According to the draft plan given by the Aurora team, the budget of this "Harry Potter" TV series is as high as 100 million Hong Kong dollars, with a total of 50 episodes, and each episode is a budget of 2 million, which is definitely a big deal in this era.

You must know that the production cost of "Meteor Garden", the so-called idol drama, is only about 300,000 per episode!

However, Lu Buping got this plan, and he didn't think his budget was too high, because he encountered a hurdle that he couldn't get through at the first level, and he watched the "Harry Potter" movie, and when he saw the special effects in the movie, this is not something that the ATV production team can do.

There is no other way than to hire an external professional special effects company.

And as far as he knows, there are very few teams in the entire Xiangjiang that can make special effects like this, and to be precise, there is only one that can barely reach it.

Xiantao special effects!

But the price is expensive, the most important thing is that this company has limited manpower, and it has always only been a special effects production for movies, and there is no time to toss TV series.

When Lu Buping came to the door to discuss cooperation, the other party regretted that he couldn't take over a big job like "Harry Potter"!

It's not that they don't want to take it, with the budget of "Harry Potter", tens of millions are actually the investment in special effects! This is already a big deal in special effects work at present.

However, they have now taken over Xingzai's latest movie "Kung Fu"!

Speaking of which, it was because of Liu Ruoyi's butterfly instigation that Xingzai's film entered the production stage earlier, so that Xiantao, the best special effects company, was chartered, and the main force was pressed on this movie.

Seeing this effect, Lu Buping was a little dumbfounded.

It's not that other special effects companies are not good except for Xiantao, the key is that they are all foreign special effects production companies that are stronger than Xiantao, they have no problems in technology, but Lu Buping absolutely can't afford the price!

But special effects are a must for this TV series, after all, this is a magical TV series, if there is no such lifelike magic special effects, the effect of the whole TV series will be as inferior as a copycat, which is unacceptable.

Even if Lu Buping has watched too many shoddy TV series in Xiangjiang, not to mention the special effects in the TV series that are comparable to the big movie effect of "Harry Potter", but with the jewel of this movie in front, if the special effects of the TV series are too bad, it will greatly affect the ratings of the TV series.

This kind of fantasy serial, the plot and special effects must be good, and it is impossible to succeed without any link.

This made Lu Buping worried, he has been working in Xiangjiang for many years, and of course he knows the level and situation of the special effects production industry in the Xiangjiang entertainment industry.

Except for the special effects that Xiantao can barely make the movie effect of "Harry Potter 1", there should be no second one that can do it.

However, Xiantao Company is not short of business at all, and if so many magic special effects shots in the TV series are reproduced one by one, it will take a huge amount of work.

As we all know, the influence and price of movies are much higher than those of TV series, Xiantao first promised Xingzi not to say it, and it is impossible to push away the TV series that took Lu Buping over there because of the price, and it is impossible for Lu Buping to hire them to produce them according to the price of movie special effects.

If you really give money according to the special effects of the movie, it is not enough to give all 100 million yuan to the special effects team.

This is a series with 50 episodes, even if it is a 45-minute episode, it is a plot of more than 2,000 minutes, and the special effects in the middle are naturally much longer than the special effects of a movie.

If the money is not enough, it can only be shoddy, according to the saying is to make some "five-cent special effects", in fact, Lu Buping will not feel anything before the Aurora culture, just like so many TV series filmed before, you don't have to pay too much attention to it, but now it is different, according to this, the so-called classic that I spent a lot of money to build has become a joke.

Faced with this dilemma, Lu Buping had no other way but to put the problem forward to the real high-level of Aurora Culture to discuss together.

"Richard, Annie, I really can't help it, our magic drama has no special effects, so there is really no need to shoot it, and the reluctance to shoot it is probably the result of hitting the street. ”

Facing Zhao Shaodong and Liu Ruoyi, Lu Buping said with some frustration.

"It's a big problem, I didn't know much about this before, and I was negligent. It's okay, let's figure it out together. Liu Ruoyi heard Lu Buping say this, and suddenly realized that she still knew too little about the specific aspects sometimes.

When Lu Buping raised this question, Liu Ruoyi realized that she had encountered the problem of technical challenges so quickly.

You must know that special effects are not only now, even if it is more than ten years later, it will be a big hole in the Chinese-speaking circle.

