Heads Up Hollywood

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"Here, I am providing the internal information of the New Universal Group. From here, we can see that, including "The Day After Tomorrow", "Ant-Man 2", "Unsinkable", "Ghost Rider" and other commercial blockbusters, special effects expenditures , accounted for 60% of the total cost of the film. Among them, the special effects team of "Unsinkable" employed about 1,062 people, "The Day After Tomorrow" 1,242 people, and "Ant-Man 2" 874 people."

"It can be seen from this that labor cost is the largest expenditure item in the special effects industry, accounting for about 60% of the total cost of special effects. Of course, this is the data of Hollywood, which is of little reference to the Korean special effects industry. I will mainly talk about it here. The other 40% of expenses—software and hardware.”

"Well-known special effects companies have their own rendering farms. For example, Pixar has more than 1,000 rendering machines, and Lucasfilm has more than 2,400 rendering machines. There are also specially built servers and blade machines. Except for the top 64g Memory, e5 processor, in order to ensure the transmission rate and image cache, we also need to prepare advanced configurations above 64tb..."

"Take "Ghost Rider" which is currently being screened as an example. It takes 50 hours for a machine to render 1 frame, and there are 24 frames in 1 second. That is to say, 2400 machines render at the same time. Within 50 hours, only It can render for 100 seconds. Such a huge workload, without the top hardware equipment, is simply not possible.”

"Besides software, special effects software is usually charged on an annual basis, such as maya for animation, ps for drawing textures, Houdini for special effects, arnold and renderman for rendering, and nuke for compositing, etc. It needs to be used in conjunction with project management software to improve the efficiency of team operations and add functions such as automatic updates and real-time feedback during the project production process."

"These intellectual property rights require extremely high maintenance costs. There used to be a top special effects company under New Universal, Digital Field, whose annual software service fee was as high as 150 million U.S. dollars! Among them, the use of renderman alone was as high as 3,000 U.S. dollars. If it is just a small software, of course you can develop it yourself, but this kind of large-scale software with strong professional attributes will cost at least 200 million U.S. dollars.”

Tang En's speech was full of sincerity.

They took out a lot of confidential data in the industry, including the data materials of New Global Group.

The South Korean government wants to promote the special effects industrial park, and these data will be as precious as gold.

Although it was a speech with strong professional content, Tang En has lived in the United States for so many years, and he has long been deeply influenced by the American cultural atmosphere.

In the United States, there are no successful people who can't speak!

Speech is the basic quality!

Listen to MacArthur's "Old Soldiers Never Die", listen to Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream", listen to President Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address"...you will deeply feel the majestic power of speeches .

Tang En's speech level is of course not comparable to these people, but it is enough to fool these Koreans who have never seen the world!

I don't know how good their English is.

Tang En first briefly introduced the development history of special effects and the application of special effects in the film industry.

Then, through the expenditure ratio of the special effects industry, the real core of his speech today was elicited.

"Of course, I know that no matter how expensive the hardware is, it doesn't matter how high the rent of the software is. You are rich and are willing to invest huge sums of money for the development of the special effects industry. Then the problem comes, the hardware is fine, the software is fine... Why doesn’t South Korea have a Weta Digital?”

"Is it because the level of technology is not good? This is probably not the truth. I just talked about this topic with Chairman Wu. Among the top 100 high-tech companies in the world, South Korea has three companies, ranking fourth in the world. In contrast, New Zealand, They have nothing but tourism! What is the secret of Weta Digital? What is the reason that Weta Digital has the same strength as Industrial Light and Magic in the field of special effects?"

Tang En threw out a big question mark.

Next, but did not answer the question right away, the ppt behind him turned the page again, and a big title "The whole process of film and television special effects" appeared.

"Even in Hollywood, many producers and directors are slowly groping for film and television special effects, and have not summed up a set of accurate rules. You should all know that "Titanic", "Before Star Wars" I am the director of blockbuster special effects films such as Biography 1 and Spiderman, including special effects films such as Unsinkable, Spiderman 2, The Day After Tomorrow, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, etc. Producer. I have already summed up the rules that many colleagues in the industry are still groping for."

"Here, I don't have to hide my secrets, I can tell everyone openly. I hope that my colleagues in South Korea can give some inspiration, so that I can have more inspiration and understanding in the production of movies. Let's make progress together. It is our common goal to produce more and better film works and give back to fans.”

Hearing that Tang En was going to release the special effects concept in his private collection, there was a bit of a commotion in the auditorium.

This is an experience that even Hollywood filmmakers don't have!

Tang En wanted to be honest with the Korean filmmakers.

How sincere is this?

move!

Touched!

Sitting in the middle of the first row, Wu Shigeun, chairman of the Film Promotion Committee, smiled and nodded secretly.

He is a full-fledged socializer, unlike those emotional filmmakers.

