California is a state on the western Pacific coast of the United States.

It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, Mexico to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west, covering an area of 411013 square kilometers.

The world-famous "Hollywood" and "Silicon Valley" are located here.

A week later, Zhang Heng and his entourage came to Los Angeles, located in southwest California, USA, and came to this place known as the "City of Angels".

Zhang Heng came to the United States mainly for two things, one is about the comic color printer, which has been completed.

The second thing is that in the future, Zhang Heng will move the comics of Oriental Animation Company to the big screen, and make them into cartoons and animated films, which require high special effects technology, and there is no such special effects company in Xiangjiang at present.

The purpose of Zhang Heng's trip was to acquire a better special effects production company in Hollywood and then slowly develop its technology, until he could use it, Zhang Heng originally came here without a goal.

Later generations everyone knows that the cost of making a sci-fi blockbuster is very high, and a large part of this high cost is spent on special effects, and the special effects company has made a lot of money.

However, few people know that it takes a lot of money to open a special effects company and maintain its leading technology, so even Hollywood, which has a very developed film industry today, does not have a decent special effects company because it rarely uses special effects.

But when Zhang Heng saw a large poster opposite, he immediately had an idea in his heart.

"Star Wars, the sci-fi movie directed and produced by acclaimed director George Lucas, will meet you on May 24......"

This Star Wars poster reminds Zhang Heng of the special effects company "Industrial Light & Magic" established for this movie

When the filming of "Star Wars" started the year before last, because there were a large number of special effects in the film, because the talents in this area were scattered everywhere at that time, it was difficult to ensure that the ideal effect was produced.

Star Wars director George Lucas chose to set up a special effects company called Industrial Light & Magic in an old warehouse in Fannouse, California.

ILM is a very famous film special effects production company in later generations, since George Lucas founded the company and participated in the special effects production of his own movie "Star Wars", and then in 2017, ILM has provided visual effects production services for more than 300 films, even in 2017, ILM still represents the top production level of the world's film special effects industry, and its technical achievements are unparalleled, becoming the world's largest special effects production company.

The miracle of ILM is not limited to the many amazing CG and visual effects created in many films, but also in that it has ushered in a new era in the film special effects industry, winning 15 Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects until 2017.

It is worth mentioning that ILM has an internal department called the "Computer Animation Group", which specializes in full 3D animation.

But Lucas wasn't interested in this technique, he was more interested in creating photorealistic cinematic special effects.

Later, he sold this computer department to Steve Jobs, Zhang Heng's current business partner Jobs, and the department later developed into a big name in animation production, Pixar Animation Studios.

The day after arriving in Los Angeles, Zhang Heng inquired about the location of George Lucas, who established a film company called Lucasfilm in San Francisco, California in 1971, and Lucas is currently working for his company.

After making an appointment, Zhang Heng met George Lucas three days later.

"Hello, Mr. Zhang, I don't know what happened to me in the year?"

"Hello Mr. Lucas, it's a pleasure to meet you, I like your movie very much............" Zhang Heng did not directly say the purpose of his trip

Lucas listened to the legendary comic king in front of him, and now the teenager with a net worth of hundreds of millions likes his movies very much, and his heart is still very useful.

But in the next few sentences, it can be seen that Zhang Hengtu is exhausted

"Mr. Lucas, I heard that you set up a special effects company for the filming of Star Wars, which is really admirable," Zhang Heng asked

"Yes, because Star Wars requires a lot of special effects, I built ILM," Lucas said with a bit of smugness

"Mr. Lucas, do you know my comics?" Zhang Heng began to stir up the topic with bad intentions

"Oh, of course I know, I really like your Oriental anime manga, especially the Transformers book I really like, it's simply God's masterpiece, what a genius idea" Lucas said with a smile

Seeing Zhang Heng looking at himself with a smile and a word, Lucas suddenly had an idea and said, "You should want to put the Transformers on the big screen!"

"I can do it this way, I don't think there is any one in Hollywood that can do it well, if you want to give the special effects to ILM, as a fan of Transformers, I can give you a 20% discount," Lucas said to himself

"Yes, Mr. Lucas, you are so smart, I do want to bring Transformers to the big screen, and not only Transformers, I will put all my comics on the silver screen," Zhang Hengyu said without surprise

Although Lucas was surprised, he still said, "You can rest assured, these industrial light and magic can be completed very well, you can rest assured that we will complete it, I believe that there is no special effects company in Hollywood that can surpass us." ”

"Mr. Lucas, I want Industrial Light & Magic to work for me for a long time

"That's fine, Ilight & Magic isn't very busy at the moment, and it can work for you for a long time," Lucas said

"No, no, Mr. Lucas, you may not understand what I mean, I want to be able to buy ILM for a long time and then work for me, and I hope Mr. Lucas can do it. Zhang Heng said bluntly

"Oh no my God, what did I hear, it can't be, ILM is my child, I'm not going to sell it," Lucas said with an exaggerated expression, as if he didn't want to move without ILM.

Zhang Heng looked at Lucas's exaggerated appearance, although his expression was very realistic, he could score 95 points.

But Zhang Heng does not believe that Lucas will be inseparable from ILM, because Zhang Heng knows that Lucas is different from other big American directors, he is not only a director and movie lover, he is also a shrewd businessman, he will not give up money for movies like other directors.

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