"I understand, and Party A, many times will not pay the money in full at the beginning, right?" Li Fangcheng already knew that this was a common way of cooperation between Party A and Party B in later generations.

It's just that the cost of special effects is too high, which has led to a sharp increase in costs.

The special effects mentioned here include the salary of the special effects artist on the one hand, and on the other hand, the purchase cost of various renderers, engines, CPUs and other hardware.

That's why the price of special effects remains high.

"Indeed, many times we can only receive a 30% deposit at the beginning, or even lower, and people in the industry are doing it, and there are no longer a few layoffs because it is difficult to turn over funds, which is also the helplessness of our industry. "Keith looks like he's only in his 20s, but he's been in the industry for seven or eight years at a young age, and he's seen a few things.

"That's why you guys got the idea of starting a company on their own, right? Li Fangcheng understood their thoughts.

Qi Qi nodded, Keith and Chris didn't hesitate to affirm.

After walking through the three floors, seeing that everyone was busy even though they didn't have a job, Li Fangcheng couldn't help but sigh secretly.

Sure enough, you will work as hard as you get paid.

"Let's go, go to the office, I basically understand the general situation, in the future, in the final analysis, you will manage, what I can do is to give you the best atmosphere, the most worry-free way of working. After Li Fangcheng visited it for a while, he stopped at the staircase on the third floor and said.

"Mr. Li, I really want to thank you for giving us so many welfare terms, otherwise we would not have been able to invite so many colleagues to join in such a short period of time. Keith was a little older than Chris, and he couldn't help but feel a little more emotional.

Li Fangcheng smiled: "All walks of life have their own difficulties, and I just did what I had to do." ”

"Since you're going to the office, let's go to the second floor, and I'll lead the way. Mu Mengqi took the initiative to say.

He Jing looked at the time and said, "Then you guys go, the delivery time of the goods ordered before has been made, and now I have to go to the acceptance." ”

Goods?

Li Fangcheng looked at He Jing with a puzzled expression: "Isn't it okay to arrange for others to go?"

"If it's a trivial matter, it's fine, but this batch of goods is the one that asked you to approve the money a while ago, so ......" He Jing reminded Li Fangcheng.

"You mean......" Li Fangcheng looked at He Jing and nodded, and immediately understood.

"You go, you must arrange it, you must not make a mistake!" Li Fangcheng directly signaled He Jing to hurry up and get busy with his own work.

This shipment is nothing else, it is among the important things of the whole company.

Special effects production, without good hardware support, it is absolutely impossible to do.

Many of the top companies in the United States have their own internal rendering farms, rendering farms, in fact, it is a popular name, in fact, we should call it, distributed parallel cluster computing system, which is a supercomputer built with ready-made CPUs, operating systems, etc., using the current top hardware equipment to reach or close to the computing power of supercomputers.

Generally speaking, to make a render farm, it takes at least hundreds of machines, and the configuration of each machine is relatively top-notch, so that a machine can cost tens of thousands of dollars. When the amount of rendering is very large, even if you have to start all the machines to run at the same time, the electricity bill alone is not a small amount for a month.

And this batch of goods was purchased for tens of millions of dollars.

Not only that, but that's just part of the cost.

There is more expensive software to follow.

In a company with a large demand for CG production, as long as it is a commercial production and use, it must use genuine software, piracy? That is impossible, as long as the defendant, the punishment can simply deter any company to do something risky.

And if you buy, then a piece of software, it means that each machine has to install one, for example, to use a renderer to render, then all the machines on the render farm must be installed with a genuine software, and the machines that are not installed cannot be combined and used together.

And each piece of software is charged annually and is not permanent.

There are a lot of software used to make CG, even if in the current era, there are not as many software as in the future, but there are also a lot, such as common animation, drawing, special effects, rendering, compositing, etc. At least there are more than 20 types of software to be used.

In this way, millions of dollars are still spent on software every year.

Such a large sum of money, of course, must be cautious.

He Jing left to deal with the placement of the machine.

Li Fangcheng and the others arrived at the office and just sat down. Keith couldn't help but say: "Boss, what are we going to do here, I don't feel solid after being idle for so long these days." ”

If there is a gap of 2 months without any orders for the special effects production company, then the company will face the choice of layoffs every minute.

