On July 3, Lu Ping'an returned to Shangmei Factory.

As July 13 gets closer and closer, the atmosphere about the Olympic bid is getting stronger and stronger.

On the radio and on television, you can see real-time reports on the Olympic bid from time to time.

Cheng Long's interview, Gong Li's interview, and various interviews in Moscow ahead.

The Shangmei factory also put up various slogans to cheer for the Olympic bid.

Director Cao said that on the night of the Olympic bid, the audience would watch live TV and invite Lu Ping'an to participate.

Of course, Lu Ping'an agreed, he didn't have much serious experience in the process of successful bidding for the Olympics in his previous life, he was still young at that time, and he only knew that the sound of firecrackers on the street outside suddenly sounded, and it sounded for a long time, Lu Ping'an and his friends picked up hundreds of firecrackers just by picking up firecrackers that were not exploded, and they were ready to save them for the New Year, but they didn't last until the next day.

Entering the work, Shangmei Factory assigned a five-person team to Lu Ping'an.

Three men and two women, the eldest is called Master Hao, 49 years old, the youngest is called Bao Qingqing, graduated from the China Academy of Art, 24 years old, her father is also in the five-person group, everyone calls him Lao Bao.

The task on the first day after a brief acquaintance was to decide on the script and painting style.

The first short film script that Lu Ping'an came up with was called "Hiring Life", and the information given by the system was a 7-minute short film in Argentina in 08.

Probably the plot is about a magical world, all the tools are done by people, whether it is floor lamps, dressers, dining tables, chairs or hangers, they are all served by people, these people are expressionless, conscientiously do their own things, they have no complaints, and form an important part of this cold world.

The metaphor is that people only play the role of screws in a highly functioning and complete social system, forced to do things they don't want to do.

Although the person who plays the lamp at the end of the story chooses not to make the lamp anymore, there will still be a new lamp to replace it, and the whole society will still run coldly.

This short film, like "The Tuner" and "Black Hole", made a deep impression on Lu Ping'an at that time.

At that time, Lu Ping'an, who was about to graduate from college and face the problem of choosing a career, was deeply shocked after reading it, and felt that his life should not be like the characters in the film, so he later came up with the idea of being a boss, and finally opened a fried chicken restaurant by him.

He has seen some interpretations and said that if he saw this short film in 2020, he would definitely not have the amazing feeling of seeing it in 2008.

Because in the past decade, the number of works that reflect social reality has been increasing.

"Hired Life" was published at the time as a forward-looking and creative work, so it received high praise.

And now it's 01, and this sense of amazement will naturally be deeper than in 08.

Sure enough, after Master Hao and Director Cao read the official script and understood the intention of Lu Ping'an's theme, their eyes suddenly changed when they looked at Lu Ping'an.

"Those who can take the Palme d'Or really have a few brushes!"

Master Hao's personality is more valuable, and he praised Lu Ping'an on the spot.

Then without waiting for Lu Ping'an to be humble, he beckoned the five-person group to start working.

"Everyone takes a bridge and finalizes the version first...

The work unfolded smoothly.

It's just that I soon encountered a problem, and that is the problem of character modeling.

The original version of "Hired Life" is Argentinian, and the characters are also foreigners.

Lu Ping'an's meaning is actually that it is better to use the image of a foreigner, after all, it has the nature of irony and metaphor, and it may not be appropriate to use Asian faces, and he is also a little afraid of some mysterious forces.

But Master Hao and Director Cao feel that since it is a domestic animation, it is natural to use the image of a Chinese.

Lu Ping'an still felt that something was wrong, he called Hu Qingquan to ask him, and Hu Qingquan smiled: "It's okay if you don't use it?" ”

So the matter was solved, and all the black, yellow and white in "Hired Life" were there, and the pattern was bigger.

The rest of the work becomes smooth.

Set the shape, tone, and frame.

It took a day to finalize, and in terms of frame rate, "Hired Life" will be 24 frames.

At present, the general commercial animation is mainly 16 frames, a little better 24 frames, the number of frames will affect the number of original pictures to a certain extent, commercial animation is generally based on "one shot three" as the mainstream, that is, one every three frames, 8 shots per second, special circumstances will use "one shot two", one every two frames, 12 per second, and then more advanced is "one shot one", one per frame, 24 per second.

In most cases, the same image is used for three frames, and it is rare for each frame to use a different original image.

In fact, even eight images per second is very labor-intensive, and an animator draws 800 images a month, and the finished product is produced in less than two minutes.

So animation is really expensive!

However, for the sake of the quality of the work, Shangmei Factory insisted on using 24 frames to shoot one at a time, and Master Hao even said that no matter how high it is, it will be fine, and if it is higher, it will be 30 frames, which is too luxurious.

Lu Ping'an felt that this was completely enough now, otherwise he didn't know when he would have to do it.

So the production of the short film was on the right track.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye it is the 13th.

At 9 o'clock that night, the whole factory stopped working and gathered in the big canteen to look at the TV in the canteen.

Lu Ping'an is more familiar with Shangmei Factory, and sitting with him is the production team of "I'm Crazy for Songs".

