Chapter 494: Mark Osborne
After leaving Felix Animation's Hong Kong office building, Mark Osborne quickly began to learn about Felix's work.
After all, he still preferred to stay with Felix.
After all, he knows Lin Qi, the founder of Pangu Computer, a technology giant on an equal footing with IBM. Although this company is not listed, referring to the current market value of IBM, it is still the world's top giant of more than two or three billion US dollars.
And such a big boss, personally invited him to the office to talk, naturally attaches great importance to Felix's subsidiary, and it is precisely because of this arrogant young man that he decides to learn about the company's works, and then decide whether to join the company from the beginning.
"Hey, do you guys have any Felix animation here?" asked Mark Osborne, finding a store that sells VCDs and software.
"Felix's works are not very many, but they are all high-quality! Works like "Court of Avalon" and "FSN" are FATE series, which have been sold out at present, and those fans of FATE, inexplicably call themselves moon chefs, buy them when they have money, and the works on the market are all bought by the moon people. The rest is "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", the early animation work of Felix's company, the global box office is not as good as the FATE series, but it also has a cumulative box office of 100 million US dollars, which can be called a masterpiece. The boss who sells VCD enthusiastically introduced, "This disc used to sell very well, but now because it is an old film, there is still one." If you want, it's 80 Hong Kong dollars, Chinese, English and Japanese multilingual version. ”
"The Legend of Sword and Fairy" ...... What kind of weird name is this, how can there be an animated movie called this, it's not a good work when you hear it, I'll take a look. Mark Osborne has always been conceited, and he has always felt that China's animated film production is decades worse than that of the United States. Probably, it's similar to the American Disney animation during World War II, right?
Indeed, if in the parallel world, the level of Chinese animation has stagnated for a long time at the level of about the 60s, even in the 80s, most of the technology used is old and cannot keep up with the technological progress of the world's animation products, but this world has changed because of the existence of Lin Qi.
China's animation industry is the first to abandon traditional film shooting and instead produce entirely on computers. The level of various hardware and software is far ahead of its counterparts in the world.
Even those film and television and animation companies in the United States are reluctant to come up with supercomputers that perform 50 billion floating-point operations per second to produce animation and movie special effects.
However, Mr. Lin is willing to do it, and thinks that it can be used to make animations to test the future bottlenecks and ceilings of hardware technology. In the future, when the PC encounters some problems, there will be a solution in advance.
Mark has never been to China, and it is normal for them not to know about China's strength at this stage, but Lin Qi hopes that after reading Felix's work, he will change his mindset.
Mark Osborne took the disc he bought, which was then shown on the hotel's VCD. When using VCD, Mark Osborne still felt that this product was also invented by Xinchuang Electronics Group and authorized to a subsidiary to operate. Relying only on VCD and CD-ROM, the valuation of Xinfei Electronic Technology is actually higher than that of the American technology giant IBM. Even if it is a bubble, it is a testament to the strength of the new entrepreneurship department.
After the picture came out, Mark Osborne was completely stunned by the exquisite production inside, this is an animated movie, but the characters in it are comparable to real people, even the expressions on his face are lifelike, you will forget that this is animation when you look at it, and animation production also has its advantages, that is, it can make many places that real movies can't do, of course, the production of special effects is also quite laborious and expensive.
"Did I buy the wrong film, this is not produced by Felix. Even though he knew that this was true, Mark Osborne still couldn't accept the reality, and when he thought of him making a big statement in front of Lin Qi yesterday, his face was burning and hurting, as if he had been slapped in the face.
Next, Mark Osborne began to check Pangea Encyclopedia and found that although Felix Animation Company did not have many works, it took a few years to produce an animated movie. However, each one is bound to be a masterpiece, among them, the highest-rated "Court of Avalon", based on the story of King Arthur, grossed $500 million, which can be called one of the world's top animated films, and it is a purely computer-generated animation.
In addition, "FSN", as a sequel to "Court of Avalon", is not as good as "Avalon", but the box office also reached $170 million. The reason why it is not as good as "Avalon" is because "Avalon" is an epic tragedy. And in "FSN", King Arthur was summoned by Shirou and became the main line of love. Although, there are also many battle scenes, but they are not as thrilling as "Court of Avalon".
However, this is only the evaluation of the mainstream audience, and the two-dimensional audience does not think so, and later the two-dimensional audience thinks that "FSN" is beyond "The Court of Avalon", and without this work, there would be no later FATE series.
"That's the case, Mr. Lin, yesterday it was my mistake, I didn't have a good understanding of Felix's strength in advance, so I said excessive words, today I watched "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", I decided to accept the invitation and exercise in Felix's company!" Mark tried very hard to express his meaning in words, he was afraid that this small request would also be refused.
Lin Qi thought about it carefully, he felt that this teenager was much more pragmatic than yesterday, at least, he began to understand that the strength of Felix Animation Company was definitely worse than Disney in the United States.
The gap is more about the accumulation of time and the lack of brand effect. By the time Felix Animation arrives, more and more works will be released, and it may not be impossible to reach the same heights as Disney in the future.
"Okay, welcome to Felix, I wish you a happy job!" Lin Qi said with a smile, "With the ability and rapid growth, if "Kung Fu Panda" is a big hit in the future and makes a sequel, it may not be impossible for you to be the director!"
"Really?" said Mark, excited.
"The premise is that you reach that level!" Lin Qi said seriously. Even though he was the original director of "Kung Fu Panda", his strength is far from being as strong as he was later, so Lin Qizhong helped him grow faster. After growing to that point, "Kung Fu Panda" will release 2, 3 and so on. When the time comes, having Mark Osborne as the director will also be more conducive to the promotion of the film around the world.
After all, the market in Western countries would prefer to see Westerners acting as directors in such blockbuster films. In this way, let them feel that the work was made by their own people, and they will not ignore the movie because of discrimination against Orientals.