Chapter 324 base and light bulb factory (additional update for leader Bulky 123)
"Rendering is a very hard job, it is hard work in the literal sense, it is manual labor. It requires very good hardware equipment and people who can operate it. Sometimes we have to stay in the studio all night to ensure that the rendering can go smoothly
Once the equipment is stuck and down, everything may have to be started all over again.”
"The top special effects artists in Hollywood earn thousands of dollars a week and do the same work as an assembly line. In 2003, I decided to put some of the special effects shots of "Deep Sea Rescue" in China. This decision
It’s crazy, but I think the future of the special effects industry is here.”
"You have the most engineers in the world and low labor costs."
"I found a small team that rendered 3D graphics for real estate developers and asked them to create 85 simple special effects shots. Some of my colleagues had not received professional training, so they were learning while making them - this took me a total of eighteen months.
, despite this, the special effects shots we made still passed, and this became the beginning of my career in China."
"Although I personally encountered some financial difficulties, I still believe that Base will be the future leader of China's special effects industry. It is not only the leader of China's special effects industry..." Lao Ke used a very authentic adjective, "Whampoa Military Academy."
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"...and will become a world-class special effects production company, because you won't be making feature films forever."
After Lao Ke said this, he did not mention how much money Fang Yi needed to invest, but asked him to see the current working situation of Base Company by himself, and emphasized, "I did not remind them in advance."
Fang Yi and Guo Fan browsed the two floors of Base Company as investors. The employees seemed to be used to people visiting, so they were not too surprised. The desks were messy, but they seemed to always be able to find the tools they needed.
Fang Yi deliberately followed Guo Fan, wearing a mask to avoid being recognized and ruining today's visit.
Since it was reported that Lao Ke wanted to sell some of his shares, different investors have come to try their luck, but most of them came away empty-handed.
There are two reasons.
The first business started by ase came from the contacts left over from Lao Ke's many years of hard work in Hollywood. It has been eight years since the company was established, and it is still doing a good job in outsourcing Hollywood movies, but only a few domestic films are produced.
The founder of Industrial Light and Magic is George Lucas, the great director of the "Star Wars" series. He was making movies and raising his own special effects company at the same time. His left hand was his right hand. Lao Ke gradually realized that he had to find someone with enough ability in China.
As a partner, this person needs to be professional and well-connected, and either has resources himself or can introduce resources to him.
The most suitable one is China Film and Television, but China Film and Television is devoted to learning technology from Korean veterans.
What about Hong Kong Land Company?
To put it bluntly, they will use Singapore, Taiwan, and local...except mainland China.
This alone can eliminate most speculative investors.
Another reason is that Lao Ke's price for his outsourcing team is not cheap, but everyone in the industry knows what's going on. He has been making shirt buttons all his life. If he wants to upgrade his industry to making aero engines, it is really difficult.
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Especially the leader is a foreign expert.
The two of them didn't see any hope or talent in this group of employees.
Midway through, Guo Fan suggested, "Let's go have a cup of coffee, see if there's anyone to chat with, and listen to what the employees have to say. Don't just listen to the foreigners bragging."
The two of them stayed at the coffee machine for half the day. The coffee in their hands was almost cold, and no one came to drink coffee.
Fang Yi and Guo Fan then discovered Base’s first corporate culture:
Wolf culture.
Guo Fan drank his coffee tremblingly and said: "I thought of the light bulb factory - the kind of factory along the coast, the kind that came out in the 1980s and 1990s. The workers worked day and night to put on the filament, and the wages were so low
A light bulb costs less than a penny, and the high-precision automatic production line is completely eliminated. This is what Lao Ke said about engineers."
Fang Yi didn't know what to say for a while.
The China Film Association conducted some strange questionnaires. One of them was about "Which aspect has the biggest gap between Chinese and American movies?" 70% of people answered "Special effects."
Next, the question is "How big do you think the gap is between the Chinese and American special effects industries?"
Three answers were provided: "Never catch up", "At least 20 to 30 years behind", "There is no gap".
The first one accounts for one-third, the second one accounts for nearly two-thirds, and the third one is chosen by 2.3% of people. These people may be foreign guests who are friendly to China.
That’s it for the first inspection of base. Investing in base is not a small sum of money. It requires at least two houses in Beijing to be able to maintain the current domestic special effects team.
Fang Yi and Guo Fan came out of Base and walked along both sides of the river. Because the cost of office buildings was too high, Base's company address was dozens of kilometers away from the Beijing CBD. Maybe it's not intuitive enough to say that this place
It is only a river away from Tongzhou, and Tongzhou was the boundary of Hebei Province when the People's Republic of China was founded. Part of it was not included in the capital until 1958.
The water in the river was not clear, and there were no people on both sides of the road. Only Fang Yi and Guo Fan were basking in the sun, looking at the bottomless river and the willows clinging to the bank, and they couldn't help but feel desolate in their hearts.
Guo Fan thought of the scene he had watched before and said excitedly, "Although it looks ugly, this is the beginning of a blockbuster film. Do you know 'those things about the Ming Dynasty'? Zhu Chongba's start only had a broken bowl. We won't do it either."
Those who have been making buttons will sooner or later have to do the opposite."
Fang Yi: "Let the bullets fly for a while."
"Are there any other options?"
"There are so many choices. When it comes to special effects, you and I are just nobody. The one who really gets the money is China Film."
As we all know, China Film's strongest team is its legal team. With the prefix "中", it can gain help from gods in foreign wars, but it will also practice its internal strength. Previously, at the press conference of the "We were born in China" documentary, Fang Yi saw China Film's
Banner:
"Cultivation of cultural confidence and promotion of Chinese culture."
On a larger level, China has always had special funds to support enterprises, organize some similar forums, activities, and exchanges with foreign countries. Officials are willing to spend money to participate in the film industry and support the industry to tide over difficulties. This is something that the United States did not have at the beginning.
Good conditions. Relatively speaking, the domestic special effects industry is not short of money and the equipment is not bad.
China Film has set up a China Film Base in Huairou, a suburb of Beijing. It has the largest film and television studio in the world, as well as a lot of film and television digital production equipment with explosive hard indicators. What Americans use, we use.
Since he plans to practice with "Twelve Zodiac Signs", Fang Yi naturally has to insert his own people into it and hone a team that works well together and is trustworthy. Otherwise, the action scenes are made by a family team, and the funds are provided by Yinghuang Entertainment, and Fang Yi goes in to film the movie alone.
, his so-called "right to speak" is empty words. If no one does things for you, you have no right to speak.
However, it is still early to shoot a blockbuster next year, and now he has to finish the advertising first. Liu Tianxian is not a pretentious character, and he was surprised that he wrote such a "popular" book, and he has been laughing at him these days.
Once she got to know Fang Yi, she would never go back to that quiet girl holding a dog, and sometimes she would be in trouble.