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Chapter 166 Financial Issues
"Immediately recruited people and set up a special effects department called 'Movie Light and Magic'. When my company has no films to shoot, it will implement special effects takeaway and provide visual effects production services for other filmmakers."

The most famous film special effects production company is the American Industrial Light and Magic, referred to as ILM, the translation name: Industrial Light and Magic, and later the Chinese used to call it "Industrial Light and Magic".

Originally, Su Chen thought about investing in the film studio of Tsui Hark and Shi Nansheng. Although the studio has not been established yet, it is very difficult to invest.

Because Boss Lei of the Golden Princess Cinemas has long been interested in investing in Tsui Hark, and he has no money now, even if he wants to invest, Boss Lei may not let him invest, so let's overtake in a corner and work in the stunt department.

Once the special effects are done, in the future, if Hong Kong filmmakers want to make a big-budget movie, they must find themselves.

Su Chen continued to write in the letter: "After recruiting talents in this area in Hong Kong, sign a long-term contract with them and send them to Letterman Digital Art Center or RB in San Francisco, California, USA to learn this technology, and at the same time establish A department dedicated to full 3D animation.

Not only do we need to learn the production of visual effects blockbusters, but we also need to learn CG production to lay the foundation for our later animation films. If there is not enough manpower, we recruit people. The most important thing now is people, and there is no shortage of talents in this area in Hong Kong... …

We have no way to start filming right now, so we need to set up a special effects department first, and we must pay attention to it, and try our best to cover all the special effects of Hong Kong movies. In the future, apart from Kung Fu movies with hard bridges and hard horses, there will inevitably be a large number of special effects films , this is our chance!

Establishing a digital and computerized special effects photography department is something we must do, and this requires a lot of effort.

However, film special effects photography is a very broad concept, as long as it uses special shooting and production techniques to achieve special effects, it belongs to this category.

The special effects I am talking about are based on this, but higher than this new technology, and set up a department that uses computer software modeling or digital means to achieve special effects on movie screens.

Not only computer experts are required, but also special effects companies in Hollywood and RB in the United States are required in many aspects, because special effects are a very expensive thing, once you master these things, you can make money for media companies from another aspect.

At the same time, it can also establish an unshakable position for our media company. In short, you should do this matter as soon as you receive the letter. If you are alone and have no skills, then recruit people and set up a special effects department. It will take a lot of money Money has to be spent, if you don’t have to be able to save it, you need to have the best hardware…”

After finishing writing, Su Chen read it over and over carefully several times, and after confirming that everything that should be explained had been explained, he put the letter in an envelope.

This is a work with a lot of investment, because it burns a lot of money.

Why do special effects cost money?
This should be divided into several parts.

As far as hardware is concerned, Disney has its own supercomputer. Although it is not a supercomputer like Taihuguang, one can imagine the terrible cost.

Simply speaking, the power consumption of this computer is the same as that of a small village.

And assigned to a single producer, the computer configuration requirements are also extremely high.

Whether it is texture artists, rendering and post-production, rigging artists, special effects artists, etc., a perfect team collaboration requires better intranet server bandwidth and a more optimized process.

Then there is the salary of the employees. These people must be kept at a high price, and they must sign a long-term contract. Otherwise, they will work hard but only get a little salary.

Technology is divided into many parts, including cg art production part, computer graphics development and application cost and so on.

And such as models, textures, hair, etc., it requires more technology and hardware.

Compositing in the later stage is also a step with a very high technical content. If the later stage is not strong or the early stage is too jerk, it will become a cutout comparison.

Excellent pre-production and strong post-production enable us to have cg special effects that are more realistic than reality, which is why Hollywood blockbusters often invest hundreds of millions of dollars.

The big heads are all taken by the special effects company.

In short, an excellent computer special effect requires the cooperation of so many teams, and the cost of software, hardware, technology, manpower and material resources to produce a special effect that costs less than [-] cents.

This is another thing that costs money.

Of course, we really need to burn money in the early stage. Once we can support the company, we can make a profit, because there are very few special effects companies in Hong Kong.

The special effects of Tsui Hark's "New Swordsman of Shushan" were done by Industrial Light and Magic, so that it presented such a thrilling scene.

I'm running out of money again.

Boss Su will soon be short of money everywhere.

Then he opened the letter from the Soviet Union.

This letter was written by Zhao Donglai.

"boss……"

They just explained some of their recent activities, such as helping the Soviets transport goods, while dumping domestic goods, and setting up a trading company to start transnational business.

Of course, they are all black market transactions.

The development of the team has become stronger, and each of the eight men controls several points to ensure that there are no problems.

In the end, Zhao Donglai also mentioned that he planned to return to China after a while and so on.

After reading the letter, Su Chen immediately thought that his account was stored in the First Boston Bank, and he could ask Zhao Donglai to send money internationally and deposit the money into the company's account.

For one thing, the financial problems of the company can be postponed.

Second, it is easier and more convenient to manage funds.

When Zhao Donglai comes back, just take him south to meet Tang Wanru and make a final decision on this matter.

Now Su Chen doesn't need much money himself, the emergency of more than 100 million in the cellar is no problem, and the price is only so much now.

No matter how much Xue Yu can spend, she will not spend all of the more than 100 million RMB all at once.

Moreover, there is also the 100 million rubles that Zhao Donglai brought back last time.

Because Su Chen did not exchange it, the 100 million rubles were not counted for the time being.

It's not easy to exchange rubles now, first of all, you can't tell your origin clearly, in case someone pulls you to make up the number...

At the highest stage of the current exchange rate, 0.9 rubles can be exchanged for 1 US dollar, so this 100 million ruble is equivalent to more than 100 million US dollars.

Based on this calculation, in fact, Su Chen still has a lot of money. It seems that he should exchange the 100 million rubles into US dollars and deposit it in the account.

Otherwise, in a few years, the ruble will be worthless.

Thinking of this, Su Chen immediately wrote to Zhao Donglai, asking him to come back as soon as possible, and then find a way to bring back 100 million rubles.

Then ask Tang Wanru to exchange the 200 million rubles into US dollars, which is more than 200 million US dollars, which can suspend the financial problems of the special effects department.

Grandma Shepi's, almost forgot about the money in the cellar.

Fortunately, when the last inventory was made, it was still well preserved.

According to the ledger reported by Zhao Donglai last time, it must be several million rubles now, so if you calculate it, you have hundreds of dollars?

(End of this chapter)