"If Cameron takes over the filming of The Lord of the Rings and says he wants to shoot in 3D, he, a technical maniac, will probably work with his team to improve the camera, and maybe the Pacefusion 3D camera will not necessarily be ......."

Just as Lin Mu was analyzing, another piece of news struck again.

Following Paramount and Warner with "The Lord of the Rings", Universal Pictures announced another film project - "Harry Potter", with a planned investment of $200 million!! And the director is Alfonso. Cuarón, the director of Harry Potter 3.

And they are also confidently announcing that Harry Potter will also start making 3D!!

The only thing left of Lin Mu at this time is to be stunned!!

"Harry Potter is out too?"

Speaking of "Harry Potter", I have to say that it has created brilliant achievements in the previous time and space, "Harry Potter" 8 movies have earned a total of 7.806 billion US dollars in the world, and with the current proportion, it is directly 71 billion yuan at the box office, which is extremely crazy!!

In the last year, Lin Mu noticed that the novel version of "Harry Potter" began to become popular around the world under the impetus of several behind-the-scenes promoters, and with its extremely realistic (principle) explanation, countless people believed that the existence of magic was true.

Now at the beginning of 2008, the popularity of the Harry Potter novel is no weaker than that of "The Lord of the Rings", the ancestor of magic novels, and it has a lot of popularity in China.

Lin Mu felt terrible when he saw that "Harry Potter" was gradually selling well all over the world. I think it's going to be brought to the screen soon.

Things turned out to be as Lin Mu expected, "Harry Potter" really came to the screen. And I resolutely chose to impact 3D.

"It seems that the plan needs to be advanced!! I want to fight for the first soup!! Lin Mu thought.

"There is no way to shoot "Avatar". It's too long, and it's estimated that it will be difficult to make it before "Lord of the Rings 1" and "Harry Potter 1". ”

"The Matrix and Pirates of the Caribbean have no basis in fiction. There is no way to compare with "The Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter", which have a huge readership, and even if they do, they will be losers, so I will not consider it for the time being. ”

Lin Mu thought about it, and finally fixed his eyes on the four big words 'Transformers' written on the table......

"Transformers now has a high reputation in toys, comics, anime, and games around the world. And it's no smaller than The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. It's a good film subject. And the Transformers models have already been designed when they were making toys, and the script has ready-made ......"

"Okay, that's it!!"

In the end, Lin Mu decided to shoot "Transformers"!

But if you want to shoot in 3D. It's going to be a bit of a change in the script. The 3D and 2D scenes will be slightly different.

And. The camera is still a little hot, and there is no way to officially start shooting for the time being.

After Lin Mu returned to the company, he quickly gathered all the members of the computer special effects production team who currently wanted the film and television company. They were given a task: "You must all be familiar with Transformers." Some of you have been involved in their image design before. Now I ask you to give the various Transformers inside a makeover from their original appearance. ”

"For example, Optimus Prime's current shape is a bit earthy, a little more majestic, and a little more grandiose!!"

"The other Autobots are nowhere near as domineering as the mad Transformers, and I need you to improve on that."

"The other thing is to design them to be made up of at least a thousand moving digital parts."

In Lin Mu's mouth, he kept saying a word of demand.

Everyone in the special effects team listened, and there was a feeling that big trouble was coming.

The birth of a Transformer can be roughly divided into seven steps. Conceptual design, mechanical setup, drawing of the internal mechanical skeleton and exterior armor and initial attempts at 3D deformation, deepening the Transformers design to the point where it is nearing completion, revising and polishing the details, head design, and 3D design by the model team members.

Take Optimus Prime as an example, which currently has a total of 10,108 parts, 1.8 million polygon faces, and 2,000 texture textures.

Trying to improve it is definitely a huge project that involves the whole body.

But. Everyone was excited: "Boss, are you going to start filming Transformers?" ”

Lin Mu smiled and nodded.

Seeing Lin Mu's response, everyone was pleasantly surprised!!