In fact, it's right, now she wants to put the already laid out "Harry Potter" on the screen, which is a bit ahead of its time for this era, and there are many technical realizations, although there is no problem in the movie, anyway, it is a budget problem of cost production expenses.

Hollywood has always been short of big money and big production directors, and it is the norm to spend money technically, so naturally there are not too many problems in this regard.

But now that it's on TV, it will kill Lu Buping, what he is holding in his hand is a TV series with a long adaptation, and the number of magic shots involved is far from being comparable to that of the movie.

This is not only a question of whether the technology can be done, but also the economic problem of solving this technology, otherwise, this TV series will not be filmed smoothly.

After listening to Lu Buping's question, Liu Ruoyi is also a big head, and her own ideas are too advanced, at least now Liu Ruoyi knows that the mainland is definitely not as good as Xiangjiang in terms of special effects production, although it is said that the mainland's digital production talents are more than an order of magnitude more than Xiangjiang.

But what is lacking now is leading talent and investment!

That's a lot of investment.

If you don't think about the money, the solution is of course very simple, how Hollywood makes a movie, just ask their technical department to get the special effects in the TV series.

The fame of Industrial Light & Magic is almost known to everyone in the circle, and who doesn't know about the company that can produce a film like Star Wars.

It's just that this company's projects often start at tens of millions, and they have to be dollars!

Who can afford this kind of cost in a TV series?

In addition to industrial light and magic, the digital field can also be used, and Liu Ruoyi knew that "Hero" hired the digital field as a consultant!

Thinking of "Hero", Liu Ruoyi's heart moved, now that the film has reached the final stage, it should be post-production.

Of course, this is not the point, Liu Ruoyi had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly sorted out the clues from the previous thoughts.

"I have an idea," Liu Ruoyi said slowly as she organized her inspiration in her mind.

"Since other companies are not suitable, we Aurora Culture will set up a special effects company to complete it. We will never be able to avoid the road of special effects anyway. ”

Liu Ruoyi said amazingly.

Zhao Shaodong and Lu Buping, who were on the side, were a little dumbfounded when they heard this, Zhao Shaodong didn't care, he recovered immediately after being stunned, he had seen a lot of Liu Ruoyi's whimsy and whimsy, and he had a certain immunity.

But Lu Buping didn't adapt to it when he first arrived.

This Annie doesn't just look young in age, but really young in thought.

With such a professional and unique industry, can you do it if you want to?

If it's easy to do, the Xiangjiang side is not full of flowers.

This is a capital- and technology-intensive industry, and the output is relatively limited, concentrated in the production of film and television dramas, and there are few companies in the world that can achieve coordinated progress in economic interests and technological development.

Liu Ruoyi must have thought of this one after a moment of hot-headedness, young people are always young people.

"Why, it looks like you guys are a little unconfident in us doing special effects on our own" Looking at the expressions of the two of them, Liu Ruoyi knew what these two were thinking.

"It's not that we don't believe it, it's that it was too sudden. Zhao Shaodong confessed. "I don't have a clue about it. ”

"Annie, after all, the special effects industry is relatively professional, the market is not big, the technology is complex and the investment is particularly amazing, and the return on investment is too low. And even if we can invest money to solve technical problems, I am afraid that there is no guarantee that the future income can be recovered. ”

Lu Buping's words can be regarded as heartfelt words. Although it was said tactfully, the meaning of dispelling Liu Ruoyi's intention was still very obvious.

Why is Xiangjiang such a reliable special effects company so scarce, it's not that others haven't tried it, and it will never be exclusive to play this, but the Xiangjiang market is so narrow.

Xiantao ate the meat, and he could support it in terms of manpower and material resources.

However, other companies do not have large orders, and the technical effect cannot keep up, and the effect is poor, resulting in even more inability to receive large orders, so that the income is not enough, and the equipment, technology and talents cannot keep up, so a vicious circle.

The water in the Xiangjiang entertainment industry is so deep, only a leader like Xiantao can get a big order to nourish and live.

However, other special effects companies can't keep up with technology and funds and talents, so they can only settle and make some "five-cent special effects" to live a bleak life.

It's a tongue-twisting thing in the middle, but in fact, one sentence is that the market pool of the Xiangjiang special effects circle is too shallow to raise Jiaolong!

