The entertainment industry shouldn't be like this

Chapter 182 The poacher is here

"Mad Max 4", well, Wang Wei will call this movie "Mad Max 4".

This is a simple and crude story. In a word, a woman escaped from a group of doomsday bandits with a few beautiful girls.

The story is set in the setting of the story after the nuclear war, the earth became a scorched earth, and water became strategic materials. Whoever controls the water source controls everything.

When he learned that director Lu Le was a female director who returned from Australia and the story was inspired by an Australian comic that was not well-known, Wang Wei completely understood how that sense of familiarity came about.

Director Lu Le is quite sensible. She speaks out in the script that the selling points of this movie are explosive, violent, desolate, and magnificent visual experiences.

In order to achieve the desired aesthetic effect, she plans to shoot the desert scene throughout the whole process. Except for a very small number of CG production, 90% of the special effects will be realistic effects - from large trucks to small parts, they must shoot a rough and realistic feeling full of the industrial age.

Now, such a hard-core movie successfully aroused the interest of Chen Zhenyi, the "mechanical tribe". The two "mechanical tribes" hit it off and prepared to "work on the machine".

Of course, this is a large-scale project. Just a stunt actor requires about a hundred people, so the investment is naturally not much smaller. No wonder a domestic film company that is watching this movie is extremely eager for Chen Zhenyi to bring funds to the market.

Wang Wei also believes that it has investment value, especially the newly established special effects studio in Dunhuang, Feitian Special Effects, can take over the special effects production business of this movie.

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However, as major studios have formed their own special effects departments, his studio has never received any big work and can only rely on some special effects activities of small production teams to survive.

They have analyzed the script and storyboard scripts and filtered out the parts that need to be made.

Wang Wei followed the inspection all the way and agreed with this.

Wang Wei nodded with satisfaction when he heard this.

Gao Dongcai responded: "Even if you don't say it, I will strengthen my cooperation. "Toy Story" is great, and behind it is excellent animators and excellent production tools, which are also what our studio needs."

The studio has also purchased or made various props for this purpose, such as fan-making, from small fan-making fans that can create breezes to blow strong winds like tornadoes.

This practice of creating special effects scenes on the spot is always visible in the studio. Of course, it is impossible to create special effects scenes like "Big Bang" in the studio, but more of them are some inconspicuous special effects, such as wind, smoke, rain, etc.

For example, the zombie dog in "Resident Evil" is very open to both sides because it uses a combination of real shots and CG at the same time: someone directly made an animal model of the zombie dog and then asked someone to play it. However, in the end, it was found that this was not the best result, and it was still necessary to focus on CG production.

However--

Gu Xiji couldn't help but secretly scold his old boss for not doing human affairs - "Toy Story" was released, so he reached out to his black hand.

With Feitian Studio’s current scale, the salary in a year requires nearly 20 million. Without a steady stream of big work, can you afford it?

When Wang Wei walked into the studio, it was like entering a horror museum, with broken feet and broken arms on the table, zombies placed beside the wall, and heads piled in the cabinet... It looked both terrifying and fun.

If he had been so keen, would he still need to change jobs to Dunhuang?

Now he is appreciated by him and has resources to support him. Haha, they look down on me!

It’s better to have a big job!

To be honest, in the special effects studio, we can best understand the true meaning of the saying "movies are the art of burning money".

A lot of money was spent, but this was necessary. Wang Wei only hoped to spend money as much as possible.

"We're poached!"

His name is Gao Dongcai, he is the head of Feitian Studio and the special effects director of "Resident Evil".

"When the animation studio is moved here, you can also strengthen joint development in technology."

The person who introduced Wang Wei was a middle-aged man wearing a pair of thin-framed glasses and a steady manner.

Wang Wei nodded and said, "If there is no accident, the studio will soon have a big job, most of which are physical special effects, and the studio may not have enough staff."

This year, he completely realized that if he didn't hold a thick leg in the film and television industry, the special effects studio would be unable to play.

Gao Dongcai just didn't even pat his chest to guarantee: "Integration is easy, I choose the absolute practical people. They only have skills in their eyes and have no intention of making trouble."

Needless to say, expensive equipment like large-scale work wars, just look at labor. Nowadays, special effects teachers are not cheap. The annual salary of ordinary special effects teachers is 100,000 yuan, and senior special effects teachers are at least 150,000 yuan. Special effects directors like him have an annual salary of not more than 300,000 yuan, so don’t mention it.

Wang Wei never worried about not having to work for the studio, but only about their strength: "I have acquired several small studios. How is the team integrating now? Don't take the order, but I end up working."

"I didn't expect that before I knew it, the number of resignations had reached twenty, and I realized something was wrong." He said in a hurry, "Before I found the reason, the culprit emerged himself - the people from Lianya Entertainment came to me and hoped that I would change jobs again."

Speaking of which, he was one of the first members of China to develop movie CG special effects technology and also set up a special effects studio by himself.

Of course, Dunhuang promised him to share future equity and dividends, which is also an important reason.

Gao Dongcai smiled and said, "Manpower is not a problem. There are many small-scale studios in China that provide special effects solutions. We can buy some or dig up some people, as long as there is a big job."

This makes the studio full of fantasy ideas.

Therefore, he did not resist the acquisition of Dunhuang.

He believes that whether it is an animation studio or a special effects studio, the brand can be established after training for several major projects.

"What's going on?" Wang Wei frowned slightly.

Feitian Special Effects Studio is located on the lower floor of the Dunhuang headquarters, and it also occupies a whole floor alone.

"Has there been a change in the ownership of the animation studio? Some employees left, and I didn't care much at all. After all, it doesn't have much impact on a few more people or fewer people." Gu Xiji said a little annoyed.

As the saying goes, those who poach people will always dig it out.

Although he was born in developing CG special effects, he did not think that CG special effects are the whole of movie special effects, but should use different special effects production techniques according to actual needs.

"We hope to find the best point for combining physical effects and CG. If we shoot a video with a sense of reality instead of a full CG or video game style, I think the audience will agree with this story more."

Now, while making the model, we are confirming with director He Wenying the final shooting effect, such as - is it a close-up shot? How the camera moves, and how big the scene is needed...

This is a special effects team formed by the studio for "Resident Evil". In addition to computer CG designers, the number of various staff members including special effects makeup artists, sculptors, painters and mechanical special effects technicians has exceeded 120.

This coincides with Wang Wei.

Gao Dongcai himself is a technical and practical person. Under his leadership, the team does not set limits for themselves, and imagines what things or effects can be presented in front of a realistic lens in daily life.

The ownership of the equity has not affected the relocation. There are now a batch of office equipment, and the image processing equipment has entered the downstairs and installed and debugged, which is not far from the official start of construction.

I have confirmed that the animation studio that has left Weibo Technology is ready to move to the lower floor of Feitian Studio, and also occupy a single floor.

Just as he was planning to dig more people and expand the special effects studio, Gu Xiji, the head of the animation studio, came to tell him bad news with an ugly face.

Gu Xiji himself doesn't want to change his boss, but it doesn't mean that others don't want it. This time he was indeed negligent.

But unexpectedly, Wang Wei's first reaction was not to blame him or scold Lianya Entertainment, but to shine with his eyes-

"Is Lianya Entertainment going to enter 3D animation? Then the original animators will be cut a lot, please dig them up!"

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(End of this chapter)