Beginning in the late '70s, the landscape of cinema began to change dramatically – the New Wave ideas promoted by French directors influenced Hollywood and the world at large.

Directors began to frantically pursue their own style and innovation in cinematic techniques. Influenced by this, Hollywood became popular with films that experimented with the surname.

Since the 70s, on the surface, the box office of the film industry in European and American countries has fallen into a low growth trend, but in fact, the film industry around the world, after the combination of "commercialization + personal concept", has gradually ushered in a new development of the film industry**!

In particular, from the 70s to the 80s, the development of special effects technology in the film industry was the foundation laid at this time

After the 90s, computer CG technology created visual impact and began to be promoted by the film industry.

Blockbusters with computer special effects can always sweep the box office with astonishing high prices!

The global film market has begun to become a battlefield for the dumping of computer special effects blockbusters, and movies that do not use computer special effects are increasingly marginalized by the market!

If you want to taste the sweetness of special effects movies, you have to take the morning.

At present, Industrial Light & Magic, the originator of global film special effects studios, is still unable to make ends meet financially in the company. It is supported by the company's owner, director Lucas himself, who pays for it.

If it weren't for the money Lucas himself made from Star Wars, Industrial Light & Magic would have disintegrated long ago. In the 80s, after film special effects were gradually accepted by Hollywood studios, ILM began to become rich!

In the 80s, ILM could only do special effects for the "Star Wars" series that Lucas had invested in, and he was especially eager to get orders outside of "Star Wars"!

Because, orders other than "Star Wars" represent that ILM is recognized by the market!

In these years, as long as a customer is willing to come up with an order of three to five million US dollars, it is guaranteed that ILM will be waiting diligently.

Gu Long has already been in contact with the people of Industrial Light and Magic.

Industrial Light & Magic has also expressed great interest in Hong Kong's order!

Even, Baolong Film Company proposed to let the people of Industrial Light and Magic come to Hong Kong to cooperate with "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" to do special effects, and the other party also felt that it was okay to talk.

"Shaojie, Industrial Light & Magic agreed, before September, let's go to San Francisco, USA, and talk to them about specific cooperation!" Gu Long said, "When the time comes, you will go with me?" ”

"Yes, of course!" Zhang Shaojie said with a smile, "I proposed the special effects of the movie, so I naturally want to go!" ”

In fact, Zhang Shaojie proposed to use the special effects of industrial light and magic.

Moreover, Hollywood's special effects are definitely much more expensive than Hong Kong's local methods, and if there is no financial support from Zhang Shaojie, who can afford to play special effects?

Of course, Zhang Shaojie also has bad intentions, and he planned from the beginning that after the movie special effects of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" are completed, he will dig into the corner of Industrial Light and Magic.

Historically, in 82 years, Jiahe filmed "Shu Mountain" to dig the corner of industrial light and magic.

Now, why can't Baolong dig "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" in 80?

――The directors of these two movies are both Tsui Hark!

In fact, Golden Harvest Company dug the corners of the wall, and it was not on the point, because Golden Harvest Company mainly dug up some traditional model special effects and animation special effects talents, but did not pay enough attention to the latest computer special effects at that time.

Zhang Shaojie attaches more importance to the current computer special effects!

Computer special effects are the development direction of special effects technology in the future, as for the special effects that use traditional animation and models, it seems that they are more effective than computer special effects now, however, Zhang Shaojie knows that after the 90s, computer special effects will be the general trend!

Of course, digging people is all a story for later. First of all, we must cooperate with Industrial Light and Magic in the first step, do a good job in the special effects of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", and earn some word of mouth for Baolong Film Company!

―――――――― a broad sense, film special effects technology also includes makeup, modeling, props, smoke, lighting, post-editing, and any other technology that enhances the beauty and visual impact of the movie.

For example, in 1933, "King Kong" was made of a prop orangutan using metal, rabbit fur and other props before there was no computer special effects technology, and the director used the prop orangutan to pose in some architectural models, and used the means of animation to shoot an incredible picture, dozens of meters tall gorilla, rampage in high-rise buildings, and even political axe used the army and combat power to encircle and suppress it, before killing the gorilla.

Later, Hollywood works in the 60s, such as "Planet of the Apes", "The Forest Prince vs. the Demons", "2001: A Space Odyssey", and "Time Machine", made full use of modeling and produced incredible pictures in the movie.

