……

She turned on the sound of the ceiling speakers, and the noisy and boiling voices and the screams of monsters in the film suddenly intertwined and reached everyone's ears.

A giant python hovered and climbed up a cylindrical tall building, this strange python resembles the dragon in Chinese mythology, with hideous horns on its head, and the gray and slippery scales on its body are lifelike, the tall building is like a small branch under it, fragile and crumbling, its snake body squeezes the concrete of the façade of the tall building one after another, and pedestrians and vehicles are in chaos.

The python seemed to notice something unusual, looked up at the sky, opened its mouth like a demonstration, and spewed out blood-red snake letters.

The camera slowly moved up, and the dark blue sky dome was rolling, and a real dragon with golden rays around it broke through the clouds.

This dragon is completely an image of Chinese mythology, with antlers and eagle claws, and the body of a dragon hundreds of meters is cruising in the air.

Cao Yifang looked at the confrontation in the film, feeling a little uncomfortable, it stands to reason that this should be a very tense picture, the high-rise building is spinning with a giant python, and a real dragon is flying in the air, seeing such a fantasy scene in a modern city, the visual impact should be very strong, but the special effects level of this movie obviously does not reach the average level of today's general Hollywood movies.

It's a bit fake.

Zhou Yuelong glanced around and called out: "What do you think of Cao Yifang?"

"This should have been a movie from ten years ago, right?" Cao Fangfang was very tolerant: "The special effects were good at the time, but now they still look very unreal, just like game CG special effects." ”

"Yes, it's a 07 movie called Dragon's Flame. ”

Zhou Yuelong said: "At that time, it was originally a Sino-US co-production, but it could not be censored in China, so it became a Korea-US co-production. ”

"Most of the special effects in our movies are a combination of real shooting and CG, which makes the texture more realistic. ”

"But the python and dragon in this movie are all made of pure CG, not to mention that the rendering accuracy at that time was not enough, even now, pure CG has no real and flexible effect. ”

"It's useless to say that. Lu interrupted: "Even if it is such a pure CG special effect, our TV series should not be able to pay the production cost." ”

Mr. Wang was about to doze off.

Seeing this, Zhou Yuelong had no choice but to give up the gradual process and directly called up the two GIFs for comparison.

On the left is a person facing a tiger with teeth and claws.,The person is a real person.,The special effects of the tiger are similar to the python just now.,The hair is delicate.,The expression is fierce.,The details seem to be in place.,But it's still a sense of game special effects.。

On the right, in a dreamlike fairyland, there are several women in fluttering clothes walking on the jade bridge, the picture is full of fairy spirit, but lacks details.

She asked, "Which one is pretty?" ”

The visual director was a young guy who understood it at first glance: "Oh...... Of course, it's good on the right. ”

Cao Yifang didn't understand technology, but he also understood Zhou Yuelong's cost-effective play, and he smiled: "The right side is more suitable." ”

Lu touched his chin and nodded: "Yes." ”

Mr. Wang looked at this and that, looking like a straw bag: "What are you talking about? Obviously, the special effects on the left are real, you can see how bright the tiger's hair is, and how detailed the dynamics are......"

Several people looked at him like a pen.

Mr. Wang was no longer angry.

"Looks like you all get it. ”

Zhou Yuelong smiled and pointed to the two animated pictures: "The market competition in fantasy TV series is also very fierce, after the fairy sword, there are many followers, the ratings were good at the beginning, but now they are getting worse and worse, and there is no way to live simply by following the trend, everyone wants to change, and a few dramas have begun to work special effects." ”

"Singularity has an online article called Douqi Apocalypse, which sold the copyright a few years ago, and now the filming has been completed, and we have been doing post-production special effects, and we have also participated in part of the production, I can touch my chest and pack tickets, this TV series will be the TV series with the largest investment in special effects in the history of China. ”

The corners of her mouth twitched: "But it will also be the most failed loss-making work." ”

Cao Fang thought about the name carefully, and it seemed that he had never heard of it.