"Great!!"

"It's finally on!!"

"I've been looking forward to it for a long time. Now it's finally here! ”

"Transformers" has long been famous all over the world as a product of Hope Film and Television Company. The employees of Hope Film and Television Company can be said to have a different mood for it. In their opinion, "Biochemical Apocalypse" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" are in the background. In any case, it can't compare to "Transformers", in their hearts, "Transformers" should be the signboard, honor and symbol of Hope Film and Television Company.

Therefore, they had long hoped to make it into a movie, but unfortunately they waited and waited, and they never waited for any news, which disappointed them.

And now, Lin Mu admitted this himself, how could he not let them be ecstatic.

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!!" They said categorically as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

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Since Paramount, Warner, and Universal announced that "Lord of the Rings 1" and "Harry Potter 1" will start filming in 3D, world movies have begun to surge.

At this time, filming is underway, and "The Chronicles of Narnia 2", "Robot Story", "Raiders of the Lost Ark 2", "Earth Stands Still", "New Moon" and so on, which are scheduled to be released this year or next year, are also overshadowed.

3D seems to have become the theme of this year.

Although 3D has been around for a long time, there is no investment of more than $200 million.

Because 3D is still a pitfall, there are still countless problems to be solved. Because of technical issues, it's hard for a movie to exceed 100 minutes. And many viewers said that not only did they not feel the visual feast after watching it, but they were also dizzy. Nausea and want to throw up.

So when "Lord of the Rings 1" and "Harry Potter 1" bravely announced that they would be filmed in 3D, they immediately attracted a lot of attention. But other studios don't dare to try it easily. Thinking that it is difficult to catch up with you by one step behind anyway, it is better to wait first, let "Lord of the Rings 1" and "Harry Potter 1" explore the situation in front, and follow up quickly if the market is broad.

And in China. A 3D movie that has never appeared before. At this time, because of the news of the start of filming of "Lord of the Rings 1" and "Harry Potter 1", the concept of 3D movies began to enter the public eye.

"There's still this thing, it's amazing~~"

"I can't understand what it is, but it feels awesome."

"In the United States, 3D has been around since the 10s. And now many theaters in North America have begun to show 3D short films early. There is still no movement in the country. Backward ......"

In Huaxia. Most people don't know what a 3D movie is.

At this time, the topic of 3D began to gradually become hot in China.

Many film companies saw this opportunity and wanted to get involved. But after seeing the technical requirements required for 3D movies. Suddenly deflated, too high-end, almost looking up.

Within two days, some film media newspapers began to analyze the major domestic film companies and the domestic technical level, and soon came to a conclusion: with Huaxia's current film technology, there is no way to make 3D movies if you don't accept foreign aid. And there is no director in China who has 3D shooting experience.

After Lin Mu and Fan Ye played in the playground of Haizhu City, they bought a newspaper and read it while eating. The results happened to see this newspaper analysis.

Lin Mu was happy.

If you don't have yourself, no one really would make a long 3D movie. But now with yourself, everything is not a problem. Technology, money, courage, I don't lack anything, and there is nothing to stop me.

"Laughing at what??" Fan Ye was holding two bowls of corn keel soup. Putting it on the table, he asked curiously. At this time, the weather was still a little cold, so she wore a sports winter suit. Add a ponytail to light it up. The dimples of Wanwan are full of youth.

Lin Mu flew from the magic capital to Haizhu last night. I was pulled into the playground early this morning and played like crazy. At this point, I'm really tired.

Lin Mu didn't answer, just smiled and handed over the newspaper.

“3d？？ What is 3D? Liu Fan Ye looked at Lin Mu with a sideways face, and he almost had two question marks on his head, and his two big eyes were very cute.

