At midnight, the guests left one after another, and the work of the company was very efficient, and it only took an hour to restore the messy pie to its original state.

As the servants of the manor and the employees of the company withdrew from the villa one after another, the brightly lit city of Liberty gradually dimmed, and the paparazzi drifting on the distant sea filmed the terrace of the mansion for a whole night, and at this time they also drove the speedboat silently with a harvest.

Changing out of Pai Duì's evening dress, Drew went into the bathroom to take a shower, dressed himself in a fragrant style, put on only one of Eric's sky blue T-shirts, and walked into the bedroom with two little white legs bare.

"Eric, where's my birthday present?" Little Nizi jumped on the big bed, rubbed beside Eric like a cat and asked coquettishly.

Eric pushed aside the girl's little paw that was reaching for the magazine in his hand, and said, "Isn't there a room stacked in the storage room downstairs, and you won't be able to dismantle it all tomorrow." ”

"I'm not rare, I'm asking you about the birthday present you prepared for me?"

"Well, I went to Rodeo Avenue for a walk, and the things there are too expensive to buy......" Seeing that Xiao Nizi was very 'cooperative' and crying with a baby face, Eric then said, "So, I made one myself." ”

After Erik finished speaking, he pulled out a small, beautifully wrapped box from under the pillow behind him and handed it to Drew.

Xiao Nizi couldn't wait to open the box and take things out, a small sketch in a solid wood frame slightly smaller than a 32-page book, a baby-faced girl in a crop top T-shirt and small hot pants, standing on the wide street. With a smile on his lips, he looked at the people passing by on both sides. Besides. The girl had a pair of wings on her back, which were painted a pale gray.

The lines in the picture are very thin, and although the whole painting is only the size of an ordinary photograph, even the fingers and feathers of the girls in the picture appear to be vivid, and it is clear that a lot of thought has been put into it.

Drew looked at the frame in his hand and grinned, obviously very satisfied, but still pointed to the pair of wings of the girl in the picture and said, "Eric." Why is it painted gray? ”

"Because gray symbolizes loss," Eric touched the soft blonde hair of the girl in his arms, recalled many memories of Drew before he was reborn, and the bits and pieces after the two met in this life, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said slowly: "The lost angels with gray wings, they are not burdened with missions and constraints like holy angels, and they are also different from the evil and sinking of fallen angels. They live only for their own pleasure, not inspired and not for the love of the world. Willful and cold, God is jealous of their unrestrainedness. So he called them too selfish and banished them to the world. I happened to pick one up, and I couldn't get out of it, so I drew her out and reminded myself not to make the same mistake again. ”

Drew leaned into Eric's arms and listened quietly, his eyes flashing a few glints. After Eric finished speaking, she threw away the picture frame in her hand and pounced softly on Eric, wrapping her arms around Eric's neck and bringing her rosy lips over emotionally. Eric didn't push Nizi away as he had done before, and put his arms around Drew and kissed him softly.

The next day happened to be Saturday, and Xiao Nizi took the initiative to let the two of them toss until four or five in the morning before falling asleep, Eric got up at ten o'clock in the morning, and Drew stayed in bed until the afternoon to get up.

For the rest of February, Eric spent the rest of the month in intense preparation for Tornado, with multiple rounds of auditions finalizing all the main roles for the film, and by early March, the pre-script breakdown, production schedule, budgeting, and hiring of the cast and crew had been completed.

Located in a studio at the headquarters in Venice Beach, Eric and many technicians waited patiently in front of a small computer.

As a special effects artist sitting in front of the computer skillfully operated the machine in front of him, a moment later, a playback window appeared on the computer screen, and the special effects artist operated the mouse and pressed the play button.

In the silent picture, there is a lonely wooden house standing in the wilderness, but all around the house is displayed on a gray background, and this house is difficult to distinguish between real and fake.

However, everyone present knows that this house is completely CG made of zuò, and after complicated material rendering, it looks difficult to distinguish between real and fake, so no one is surprised. But everyone was excited about the success of their design, even a few months ago, they weren't sure if pure CG special effects would be able to achieve the level of truth and fakeness, but no one doubts it anymore.

A second after the still shot of the house appears, a gray tornado suddenly appears on the left side of the frame, winding towards the house, and as the tentacles of the tornado make contact with the house, the wooden house begins to shake and gradually shatter, although the picture is still and silent, the onlookers seem to hear the roar of the tornado and the crackling sound of the house being dismantled by the wind. Seconds later, the house was devastated by the tornado and reduced to a ruin with only the foundations left.

After a short 8 seconds, everyone in the studio applauded.

Cameron was originally working on the post-production of "Terminator 2" in the digital field, and when he heard that there were good things to see, coupled with Eric's visit to the studio, Cameron was curious to come together, but he didn't expect to see the amazing scene in front of him, as a director who is keen on technology, Cameron can understand the technical content contained in this short 8-second shot better than anyone.

After the picture ended, Cameron patted Eric on the shoulder and said, "It's unbelievable, I can't imagine that these are all made entirely by computer special effects, if I didn't know it in advance, I would definitely think that the house was real, and the picture of the house being destroyed by a tornado is even more shocking." ”

Stan on the other side. "It's just too expensive, and the 8-second shot cost $3 million, which is enough to make a good independent film, and it's a pity that the shot can't be used in the movie," Winston lamented. ”

Eric was relieved as he watched the special effects artist play back the footage he had just played.

Although the picture is not complete and there are no other scenes around the house, this short 8-second shot just makes the render farm that has just invested $10 million in the digital field to work at full load for 16 hours, and the huge processor cluster of the render farm burned more than $100,000 in power consumption alone.

However, at this time, Eric did not feel sorry for the $3 million invested in the camera in these 8 seconds, he was full of excitement like the special effects artists around him. The results of this footage at least prove that all the money and energy he has invested in this year has been worth it.

"Alright, Stan, these inputs are necessary, if you can't accurately test the feasibility of the Tornado CG shot, there will be no need for the film to be made, let's go to your office and talk." (To be continued......)