Northwest suburb of Los Angeles, Flushing Arts Park.
There are no high-rise buildings in the urban areas here. Instead, there are three or four-storey artistic buildings hidden among the greenery. The clean roads are wide and straight, and there is a sense of tranquility far away from the bustling city.
However, this art park adjacent to Hollywood is an indispensable and important part of American movies. It is home to dozens of special effects production companies and studios, and the output value created every year is extremely amazing.
The Blue Sky Digital Special Effects Production Studio that Lu Chen was going to inspect was one of the best.
This special effects studio is very young and has only been established for 5 years. However, it has already participated in the production of many Hollywood blockbusters and has a passionate and energetic team.
Moreover, the members of Blue Sky Special Effects are all very young. The three co-founders, Mir, Andrew and Christopher, are all graduates of the University of Southern California. The oldest is only 29 years old.
It is precisely based on the above reasons that Richard specifically recommended Blue Sky Special Effects to Lu Chen as a partner of Chenfei Media, instead of other established but more powerful special effects companies.
Because those big old companies are often very arrogant. They like to make money from the Chinese, but they are never willing to exchange their technology. Even if they are willing to sell part of their shares, it is often a big deal.
Blue Sky Special Effects is also currently facing financial problems. This studio does not have the problems of large companies, and it is undoubtedly a very suitable partner for Chenfei Media.
The only problem is probably that Blue Sky Special Effects has a low reputation in the industry. Not many people in China know its name, but Li Cha guarantees their quality.
If DreamWorks hadn't just received an advertising business that needed to be completed, Richard would have flown here in person.
Jenny's car stopped in front of a 4-story building.
This circular building looks like a flying saucer. The silver-gray glass curtain wall on the surface shines in the sunlight. The monument erected in front of the entrance gate is inlaid with a row of logos and names of different companies.
Blue Sky Studio is located on the third floor of this building.
Under Jenny's guidance, Lu Chen and Filia Chen took the elevator to their destination.
As soon as the elevator door opened, the camera's flash suddenly lit up, shocking Lu Chen and the other three!
I saw a group of young men and women gathered in the elevator hall. They were either holding SLR cameras or holding cell phones, and they were watching happily.
"Mr. Lu Chen, welcome to our Blue Sky Studio!"
A young man wearing a blue T-shirt and jeans took the lead and reached out to Lu Chen with a smile on his face.
As soon as Jenny stepped out of the elevator door, she immediately introduced Lu Chen: "This is Mil Joyce, the CEO of our studio."
Lu Chen suddenly realized that he reached out and shook hands with the other person: "Nice to meet you, Mr. Miljoyce."
"Just call me Mir..."
Mir smiled and said: "They are all my colleagues. When they heard that you were coming, they all came out to welcome you!"
This is undoubtedly the effect of the "hero's" aura!
Lu Chen smiled and said: "Hello..."
It didn't matter that Lu Chen said hello, the employees of Blue Sky Studio immediately gathered around him like fans chasing stars, asking for autographs, photos, and hugs!
Then upload the photos to their respective T wave OK.
Lu Chen didn't expect these Americans to be so enthusiastic, but after all, he was used to similar scenes, and he was able to deal with them with ease, meeting their requests one by one, and making the atmosphere very harmonious.
This also shows that Blue Sky Studio is different from large companies in that its atmosphere is relatively relaxed. The boss and employees are more like close friends than strict superiors and subordinates.
After a simple yet warm welcome, Mir introduced several important members of the studio to Lu Chen, including his partner and chief special effects artist Christopher.
Christopher is a very shy young man, he is short and thin, wears a pair of big black-rimmed glasses, his face is covered with acne, and he stutters when he speaks.
But Li Cha admired Christopher very much. He told Lu Chen on the phone that this 25-year-old young man is definitely a genius in special effects production, and half of the value of Blue Sky Studio lies in him!
Therefore, Lu Chen was very polite to Christopher, which actually made Christopher a little flattered.
Accompanied by Mir, Christopher and others, Lu Chen and Filia Chen visited the studio together.
The scale of Blue Sky Studio is not very large, with currently less than 200 employees, which is incomparable to large companies with hundreds or thousands of employees. The rented business space is also small, and the interior seems quite crowded.
However, the hardware level of this company is first-class. The workstations used for special effects production are all new and have very powerful computing processing capabilities. They also have the digital synthesis software zpdt that they are proud of.
This set of digital synthesis software is undoubtedly the core technology of Blue Sky Studio. It was jointly developed by the three co-founders for 5 years and has been successfully used in the special effects production of many film and television works, winning a very good response.
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Compared with the industry's top software of the same type, zpdt has no technical advantages, and even has deficiencies in detail processing and rendering effects. However, its advantages are that it is not difficult to learn and the cost of use is low. In other words
The bottom line is that it's very cost-effective.
Moreover, Blue Sky Studio also intends to further develop a more advanced version of zpdt, but lacks sufficient funds.
There are currently a large number of special effects production companies and studios in Hollywood, and the competition between them is very fierce. If a small enterprise like Blue Sky Studio cannot maintain continuous technological progress and win more business, the result will be either closure or bankruptcy.
Gobbled up by big companies.
Obviously, neither of them is what the three founders want to see, so they urgently need external investment.
Mir's enthusiasm for Lu Chen is not just because he is a popular hero now.
Lu Chen is rich!
The CEO of Blue Sky Studio had long known about the strength of Chenfei Media through Li Cha, and it was definitely a company that was not short of money, so he tried his best to talk about his company's technical strength and bright prospects.
To this end, he asked Christopher to demonstrate to Lu Chen the special effects synthesis effect of the latest version 75 of zpdt.
Not only that, Mir also took Lu Chen to the only digital studio in the studio, allowing the latter to personally experience the motion capture technology developed by the studio based on zpdt!
I have been unable to update due to illness in the past few days. Now my health is much better. I will resume normal updates in a few days. Thank you everyone for your support and suggestions in the book review area. (To be continued.)