my movie years

Chapter 424: Building a supercomputer for movie making

Zhang Hao woke up from his dream and immediately ran to the study to draw the scenes he saw in his dream to prevent himself from forgetting.

Zhang Hao didn't know what happened in the dream just now. He seemed to be gradually forgetting it. He only knew that he saw a shocking scene that humans had never seen before.

"Star Wars" is so weak that in the future, the dimension of science fiction will be defined by Zhang Hao.

Zhang Yu was still wondering why his son was so crazy so early in the morning, so he went to the study to take a look.As a result, I saw my son writing furiously, drawing some strange sketches as if he was possessed.

"Son, are you okay?" Zhang Yu asked worriedly.

Zhang Hao continued to draw without raising his head, and replied casually: "It's okay, it's okay, I have an inspiration, I need to record it quickly."

Zhang Yu shook his head speechlessly, turned around to make breakfast, and muttered: "Is this all the way to create art? Shen Shen nao..."

It lasted more than two hours, and I didn't even have time to eat the breakfast delivered by my mother Zhang Yu.

After Ping An and Shi Shi went to kindergarten, Zhang Hao finally recorded what he saw and heard in his dream, and the memory of his contact with aliens slowly faded away.

This is understandable, after all, humans are essentially a self-destructive species.During Zhang Hao's childish years, he would destroy humanity in his mind at every turn.

The aliens were also afraid that seeing too many shocking scenes would directly burn out Zhang Hao's brain, thereby affecting the plan to guide humans to look at the stars.

Therefore, these things remain in Zhang Hao's mind in the form of imagination and inspiration, while the parts about them will gradually fade away.

How to understand this forgetfulness means that Zhang Hao will slowly forget how he traveled through time and space and was reborn, thus truly becoming Zhang Hao in this time and space, with no connection with his previous life.

In essence, this is a real rebirth, and you can no longer rely on any memories from your previous life to help you.

But it doesn’t matter, the movies I want to copy have already been made, and the time for time travel and rebirth is around this time.

Remembering things from the past life will have no effect, and will also affect Zhang Hao's future life journey.

After Zhang Hao recorded the scenes in his dream, he packed up and drove to Tiangong Yicai Special Effects Studio with these sketches in his arms.

Gong Jun, the director of the special effects studio, saw Zhang Hao's sketches one after another, and his spirit seemed to be shocked.

"Boss, how did you draw these things?" Gong Jun asked curiously.

Zhang Hao pointed to his head and said: "I dreamed about it, so I quickly recorded it. Let's use this as a blueprint and let's start creating!"

"Okay, with these things, we have a direction for special effects and model production, and we will definitely get it right."

Gong Jun summoned the backbone of the studio to start a meeting. Like Gong Jun, everyone in the studio was shocked when they saw Zhang Hao's sketches.

The imagination of the sketch and its level of science fiction can be said to be unprecedented in human history.

Zhang Hao also said at the meeting: "These sketches are less than one ten thousandth of the picture in my mind. Our next focus is to restore these pictures as much as possible through special effects and other technical means."

After Zhang Hao spoke, the special effects engineers quickly took action.

The Moon Palace Studio on Hong Kong Island also dispatched a team of engineers, who came to the capital to complete these tasks together with the talented engineers.

Gong Jun worked with university laboratories to develop a brand new rendering system, and even used Penguin's supercomputer in Tianjin to calculate some complex scenes.

Zhang Hao was not stingy either. The funds from Bona China Film and Penguin had not yet arrived. Tianpower Film and Television Production Company had already spent [-] million in advance.

This [-] million is used to develop new systems and prepare for the special effects engineers to continuously accumulate materials into the system.

But this was not enough. Zhang Hao quickly held several meetings with major investors and showed them the early results.

Seeing such a shocking demonstration effect, everyone was shocked, their imaginations ran wild, and they were greatly shocked.

After seeing the results, it goes without saying that I will definitely invest money.

So everyone invested money in, and Penguin even sent a capable team to participate in the research and development of the new system.

Because of the huge amount of calculation, a supercomputer is needed to perform calculations, otherwise the new system will be difficult to run.

Almost all existing supercomputers are used for various scientific research tasks, and it is impossible to give them to you for making movies.Penguin's own supercomputer also has other uses, and there is very little time left for the new system to perform calculations.

Simply, Zhang Hao took action, flew to your province, visited several places, and planned to build a supercomputer for his own use.

