The so-called CG film, in a broad sense, refers to the film itself is shot in a real scene and mainly performed by real people, but interspersed with a large number of virtual scenes and special effects. The usual method is to use CGjishu in traditional movies to add virtual scenes, characters, things, special effects and other objects, so as to achieve the purpose of distinguishing the real from the fake and enhancing the visual effect.

In a narrow sense, a CG film refers to a film in which all visual products (scenes, characters, objects, special effects, etc.) in the whole movie are composed of computer-generated CG animations or CG pictures. But the visual effects are completely different from traditional 2D animations.

Chen Xin wants to make the latter.

In fact, the cost of making a true full CG film is very high.

At that time, Square Enix (a famous Japanese game company) almost lost all his underwear in order to shoot "Final Fantasy: Deep in the Soul", but after the film was filmed, the movie hit the street, and the company was on the verge of bankruptcy, which also laid the groundwork for the later merger and acquisition of Enix.

Blizzard has also wanted to make "Warcraft Shijie" into a movie more than once, but investment has always been the biggest obstacle to this classic online game going to the screen.

Rumor has it that the opening animation of Wrath of the Lich King cost nearly $20 million, including various internal expenses, as well as lengthy concept art, storyboarding, and model design work that took up the game developer's time.

Someone has calculated that the CG length of "Wrath of the Lich King" is 198 seconds, and the cost is $100,000 per second, and if you want to make a 90-minute movie (5,400 seconds), then you need $540 million, and you have to catch up with Blizzard's huge number of people.

And on the premise of not affecting product development, a lot of work needs to be entrusted to an external professional special effects team, plus the cost of distribution and publicity, the cost has increased again.

You must know that Avatar's investment is only 500 million US dollars, and it is unlikely that Blizzard will take the risk of doing such an exaggerated thing.

Another point is that, even aside from the sky-high development costs, Blizzard itself does not have the capacity to produce full-length CGI films.

It's not that Blizzard's people can't do it, but that Blizzard doesn't have this software and hardware jishu accumulation, 2-minute cutscenes and 200-minute movies, and the software and hardware requirements are several levels worse.

Just look at how many companies can afford to play CG movies, and the current Weta Digital (Weta) grew up through the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and then relied on "King Kong", "Avatar", etc., to achieve the epic legend of the movie special effects empire.

As for industrial light and magic, it goes without saying that almost all of Hollywood's special effects blockbusters in the past 30 years have its shadow behind them.

CG studios like BlurStadio can only do post-production special effects or animated shorts for games and movies, and it's a bit reluctant to play full CG movies directly.

In fact, the foundation of these companies is still to do CG special effects for live-action movies in the later stage, and the only ones who can really make money playing full CG movies are Disney Pixar.

But this is understandable, after all, their real selling point is not in the full CG, but in the excellent plot and all kinds of cute cartoon characters, not including peripheral profits such as Disneyland.

Once he made a decision, Chen Xin immediately took action.

But soon, he discovered that CG movies were not as simple as he imagined.

First of all, the script is a problem, Chen Xin will definitely not be able to write it himself, and it is even more of a joke to let the steel hammer write it. After all, the steel hammer is just a robot, and its "Interstellar Survival Rules" relies on creative and documentary brushwork, and it is impossible to make it create from a human perspective.

There is also a director, Chen Xin can only be regarded as an ordinary movie fan at most, and he doesn't even have the most basic knowledge of film theory. If he were to CG a short film about China's future aircraft carrier battle group, he would definitely be able to capture it, because these images have been simulated countless times in his mind. can let him make a CG movie with a smooth plot and gorgeous pictures, which is a bit difficult for a strong man.

In addition, due to the existence of the steel hammer, Chen Xin can't hand over these tasks to professionals, so he can only do it himself.

It takes about half a year to produce a high-quality CG short film of about 5 minutes, and a small (20 to 30 people) team. It's still the original WLK (Wrath of the Lich King) example, although the animation itself has a high level of production and artistry, but in terms of scene complexity and implementation difficulty, it can only be regarded as medium back then. There are three characters, and there are almost no animations with large dynamics. There is no complicated big vista at all, and many of them are MattePainting. The art director must have gone back and forth on the storyboard, and the core team must have spent a lot of time building the basic concepts.

Animated films like Pixar's take hundreds of people to work together for about a year to complete, and the investment is calculated in hundreds of millions of dollars.

Chen Xin didn't think about the amount of work he was working on at all, and after carefully considering the difficulties he was currently facing, he decided to shoot a CG micro-film to practice his skills.

The concept of micro-film has only become popular in the past one or two years, as the first advertising "micro-film" in the real sense of history, "The Verge" starring Wu Yanzu is the prototype of "micro-film".

Before 2010, what we called short films were live-action feature films, animated feature films, student feature films, assignments, and online videos.

