I really can't act

Chapter 324 Base and Light Bulb Factory

“Rendering is hard work, literally hard work, physical labor. It takes really good hardware and people who can operate it, and sometimes we have to stay in the studio all night to make sure the render runs smoothly …Once the equipment gets stuck and goes down, everything may have to start all over again.”

"Hollywood's top special effects artists earn thousands of dollars a week, and they do the same work on the assembly line. In 2003, I decided to put part of the special effects shots of "Deep Sea Rescue" in China for production. This decision is very important. Crazy, but I think the future of the special effects industry is here."

"You have the most engineers in the world, and low labor costs."

"I found a small team that renders 3D maps for real estate agents, and asked them to make 85 simple special effects shots. Some of my colleagues have not received professional training, and they made it while learning-it took me [-] months in total. , even so, the special effects shots we made still passed, and this became the beginning of my career in China.”

"Although I personally encountered some financial difficulties, I still believe that base is the future leader of China's special effects industry. It is not just a Chinese special effects..." Lao Ke used a very authentic adjective, "Whampoa Military Academy. "

“…and, to be a world-class special effects house, because you guys don’t make feature films forever.”

After Lao Ke finished speaking, he didn't mention how much Fang Yi needed to spend to invest, but asked him to see the current work situation of the base company by himself, and emphasized, "I didn't remind them in advance."

Fang Yi and Guo Fan browsed the two floors of the base company as investors.Employees seem to be used to being visited, and it's not surprising that the desks are messy, but they always seem to find the tools they need.Fang Yi deliberately followed behind Guo Fan, wearing a mask, so as not to ruin today's interview if he was recognized.

Since it was reported that Old Ke wanted to sell some of his shares, different investors came to try their luck one after another, but most of them returned empty-handed.

There are two reasons.

The first business that base started came from the contacts left by Lao Ke in Hollywood for many years. It has been eight years since the company was established, and it is still doing Hollywood outsourcing, while there are very few domestic films.

The founder of Industrial Light and Magic is George Lucas, the great director of the "Star Wars" series. While making movies, he also maintained his own special effects company, with his left hand and his right hand.Lao Ke gradually realized that he must find a sufficiently capable partner in China. This person needs to be professional and well-connected. Either he has resources himself, or he can introduce resources to him.

The most suitable is Huaxia Film and Television, but Huaxia Film and Television is full of energy to learn technology from Korean guys.

What about the Hong Kong company?
To put it bluntly, they will use Singapore, Taiwan, and local...except mainland China.

This alone can rule out most speculative investors.

Another reason is that Lao Ke's asking price for his outsourcing team is not cheap, but everyone in the industry knows what's going on.To make shirt buttons is to make shirt buttons all your life. It is really too difficult to upgrade the industry all the way to make aero engines.

Especially the leader is still a foreign expert.

The two of them didn't see any hope in this group of employees, such as full of talent.

On the way, Guo Fan suggested, "Let's go have a cup of coffee, see if there is anyone chatting, and listen to what the employees have to say, don't just listen to foreigners bragging."

The two stayed at the coffee machine for half a day, the coffee in their hands was getting cold, and they didn't see a second person coming to drink coffee.

Fang Yi and Guo Fan discovered Base's first corporate culture:
wolf culture.

Guo Fan drank his coffee tremblingly, and said, "I think of the light bulb factory—the kind of factory along the coast, the kind that just came out in the 90s. The workers put on the filament day and night, and the wages were as low as one bulb. The light bulbs cost less than a penny, and the high-tech automatic production lines were abruptly eliminated, which is what Lao Ke said about engineers."

Fang Yi didn't know what to say for a while.

China Film Group will do some weird questionnaires, one of which is about "Which item is the biggest gap between Chinese and American movies", and [-]% of them answered "special effects."

Then, the question is "How big do you think the gap between the special effects industry between China and the United States is?"

Three answers are provided. "Never catch up", "At least two or 30 years behind", "There is no gap".

The first one accounted for one-third, the second accounted for nearly two-thirds, and the third one was chosen by [-]%. These people may be foreign guests friendly to China.

That's it for the first inspection of base.Investing in base is not a small sum of money, at least two houses in the capital are needed to maintain the current domestic special effects team.

Fang Yi and Guo Fan came out of the base and walked along the banks of the river.Due to the high cost of office buildings, the company address of base is dozens of kilometers away from the Beijing CBD.Maybe it’s not intuitive enough to say this. This place is only one river away from Tongzhou, and Tongzhou was the boundary of Hebei Province when the country was founded, and part of it was included in the capital in 58.

The river is not clear, and there are no people on both sides of the road.Only Fang Yi and Guo Fan were basking in the sun, looking at the bottomless river and the willows on the bank, feeling bleak in their hearts.

Thinking of the scenes he saw before, Guo Fan said excitedly, "Although the appearance is not good, this is the beginning of a blockbuster. Do you know the 'things of the Ming Dynasty'? Zhu Chongba started with only a broken bowl. We will not Those who have been making buttons all the time will have to do the opposite sooner or later.”

Fang Yi: "Let the bullets fly for a while."

"Are there any other options?"

"There are many choices. I am a small person in special effects, and it is China Film who can really spend money."

As we all know, China Film Group's strongest team is the legal team. With the prefix "中", if there is divine help in foreign wars, it will also cultivate internal skills.Earlier, at the press conference of the documentary "We were Born in China", Fang Yi saw the banner displayed by China Film:

"Cultivate cultural self-confidence and promote Chinese culture".

On a larger level, China has always had special funds to support enterprises, and to engage in similar forums, activities, and exchanges with foreign countries.The government is willing to pay to participate in the film industry and support the industry to tide over the difficulties. This is a good condition that the Yankees did not have at the beginning.Relatively speaking, the domestic special effects industry is not short of money, and the equipment is not bad.

China Film Group has set up a China Film Base in Huairou, a suburb of Beijing. It has the largest film and television studio in the world, and a lot of digital film and television production equipment with explosive hard indicators. What Americans use, we use.

Since he planned to practice with "The Chinese Zodiac", Fang Yi naturally wanted to insert his own people in to hone a group of compatible and trustworthy teams.Otherwise, the action scene is a family class, and the funds are Yinghuang Entertainment. Fang Yi went in to make a movie alone. His so-called "right to speak" is empty words. No one will do things for you, so he has no right to speak.

However, next year's blockbuster filming time is still early, and now he has to get the commercials done first.Liu Tianxian is not a hypocritical character, he is surprised that he wrote such a "popular" book, and has been laughing at him these days.

Once she gets to know Fang Yi well, she will never go back to that quiet girl with the dog in her arms, and sometimes she will not clean up.

(End of this chapter)