Spark Company, Animation Division.

As the original "League of Legends Universe" team, the animation department established after the rectification.

Today, the anime department has more than 50 people, and many more people have increased these days, stepping up the production of the "League of Legends" promo!

Since "League of Legends" has a theme song, can it really be missing a promotional video?

That kind of game introduction, skill display, can be directly recorded in the game, but if you want to promote the game, you still have to have a promotional video.

During this time, the animation department has been working on game promos, a fully CG promotional film that is comparable to Hollywood movies!

"Mr. Li!"

Li Ming was in the animation department, and a sister paper called a sentence, and many people looked over.

If you want to say which department Li Ming is the most popular in, there is no doubt that it is the animation department.

The sister who is engaged in this industry, likes anime and two-dimensional, that's basically ...... Otaku?!

Even if it's not, it's very special, I always like to tease Li Ming!

"Hmm!" Li Ming nodded and said, "What about your sister Yuting?

"It should ...... I'll take Mr. Li over, right?

The ghostly short-haired girl took Li Ming and walked towards the company's special effects studio.

The special effects studio is an independent department, and because the anime department uses it the most, it is close to this side.

In addition to the anime department, the games department and the entertainment department also use movies, but they are used less.

"Boss!!"

"Mr. Li!"

Wen Yuting and Leng Yuanliang, the person in charge of the special effects studio, were carefully watching the promotional video frame by frame, when Jian Li Ming came over and immediately said hello.

"Tomorrow, the overseas version of "League of Legends" will be launched, and the promotional video will be launched, is it too late?"

Li Ming glanced at the picture on the computer that was divided into frames and asked Wen Yuting and Leng Yuanliang.

Wen Yuting looked a little tired, as a beautiful lady, her dark circles and eye bags are also obvious now, which shows that she has worked hard: "The promotional video has been done, you take a look first, if it's okay, this is the finished product!"

Wen Yuting's voice fell, and Leng Yuanliang also clicked on the computer, called up the made promotional video, and clicked to play.

The screen is played on the big screen in the special effects studio!

The first thing the promotional video enters is the world background in "League of Legends" - Valoran Continent, just a slow motion, everyone can see the grandeur, vicissitudes and mystery of this continent!

The War College, Noxus, Demacia, Freljord, Zaun, Shadow Isle, and several other city-states and islands all disappeared in a flash, and finally fell to Freljord.

This is a coming-of-age video about Ice Archer Ash, which is only a few minutes long, but from childhood to adulthood, Ash gets a gorgeous bow carved from ice and leads the tribe to become the most powerful of Freljord.

In just a few minutes of video, there is a feeling of watching a Hollywood blockbuster, every picture, every person, and every action seems smooth, real, and ...... Shock!

Ice Shooter, as the initial hero, is also the hero of the League of Legends Universe team, which is very well completed, and the backstory of this hero is made into a promotional video, which feels like this is not a game trailer, but a movie trailer!

"How do I feel like I'm watching a movie, not a game trailer!"

From the beginning to the end of the promotional video, Li Ming gave birth to such an illusion.

Leng Yuanliang touched his nose, I don't know what to say, this promotional video is Li Ming agreeing to do this, and now you say it's a movie promotional video?

But it makes sense!

Even when their special effects department was working on it, it felt like it was making a movie, not a game trailer!

Don't underestimate this promotional video that is less than ten minutes long, if it weren't for the supercomputer to render it, these few minutes of promotional video would need millions of ...... USD!

Take the picture of the Valoran continent and several city-states and islands that the promotional film just cuts into as an example, it takes dozens of hours to render a shot and a machine here, and there are 24 frames in a second!

Even if there are hundreds of machines rendering at the same time, then dozens of hours will only render a mere 10 seconds of content!!

To make a large-scale film and television special effects movie, you can't do it without good hardware support!

Generally, large special effects companies and studios have their own in-house render farms, and there are at least hundreds of machines running at the same time in the render farms, and these machines have a large memory.

The amount of data for large-scale special effects is large, and the network transmission speed has to keep up, which is super expensive.

At the same time, the transfer speed of ordinary hard disks is very slow, a special effect cache is hundreds of GB, according to the ordinary transfer speed is very time-consuming, and some data amounts are even calculated by TB.

Not all companies can have the computing power of Xinghuo Company to do rendering, which is comparable to the supercomputer of Sunway Taihu Light.

That's why special effects are so expensive!

Not to mention the hardware, the average special effects company, hundreds of machines in the rendering farm are running, and the electricity bill alone is not a small amount!

To put it bluntly, the supercomputer used by Xinghuo Company is used to make special effects, which is a dragon slayer knife used to kill chickens!

Otherwise, in such a short time, these few minutes of CG promotional video can't be made at all, even if it is made...... That's also miserable, at most five cents special effects, where can this effect be achieved.

Although it's just a promotional film, it's also to accumulate experience for future animations and movies, maybe this promotional film, there are still a lot of deficiencies in details, but the sister paper and special effects department of the animation department have done their best.

And one more, too little time!

If it weren't for the company's supercomputing for rendering, it would be impossible for Wen Yuting to do a good job of the animated promotional film within a month!

Wen Yuting took off her glasses, rubbed her dry eyes, looked at Li Ming, the big boss, and said helplessly: "Isn't this promotional film script approved by you, Mr....... Li?

"Alright, alright!" Li Ming hurriedly waved his hand and said: "I didn't say that I would redo it, I said that it was done very well, it feels like watching a Hollywood blockbuster, I feel that the content of this story will be expanded to one and a half or two hours, and it will be released in the cinema!"

"This is true, but if it is really going to be expanded into a 2-hour movie, the CG of the battle will be more difficult to do, and in this promotional video, we only captured the picture of the ice shooter Ash, and the enemies attacked by her. It's really going to be that kind of large-scale war...... It won't be possible in a few years. ”

Although Leng Yuanliang also agrees with the boss Li Ming's statement, after all, when he led the people in the special effects department and the animation department to make this promotional video, he also felt a bit wasteful, how good would it be if it was made into a movie?

When the time comes, it will definitely be the top CG movie in Chinese history, absolutely unprecedented!

As for the latter comer...... Only the Spark company itself can surpass it!

But...... If you really want to make a full CG movie, the cost is not ordinarily high, and the time is also calculated in years!

If you really want to make this kind of movie, it is better to use live shooting, with special effects in post.

Even if you make a full CG, many props are not realistic enough, and clothes, armor, weapons, etc. need to be realistically made and then scanned into the computer.