Generally, the more beginner novices will not give them these special effects, because the veteran and the novice, the same flame is made, and you can see which one is fake at a glance.

This is also the origin of the five-cent special effect.

The last category is Characters.

Top special effects artists are often called artists, requiring a very thorough understanding of the role, from the realistic carving of the entire character to the fineness of a single hair.

Among the characters, the machine form is the easiest to make, and then all kinds of bizarre monsters will be more difficult, real animals are really super difficult, and people needless to say, the more real people, the more difficult!

Large scenes are easy to do, but close-up parts of flowers and trees are even more difficult.

Making an animation is more difficult than building a model.

But the most terrifying thing is the realistic expression! The nerves of the human face have reached the point where the slightest change is an expression, so to use data to fabricate a virtual character out of thin air is equivalent to using data to express human feelings, and the difficulty can be imagined!

What is the game competition in the future?

Finesse!

The more elaborate the craft, the easier it is to impress players!

As for playability and stuff, that's all measured later.

This is the face that belongs to the game!

Appearance, in the era of rising aesthetics, is the best advertisement for players!

It is precisely the existence of a huge threshold at every step that leads to the scarcity and awkwardness of special effects artists.

Go back to these two special effects companies, why they became famous in the future, and take a look at the movies they made with special effects.

Rhythm Special Effects Company finally won the Oscar for special effects "Life of Pi", a movie that shocked countless people by relying on simple props such as a person, a boat, and a rag doll. to the various magical abilities of "X-Men", the magic spells of "Harry Potter", the epic scenes of "The Lord of the Rings", and the technical support of Oscar-winning works such as "The Hunger Games", "Around the World in 80 Days", "Piggy Goes to Town", etc., have won countless awards.

And Blue Sky Studio's "Titanic", which is popular all over the world, when the bed broke from it and split in two, the terrifying and amazing scene made the charm of special effects widely spread.

Not to mention the vagaries of Fight Club, the terrifying creatures of Alien 4, and classics such as Comet Hit Earth, Blade, The X-Files, and more.

Two companies with countless achievements, in the end, both went bankrupt and collapsed.

What is the salary of a special effects artist?

A junior special effects artist earns about $10,000 a year, an intermediate level special effects artist earns about $20,000 a year, a senior special effects artist earns $30,000 a year, and a top special effects artist earns about $100,000.

In this era, of course, junior special effects artists will not be in large companies, because they do not have this qualification.

The basic ratio is 6:3:1 to arrange intermediate, advanced, and top-level special effects artists.

The annual cost is calculated according to a team of 1,000 people, so it is not difficult to calculate the expenditure of 31 million US dollars!

Usually, a team of 1,000 people only does three or two projects a year.

If Party B can receive all the money on time and the project is successfully completed, then it is okay and there is no big problem.

However, no matter any industry, the common problems of Party B are the difficulty in getting the payment, the repeated and endless modification and adjustment, the long construction period, and the pain of separating from the family on a business trip.

Not to mention the project dividends, you can't get a point!

So as more and more people in each team, each special effects company, in the end, will either go bankrupt, be merged, or be acquired.

Don't look at the whole country Hollywood is so developed, but there are only 10,000 real special effects artists.

With such a big investment and so much return, there is no other reason to explain these people's persistence other than love.

Li Fangcheng asked Mu Mengqi and He Jing to go separately, one went to the rhythm special effects company, and the other went to the blue sky studio.

The next thing is to know the intelligence and the Li.

After a month, after finalizing the details, the two companies were officially merged, and the next step was to recruit and buy horses.

In the United States, there has been no special effects engineer union, and all special effects artists are rootless trees and sourceless water.

Some special effects artists resign after completing the project, in fact, there is no guarantee at all.

There won't be any social security or anything like that.

And Li Fangcheng is precisely taking advantage of this to introduce a complete welfare system and security system, just like the five insurances and one housing fund in later generations.

With a complete welfare system, coupled with a clear promotion and salary adjustment system, it can be said that all aspects of the career are properly considered.

In the 21st century, this seems to be nothing, and there are still many companies that do not pay five insurances and one housing fund for employees, and even if they do, they are in accordance with the local minimum standards.

