"Xiao Shi, Xiao Pan, how long have you two been in the film special effects industry?" Mr. Ding asked.

Director Zhang distributed the brewed tea to the coffee table of the two, "Come on, drink tea." ”

Graphite thanked him, "We have been doing it for a long time," Graphite said with a smile, "I'm just a real newcomer, so I'll ask Mr. Ding and Mr. Zhang for more guidance in the future." ”

"Oh, aren't you all in this together?" Mr. Ding was curious, "How long has Xiao Pan been doing it?" ”

Karen put down her teacup, "I used to be mainly in the administrative part," she said, "and I've been working in AD's Shanghai branch for four years." ”

President Ding nodded slightly.

Director Zhang opened a wooden box on the table and took out a cigar from it, "Xiaoshi, do you smoke?" He asked, then handed the cigar to Graphite.

Graphite waved his hand again and again and said, "Teacher Zhang, you're welcome, I didn't smoke it." ”

Director Zhang smiled and gestured to Karen and asked, "Don't you mind if we smoke?" Little Pan. ”

Karen smiled and said, "Don't mind, Mr. Zhang, it's okay." ”

Director Zhang finally handed the cigar to Ding Bo, who nodded and took the cigar. The two of them slowly lit their cigars.

……

Graphite took the opportunity to look around.

Thick embroidered curtains hang from the huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows, and the hustle and bustle of the city is quietly cut off from the tempered glass. As far as the eye can see, there are dense high-rise buildings of all kinds, the sky is clear blue, cloudless, and the winter sun shines on the ancient and modern imperial city.

Director Zhang and Mr. Ding finished baking their cigars, cut off the cigarette butts, and then lit their cigars with delicate lighters, they looked like the Wall Street bigwigs in the movie, they seemed to enjoy it, the smoke filled the air and light, and the office was immediately filled with the tobacco smell of cigars.

Accompanied the two bigwigs to drink tea, watched them smoke cigars, and talked about some painless topics, but they never got to the point.

"Little Stone,"

Soon, Director Zhang suddenly said: "I watched your video carefully several times, it's really breathtaking, I'm curious, how did you do it?" Also, how much money do you need to invest in such a short film? ”

It's here, it's finally time to get to the point, Graphite thought.

He put down his teacup and cheered up.

"Thank you Mr. Zhang for your recognition and praise," Graphite said with a smile, "We have our core technology and team, and we have done a lot of work to make super-first-class movie special effects." "If he says something ambiguous, of course he won't give his old pocket to the other party as soon as he comes up.

"Xiaoshi, do you mean that you made this film independently? Don't have a foreign special effects team involved? Director Zhang was still skeptical.

"Of course, we did it independently, and I am confident that our technology is better than that of foreign counterparts, and as for the effect, I think you should have seen it."

"So, how long has your company been around?" President Ding suddenly interjected and asked.

"Oh, our company has just been founded, and in fact, this is the first time we've released our work to the market." Graphite said with a shy smile.

"No wonder there was no information at all before," President Ding nodded and said, then he turned to Zhang Yaowen and said, "Yaowen, why don't you let Xiaoshi and them watch our film, it's over, let's continue to come back and discuss, what do you think?" ”

"Well, I think that's better too." Director Zhang also nodded and said, "Then let's go to the screening room to watch the film first, and then come back to continue the discussion." ”

In this way, the first interview came to an end for the time being.

Graphite and Karen were then taken to an exquisitely decorated screening room to watch the unreleased commercial blockbuster "The Legend of the Basili" (a magic movie) with two Warner bigwigs.

On the way to the screening room.

Graphite contacted Xing Ling through consciousness communication: "Xing Ling, I'm going to see their samples now, and you can also watch them live together through my perspective, wait a minute, I need your assistance, if there are any inappropriate and improved parts of the film, to what extent we can do it, you have to give me feedback in time, so that I can have something to say." ”

"No problem, Mo, promise to complete the task." The sweet voice of the Star Spirit sounded in his consciousness.

……

After more than an hour, the whole sample was finished.

The lights in the screening room were turned back on, and the four of them sat on the sofa in the screening room and discussed.

"How?" Zhang Dao asked.

Graphite already knew in his heart, and the star spirit was constantly transmitting various information and points to him in his consciousness, so when he heard Director Zhang's inquiry, he directly smiled and shook his head.

"Director Zhang," he said: "Your film is a commercial blockbuster with a magical theme, and the story and actors are actually very good, but I really want to complain about the special effects of this magic picture, Director Zhang, you don't mind." ”

Director Zhang and President Ding glanced at each other, both feeling a little embarrassed. They didn't expect this young man to be so direct.

"Okay, you say." Director Zhang reluctantly smiled, he wanted to hear what this graphite had to say about his film.

"Can you switch the screen?"

Mr. Ding nodded, and immediately made a call on his mobile phone, and soon two young people walked in with notebooks and sat on the side.

