Chapter 63: CG Animation
Long Beach's pier 19 is full of boats, Hollywood Avenue is full of traffic, and August 20 is just a very ordinary fine summer day for Los Angeles on the west coast of the United States.
At the beginning of the Avenue of Fame, where Hollywood and Vine Street meet, three teenagers and men with large sunglasses stand on the sidewalk next to the street, and the girl on the left hand side of the teenager is pointing to the ground and saying something.
The young man's skin is slightly dark, slightly glowing with the bronzed color after the sun, although he can't see his eyes, but a trace of smile hanging on the corner of the young man's mouth is clearly visible, but the two girls are both long-legged snow skin, Qiong nose and cherry lips, if it weren't for the two black ponytails thrown briskly behind their backs, they are no different from the blonde girls on the street.
"Xiaoyuan, do Hollywood famous film directors leave stars here?" Ning Wanfei asked curiously, pointing to the star on the ground marked with Joanna Woodward in English.
"Well, in addition to the film industry, prominent figures in television, recording, theater, and radio will also be given the opportunity to make a name, but the star will not be marked by the camera. ”
"Xiaoyuan, can a person who makes cartoons become a famous director?" Ning Wanjia then asked.
Liang Yuan put down his work and concentrated on accompanying the two girls all over Los Angeles every day, from Disney's theme parks to Hollywood's Universal Studios, from Griffith Observatory to Santa Monica Beach, and even through the advertising and promotion department of Guò Shangri-La (North America), Liang Yuan instructed Zhang Jianxin and Lucas's industrial light and magic to connect with each other.
Considering that once Lucasfilm shoots a new film in the future, Shangri-La will be a good potential advertising sponsor, and under the lure of dollar money, Liang Yuan and the two girls unexpectedly get the opportunity to visit the interior of the San Francisco Industrial Light & Magic factory.
A cluster of high-performance computers full of science and technology, and vivid simulation models. Almost omnipotent computer graphics, beautiful CG animation, the well-informed Liang Yuan is better, and the CG decomposition of the whole process of the birth of a three-dimensional creature similar to a giant octopus makes the two girls fascinated.
The three of them stayed in Industrial Light and Magic for a whole day, and did not take a flight back to Los Angeles until the evening, and when they returned to the hotel, the two girls pestered Liang Yuan and talked for most of the night. When she was about to sleep, Ning Wanfei put on a gentle and virtuous face, and discussed with Liang Yuan softly, whether she could replace the matter of breaking the moon and establishing a company like Industrial Light and Magic.
Usually, looking at Ning Wanjia, who is very delicate in front of him, Liang Yuan occasionally has hormones, and boasts: As long as Jiajia likes it, there is nothing to say about breaking the moon down, and if she talks more times, Ning Wanfei will inevitably become interested in the moon.
After a few deceptions. Ning Wanfei, who pretended to be Ning Wanjia's success, naturally deceived this cowhide from Liang Yuan, who had a short-circuited IQ, in the face of the female devil, how dare Liang Yuan jump into such a big pit, there was constant saliva between the two, and this bad debt was one of the powerful reasons why Ning Wanfei legally beat Liang Yuan recently.
At first, Liang Yuan planned to simply repay the debt, but found that Ning Wanjia's eyes were also unusually shining, and Liang Yuan realized that the two girls were serious about this matter.
From small to large. In major matters, the two girls have always been consistent with Liang Yuan, and rarely ask for it. Seeing two pairs of steamy apricot eyes staring at him, and trying his best to hide his longing in the depths of his eyes, Liang Yuan's heart involuntarily softened.
Although establishing and maintaining a company whose main business is CG special effects is also a money-burning business, even the bottomless pit beams such as aero engines, advanced regional airliners, and wafer production lines have jumped off without hesitation, and a high-end application in the computer field is nothing.
Liang Tuhao, who had a lot of debts and didn't worry, didn't hesitate, and agreed to the request of the two girls.
The excited twins threw Liang Yuan down on the bed and kissed him heavily. Someone who was obscene also pretended to be happy and rolled around on the bed with two girls in his arms, but unfortunately he just rolled around twice, and realized that someone's ill-intentioned twins embroidered their legs with a pink fist, and cleaned up the self-satisfied Liang Yuan.
The two girls who got their wish didn't sleep anymore, and they chattered with Liang Yuan about their plans. Although the two girls have already tested the waters with Liang Pan to shoot live-action movies, it is more appropriate to say that the fake short film is more appropriate than a video, and the twins are still apprehensive about the shooting of live-action movies, and it is really a good idea to practice with cartoons in the eyes of the two girls.
In fact, in the 80s and 90s, the cost of using CG technology to make zuò movies was much higher than using manpower, but it was rare to meet two girls who liked something from the bottom of their hearts, and Liang Yuan naturally didn't think about anything like the cost.
Inspur's research and development plan for supercomputers has been launched for several months, and after obtaining intellectual resources from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National University of Defense Technology, the progress of research and development is simply rapid in a day.
Before coming to the United States, Liang Yuan received Liu Feiyang's R&D log from Inspur, according to Liu Feiyang's estimate, if the current progress is carried out, the actual Yàn model used to verify the correctness of the supercomputing mechanism at the end of this year, the Galaxy X-type ultra-high-performance workstation can be officially put into trial.