The online short film has gradually changed from Hu Ge's "A Bloody Case Caused by a Steamed Bun" to "Old Boy" and "Father" by the Chopsticks Brothers. Compared with the huge investment in films, short films have lower requirements in terms of shooting equipment, funds, teams, processes, etc., which are suitable for the practical needs of graduates of film professional colleges.

However, micro-films mainly rely on product placement and other means to make profits, and Chen Xin is mainly for training and building the popularity of the studio.

Before that, he registered a special effects studio called Cybertron Digital through an agent.

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BJ。

Shi Nansheng, director of the Intelligence Bureau, hurriedly walked into Peng Guochen's office with a case file printed with the words Top Secret, and said, "Minister, this is the analysis report completed by the Jishu department after extracting data from the Super Base Camp Forum. ”

Peng Guochen took the case file and looked at it, then nodded and said: "Comrade Nansheng, go back first, don't forget to prepare the analysis report of the 'Goddess of Dawn', and go with me to meet the head of the Central Committee in the afternoon." ”

"Yes!" Shi Nansheng saluted and exited Peng Guochen's office.

Peng Guochen put on his glasses and took the case file to look at it carefully, the case file was not long, only four or five pages in total, but Peng Guochen read it for half an hour before picking up the confidential phone on the desk, dialing a series of numbers and saying, "Pick me up from the 705 Project Office." ”

Although the "Goddess of Dawn" incident has gradually calmed down with the tacit understanding of various governments, it is still a hot topic on the Internet. In particular, the original post of the super large one, in just one week, had more than 10 million clicks and more than 300,000 replies, directly bringing nearly 100,000 new registered users to the super large, of which 20% are foreigners, which can be called the craziest post in the history of the super base camp.

There was even a special article in the media analyzing this cyber incident.

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Chen Xin has been worrying about the script for the past two days, and he has found a lot on the Internet, but he is not satisfied.

Later, he asked Gangji, who crossed Erlang's legs and wrenched his fingers and said, "How about we shoot "Buddha is the Way"? What about "Covering the Sky"? Or "The Legend of Mortal Immortals" can also ......."

Chen Xin rolled his eyes and said: "We are making a micro-movie, a micro-movie, understand? How can you let me adapt such a long novel?" "Mortal" has not been completed until now, Han Lao Mo is still brushing monsters in the spirit world, and the day of ascending to the immortal world is far away, even if it is a long-form TV series, it can't be filmed." ”

spread his hands, shrugged and said: "Then I can't help it, you can find it yourself, I'll go to the code word first, and the readers are urging to change." ”

As he spoke, its head was short, and its whole body was like molten ice and snow, and it got back into the computer.

Chen Xin is helpless, since he knows that his novels can make a lot of money, this guy is becoming more and more difficult to discipline, especially yesterday its novels were on the shelves, with more than 15,000 subscriptions in 24 hours, refreshing the record of newcomers at the starting point, which can be called a book god.

Chen Xin had no choice but to wait for QQ and go to the [Steel Hammer Support Group] to find support.

In just a few days, the number of thousands of people in the [Steel Hammer Support Group] was full, and when Chen Xin proposed the idea of making a micro-movie, a netizen named [It's really boring] soon replied: "Why don't you shoot "The Law of Interstellar Survival", and it also opens my eyes to what the legendary Cybertron is like." ”

Chen Xin was speechless and typed: "This novel has been booked and cannot be filmed." ”

At this time, [watercool] jumped out: "Then shoot "The Three-Body Problem", or Liu Cixin's other short stories, I am Magnet Liu (Liu Cixin)'s N...... Powder. ”

Chen Xin replied with a smile: "When I have money, I will invest in filming "Three-Body Problem", and when the time comes, I will find the most haode actor on Shijie and make a super sci-fi film that sweeps the world." ”

【watercool】: Directly replied with a look of disdain.

However, Chen Xin did not appear again, and the answer of [watercool] just now reminded him.

Liu Cixin's name Chen Xin is not unfamiliar, and his works can often be seen in the "Science Fiction Shijie" bought at the newsstand when he was in high school.

Works such as "The Wandering Earth", "Supporting God", and "Mountain" have left a deep impression on Chen Xin, especially "The Wandering Earth", Chen Xin also considered this novel, but later thought about it or gave up. There are too many classic and magnificent scenes in this novel, and if it is filmed, it will be a waste to directly explode a classic disaster movie like "2012" into scum, and make a micro-movie.

And his most famous "Three-Body Problem" trilogy Chen Xin has only watched the first one, which is in 06 years, and then he didn't pay attention to this news after his parents' accident, but only occasionally heard a friend recommend, it is said that Liu Electrician's "Three-Body Problem" series is more exciting than the other.

Chen Xin thought about it, and simply downloaded the electronic version of Liu Cixin's collection of short and medium science fiction novels from the Internet to see if there was anything suitable for adaptation into a micro-film work.

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