After all of them were reborn, who would still be an actor?

Chapter 440: The Sword of the King, One Center, Many Points of Bloom

The S600 was parked in the yard of Mingyang Entertainment.

Qiao Shan had been waiting for a long time. As soon as he saw Li Mingyang, he handed him a safety helmet and took him to visit the Three-Body Building.

The completion date of the Tribody Building is September 10th.

The building was topped out in late July and the exterior facade is basically in place. The curtain wall system mainly includes: glass curtain wall, aluminum panel curtain wall, aluminum alloy grille curtain wall, and large M-shaped decorative strips integrated with unit panels.

The inner and outer circles use a unified curtain wall. When viewed from the sky, it looks like a spliced ​​circular spaceship, full of light and color, with a futuristic and sci-fi feel.

Passing through the metal archway and entering the inner circle, the inner garden is still under intensive construction and is beginning to take shape. The lawn has been laid.

You can't feel it from the outside, but standing in front of the metal arch and looking around, you can see hundreds of workers working.

"Can it be completed on time?" Li Mingyang asked.

"It should be no problem. There are so many people! There are hundreds of them, and the progress is different every day."

“Don’t cut corners.”

"Don't worry, I'm watching. Sometimes Old Wu will come to visit too."

"Well, has your master Lao Zhao looked for you recently?" Li Mingyang asked.

Qiao Shan scratched his face and said, "My master came here a while ago and asked if this building is for rent?"

"Think of beauty."

"I said I don't know. I guess he will find a chance to talk to you..."

"He's so hot with Yinghuang right now that he almost forgot about me."

"How can that be possible? My master is counting on you to take care of us. Dapeng's Far Cry 2 is coming soon, and the lineup is pretty good. It's pretty cool."

The script of Far Cry 2 was written by Li Mingyang, but during the filming process, it was changed beyond recognition, mainly due to its lowered IQ.

The brain-burning parts were flattened and filled with a lot of funny jokes.

Dapeng specifically talked to him about this, and Li Mingyang's suggestion was that if you want box office success, then make the change, but if you want good reputation, don't make the change.

In the end, Lao Zhao chose the box office.

Far Cry 2 cost million.

Last year, Youth Light sold the copyright and script of Far Cry 2 to Berner for 10 million.

Not long after that, Lao Zhao used all his strength and spent 10 million to snatch the script and do it himself, but of course the distribution was still given to Bernard.

This is planning to eat alone!

And Lao Zhao does have the qualification to eat alone. Before, there was no director to take charge, but with Dapeng, he simply stopped acting.

Far Cry 2 has a lot of special effects, which were handled by Mingyang Special Effects Department. It was said to be million, but Lao Zhao only paid million, and there is still a balance of million. They are dragging their feet and will talk about it after the release...

The script and special effects cost 1800 million, leaving 1200 million, 400 million for actors' salaries, and 800 million for filming costs.

With a price of 400 million, you can’t even hire a decent star, but Lao Zhao himself is a big star, and he brings his apprentices to film, so it’s a big pot of stars!
Zhang Ruoyun, Zhang Yunlong, Liu Yan, and Yang Mi all made guest appearances, but they didn't dare to accept any money...

How will Far Cry 2 perform at the box office?
Should be fine.

Dapeng and Xiaoshenyang have hooked up with some big-breasted girls who look frivolous and flirty at first glance. They are probably picked up from bathhouses in Northeast China.

Erotic, funny, passionate...just have fun.

After inspecting the Three-Body Building, Li Mingyang returned to Mingyang Entertainment.

The people who stayed at Mingyang Entertainment were all special effects people, and Wu Zhikui was in charge of it.

Guo Fan is currently working on a new movie, but hasn’t figured out anything yet. The script has been revised again and again, and it’s unknown when he can start work.

Li Xianji Li Xianji's total box office is 3110 million.

The box office wasn't high.

But as a debut work, Guo Fan and Li Yang have become well-known in the circle.

Then, the two parted ways...

Guo Fan did not tell the specific reason.

Li Yang talked to Old Wu, who participated in the production of Li Xianji, and complained that Guo Fan was getting too arrogant.

Every great director is not an ordinary person.

This is especially true for Guo Fan, who is actually very cunning, good at scheming, and understands the ways of the world.

With the wind?
nonexistent.

He is a filmmaker with big dreams.

Li Xianji is just a stepping stone.

Guo Fan has great ambitions...

Li Mingyang came to the ninth floor of Mingyang Entertainment.

I held a small meeting in the conference room with Lao Wu, Ah Huo, Ye Xiangdong, Zeng Jia, Zhong Xiaoyu and others.

