Chapter 736 of the text Industrial Light and Magic

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Lin Johnson has indeed rushed back from Los Angeles, Hollywood to be exact, and rushed back to Silicon Valley by helicopter.

A week ago, he had contacted several Hollywood studios, such as Paramount and 20th Century Fox, until he found a family member who was interested in it, and finalized the plot of the promotional film with the other party before the cooperation was confirmed.

In today's era of highly competitive information technology change, software designers have been trying to predict the future development trend of software or technology!

Therefore, Lin Qiangsheng wants to make a short film about the scene in the next 20 years, to inspire these elites in the IT industry, no one knows better than him what it will be like in 20 years, and he believes that such a short film is enough for these top smart people to find the direction of the future!

Lin first approached 20th Century Fox, the distributor of "Star Wars," and he thought the sci-fi film was made by the studio.

In fact, this film is produced by Lucas Film Co., Ltd., and it also has another name, Industrial Optical Magic, which is the famous Industrial Light and Magic.

20th Century Fox recommended him, Lin Qiangsheng didn't think about it for a long time, he just felt that Lucasfilm's technology was very good, and he could create a science fiction movie like "Star Wars" in 77, so that the world tasted the charm of science fiction films, and made several generations become science fiction fans.

Star Wars even created a modern myth, with its unprecedented space scenes, intricate galactic struggles, and grand galactic worldview that has fascinated fans and die-hard fans alike!

Lin Johnson approached George Lucas and expressed his desire to make a short film for the next 20 years to be viewed by the group's top management. Lucas is interested in Lin's short films, and this year his film company arranged a "Young Sherlock Holmes" that has already entered the filming stage. In this film, Lucas will try for the first time to create a CG screen image.

Lucas knows a little about Lin Johnson, and is also curious about the young man's experience, especially since he runs more than three technology companies, and three of them have entered the ranks of the world's top 500. This has become a legendary benchmark in the American tech world.

When a leading figure in the tech world approached him to make a short film that was said to be twenty years later, Lucas certainly wanted to hear what Lin had to say, especially since he was also a well-known screenwriter with a keen interest in science fiction.

Lucas called Ed Catmoore from the Drawing Department and John Lasseter from the Animation Department. Both men are very good at it, the former is responsible for designing electronic editing and special effects systems with other technicians, and is considered the creator of Pixar and the inventor of purely computer-produced films. And Lasseter was cast from Disney to Lucas in 84 and is considered to be the driver of Pixar's creative power. In his first year on the job, he began working on his first 3D short film, The Adventures of André and Willy. This is the story of a clown and a bee in the forest.

Lucas invited Lin Qiangsheng to watch this 3D short film to show him the latest 3D technology, the picture that Lin Qiangsheng saw from the TV, there is a feeling of pseudo-3D in the late 90s, the texture of the forest background, and the character image is a bit of a 3D shadow.

Lin Qiangsheng was a little surprised: "Now you can use a computer to make such a thing, and it can already be played on TV!" ”

Lucas laughed, "Of course. Technology is advancing very rapidly, which you should know better in the IT world! ”

Lin Qiangsheng shook his head. said: "This is different, sometimes hardware manufacturers don't know how far their technology can go!" ”

The short film ended quickly, and Lucas turned to Lin Qiangsheng and said, "Lin, tell us about the plot of your short film!" ”

Catmoor and Lasseter also looked at him, and Lin Qiangsheng nodded to the three of them, and he opened his suitcase. I pulled out a stack of blueprints from inside.

Before handing it over, Lin Qiangsheng suddenly said to Lucas: "Before I get in touch with these drawings of mine, I want to solemnly warn you that these designs belong to me, and there are some products and development trends that I think will be in the future." These are designed. None of the elements have been patented and belong to me personally, and I think you should sign a non-disclosure agreement beforehand and not reveal anything on it, and then I can show it to you! ”

Such a request is also reasonable, Lucas nodded to Catmoor and Lasseter, both agreed, so he said to Lin Qiangsheng: "Okay husband Lin, we can sign a confidentiality agreement in advance, I am very much looking forward to your work, I don't know what the future you imagine will look like!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng nodded to the blonde beauty secretary sitting next to him, his secretary's name is Michelle, she has a rough face and a devil's body, such a beauty is very suitable for secretarial work. Michelle took out the three-point agreement and handed it to Lucas and the three.