The painter Xiao Li asked Lu Ping'an: "Lu Dao, do you think we can succeed this time?" ”

This is the question that is being raised the most these days.

And Lu Ping'an's answer is the same as most people: "Of course it will work." ”

As for the reason?

There is no reason, what reason is needed to support the country?

Sure enough, it was ten o'clock in the evening.

There were still nine minutes to go before the results of the vote in Moscow.

At this moment, everyone in the canteen, together with the billions of people in the land of China, and hundreds of millions of Chinese around the world, are waiting for the final result to come out.

At 22:09, IOC President Samaranch pronounced a name in a majestic pronunciation: "BEIJING!" ”。

At this moment, all the members of the Chinese BJ Olympic delegation sitting below jumped excitedly.

At the same time, at the Millennium Monument in Beijing, countless people waved flags, gongs and drums were noisy, and firecrackers rang out.

At the live broadcast of Phoenix TV's Olympic bid, when the results came out, Zhou Xingxing excitedly hugged Li Wen and fell into madness.

In the canteen of Shangmei Factory, hundreds of people cheered on the ground, melons and fruits flew around, and they were excited.

Magic City, Chengdu, Xiangjiang...

Countless people in the land of China shouted: "We have won!" ”

At this moment, Shenzhou is boiling!

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The successful bid for the Olympic Games has become the biggest hot event in China in the whole of July.

In the midst of the boiling, Lu Ping'an's "Tuner" movie also ushered in a perfect ending.

As of July 21, "Tuner" has won a total of 32.5 million box office, temporarily ranking first in the box office of domestic films in 2001 and second in the box office of Chinese films in the mainland.

is second only to Cheng Long's "Spy Maze" released in February with 40 million.

According to the current number of movie screens, it is really not easy for a movie to hit more than 30 million.

However, it is not surprising that "The Tuner" won 32.5 million box office.

In addition to the quality and popularity of the film, the lack of pressure on it from competitors in the same period is also a big factor.

Throughout the release time from June to July.

In total, only 6 Chinese-language films competed with "The Tuner" at the same time.

Shi Ke's "Who Will Listen", Yang Ruoxi's "Love You in My Heart", Pan Changjiang's "Strike Storm", Gigi Leung and Jiang Wu's "My Brothers and Sisters", Xi Meijuan's "Full Moon Tonight" and Feng Gong's "Who Says I Don't Care".

With the exception of "My Brothers and Sisters" and "Who Says I Don't Care", each one is less famous.

And "My Brothers and Sisters" was released in Guangdong Province on June 9, and its box office was good, 23 million, but when "The Tuner" came up, it was already in the middle and late stages.

"Who Says I Don't Care" also performed very well at the box office, it was released on July 7 and is currently close to 12 million, and China Film said that if there are no Hollywood blockbusters in the way, it is very likely to exceed 20 million.

The box office of 20 million has already been able to rank in the top 8 in this year's list.

But there are accidents in everything, "Soldiers in the City" and "Pearl Harbor" will come soon...

The popularity of "Who Says I Don't Care" has scratched some of the films of "Tuner" to a certain extent, and in the south, "Tuner" was crushed by Xing Ye's "Shaolin Football" just released after July 12.

Although "Shaolin Football" suffered a certain range of removal from the shelves later, the box office growth of "The Tuner" has also reached the late stage of release, and the box office growth has been very weak.

In the end, the box office of "The Tuner" was fixed at 32.5 million.

This is quite a good result.

At present, the producer's box office share ratio is 40%, and after deducting the proportion of some fixed funds to be paid, it can probably be calculated according to about 37%.

With a box office of 32.5 million, the producer can get about 12 million to share the account, minus the cost of 4 million, and make a big profit of 8 million.

Among them, Lu Ping An accounted for 40%, that is, 3.2 million.

2 million out, 5.2 million recovered, this business has to make many people red.

In fact, of the 2 million miles, he paid only more than one million in total, because 500,000 yuan was her director's salary, and 500,000 yuan was special effects income.

After calculation, plus the purchase of computer room equipment, he only spent 1.23 million yuan this time, and 5.2 million yuan was brought back, plus the income from adaptation rights and overseas distribution rights, he probably earned nearly 20 million.

Blood to earn!

Lu Ping'an earns blood, and Zhongying naturally earns blood.

So a few days ago, China Film called to ask if it wanted to hold a celebration banquet, and if it did, it would contact the reporters in advance.

Of course, this has to be done.

It's 01 year, and next year will be the year of the blockbuster era.

The world of great controversy belongs to yes.

That's when you have to be a little more high-profile.

So in the end, it was agreed that on July 31, the Beijing celebration banquet would be held.

Before that, he's going to get the animated short completely done.

On July 29, the animation part of Lu Ping'an's "Hiring Life" was completed.

[Congratulations to the host for completing the animated short film "Hiring Life", with a completion rate of 96%, and the reward has been distributed]

[Due to the host's achievement in completing the first animation work, the reward has been upgraded to a super reward]

["Hiring Life" Super Reward: Three Offers... 】