In mid-November, Tang An came to Tiangong Yicai Film and Television Production Company.

Tiangong Brilliant Color, which participated in the production of blockbuster special effects such as "Shocking Demon Thieves", "Edge of Tomorrow", "The Martian", and "Dragon Quest", is now a top film and television post-production company in China.

The scale of the company is also getting bigger and bigger, because of the business support of Hantang Media, coupled with the effect of those blockbusters, it has also played out its fame, and has successively acquired four or five special effects companies in the circle, whether it is hardware, software, or talents, it is one of the best in China.

Not only domestic films, Hollywood filmmakers have also begun to outsource a large number of special effects to domestic film and television companies in order to save costs, and Tiangong Yicai has received part of the business of the three blockbusters "Iron Man 3", "Captain Mi 2" and "Robocop 4".

There have also been movies such as "The Hunger Games", "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "The Expendables" and so on.

Participating in the special effects production of Hollywood blockbusters and cooperating with Hollywood's first-class special effects companies is not only as simple as some business, but also learns a whole set of methodologies and industrial systems in Hollywood, which is the most important thing.

The company's expansion is also inseparable from the support of Tang An, software and hardware have to cost money, after several capital injections, Hantang Media's stake in Tiangong Yicai has reached 57%.

However, because the special effects company has not been fully taken seriously, the valuation of Tiangong Colorful is not high, only 700 million, and it has not yet started financing.

Also, there are almost no domestic movies that are completely supported by special effects.

"Edge of Tomorrow" and "The Martian" mainly rely on Tang An.

The IP of "Looking for the Dragon" plays a greater role.

When the special effects are really valued by the audience and film and television companies, it is the time for Tiangong to take off.

For a director, it stands to reason that he should control all the details of a movie, and the bigger the director, the more serious the desire.

But most directors don't know anything about special effects, and if they command blindly, they can only add chaos to the special effects.

If you don't interfere, your heart will be accurate.

After all, this is your movie, and you can't tell someone else what to do.

Tang An didn't come here to be a layman to command an insider, he had already told Chang Hongsong and Xiao Yang all his new ideas in the previous year, just to take a look.

After all, for a director, the movie is his own child, even if he brings it to the nanny, he has to watch it to rest assured.

Visiting each department one by one, Xiao Yang explained on the side.

Although most of the filming was live-action, special effects were used everywhere in the film from beginning to end.

Scenes such as the universe, wormholes, and magnetic field interference, which are real in real life but need to be imagined, need to be solved by means of picture special effects, and the projection used in shooting is a projection after all, and post-production is required.

"Tang Dong, there are not many directors in China who pay attention to details like you, generally this kind of special effects background is with a blue screen, and you also specially made a projection. ”

While introducing, Xiao Yang was still patting his ass on the side.

In fact, it can't be said to be sycophant, it is originally a digital special effect, and there is no difference between using the blue screen directly.

That projection was not done casually, as for the projection of the black hole, hundreds of people and a few experts studied it for more than half a month.

Xiao Yang has also participated in the behind-the-scenes production of some Hollywood blockbusters in the past two years, and he has never seen a few directors who can be so meticulous, most of them are directly green screen to do pure digital special effects.

However, Hollywood technology is good, and they are willing to spend money and time, and the effect is much better than that of domestic shooting.

"I'm also trying to be as perfect as I can be, and we really don't have the conditions to say anything, but since there are conditions, we can't be sloppy. ”

Tang An smiled and said, "The main thing is to make the actors perform more naturally, after all, performing in front of the blue screen alone is definitely not as good as performing in the real background, and it also saves NG's time, and the film saved alone is a big number, there are gains and losses." ”

No matter what the actor is, there is definitely no difference between having a physical object and performing in front of a blue screen.

Of course, in the future, many actors will be able to perform in front of the blue screen all the time, which is no different from performing in front of the live scene.

They don't even need the actors to play against them, they just finish filming all their scenes in the studio, and then the crew doesn't have to appear when filming, just add him in the later stage.

The acting is there, and you don't have to show much better for them to shoot in real time.

However, this is also an ability, which is equivalent to you alone, without actors playing against each other, without background, performing according to the requirements of the script, and the difficulty of performing is also quite large.

As for not reading the lines, just say one, two, three, four, that's also a kind of ability, otherwise you try to make different expressions on your face, and then keep counting the numbers in your mouth, which is very inconsistent with ordinary people's performances.

Tang An spent a morning watching the effects and progress of the production of various departments.

Seven or eight departments, nearly 1,000 employees perform their duties.

The physical effects in the early stage are basically done, and now it is basically a small number of pure digital effects and digital effects are added to the physical effects.

In that scene, the harvesters converged in one direction under the interference of the magnetic field, and this clip erased the driver to form the illusion of unmanned driving.

The large-scale fire in the cornfield was also post-produced by the special effects of the picture.

In addition to the scene where the spaceship enters the black hole and is impacted by debris, in addition to the random impact of different materials, in order to make the lens more realistic, the model is erected to shoot against the black background, the main light is placed outside the spaceship, the salt falls with an inclined board, and then shoots at high speed.

After post-production digital effects, it is possible to show the footage of driving at high speed in a black hole.

There is also a scene of an explosion in space, where there is oxygen in the moment of the explosion, which produces flames.

But when the oxygen leaks and spreads into the universe, the flames will disappear, but the debris still has to spread.