He knew why Tang En showed such sincerity.

It is nothing more than the New Global Group, which has taken a fancy to the Korean market!

Maybe……

Tang En also took a fancy to some Korean women, but these were all inconspicuous and trivial matters, which should not be put on the table. Women are not yet qualified to be bargaining chips for such national policy projects.

Tang En showed such sincerity, Wu Shigen knew that he wanted to return the courtesy.

The promotion of the Korean Special Effects Industrial Park would not have been possible without Tang En's support and Hollywood's team strength!

Wu Shigeun has already made up his mind, from now on, the Korean film market... will fully give the green light to New Universal!

In the short term, it will be difficult to implement the policy of changing from 147 days to 73 days.

However, Twain can be shown favor.

Open your arms to the New Global Group and let go of the market.

It can be said that at this point in the speech, Tang En's "dry goods" have not been handed over, and the main purpose of his trip to South Korea has been achieved.

However, he has bigger plans!

For his speech, he just chose Seoul National University as the venue.

The content of the speech is really aimed at the entire world film industry, especially Hollywood!

Tang En now enjoys a transcendent social status and honor in Hollywood. What is the reason?

He made a lot of blockbuster films?

I'm afraid not, he is a guy who eats alone, and others will only be jealous.

He promoted feminism and sought rights for female filmmakers?

Certainly not, such behavior even aroused the dissatisfaction of many industry leaders.

Because he is the richest man in the world?

This only shows that Tang En has achieved great success, but it doesn't mean that he will be respected from the bottom of his heart by people in the industry.

What really gave him an unparalleled reputation in the industry...is that he put forward two concepts.

First, platter investment.

This has changed the financing model of Hollywood movies, making film shooting easier, and the content of movies more pure, without the unreasonable demands of many capitalists.

Second, the hot money theory.

Although there is still a lot of controversy about this theory, among the six giants of Hollywood, it has become more and more important.

Redstone's "Revival of Paramount" plan, at the last moment, did not also adopt the "explosion theory", trying to revitalize Paramount with two blockbusters "King Arthur" and "The Unfortunate Adventures of Raymond Snicket" Ramon?

Tang En selflessly told every filmmaker about his "private collection".

It has brought great impetus and development to Hollywood, and even the world film industry!

Now, Dunn was about to strike again.

For the third time, he will reveal to the world his personal concept of film success - the correct process of the special effects industry!

Point out a clear direction for those filmmakers who are still struggling.

This is truly immeasurable merit!

"Special effects in the traditional sense, that is, post-production effects, mainly involve conception, modeling, sculpting, retopology, uv mapping, baking displacement mapping, drawing texture images, baking normal maps, binding bones, materials, composition, and light. , simulation, rendering and other multiple links. All of you here are people in the industry, and I think everyone will understand when I say it.”

"However, everyone, please pay attention to my words. This is just a special effect in the traditional sense. Today, I will systematically explain the real concept of special effects for film and television. Post-production special effects, and post-production special effects for movies, are just a part of the special effects process for film and television. A small part. I divide the whole process of film and television special effects into four parts, special effects technology research and development, pre-visual development, on-site visual effects shooting and special effects production.”

"Special effects technology research and development, that is, i/o data production, model links, texture links, etc., and the early visual development includes digital painting, tracking and matching, binding, animation and other links. On-site visual effects shooting is what I want to focus on. The point is, a real commercial blockbuster must be inseparable from the special effects team!"

"Here, I propose a term called on-site digital imaging engineer. You may not have heard of it. It is not surprising that even in Hollywood, this is a new concept. Has everyone watched this year's "King Arthur"? Hehe, the most Don't watch it, it's a big bad movie!"

Tang En lost no time in putting eye drops on the competitor's movie, and made a joke, which caused bursts of laughter in the auditorium.

"The film "King Arthur" lacked the participation of on-site digital imaging engineers. As a result, everyone saw it, and the visual effects were in a mess. In contrast, look at "Ghost Rider" and "The Day After Tomorrow", which were released this year. You can see the difference. So, what exactly is this on-site digital imaging engineer?"

"In today's movies, the resolution of the original shooting material is constantly improving, the amount of material storage data is constantly increasing, and the picture texture is becoming more and more delicate. In the early stage of shooting, the on-site digital image engineer will assist the director of photography to systematically ensure the integrity of the stored information; On-site real-time inspection of the picture, color correction, and material transcoding of the picture image, so as to achieve the picture result expected by the director of photography and achieve high-quality images.”

"In addition to this, the digital imaging engineer also needs to have good information exchange work with the relevant departments of the film crew to ensure the safety of the storage and transfer of the shooting materials..."

(Professional content is relatively boring, try to write as little as possible. The main purpose of this plot is to lead to Tang En's layout and changes in the Hollywood situation. It can be regarded as a foreshadowing...)

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