"No problem, the current market is not big, it does not mean that the future market is not big, and our target market is not the Xiangjiang market, but the vast mainland market. Liu Ruoyi said confidently.

"What's more, now there is a great demand for our Aurora culture alone, and a "Harry Potter" with tens of millions of special effects has been invested, which just helped us complete our initial accumulation!"

Don't look at the ATV has just injected 500 million Hong Kong dollars now, it seems to be relatively rich, but if you really find Hollywood industrial light and magic or digital fields to burn special effects on a TV series, I am afraid that this TV alone will make ATV face bankruptcy again.

So Hollywood's road is impassable, and Liu Ruoyi must find another way.

And the simplest and crudest way is to do it yourself!

As mentioned earlier, Xiantao is not the only one doing special effects on the Xiangjiang side, but it is limited to the scale of the Xiangjiang special effects market, and it can only afford the Xiantao family to rise in the field of special effects.

The reason is very simple, in this small market, the only leader can have enough financial resources to attract talent and update equipment, and small companies may not even be able to afford basic equipment, how can they make good special effects.

If she doesn't know the development of the domestic film market ten years later, Liu Ruoyi will not move this thought, with the declining Xiangjiang entertainment circle, playing this is purely a poor toss. But in the future, the mainland will be a 100-billion-level film and television drama market, and there will be more film and television dramas that need special effects every year.

At that time, not to mention one Xiantao, even more than a dozen Xiantao will have no problem at all.

It's just that the special effects field is too dependent on manpower, and it is not a big problem to make hundreds or even thousands of people bigger, but it is not easy to become stronger.

Liu Ruoyi is now proposing to do this, first of all, to meet the needs of Aurora culture and ATV itself, and then to talk about external services.

"But, if we start from the beginning, are we still in time?" Lu Buping still had less contact with Liu Ruoyi, and he was completely uncomfortable with her whimsical thinking mode.

"It's not a big problem, we won't start from scratch completely, there should be a similar special effects company here in Xiangjiang, we will acquire one, and then dig one or two masters from the digital field or industrial light and magic to lead, as for the human resources of digital engineers, it would be good to set up a subsidiary in the mainland to recruit them."

I think one in Pengcheng and the other in Jinhai is a good choice, and in the future, we will mainly develop the business of these two places. Liu Ruoyi almost casually solved the problem that Lu Buping was concerned about in an instant.

When Lu Buping heard Liu Ruoyi's words, he didn't know if it was his illusion or auditory hallucination, how could such a complicated matter come to Liu Ruoyi, and it seemed to become an understatement.

And it sounds like it's been well thought out.

If it weren't for the fact that Lu Buping complained about special effects for the first time today, he would have thought that Liu Ruoyi had been thinking about this matter for a long time before he would be so lightweight!

"Mr. Lu, don't worry about it. Zhao Shaodong saw Lu Buping's mood and comforted.

"Annie is not something that ordinary people like us can understand her thinking, now you go back and consider a special effects company in Xiangjiang, with basic staffing and business experience, after we Aurora Culture came back from the acquisition, we will sign the special effects contract of the big production of ATV, and then poach the special effects bosses in Hollywood, while doing early design, and at the same time operating subsidiaries in the mainland to recruit people. If you have money, you don't have to worry about not being able to do it. ”

The words have been made clear to the two of you, and it is up to the two of you to decide whether it will succeed or not, Lu Buping was a little resentful of the woman's thoughts, and secretly slandered.

However, he quickly agreed, this idea is not reliable, in short, it will be known after practice.

However, seeing that Liu Ruoyi and Zhao Shaodong are full of confidence, Lu Buping is not easy to pour cold water.

It's not easy to find a production company that can directly undertake the special effects of "Harry Potter", but it is not too difficult to find a special effects company with basic literacy and business experience. There are several companies in Xiangjiang that rely on ATVs to do some "5 gross special effects", but Lu Buping didn't dare to give them a major play like "Harry Potter" to test the waters.

Now that Liu Ruoyi wants to build on them, and then add the introduction of Hollywood talents, after the needs are clear, it is easy for Lu Buping to lock the target.

Within a few days, Lu Buping appeared in front of Liu Ruoyi and Zhao Shaodong a matrix vision that was obsessed with technology, had experience in special effects in several TV dramas, but lacked funds to expand and grow in operation.