After Teresa Teng's younger brother Deng Changxi returned home, he heard that his sister was going to be a temporary translator for Zhang Shaojie and Gu Long for a period of time, and he felt uneasy and shouted that he wanted to be a bodyguard for his sister. Deng Changxi's English level is much better than Teresa Teng's, and she can also help at critical times.

Therefore, Gu Long and Zhang Shaojie also agreed to Deng Changxi's request.

The Deng family is a family with a relatively strong traditional Chinese culture, and the tradition of China since ancient times is to like children and grandchildren. The Deng family has 5 children, and the above are the three elder brothers, Teresa Teng is the fourth, and Deng Changxi is the fifth. The other three elder brothers basically don't have any special features.

However, when Deng Changxi was a child, her sister Teresa Teng began to become a big singer and became popular all over Asia. So he also followed the light, and the education and growth environment he received since he was a child were much better than those of his elder brothers.

In this era, Taiwanese people are extremely admiring the United States, and wealthy families have found opportunities for their children to study in the United States when their children are in college. Deng Changxi was sent to the United States to study by his mother who wanted his son Jackie Chan.

Deng's mother originally came to the United States to take care of Deng Changxi, and Teresa Teng came to the United States to study and escape the public opinion turmoil in Asia, and she also lived with her mother and younger brother.

Deng Changxi has not been too close to his three older brothers since he was a child, but has a better relationship with his sister Teresa Teng, who is about the same age. Since he was a child, he has been loved and cared for by his sister, and he can't help but fall into the worship of his sister.

Every younger brother who has a big beautiful sister has a sister love plot.

Deng Changxi is no exception!

Since his sister became more and more popular, he saw a group of stinky men beating his sister, Deng Changxi didn't say anything in his mouth, and he couldn't help but be angry in his heart.

That's it.

But looking at Zhang Shaojie, who was younger than him, and constantly offering courtesy to his sister, Deng Changxi was dissatisfied to the extreme!

"Humph! That Zhang Shaojie looks ill-intentioned! Deng Changxi thought, "I want to watch it firmly, I must not let him find a chance to soak in my sister!" My sister will always be mine."

―――――――― finally, a group of people.

Arrived at the headquarters of Industrial Light & Magic in San Francisco.

"Welcome, film colleagues from Hong Kong!" George. Lucas delighted, "You are our first ILM customer from Asia!" ”

"I also hope to be able to cooperate with ILM for a long time! Because, Hong Kong films, especially some Chinese martial arts and ancient mythological films, need to use more advanced special effects technology to enhance visual effects, which is the strength of your industrial light and magic! Zhang Shaojie said, "We hope that you can provide high-quality movie special effects that can satisfy us!" ”

George. Lucas was stunned and said, "Martial arts? You mean Chinese Kung Fu, Bruce Lee? ”

Zhang Shaojie shook his head: "Although Bruce Lee is a classic, his movies belong to kung fu movies." Now Asian audiences prefer martial arts, of course, not the old martial arts confused with kung fu movies, but the new martial arts that can embody the true essence of martial arts blockbusters! ”

"However, we don't know anything about martial arts!" Lucas spread his hands.

After listening to Teresa Teng's translation, Gu Long interjected and said: "Therefore, we need you to go to Hong Kong to know more about martial arts movies, so that we can better make special effects for the movie!" ”

"None of this is a problem, we are a professional film special effects company!" Lucas said proudly.

Zhang Shaojie and others proposed a comprehensive visit to Industrial Light & Magic to understand the operating mechanism of Industrial Light & Magic, as well as the real technical level of Industrial Light & Magic.

George. Lucas happily agreed.

While Star Wars, produced by Industrial Light & Magic, was a huge success worldwide.

However, because the special effects in "Star Wars" mostly use models, editing and compositing, etc. The most innovative is the invention of the far-reaching "motion control camera", which has made the filming technology of the film industry a big step forward.

However, Hollywood studios pay attention to the creativity of the movie "Star Wars", rather than the special effects technology of Industrial Light & Magic.

At this time, ILM was basically in a state of order starvation, except for the special effects of "Star Wars". Especially the computer CG special effects, which are even less interested.

Powerlong Films' orders are only a few million dollars, which is nothing compared to the special effects orders of more than 10 million dollars for the "Star Wars" series.

However, the significance of these multi-million dollar orders is extraordinary.

This marks that ILM is no longer an affiliate of the movie "Star Wars", but a real professional special effects studio that can be recognized by the film company.

Zhang Shaojie, Gu Long, Teresa Teng, Deng Changxi and others, looking at the industrial light and magic company that looks particularly modern and full of sci-fi flavor, fully feel the visual shock.

Any industry is afraid of professionalism!

Professionally, it forms an extremely impactful work scene.

There are different departments of ILM, including mechanical experts, talented computer experts, animation talents, and art talents.

