As soon as Alan Husenfeld finished speaking, another voice sounded behind him: "Eric, don't you mind if we also hear what you think of Transformers?"

Eric turned his head, and Michael Eisner and Edgar Bronfman walked side by side.

Michael Eisner and Edgar Bronfman noticed Alan Hassenfeld coming up to talk to Eric not far away, and hurriedly walked over to try to stop a possible negotiation between the two about the rights of the Transformers.

Although Firefly is cold to the Transformers copyright on the surface, no one can deny that it is the strongest competitor for the Transformers copyright, and the details of Alan Halsenfeld's initiative to contact Eric made Michael Eisner and the two have a sense of crisis, and if Eric is allowed to snatch the Transformers copyright at the Universal party, they will become the laughing stock of Hollywood.

"Of course, Michael," Eric smiled and nodded, he certainly didn't mind Michael Eisner's audition, and he even hoped that his next words would spread throughout Hollywood.

With the actions of Michael Eisner and the others, some guests from other studios who noticed the situation also came in casually, and they were also very interested in the Transformers rights.

Diane Kruger and Cindy Crawford, who leaned next to Eric, found that in just a few minutes, Eric was once again the center of attention in the room, surrounded by the executives of the film company who had been difficult for them to reach before, but now surrounded Eric like a moon and moon, making a deaf gesture without any shackles. The two of them were fine holding Eric's arm, but the three daughters of Linda Ivangolinsta were unceremoniously squeezed to the periphery of the crowd by these big people, and they couldn't help but look at the two of them with envy in their eyes.

Although Diane Kruger and Cindy Crawford knew that these big people didn't care about the two of them at all, they still inexplicably felt a kind of satisfaction and pride in their hearts.

Alan Hasenfeld looked at the people around him and Eric's confident appearance, but he had a bad feeling. I also regretted that I had just taken the initiative to talk to Eric.

Eric's current posture obviously doesn't seem to mean to say good things about Transformers.

Moreover, with Eric's status in Hollywood, what he said would never be lightly ignored in the past, and Alan Husenfield did not believe that Eric would talk nonsense simply to suppress the Transformers copyright.

Really. Patiently waiting for everyone to come around, Eric said: "When I heard that everyone was paying attention to the adaptation rights of the Transformers movie recently, I also became interested in this toy series, and privately considered some production plans, but finally came to the conclusion that with the current conditions, Transformers does not have much adaptation value, and if you force a live-action movie, the cost and risk are very large." ”

If it weren't for someone who linked the Transformers movie adaptation rights to Fireflies in a roundabout way. There wouldn't be so many people in contention. Nine out of ten people didn't believe Eric's words, but they didn't rush to refute them.

Eric looked around and continued, "According to my vision, if I were to make a live-action movie, the image design of Transformers should be a complex and sophisticated mechanical life form composed of hundreds or thousands of parts, full of metallic texture. These lifeforms also need to be able to transition flawlessly and flexibly between cars and robots. I discussed my idea in detail with the special effects engineer in the digital field and came to the conclusion: If it is produced according to this idea, the CG special effects of the film will be more than ten times more difficult to produce than "Jurassic Park", and the production cost is even more sky-high. ”

After Eric finished speaking, Michael Eisner, although he had a smile on his face, asked very sharply, "Eric, I'm curious." Transformers are more than ten times more difficult to make than Jurassic Park, how did you calculate this 'ten'?"

Everyone around me just used Eric's 'tenfold' as an adjective to describe the difficulty of making Transformers, and if Michael Eisner hadn't spoken, no one would have chewed on the words.

But Michael Eisner suddenly took advantage of this to attack Eric, and everyone still had a sincere curiosity on their faces. But I couldn't help but gloat in my heart, wanting to see how Eric planned to deal with Michael Eisner's tricky question.

To their disappointment, Eric did not have any annoyance or anger in his expression, and when he heard Michael Eisner's question, the smile on the corner of his mouth remained unchanged, and he said: "Michael, I think you must not be clear about the specific software development, technical testing, 3D modeling and other processes involved in CG special effects, let's take the most critical image rendering of CG special effects as an example." The digital special effects engineer told me that if I wanted to achieve the kind of CG effects I needed, every frame of the film involving CG effects would require a state-of-the-art rendering workstation to work for 630 hours of continuous work. ”

Hearing the surprised inhalation around him, Eric smiled: "Everyone will definitely think that 630 hours of rendering time is a bit incredible, but if you don't believe it, you can call the digital field to verify, of course, there is another point, the digital field has 10,000 rendering servers in the large post-rendering farm that has just been built in Florida, and if all the work is done, it only takes more than 3 minutes to render such a frame of pictures, which seems insignificant." But don't forget, I'm just talking about one frame, if we assume that this film has 30 minutes of special effects scenes, then the number of frames involved is 43,200 frames, even if all the rendering parameters of the picture can be done in one step, without any testing, and it would take the rendering farm in the digital realm to run at full capacity for 115 days to complete the whole work, and "Jurassic Park" two years ago The post-rendering work only took about a month, and it was still using the render farm in Venice Beach, which was about to be phased out in the digital field, and if you take into account the difference in computing speed, the render farm in Florida should be eight times the size of the Venice Beach render farm because of the comprehensive upgrade of scale and equipment. So, I just said that Transformers is more than ten times more difficult to make than Jurassic Park, and there is nothing wrong with that. ”

Michael Eisner's expression is slight, and CG special effects have risen strongly in recent years. Of course, he couldn't have understood nothing.