In 1977, George. When Lucas was filming "Star Wars", there were many scenes and models of space battles, spaceships shuttling between celestial bodies, and the special effects staff of the film company could not give him more help.

In order to make this movie well, George. With the support of the film's financier, Twentieth Century Fox, Lucas established an industrial light and magic special effects studio!

The emergence of ILM is a milestone in the history of film special effects!

At the beginning of the establishment of ILM, it was based on model props, makeup and other technologies, and at that time, ILM did not have computer masters or computer special effects technology. However, at that time, Industrial Light & Magic had the spirit of innovation and exploration!

In "Star Wars", ILM's famous work, ILM created grand scenes such as shuttles between planets and spaceship space battles. In order to shoot better, ILM invented the earliest motion control camera, which can control multiple cameras to move according to the established trajectory and capture the picture from different angles, which is actually the prototype of "motion capture" technology.

Because during the filming of "Star Wars", it was necessary to shoot the explosion scene of the spaceship model, because the model was too small, the explosion process was too fast, and there were many explosion processes, and the film design could not record the clear explosion process. Therefore, ILM's spaceship explosion scenes are processed separately, and then the spaceship explosion scenes are synthesized together through post-production.

In the first part of "Star Wars", Lucas himself invested $1 million, while 20th Century Fox invested $8 million. Because, at that time, 20th Century Fox only admired Lucas's talent, and was not optimistic about "Star Wars".

Therefore, most of the box office revenue of "Star Wars" belongs to 20th Century Fox, and the property rights of ILM and the rights to "Star Wars" belong to George W. Lucas himself!

No one expected that "Star Wars", which had a total investment cost of no more than $10 million, was as soon as it came out, and it quickly defeated "Jaws", which achieved a box office of $190 million in the United States that year and became the box office champion. Since then, it has captured a total box office of more than 700 million US dollars in countries around the world.

The unprecedented success quickly made George. Lucas became a wealthy billionaire, and with his financial resources alone, he could support the continued maintenance of ILM.

George. Lucas, with "Star Wars", influenced the science fiction concept of the whole world, and with the industrial light and magic special effects studio, he has become the originator of the film special effects studio!

Later, ILM began to incorporate all the technologies that can create miracle movie lenses into the scope of research, not only in the traditional modeling, art, equipment and other technologies, but also became interested in computer special effects, and specially recruited some computer masters from Silicon Valley to join the company's special effects research team.

However, for the time being, computer special effects lenses are still a concept and have not been used in any film!

However, George. Lucas insists on supporting the research of computer special effects, so the accumulation of computer special effects technology of Industrial Light & Magic is still improving.

Historically, it was not until 82 years ago that ILM's computer special effects began to apply film special effects technology to the movie "Star Trek: Khan's Wrath".

Since then, the concept of computer special effects has only been taken seriously by Hollywood!

Of course, although ILM has not yet applied computer special effects to movies, it does not mean that the technical level is unusable, but - there are no orders!

As long as there is an order, ILM will still be able to come up with the computer special effects of the general level of "Khan's Wrath" in '82!

―――――――― San Francisco, California, USA.

The headquarters of the Industrial Light & Magic Studio.

As we all know, California is home to two of the most important industrial centers in the United States - Hollywood and Silicon Valley!

George. Because Lucas is a native of San Francisco, it was inevitable that the company's ILM corporate headquarters would be located in San Francisco.

Because San Francisco's geographical location is relatively close to Hollywood and Silicon Valley, it will not only be influenced by Hollywood filmmakers, but also by those computer technicians in Silicon Valley.

It is precisely because of the influence of computer technology in Silicon Valley that Lucas, the boss of ILM, decided to recruit talents in the computer industry to develop computer special effects technology!

This decision is not yet understood by Hollywood directors, but after the mid-80s, ILM has gained unlimited scenery in Hollywood with its exclusive computer CG special effects, and major film companies are vying to hire ILM to do post-production computer special effects for their films! At that time, ILM gained a huge reputation in the global film industry!

Gu Long and Zhang Shaojie came to the United States in mid-August.

Although Zhang Shaojie's English is okay, after all, he is not familiar with life, so he thought of asking a friend in California to help. However, Zhang Shaojie doesn't know anyone in the United States.

Gu Long smiled: "Teresa Teng is studying at the University of Southern California, how about inviting her to be a tour guide and translator for a few days?" ”

When Zhang Shaojie heard this, he said, "Really? ”

(To be continued)