The main topic of discussion was the progress of the projects in everyone's hands.

When the conversation was almost over, Li Mingyang left Lao Wu and Ah Huo behind and asked the others to go about their business.

There were only three people left in the conference room, and Old Wu immediately started to complain, "Recently, outsiders have been poaching our people aggressively, using all means. Wanda is just throwing money at them, Huayi wants to train them to be actors, Yinghuang is painting a rosy picture for them, and even Jackie Chan is on board... I don't think they can hold out for too long."

"The world is bustling with people, all for profit... It's already pretty good to be able to hold on until now."

"Never mind?" Old Wu asked doubtfully.

"How to manage it?" Li Mingyang asked back.

Ah Huo was puzzled and said, "You are worrying too much, aren't you? Our company is the conscience of the domestic entertainment industry! The boss has never treated us unfairly! Whoever leaves is an idiot."

Li Mingyang waved his hand. "I used to think so too. Now... everyone is just worried that if they leave, they won't be able to come back. It's not that they don't want to go out and explore... You don't have the ability to work behind closed doors."

Ah Huo shut up. He actually wanted to try outside...

Li Mingyang and Lao Wu looked at each other, both feeling helpless. Ah Huo couldn't leave!
He is in charge of the company's core storyboard team.

The company's storyboard team is actually not in Mingyang Entertainment or Huahua Entertainment, but in a studio in Hangzhou called Ahuo Comics.

The most core part of Mingyang Entertainment's special effects department is the storyboard team. Shooting is inseparable from storyboards, and post-production is even more inseparable from storyboards.

It was not Li Mingyang who connected all the work in the later stage, but the storyboard.
It’s the storyboard that gets everyone in sync.

Storyboarding involves an extremely huge film project.

Hollywood storyboards are comparable to movies... In addition, there are various demonstration simulation software to simulate various effects.

A big and impactful scene may require a team to go through a week or even weeks of crazy simulations before it can be shot on a green screen!
Nolan is even more outrageous because he shoots real scenes and makes real explosions.

One explosion would cost millions of dollars, or even more!
If the actor can’t pass it in one go, it means starting over!

A few million more dollars, maybe more...

You can imagine the pressure the actors are under.

Starting from the "Batman" trilogy, the four words "rich and inhumane" have been played with by Nolan, the "real shooting maniac".

The most expensive film was "Batman: The Dark Knight", with a budget of $1.85 million.

The armored car chase scene full of "Fast and Furious" was filmed for three consecutive weeks with the crew closing the road every night.

The Lamborghini, which is out of reach for ordinary people, can be crashed at any time.

One of the only four IMAX cameras left in the world was sacrificed heroically during a car crash scene.

In order to present the thrilling images perfectly in front of everyone, several bulky cameras worked together.

The famous "Clown Blows Up the Hospital" scene was filmed by purchasing an unfinished building at a cost of 500 million yuan.

The crew spent three weeks transforming it into a hospital.

In order to make the performance of the Joker feel realistic, he had to be very close to the explosion site, while also ensuring that he had enough time to reach a safe area.

A series of scenes, including him walking out of the hospital and fiddling with the remote control, were repeatedly calculated and simulated through animation.

We rehearsed 12 times.

The explosion point is buried according to the preset effect, and then it explodes with a "whoosh".

The epileptic and arrogant clown looked relaxed and didn't even turn his head.

In fact, you can actually feel the debris passing by during the explosion.

Nolan said that he didn't know what special effects were, but in fact, the process of shooting his movies was the standard special effects shooting process.

The storyboard is done first, followed by computer simulation test, and then the actual shooting.

It is an inevitable trend for CG special effects to replace real-life shooting. Even Nolan, who is a fan of real-life shooting, is no exception. He later began to use CG special effects.

This involves the issue of efficiency.

For the same texture, CG special effects are faster and cheaper. After all, special effects can be disassembled... use the human wave tactic to stack them!
Regarding special effects.

Li Mingyang has been walking by feeling his way forward, and the movies he refers to are not produced by Hollywood.

The Hollywood film industry is too fragmented.

It involves the entire industry ecosystem.

Li Mingyang’s reference is Final Fantasy 15: Kingsglaive!
Square Enix almost went bankrupt because of its CG movie.

He still hasn't changed his bad habits and is extremely obsessed.

The result was Final Fantasy 15: Kingsglaive, a visual feast and the pinnacle of CG movies.

Indistinguishable from the real thing, far ahead of the rest!!!
Excalibur is not a good movie, but when it comes to special effects, it is amazing!
Square Enix Proof Battle! Real Money Burning!
Plus, the line between games and movies is blurring.

