"May I ask Director Li, did you want the state to approve ibox to be officially listed in the mainland when you participated in the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference this time? Urging the relevant authorities to proceed with the approval process as soon as possible? ”

"Are you going to take on a key role at Apple soon?"

"It is said that you will set up the first 3D TV station in the mainland and introduce 3D American dramas to be broadcast in the mainland on a large scale, is there such a thing?"

Now the outside world is rumored to be ups and downs, Li Xiaole is very hopeful to succeed Jobs as the next CEO of Apple, Apple's strategy is about to be tilted like China, ready to vigorously develop the Chinese market, and Li Xiaole is naturally considered to be this stepping stone, many netizens who heard the grapevine on the Internet are accusing Li Xiaole of being a traitor, ready to help Americans make Chinese money.

And Li Xiaole, who was very anxious, could only helplessly put aside the reporters, waved his hand and replied anxiously: "This is nothing, I will not hold an administrative position in Apple, nor will I participate in Apple's product strategy, as for the establishment of a 3D TV station, Black Pearl Company has no such plan for the time being, it is a long process for our country's TV lines to be comprehensively improved, and it is still unrealistic in a short period of time......

The reporters didn't seem to let go of Li Xiaole, and the female reporter from CCTV continued to hold the microphone and asked: "May I ask Director Li, it is said that your 3D movie "The Legend of the Great Sage" will be released at the end of the year, but the number of 3D screens in the world is only more than 4,000, does this not meet your expectations?" When you promoted the 3D "Legend of the Condor Heroes", you launched the Ibox, which has sold more than 5 million units worldwide, so do you have any new plans for your 3D movie? ”

"Well, of course, the market still needs some 3D works to wake up, and it takes a process." Li Xiaole thought about it and felt that it was time to start revealing some news to the outside world, so Zhengse said: "Before the summer file, I will shoot an animated film and release it globally, I hope that theater companies around the world can understand that the era of 3D images has arrived......"

After saying this, Li Xiaole felt that his bladder was about to explode, and he couldn't care about the image and rushed to the toilet without caring about the reporters.

The reporters were all pleasantly surprised after listening to it, Li Xiaole was going to shoot an animated movie for the first time, or a 3D film~!? Media reporters on the online platform uploaded the news to the editorial department, and websites such as Sohu, Sina, and Yahoo posted the news on their respective homepages after a brief edit: "Li Xiaole announced that he will produce a 3D animation film to participate in the competition for the global summer file." ”

As soon as the news spread, whether it was Sina, Sohu in China, or Yahoo in foreign countries, the message board under the news kept increasing the excited messages of fans, and netizens who were optimistic or not optimistic were expressing their opinions in a clear position.

"It's so exciting~!" "This is really good news, Li Xiaole actually wants to make an animated movie." "What is the subject? What kind of animated film is he going to make? "God, this guy must be aiming for the Oscar Grand Slam, and he is going to challenge the animated film ......"

Zheng Hai, a fan from Hong Kong, calmly commented: "I think Li Xiaole made a wrong decision this time, yes, it is obvious that this genius director is going for the Oscar for Best Animation, which is understandable, each director wants to challenge different fields, but historically, although Chinese directors have made many world-renowned achievements in films, but in the field of animation, China can be said to have never had any talent, let alone internationally, even in China." , the only classic is the "Havoc in Heaven" film released in 1964......"

And a Los Angeles fan also expressed the same concern on the official website of Black Pearl USA:

"What kind of animated film does Lee want to make? 3D animated movies are not unusual, but there are really few good ones that can be made, Li Xiaole has just finished his honeymoon and has not worked for a month, if he wants to be released before the summer file, no matter how powerful he is, he will never have time to rewrite a complete animated story, he can only choose ready-made themes......"

This argument has been supported by many people, you must know that animated movies are different from ordinary live-action movies, after writing the script outline, you can find actors to start filming, Li Xiaole, the screenwriter master, has a big push for the script, and you can pick out an adaptation at will, but animated films need character design, modeling, action rules, and the concept of demeanor design is all aspects, and if you want to make it from scratch, it is not possible to do it in 3 or 4 months.

Since there is no information about this animated film, just a sentence from Li Xiaole himself, this also made many fans begin to make a big prediction of the theme with great interest, and various prediction voting options began to appear on various online portals and social networks, speculating about what subject Li Xiaole is about to shoot.

