Chapter 839: special effects industry
Chapter 839 Special Effects Industry
"Here, I am providing the internal information of the New Universal Group, which can be seen from here, including commercial blockbusters such as "The Day After Tomorrow", "Ant-Man 2", "Unsinkable", "Ghost Rider", and special effects. , occupying 60% of the total cost of the film. Among them, the special effects team of "Unsinkable" employs about 1,062 people, "The Day After Tomorrow" 1,242 people, and "Ant-Man 2" 874 people."
"It can be seen that labor cost is the largest expenditure item in the special effects industry, accounting for about 60% of the total cost of special effects. Of course, this is Hollywood's data, and it is of little reference to the special effects industry in Korea. I will talk about other things here. 40 expenses — software and hardware.”
"Well-known special effects companies have their own rendering farms, such as Pixar, with more than 1,000 rendering machines, and Lucasfilm's more than 2,400, as well as specially built servers and blade machines. In addition to the top 64G Memory, E5 processor, in order to ensure the transfer rate and image cache, it is necessary to specially prepare the advanced configuration of more than 64TB..."
"Taking the hot "Ghost Rider" as an example, one machine needs to render
It takes an hour to render 1 frame, and 1 second has 24 frames. That is to say, 2400 machines are rendering at the same time, and within 50 hours, only 100 seconds can be rendered. Such a huge workload, without the most top-level hardware equipment, is simply not possible. "
"As for software, special effects software are usually charged annually, such as Maya for animation, PS for textures, Houdini for special effects, arnold and renderman for rendering, and nuke for compositing, etc. In addition, Project management software needs to be used together to improve the efficiency of team operations, and to add functions such as automatic updates and real-time feedback during project production.”
"These intellectual property rights require extremely high maintenance costs. New Universal once had a top special effects company in the digital field, and the annual software service fee was as high as 150 million US dollars! Among them, the use fee of renderman alone was as high as 3,000 US dollars. $10,000! If it’s just a small piece of software, of course you can develop it yourself, but this kind of large-scale software with strong professional attributes costs at least $200 million to develop.”
Dunn's speech was sincere.
A lot of confidential data in the industry was taken out, including the data materials of the New Global Group.
The Korean government wants to promote the special effects industrial park, and these data will be as precious as gold.
Although it is a speech with strong professional content, Dunn has lived in the United States for so many years, and he has long been deeply influenced by the American cultural atmosphere.
In America, there are no successful people who can't speak!
Speech is a basic quality!
Listen to MacArthur's "Veterans Don't Die", listen to Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream", listen to President Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address"...you will deeply feel the majestic power of speech .
Tang En's speech level, of course, can't compare to these people, but it is enough to fool these Koreans who have never seen the world!
I don't know how their English level is.
Dunn first briefly introduced the development history of special effects and the application of special effects in the film industry.
Then, through the expenditure ratio of the special effects industry, he came to the real core of his speech today.
"Of course, I know that no matter how expensive the hardware is, it doesn't matter how high the rent of software is. You are rich and willing to invest huge sums of money for the development of the special effects industry. Then the problem comes, the hardware is no problem, the software is no problem... Why is there no Weta Digital in Korea?"
"Is it because the level of technology is not good? This is probably not the truth. I also talked about this topic with Chairman Wu just now. Among the top 100 high-tech companies in the world, South Korea has 3, ranking 4th in the world. On the other hand, New Zealand, They have nothing but tourism! What is the secret of Weta Digital? What is the reason why Weta Digital is as famous as ILM in the field of special effects?"
Dunn threw a big question mark.
Next, but did not immediately clear the confusion, the PPT behind him turned the page again, and there was a big topic "The whole process of film and television special effects".
"Even in Hollywood, many producers and directors are slowly exploring the special effects of film and television, and have not concluded an accurate set of rules. You should all know that "Titanic", "Before Star Wars" I am the director of special effects films such as Biography 1 and Spider-Man, including special effects films such as The Unsinkable, Spider-Man 2, The Day After Tomorrow, and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Producer. I have summed up the laws that many colleagues in the industry are still exploring.”
"Here, I don't have to hide my secrets, but I can tell you openly. I hope my colleagues in Korea can enlighten me, so that I can have more inspiration and more understanding in the production of the film. Let's make progress together, It is our common goal to make more and better films and give back to fans.”
Hearing that Tang En was going to disclose the special effects concept that he had collected privately, there was a bit of a stir in the auditorium.
This is an experience that even Hollywood filmmakers have no experience!
Dunn has to be open and honest with Korean filmmakers.
How sincere is this?
move!
Impressed!
Sitting in the very center of the first row, the chairman of the film promotion committee, Wu Shigeun, smiled and nodded secretly.
He's a grown-up socialite, unlike those sentimental filmmakers.