"Start from scratch?" President Ding asked.

"Well, start from scratch."

The young man holding the notebook somehow manipulated it, and the picture switched to a large scene at the beginning, from far to near, a long shot, showing a magnificent city in ancient times......

"Okay, stop!"

Graphite screamed, then stood up and pointed to the picture and said: "First of all, let's talk about this first background picture, this is the audience's first feeling when watching the movie, so whether this picture is shocking is very critical, I admit that you have also put a lot of effort into the special effects of this film, it should be said that this is also the current domestic excellent level of special effects." ”

"But, that's not enough." He deliberately emphasized.

"With our current special effects, there is still a big gap between them and the real Hollywood blockbusters, I say my personal feelings as an audience,"

He stopped and glanced at Director Zhang and President Ding, and continued:

"As an audience, my first impression is still a lack of substitution, and the traces of computer synthesis of this special effect are too obvious! Obviously, your shot was fully composited and rendered by the computer; However, Hollywood blockbusters are similar to the shots, they generally make real fake scenes for shooting, plus post-compositing and rendering, so they can often do it to the point of being fake. ”

"And we're still a little rough."

Graphite looked at the two bigwigs with a smile and hit the nail on the head.

"So, if you had to do it, how far would you be able to do it?" Director Zhang asked in a sullen voice.

Graphite smiled and nodded, and said confidently: "It's as real as the Cretaceous!" We can render the real ancient scenes, render the snake demon enough to be realistic, and show the movement state of the snake demon in accordance with the principle of people's conventional thinking, just like the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous period. It is difficult to find bugs and flaws in our special effects, and people will unconsciously feel a real and shocking experience when watching the movie, and I think that should be one of the ultimate goals of our filmmakers, to provide the best, most realistic, and most impactful visual feast. ”

He paused, raised his hand and said, "Please let this little brother switch the camera to the snake demon's part." ”

Everyone waited together for a while, and the camera quickly switched to the part of the snake demon.

"In a sense," Graphite continued, "you see, this snake demon is also a protagonist of this film, it is an image throughout the film, but the image we show to the audience here is a failure, that is, the problem I mentioned, the distortion, the synthesis traces are too obvious, the action is stiff, and in many places it even violates common sense, and what's worse, in different shots, the integration with the environment is not even consistent at a minimum. ”

When the two technical brothers heard Graphite's words, they couldn't help but be dumbfounded, who is this? It's not a shame to say so.

But the two bigwigs stopped talking, except that their faces were really a little ugly, they actually understood that what Graphite said made sense.

It's not that they don't want to make better pictures, it's not that the film itself lacks the necessary financial support, these Warners are not lacking, what they lack is technology and talent. Hiring the special effects team in the United States also has certain problems, one is that the price is extremely expensive, and the other is that the time cycle is particularly long, and they can't afford to spend it on the premise that they can't guarantee the final box office revenue.

A "Avatar", Cameron went through 14 years of brewing, costed 500 million US dollars, that is, nearly more than 3 billion yuan, and took four years to shoot and produce.

They really can't afford to play and can't play it.

What's more, there is also a problem of cultural differences in inviting foreigners, and the "Great Wall" hitting the street is the best example.

Graphite then continued to say some opinions on this film, the views are similar, in a word: the special effects of your film are really not good!

His complaint directly made the scene silent for a while.

In the end, President Ding said: "Go back to the office to discuss and discuss." Then, a few people went back to their previous office.

……

As soon as he sat down, Director Zhang got straight to the point and said: "Xiaoshi, I won't beat around the bush, you just say directly, can you do it, to what extent, and how much is the expected cost?" ”

"Of course you can." Graphite spread out his hands and smiled confidently: "For us, it's very simple!" ”

"First of all," he added, "all the original special effects for the whole film have to be redone, and the effects are of the same quality as the Cretaceous special effects, do you think it's okay?" ”

President Ding and Director Zhang's faces suddenly looked much better, what is the effect of "Cretaceous", they know that if the special effects of this film reach the same level, then the prospects are undoubtedly very exciting and longing.

Graphite continued: "As for the time frame for production, I estimate that it can be completed in a month. It just so happens that you can also have time to publicize and screen it to the whole country during the Spring Festival, is this okay? ”

"Can it be done in a month?" Director Zhang felt unbelievable, but he was pleasantly surprised.

"Well, just a month." Graphite looked indifferent and replied in the affirmative again. Actually, a month is actually redundant, Graphite smiled in his heart.

"We have to sign a contract, and if we can't do it or it is overdue, you will have to pay liquidated damages, are you sure?"

"Of course."

Director Zhang turned his head to look at President Ding, and the two exchanged glances with each other.

Mr. Ding put the cigar in his mouth and took a puff, and then, slowly blowing out a puff of smoke, seemed to ask casually: "So, I want to know, what is your offer?" ”

……