China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 86 George Lucas of China?

Usually the Hollywood model is that every storyboard script designed by the director who produces industrial films must communicate with the special effects company, and even a special effects company sends visual effects artists to participate in the design of each storyboard.

Because the director doesn't know which shot he designed requires special effects, or how much it costs, how to create such an effect.

There will be no director taking pictures of a barren mountain. After the camera is finished, you will tell me to plant all the barren mountain in the camera on a tree. This will not only increase the workload in the later stage, but also not be able to achieve satisfactory results.

When designing the camera in the late stage, you should tell the director what angle you want to take, in which time period, and what auxiliary means you need to shoot, so that you can provide the best effect at the lowest cost in the later stage.

Therefore, when the storyboard script of an industrial film is determined, the director cannot delete and modify it at will, because based on the designed storyboard script, the producer and special effects company have calculated the workload and post-production costs.

On this basis, there is a foothold in the producer-centered system.

In this industrial process, the director's creative space is greatly compressed.

As a director, Chen Jingxing certainly doesn't like this kind of industrial process that treats directors purely as tools.

But it did not prevent him from learning from the advantages of the Hollywood film industry in post-production visual effects production.

The most well-known works in the digital field that have also been acquired are "Titanic" and "The Day After". In fact, the first movie this company participated in is "Terminator 2", while "Terminator 2" and "Titan"

James Cameron, director of Nick, is also a shareholder in the digital field.

At the moment when February 2014 was about to pass, those who care about Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks' dynamics found that DreamWorks, which had just raised huge funds, did not stop for a moment and made another big move.

Thinking of Chen Jingxing's Dream Factory Studio seeking to invest in Mo and become a major shareholder, Xiang Xuan's three examples are obviously meaningful.

Xu Sheng smiled bitterly and shook his head, perhaps because he was laughing at the young and energetic at that time.

Some people think that what Xiang Xuan said is too exaggerated: "Old Xiang, do you think Chen Jingxing can compare with George Lucas, Peter Jackson, and James Cameron? I know you are his movie fan, but you are a bit of a mess.

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Without outstanding industrial film directors and great industrial film works, a great special effects production company cannot be achieved.”

Vita Digital reached its peak through the Lord of the Rings series, King Kong and Avatar, and Peter Jackson, the director of "The Rings" and "King Kong", is the founder and major shareholder of Vita Digital.

DreamWorks has only raised 180 million this time, and it spent nearly half of it for a special effects company, which has made many people in the industry feel a little sarcastic.

DreamWorks took out 82 million yuan and acquired 40% of MoreVFX's shares to become its major shareholder.

Of course, Industrial Light and Magic rose to prominence on "Star Wars", and the director of "Star Wars" George Lucas is also the boss of Industrial Light and Magic, and was acquired when he was then acquired.

Xiang Xuan continued: "If DreamWorks really have such ambition and courage, this would be a rare opportunity. The improvement of the technology and strength of the visual effects company in the later stages must ultimately be nurtured by excellent industrial films. The success of Industrial Light and Magic

If you don’t open Star Wars, Vita’s soaring sky is based on “Lord of the Rings”, and the emergence of the digital field is based on “Terminator 2”.

Rather than saying that these three world-famous top special effects studios reached the peak with several well-known blockbusters, it is better to say that three great industrial film directors created these three special effects companies.

A cheerful laughter rang out in the conference room, and even Xu Sheng had a smile on his face.

Moreover, the profitability of special effects companies is also generally average. The hot money in the film and television industry is in the Chinese film market that has been soaring in recent years. Its vision has been so high that even the yields of the big A-shares that have entered a bull market are despised. How can they be profitable?

Weibo's post-production special effects industry.

Although special effects companies are an important part of the film and television industry, major studio distributors rarely spend money to invest in or even control special effects companies.

Unlike the unanswerable exclamation of industry insiders, ordinary netizens and marketing accounts have another interpretation.

Xiang Xuan was not affected by the laughter in the conference room, but looked at Xu Sheng: "Old Xu, when we first set up the studio, wasn't your dream to make Mo a great special effects company like Industrial Light and Magic?

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After Xu Sheng pondered, he swept through the conference room, and everyone was thinking, but they smiled without saying a word, or they were full of expectations, and smiled with some relief: "Since my old Xiang has brought out my 2007 big talk, I am too

It’s not good to be stage frightened. Do you have any objections? You can raise it now. If you don’t have any opinions, I will leave for Beijing to go to Dream Factory tomorrow... Okay, since you don’t have any opinions, I wish us to become the industry in China as soon as possible

Light Demon!"

When Xu Sheng set up a studio with a few like-minded partners in 2007, he quit his job with impulse and wanted to start a great career. In recent years, he has gradually been smoothed out by reality.

The bold words that I wanted to be comparable to Industrial Light and Magic back then are a bit funny now when I think about it.

Industrial Light and Magic, Vita Digital and Digital are the world's top special effects companies, and these three companies have one thing in common.

"Even if Chen Jingxing can't achieve such achievements, he can become George Lucas of China and James Cameron of China. Our country will definitely have its own heavy industry films and outstanding industrial film directors in the future. I

I think Chen Jingxing is the most likely candidate among them.”

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Xiang Xuan's serious expression made the other people in the conference room calm down: "Even if we put aside these things, aren't DreamWorks' conditions the ideal Party A? And the valuation of 200 million is not small, right?

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The competition in the domestic special effects industry is still quite fierce. Not only are many internationally renowned special effects studios opening branches in China, but the Korean special effects industry has also entered the Chinese market in a large number, and has won the relatively "good quality and low price" advantage.

A large piece of cake was added.

Chen Jingxing may be filming a science fiction blockbuster next!

Some fans have already asked about the next movie under Chen Jingxing's Weibo.

Chen Jingxing's Weibo followers now exceeds 1.5 million. At this time, Chen Jingxing was a bit like Ning Hao a few years ago. Although his status in the film industry is not that high, his fame is not as good as that of the fifth and sixth generations.

A great director, his artistic achievements are not even mentioned.

But they can make the audience feel strongly expected, which is even better than those big directors. Ning Hao relies on the two movies in the Crazy Series, which almost made the movie fans' long wait for "No Man's Land" form.

Substantive resentment.

Chen Jingxing relied on the two high-profile brain-thinking movies, "Comet" and "Fatal Identity", which made Chen Jingxing's Weibo and post bars have already seen a larger army of movies urging him to urge him to make a bigger army.

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