This is Liang Yuan's confidence to respond to the twins' request.
In Liang Yuan's view, after the successful development of supercomputers, Nanhu Science and Technology Park must be purchased, a sheep is also driven by two sheep, and it is not a big deal for the Science and Technology Park to have one more supercomputer user, for the production of CG animation, hardware investment occupies a considerable cost, so the hobby of two girls is really not a luxury with the support of Hong Kong-based power collector and Inspur.
The two girls chatted with Liang Yuan until the second half of the night, before being driven to sleep by Liang Yuan, and then after getting up early, the two girls pulled Liang Yuan to the Avenue of Stars, intending to buy a large number of cartoons in the video products and bookstores on both sides of the avenue, as well as basic textbooks about film shooting, after all, the United States has unparalleled advantages in the film industry and education.
"Of course, you can become a famous director by making animation. Liang Yuan said in a certain tone.
In the future, animated films such as "The Mobilization of the Machine" and "Ice Age" have achieved great success around the world, both in terms of word-of-mouth and box office.
"In the future, Fei Fei and I will also leave our names on the Avenue of Fame. ”
"Well, Jiajia must be able to. Liang Yuan pinched the girl's tender cheeks and said with a chuckle.
Liang Yuan can't judge whether the two girls can become well-known directors, but Liang Yuan is still 100% sure of becoming a famous producer, even if the two girls have no talent in the field of directing or film, Liang Yuan can also use his advanced vision to make the two girls the most NB on the planet. is also the most profitable producer.
It took ten or twenty years to produce dozens of Oscar Best Pictures, and it wasn't hard to leave a name on the Walk of Fame.
"Xiaoyuan, how many stars on this Avenue of Stars were left by Chinese?"
Liang Yuan was holding the hands of the two young girls, strolling along the street, when he suddenly heard Ning Wanfei ask this embarrassing question.
In 1989. It is still four years before the 1993 Avenue of Fame left traces for Bruce Lee, and there are still 13 years before Jackie Chan, the boss of the Hong Kong entertainment industry, left that star, at this time there are more than 2,000 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but only one belongs to the Chinese.
"Fei Fei, strictly speaking, there are no stars left by Chinese on this Avenue of Stars, no one in the Republic of China or later in New China can do this, if not counting mixed race, pure Chinese blood has left only one trace on this avenue. Liang Yuan said in a low voice.
"Oh, it's so hard to leave the stars. Xiaoyuan, who is the Chinese who left his name? Have we seen his works?" asked Ning Wanfei in surprise
"It's a long story, our position is not too far from the star, and we will talk about it as we walk. ”
Hollywood's Avenue of Fame counts in his previous life, Liang Yuan can come at least twenty times, and the more times he is familiar with some allusions or small stories related to Chinese.
Compared with Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan with a number of 6000+, they were selected into the Avenue of Stars in the nineties and the new century respectively, and the star located at No. 1708 Vine Street was selected early. This star, which belongs exclusively to Hollywood actress Huang Liushuang, was engraved on the Avenue of Stars not long after its establishment.
Huang Liushuang, English name: Anna May Wong. Chinese-American, born in 1905 in Los Angeles' Chinatown, is still unknown to the people of the Republic even in the age of the Internet.
Huang Liushuang is not only the first Chinese-American Hollywood star to achieve international fame, but also the most acclaimed Asian-American actress in the history of the film industry, with a long and varied career. His acting career has spanned silent films, sound films, television dramas, stage plays and radio plays.
It is a pity that the red face has had a thin life since ancient times, and the China of that era was in the midst of great historical changes that had not been seen in 3,000 years, and the whole nation was based on the world in the name of the sick man of East Asia.
Although Huang Liushuang conquered Hollywood with her acting skills and beauty, the huge discrimination also brought a near-rugatory blow to Huang Liushuang's acting career, and the United States was implementing the "Chinese Exclusion Act" and "Anti-Interracial Marriage Act" at that time. As a Chinese, Huang Liushuang can only play limited roles, such as: slave girl, mistress, prostitute, and killer.
At that time, the mountains and rivers of China were broken, the family and the country were ruined, and personal efforts were like small dust in the face of the tide of the times.
Interestingly, as a representative of the American spirit, Hollywood's internal rules still seem to have changed, and Chinese actresses after Huang Liushuang are still repeating the path of their predecessors, such as "Memoirs of a Geisha", "Miami Vice", etc., which were widely known to the people of the Republic later.
Only in some of the films funded by Snow Mountain Dajingba, Chinese actresses who work hard in Hollywood have the opportunity to play non-prostitutes, non-mistresses, non-killers, non-bodyguards and other professions.
Time flies like water, and until the new century, a hundred years later, there is no Asian woman who can once again stand on the heights that Huang Liushuang once reached in the film industry.
Although Liang Yuan has a deep understanding of Western science and technology and management, he has never bowed to the time of worship, and with Huang Liushuang's experience, Liang Yuan has turned over the black history of the United States to the fullest, and the twins who have lived in an almost Western-style atmosphere since Liang Yuan started business were dumbfounded. (To be continued......)