He knows why Dunn throws out such sincerity.
It is nothing more than New Universal Group, which has taken a fancy to the Korean market!
Maybe……
Tang En also took a fancy to some Korean women, but these are inconspicuous little things that can't be put on the table. Women are not yet qualified to be trading chips for this kind of national policy project.
Tang En showed so much sincerity, and Wu Shigen knew that he wanted to return the ceremony.
The promotion of South Korea's special effects industry park is inseparable from the support of Dunn and the team strength of Hollywood!
Wu Shigen has already thought about it. From now on, the Korean film market... will give the green light to New Universal!
In the short term, it is difficult to carry out the policy of changing from 147 days to 73 days.
However, you can show good to Dunn.
Open your arms to the New Universal Group and open up the market.
It can be said that at this point in the speech, Dunn's "dry goods" have not really been handed over, and the main purpose of his trip to South Korea has been achieved.
However, he has bigger plans!
For his speech, he just chose the location of Seoul National University.
The content of the speech is really aimed at the whole world film industry, especially Hollywood!
Dunn is now in Hollywood, enjoying a detached social status and honor, what is the reason?
He made a lot of blockbuster movies?
I'm afraid not, he is a guy who eats alone, and others will only be jealous.
He promotes feminism, for the rights of female filmmakers?
Certainly not. Such behavior has even aroused the dissatisfaction of many industry leaders.
Because he is the richest man in the world?
This can only show that Tang En has become famous, but it does not mean that he will be respected from the heart of the people in the industry.
What really gave him an unparalleled reputation in the industry...is that he came up with two ideas.
First, assortment of investments.
This has changed the financing model of Hollywood films, making filming simpler, and the content of the film purer, and less of the unreasonable demands of many employers.
Second, the explosion theory.
Although there is still a lot of controversy about this theory, it has become more and more important among the six Hollywood giants.
Redstone's "Revival Paramount" plan, at the final moment, did not also adopt the "explosive theory", trying to use the two blockbusters "King Arthur" and "The Unfortunate Adventure of Raymond Snitch" to revitalize the party. Ramon?
Dunn selflessly told every filmmaker about his "private possession".
It has brought great impetus and development to Hollywood and even the world film industry!
Now, Dunn is going to punch again.
For the third time, he is going to reveal to the world his personal concept of film success - the correct process of the special effects industry!
Point out a clear way forward for those filmmakers who are still struggling.
This is true merit!
"Special effects in the traditional sense, that is, post-production effects, mainly involve conception, modeling, sculpting, retopology, UV mapping, baking displacement maps, drawing texture images, baking normal maps, binding bones, materials, composition, lighting , simulation, rendering and other multiple links. Everyone here is industry insiders, and everyone will understand when I say it.”
"However, please pay attention to my words, this is only special effects in the traditional sense. Today, I will systematically explain the real concept of film and television special effects. Post-production special effects and post-production special effects of films are just one of the film and television special effects process. A small part. I divided the whole process of film and television special effects into four parts, special effects technology research and development, pre-visual development, on-site visual effects shooting and special effects production.”
"Special effect technology research and development, that is, I/O
Data production, model links, texture links, etc. The early visual development also includes digital painting, tracking matching, binding, animation and other links~www.wuxiaspot.com~ On-site visual effects shooting is the point I want to focus on. A real commercial blockbuster must be inseparable from the special effects team! "
"Here, I propose a term called live digital imaging engineer. You may not have heard of it, which is not surprising, even in Hollywood, this is an emerging concept. Have you seen this year's "King Arthur"? Haha, the most Don't watch it, it's a big bad movie!"
Dunn took the opportunity to put eye drops on the competitor's movie and made a joke, which attracted bursts of laughter in the auditorium.
"The film "King Arthur" lacked the participation of on-site digital imaging engineers. As a result, everyone saw it, and the visual effects were messed up. In contrast, look at "Ghost Rider" and "The Day After Tomorrow", which were released this year. You can see the difference. So, what exactly is this on-site digital imaging engineer?”
"In today's movies, the resolution of the original shooting material is constantly improving, the amount of material storage data is increasing, and the picture quality is becoming more and more delicate. In the early shooting stage, the on-site digital imaging engineer will assist the director of photography to systematically ensure the integrity of the stored information; On-site inspections, color corrections, and material transcoding are performed on the images, so as to achieve the image results expected by the director of photography and achieve high-quality images.”
"In addition to this, digital imaging engineers must also have good information exchange work with all relevant departments of the film crew to ensure the safety of shooting material storage and transfer..."
(Professional content is relatively boring, try to write as little as possible. The main purpose of this plot is to elicit the layout of Dunn and the changes in the Hollywood situation, which is a foreshadowing...)
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Chapter 839 Special Effects Industry