Not to mention that a complete and perfect policy system has been introduced in this era.

In this day and age, it's simply unbelievable.

Even those groups with trade unions do not have such a complete and perfect employee security system.

Both companies have just been established, so they naturally know that they are shortcomings in this regard, if they don't agree, then whether it is Keith Goldfarb or Chris Weiqi, neither of them can stop Mu Mengqi and He Jing's headhunting actions.

Except for a limited number of people, there is no way to keep those people in the face of the full security system and the temptation of high salaries.

In the end, they all came together.

"Since everyone is a member of the Age of Miracles, let's not be polite here, take me on a tour, okay?" Li Fangcheng chatted with Keith and Chris for a while, and put forward the idea of wanting to take a look.

"Absolutely. ”

The entire office area is divided into three floors, and there are three or four hundred people on each floor, and Li Fangcheng obviously can't recognize them one by one, no matter how he recognizes them.

You can only talk while walking.

"Do you have any projects on hand now?" Li Fangcheng asked with some curiosity when he saw that some people were constantly working on the computer.

Keith and Chris glanced at each other, and then said no, Chris also added: "Before, we received some orders from the TV station to make some CG production of animals, but after the merger, I heard Miss Mengqi say to complete the work at hand as soon as possible, and you have other arrangements here, so after it was completely done a few days ago, there is no longer any outsourcing work." ”

"Well, I do have anything I want to do for you, but they're ...... Do you practice?" asked Li Fangcheng, pointing to the group of people in front of him who were working hard to do something.

"Of course they're practicing, not just them, haven't they all looked busy when they just came all the way?" Chris said with a hint of helplessness.

"Indeed, you practice like this, and it looks like a normal job. Li Fangcheng nodded.

"Those of us who love to do visual effects basically have to stay in this state, and we are used to it, otherwise many times it is out of love, but sometimes we are helpless. Keith said with a sigh.

"Helpless? If you like it, if you love it, why are you helpless. Li Fangcheng was a little puzzled.

"Mr. Li, our salary, you can be honest, don't you think it's a bit high. Kee thought about it and asked.

Nodding, Li Fangcheng said affirmatively without thinking: "That's right, it's indeed relatively high." ”

Now the top technical talents in Huaxia have an annual salary of 34,000 yuan, which is very high. Not to mention a junior special effects artist, the annual salary is higher than that of a top technical talent in Huaxia.

In Li Fangcheng's heart, he actually felt that the money was a little wronged, but there was no way, the market of the entire industry was like this, and he had to spend this money for the implementation of the plan.

"It's normal for a layman to think so. Keith nodded and continued: "First of all, from the perspective of a special effects artist, the current technology is constantly iteratively updated, we special effects artists, if we want to make better effects, we have to learn a lot of software, everyone who is in the industry, the most basic have mastered seven or eight kinds of software, and with the longer work time, most people even have to master dozens of software." ”

Chris adds: "It's not just that, sometimes we have to do rendering, and if the renderer is too expensive, we have to develop it ourselves, so we have a lot of time, in fact, there are only two places, one is home and one is the company. If you have to talk about the difference, it is nothing more than when there is a project, you have more time in the company, and when you don't have a project, you can go to and from work on time. ”

"Do you usually work a lot of overtime?" Li Fangcheng couldn't help but still want to ask this question.

"It still depends on the project, if after we finish it, as the director of Party A, and suddenly say that we want to adjust, then we can only passively assist in the adjustment at this time, and this kind of adjustment is often to start from scratch. ”

"Look at the point, work more and get more, if you are young, it may not be a good thing. Li Fangcheng thought about it and comforted him.

"You don't know this, we do this business, there is no such thing as more work and more reward. Chris shrugged.

Well?

Li Fangcheng is a little confused now.

"For special effects, the salary is paid by the company, and we, as Party B, receive a fixed amount of money, such as 20 million for a project, so no matter how long it is done, for example, Party A is not satisfied, or there are new ideas to change, we have no right to refuse. Originally, 20 million US dollars was distributed to a team of 20 or even 30 people, and we all made a small profit, but the most fatal thing is that once the project takes a year, or even longer, we will inevitably lose money, because Party A will not add any additional money!" Keith told Li Fangcheng the whole way of working.