Lucas said to Lin Qiangsheng: "Husband Lin, we need a lawyer to be present to sign the contract!" ”

He looked at the blonde beautieth suspiciously, and then asked, "Did you bring a lawyer?" ”。

Lin Qiangsheng nodded, gestured to the blonde beauty and said, "Michelle is my lawyer!" ”

Michelle smiled at Lucas and said, "Husband, I wrote this contract!" ”

The three Lucas had no objections, called the company's lawyer, carefully reviewed the confidentiality clause, and then signed the agreement.

Lin Qiangsheng handed over the design drawings to the three of them and said: "These are some of the scientific and technological products that I think will be in the next 20 years, at that time, these things have been fully integrated into people's lives, everyone can't do without them, and they are also profoundly changing our way of life!" ”

The three of them carefully reviewed Lin Qiangsheng's design drawings, Lucas was very surprised, looking at Lin Qiangsheng's design draft, just like looking at Leonardo da Vinci's draft, although it was not so exaggerated, but the scientific and technological products on the drawings also deeply attracted him.

Lin Qiangsheng pointed to the drawings in Lucas's hand and said: "What you see now is a laptop, a large-screen mobile phone, and a car driving computer display, I have broken them all down, you can see the picture on the screen, and each drawing is a functional display." These are the things that I think will be in the future. ”

Lucas looked at the design of the large-screen mobile phone and asked in surprise: "Husband Lin, do you think the future mobile phone will be like this?" It's only so thin, and it's such a big LCD screen! ”

Ed Catmoore asked Lin Qiangsheng in surprise: "How does it control it, I mean there are no buttons on it!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng said with a smile: "It uses a touch screen, and you can control the phone by touching the screen with your fingers. ”

Lucas, Catmoore, and Lasseter were all very surprised by Lin's idea, although there are now such concepts, such as liquid crystal and touch, but to put them together, it takes imagination.

Lin Qiangsheng said: "In the short film, we should add all these elements you see, such as laptops, which can be made as thin as notebooks in the future, and screens that use liquid crystal materials can display realistic pictures, and can even achieve the color quality of TVs!" In addition, this laptop, using WYSIWYG operation, fully realizes the desktop operating system, mouse and keyboard, and the human-computer interaction is very good! ”

Lucas was looking at the laptop and a few drawings, and Lin Qiangsheng said to him: "This is a short film playing on the laptop, the plot is that the protagonist gets up in the morning while his wife is cooking, and is watching the schedule made by the secretary for him." Apparently, his secretary directly recorded a video to show him. ”

Catmoor asked curiously, "How do you record it?" I mean, how do you get a computer to implement this program? ”

Lin Qiangsheng shook his head and said to him: "I don't know, the software is not my specialty!" ”

"Uh, you, that's amazing!" Catmoore, a software engineer, quickly got into thought after the shock.

The design provided by Lin Qiangsheng is amazing, this pile of drawings is simply a treasure, although it does not tell sù how to do it, but it has the final effect, which is enough!

Lasseter is a master of animation, he looked at the mobile game on another drawing, which was a picture of the space fighter battle, and thought about how to express it in his mind, he said to Lin Qiangsheng: "Husband Lin, your idea is really different, very amazing!" If you want to realize such a product, playing games on a big-screen mobile phone, it will probably be very popular, and I predict that adults and children will love this thing!

However, although I think that I may be able to make such a product in the future, it is a bit difficult to show this effect now! ”

Catmoore, who was next to him, immediately leaned over and looked at the design drawing, on which the space fighter was drawn in pencil, although the color was single, but it did not hinder the imagination of the filmmaker.

Lin Qiangsheng said to several people: "The plot of this space fighter is a little boy who snatched his father's mobile phone and played electric while eating. I mainly want to realize this human-computer interaction, and if the space fighter is too complicated, then it can be changed to Pac-Man. The little boy snatched the phone, clicked on one or two icons, and soon entered the game, as long as the table xiàn said this. (To be continued.) )

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