Chapter 744: Special Effect Level
Lu Ziping's popularity grew faster than Xu Qing expected. And in fact, it is an opportunity for the film and television drama adaptation of "Tomb Robbery Notes", and Xu Qing didn't think that he would enter the plan so quickly.
Many excellent novels in the previous life, in fact, film and television drama adaptations did not follow.
To put it simply, the era of IP adaptation has only been on the right track since 15 years. Therefore, after the previous excellent novels sold the copyright at a low price, the period of film and television drama adaptation is far away.
Therefore, the works such as Tomb Robbery Notes, Martial Arts, etc., were finally adapted into film and television dramas after several years passed after they became popular.
But the parallel world is different from the previous life after all. While the level of the novel industry lags behind Xu Qing's previous life, the speed of development of science and technology has not slowed down.
The functions of smartphones are not far behind those of Xu Qing's previous life, and other science and technology have also followed.
The special effects of the TV series have been improved, which provides a solid foundation for the adaptation of IP masterpieces.
When those novels became popular, it wasn't that no one thought of making them into TV series and showing them.
But the actual situation is that those classic online masterpieces, such as tomb robbery notes, Zhu Xian, and Dou Po such stories. If you want to shoot it, the requirements for special effects are definitely not low.
You got the copyright of Zhuxian, and then you shot it with garbage special effects from the 80s. Fans of the original novel will not be grateful to you for presenting the classics on the screen, and will definitely greet your eight generations of ancestors very cordially.
To put it simply, special effects are also developing rapidly.
In 05, one step "Wuji" became the pinnacle of the Chinese film industry. If you look at it now, these special effects of Wuji at that time were actually quite ridiculous, and there were more people complaining about "Wuji" on the Internet, and Xu Qing was too lazy to follow the trend.
But to put it simply, the "Wuji" at that time was indeed the pinnacle of the Chinese film industry at that time, so he dared to brazenly call for the international film industry.
The result is known to everyone. There is indeed no King's Landing.
But to put it simply, the special effects of the level of "Wuji" were indeed the top level in China at the beginning. The huge investment is not a joke.
However, if you regard the world's top special effects level before Xu Qing's rebirth as a full score of 100 points.
In films such as "Ant-Man" and "Guardians of the Galaxy", the special effects can be regarded as more than 95 points.
If you want to build a fairy world like Zhuxian without dragging your feet, you have to have at least seventy percent of the special effects level.
To create an adventure world like Tomb Raider Notes, it would take more than 60 special effects.
At the beginning, "Wuji" and several other Chinese special effects films of the same period, although they were leading at the time, but after the special effects technology was improved, it was at most 50 points.
So at that time, since it was possible to make a special effects movie like "Wu Ji", in fact, with the same level of special effects, it was not impossible to barely spread out the world of tomb robbery notes.
But the actual situation is that the level of Wuji's special effects will not be worth much later. But in the year 05, it was worth a lot.
There is no one else, but there is an investment of 30 million US dollars, according to the original exchange rate, it is an investment of 240 million RM yuan.
The result was 240 million, which made a result at the level of "Wuji" in more than ten minutes. At the beginning, Wuji's gimmick was the world's top special effects blockbuster. Therefore, the investment in special effects accounts for a considerable proportion.
The cost of such special effects is so high. The eighty-episode "Zhu Xian" tetralogy, you paid for me to shoot it?
"Notes on Tomb Robbery" was written in 06. The popular TV series in 06 years, the cost of special effects and "Wuji" at that time was not much different.
Even if only the first part is made, this cost is enough to discourage the vast majority of top directors. And the actual situation is, how much did Wuji's script cost? How much does it cost to copyright your tomb robbery notes?
Many times, these top directors shoot film and television works, and the works that you have become famous for are often not necessarily within the scope of other people's goals.
On the one hand, it is because the copyright cost of famous works is indeed too high, and on the other hand, the top directors of other people want to turn decay into magical characters.
Therefore, directors are very keen on garbage scripts like "Wu Ji". But if I respect the original work of fiction, how can I show my ability if I respect the original work?
And if I don't respect the original book, will there be a large number of fans of the novel who will be dissatisfied with me?
There is no need to hang yourself from a tree, so those top directors at the beginning, even if they made blockbusters, rarely adapted from novels.
If you are not a top director, who can afford to attract so much investment?
So even the movie form of "Notes on Tomb Robbery", when it was remade, it was already a long time after the novel became popular. It is not until the level of special effects at the level of sixty points is not so valuable that such a work can be officially put on the right track.
If you take it out in advance, it is indeed inevitable that such an excellent work will be ruined.
In the last life, many classics were long-awaited by readers. But in the end, it was not until the price of 60 and 70 special effects was reduced that film and television dramas officially entered the era of IP adaptation, and these classics were put on the screen one after another.
But in this life, even if there is no Xu Qing, in fact, people's special effects technology has also been improved.
The top international blockbuster is still quite shocking. And because the golden age of online novels has not yet arrived, this parallel world is actually a situation where there is still a large market for martial arts novels.
To put it simply, if the writing is in place, the ability to conceive the plot is in place. Even if it is a martial arts theme that has declined in the previous life, he can write extremely excellent works.
And these martial arts works, with the current high-end special effects capabilities. In fact, the results of the shooting are also very shocking.
For example, in one of the most popular martial arts movies in recent times, every time the protagonist performs martial arts, a dragon-shaped internal qi will quickly appear around him.
A warrior had a serious face, but there was a lifelike translucent golden dragon swimming quickly beside him. That feeling is really quite shocking.
Even Xu Qing, who watched this scene in the cinema at the time, couldn't help but feel deeply.