I’m in Hollywood

Eric gently tapped the table and thought for a moment, and asked: "What is the ratio of model effects to g effects artists?"

Stan Winston squatted and said: "This, I have not made statistics."

"Then count immediately," Eric said, watching Stein Winston turn his head and tell his assistant to do it immediately, only to look at Ed Carmore: "What about you?"

Ed Carmore said: "I am still okay here. Our opponents are not too interested in the team's average programmers, mainly in the middle and senior project leaders of the contact team, although some of them have signed up for the competition. The industry prohibits the agreement, and if it is forcibly resigned, it can no longer engage in related work within one year, but I think the business prospects shown by Jurassic Park are enough for our opponents to challenge legal risks."

After listening to Eric, he looked at John Lasseter again.

John Lasseter shrugged: "I think everyone present has already seen the "Bug Crisis" film. This 3D animated film is no worse than the "Toy Story" two years ago, so I think In the face of the digital realm, Pixar should take some precautionary measures to avoid a large number of employees leaving."

After the three people finished, Eric looked at the executives present: "Is there anything else to add?"

Michael Lynn said: "Eric, Reiter collected some information and let him talk about it."

Eric nodded to a 40-year-old white man with a slightly fat body. The man said, "Mr. Williams, according to some of the information we collected, a week ago. Michael Ace of Universal Pictures George Lucas of Lucas Pictures and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the famous mapping software company Autodesk and eo Carol Bartz met once in the city of San Rafael, where Autodesk’s headquarters is located, followed by Autodesk announced that Autodesk will cooperate with Industrial Light & Magic and Universal Pictures to enter the film and television special effects software market, but the announcement does not mention specific details. In addition, several medium-sized special effects companies in Hollywood have recently They have all received a large amount of capital injection and are recruiting troops."

The executive named Ritter said that he had just received an assistant from Stan Winston and then pushed the door into the conference room and placed a piece of data in front of Stan Winston.

"Eric, statistics. Of the 169 people who submitted the resignation application, 112 were model effects, and 57 were special effects." Stan Winston breathed a sigh of relief when he said this data. Although he is from the production of model effects, Stan Winston is definitely not a conservative person. He has heard Eric once more than once, g effects is the mainstream trend effect of Hollywood in the future, "Terminator 2" The success of g-effect blockbusters such as Tornado and Jurassic Park also proves this. Among the employees who left the company, the model special effects accounted for nearly two-thirds, while the g effect artist only had three-thirds. One. In this case, things are not as bad as he imagined.

Everyone present seems to be relieved, and Eric has already guessed this possibility. Now the guess is proven, and the last worry in his heart has dissipated a lot. The reason why the g-effects in the digital field did not have a lot of outflows was mainly because the g effects artists used the combination of special effects software developed by the digital domain. Currently, these software digital fields are not sold, leaving the digital domain tools. These gurus who are very skilled in the original technology can only re-learn the immature three-stream special effects software on the market. If it is not for the company that gives it a hard-to-reject salary, these people will never risk leaving.

I sorted out the ideas I had conceived in London and on the plane yesterday. Eric took a clap and caught everyone's attention. Road: "Well, now everyone is going to talk about how to solve this kind of thing. First of all, we thought about developing Maya in cooperation with Autodesk, but that cooperation did not succeed. Since I didn't want to join, now Otto I took a fancy to the special effects software cake, and wanted to get in and put it in. It’s late. How did he jump in, let’s get it out.”

There were a few chuckles in the conference room, but no one despised the meaning of Autodesk. Autodesk currently relies on the main industrial design software of the ad, which has basically monopolized the industrial graphics software market, film and television special effects software and industrial drawing. There are a lot of similarities in software. It is not too difficult for Autodesk to develop corresponding TV special effects software. The cycle is much shorter than the development of Maya and other tools in the digital field. Opportunity entered the market ahead of time, Autodesk basically monopolized the film and television special effects software.

