Chapter 152: Advanced Productivity

In the production of animation in this era, it was common to draw astronomical sketches, and then, using a movie camera, to expose the sketches frame by frame and shoot them into film. After the pen, fun, and cabinet www.biquge.info, just like the post-production of the film, the film is edited and processed, and the sound and subtitles are added.

Not only is the sales volume relatively low, but the cost of making mistakes is also very expensive. In addition, the clarity of the picture is relatively low when using traditional film for post-compositing. People's animation is high-definition, your animation is vague, and the current audience is not too picky, but with the development of time, the audience will sooner or later feel dissatisfied with the quality of domestic animation.

However, how can overseas animation achieve high definition? Because its post-production is no longer using traditional shooting techniques. Instead, upload the drawings to the computer frame by frame, and professional animation production software can not only edit the work. Animations can also be rendered frame by frame. After rendering, the picture quality is naturally clearer, and this difference in image quality alone is enough for the computer to beat the traditional animation production method.

After the technicians dispatched by the new startup electronics company settled in, they began to scan the original animation frame by frame onto the computer.

After that, the technicians wanted to show off the skills of the traditional animation director of the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio.

"It's moving!"

"Oh my God, the static image was scanned onto the computer, and it actually moved?"

That's right, after scanning frame by frame, you can use the "New Professional Animation Software Version 1.1" designed by New Venture Electronics Company for trial run. The static pictures of the software bar are broadcast in order, and the effect is naturally the same as that of the camera shooting, and the image is moving!

Of course, it's not that the computer is awesome, and you can make animations by yourself! It's that after each frame of the original and intermediate pictures of the animation is made, it can be recorded on the computer, and it can be used for trial broadcast in the software industry......

In this way, the production of animation is no longer completely completed, and after post-production, the members of the production team can see what the effect of their work is. Previously, they could only imagine the finished animation based on static pictures, but there was definitely a gap between it and the actual finished work. Many problems are not found at all during the production process, and when the production is completed, even if some flaws are found, there is often no time and money to modify them.

So......

For the first time, computer technology taught the staff of Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio a lesson, letting them know what advanced technology is!

Just recording a small piece of images and using software to try to simulate the broadcast animation effect, this is actually nothing at all in later generations, but in this era, it is regarded as a miracle by the employees of Shangmeiying!

Originally, they may not be convinced by the investment boss in Hong Kong, and they feel in their hearts that it is just a bit of stinky money, if you don't have money, you have the final say, Lao Tzu won't bird you!

But now, many veteran employees of Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio feel that the new venture electronics company can become such a large consortium, and they do have some real skills.

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"Director Tewei, the use of computer-aided post-production has become an inevitable trend in the world, but everyone has little experience. Our new start-up electronics company will not have any gap with its international counterparts in this field......" said Xiao Lei, the leader of the computer post-production technology team who led the team.

The old director of Tewei looked at the busy computer team and felt that he was almost useless, but he said with great concern: "In the future, you need to learn computers to do animation?"

"Yes!" Xiao Lei said, "because the relatively high-performance computers are still relatively expensive for the time being, so this technology has not yet become popular. However, the rule of Moore's Law dictates that every 18 months computer technology will be doubled, or that a computer with original performance will be available for half the price after 18 months. This means that with the continuous reduction of computer prices and the continuous progress of technology, not only will the technology become more and more advanced, but also cheaper! In fact, not only animation, but also movies, TV dramas, and even industry, commerce, and finance, if we fail to grasp the efficiency improvement brought about by the progress of computer technology, we will definitely be defeated by opponents who seize the opportunity!"

"Can we learn how to make animation by computer at Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio?" said the old director Tewei, although he didn't understand computers.

If you are backward, you will be beaten, and this is written in textbooks in this era. The constant repetition makes it difficult for the people in China to tolerate backwardness, believing that the shame of backwardness is the original sin. As long as there are advanced things under their noses, the Chinese people will not only be able to accept them, but also want to master them crazily. But this advanced must be convincing!

"Yes!" Xiao Lei said, "This computer was originally intended to be given to your company with conditions. ”

"Conditions?" said the old factory director Tewei with a little ecstasy, "What conditions?"

Such a large-scale computer is conservatively estimated to be worth millions of dollars, even if the total assets of the entire Shangmei Film Company are not as good as this large-scale computer, of course, it is impossible to buy it, but if it is a free gift, it only consumes a little electricity during the operation, which is still used by Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio.

"Fine Arts Film Studios and we set up a joint venture computer special effects company. Xiao Lei said, "Our company is a shareholder of machinery and equipment, if your factory is willing to invest in human resources and factory land, in the future, half of the equity of the joint venture will be Shangmei Film Studio! In the future, of course, we will provide free training to the employees of the joint venture." ”

"A joint venture, a good joint venture!" The old director of Tewei was very excited, only using some land and human resources, he changed such an advanced large-frame computer, and there was also free staff training, but soon he asked with concern, "In the future, how to calculate the staff establishment of the joint venture factory?"

"The staff of your factory is still your factory's, and the employees of our company are still our company's staff. Adopt an employee dispatch mechanism, and if you perform well in the joint venture, you can continue to retain them. If it's not suitable, go back and forth from there!" "Considering that there is no cash in the initial joint venture, we can consider injecting 1 million yuan in cash to pay salaries in the early stage. In the later stage, it is the joint venture itself that supports itself by orders!"

"Order to support yourself?" Tewei said anxiously, "It is impossible to make any profit by doing post-production for domestic cartoons!"

"Rest assured, our new venture group will provide a large number of OEM orders in overseas markets. Xiao Lei said.

Essentially, the establishment of a joint venture computer special effects post-compositing company in Shanghai by the new venture electronics company is just for the low prices and labor wages in China.

Although employees dispatched from Hong Kong still need to pay basic wages according to the salary standard of the parent company, the number of employees dispatched from Hong Kong is a minority, and the majority of mainland employees recruited from Shanghai are the majority.

Hire a large number of excellent talents with domestic wage standards and carry out OEM work for them. The labor cost saved will be converted into huge profits.

This is similar to the later Apple industry chain, Apple's high profits depend on its transfer of the unprofitable part of the OEM manufacturing to Asia, which has cost advantages. It only retains the most valuable patented technology, brand, channel and other advantages. Since then, Apple has reaped the benefits.

Of course, as previously stated, this is exploitation. But now, the domestic people are begging to be exploited, not to be exploited, and there is no money. If you are exploited to sell cheap labor, and more goods are sold overseas, and do not compete with the domestic market, then it must be the most popular investor.