Supercomputers are regarded as the most important weapon of the country and are a strategic high-tech field. Those who can play supercomputers are basically the state and large capital.Penguin's size is nothing more than a supercomputer.

Of course, this is nothing more than investing money.The budget of a supercomputer is about 25 to 30 billion. The key is that many equipment and parts are controlled, and you can't buy them if you have money.

To this end, Zhang Hao went out of his way to find connections and a lot of approvals. When the relevant personnel heard that Zhang Hao was doing supercomputing for the purpose of making movies, they all looked at him in surprise.

Is it super expensive to make a movie?Am I crazy, or is the world abnormal?
But no matter what, despite the twists and turns, things finally went smoothly.Construction of a supercomputing center belonging to Tiangong Yicai and Yuegong Studio will soon begin in your province.

Before the new supercomputer is completed, the production of "Country Teacher" will still require the help of Penguin and several national-level supercomputers to complete the calculations.

Naturally, such a big news could not be hidden from netizens, and soon it spread that Zhang Hao was going to build his own supercomputer.

Netizens were collectively dumbfounded. They had never seen anything like this.

"No, what is Director Zhang doing? We've started playing with supercomputers, but other computers aren't enough, right?"

"I'm convinced. If you build a supercomputer for the purpose of making movies, Director Zhang will be No. 1 in the world, right?"

"To sum up, this is not something that humans can do."

"It's too perverted, but I like it. I'm looking forward to seeing what movies made with supercomputers will look like."

In addition to marveling and admiring, netizens are also not optimistic. Some netizens feel that Zhang Hao is completely fooling around.

Making a movie is very simple, just use a camera.

Even if there is a need for special effects production, the existing system can fully meet it. Why bother to build a supercomputer?
If these things were made just for the movie "Country Teacher", wouldn't this mean that the cost of the movie would be 40 billion?
There are not many movies worth 40 billion. The box office of "Interstellar" was only 38.56 billion. No matter what you do, you won't be able to get back the 40 billion cost!

Or put it another way, after all, only a few people can see the distance, and most people can only see the small area in front of them.

Supercomputing and new computing systems cannot be used only for one movie. There are so many movie production needs later.

Moreover, Zhang Hao can use this supercomputer not only for himself, but also for other directors’ projects, thus virtually sharing the cost of the supercomputer evenly.

Within a few years, the cost of supercomputing and new systems will be recouped and profitability will be achieved.

Moreover, supercomputers are very scarce now and are needed for all kinds of scientific research. It is impossible to rent them out to university laboratories and still maintain them.

Super computers are hardware, while new systems are software.

The development of new systems is very important.Although gamers always complain about Penguin not doing good things, in terms of technology, Penguin is already very strong.

More than 300 Penguin R&D personnel directly joined this project and worked with university laboratories to develop new systems.

Of course, a 0.1 experimental version was produced in advance to help Zhang Hao finish filming "Country Teacher".

What follows is continuous iteration of the system and completion of upgrades to achieve better production effects.

In several internal meetings, Zhang Hao also said that this new computing system is not available in foreign special effects manufacturers such as Industrial Light and Magic, and it can be said to be far ahead.

Many software-oriented things are not impossible to make, but the money and time are insufficient.

As long as there is enough money, enough time, and the ingenuity of these technicians, no problem can stump them.

Naturally, such a big movement cannot be hidden from foreigners.

The foreigner's first reaction was that Zhang Hao had gone crazy.But when thinking of Zhang Hao's past glorious achievements, people soon began to speculate on what Zhang Hao was up to.

An illness at the beginning of the year had an impact on the entire world, especially in the field of film culture.

Over in Hollywood, various minority groups continue to push their boundaries, and the movies seem to be getting harder and harder to watch.At the same time, the cultural gap has become increasingly serious.

I heard that the bosses over there have begun to consider restricting Chinese-language films. This is not surprising. After all, several recent Chinese-language films have achieved good results in North America, which to a certain extent has reversed the stereotypes of North American audiences on the other side of the Pacific.

Thinking of the experiences of many technology companies, as well as the experiences of ByteDance, which has media attributes, it is difficult to say that movies with stronger cultural attributes will not be restricted.

Foreigners have been around for hundreds of years, and the elite are not stupid, they see everything clearly.

It is still unclear where Chinese-language films will take their journey and where they will go...

(End of this chapter)