Unlike other Hong Kong film companies that like to exaggerate facts and make gimmicks, although Lin Xiaozhi is good at publicity and hype, he is more cautious in hyping up the production cost of the film, and rarely makes empty words to engage in gimmicks, that is, he has seen too many negative teaching materials that have been scolded for not being hyped in later generations, of course, this is also related to his lack of self-confidence at the beginning of his rebirth.

In terms of investment in "Resident Evil", the initial investment of 80 million that he said in front of the media was indeed just a cautious statement, and before the film started, he made an estimate of 100 million in the internal budget report to the group's board of directors. The cost of "Resident Evil" is indeed a lot, just the pre-construction cost of the hive plus the remuneration and salary of the artist and crew, Lin Xiaozhi paid more than 26 million Hong Kong dollars for this. In addition, he also directly allocated 20 million Hong Kong dollars to the special effects side for special effects production. If it is really measured by his initial shooting budget of about 80 million Hong Kong dollars, more than 50 million Hong Kong dollars will definitely not be enough to complete the shooting and take into account the post-production special effects.

It's only a little over a third of the way through the filming, and it's less than halfway there. At first glance, when he heard that more than half of the 20 million Hong Kong dollars he allocated for special effects processing had been spent, Lin Xiaozhi was not surprised. You must know that "Resident Evil" does need to use a lot of computer special effects, but compared to this year's "Terminator" and next year's "Jurassic Park", the special effects content of "Resident Evil" is not high, and the difficulty is not too large.

"Half of it has been used, how can it be ...... so quickly" He frowned and asked, Media Asia is now a listed company after all, no more unrestrained than before it was listed, and even he has to file with the board of directors when he invests in a blockbuster film now, although he hinted to the board of directors in advance that the investment of 100 million yuan is not enough and will continue to add more, but at that time, he will definitely have to deal with the directors appointed by those major shareholders.

This time, it was Huang Li who replied: "The sets of shots that we need to deal with in front of us are okay, there is no difficulty, and we spent more than 3 million Hong Kong dollars before and after." But these two sets of shots are not easy to get recently, and the 'Flame Empress, you are not satisfied with the processing of the image, we have spent nearly a million on redoing it. The big head is still this section of the laser channel, and it took more than six million to get it out of it, and the effect is not bad, do you want to take a look at the effect first......"

Don't blame the future generations for self-deprecation, the Chinese brain IQ is the first in the world, and it is still above the white people, but it is too smart to have a head that is scheming with others in addition to figuring out other people's minds, and as a result, the whole world is lost in the continuous infighting. Although this Huang Li was born in martial arts, he was an out-and-out smart person, Xu was afraid that Harvey would say something that Lin Xiaozhi didn't like to hear first, not only did he answer before him, but he also didn't forget to divert Lin Xiaozhi's attention.

It's no wonder he's worried, Huang Li is from a new VFX studio after all. In the past, when New Vision was under Xu Ke's name, the special effects that received the largest investment were two "A Chinese Ghost Story", but the overall investment of "A Chinese Ghost Story L" was only more than 5 million Hong Kong dollars, and only a few hundred thousand were used for special effects. Although the production cost of the second part has been tens of millions, half of the remuneration paid to the artists was spent, and the money left for them to engage in special effects in the end was not much, still less than one million.

Therefore, the special effects of "A Chinese Ghost Story" will look so rough that foreigners will probably grin directly when they come to see it, and they don't admit that it is called movie special effects at all.

In comparison, "Resident Evil" has invested a lot in special effects.

Although he was not satisfied, Lin Xiaozhi did not show it on the surface, nodded with a light smile, and walked with the two of them to the technical room.

"......, come over here...... This is the light channel that we made before, are you satisfied with that scene? ”

In terms of technique, Huang Li has a lot of foreigners like Harvey, so he took the initiative to give up the right to explain, and Harvey also stood up and took the initiative to explain for him.

Lin Xiaozhi was brought to a computer, and a young white technician who was originally writing code on the computer immediately stood up and said hello to him: "......"

Lin Xiaozhi smiled and nodded, Harvey quickly explained to him in French English, and the young white technician immediately nodded back and replied with a word of understanding, and then sat down again, and his fingers tapped on the keyboard quickly for a while, and he quickly pulled out a folder with the mouse.

Canada is a country of immigrants, although most of them are British immigrants, but there are also many immigrants from France and other countries, Harvey and this young technician are the descendants of French immigrants, at first glance when they heard their conversation in a thick nasal strange French English, Lin Xiaozhi also endured it and didn't laugh, that tone was really interesting.

Unconsciously, the dissatisfaction in my heart faded a lot.

"It's done, look at ......"

The technician skillfully clicked on a video file in the folder, and immediately a set of shots of the artist appeared after they had processed it early.