A large number of cross-industry talents are brought together.

The purpose of these people being gathered together is to study how to make incredible special effects shots for the film!

"This is ILM, the world's most professional film special effects company!" George. Lucas proudly said, "We are also the only film special effects studio in the world that is run by Reading Power!" ”

ILM Studio has many original positions - visual effects director, technical director, art director, programmer, scientist, model maker, animation producer, editor, photographer, stage technician and a variety of professional dividends, showing that ILM has gradually explored a set of advanced management and research and development models!

Although Zhang Shaojie made up his mind to dig the foot of the wall, he was still in awe of the milestone development of industrial light and magic! It's this company that changed the concept of cinema in the future of Hollywood!

In 75 years, ILM had only a few dozen rabble, but after 5 years of development, it now has more than 200 employees. With the development of time, Hollywood companies have increasingly recognized the importance of film special effects, and the development of industrial light and magic has been a thousand miles. At its peak, ILM had more than 2,000 employees. Later, after stabilizing, the entire company had at least 1,500 employees.

Later, among the dozens of special effects studios in Hollywood, ten of them were the elite talents of ILM, and they were founded after betraying ILM - including the famous "Weta Digital", the fierce rival of ILM, and it was also founded by ILM's talent defection company!

In short, in the next few decades, Industrial Light & Magic is the cradle of the world's film special effects studios, Whampoa Military Academy, and more than ninety percent of industry veterans have been trained in Industrial Light & Magic!

Industrial light and magic is like a dandelion, when the wind blows, the seeds of special effects studios are sprinkled all over the world!

Zhang Shaojie looked at the employees of Industrial Light & Magic with bad intentions, and said in his heart: "I won't dig the foot of the wall, someone else will dig it, Brother Lucas, there will be a place to live in the future, please Haihan!"

Lucas naturally didn't know Zhang Shaojie's thoughts, he just thought that Zhang Shaojie was overwhelmed by the technology of Industrial Light and Magic, and said with a smile: "Next, we can talk about cooperation!" You get what you pay for, what kind of service we can provide as much price as you can offer. ”

Enter the details of the negotiation of the surname.

According to the needs of the script of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", Zhang Shaojie proposed several scenes that need special effects to beautify. For example, Xuan Bing Jin needs to use special effects to achieve the visual effect of cold and frost.

The clash of masters, for air vibrations, environmental impacts, and so on.

The effect of sword energy, the elegantness of light power. The operation of true qi in the body

There are all kinds of them, and there are more than 20 special effects shots. If in the 90s, computer technology and special effects technology have been developed for many years, such special effects can only be designed using professional software. However, in this era, if you want to achieve these unprecedented visual effects, you need to fully mobilize the wisdom of special effects personnel and work hard to create them from scratch!

"If you follow the list you listed, the cost of $3.5 million is too low!" Lucas shook his head and said, "On average, each special effects shot is less than $20,000, and we may even cost more than this price!" For example, as you said, the mysterious Xuanbing Jin of the East, in addition to creating a small tornado-like air flow to attack the opponent, also has to produce a frost effect, if this shot is perfunctory, it is naturally very cheap. But if you really want to do it well, at least $100,000 in cost, the details determine success or failure, you don't want to make a perfunctory effect, right? ”

"Well, $3.5 million, that's the floor price. In the process, the two parties can negotiate the price according to the actual production cost. "Because $3.5 million is the total amount of cash I can use at the moment." But, you know I'm one of the most profitable writers and screenwriters in Asia. Within this year, it may continue to receive more than $2 million in manuscript fees and film script dividends. I can add this money to the film investment! ”

Lucas thought for a moment and said, "Okay! However, once the contract is signed, you will need to pay a deposit of $500,000. After that, according to the progress of the task, the follow-up funds will be paid. Of course, you'll have to pay all the balance after the film is finished! ”

Zhang Shaojie smiled: "Yes!" However, I ask that the team you send to Hong Kong must have more than 50 people, and half of them must be elites in computer special effects and animation special effects! Model special effects, art direction, etc., we already have enough talents in Hong Kong."

"Yes!" Lucas thought, "However, the computer special effects aspect is not very mature at the moment"

"It doesn't matter, let's explore and make progress together!" Zhang Shaojie smiled.

Lucas was stunned and couldn't help but admire Zhang Shaojie's courage.

In Zhang Shaojie's eyes, the essence of future movie special effects lies in computer CG special effects.

Computer special effects, which are not very reliable at present, have quickly entered a period of rapid development once the computer special effects engine has been developed

Even if you dig the foot of the wall, you have to dig up the essence part! ILM's computer special effects team was invited to Hong Kong, and it was necessary to work for at least half a year, and within half a year, I had a lot of opportunities to secretly win over and dig into the wall!

(To be continued)