The fuel used for the spacecraft burst is butane, which gives it a bright flash and burns quickly before dissipating quickly.

Real models, real lighting, real backgrounds, real shooting methods, everything is a reality.

Even miniatures should not be used unless necessary.

At noon, he had a meal with the high-level officials of Tiangong Strange Colors and exchanged some views, and in the afternoon, Tang An flew to the magic capital.

The acquisition of Fengxing.com has been negotiated, and Oriental Pearl and other shareholders are willing to sell.

Grand Hyatt Grand Hotel, the world's tallest hotel that has applied for the Guinness Book of World Records, Tang An and Xu Hui, president of Oriental Pearl Group, signed a share transfer contract.

"Mr. Xu, happy cooperation!"

"Happy cooperation, Tang Dong!"

Hantang Media acquired all the shares of Fengxing.com at a valuation of 624 million yuan, of which 82.67% of the shares of Oriental Pearl Group were valued at 516 million yuan, and the other 17.33% of the shares have been taken from other shareholders and management team.

With a valuation of more than 600 million, it has completely fallen behind in the video website, lacking users and traffic, and it is unlikely that it will be able to get up by relying on Oriental Pearl alone, and the acquisition process is quite smooth.

After the completion of the acquisition, Fengxing.com will be merged into Tudou Group, and Hantang Media will also inject 300 million in cash.

After a round of capital injection, Hantang Media's stake in Tudou Group rose from 34.7% to 41.31%.

The acquisition of Oriental Fengxing Media Group cost 600 million, Fengxing.com spent 624 million, and the loan owed by the group reached 2.82 billion.

The acquisition of 624 million yuan and the injection of 300 million yuan in cash were also borrowed from the bank for 1 billion.

is not only a loan for the three films "Interstellar", "Longling Grotto" and "Hong Kong Embarrassment", but "Detective Chinatown 2" has also officially established a project and borrowed from the bank.

Fortunately, "Longling Grotto" will be released next month, and "Hong Kong Embarrassment" will be released in two months, and there will be no problem with the return of funds.

The injection of nearly one billion assets into the market value of Tudou Group is also obvious, two days after the news was announced, the market value rose all the way to 1.543 billion US dollars, equivalent to 10.03 billion yuan, and it continues to rise, attacking Youku's position as the first video website in China.

Tens of billions of Internet companies are definitely big companies in China, and no one can ignore them.

The CEOs of these companies in the entertainment industry also sighed secretly, the valuation of Hantang Media is more than 10 billion, and it also controls a listed company with a market value of 10 billion, which is really incomparable.

Some bigwigs who are expanding into the entertainment industry have also been paying attention to the development of Hantang Media.

Baidu, which has acquired iQiyi and won PPS, has a plan to take iQiyi as the main body, but it is currently only ranked third among domestic video websites.

Although Tengxun Pictures was established, it has not started any projects for a while, and the focus is on the development of Tengxun video, relying on the channels of Tengxun, and is stepping up to catch up.

Ah Li Group, Ma Yun is discussing the acquisition of Youku with several executives.

Ma Yun never cares about projects below 3 billion, but Youku's current market value is far more than 3 billion, and it is also a major part of the entertainment business group in the future, and he still has to ask in person.

After talking about the general plan, several people also mentioned Tang An.

"The first time I met Tang An was when I went to Huayi in 08, he was also a director at that time, but I didn't expect that in just a few years, my career would be so big. Ma Yun smiled.

Cai Chongxin, who was the executive vice chairman of Ahli Group at the time and was in charge of Youku's acquisition, also smiled, "I haven't seen him, but he has only been in business for three years and has such a big industry, it must not be simple, Ma Dong said?"

"I wasn't very impressed, I didn't have much in-depth contact, and I didn't feel anything special at first. Ma Yun shook his head, as if reminiscing.

"But I'm surprised to get to this point in three years, it's a character. ”

Wu Weidao, CFO of the group next to him, said, "But this Tang An is very arrogant, he refused our three capital injections, and other funds and venture capital also refused." ”

"And the stall is getting bigger and bigger, and now I owe a lot of money to the bank, and once those blockbusters can't collect the funds in time, the capital chain will be broken. ”

"Young man, it's normal to have ambitions, and when he encounters setbacks, he will naturally figure it out. Ma Yun smiled.

Who wasn't the eldest of heaven and my second when he was young, not to mention that Tang An is only 32 years old now, for a billionaire with a net worth of tens of billions, or an industry that he single-handedly built, even if he is arrogant, there is nothing abnormal about it.

Ma Yun is also a bit of a pity, if Tang An can accept Ahli's investment, then Ahli's entertainment business group will be able to dominate the film and television entertainment industry for two years at most.

However, it is also a matter of time for Ma Yun, no matter how much share traditional film and television companies occupy now, the future will still be the world of their three major Internet companies.

Any industry will eventually be swallowed up by capital!

However, the next day, when the 2012 Forbes Huaguo Rich List was placed on Ma Yun's desk, he was a little distracted for a moment.

Looking at the numbers above, Ma Yun took a deep breath and reached out to pick up these two fluttering A4 papers.

He rose from 39th last year to 12th, with assets of 21.42 billion yuan.

The eleventh place in front is Tang An, with total personal assets of 22.4 billion yuan.

The eleventh super-rich man in the country, he is only 32 years old.