Speaking of American cartoons, I have to mention the three major animation companies.

One of the biggest is naturally Disney, from the 2D era to the 3D era, Disney has launched countless well-known cartoons, regardless of quality, word of mouth or box office, it is eye-catching.

Relatively speaking, the new Blue Sky Studio, the number of works is much worse, but with its excellent graphics and different from Disney's cookie-cutter narrative mode, it has risen rapidly, with the "Ice Age" and "Rio Adventure" series, it has also won countless praises and rich box office.

As for Pixar, it's actually a division separated from ILM.

After the success of Lucas's Star Wars, he established ILM, but at that time, Lucas did not attach much importance to computer animation, and paid more attention to the innovation of traditional film and television special effects technology. Later, it was bought by shrewd investor Steve Jobs for 10 million US dollars, during which he filmed many "Mobilization" series of movies, which were quite successful at the box office. By 06, Disney had acquired Pixar for $7.4 billion, and its value had appreciated 740 times in 20 years!

Of course, this was all from the previous life.

In this life, when Wu Tian became a shareholder of Industrial Light and Magic, Pixar had already been bought by Jobs, but Wu Tian was able to acquire Blue Sky Studios and was included in Zhongtian as an independent animation company, and now "Ice Age" has also launched two films, and the box office is also very ideal.

Therefore, the production of "Kung Fu Panda" this time is naturally dominated by Blue Sky Studio, plus MGM's animation department, to jointly form a production team.

But the problem is. The scale of Blue Sky Studio is a little too small, and all the manpower is invested in the production of "Ice Age 3", and there is really not much manpower.

"Musipire. If there are not enough people, recruit and cultivate. Wu Tian said, "Animated films have quite potential and higher profitability, so don't be afraid to invest." ”

The production cost of animated films, seriously speaking, is indeed lower than that of traditional films, after all, the investment in actors, venues, props, etc. is reduced. However, the cost of investing in animated films is not low. Because the technical requirements for animated film production are quite high, animation production companies often also take on the role of developing mapping engine software. and the need for updates for high-quality computers, among others.

In general, the production cost of animated films is still much lower than that of ordinary films.

However, in terms of box office, animated films are not lower than ordinary movies at all, and box office of hundreds of millions of dollars has become commonplace. On the other hand, ordinary movies often have some situations where they can't make ends meet......

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"Skye Wu is making a new movie!"

As soon as the news broke. It immediately sparked a heated discussion.

"I heard that Skye Wu is going to make an animated film? What is the rhythm of this? Netizens felt a little incredible.

"What's so strange about that? Skye Wu is a genius director, and he won't disappoint me in any kind of film! ”

"Don't hold the stinky feet of the Chinese!"

"It makes sense, so far, China has not had a decent cartoon at all, why did he make cartoons?"

"I can only say that you are short-sighted, China has also made many excellent cartoons, such as "Havoc in Heaven", but Chinese cartoons have never been broadcast in the United States."

"I'm sure Skye Wu will bring me an animated movie worth enjoying!"

"Skye Wu animates. It's not unusual at all, you can take a look at his original films. None of them are repetitive. Now I'm worried about whether Skye Wu will launch the film industry after he has made all the films......"

Wu Tian doesn't care much about all kinds of comments on the Internet, as a celebrity, Wu Tian has long been accustomed to not affecting his mood with netizen comments. Whether they are optimistic about themselves or slander themselves, Wu Tian can only continue his plans and work.

After many days of hard work, the production team of "Kung Fu Panda" has basically been determined, of which Blue Sky Studio is the main force, but the personnel that can be provided are limited, mainly technical support, and most of MGM's animation department have joined the production team and are the backbone.

However, this part of the interns, after returning to China, will become the main force of a new animation company, when the animation film and television company jointly invested by Tianzheng and TechnoAlpin will focus on the production of animated films and film CG special effects, which can be regarded as Wu Tian's contribution to the development of China's animation industry.

After waiting for a few more days, the entire production team gathered at MGM headquarters.

In the conference room of Nuoda, there were no neat conference tables and chairs, but everyone was allowed to stand or sit around at will, and Wu Tian stood on a small podium and began the first speech of the assembly meeting of all production members......

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"Hello everyone, I think everyone should know me, right?" Wu Tian stood on the podium. Said with a smile.

