Tan Chenglin and Wang Wei really couldn't understand why Du Mingxuan insisted so much. It's a clear waste of time, effort, and money.

But given that they were Du Mingxuan's employees, the two didn't say much. However, he felt in his heart that when Du Mingxuan tried it and found that it didn't work, he gave up.

Du Mingxuan immediately began to prepare, and after he got home, he closed the door and turned on the smart watch.

"Xiao Er, help me search for a three-dimensional model map!" Du Mingxuan shouted, Xiao Er is the name of the voice intelligence of the smart watch.

Its intelligence can communicate normally with Du Mingxuan and help complete some intelligent operations, and it only belongs to weak artificial intelligence.

"Please select a search scope!" Xiao Er replied.

"Human exoskeleton model, space battleship model ......" Du Mingxuan roughly said Yang Bufan's requirements.

"80 million results have been searched. Xiao Er quickly screened out tens of billions of information, but 80 million pieces was still a lot for Du Mingxuan.

There is no way, film art wants a visual experience, and at the same time, it also has to take into account the difficulty of prop production, cost and shooting difficulty, which has to be done by Du Mingxuan himself.

On the smart watch, a 3D display of a three-dimensional model is projected.

"This guy is so ugly, remove the similarities. Du Mingxuan crossed out one.

Xiao 2: "More than 1030000 similar models have been eliminated. ”

"This block is too big, there are more than 100,000 structural parts? Forget it, all the more than 100,000 pieces of this structure have been eliminated!" Du Mingxuan saw a model of a space battleship, although it looked good, but it was too troublesome to manufacture. It's not worth it just to make movie props!

Xiao 2: "Models with more than 100,000 components have been removed, and the number is 965,302. ”

"That's a good one, keep it for now. ”

Xiao Er: "Saved to your favorites." ”

Choosing the right object from tens of millions of 3D models is a frenzied task. For several days, Du Mingxuan was picking day and night. In addition to aesthetics, he also had to consider factors such as the difficulty of model manufacturing.

A week later, Du Mingxuan came to the company with two dark circles under his eyes.

"Mr. Du, are you a COS giant panda?" Wang Wei teased, "It's quite similar." ”

Du Mingxuan yawned, covered his mouth and said, "Is Old Tan here?" Let him come to my office and study the three-dimensional design drawings. ”

Wang Wei was surprised: "Is it still the requirement of the last movie?" Mr. Du, you really did it!"

He was a little surprised, they thought that Du Mingxuan would retreat in the face of difficulties, but who knew that Du Mingxuan would really design.

"Nonsense, I said it, this will definitely be done!" Du Mingxuan brewed a cup of coffee and beat his spirits.

"Well, the boss is worthy of being the boss, and it is worth learning. Wang Wei joked that in the company, his personality is the most lively.

A moment later, in Du Mingxuan's small office, Tan Chenglin's voice of disbelief sounded: "My God, Mr. Du, you made it alone?"

"So to speak. Du Mingxuan said cheekily, although this is the intellectual achievement of another civilization, but here, it is his personal patent!

"Genius! You are really the best genius I have ever seen!" Tan Chenglin said loudly, his tone was full of envy, and there seemed to be a hint of jealousy.

In Du Mingxuan's office computer, it was Du Mingxuan who spent several days and nights carefully selecting three-dimensional models, and all of them were made into concept drawings. From the outside, it's simply impeccable!

"This structure, this appearance, is really full of industrial punk beauty! If it is made into a model, the visual effect will definitely explode!"

"And this spaceship, with an oval hull, a metallic rendering, a streamlined hull. The most important thing is that the details inside are too rich, I am really shocked! Mr. Du, you shouldn't have been engaged in spaceship design before, right?" Tan Chenglin couldn't help but joke, in just a few days, Du Mingxuan came up with such an excellent design product, which really impressed him!

Du Mingxuan smiled slightly and said: "Actually, I had a hobby for aspects before, which is also some previous accumulation, and then modified. ”

"I said, it's only been a few days, how can you make so many things!" Tan Chenglin showed an expression of "I see", but his tone was still quite emotional, "To be honest, I originally thought that we could give up the production of props for "Space Warning", and I didn't understand your thoughts. ”

"Now that I look at this concept drawing, I raise my hands and feet to support it! If such a good design is not made, it is a waste of art!"

"Okay!" Regarding Tan Chenglin's reaction, Du Mingxuan was also very satisfied. Tan Chenglin is a 3D designer with rich experience, and he appreciates it so much, which shows that his vision is still good.

"By the way, how are the preparations for renting a factory?" Du Mingxuan asked again.

"I found a processing plant. Tan Chenglin said, "The address is in Huajin City, Zhejiang Province, which is a metal casting mold processing factory. The equipment is quite complete, but they have to rent at least one month. ”

"Due to the financial problem, we have not rented it yet. ”

"Hmm. Du Mingxuan nodded and said: "In this way, we will go to the producer of "Space Warning" as soon as possible, and if the contract is reached, we will rent a factory and prepare to start the production of props." ”

To create diverse and large-scale props, a 3D printer alone is absolutely not enough, and more industrial equipment is required.

Du Mingxuan had a good rest, and he decided to personally take the concept map to the island city again and win the business. In fact, because of the lack of personnel in the company, he was the only one who went on a business trip in person.

Island City, Oriental Film Metropolis Filming Base, "Space Warning" production team.

Director Guo Bufan, assistant director Feng Ming, and visual effects director Miao Yu are in the office, discussing with Zhang Allen, a business person of Weta Digital.

"Your offer is too high!" Guo Bufan took the other party's quotation and said bluntly: "Just one mechanical exoskeleton prop suit costs 200,000 US dollars, and we need at least five! The space battleship model is even higher, and the cost is 1 million US dollars! There are other props, pulse guns, laser cannons, etc., which add up to at least 20 million US dollars!"

"Director Guo, you are a professional, you should know that the more sci-fi blockbusters are, the higher the production cost. Your prop requirements are completely Hollywood sci-fi industry standards. We can't call it high, we should say very low!" said Allen Chang, a Chinese-American who is fluent in English and Mandarin, in Mandarin with an American accent.

"You mentioned the offer for mechanical exoskeletons, you know? When we made armor for Marvel, the price was $300,000. Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man armor is worth more than $300,000 alone! We made props for blockbuster movies like The Avengers, Avatar, The Lord of the Rings, Fast and Furious, and so on...... We at Weta Digital are the world's top prop production companies in the film industry!"

"We only make high-quality products, so the price is naturally not comparable to other inferior props. ”

Allen Zhang looked proud, in the film industry, Weta Digital is well-deserved to be the world's top!