"Renderings come out so quickly?" Shui Diao was a little surprised. He downloaded the video file sent by the other party.
"Which one?" Liu Mo asked.
"That's the deep space digi who took the initiative to find us." Shui Dumpling replied.
"That small studio that was just established?" Liu Mo said speechlessly, "Dumplings, I know we are short of money, but we can't be so shabby! What good things can they make? Inferior special effects shots will only lower our quality.
For the quality of the film, it’s better not to use it!”
"Let's talk after reading it." After Shui Dumpling clicked on the first file, he slapped his thigh excitedly and shouted, "This is it, this is the effect!"
"What's the effect? Let me see!" Liu Mo came over to watch. He saw that in the picture, Shen Gongbao's face turned into a leopard's head, giving people a fierce look.
"Not bad! This!" Liu Mo said in surprise, "Isn't this the demon-changing effect you want them to achieve?"
"Yes! Haha, I didn't expect that Wu Binghui actually made it!" Shui Dumpling said with a smile, "It's been more than two months, it's not easy!"
He clicked on the second video file and his eyes widened when he saw the special effects picture.
In the picture, black clouds are surging above the sky, as if a black sea is about to pour down!
And in this tribulation cloud, countless terrifying thunders are gestating, and the tribulation cloud surges into a whirlpool, aiming at the human city below. The sun and moon are dim, and the wind and clouds are changing. In the face of such a terrifying scene, let alone the little one.
For small people, even human towns seem to be just nests of ants, which will be easily destroyed. The whole scene is filled with a breathless sense of depression!
"The clouds of calamity are about to destroy the city!" Shui Diao clenched his fists and said excitedly: "It's great, it's so well done! This is the feeling, thunderous and unstoppable, do you feel it?"
"Yeah!" Liu Mo nodded desperately. He was deeply shocked when he saw the special effects picture!
From the bottom of my heart, Liu Mo didn't have much expectations for Deep Space Digital at the beginning. What kind of effects can a little-known studio without any representative works produce? It would be nice to have a 50-cent special effect.
Who knew that the other party would actually give him such a big surprise! Looking at this scene, he even suspected that this was not a special effect from an animated movie, but a special effect that could only be found in a masterpiece with a billion investment!
"That's awesome!" Shui Diao watched the video several times and felt extremely excited every time he watched it. The effect was completely beyond his expectation!
"If it were of this level, would our movie be popular?" Shui Diao said confidently. Although the movie he directed was an animated movie, the plot and details had been perfected by the team countless times. He firmly believed that there would be no problem as long as the special effects were passable.
It will be released soon.
"This level is really the best I have ever seen done by domestic visual effects companies!" Liu Mo hesitated after praising, "Are their charges really not high?"
He himself feels that at this level, it would be a pity not to do special effects for Hollywood blockbusters!
"The prices of these shots have all been negotiated!" Shui Diao was feeling proud, and suddenly thought of something, and patted his head, "Oh, I was stupid, if I had known I would have handed over all the remaining difficult special effects scenes to them.
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"Then contact me quickly!" Liu Mo was also anxious.
Shui Dumpling immediately sent a message to Wu Binghui, but the other party had already gone to catch up on his sleep and did not reply for a while.
"It's been 31 minutes and 10 seconds, and there's still no reply? I really can't sleep!" Shui Dumpling couldn't wait any longer, so he had to contact Deep Space Studio.
Soon, the call came to Meng Xiaobai. After a brief exchange with Shui Dumpling, Meng Xiaobai probably understood what he meant.
"Your idea is to leave all the remaining difficult special effects scenes to our company?" Meng Xiaobai asked.
"Yes, yes! That's what I mean. I think your company is doing very well!" Shui Diao said quickly.
"This may not work well!" Meng Xiaobai did not agree.
"Why?" Shui Diao was stunned and asked.
"Director Shui Dumpling, you also know that the more difficult the special effects pictures are, the higher the cost for us to make them. Manpower and material resources have to be consumed. For example, the two pictures I gave you today were made by our entire studio from morning to night.
It was made late at night, or even stayed up all night!" Meng Xiaobai said, "The price you quoted is really too low."
His words left Shui Dumpling speechless. There was no other way. Their producers were short of everything, especially money! Animated movies didn’t even need actors. Most of the money was spent on special effects, but it was still not enough.
"This can be made first, and then we'll pay the final payment after the movie is released." Shui Dumpling said.
"How can this work?" Meng Xiaobai retorted, "If your movie doesn't do well at the box office and you can't afford the final payment, what will our company do?"
"We have just established a studio. We can't do well with the first order. How can we continue to open it in the future? Employees need wages, space, and office supplies. I am here to make money, not to lose money."
"Then...then..." Shui Dumpling didn't know what to do.
Meng Xiaobai continued: "Actually, I have seen your film information and some clips, and I also think it is a good movie. It is a pity. There are so many wonderful special effects shots in the idea. If it could be made... forget it
Now, I’m not an investor, so you can decide for yourself whether you want to spend money on it or not!”
"Investment?" When Shui Diao heard his words, he suddenly had an idea. If Deep Space Digital also became their investor, wouldn't it mean that there would be no need to spend money on special effects?
He immediately said: "Mr. Meng, wait a moment, I will discuss it with the producer here."
"Liu Mo, what do you think about letting Deep Space Digital become our investor and use their technological achievements as investment assets?" Shui Diao suggested.
"Is this...appropriate?" Liu Mo hesitated, "We already have enough investors!"
"Then I don't care about one more!" Shui Dumpling didn't care at all, because as of today, the number of co-investors in their film has exceeded 1,600!
That's right, not 16 people, not 160 people, but 1,600 people! The reason there are so many co-investors is because big capital is not optimistic about their animated movies and is unwilling to invest money. So they can only find people everywhere
After investing money here and there, I only managed to collect 60 million.
"Think about it, if we can produce the wonderful scenes we envisioned, the box office will be a hit! We will definitely make a profit! If we lose this opportunity, we will never have it again!" Shui Dumpling said.
"It seems like this. There are already 1,600 co-investors, and one more is not much. Just, will they agree?" Liu Mo actually began to worry that Meng Xiaobai would not agree.
"No matter what, he will agree to what I have to say!" Shui Diao said firmly.