This is the pinnacle of CG movies, "Final Fantasy 15: Kingsglaive"!
Cool magic battles, fierce weapon fights, dreamy crystal barriers, frenzied artillery fire, giant monsters and huge machines...

The various spectacular scenes are full of imagination, dazzling but not dizzying.

Some important buildings also incorporate luxurious medieval style, which is both full of life and magical temperament. Combined with superb CG technology, a unique royal capital scene is created.

In order to inherit the charm of real actors, the team pursued realism in the character modeling stage, and collected and analyzed massive amounts of data on information such as human body structure texture, degree of concavity, skin density, key muscles and wrinkle locations.

Therefore, the characters' hair, beards, skin and textures are so exquisite and realistic that it's outrageous!

Eyebrows and eyelashes are customized one by one, and professional hairstylists provide hair design.

A character = motion capture + facial mask + dubbing
The facial model is responsible for appearance, the animation model is responsible for performance, and the voice model is responsible for dubbing.

Trinity.

Top-notch CG special effects.

The methods they used were not special in that era and were almost open.

Motion performance capture, dynamic digitization and special effects synthesis technology.

The production cost is said to be 1.8 million US dollars, but it is actually not that much.

Square Enix did not disclose the exact amount, because it lost a lot of money again...

The pinnacle of CG film, Excalibur, was produced through a global special effects strategy with one center and multiple locations.

More than 50 top special effects studios collaborated to produce this work, creating it with the industry’s “United Nations” lineup!
Most of Hollywood's special effects productions adopt this global cooperation model.

However, the results are very different, and the reason is still the difference in the center!

SE's black-tech expression capture technology makes the CG special effects of the characters invisible and indistinguishable from the real thing. It can be said to be one of the few special effects movies in the history of movies that can directly cross the "uncanny valley". The uncanny valley is also called the "terror valley".

As CG characters become closer and closer to real people, the audience will suddenly feel that these characters look wrong, even a little scary and weird.

Only when the CG characters are exactly the same as real people can we truly cross the "uncanny valley".

Current CG technology is not enough to cross the uncanny valley.

In order to avoid the "uncanny valley" effect, either the realism is reduced, the characters are cartoonized, or only the movements are captured and the expressions are ignored.

Of course, there are also talented directors who take an unconventional approach and cleverly cross the uncanny valley, such as Cameron of Avatar and Peter Jackson of The Lord of the Rings.

One of them created the neither-human nor-ghost Gollum, and the other created aliens.

The opening scene dispels the idea of ​​the audience comparing the CG characters with humans.

And the Sword of the King literally stepped directly forward.

15 years have passed!

This is extremely scary!

SE’s core competitiveness is so terrifying!
It is extremely difficult to have multiple branches with one center.

SE's more than 50 studios work together to make a movie, not counting other outsourcing.

The strictness of process control and data handover is simply unimaginable.

The companies in the Special Effects United Nations include those from Europe, America, Japan, South Korea, Australia...

There are huge cultural differences, and the cost of communicating through writing and speaking is huge!
Storyboards are the most accessible way of communication.

The production of special effects is separated and developed in multiple areas, with the core being the storyboard.

After the meeting, Li Mingyang returned to the office and Old Wu followed him in.

"I feel like Ah Huo is about to leave. Do you want to replace him with someone reliable?" Wu Zhikui said.

Li Mingyang scratched his head and thought for a long time before he asked, "Who should I send?"

"Xiao Gao."

"He can't replace Ah Huo."

"Starting from the bottom, these Hengpiao people don't have any chance... I finally understand that the academic school is just a bunch of fence-sitters."

You will understand...

In fact, it is quite remarkable.

It took me ten years to understand this.

Li Mingyang was able to rise to prominence in his previous life thanks to his unsatisfactory life as a migrant worker in Hengdian.

Not as capable as the academic school.

But I work hard and strive to survive...

During his days at Penguin Video, he never worried about those people betraying him.

He left Penguin Video and started a new business, not losing a single person, and even kidnapped a lot of people...

"Let's wait and see... everything is based on Weathering With You."

Old Wu sighed, "You're breaking up the team and borrowing people. I'm really worried that you're going to ruin the company that we worked so hard to build."

Li Mingyang took out two cans of beer from the refrigerator and threw one to Lao Wu.

戚！
Li Mingyang opened the pull ring of the beer can and started drinking it.

It's really refreshing to take a cold sip and stimulate your taste buds.

"Sometimes when you stand too high, you will overlook many things and be blinded by the clouds." Li Mingyang said with a smile: "You have been standing at the top for too long. Sometimes you should go down and take a walk. Everyone wants different things."

