Lucas has been successful both as a director and as a businessman.

Zhang Heng remembers that in 2012, Lucas sold Lucasfilm, including its rights to Industrial Light & Magic and Star Wars, to Disney for $4.05 billion.

So Zhang Heng thinks that Lucas is not the kind of person who treats money like dung.

So Zhang Heng persuaded and explained, "No, Mr. Lucas, it's not right for you to do this, Hollywood movies don't need high special effects technology today, except for Star Wars, I believe that there is no other movie that will hand over special effects to Industrial Light & Magic!" ”

"This ............" Lucas was a little embarrassed

Zhang Heng continued, "If you want to keep the technology of Industrial Light & Magic leading the world, you need to invest a lot of money, and at present, Industrial Light & Magic is not able to earn funds for its own development, which needs to be funded by Mr. Lucas himself, so how long can you support Mr. Lucas?" ”

"If ILM doesn't have the money, I'm sure it will soon be eliminated by other special effects companies, and I don't think that's what Mr. Lucas wants to see."

"If Mr. Lucas handed over ILM to me, I would invest a lot of money to develop him into the world's No. 1 special effects company," Zhang Heng said with a sincere face.

Zhang Heng This is complete nonsense, when Star Wars became popular all over the world, there were still many film companies who were willing to hand over their company's movie special effects to ILM, but Lucas didn't understand what kind of height Star Wars would reach.

Lucas thought about it carefully, and thought that Zhang Heng's analysis was good, and now all the money he has earned over the years has been invested in Industrial Light and Magic, and the speed at which Industrial Light and Magic burns money does make Lucas a little unbearable, but even so, Lucas will not sell Industrial Light and Magic cheaply, after all, this is also his hard work.

"But I've already invested a lot of money and energy, and it's a shame to give up now." ”

As soon as Zhang Heng heard this, he understood that Lucas was asking for the price

Zhang Heng thought for a while and said, "I know that Industrial Light & Magic has condensed your hard work, so I'm willing to bid $50 million to acquire Industrial Light & Magic." ”

Lucas is still very satisfied with this figure, he has only invested less than $20 million before and after, and how can he not be satisfied with being able to get $50 million now!

It's just that Lucas just instinctively bargained and said, "This...... ILM is Hollywood's top special effects company......"

Zhang Heng asked rhetorically, "If Industrial Light & Magic is not Hollywood's top special effects company, can he still be worth $50 million?" ”

Lucas was speechless and a little embarrassed when asked, Zhang Heng knew that he might have to cooperate with Lucas in the future, and he would also give him a step

"I know that Industrial Light & Magic is Mr. Lucas, your hard work is a little reluctant, I promise that in the future, I will give you a 20% discount on the movies directed by Mr. Lucas," Zhang Heng said

"Okay!" Lucas said

"Tomorrow we will go to Industrial Light & Magic together, let's go and make an announcement, and I will introduce it to you."

The next day, Zhang Heng appeared in the company in a formal suit, and when Zhang Heng arrived, Lucas and the employees were all there, and then Lucas announced the news that Industrial Light & Magic had changed hands.

Zhang Heng saw that the employees below were panicked, there was no way, who called Zhang Heng face!

However, Zhang Heng is still very experienced in such a scene, that is, smashing with money, Zhang Heng stepped forward and picked up the microphone and said

"Hello everyone, let me introduce myself first, my name is Zhang Heng from Xiangjiang and I am a cartoonist.

My manga may have been read by many people, but if you have seen the manga of Oriental anime, then I would like to thank you for your support.

Because of the Transformers, Dragon Ball......... I painted them, and I am also the chairman of Oriental Animation, and the purpose of my acquisition of Industrial Light & Magic is to bring my comics under Oriental Animation Company to the big screen."

"So you don't have to worry about running out of things to do, this year I'm going to invest $50 million in ILM to develop and update our technology, and at the same time recruit more special effects talent to develop a large industrial LM."

"In addition, I am committed to investing at least $50 million a year in the development of ILM."

Zhang Heng stood on the podium and said impassionedly

When the employees heard that Zhang Heng was the legendary animation king, they all admired this oriental teenager, and when Zhang Heng said that he would invest 50 million US dollars this year, his heart became a lot more steady, and when Zhang Heng finally promised to invest 50 million funds every year to develop industrial light and magic, everyone cheered.

These people are very fond of the work of special effects, so they are very happy to hear that Zhang Heng is willing to vigorously develop special effects, the previous boss Lucas is very stingy, and there has not been much progress in special effects technology this year, they think that Zhang Heng is a wise boss.

In the next few days, Zhang Heng stayed in the Industrial Light & Magic Company to deal with some things, as well as some future plans for Industrial Light & Magic.

Zhang Heng knew that in his previous life, although Industrial Light and Magic was the world's top special effects company, it was not invincible in the world.

and Cameron's Digital Realm, New Zealand's Peter. Jackson's Weta is the world's top special effects company.

Weta Digital has "Avatar", "The Lord of the Rings", "The Adventures of Tintin", "King Kong", "Rise of the Apes", "The Hobbit", "The Avengers", "Prometheus", ............

The digital realm includes Transformers 1, Transformers 2, Transformers 3, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Pirates of the Caribbean III – The End of the World, Titanic, and Dreams Come True............

And Zhang Heng can't follow the old path if he wants to develop ILM into the world's largest and best special effects company.

Zhang Heng reorganized Industrial Light & Magic and established a new company called Oriental Magic, which was divided into three branches, namely Industrial Light & Magic, Digital Magic, and Digital Animation.

ILM specializes in mimicking mechanical and architectural technologies, such as Transformers

Digital Magic, on the other hand, specializes in mimicking techniques for constructing large-scale scenes, such as ocean tsunamis the day after tomorrow

Digital animation is mainly responsible for techniques that specialize in mimicking creatures, such as avatars and the like

In this way, each special effects company has its own strengths, and each special effects company has its own core technology, and can learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, compete with each other and make progress together.

At the same time, Zhang Heng spent a lot of money to recruit top special effects personnel from all over the world, so Zhang Heng deliberately recalled the special effects talents in his previous life, recruiting Richard Taylor, Jimmy Selkirk, Scott Ross............ and other special effects are powerful.

After all, although the special effects are made by the computer, it is the people who operate it after all, and the special effects made by people with different skills are completely different from the same computer.

Zhang Heng believes that in the future, Oriental Magic will definitely be able to become a special effects company that shocks the world.