So don't talk about Keith, even Chris, you can't help but be a little worried.

"In such a hurry, that line ......" Li Fangcheng opened the file bag and took out two thick stacks of documents.

"Before I give you a project, what are you good at?" Li Fangcheng looked at Keith and Chris.

"Good at?" Keith looked at Chris puzzled, but unfortunately Chris also shook his head.

"You two teams, when you were building before, didn't I say that you can choose the team members according to your own will, so I want to ask you which one you prefer in terms of special effects production and animation production. Li Fangcheng reacted, the way of speaking of this Mi Chinese is completely different from the way of speaking in China, and it is difficult for them to react immediately if they don't explain it directly.

Keith and Chris glanced at each other, Keith was older, and motioned for Chris to speak first.

Chris thought for a moment, "Hmm...... I think I'll be better at animating more. ”

"We're actually pretty much the same, after all, we basically have to know everything in this business, if there are some differences, I can only say that Chris's team animation production is better than our animation production, and our special effects production will be better than them. Keith said with a smile.

"Okay, that's what I expected, then, I'll leave this animation to you, Chris. Li Fangcheng handed Chris a piece of information at hand and said.

Chris was happy to take it, of course.

However, Keith on the side looked at Li Fangcheng blankly.

"Keith, this ...... of yours Forget it, I'll give it to you too, in fact, I haven't shown it to the director, yours is different from Chris, his is to do an animation, and yours is a special effects production of a movie, you take a look at this information first, square, this information is confirmed, and it will not be modified, so you can start to prepare. Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up later. Li Fangcheng gave Keith the same information.

"Can't catch up?" Keith asked, after taking over.

Li Fangcheng nodded and said affirmatively to the two: "Whether it's yours or Chris's, both of them must be completed by October this year, that is, you only have less than 10 months." ”

10 months?

When Chris heard this time, he just opened his name's hand, paused, and looked at Keith, both of whom had a somewhat solemn face.

10 months, it's not impossible to do, but the most feared thing is repeated revision!

In the CG production industry, there is an extremely ironic metaphor.

Director: I'm going to make a special effect for cars crashing into the river.

Special Effects Production: No Problem!!

A week later......

Director: I'm going to make an effect of a car crashing into a railing and crashing into a river.

Special Effects: Okay, no problem!

A month later......

Director: I'm going to make a car that crashes into the railing and crashes into the river, and then blows up 7 monsters that are different, but all made of water.

Special Effects Production: ...... I'll try.

After three months......

Director: I'm going to make a car that crashes into the railing and crashes into the river, and then blows up 7 different monsters, one of which is made of fire and 6 of which is made of water.

Special Effects Production: HA ????

Therefore, if a project is said not to be revised in advance, almost no Party B will believe this sentence.

In particular, the classic case of "the final draft, no revision...... in later generations".

These look a little hilarious.

But people in the industry have learned lessons from countless sad experiences.

All those who try to get into these technology industries, if they are fortunate enough to be mentored by some seniors in the industry, then most of them will hear such an inquiry.

What did you get into this industry for?

If you're not really passionate about it, I'd suggest you switch industries right away.

If you're just a hobby, then don't turn it into a career.

......

Every senior, who is a dedicated pioneer, will ask so seriously and solemnly.

This is not to slander the industry, but to respect the industry at the very least!

Why do so many people in later generations say when they ask designers for help, just help me make a Logo, just help me make a picture?

The fundamental reason for this is that outsiders will always think that these things are easy for designers.

It's just that many people don't think that behind a technical job is the knowledge that has been precipitated by countless hours of time!

"Take a look at it first, and you should understand what I mean. Li Fangcheng seemed to see the concerns of the two, and motioned for the two to look at the information at hand first.

From their expressions with a hint of suspicion, Li Fangcheng knew that they definitely didn't pay attention to their words in their hearts, and they had experienced a lot of things in later generations, how could Li Fangcheng not see the jealousy and worries in their expressions.

Keith and Chris, as people in the industry, did scoff at what Li Fangcheng just said, if it weren't for Li Fangcheng being their boss now, they would have laughed at it a long time ago.

Laymen look at the excitement, this sentence is common everywhere.

(End of chapter)