Many people in the audience responded positively, although most of the people present are engaged in animated films, but they are all people in the film industry. For this prodigy who came across the finale of "The Lord of the Rings", one of the biggest blockbuster films in film history, just because of luck, he almost didn't become the best director, and he naturally admired the name for a long time.

"Hehe, if someone doesn't know me, that's okay, as long as you know the panda, you can get the job." Wu Tian smiled. "Now I would like to invite our most distinguished guests today, the giant pandas Bingbing and Xuexue......"

With Wu Tian's invitation, there were two Chinese people on the side. An electric cart pushes up a huge cage with two cute giant pandas in the cage.

For a while, there was a sound of exclamation in the conference room, especially those women from the United States, who were all amused by the cute appearance of the panda.

"It's a panda. It's really a giant panda. It's so cute......"

"I've only seen it on TV before, but I didn't expect it to be even cuter......"

"Oh, I really want to hug it, it must feel comfortable......"

Wu Tian smiled and waited for the crowd to crowd in front of the stage to have enough eyes, and then smiled and knocked on the red wine glass into the microphone on the podium, and then continued: "Now, I want to ask everyone, mentioning pandas. What was your first impression when you saw the panda? ”

The crowd responded. Some say it's cute, some say it's silly and stupid, in short, the impression is very stupid and cute.

"Well, now the second question, when it comes to China, what is everyone's first impression?" Wu Tian then asked again.

Some people say that Chinese people are very smart, some people say that Chinese people are very rich now, but more answers are that Chinese people know Chinese kung fu!

Wu Tian had to sigh again in his heart, the great Master Bruce Lee, the impression he made on the people of the United States is too deep, and he really deserves to be the image spokesperson of China.

"Now the point is on!" Wu Tian hung everyone's appetite, and then said, "The cartoon we are going to shoot this time is about giant pandas and Chinese kung fu!" ”

For a moment, Wu Tian waved a magic wand, and all the windows of inspiration for the more than 100 people present were opened, and all kinds of inspiration formed in everyone's minds in an instant......

Giant panda? The giant panda who has been stupid and cute goes to learn Chinese kung fu? Just thinking about that picture is enough to make people laugh, and with some interesting details, it makes up an inspirational story, what a good movie it would be......

Even, many people have begun to design the animated image of the giant panda in their minds......

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In fact, for "Kung Fu Panda", many Chinese audiences are not very satisfied.

First of all, the image of the giant panda is a little too biased towards the concept of "bear", giving people the feeling that if it is not with dark circles, it is purely a big brown bear of the United States.

In addition, there are many questions such as how the panda's daddy can be a duck, they are not the same species at all, and so on.

In fact, these problems are purely because you can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour, and the psychological reasons are just to blame.

But even so, Wu Tian has to take care of his emotions, as a cartoon, the panda has a duck daddy, but the brown bear-like panda, Wu Tian is unacceptable, so, in this meeting, Wu Tian released the first work task, that is, let all the animation designers present, each design a panda animation image.

As for the other characters, there is relatively no need to conduct "auditions".

In the original film, the upright, brave and fearless Tiger Master sees Po as a veritable joke; The friendly, mischievous but warm-hearted monkey master has a playful and funny look; Master Xianhe is the most "maternal" of the five, and he is very sympathetic to Bao; Although the conceited Viper Master feels a little frivolous, her attitude towards this matter is like her fickle personality, which is not very clear; Master Mantis is the smartest of several masters, and he is very helpless about Bao's current situation, and always helps secretly.

The main characters are tigers, cranes, praying mantises, snakes, and monkeys from the Chinese Five Elements Fist - at least in this respect, the original director has seriously studied Chinese culture.

However, compared with Wu Tian, an authentic Chinese, the depth of research of the original film is far from enough.

For this movie, Wu Tian deliberately looked for the descendants of the Five Elements Fist from China, and several real Chinese martial arts masters came to the United States in person, serving as models for the animation designers throughout the process, performing Chinese kung fu, and recording movements with special effects capture programs to ensure that the movements in the animation are more realistic.

All of this preparation was not an easy task, and the whole process was planned to last until Christmas, when the main characters could be finalized before the "shooting" began.

Wu Tian is relaxed, just occasionally make a decision on the image selection, and naturally have time to accompany the three celebrities on weekdays...... (To be continued.) )