Chapter Eighty-Six: New Projects
After Ye Jiayi joined the company, no matter what the mood of the two people was, at least for Fan Zhe, the burden on him was instantly lightened.
Before, although Tang Zhiqi was sharing his work, after all, he still had to keep an eye on many things himself.
But now, apart from project development work, he has nothing left.
The special effects production project of "Shadow Wars" has already entered the final stage, and after entering May, it will be completely completed.
The production of the entire special effects involved hundreds of shots, and the dimensional system has completed all the calculations, and all of them have been delivered to the render farm for cloud rendering.
After watching the preliminary sample, the filmmaker once again expressed his satisfaction.
According to the contract, in addition to the 6 million deposit paid at the beginning, the filmmaker still needs to pay 6 million after the production of special effects is completed.
The remaining 8 million will not be settled until the rendering results come out and the full version of the film is delivered.
The production process of the movie "Shadow Wars" is actually quite difficult, during the filming period, there are many moths because of power struggles or other things, otherwise there would be no such thing as going to Xunyang to get the exterior scenes, disbanding the crew and reshooting the shots, let alone the fact that the movie has been filmed, and even a special effects production company has not done this kind of thing.
The cost of rendering is to be paid by 'Dimension Entertainment', which is contractually stipulated.
The entire rendering project is estimated to be completed in June, but this matter doesn't need to be bothered by 'Dimensional Entertainment', just have someone to keep an eye on and communicate with the render farm.
The producers of "Shadow Wars" originally planned to skip tickets and change the release date, but after hearing that all the rendering work would be completed in June, they discussed it internally and decided to maintain the original schedule of August launch.
By June, when the special effects rendering is also announced, they will have two months to do post-editing, which should be able to catch up with the schedule.
And now, the parts that need to be completed for this film 'Dimension Entertainment' have all been processed. And in the follow-up, the only thing Fan Zhe can look forward to is that he hopes that their scissors in the later stage can be more reliable, otherwise, they will really be blind to their special effects.
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After the delivery of the project of "Shadow War", half of the development department's strength was idle.
Sun Yilang proposed to Fan Zhe that he would transfer a few people back. Now, most of the "Task Force" development team he leads is composed of relatively low-level painters, and he can't stand it anymore.
But Fan Zhe refused his request, and only allowed him to transfer back two people at most.
Although the current ongoing project of "Dimension Entertainment", only the third season of "Task Force" remains.
At present, there are not many members of this project team, only a few, and the others are basically assistant painters.
However, the development process and working methods of this project are already very mature, and the difficulty of drawing pictures and images is not high, and it can be handled completely with the existing manpower. Although the progress is not fast, it is also steadily advancing.
That's it.
Fan Zhe believes that this project does not need such a master to support the field.
Rather than throwing them into a "task force" project, it would be better to transfer them out of the task force to paint things that are not too difficult and that the assistant artist is fully capable of.
Although 'Dimension Entertainment' has not started the next project for the time being, this does not mean that there is no other work.
At present, in the copyright library of 'Dimension Entertainment', there are already three works, of which "Fantasy Three Kingdoms" and "Hell Apartment" have not yet entered the development sequence.
Fan Zhe's task for these people, including Mi Le and Luo Qi, was to freely choose to draw some concept drawings and conceptual illustrations of scenes and characters for these two works.
These things may not be useful for the time being, but they can be sealed with related copyright content. In the future, once the project is to be started, there will be a large number of original designs that are ready-made, and the work will be much smoother.
And Fan Zhe is actually carefully thinking about what to do with the next project.
Right now, Wedo Entertainment is in a very healthy financial position, and the key is to have plenty of cash.
In their accounts, there are 20 or 30 million in cash, and even if they don't do anything, in the next few months, they can recover more than 10 million yuan of income through the balance of the previous projects.
However, for such a thing as starting a new project, he wants to say hello to Ye Jiayi.
At present, the biggest cost investment of Wedo Entertainment is in labor costs.
In addition to labor costs, Fan Zhe also discussed with Ye Jiayi to prepare to establish a company called 'Wedo Technology' overseas. This will be a shell company, and any project carried out by Wedo Entertainment in the future will be outsourced, and the money will be paid to Wedo Technology, and then Wedo Technology will inject funds back to Wedo Entertainment to keep the books intact.
Ye Jiayi didn't have any curiosity about this dimensional technology, she knew that it was a secret.
As for what Fan Zhe said, she said that it can work.
In this way, Fan Zhe's new project will get a budget of 10 million to pay for the price of 'Dimension Technology' - of course, this money will eventually go back to Dimension Entertainment.
As for labor costs, including project bonuses and the like, they will be accounted for by the company normally.
At this point, Fan Zhe can start the next project with peace of mind.
For the next project, Fan Zhe basically decided to do "The Evolution of the 4.6 Billion Ensemble".
Prior to this, he and the artists in the team made about two or three conceptual designs with different styles, and in the end, Fan Zhe chose one of them after many trade-offs.
The design of this version, the whole style is very beautiful, and the original underwater world is like a dream.
In fact, no matter which version of the design it is, it is based on the science as much as possible.
But at that time, no one had seen it, and no scientific basis could completely restore the era when the earth had just come to the solar system.
As long as there are no mistakes in principle, there is a wide range of what can be done by design.
There was also a version of the design before, and the whole color and design will be more rigorous, and it will become more textured.
But that kind of style will look a little dull, and it may feel a little boring.
Especially for younger children.
The richer colors and more dreamy visual effects will make the whole film more beautiful and enhance the watchability.