Chapter 340: Strategic Negotiations (Part II)
"What about you? How, exactly? Chen Xiaowei asked urgingly.
… Is there a script? How I didn't see it. After a long time, Zhang Yangcai replied weakly, he really didn't see any script, at least from beginning to end, there was not even a protagonist, it has always been all kinds of wars, all kinds of wars, what kind of script is there?
"Of course there is, you didn't see that you had a problem with your eyes, so I won't tell you, do you think we can give this video to Blizzard if we can fulfill their contract?" Chen Xiaowei quickly cut to the topic. Although Chen Xiaowei couldn't see it, Zhang Yang nodded without hesitation, and then said: "Of course, this video is so good, I believe that our team is the best, so you can send this video directly to Blizzard, I believe they are not stupid." ”
"Of course, don't look at who supervises this project, it must be excellent, okay, since you don't have any opinions, then I'll send this video directly to Blizzard." Chen Xiaowei said very narcissistically.
“…… Well, you can decide for yourself, and the matter will be left to you. Zhang Yang nodded helplessly and said. Chen Xiaowei hung up the phone directly.
Mike looked at the phone in his hand and was helpless, if it wasn't for the CEO of the head office above, he wouldn't be willing to talk to this inexplicable company. After all, even if Blizzard doesn't need these CG animations, and even every game doesn't have animations, it will attract huge attention.
Even, if Blizzard is not even willing to come out, the effect will be better, and the mystery will make players more flocking, but Blizzard is not an irresponsible game company, and the game still has to be animated, so Blizzard did not refuse to talk about it this time, in fact, for Blizzard, the most important thing is that Star Group is willing to do this animation for free, as a promotion for their new products.
However, Fortu's phone still plays a very important role, although Mike is also a technician, but his administrative skills are also excellent, so in terms of interpersonal relationships, Mike is also quite original, all in all, this matter is the most for Blizzard, just a waste of time.
But if the effect is quite good, then Blizzard is not a loss, you must know that a good animation to mobilize the enthusiasm of players can be described as quite good, plus Blizzard has always been outstanding in quality, and the combination of strong and powerful is naturally better. But it made Mike a little crying and laughing, just now this oriental company called him, saying that it had already put C. The animation is done.
But God knows, they just informed Blizzard that the animation had already been done in less than an hour? How efficient is that? Although Mike doesn't understand animation, he also knows that it's definitely not that simple to make a good animation, especially the animation of the game, which is definitely not something that can be made in just two days.
However, since he has agreed to talk to the other party for a while, Mike naturally will not regret it, and always look at the finished product sent by the other party first. Open your mailbox.,The other party's animation has been sent.,There's nothing to lose by looking at it anyway.。 After opening the mailbox, Mike found that the attachment sent in the mail was quite large, and it seemed that it was at least dozens of minutes, could it be that the other party not only made an animation, but also walked out of dozens of minutes of c. Animation?
Mike couldn't laugh or cry.,Such a long animation.,Wouldn't it just use the game's built-in video function.,And then send it directly after a simple optimization, right? Mike couldn't laugh or cry, but he still downloaded the game's animation in a serious way.
Blizzard's speed is naturally quite fast, but this video is only more than 40 minutes long still has a lot of file size, and it is obvious that this video is made in ultra-high definition.
After downloading the animation, Mike took a cup of coffee before turning it on.
When the video is opened, a black picture appears on the screen, Mike is a little strange, black? What's going on? With the mouse moving, Mike thought there was something wrong with his computer. Just when Mike was wondering, suddenly there was a loud "boom" in the computer's stereo, Mike was directly startled, his hand shook involuntarily, and directly hit the coffee cup on the table to the ground.
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With a "pop", the coffee was directly sprinkled all over the ground, and even a lot of it was sprinkled in the keyboard. "Oh,**" Mike couldn't help but scream, he was just about to bend down to clean up, when suddenly the picture of the computer screen flashed, and then a magnificent building suddenly appeared on the computer screen.
As the CEO of Blizzard Entertainment, although Mike is not very involved in the production of games, he is naturally no stranger to his company's games, so at the first moment when he saw the picture of this game, Mike was sure that this was the building in StarCraft, but this ...... The gap is also a little too big.
As soon as this Terran building appeared, it was like the real thing, if it weren't for Mike's being too familiar with his company's games, and almost all Blizzard Entertainment employees were game fans, Mike was naturally no exception, StarCraft Mike They usually play with people in their game company when they are fine, so they are too familiar with this game.
At this moment, Mike didn't bother to clean up the garbage under his desk, and his whole eyes were attracted by the video on the computer screen. The forty-minute video is not long, but it is not short, and Mike watched the whole video motionless while maintaining a half-bent position.
After reading it, Mike realized that his body was a little numb because of holding one position for a long time. Quickly let his body ease up a little, looking at the player on the screen that had ended running, Mike was a little shocked, is this still StarCraft? Are you sure this isn't a Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster that hasn't been on the market for a long time? However, Mike knows that this is StarCraft IV, and all the buildings in it, and even the troops of the three races are familiar with the classes of StarCraft IV, and he will never be mistaken.
It's just that he didn't expect that an animation would be able to make such an effect, although he knew that it was post-processed, but which game's flute animation would not be processed? As long as the protagonist who appears in it is a factor of the game, it's just an animation made for the sake of publicity.
It's just that this effect...... Mike is a little crazy, could it be that such a grand animation was made by the other party in just 48 hours? How is this possible! According to Mike's understanding, almost every detail and appearance of these real effects must be redesigned on the computer, rendered, and then slowly made into the desired shape step by step.
