The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 149 Establishing the Animation Department

Although DreamWorks took advantage of the popularity of "Signal" to announce the approval of the TV series version, in fact, the crew has not been established, the director has not been confirmed, and the remaining one of the three leading actors has not been confirmed.

Simply, now that Deng Chao and Sun Li have been identified, there is no need to look for the de facto male protagonist from the traffic. If the halo of the traffic is torn off, there are still quite a few young actors with acting skills.

These days, some film and television companies and brokerage companies have indeed recommended a lot of artists to him, and among them there are young actors who are suitable for this role.

Chen Jing made several lists, and asked people to contact them for auditions one by one. Of course, Chen Jingxing didn't intend to decide on the role alone.

Two of the three leading roles in the "Signal" TV series have been confirmed, and the remaining one role should respect the director's opinion.

Usually we say that film art is the art of directors, and of course it is also the art of producers in many places, while the soul of TV dramas is more often considered to be screenwriters.

In many countries with a relatively developed film and television industry, screenwriters do have the highest status in the production process of TV dramas. It is not uncommon for actors to offend screenwriters, and then the characters are written to death.

Usually more senior drama fans pay more attention to screenwriters when choosing TV dramas.

Although many TV dramas are now pursuing light and shadow and the art of lens, generally speaking, story and narrative are still king, and the status of screenwriters is unshakable.

Of course, in Huaguo, none of the above is true. The screenwriter's status in the crew is not to say the highest, but also the bottom few.

The status of producers, directors, and actors is basically higher than that of screenwriters.

If there is a conflict between the actor and the screenwriter, the high probability of leaving is not the actor.

Therefore, in the domestic TV drama industry, the director's status is still unmatched.

Therefore, we still need to be more cautious about the choice of director, especially Chen Jingxing also hopes that the "Signal" TV series can reflect the quality of the movie, the story is first-class, and the composition and camera can be better.

Therefore, you can't find tool people, but try to find directors with real talents and real learning, and for people with real talents and real learning, you have to give them some respect.

And this involved Chen Jingxing's blind spot. The directors he got to know were all film directors, and they were all mixed up. It was impossible to come to him to shoot TV dramas.

The only director who signed the contract, Guo Fan, is also busy with "Operation Mekong". Besides, the contract is for him to make a movie, not a TV series.

However, Xu Wenshen knows quite a few TV drama directors, and the four shareholders of DreamWorks have quite a few directors, so Chen Jingxing handed Xu Wenshen the job of selecting directors, and then gave him a list of candidates, and he will come again. Make the final decision.

When DreamWorks was busy with the preparations for the "Signal" TV drama crew, Chen Jingxing came to Mo's office in the capital.

Mo Yuan's headquarter was in Chengdu. Since DreamWorks became a shareholder and handed over the post-production special effects of "Signal" and "Source Code" to Mo, Xu Sheng rented an office building in the capital.

Most of Mo's original [-] or so employees have followed. After all, after being rich, the salary has also been greatly improved. It is also one of the best in the post-production visual effects industry in the country. In addition, Chen Jingxing directly merged the special effects production department into With the addition of the crew, the working hours have also been greatly improved.

The employees who continued to recruit later also worked directly in the capital. Although Mo is still a company registered in Chengdu in name, in fact his work location has been completely transferred to the capital. The only difference is the change of registration place and some industrial and commercial procedures. .

It was also the first time Chen Jingxing visited as the owner after Mo became a holding subsidiary of DreamWorks.

Mo's office area in Beijing is smaller than that of DreamWorks, but the number of employees has expanded to nearly 100. With so many machines, it seems quite crowded.

However, the mental outlook of the employees is very good. After all, Mo's salary and working hours are already the first-class conscience in the special effects industry, and he doesn't even look like a special effects company at all.

Even in Europe and the United States, the special effects industry is a hard and tiring job with less money and more work. Of course, this is compared to other Silicon Valley technology companies.

Asian special effects companies are particularly introverted, because most of their work is outsourced, from top European and American special effects studios.

Of course, the cheaper the outsourcing, the better. No matter if it is a Korean company or a Huaguo company, the working environment will only decline under this kind of outsourcing competition, and it is impossible to improve it.

If the boss of another special effects company saw Mo's working hours and salary, he would immediately conclude that Mo was no longer competitive in the field of outsourcing.

But Mo is no longer outsourcing at all. The two projects of "Signal" and "Source Code" have overwhelmed this small and medium-sized special effects studio, and the manpower has doubled in a few months.

After the second round of financing, Chen Jingxing has already planned to find a bigger office space for DreamWorks and Mexico to work together.

However, Chen Jingxing did not come here this time to inspect the office environment, but to announce his plan for the first stage of Mo's future development.

Only Chen Jingxing and Mo's four founders attended the meeting.

"Mr. Chen, do you mean that we will make animated films in the future?" Xiang Xuan, the leader of the animation team, asked in surprise and joy.

Xu Sheng also looked at Chen Jingxing in surprise.

He originally thought that Chen Jingxing came this time for the project of "Gravity". After Chen Jingxing revealed the plan of "Gravity" to him last time, he returned and excitedly shared the good news with the other three founders. Everyone They are very excited. Being able to participate in such a level of heavy industry film production is of great significance to Mo. Not only is this their wish, but such a big project will definitely greatly improve Mo's technical strength.

Industrial Light and Magic was born out of "Star Wars".

Captain T (Captain T) has transformed from a small studio with only 20 people into a leading special effects giant today by doing special effects for manga movies that did not have the attention of big capital at the time.

Weta Digital also became a top studio by relying on the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

In their eyes, "Gravity" will be an opportunity for the cuttlefish to leap to the dragon's gate. Even if they want to help top foreign special effects studios, it is a very rare opportunity.

Of course, some people were worried about whether "Gravity" could be approved for production. After all, an investment of more than 1 million U.S. dollars is not just a play, but with the hit of "Signal" and the second round of financing of DreamWorks, they are no longer worry about this problem.

This time when they heard that Chen Jingxing was coming to the company, several people were going to have an in-depth chat with Chen Jingxing about the detailed planning of "Gravity". They were also prepared that the boss might ask questions related to "Gravity". Xu Sheng was also prepared Recommend a top international studio that Mo has outsourced for as the main special effects team of "Gravity".

Unexpectedly, Chen Jingxing didn't talk about "Gravity" with them, but began to understand Mo's animation technology, and revealed the image of the animation work he wanted to make.

(End of this chapter)