I’m in Hollywood

Allen? Hasenfeld’s voice just fell, and another voice rang behind him: “Eric, don’t you mind if we listen to your views on Transformers?”

Eric turned his head and Michael Eisner and Edgar Bronfman walked side by side.

Michael Eisner and Edgar Bronfman noticed that Alan Hasenfeld took the initiative to talk to Eric in the near future and quickly came over in an attempt to prevent the two people from producing copyrights about Transformers. Negotiations.

Although the firefly is seemingly indifferent to the Transformers copyright, no one can deny that it is the most powerful competitor of Transformers copyright. The details of Alan Hasenfeld’s initiative to contact Eric are to let Michael Ai Sna and the two have a sense of crisis, and if Eric gets the Transformers copyright away at a party around the world, they will be the laughing stock of Hollywood.

"Of course, no problem, Michael," Eric nodded with a smile. He certainly didn't mind Michael Eisner's attendance. He even hoped that his next words would spread throughout Hollywood.

With the move of Michael Eisner, the guests of some other studios who noticed the situation here had also come together, and they were also very interested in Transformers copyright.

Jue Kruger and Cindy Crawford, who are leaning against Eric, found that in just a few minutes, Eric once again became the focus of the show, and they were hard to reach around. At the top of the film company, at this time, Eric was surrounded by stars and made a slap in the face. The two of them are holding Eric's arms. The three women of Linda Ivan Golinsta are ruthlessly pushed to the outside of the crowd by these big men. It is inevitable to envy them in the eyes of both of them. .

Diane Kruger and Cindy Crawford, although they know that these big men care about them are not the two of them, the bottom of my heart is inexplicably produced an inexplicable satisfaction and pride.

Allen Hasenfeld looked at the people around and Eric's well-thought-out appearance, but it produced a bad feeling. Some regrets in my heart just took the initiative to come and talk with Eric.

Eric’s current posture is obviously not like saying good things to Transformers.

Moreover, with Eric's position in Hollywood, what he said will never be ignored by the past, and Alan Hasenfeld does not believe that Eric will simply talk nonsense to suppress Transformers copyright.

really. Patiently waiting for everyone to come around, Eric said: "When I heard about the recent adaptation of the Transformers movie, I also became interested in this toy series, and privately considered some production plans, but the final conclusion was Under the current conditions, Transformers does not have much adaptation value. If you make a live-action movie forcibly, the cost and risk are very large."

If no one has linked the Transformers movie adaptation to the fireflies. There are not so many people involved in the competition. Eric’s words were exported, and nine of the ten people did not believe it. However, they did not rush to refute.

Eric looked around for a week and continued: "According to my assumption, if you want to make a live-action big movie, the image design of Transformers should be a complex composed of hundreds of parts and full of metal texture. Sophisticated mechanical life. These living bodies also need to be transformed seamlessly between the car and the robot. I discussed my ideas in detail with the special effects engineers in the digital field and came to the conclusion that if I follow this idea For the production, the film's g special effects will be more than ten times more difficult than Jurassic Park, and the production cost is a high price."

After Eric said that Michael Eisner had a smile on his face, he asked very sharply: "Eric, I am very curious. Transformers are more than ten times more difficult to make in Jurassic Park. How is this 'ten times' statistics?"

Everyone around me just used Eric's ‘10 times’ as an adjective to describe the difficulty of making Transformers. If Michael Eisner doesn't speak, no one will ever bite.

But Michael Eisner used this to attack Eric, although everyone still looks with sincere curiosity. There is some gloating in my heart, I want to see how Eric plans to deal with Michael Eisner.

To their disappointment, Eric’s expression did not mean anything to be angry. When he heard Michael Eisner’s question, his smile was unchanged. “Michael, about the specific software development and technical testing involved in g effects. Processes such as 3D modeling, I think you are definitely not clear, let's take the example of the most critical image rendering of g effects. The special effects engineer in the digital field told me that if I want to achieve the kind of g effect I need, the movie Every frame that involves g effects requires a current top-level rendering workstation to work 630 hours in a row."

Hearing the amazed inspiratory sound around, Eric laughed: "You will definitely feel that the rendering time of 630 hours is incredible, but if you don't believe it, you can call the digital field to verify. Of course, there is another point. The digital field has a 10,000 rendering servers in a large post-production farm that has just been built in Florida. It takes only over 3 minutes to render such a picture, but it seems insignificant. But don't forget, I said Just a frame of the picture, if we assume that the film has a 30-minute special effects scene, then the number of pictures involved is 43,200 frames, even if all the rendering parameters of the picture can be in one step, no need to carry out any tests, but also digital fields The rendering farm was running at full capacity for 115 days to complete the work. Two years ago, Jurassic Park, the post-rendering work took only about a month, and the digital field was used in Venice Beach. Rendering farm, if you calculate the difference in computing speed, because of the scale and equipment Face-to-face upgrades, the Florida render farm should be eight times as large as the Venice Beach Render Farm. So, I just said that Transformers is more than ten times more difficult to make in Jurassic Park, and there is nothing wrong with it."

Michael Eisner has a slight expression, and in recent years, g effects have risen strongly. Of course he can't understand at all.

