The investment of the animation studio is not effective and rewarding for the time being, and if you want to have a return, you have to wait for the technology to accumulate to a certain extent.

However, Qiao Feng's investment in special effects has seen a return, in November, the love between people and ghosts has not been completed, and then it is a matter of post-production, and a large amount of money is paid to industrial light and magic to let them do special effects, and when the movie is finished, some of the shots that need to be done for special effects have been done before.

I have to say that Industrial Light & Magic is indeed the boss and leader of the special effects industry, and the special effects technology is a cow, and what you do is good.

It's only been eight or six years, but at this time, some of the special effects they made are not bad at all when Qiao Feng, who is used to watching top-level special effects blockbusters and has also seen Wumao special effects.

Thirty years of time gap, as a result, the special effects made by people at this time are much better and more exquisite than the Wumao special effects of later generations.

It can be seen how bad and garbage the Wumao special effects are.

Of course, the return on the special effects investment is not only on the side of industrial light and magic, after all, the people here themselves are the bosses, and they are paid, this is an equivalent exchange.

Longteng special effects company is established by Chen Jiashang and the special effects lighting team he led from the Shaw Brothers, Chen Jiashang was the person in charge of the special effects company at the beginning, but later because the director was sometimes busy filming, and he successively recruited many talents in the professional field into the company, there are more people and there are miscellaneous, Chen Jiashang, who has been away from the company for a long time, can not be responsible for the person in charge is a little unworthy of the name, and then simply promoted a person in charge of assisting him from the team, and later the person in charge of assisting him basically became the official person in charge.

Under the leadership of the new person in charge, the company's research and accumulation in special effects have made great progress, Qiao Feng has invested a lot of money in vain, and as long as Qiao Feng is a little far away from using industrial light and magic to make special effects, he will get some staff of his own special effects company to help to help him, and these people have also learned a lot from the special effects artists of industrial light and magic.

First of all, the special effects of happy ghosts and happy ghosts were made by Longteng Special Effects, and the effect was quite better than that of the original time and space in Qiao Feng's opinion, and then directed by Cheng Xiaodong, produced by Xu Ke, Wang Xuxian, Zhang Guorong starred in A Chinese Ghost Story, the special effects of this ghost film are also responsible for Longteng Special Effects.

Although they are all based on model special effects, after being a thief of industrial light and magic, and Qiao Feng has invested a large amount of money for special effects personnel to practice and research, the level of special effects artists of Longteng special effects is not comparable to those who made special effects for A Chinese Ghost Story in the original time and space.

In other words, there is no professional special effects company in Hong Kong in the original time and space, the so-called special effects are all the artists of the crew, and the lighting is made by these people, just like Chen Jiashang did special effects for interstellar blunt tires back then, at first it was his own interest and the director's recommendation, and then the people he brought were all found by himself in Shaw Brothers, and there was no systematic learning and research and development at all.

After filming the ghost love, the post-production of A Chinese Ghost Story in Hong Kong was also done, and it happened that Xu Ke had time to fly to the United States to see his wife Shi Nansheng, and by the way, he also took a copy of the post-production of A Chinese Ghost Story to the United States to Qiao Feng to see it in person.

I didn't think anything when I looked at the front, at most, the scene selection was a little different, but when I saw the scene where my grandmother appeared, Qiao Feng found the difference between it and the original A Chinese Ghost Story, first of all, Yan Chixia's spell light effect was much better than the original, and the other was Grandma's tongue.

In the original version, the tongue of the tree demon grandmother is actually dyed with a long sponge and pulled by hand, and this sponge tongue is handmade by Cheng Xiaodong.

Whether it is a sponge or a silicone tongue, the computer software is used to refine the special effects in the later stage, so that the tongues of the two become more real in the picture, the texture, and the texture is more wet and terrifying.

In Qiao Feng's opinion, the special effects of this version should be two or three times better than the original version, although it is not up to the level of special effects made by industrial light and magic, but it is not so bad.

Moreover, Qiao Feng felt that such special effects should be just right now.

Because The movie A Chinese Ghost Story is based on the story, if the special effects are too good, it will feel a bit noisy.

Like later, it is indeed technically possible to make more magnificent, which can satisfy the imagination of the director and the audience for more magnificent pictures, but the gorgeous pictures make it easy for people to play, and their attention is not on the story.

Although the current special effects are much worse than those of later generations, such special effects technology can become an auxiliary to the narrative intact, thus achieving a classic.

"Yes, yes, better than I thought, the special effects are like this, and the story is like this." After watching the whole film, Qiao Feng praised Xu Ke.

Xu Ke was also very satisfied, and said with regret in his smile: "If there was such special effects technology at the beginning, I would definitely be able to shoot the swordsmen of Xinshu Mountain better."

"I see, the current special effects are not good, and in another twenty years, the special effects will almost meet the needs of making Xianxia films. Qiao Feng smiled and drew a big cake for Xu Ke.

Xu Ke has always been haunted by the failure of the swordsman of Xinshu Mountain, and Qiao Feng knows about it, but Qiao Feng didn't expect Xu Ke to think that the special effects at this time can meet the shooting of the swordsman of Xinshu Mountain.

It's a bit of a joke.

At that time, when the swordsman of Xinshu Mountain was filming, he invited industrial light and magic to make special effects for the special effects personnel of Star Wars, and spent more than 20 million just to make special effects.

Although the industrial light and magic at that time was not as good as the special effects level of Qiao Feng's Longteng Special Effects Company at this time, the gap was not very big.

The special effects at that time didn't work, and the special effects at this time didn't work.

Moreover, the failure of the swordsman of Xinshu Mountain was not the failure of the special effects, at that time, the special effects were absolutely amazing in the eyes of the Hong Kong audience, but the amazing special effects could not cover up the mediocrity of the story, not even mediocrity, in Qiao Feng's opinion, the story was actually a little inexplicable, and it was very jumpy.

Therefore, the failure of the swordsman of Xinshu Mountain is definitely not a problem with special effects.