink of an eye. It feels like time flies so fast. It would be great if the Spring Festival holiday lasted only a month^_^