It's not that they are lonely and unheard, this online article actually reached the top of popularity five years ago, and it is a phenomenal work.

Five years ago, the genre of cultivating immortals in the online literature industry has gradually declined, and more inclusive fantasy is popular, and now film and television dramas are obviously lagging behind, and Xianxia dramas are slamming their butts one after another, but the first serious fantasy drama has not yet been completed...... This is actually an option for the market.

"We now have two options for special effects, one is to go the right way, learn from Hollywood to work hard to make technical money, this kind of special effects are mainly realistic, and the cost is very, very high. ”

"The vindictive apocalypse is used in this way, the special effects are done very slowly, and it is expected that it will take ten months to complete in the later stage, and it is estimated that it will be released before and after you. ”

Zhou Yuelong sighed with emotion, "Whether it is the production cost or the time cost, it is incredibly high...... This drama uses the visual effects supervision mechanism commonly used in Hollywood, three special effects teams for mass production, plus lighting effects, character modules, these teams of seven, seven, eight or eight, a total of 20 special effects production teams. ”

She also briefly talked about the complex industrial management system of this drama and the production cost of more than 100 million special effects, "But the cost performance is very low, and when such special effects are made, we still look like a joke, pursuing realism, but it is not real enough, and it falls short." ”

"So look at it from a different angle. Cao Yifang pointed to the GIF on the right: "The pursuit of beauty is more affordable, right?"

That's what it means. Zhou Yuelong said proudly: "The special effects of Xianxia dramas can completely focus on illusory beauty, we play to our strengths and avoid weaknesses, and take the Chinese ink style special effects, which perfectly fit the theme of Xianxia, the audience will not feel that it is a play, they even feel that it should not be a special effect like Hollywood, it should be our aesthetic painting style, with a sense of meaning and blank space." ”

She pulled up a few more footage images.

There are mountains and rivers, there are heavenly palaces, ghostly domains, and Lethe River.

The graphics are rich, but the game is beautiful.

Mr. Wang already understood at this time, and listened to the visual effects director bite his ear for a while before he asked, "It's cheaper to do this, right?"

"Yes. Zhou Yuelong nodded and said: "Our company can complete such post-production, this kind of special effects do not need to be rendered by the machine for several months, more rely on art workers, integrate a small number of special effects, and combine the virtual and real scenes, we can compress the cost to a very low range." ”

Because of his enthusiasm for technology, Lu Jingzhen didn't like this kind of cost-effective approach too much, and he smiled: "I call this method art painting stickers, and it will be very similar to online games." ”

Zhou Yuelong retorted: "The painting style that can be done like a high-quality online game is enough to satisfy the audience." ”

Cao Fang completely understood, this is a crude work with a sense of beauty, but it is indeed the best one of the existing options.

But although this style of painting is very suitable for romance fairies, it also has significant disadvantages, fairy sins have a large number of fight scenes, if they are all like this, some of the bloody fights that male audiences want to see will be soft and nowhere to focus.

He raised his hand: "Teacher Zhou, I have a problem." ”

Zhou Yuelong looked at him: "Say it." ”

"Is it possible for us to use the method of live shooting and CG to present a few special effects fight scenes at the level of American movies?"

Cao Fang said weakly: "Even if it's only one?"

Zhou Yuelong didn't answer immediately, and his face was obviously embarrassed.

……

In between, we will not talk about budget allocation, special effects specifications, and the mediation of the production cycle.

All in all, Zhou Yuelong got most of the special effects production rights for this project.

The next day, the special effects team of their God Painting Kingdom was stationed on the set.

And Cao Fangfang also got a real super large horse chopping knife from the prop master.

He pulled out the heavy alloy knife and looked at him feverishly: "This is a ...... Where did the unopened real knife come from?"

Mi Yanxi suddenly popped up and said with a smile: "This is my mother." ”

"What?"

Cao Fangfang's mind was full of question marks: "What the fuck?!"