If what Eric said is true, then the current "Transformers" really has no production value, and the 115 consecutive days of post-rendering workload, even if the producer is willing to pay this huge rendering fee, the digital field will not be willing to take it. The digital realm receives orders for special effects from dozens of films, large and small, every year, and it's impossible for a single film to occupy a render farm for four months.

And. In the whole of Hollywood, only the digital field has enough economic strength to build large-scale rendering farms, and other second- and third-tier special effects companies can often only rent rendering servers from large companies on a small scale.

Michael Eisner fell silent, but Alan Hasenfeld asked, "Eric, can't we lower the production specifications?"

"Of course you can, I just don't know if the audience will buy it," Eric shrugged. He laughed again: "I'm a bit of a perfectionist, which is not a good habit when it comes to making movies." So you can ignore what I just said, there must be a cheap production plan, and you can even shoot it with a model, this will definitely be cheaper, and I will go to the cinema to see it when the time comes. ”

When everyone heard Eric's words, they all scolded him, and Eric said so. How could they ignore it?

Eric didn't care about killing and burying it, and he finished speaking. Feeling a little hungry, he left behind the people with different thoughts and walked towards the buffet table in the hall.

Cindy Crawford and Diane Kruger continued to follow Eric, as did Linda Ivan Gorinsta, who had just been squeezed out of the periphery.

Picking up a plate and picking out food with Eric, Cindy Crawford asked, "Eric, does it really take 630 hours?"

Eric pinched the grilled shrimp on his plate. Nodding, "yes, it's a lot of technical detail, but it's true that more than 600 hours of rendering time." ”

Diane Kruger also said, "Doesn't that mean that Transformers will never be made?"

"Of course not, according to Moore's Law in the semiconductor industry. The speed of the computer doubles every year and a half to two years, so it only takes ten years, and it only takes more than ten hours to render the same frame, and then other technologies will develop in tandem, and it will be very easy to complete what I just envisioned. ”

In 1995, the semiconductor industry had just entered the microprocessor era for a few years, and the mainstream CPU cores were all made of 0.35 micron processes, which was still a long way from the nanometer era. The lowest level of instructions in a computer's CPU is actually a collection of 0 and 1 instructions issued by millions of transistors, and as the semiconductor process develops with Moore's Law, the number of transistors continues to double, and the speed at which the CPU processes information doubles correspondingly.

Ten years later, what would have taken more than ten hours to complete, now takes more than 600 hours, and this limitation is not so easy to break, and we can only wait patiently for the development of technology. Therefore, now is not the time to make Transformers at all.

Moreover, Eric's repeated mention of the digital realm just now also sends another message to those people, that is, in Hollywood, even if you want to make Transformers, you can't bypass the digital realm. Because in the whole of Hollywood, only the digital field has the ability to undertake Transformers special effects. Although the digital field has been operating independently in recent years and has not turned down any special effects orders from Firefly's competitors, this does not mean that Firefly cannot do so.

As for ILM, in recent years, almost all CG special effects blockbusters have been produced in the digital field, and the continuous special effects orders have not only brought a large amount of income to the digital field, but also allowed the digital field to have sufficient financial strength to continuously invest in technology research and development. At this time, the digital field has left industrial light and magic far behind in terms of technology accumulation. Take the render farm in the digital field as an example, Firefly has invested a huge amount of 100 million US dollars in the render farm in Florida for the digital field, and the powerful computing power is enough to support the rendering needs of all orders in the digital field, and even if ILM can grit its teeth and squeeze out 100 million US dollars to build a render farm of the same scale, the income from its CG special effects orders may not even be enough to support the maintenance and upgrade costs of such a large-scale render farm.

Eric thought about this, and Cindy Crawford, who was beside him, heard what he had just said, but said, "Ten years, at most, is only six times as long, how can it become more than ten hours." ”

Eric was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and smiled, looked at the other women, obviously showed a puzzled expression, and couldn't help but sigh at the mathematical level of these beautiful beauties.

But Diane Kruger was the first to understand, and said: "It doesn't seem to be six times, if it is doubled continuously, it should be two to the sixth power, that is, ...... Well, sixty-four, Eric, am I right?"

"Clever," Eric nodded, picking up a grilled shrimp and handing it over, "Now, reward you." ”

"Hehe," said Diane Kruger, smiling happily, and looking at the other women, especially Cindy Crawford, with a slight smug look on her face. Cindy Crawford was around Eric, making her feel threatened.

Cindy Crawford noticed Diane Kruger's eyes and sneered with some disdain in her heart, what a fool, how many men would like smart women. Thinking so in her heart, Cindy Crawford's expression had already brought out a little resentment, and she stretched out the dinner plate in front of Eric, and said in a soft tone, "Eric, I want it too." ”

"Okay," Eric picked up a grilled shrimp and brought it to Cindy Crawford's plate, watching the other three girls reach over as well, and joked as he grabbed the grilled shrimp, "Why don't we take all the grilled shrimp on this tray?"

Seeing Eric make a posture to hold up the entire tray, several women hurriedly stopped it and said with a smile: "Hehe, don't, you will be laughed to death." ”

After eating some food, dancing with a few more women, and noticing that Hasbro's CEO, Alan Husenfield, had left the party shortly after talking to him, and Eric had the intention of leaving.

It's just that, looking at Diane Kruger and Cindy Crawford, who seemed to be leaving with him, and even the expectant eyes of the other three girls, Eric could only say, "Cindy, I'm going home." ”

"Eric, I haven't been to Sharp Horn Manor, can you show me there?" said Cindy Crawford boldly, completely ignoring Diane Kruger on the other side. (To be continued.) )