California, USA.

"It's a pity that this idea is not enough, pass."

In the Blizzard headquarters building, associate creative director Mead . Wilson clicked on an email in his work mailbox, and after reading it carefully, he regretfully chose to be eliminated.

Wilson, who was previously a minor manager at Vivendi's head office, was transferred to Blizzard as deputy director of creative development after the acquisition of the famous Blizzard, and now that Blizzard has bought back most of the shares from Vivendi, his position is somewhat awkward.

said that he was from Vivendi, Wilson spent most of his time in Blizzard's big studio, said that he was from Blizzard, and he was rightfully sent by Vivendi, he was very embarrassed no matter what camp he stood in, so he was usually very low-key, except for things within the scope of his own work, the rest of the high-level intrigues were not involved.

As the deputy director of creative development, to put it bluntly, he is responsible for accepting creative submissions from the outside world, such as improving the game's plot and story, building and shortcomings of the game, as well as cutscenes, promoting CG ideas, etc., the most satisfying thing about this job is that he is a die-hard Blizzard fan, and his favorite is World of Warcraft.

The important reason for coming here in the first place is that Wilson likes the several promotional CGs made by Blizzard very much, so he readily agreed to the dispatch of Vivendi's head office and went directly to Blizzard so that he could have the opportunity to get close to World of Warcraft.

Although the director has a sub-word in front of him, Wilson still belongs to the leadership class and has his own one-man office, and his office on weekdays is very simple, which is to check the Internet from all over the world and send to his work mailbox.

"Well, this is a good build. It can be transferred to the development department. ”

Wilson read an email from Las Vegas, a hardcore Warcraft player for some shortcomings of the game, put forward a sincere suggestion, Wilson thought about it, saved the content of this email, stored it in a folder, and sent it to the development department after finishing it.

Some time ago, Blizzard announced the recruitment of special effects production personnel, striving to continue to build a special effects team. Specialized services for CG special effects for its games.

Blizzard production, must be a high-quality product, this classic slogan has become the heart of every Blizzard person, although often "bounce tickets", but Blizzard has been trying its best to pursue the peak of quality.

It has not been open for three years. Ten years after opening, this sentence is the best portrayal of Blizzard.

In addition to recruiting people. Blizzard is also openly soliciting CGs for finished products. Producers are allowed to collect Blizzard's game content, and the finished CG products will be mailed to Wilson's mailbox, and Wilson will conduct a preliminary audition.

As a veteran player and sitting in the position of deputy creative director, Wilson's vision has become very vicious.

"This animation is a parody of the panda people, it's a pity. It's too rough to meet the requirements. ”

Wilson silently died in his heart, this work from a special effects studio in Seoul, South Korea, and then continued to look down.

"Huh. This one from Japan is doing well.,The picture quality is very beautiful.,The storyline is also very compact.,I'll see.,It's actually a newly acquired studio under Sony? ”

On the screen, a piece from a Japanese special effects studio is played, with the studio and Sony logos in the lower right corner, which makes Wilson understand the identity of the other party.

In Japan, where the animation and game industries are extremely developed, the technology of game and animation CG is in the forefront of the world, but unlike movie special effects and game animation, the top special effects artists are good at compositing, not CG animation.

Japan is okay to make cars, but it's not okay to build fighter jets, it's okay to do game animation CG, it's not okay to make movies, due to Japan's local reasons, limited population and land area, it is destined that the film and television resource market has long been saturated, and it is difficult to give birth to decent film companies. You don't see, in recent years, whether it is Hollywood or blockbusters from other countries, they have entered the big market of China under the banner of Chinese culture to make money, which is determined by the huge population base of China and has a huge consumer market.

Of course, Sony, a giant involved in countless industries, once it decides to enter a certain industry, if it is not the top, it will definitely not be too bad, for example, this studio is the best example.

Wilson of course understands this, obviously Sony has seen Blizzard's sign, ready to seize this opportunity to make a name for the studio, Wilson looked at it carefully a few times, this work is still just a rough work, if the elaborate zuò can improve some level, it basically meets Blizzard's requirements.

"Stay first, if there are no other works, choose this one."

Now unlike in the early years, the gap in the special effects industry is getting wider and wider, and it is difficult to come across a work that is eye-catching.