In a survey by Sohu, more than 220,000 Chinese netizens participated in this poll, and the results showed that four themes became the animated films that everyone thinks of Li Xiaole, namely "Havoc in the Heavenly Palace", "Hulu Baby 3D", "Nezha's Mind", and "Baolian Lantern", everyone thinks that Li Xiaole, who advocates Chinese culture, will of course shoot traditional Chinese themes.

On Yahoo America, the same vote, but the results were very different, almost more than 80% of American fans voted for "Kung Fu Panda 2", obviously everyone is very much looking forward to the 3D of this popular animated theme, of course, the only question is, as a competitor, will Paramount cooperate with Black Pearl to make this animated film......

At this time, no one expected that the answer given by Li Xiaole would be completely different from what all of them had predicted......

As the temperature warms up, the colors of San Francisco are gradually becoming a little greener, the plants blooming on the roadside are also reminding people of the arrival of spring, and the people on the roadside are still complaining about the career rate, the mortgage is too high, and the whole city is in a depression, in the new building of the Black Sail Company on the side of the road, the hard work of the employees continues, and in the spacious and bright conference room, a meeting is going on, the theme is about a CG animation film technology of the Black Sail Studio.

At the long conference table, Li Xiaole sat on both sides of the chairman's chief, Wu Wei, CEO of Heifan, Ed Wilkes, Apple's animation design director, Chris Webb, motion capture technician, and so on.

At this time, the meeting has been going on for a long time, and Ed Wilkes is raising the difficulty of making a full CG physical character for "The Legend of the Great Sage", and he believes that although the current motion capture technology is sensitive and high-speed enough, the training experience of Black Sail Studio is far from enough.

"I have to say that it is not yet possible to produce a physical character CG with full physical motion capture, which is too detailed, and the team at Black Sails Studio has not yet reached this level."

Ed Wilkes' argument is echoed by motion capture technician Chris Webber: "At present, in the industry, only Weta Digital has made the 'Gollum' in "The Lord of the Rings" come to life, and in "The Legend of the Great Sage", almost every character has such a physical CG level, I don't think we can meet the technical requirements of this film at present." ”

As the person in charge of the Black Sail Studio, Wu Wei listened to the depression on his face, but he couldn't refute it, because they really couldn't do the live-action CG motion capture requirements of "The Legend of the Great Sage", after Apple developed a new engine technology, the cg technology of the Black Sail Studio has made a very big breakthrough, whether it is the engine, renderer, modeling map, etc., it is enough to make a delicate and real, textured picture, but it is not so smooth in the specific production, and the difficulty of physical CG is too high.

Li Xiaole held his chin with his hands, and didn't feel any surprises in the future, his request was to do it at the same level as the 2014 "Rise of the Ape Star 2", obviously although the current Black Sail Studio has enough technical support, but it is far from the strength of Weta Digital after being tempered by "Avatar", the experience they need now, more practical experience, of course, motion capture technology CG is not something they can practice if they want to practice, it must be tempered by real works.

Now the Black Sail Studio is like a small shrimp in the rivers and lakes who has just gotten the "Yijin Sutra", although there are peerless martial arts secrets, but they still need to practice hard to become a generation of masters, fortunately, it is only March now, and they still have more than half a year to progress.

"Well, I see." Li Xiaole pinched the shoulder of Wu Wei, who was a little depressed, and smiled: "Wu Wei, it's really not easy to have too many live-action CG details, but if I give you a 3D animation for motion capture, do you have the confidence to do it well?" ”

"Yes~! Absolutely! After being aggrieved for a long time, Wu Wei heard this, and immediately gritted his teeth and swore: "Even if I don't eat or sleep, I will do a good job of this motion capture special effect." "The details of animation CG are only one-third of that of live-action CG, and if you can't even do this, then what else is there to do "The Legend of the Great Sage".

"Okay, everybody, take a look at this." Li Xiaole snapped his fingers crisply, and saw a slideshow of an animal on the conference tablet screen above, and groups of Japanese-style anime characters appeared, including "Naruto", "Bleach ", "One Piece", "Dragon Ball" and so on......

After everyone was stunned, they all opened their mouths slightly, how did they not know, they all knew that this boss was going to start shooting an animated movie recently, but they didn't expect him to set his goal on Riman, you must know that although Riman has a huge influence in the world, and there are many movies with related themes every year, but there is no movie that is as popular as the American comic style "Kung Fu Panda" and "Toy Story", and even the movies of Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki have nothing to do with Japanese comics at all......