In the video, Kaplan, played by Qian Jiale, sits in front of several good-looking assembled computers that Lin Xiaozhi specially ordered from Lenovo, dancing with his hands as if he was enchanted, and quickly tapping on the keyboard, and soon, the once closed steel gate in front of them opened.

"The cut is good" Lin Xiaozhi nodded in his heart, very satisfied with the accurate handling of the few editors he sent to cooperate with the post-production. Qian Jiale, who was born from the grassroots, let alone fiddling with the computer, even learned to turn on and off the computer recently. So in the movie, he used a stand-in when filming him using the computer, anyway, Lin Xiaozhi has decided that there will not be a scene of his showing his face and tapping on the keyboard in the whole movie, but he is afraid that the attentive audience will see through it.

"Small, captain, I've got ......"

In the video, Qian Jiale was chewing gum in his mouth, with a proud smile on his face, and he whistled the moment the door opened.

As soon as the camera turned, the mercenary captain 'Mark, played by Xu Jinjiang, appeared on the screen, with dense stubble on his cheeks, a cold and expressionless face matched with his height that stood out among the yellow race, no one dared to underestimate him when he looked at it, Lin Xiaozhi was very satisfied with letting him play the role of the mercenary captain.

Xu Jinjiang had a cold face, looked at the dark passage and frowned slightly, and after a while before he spoke: "Lilla, Lyle, and Durant went in with things, and Lena followed, as for the others...... Waiting here for ......"

Playing the mercenary Lila and Lyle are Media Asia's contracted artists Ge Minhui and Lin Haifeng, the two of them have received five or six small-budget movies in Media Asia in the past two years, and they have gained some fame by starring in some witty comedy stars, Durant is played by Jiang Hua, and the nurse Lena in the mercenary team is played by Yang Lijing.

"Yes" The mercenary team replied crisply, and the heroine Alice played by Tong Ling stepped forward and was just about to see more clearly in the aisle, when the two mercenaries played by Liu Qingyun and Wu Yi stepped forward to block her vision. After being glanced at coldly by Xu Jinjiang, Tong Ling's version of Alice could only walk back helplessly, and on the other side, Wu Yi, who was heavily armed, flirted with the female mercenary who seemed to be playing Li Saifeng, but his eyes fell on Liu Dehua, who played the male protagonist Leon, and Matt, played by Leung Jiahui, who was handcuffed, from time to time, and the muzzle of the gun was secretly aimed at them.

A set of short actions after Lin Xiaozhi's improvement,Not only the mercenary team's vigilance against the protagonist's party,It also interprets the alertness and quality of the mercenary team from the side,After Lin Xiaozhi's improvement,It is undoubtedly more sophisticated than the original,So much so that even he couldn't help but nod his head with satisfaction after reading it

Standing on the shoulders of giants, it is indeed more convenient to stand higher.

After the four mercenaries entered the aisle in turn, suddenly the aisle lit up, not only frightened the four of them, but even several people outside the aisle were frightened, and the mercenary captain played by Xu Jinjiang on the screen was like a cheetah stimulated, and suddenly raised his gun and aimed it at the aisle.

The aisle suddenly lit up, and several people subconsciously squatted down to take precautions, and after a crackling keyboard sound here, soon Kaplan, played by Qian Jiale, spoke, "...... That's an automatic sensor light, no danger......"

After being reminded by him, the four mercenaries who were originally squatting on the ground and raising their guns vigilantly stood up, and after a while of scolding, they had to move forward.

"Captain, there's another door here"

The mercenary played by Jiang Hua quickly walked to the gate, and after Xu Jinjiang made a gesture, he immediately nodded, took out a piece of something from his chest pocket and pasted it on something similar to a card reader in front of the gate.

"Prepare for code breaking......" Xu Jinjiang tilted his head slightly, and ordered in a faint voice to Kaplan, played by Qian Jiale.

"Give me thirty seconds......" replied to him with a confident reply from Kaplan.

With another crackling keyboard tapping, the camera flashed over the computer, the keyboard tapping hand, Kaplan constantly chewing gum, and Alice, who frowned and shook her head as if she was remembering something, and soon the password was cracked, and after a snap, the opposite door was opened.

"Get it ......"

The moment the door opened, it was obvious that Xu Jinjiang on the screen seemed to be relieved, and a smile appeared on his face, which had been expressionless, and he turned his head and nodded approvingly at Kaplan, played by Qian Jiale. The camera turned again, and the mercenary played by Lin Haifeng in the aisle immediately opened a box and took out something similar to a bazooka from it, which aroused Alice's curiosity, and she asked curiously, "What is that?" ”

But she didn't want to, it was her question that brought disaster to the entire mercenary team.