Wilson continued to flip through the pages, and in just one day, more than 20 emails were received in the mailbox, and Wilson carefully scanned each one, which was his respect for these creative providers.

Regardless of whether it is finally adopted or not, Wilson will carefully reply to the cause and effect, and it is precisely because of this that Wilson has been able to sit in this seat for so long, in fact, in addition to him, the creative director Parr who rides on his head is also responsible for receiving letters, and the daily mail can reach hundreds of mails, which has been suppressing him.

The bases on both sides are different, and the chances of encountering good works are naturally different, some authors like to vote for two works, Wilson and Parr each vote for one, maybe because the tastes of the two directors are different, the work can be selected.

Soon, these emails have been read by Wilson, and there is no better work than this work in Japan, Wilson thought about it, and copied the animation of this email to a USB flash drive, ready to bring it up at an internal meeting for everyone to discuss.

At this time, there was a knock in the mailbox, indicating that a new email had arrived, Wilson clicked on it and found that it was an email from Huaxia Z Province, the sender was a company called Ziguang Software, and there was also a video in it, and the email indicated that it was a clip of Alsace summoning a bone dragon made by zuò.

As a Warcraft fan, Wilson naturally has a deep memory of the opening animation of Wrath of the Lich King, and it is also one of his favorite animations, so he clicked on this video.

What catches your eye is a black background, in which the Blizzard logo appears, and a purple teardrop-shaped logo outlined with clean lines, which is the logo of Unisplendour Software.

What follows is a full-fledged passage of American English, followed by a long shot of the Lich King standing proudly on top of an iceberg, looking down on the army of the undead below.

The quality of the video is very exquisite, Wilson can even see the most subtle changes in the expression in the Lich King's eyes, you know, the helmet worn by the Lich King covers most of his cheeks, leaving only his eyes that exude blue coldness, and a qiē love can almost only be expressed from his eyes.

Behind the Lich King was a vast glacier, cold and desolate, covered in the thick ice of the dead female dragon Sindragosa, who had been badly injured and blind before she died, and had no strength to reach the Dragonbone Wilderness, where the dragons lay rest, and finally died in the land of the Ice Crown.

At the moment of death, Sindragosa swore that he would ...... Revenge.

Sensing her breath, Arthas found the place where her body was frozen, ready to resurrect her and become part of his own army of the undead.

Arthas brushed away the white snow on the ground and pulled out the frost sorrow from his waist, and the snowflakes falling in mid-air with a hint of blue fell on the frost sorrow, and the blue permeated the blade of the sword.

Arthas inserted the frost sorrow into the blue translucent ice on the ground, and suddenly countless cracks spread densely, and the earth shook suddenly, and the dead dragon Sindragosa, which was rotten and only had its skeleton, was resurrected by Arthas's power and turned into a frost dragon.

At the same time, the voice of Arthas's father sounded in the background.

“Forwhenmydayshavecometoanend，”

When my time ends,

“You，”

you

“Shallbeking！”

Will be crowned king!

This is basically the end of Blizzard's CG, Arthas commands the Frost Dragon to patrol the glacier, and quietly accumulates his strength, preparing to invade Azeroth again......

This animation is more beautiful than Blizzard's zuò, and the picture quality is more exquisite, because anyone can give it with Blizzard's official story, so the storyline is not much different, but Wilson, who watched this CG, was stunned on the spot.

This obscure purple software, the CG level of zuò has undoubtedly surpassed Blizzard's level, and Blizzard did not know how many months it took to make this CG, and the important point is that the Japanese studio CG that he was going to get in the conference room before was dwarfed by comparison.

It's like a ring, the CG of the Japanese studio is like a glass ball, standing out in a group of unqualified works, and it looks like it is about to be set into the ring, but at this moment it suddenly kills a crystal, which is still the size of a pigeon's egg!

People have to die than people, goods have to be thrown away, if there is no horizontal intervention of Unisplendour software, Sony's wishful thinking will not be in vain.

Compared with the two, Wilson just hesitated, and then decisively copied this animation to the USB flash drive, originally planned to delete the Japanese one, but his heart moved, and he didn't delete it directly, and the simple work was good or bad, without a reference, and he couldn't see its value.

This work of Sony in Japan has become a stepping stone for Unisplendour Software. (To be continued......)