At this point, I want to prevent Autodesk from entering the film and television special effects software, not only for the benefit of the software sales, but more importantly, to ensure the status of the digital field in the film and television special effects industry. If any company only invests and does not make a profit, then it will not escape the road to close the door sooner or later. This is the case with the technical team led by Ed Carmore. In the case of rapid development of the digital field, there are no drawbacks. In the future, the film and television special effects company will enter the era of group smashing, and this huge technical team that cannot be profitable will become a drag on the company.

When Eric’s words were finished, everyone in the conference room began to make their own suggestions.

After three days of intensive meetings, the digital field held a press conference at the Firefly Studios headquarters.

At this time, the second week of "Jurassic Park" box office data released, got more than 71 million US dollars at the box office, the total box office reached 185 million US dollars. Although it was a press conference in the digital field, when it was learned that Eric would attend the conference, many of the invited reporters prepared a lot of sequels about Jurassic Park.

However, the information disclosed at the press conference did not disappoint the reporters present.

Ed Carmoor, who was originally the chief technology officer of Pixar Animation, announced that Firebug will integrate the technical support team in Pixar and Digital, and set up a separate Firefly software company. Firefly software mainly provides special effects software and related products for target customers. Film and television special effects solutions.

After Ed Carmoor finished, more than a hundred reporters in the conference hall immediately discussed it. Some reporters who are not well-informed do not understand that the digital realm is just the moment of time. Why do you want to make such a self-demolition wall, and other reporters who are very keen on the industry are aware that this is the firefly. A counterattack in the time-and-digital field.

At first glance, this seems illogical, but even if the news of Autodesk's cooperation with Industrial Light and Magic and Global has not been revealed, some smart people can understand that this is equivalent to a disguised expansion of the digital field. Although the special effects software in the digital field has not yet flown out, the technical level demonstrated by films such as Jurassic Park has smashed several streets of small and medium-sized special effects companies in Hollywood. Therefore, once the tool software in the digital domain begins to be sold, not only the special effects divisions who leave the digital field will be given priority, but other special effects companies will also join the camp of users of digital domain software tools.

Moreover, there is another important point in Ed Carmore's speech. In addition to special effects software, Firefly Software will provide customers with specific TV special effects solutions, which not only increase the profitability of Firefly software, but also disguise. The solution authorization limits the development of the special effects companies that are coveted. After all, if you can buy a set of special effects shots at a lower price, most people will not waste time and money on technology development and accumulation. The solution provided by Firefly software must rely on the software of Firefly itself, which again limits the use of other special effects software for small and medium-sized special effects companies.

Ed Carmore announced the news, the press conference entered the free question time, and the audience raised a large arm.

The host looked at the stage and randomly selected a very temperamental female reporter.

Unexpectedly, the female reporter took the microphone and turned directly to Eric, who just did not speak: "Mr. Williams, I am a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, and the Jurassic Park's North American box office has accumulated 185 million US dollars. The fans are very concerned about the follow-up story of Dinosaur Island, but your original novel has not revealed relevant information. Will Firefly develop a sequel?"

"First of all, I want to say, this lady, your question has nothing to do with this conference. If someone asks a similar question next time, I will not answer it. But now I can tell you that the sequel will definitely have ""

Eric had just handed the microphone out, and the female reporter immediately said, "So, Mr. Williams, will Fireflies software treat different special effects companies outside the digital domain?"

"I don't know what kind of difference you are talking about. The Firefly software company and the digital field are all one. If it is technical support, Firefly software will definitely spare no effort in the digital field. This is undisputed. In other respects, the special effects software owned by Firefly Software Inc. is the same for both internal and external. However, after the completion of the spin-off, even if the digital domain wants to use the latest software of Firefly Software, it needs to pay according to the process. ”

The microphone under the stage quickly spread to another reporter, and the problem of the other party was still directed at Eric: "Mr. Williams, I am a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. Will the Firefly Software Company be listed? ?"

"There is no listing plan yet, but it will definitely be in the future."

The reporter immediately hit the snake and asked the question that Wall Street was very concerned about: "Will the Firefly Films go public?" (To be continued)

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