At present, the performance of Sun1.0 graphics workstation is a little worse than that of IBM and DEC, but the price is $50,000 a piece, which is much cheaper than more than $100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Li Zetian directly asked Disney to purchase 500 Sun 1.0 workstations. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Movie special effects and computer animation both require high-performance graphics workstations, and Li Zetian is doing this to promote the rapid development of Disney in these two fields!

ILM, which is now also owned by The Disney Company, needed a large number of graphics workstations to produce computer special effects and develop the technology at the same time.

Many people only know that ILM is a computer special effects production company, but they don't know that ILM is more like a technology development company, and most of its annual revenue is spent on developing new technologies!

The reason why ILM has always been the leader of the industry and can produce lifelike, real, and extremely shocking computer special effects is because its investment in technology research and development has always exceeded that of other special effects companies!

Better tools make good work!

At present, the Sun 1.0 graphics workstation is naturally the best tool for industrial light and magic!

After Disney purchased a large number of Sun1.0 workstations, Li Zetian went to Disney by the way. Since he moved to Disney last year, the company has changed dramatically, rebuilding its creative animation department.

However, this animation department belongs to the traditional Disney animation department, where each animation is purely hand-drawn, then photographed, and then played continuously. It can be said that each animation is drawn frame by frame.

In fact, it's not that Li Zetian doesn't want to make changes, but that the computer animation production technology is not mature enough, the production cost is high, not to mention, and the effect is not as good as traditional animation!

Of course, computer 3D animation is the future development trend, Li Zetian independent the computer animation production department of Industrial Light and Magic, and established the Pixar Animation Studio, specializing in the research of computer animation technology production, which was listed as a key project of Disney by Li Zetian.

In addition to shooting animation, Disney naturally also produces and distributes live-action films.

Although Li Zetian did not interfere too much in the development of Disney, he could not completely ignore it.

After coming to the company, Li Zetian asked Steven Spielberg to come over and talk about a business worth about $2 billion.

"Alien E.T" has only $792.9 million at the global box office, but the merchandise has earned much more than the box office. Li Zetian had already asked a well-known Hollywood screenwriter to write a script according to his ideas, and Steven Spielberg had promised to help him shoot a movie, but he had to read the script first.

Li Zetian was chatting with Disney CEO Michael Eisner in the office, and it wasn't long before Steven Spielberg arrived.

Everyone first greeted each other, and then Li Zetian said straight to the point: "Director Spielberg, you helped George Lucas finish filming "Raiders of the Lost Ark", should you help me make a movie now? I even have the script ready!"

Spielberg nodded: "Of course no problem, did you bring the script? I'll see how the script is written first!"

"Well," Li Zetian replied softly, and immediately took out the script of "Alien E.T" from the drawer, and handed it to Spielberg.

Spielberg took the script and read it carefully, and as soon as he read the beginning, he was completely fascinated by the story of the script, as if this was the story he had always wanted to tell......

After Spielberg read the script, he raised his head to look at Li Zetian and said excitedly: "Mr. Li, I took this movie!"

Li Zetian smiled, because he was very sure that Spielberg would be willing to shoot "Alien E.T", so he was not surprised. At this time, he stretched out his hand and said to Spielberg, "Director Spielberg, happy to work with, I hope "Alien E.T" can become a classic with good reputation and box office!"

"Hmm!"

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"Alien E.T" is a very warm sci-fi family movie, perfect for the whole family to sit around and enjoy, and it always inadvertently brings tears to your eyes. This film genre suited the Disney Company perfectly, beating out blockbusters like Shrek and Finding Nemo to be voted the greatest children's movie of all time.

With an investment budget of only $10 million, "E.T. the Extraterrestrial" is a low-budget film.

When Disney announced the filming of the film, it did not attract much media attention.

The media wanted to see Disney filming Star Wars 3, however, the plan was put on hold for the time being. Li Zetian knows that frequent filming of sequels is easy to cause aesthetic fatigue to the audience. As the saying goes, "distance produces beauty", and if you shoot one in a few years, the effect will be better.

Li Zetian knows very little about the more popular Hollywood movies in the 80s, "Alien E.T" and "Star Wars" are movies he is more familiar with, if he is asked to talk about a few more well-known movies, then he will definitely not be able to answer, but many movies born in the 90s know very well.

Therefore, Li Zetian cannot provide more advice to Disney for the time being to invest in films.

In fact, under the management of Michael Eisner, the Disney company is thriving, and there is no need for Li Zetian to worry.

However, for the long term, Li Zetian decided to win some super IPs, such as "The Lord of the Rings", "The Hobbit" and Marvel Comics.

In particular, Marvel Comics, due to the slump in the comic book market, changed hands several times in the eighties and nineties, and sold a large number of superheroes, such as Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Wolverine, Deadpool, X-Men, Hulk and other characters.

Li Zetian feels that if he doesn't buy Marvel Comics now, it will definitely be difficult to get these comic heroes back in the future.

After leaving Disney, Li Zetian thought of this, so he instructed Dongfang Yuqin to send someone to investigate first.

These things were easy to investigate, and the next day, Dongfang Yuqin put the information on Li Zetian's desk.

In 1969, United Artists Entertainment of the United States bought the copyrights of the books "The Lord of the Rings - The Adventures of the Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" and the management rights of all related products from Tolkien for 10,000 pounds, including the rights to film adaptations, and at the same time, 7.5% of the operating income related to the two books was paid as royalties to Tolkien and Tolkien's testamentary beneficiaries. In 1976, Luen Mei sold the rights to Saul Zaentz, who still owns them today.

After Li Zetian finished reading the information, he smiled faintly: "Hehe, that is to say, as long as you buy the copyright of "The Lord of the Rings - The Hobbit Adventures" and "The Lord of the Rings" from Sal Zaynz!"

"Yes, Mr. Li. Dongfang Yuqin nodded with a smile, and then added, "According to the evaluation given by professionals, the copyright price of the two books is about 10 million US dollars!"

"$10 million? That's not expensive, notify Disney later, buy it as soon as possible!" "The Lord of the Rings - The Hobbit Adventures" and "The Lord of the Rings" are two fantasy novels that shake the past and the present, with amazing sales and a huge user base. $10 million is really not expensive, it is simply the price of cabbage.

Then, Li Zetian began to read the information of Marvel Comics, which was founded in 1939 and was once known as "Times Comics", and was officially named Marvel in 1961. Due to the slump in the comic book market, Marvel's main competitor, DC Comics, has been acquired by Warner Bros. and filmed "Superman" and "Batman" movies. And Marvel Comics is still struggling to find a buyer.

It's a pity that Marvel Comics is worth more than $90 million, and no one wants to buy it at the moment.

The boss of Marvel Comics always sighs about it......

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The synopsis is as follows, if you like it, you may wish to take a look, and there is a sense of déjà vu of "Full-time Master" at the beginning.

[I am not a good person, nor am I a bad person, you take all the honors, and I will fight against all the crimes.

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My name is Jiang Cheng, reborn in 2002, and the big data that controls the future will create a new era, an era of giants that belong to me. 】