If Eric is telling the truth, then the current "Transformers" does not have any production value, and the 115-day post-production workload, even if the producer is willing to pay for this huge rendering cost, the digital field will not Willing to undertake. In the digital field, it is necessary to accept special effects orders of dozens of films every day. It is absolutely impossible for a movie to occupy the farm for four months.

and. Throughout Hollywood, only the digital field has enough economic strength to build large-scale rendering farms. Other second- and third-line special effects companies often only rent rendering servers to large companies on a small scale.

Michael Eisner was silent, and Allen Hasenfeld asked: "Eric, can't you lower the production specifications?"

"Of course, I don't know if this is done, the audience will not buy it," Eric shrugged. I laughed again: "I have some perfectionism. This is not a good habit in making movies. So you can ignore the words I just made. The cheap production plan is definitely there. You can even use the model to shoot. This will definitely be cheaper, and I will go to the cinema to have a look."

When everyone heard Eric’s words, they all groaned, and Eric said that. How could they ignore it?

Eric is killing and burying, saying nothing. Feeling a little hungry, I would like to go to the buffet table in the hall.

Cindy Crawford and Diane Kruger are still following Eric, and Linda Ivangolinsta, who has just been squeezed out, has followed.

Picking up the plate with Eric to pick up the food, Cindy Crawford asked: "Eric, do you really need 630 hours?"

Eric put a grilled shrimp on his plate. Nodded: "Yeah, this involves very complicated technical details, but more than 600 hours of rendering time is true."

Diane Kruger also said: "Isn't that that Transformers can never make it?"

"Of course not. According to Moore's Law in the semiconductor industry, the speed of a computer will double every other year and a half to two years. It only takes ten years. If you want to render the same frame, you only need more than ten. It’s only hours, and other technologies will develop at the same time. It’s very easy to complete the ideas I just made.”

In 1995, the semiconductor industry has just entered the era of microprocessors for a few years. The mainstream pu cores are all 0.35 micron processes, and there is still a long way to go from the nano era. The bottom-level instructions of the computer pu are actually the set of 0 and 1 instructions issued by millions of transistors. As the semiconductor process progresses with Moore's Law, the number of transistors keeps doubling, and the speed at which pu processes information is corresponding. Doubled.

After ten years, it only takes more than ten hours to complete the work. Now it takes more than 600 hours. This restriction is not so easily broken. It can only wait patiently for the development of technology. Therefore, it is not the time to make Transformers.

Moreover, Eric has repeatedly mentioned the digital domain in his remarks, and he has also sent another message to those people, that is, in Hollywood, even if you want to make Transformers, it is impossible to bypass the digital domain. Because of Hollywood, only the digital domain has the ability to undertake Transformers effects. Although the digital field has been operating independently for several years and has not rejected any special effects orders from firefly competitors, this does not mean that fireflies cannot do this.

As for the industrial light magic, in recent years, almost all the producers of g special effects are in the digital field. The continuous special effects orders not only bring a large income to the digital field, but also enable the digital field to have sufficient financial strength to continuously invest in technology. Research and development. At this time, the digital field has already left the industrial light and magic far away in terms of technology accumulation. In the digital field of rendering farms, Fireflies invested $100 million in the digital field in Florida's rendering farms, and the powerful computing power is sufficient to support the rendering needs of all orders in the digital field, while the industrial light magic can even bite the teeth. Executing $100 million to build a farm of the same size, but the income from the g-effects orders in its hands may not be enough to support the maintenance and upgrade costs of such a large-scale rendering farm.

Eric thought about this, and Cindy Crawford, who was beside him, heard what he said just now, but said: "In ten years, it is only six times at most, how can it become more than ten hours."

Eric squatted, then shook his head and smiled, looked at other women, and apparently revealed a doubtful expression, could not help but sigh the mathematics of these beautiful beauty.

However, Diane Kruger took the lead to understand and said: "It seems that it is not six times. If it is doubled continuously, it should be the sixth power of the second, that is... um, sixty-four times, Eric, I said right?"

"Smart," Eric nodded, picking up a grilled shrimp and handing it over: "Hey, reward you."

"Oh," Diane Kruger smiled and smiled at the other women, especially Cindy Crawford, and his expression was a little proud. Cindy Crow was wrapped around Eric and made her feel a big threat.

Cindy Crawford noticed the eyes of Diane Kruger, and he smiled a little disdainfully. It was stupid. Several men would like smart women. Thinking in my heart, Cindy Crawford’s expression has already brought out a small resentment, and the plate is extended to Eric, with a soft tone, saying: “Eric, I want too.”

"Okay, okay," Eric picked up a grilled shrimp and sent it to Cindy Crawford's plate. He watched the other three women also extend the plate, and didn't mind, joking with a grilled shrimp. Road: "Would we like to take all the grilled shrimps on this tray?"

Looking at Eric's posture to put the whole tray up, a few women quickly stopped, laughing: "Oh, no, it will be laughed at."

After eating some things, I danced with a few women for a while, and noticed that Hasbro’s eo Alan Hasenfeld left the party shortly after talking to herself, and Eric also left.

Just, looking at the wandering beside him, who seems to be leaving with him, Kruger and Cindy Crawford, and even the eyes of the other three women, Eric can only say: "Cindy, I am going home."

"Eric, I haven't been to the Pointe Manor yet, can you take me to see it?" Cindy Crawford said boldly, completely ignoring the other side of Diane Kruger. (To be continued.)