And the environment inside is to take a part of the real environment, for partial modification and processing, and finally put together into a complete and coherent animation so many steps, even if there are a large number of professional employees doing this work, it will be a long time, forty minutes of animation, according to this effect to calculate, conservative estimates will take at least three months or so.
You know, almost all of the terrain and even the videos of the building classes need to be recreated with a computer and take two days to make such a huge amount of production! How did the other party do it in two days? Blizzard in 04 has a lot of new projects, such as the new expansion of World of Warcraft, Burning Crusade, etc., which are about to be released, and if the other party's CG animation can really do this, then I am afraid it will cause the world to go crazy.
It's not just gaming madness, because those forty minutes can almost be considered a miniature view. After recovering from the shock, Mike immediately picked up his mobile phone, quickly found the phone number of the company's president from it, and quickly dialed it back, completely unaware that it was already more than 9 o'clock in the evening in China at this moment.
The phone was quickly connected, and as soon as the phone was connected, Mike couldn't wait to ask, "Miss Chen Xiaowei, is this video really made by your company?" Forgive my skepticism, but I think it seems that China is lagging behind in terms of video special effects. ”
Chen Xiaowei smiled and said: "Of course, I can understand, but not in the future, China will also have its own special effects production company." ”
"Of course, if your company's special effects production can continue to be like this, then I can guarantee that you will be one of the best special effects companies in the world." Mike said quickly.
"This is natural, and we also believe that since Mr. Mike has seen the video produced by our company, I wonder what Mr. Mike thinks of the suggestions made between our company?" Chen Xiaowei immediately asked while the iron was hot.
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"Of course, if your company can still guarantee the terms you propose, then I will immediately fly to China to negotiate with your company." Mike immediately said, this is a reasonable thing for both companies, Mike naturally will not refuse, if the Star Group can guarantee that they just proposed, all the conditions are free, then Mike will naturally be more willing to hand over all the flute animations of Blizzard games to the other party to produce.
"Then Mr. Mike can lead your negotiation team to China." Chen Xiaowei said with a smile, since it is the first time to make a name for herself, then she is bound to sacrifice some, and it is impossible to become a fat man in one bite. Besides, this decision was also made collectively by the senior management of the Star Group, so there would be no problem for Chen Xiaowei to agree like this.
"Of course, in that case, I'll prepare my trip now." Mike immediately said happily, no company does not want to continue to be brilliant, even if Blizzard has become the world leader in the field of games, but Blizzard is not invincible, there are still many competitors, so defeating these competitors and getting greater benefits is naturally Mike's pursuit.
That's why Mike agreed so happily this time.
"Okay, then on behalf of the Star Group, I would like to extend a warm welcome to Mr. Mike to China." Chen Xiaowei said with a smile.
"Thank you Chen Xiaowei for your enthusiasm, then we will meet and talk again." Mike said with a smile.
"Goodbye, Mr. Mike." Lian Xiaowei nodded slightly. After hanging up the phone, Chen Xiaowei immediately cheered and said quickly: "Haha, Blizzard has agreed to our company's proposal, and they will soon come to China to talk to us." ”
"Wow!" The whole office immediately cheered, the entire Star Group executives, as well as some overtime ordinary employees were in the office, everyone was just waiting for Blizzard's half-talk, just more than forty minutes was almost their most difficult time, and now they got a positive answer from Blizzard Group, everyone immediately cheered, worked overtime for two days and one night, and for the first time got the affirmation of others, everyone naturally felt extremely excited.
"I declare that tonight we will all have a supper together, and I will treat you." Chen Xiaowei said excitedly.
"Wow! The president is mighty! Everyone who heard Chen Xiaowei's words shouted even more enthusiastically.
Blizzard Entertainment's actions are quite fast, which is obviously inconsistent with their usual game of various ticket jumping actions, the second night after calling them, Blizzard Entertainment's president Mr. Mike, several assistants, and several department managers have come to China and stayed in the hotel arranged by Star Group.
"Tell me, what kind of conditions should we put forward? Although we said that it was free at the time, but free is free, and we have not put forward other conditions. Li Keqing looked at all the managers in the company and asked seriously.
Looking at Li Keqing, who was sitting in the position of president for a meeting, Zhang Yang couldn't help but admire, in just a few months, Li Keqing already had the demeanor of a president. This meeting is aimed at the negotiations between Tomorrow and Blizzard Entertainment, and it can be said that this negotiation with Blizzard is the first step for Star Group to embark on expansion, or rather, this is the first time that Star Group has begun to move towards profitability.
Although the photon defense network is said to be the first product of the Star Group, but because the photon defense is free to operate, and there is no specific profit project, so now the Star Group is basically losing money in the operation, after all, the server, the salary of employees, etc., are all there, but there is no current input, even if its future prospects are good, it is the same, if there is no new input, how long the Star Group can support the operation is still unknown.
The successful research and development of Nebulas software undoubtedly makes Star Group not in an embarrassing negative profit stage, and at least it can maintain a balance of payments, which is also a good start for the development of Star Group.
Li Keqing rarely presides over the meeting, she is the chairman of the company, and the executive president is Chen Xiaowei, the usual meetings are Chen Xiaowei is responsible for presiding, this time Li Keqing presided over the meeting, is to let those ordinary employees, as well as some ordinary department managers, Star Group attaches great importance to this matter.