The entertainment industry shouldn't be like this

Chapter 182: Here Comes the Digger
"Mad Max 4", well, Wang Wei will call this movie "Mad Max 4".

This is a simple and crude story, summed up in one sentence, an iron lady and a few beautiful girls escaped from a group of doomsday bandits.

The setting of the background of the story is that after the nuclear war, the earth became a piece of scorched earth, and water became a strategic material. Whoever controls the water source controls everything.

When he learned that the director Lu Le is a female director who returned from Australia, and the story was inspired by a little-known Australian comic, Wang Wei fully understood how the familiarity came from.

Lu Le is a very discerning director. She was straightforward in the script. The selling point of this movie is the explosive, violent, desolate, and magnificent visual experience.

In order to achieve the desired aesthetic effect, she plans to shoot the entire desert in real scenes. Except for a very small part of CG production, 90% of the special effects will be realistic special effects—as large as a truck or as small as a part. rough realism.

Well now, such a hard-core movie has successfully aroused the interest of Shen Zhenyi, the "machine family".

Of course, this is a large-scale project, and the stunt actors alone require hundreds of people, so the investment is naturally not too small. No wonder a domestic film company that has taken a fancy to this movie is so desperate for Shen Zhenyi to bring money into the project .

Wang Wei also thinks 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 film.

……

The Feitian special effects studio is just one floor below the Dunhuang headquarters, and it also occupies a whole floor alone.

When Wang Wei walked into the studio, it was like entering a horror museum. There were severed feet and arms on the table, zombies by the wall, and heads piled up in the cabinet...it looked both scary and fun.

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

They have analyzed the script and the shot script, and screened out the parts that need special effects.

Now, while making the model, I will confirm the final shooting effect with director He Wenying, for example-is it a close-up shot?How the camera moves, how many shots are needed...

"We hope to find the sweet spot of the combination of physical special effects and CG. If a film with a sense of reality is made instead of the style full of CG or video games, I think the audience will agree with the story more."

The one who introduced Wang Wei was a middle-aged man with a steady demeanor wearing a pair of thin-frame glasses.

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

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

However, as the major studios set up their own special effects departments one after another, his studio has never been able to receive any big jobs, and can only survive on the small special effects jobs of some small production teams.

This year, he fully realized that if he didn't have a thick leg in the film and television industry, the special effects studio would be useless.

So he didn't have much resistance to Dunhuang's acquisition.

Of course, Dunhuang's promise to give him future equity and dividends is also an important reason.

Although he was born in the development of CG special effects, he does not think that CG special effects are all special effects in movies, but should use different special effects production techniques according to actual needs.

This point coincides with Wang Wei.

Wang Wei nodded and said, "If there are no accidents, the studio will soon come with a big job, most of which will be physical special effects, and the studio's existing manpower may not be enough."

Gao Dongcai smiled when he heard the words: "Manpower is not a problem. There are many small-scale studios that provide special effects solutions in China. We can buy some or hire some people here, as long as there are big jobs."

It's good to have a big single life!
To be honest, in the special effects studio, the true meaning of the saying "movie is an art that burns money" can be best understood.

Needless to say, expensive equipment like large-scale work battles, just look at the labor - the current special effects artists are not cheap, the annual salary of ordinary special effects artists is 10 yuan, and the annual salary of senior special effects artists is at least 15 yuan. A special effects director like him , the annual salary does not exceed 30, don't even mention it.

With the current scale of Feitian Studio, the salary needs to be nearly 2000 million in one year. Without a steady stream of big jobs, can you afford it?

Wang Wei never worried about not being able to work for the studio, but only worried about their strength: "I have already acquired several small studios, how is the team integration now? Don't take orders, and the work will be overwhelmed in the end."

Gao Dongcai almost patted his chest to reassure: "Integration is not a problem. I only pick people who are absolutely practical. They only have technology in their eyes, and they don't have the heart to deal with other moths."

After investigating all the way, Wang Wei agreed with this statement.

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 the real camera every day.

This makes the studio full of whimsy.

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

This practice of creating special effects scenes on the spot can be seen everywhere in the studio.Of course, it is impossible to create special effects scenes such as "big explosions" in the studio, but more seemingly inconspicuous special effects, such as wind, smoke, rain and so on.

For this purpose, the studio also purchased or made a variety of props, such as wind generators, ranging from small wind generators that can create a breeze to wind generators that can blow out strong winds like tornadoes.

A lot of money has been spent, but it is necessary. Wang Wei only hopes to spend money as efficiently as possible.

"When the animation studio moves over, you can also strengthen joint technical development."

The animation studio, which has decided to leave Weibo Technology, is going to move to the floor below Feitian Studio, which also occupies a separate floor.

The ownership of the equity did not affect the relocation. Now a batch of office equipment and image processing equipment have been stationed downstairs and installed and debugged, and the official start of construction is not far away.

Gao Dongcai responded immediately: "Even if you don't tell me, I still want to strengthen cooperation. "Toy Story" is very good, and it cannot do without excellent animators and excellent production tools. These are also what our studio needs."

Wang Wei nodded in satisfaction.

He believes that whether it is an animation studio or a special effects studio, as long as a few major projects are practiced, the brand can be established.

however--

As the saying goes, those who poach someone's corner will always be poached.

Just when he was planning to recruit more people and expand the special effects studio, Gu Xiji, the director of the animation studio, came to tell him the bad news with an ugly face——

"We've been poached!"

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

"Didn't the ownership of the animation studio change? Some employees left, and I didn't pay much attention to it at first. After all, it doesn't matter if there are more or fewer people." Gu Xiji said a little annoyed.

"Unexpectedly, before I knew it, the number of resignations had reached twenty, and I realized that something was wrong." He said hurriedly, "Before I found out the reason, well, the culprit appeared by himself—— More people came to me and hoped that I would switch jobs and go back.”

Gu Xiji couldn't help but secretly scolded his old club for being incompetent - "Toy Story" stretched out its black hands before it was released.

If he had such acumen, would he still need to move to Dunhuang?
Now he has people in Dunhuang who appreciate him and have resources to support him, heh, they think highly of me instead!

Gu Xiji himself didn't want to change his club, but that doesn't mean the others didn't want to. He was indeed negligent this time.

Unexpectedly, Wang Wei's first reaction was not to blame him, nor to scold Lianya Entertainment, but to shine his eyes——

"Lianya Entertainment is going to enter 3D animation? The original animators will be laid off a lot, so get them here!"

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(End of this chapter)