Meng Xiaobai walked towards them, walking briskly. Behind him, there were two employees they had never seen before. They were researchers from the industrial laboratory of Siben Electronics Factory, who were temporarily called by Meng Xiaobai.
"Hello, Mr. Meng." Joel also greeted Meng Xiaobai and asked, "Mr. Meng, do you have any other opinions on this matter?"
Meng Xiaobai smiled and said: "Just now you said that except for you, no company in the world can complete the production of tens of thousands of professional film and television props. I think this sentence is not quite accurate."
Joel thought Meng Xiaobai wanted to negotiate terms, so he said: "What I mean is, considering the comprehensive factors such as completion time, price, and degree of completion, we Weta Digital are undoubtedly the best choice. With our help, the co-producer created
One miracle after another in the history of world movie box office! Mr. Meng, is there any other company that can do this?"
His tone was extremely confident. If we talk about digital special effects, there are companies such as Industrial Light & Magic and Digital Domain that can compete with them, but they are the world's top producers of model props.
"Maybe you don't need a company, just a small machine?" Meng Xiaobai asked rhetorically.
"Machine? How is that possible? Those professional-grade props need to be designed by top designers and made by professional model makers. It may take half a year to a year to make a professional-grade prop. Just rely on machines alone.
It can be done!" Joel felt that his company was being questioned by Meng Xiaobai, and he was a little angry.
Wu Binghui, Zhu Feiyang and others also looked at Meng Xiaobai, not quite understanding what he said. Several plans they prepared were rejected by Meng Xiaobai. Mr. Meng must have new ideas when he comes here today, but I don't know what he did.
planned.
"I'm talking about 3D printers and precision molds that can be printed out in just a few minutes," Meng Xiaobai said.
"3D printer?" Joel was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "So that's what Mr. Meng meant. I think you may not know much about this industry. We have used 3D printers many years ago, but 3D printers also have
Its shortcomings are that it is difficult to print many complex structures, and limited by printing materials, 3D printers are not as magical as you think."
"It may be that the performance of your 3D printer is not powerful enough and there are too few printing materials." Meng Xiaobai said, "Our company's laboratory has only recently produced a 3D mold printer. Our machine can completely print those
Professional grade movie props that only take a few minutes!”
"Wait a minute, your company also manufactures 3D printers?" Joel wondered, what kind of company is this? Isn't it a movie investment?
Don't talk about him, Wu Binghui and others are also confused. When did the company start manufacturing 3D printers? Although the company has an electronics factory, doesn't it make smart electronic products?
Meng Xiaobai didn't explain too much to them. Anyway, it was a new product manufactured by the company's laboratory. He said directly: "Everyone, I have asked people to move the test product here. Let's go and take a look."
"Everything has arrived!" Wu Binghui said in surprise, "Let's go and take a look."
Joel also looked confused. This Chinese boss even moved the machine. What does he want? Is this the Chinese way of bargaining?
"Morris, what's going on?" Joel asked his assistant in a low voice while Meng Xiaobai and others were walking out. Morris was a translator among the business representatives and was relatively familiar with Chinese culture.
Morris shook his head and said: "Mr. Joel, I don't know what's going on. I guess they may want to use this method to get you to lower your order quotation."
"Absolutely impossible!" Joel said firmly, "The more they act like this, the more it means they are guilty, and our offer will not be less than a penny."
"I think the same as you." Morris agreed very much, "It's just a 3D printer. Our company has many such things."
The group of people came to an empty room, which had just been cleared out to make room for the 3D printer.
"Is this our own 3D printer?" Wu Binghui looked at the big guy in front of him curiously. This is a large vertical cabinet-type machine. Its appearance is not much different from other 3D printers, except that the logo is exclusive to Deep Space Technology.
trademark.
"Let me introduce our products to you." Meng Xiaobai said to the researchers he brought.
The researcher nodded and immediately began to introduce: "Everyone, this 3D mold printer is a new generation of 'Venus 3D mold printer' developed by our deep space technology and industrial laboratory."
"One thing to mention here is that the Venus series products are a new series of products from our Deep Space Technology in addition to the Mercury smart home appliances. They are mainly used for industrial manufacturing machines."
"This Venus 3D mold printer has high-performance lasers, scanning galvanometers, printing nozzles and other parts, industrial-grade printing accuracy, and can use a variety of metal materials and special 3D printing materials... It comes with a 3D scanner and a computer operating system
,3D printing molding size is 25omm25omm3oomm.”
When the researcher talked about professional data, actually everyone present didn't know much. They only knew one thing. The performance of this printer reached industrial level and was not comparable to ordinary 3D printers.
And the researcher emphasized that its printing accuracy is higher than the top industrial-grade printers currently on the market, it can print a variety of complex structures, and it can use a wider range of materials - in short, its performance is several times better than similar products.
Times!
"That's roughly the situation." The researcher finished.
Meng Xiaobai said: "After talking for a long time, I think you still don't quite understand. As the saying goes, it's a mule or a horse, just pull it out and run around. Since this Venus 3D mold printer is an experimental product, it should be tested on site.
Already."
"Mr. Joel happens to be here today. Why don't we give it a try on the spot and see how it works when printing the professional-grade movie props we need?"
Although Joel disagreed in his heart, he still said: "I'm also very interested."
Prop master Zhu Feiyang asked: "Mr. Meng, can I bring you a design draft? Can you try printing a sword or a helmet or something?"
"That's too simple!" Meng Xiaobai waved his hand, "I have already asked someone to design a three-dimensional design drawing, which is one of the professional props to be used in our movie, a miniature model of the giant bronze coffin."
"The huge bronze coffin!" Zhu Feiyang was shocked when he heard Meng Xiaobai's words. This is an indispensable "Ji Dao Imperial Soldier" in the movie "Shadow the Sky". Although it does not appear many times, it is of great significance and is used throughout the entire story.
core.
So they decided that the giant bronze coffin must be made in miniature, so that it would be more interesting to shoot and give the audience a shocking visual effect.
This prop is also one of the professional-grade props. In Weta Digital's quotation list, the price of this prop is as high as US$90,000. If the nine dragons that pull the coffin are included, the price of the entire set of props will be
Nearly $400,000.
Even if Weta Digital asked professional designers and mold makers to manufacture such a prop, it would still take less than half a year. But now, Meng Xiaobai directly proposes to print it on site. Isn't it too difficult?
Zhu Feiyang was a little worried. It would be embarrassing if the printing effect was not good!