Lin Mu explained to her with a smile: "3D is the abbreviation of 'threedimensions' in English, which means three-dimensional. In the movie, after a certain amount of technical processing, people can feel that the things in the movie appear off-screen and surround the audience, which is a 3D movie. ”

Then Lin Mu introduced to her the principle of 3D, that is, the visual deviation of the eye, and then told her about the production method, such as a polarizer.

Fan Ye: "Doesn't that sound difficult, right?" ”

Lin Mu shook his head: "No, it's quite difficult. The first is the camera, without a good camera, you can't even shoot real scenes, let alone the CG image of the computer becomes 3D, it is more difficult than live shooting. ”

"So the team that filmed Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter has found a new technology for shooting 3D?"

Lin Mu nodded: "Yes, even if it's not, it's not far off, because the old technology can't support the demand for making big movies." ”

"If Huaxia wants to make a 3D movie, won't it have to wait a few years??"

Hearing this, Lin Mu smiled: "Haha, you underestimate me too much, I won't lag behind them, next time I'll take you to see 3D." ”

After Lin Mu's explanation, she realized that her boyfriend had started preparing early, and now he had successfully developed a new 3D shooting technology.

"Uncle is amazing!!"

After only 2 days in Haizhu, Lin Mu returned to the magic capital.

As soon as he returned to the company, the secretary took a document and handed it to him: "Boss, the information of several special effects companies has been obtained." ”

Lin Mu took the information and looked at it.

"Dimensionality, Blu-ray, Shadow?? All three of them are about to go bankrupt?? Lin Mu remembered the last time he was in the United States, he had the experience of communicating with these three special effects companies, at that time, these three companies could be said to be awesome, their nostrils were all facing the sky, and their eyes had never looked at people head-on.

"These three companies are all dead~~" Lin Mu smiled at the secretary.

The secretary was also a little smug and said, "Now look at how awesome they are!" ”

In addition to these three special effects companies, there are several other special effects companies that are also facing major financial difficulties.

In recent years, there have been more and more places where special effects have been used in movies, and special effects have begun to become more and more popular, but the strange thing is that the special effects companies that do special effects have lost money, and there are only a few special effects companies that can maintain a certain amount of financial support, including Industrial Light & Magic, Weta, and Digital, which has been deeply cooperating with Hope Film and Television Company.

And the reason why those special effects companies went bankrupt was that the expenses were much greater than the revenues. In the second half of 2007, there were rumors in the North American entertainment industry that many special effects companies complained that the money given by the filmmakers was too small, and the special effects research was a huge financial hole, which made it more and more difficult for them to operate.

The pressure of competition in the industry is high, and the high production cost is the main reason for its bankruptcy. In addition to the hardware, there is also investment in intellectual "equipment": when a movie starts, it needs to set up a research and development department composed of scientists, 1/3 of whom are experts in the physics field and the Internet.

Computer chips or the hardware used for filming are just the surface, but it's where the hundreds of hours of work that artists put in, the on-set assistants who work hard to coordinate with the special effects producers, and the engineers who write out long lists of appropriate code and set up the entire production process for the film.

Another reason is that the special effects company that paid for the production did not benefit from the popularity of the film, and Hollywood's sharing system is that the film has a share from the director, producer to actors, but the special effects company has never had a share.

Since the end of 2007, more than six Los Angeles special effects production companies have closed down, thousands of special effects engineers have lost their jobs, and many contracted special effects artists who used to have no worries about food and clothing have been reduced to short-term contract workers.

Many special effects artists have moved to other parts of the world, such as Huaxia, a country where the film industry is thriving.

Since then, Lin Mu began to call people to the United States to 'squat', find a professional investigation company to investigate and evaluate all these special effects companies in North America that may go bankrupt, and be ready to enter the market for acquisition at any time.

Now I've waited until now, and I've finally waited for my chance.

In the future, most of the movies will be special effects, and Lin Mu will naturally spend a lot of effort to acquire them. Talent is very important, but the alliance has cultivated a lot, but the patents owned by those special effects companies are also very important, so the acquisition of special effects companies is a must. (To be continued.) )