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There are no high-rise buildings in the urban area, but three or four storey high, artistic buildings are hidden in the green shade, and the clean roads are wide and straight, with a kind of tranquility away from the bustling.

But this Hollywood-wide art park is an integral part of American cinema, home to dozens of special effects companies and studios that generate a staggering amount of money each year.

The blue sky digital special effects production studio that Lu Chen will inspect is one of the best.

This special effects studio is very young, only 5 years old, but it has already participated in the production of special effects for many Hollywood blockbusters, and has a passionate and energetic team.

And the members of Blue Sky Special Effects are all very young, the three co-founders Mill, Andrew and Christopher are all graduates of the University of Southern California, and the oldest is only 29 years old.

It is precisely for the above reasons that Li Cha specially recommended Blue Sky Special Effects to Lu Chen as a partner of Chenfei Media, rather than other old but more powerful special effects companies.

Because those old big companies are often arrogant, they like to make Chinese money, but they are never willing to exchange their technology, even if they are willing to sell part of the shares, it is often a lion's mouth.

Blue Sky Special Effects is also currently facing financial problems, and this studio does not have the problems of large companies, which is undoubtedly a very suitable partner for Chenfei Media.

The only problem is that the blue sky special effects are not well-known in the industry, and there are basically not many people in China who know its name, but Li Cha guarantees their level.

If it weren't for the fact that DreamWorks had just received an advertising business that needed to be completed, Richard would have flown over in person.

Jenny's car stopped in front of a 4-story building.

The circular building resembles a flying saucer, with a silver-grey glass façade that glows in the sunlight and a row of logos and names of different companies on the monuments erected in front of the entrance gate.

Blue Sky Studios is located on the third floor of this building.

Under the guidance of Jenny, Lu Chen and Chen Fei'er took the elevator to their destination.

As soon as the elevator door opened, the flash of the camera immediately lit up, which shocked Lu Chen and the others!

I saw a group of young men and women gathered in the elevator hall, either holding SLR cameras or holding mobile phones, looking elated onlookers.

"Mr. Lu Chen, welcome to our Blue Sky Studio!"

A young man in a blue T-shirt and jeans took the lead and stretched out his hand to Lu Chen with a smile on his face.

As soon as Jenny stepped out of the elevator door, she immediately introduced Lu Chen: "This is Mil Joyce, the CEO of our studio. ”

Lu Chen suddenly stretched out his hand and shook hands with the other party: "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Mir Joyce." ”

"Just call me Mir..."

Mir smiled and said, "They are all my colleagues, and when they heard that you were coming, they all came out to welcome you!"

This is undoubtedly the aura of "hero"!

Lu Chen smiled and said, "Hello..."

It doesn't matter if Lu Chen says hello, these employees of Blue Sky Studio immediately surrounded him one after another, surrounding him like fans chasing stars, asking for autographs, group photos, and hugs!

Then upload the photos to their respective tbooks.

Lu Chen didn't expect these Americans to be so enthusiastic, but after all, he was used to seeing similar scenes, and he was also able to deal with them easily, meeting their requirements one by one, and making the atmosphere very harmonious.

This also shows that Blue Sky Studio is different from large companies, the atmosphere itself is more relaxed, and the boss and employees are more like close friends than strict superiors and subordinates.

After a simple but warm welcome, Mir introduced Lu Chen to several key members of the studio, including his partner and chief special effects artist Christopher.

Christopher was a shy young man, tall and thin, with a pair of large black-rimmed glasses, a face covered in pimples, and a stammering speech.

But Richard admired Christopher very much, and he told Lu Chen on the phone that this 25-year-old young man is definitely a genius in special effects production, and half of the value of Blue Sky Studio is on him!

Therefore, Lu Chen was very polite to Christopher, but Christopher was a little flattered.

Accompanied by Mir, Christopher and others, Lu Chen and Chen Feier visited the studio together.

The scale of Blue Sky Studio is not very large, the current number of employees is less than 200, compared with large companies with hundreds or thousands of people, the rented business space is also small, and the interior seems quite crowded.

However, the company's hardware is top-notch, with new workstations for special effects production, very powerful computing and processing power, and ZPDT, a digital compositing software that they are proud of.

This set of digital compositing software is undoubtedly the core technology of Blue Sky Studio, which was jointly developed by the three co-founders for 5 years, and has been successfully used in the special effects production of many film and television works, and has won a very good response.

Compared with the industry's top software of the same type, ZPDT has no advantages at the technical level, and even lacks in detail processing and rendering effects, but its advantages are that it is not difficult to learn, low cost to use, in other words, it is very cost-effective.

And Blue Sky Studios is also interested in further developing a more advanced version of ZPDT, but lacks sufficient funds.

There are a lot of special effects production companies and studios in Hollywood, and the competition between them is fierce, and if a small company like Blue Sky Studios can't keep up with the continuous technological progress to win more business, it will either close its doors and go bankrupt or be swallowed up by large companies.

Neither was clearly what the three founders wanted to see, so they were in dire need of outside investment.

Mir's enthusiasm for Lu Chen is not just because he is a hot hero now.

Lu Chen is rich!

The CEO of Blue Sky Studio has long learned about the strength of Chenfei Media through Li Cha, which is definitely not bad for money, so he tried his best to talk about his own technical strength and bright prospects.

To this end, he asked Christopher to demonstrate to Lu Chen the special effects synthesis effect of the latest version 2.75 of ZPDT.

Not only that, but Mir also took Lu Chen to the studio's only digital studio, so that the latter could experience the motion capture technology developed by the studio based on ZPDT!

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