Later generations know that James Cameron is a technical maniac, whether it is his Terminator series, or the big ship Titanic or the alien Avatar, they are all filled with a large number of special effects shots, such as Avatar is basically full of special effects.

Cameron's relationship with film special effects began with his first job in the film industry, when he joined Roger Cove's film company in 1980 and was responsible for working as an art director and making special effects models in "Fight of the Century".

With this cameron, it becomes an out-and-out technical control special effects control.

Movie Terminator is another sci-fi action movie, and Cameron can finally realize the whimsy in his mind in this movie that is completely under his control, and have a good time playing with special effects.

Before the script found investors, Cameron had already drawn a large stack of concept sketches, and he had already made the required special effects.

So after Qiao Feng, who promised to be in control by himself and was only responsible for investing money, hit the account with the funds, Cameron began to find someone to make special effects.

Originally, when he couldn't find investors before, Cameron thought that the special effects could be won by himself and some people he knew before, but Qiao Feng didn't have any restrictions and put all the six million funds in one step.

So Cameron found Industrial Light & Magic, the only company specializing in special effects at this time.

Special effects are the most money-burning place for future film production, and they are also the focus of their favorite publicity when blockbuster promotions.

In the special effects industry, ILM is the best special effects company at this time and in the next few decades.

Since the advent of Star Wars in 1977 with a situation that people can't even imagine, Industrial Light & Magic, a company specializing in special effects, has appeared in the eyes of filmmakers.

After several years of development, industrial light and magic technology is becoming more and more mature, and the current film industry in the large production companies do not have independent special effects departments, let alone small companies, the bosses of the production companies have long since eliminated the special effects department in order to save costs, and no one concentrates on special effects.

In this case, Industrial Light & Magic has become a sweet spot, but whenever special effects are needed in the movie, and they feel that they are not doing special effects as they want, and they don't want to make do with it, the film crew will ask Industrial Light & Magic to help do it.

Cameron is no exception and has also turned to ILM for better results.

Originally, it would only cost a million dollars to make the special effects yourself, but it would cost more than twice as much as the cost of industrial light and magic.

"I said Annie, you're the producer, you should control the cost, you can't let James spend money so casually." After talking to Cameron to no avail, Qiao Feng couldn't help but complain to Anne Hurd, who stood by and watched.

"James is like that, no one can listen to him when he works, and I have no right to care about Mr. Joe, who you promised him to make the film according to his own ideas." Anne Heard shrugged.

Hearing this, Qiao Feng's face froze, and he was angry but couldn't say it anymore, indeed, he did say this, but Anne Heard is the producer, that is, the one who controls the cost has the right to control the cost and not let Cameron spend money indiscriminately.

Qiao Feng can see that Anne Heard is still worried about forcing her to sell the copyright.Although she won't make trouble, she also bears the name of the producer but doesn't do anything.Anyway, the money spent is Qiao Feng's money, and she can't hurt it.

Revenge, hidden needles in the cotton, inconspicuous revenge.

However, this also taught Qiao Feng a lesson, knowing that investing in movies is not the same thing as selling scripts to earn a share like in Hong Kong.

Investing in movies, since you have invested money, you must send someone who believes in it to control the money, otherwise the money may be spent indiscriminately.

Although Cameron is not a mess, it is undoubtedly a considerable cost for him to find Industrial Light and Magic to participate in the special effects system.

If the budget is enough, it will only increase the cost, but Qiao Feng's budget is only seven million dollars in the sky, and if Cameron continues to spend it like now, seven million is not enough at all.

If it exceeds 7 million, the capital chain may be broken, and the film can only be stopped, which will increase a lot of costs.

For example, if Schwarzen buys a salary of 500,000 yuan for one year, then the contract will be renewed after this year, and more than one year will be paid.

Therefore, it is a very serious matter that the film is over budget and requires additional investment, and if it is not done well, it can trigger a chain reaction.

Fortunately, although Qiao Feng doesn't have much money in his hands now, he can sell well at the box office, and the fast food truck will be released in more than a month, and then he will have money to his account, which can fill the gap of funds that will inevitably be exceeded.

Qiao Feng decided in his heart that as long as he invested in the movies in the future, he must send reliable people to manage the money, and he must not let the director spend it as he wants.

But now is not the time to think about this, the wood is already in the boat, and the money it costs to invite industrial light and magic will definitely not be saved, so you can only go back from somewhere else to make up for it.

After seeing Industrial Light & Magic and Cameron make special effects models with his own eyes, Qiao Feng had to admire the special effects technology of the Americans.

Just the model making can make people look at it from a distance, and you may not be able to see the fake when you stare at it in the movie.

The T800 panoramic shots in a completely metal-skeletal state, ILM and Cameron were created to create full-scale miniatures and then shot them in stop-motion animation.

This is how the post-apocalyptic war between robots and humans like the opening of the movie is filmed.

The half-human, half-machine T-800, Cameron was not very satisfied with the model made by ILM, and later the person in charge of ILM proposed that he could find a special effects makeup master to help with it, and this proposal coincided with Cameron's idea.

So they first found the first special effects expert was Dick Smith, but the expert thought he couldn't get it, so they recommended them to a person he thought was the most suitable, that is, Stan Winston, a makeup expert known as the "robot expert" in the industry.

Qiao Feng naturally didn't know that this was a big bull, he didn't know that he had been a Terminator 12, Alien 2, Jurassic Park 12 live-action dinosaurs, and he didn't know that he had won four Oscars.

But after seeing the Terminator special effects makeup he painted for Schwarzenegger, and seeing him and Cameron and Industrial Light & Magic design together, making a real mold through a real person, that is, applying alginate and plaster on the human body to replicate its shape, to obtain Schwarzenegger's realistic head, and then directly carving the outline of the machine skull on the head, as well as the exquisite and realistic skull that was made, Qiao Feng decided to get a special effects company himself.

The money that should be spent on inviting people has been spent, and those who have not been spent will inevitably be spent, and if they can't be recovered, then they will simply find someone from Hong Kong to come here and follow so many cattle people who do special effects.