"A mountain eagle dares to raise a dragon."

"Why can't I raise a wolf!"

Wu Zhikui was stunned. He felt that Li Mingyang was different.

It turned out that he had been chasing Li Mingyang on the top of the mountain.

But now...

Li Mingyang has gone down the mountain, looking for a higher mountain!
……

Mingyang Entertainment has always been operating according to Li Mingyang's way of thinking, forming its own school and being incompatible with the domestic entertainment industry.

Although Wu Zhikui has great power, he really wants to run this film and television company with more than 500 employees.

Only Li Mingyang can do it.

The mentality of people without achievements and people with achievements is different.

They can no longer go back to the mentality of being the One Punch Man online celebrity.

Wu Zhikui is no longer able to bring everyone together.

The team has grown bigger and stronger, and it has become more difficult to lead.

Li Mingyang realized this a long time ago and had already started building a core team.

Guo Fan was very self-aware and had no plans to work at Mingyang Entertainment. Instead, he signed his director agency contract with Youth Light.

Only Wu Zhikui has not given up and wants to keep everyone.

Li Mingyang originally didn't have so many concerns about the company's situation, but Ah Huo wanted to leave and there were hidden dangers in the core team.

It made him very worried.

The storyboard team can no longer be led by Ah Huo alone.

Looking for a substitute who can take over at any time.

Wu Zhikui thinks Gao Dajun is good.

However, Li Mingyang felt that Gao Dajun was not up to the task, and that Ah Huo was able to manage the storyboard team because he himself had a strong talent for storyboarding and strong sketching skills.

Gao Dajun couldn't convince everyone.

"If Xiao Gao is not available, then Ye Xiangdong is the only one left." Wu Zhikui said helplessly.

Li Mingyang gets a headache when he hears Ye Xiangdong's name.

This guy took some people to hang out with Yang Mi a while ago, but he didn't go after half of the filming was over, and didn't wait for the completion.

Every day he is like a wandering ghost, either playing games at Mingyang Entertainment or hanging around the construction site next door.

Old Wu asked him what was wrong, but he didn't say anything.

Zeng Jia didn't know what happened either. She said that he suddenly stopped going and didn't answer the phone.

After doing nothing for half a month, Li Mingyang transferred him to Youfeng Film and Television City.

Then this kid never left the house and became a stay-at-home...

There was no other choice, so Old Wu transferred him back and asked him to manage the special effects communication team.

"What's wrong with him?" Li Mingyang asked.

"It seems like they broke up... I haven't seen him and his girlfriend together for a long time. He stays in his room after get off work."

"Isn't her boyfriend with Mimi? You'll know if you ask him." Li Mingyang said, taking out his cell phone and calling Mimi.

Mimi was filming and the person who answered the phone was Mimi's assistant.

After a while, Mimi called back and complained about Ye Xiangdong and his girlfriend being irresponsible.

One, he quit halfway through filming.

One of them took the bonus and ran away, and started a photo studio with others...

After hanging up the phone, Li Mingyang's ears were still ringing with Yang Mi's chattering voice. He touched his ears and said, "Call Xiaoye over."

Wu Zhikui went out for more than ten minutes and came back with Ye Xiangdong.

As soon as the meeting was over, this kid went back to his dorm and played games.

"Xiao Ye, you look half dead, which gives anyone a headache. She's just a woman. You can find another one at worst. You have to fight for it and make her regret it." Li Mingyang said earnestly.

"What do you mean by looking for it again?" Ye Xiangdong was a little confused.

"A man never has to worry about not having a wife. The fastest way to get over a broken heart is to start a new relationship. I've found a good place for you. There are many beautiful girls there. You will always find the right one."

"What is all this? I'm not heartbroken."

"Not heartbroken? You're acting like you've been heartbroken? And why did your boyfriend run away? I called Yang Mi and she kept complaining about your boyfriend for more than ten minutes."

"Doing makeup for female stars is a lot of work, and Yang Mi has even more. She didn't want to endure that, so she took the money and ran away. She recruited a few people to open a photo studio together. Her family runs a photo studio, so she has experience."

"It's quite neat and efficient..." Li Mingyang laughed.

"I feel it's quite boring. I don't have the ability to be a director, so I just help others. But I think others are idiots... I've been thinking recently, why do I do this..."

"Have you figured it out?" Li Mingyang asked.

“I don’t understand…”

"When your family goes bankrupt and your entire family is living in a rental house of more than 10 square meters, and you have to support them all, then you will understand that people must first survive, and then dreams can come second."

"..."

Ye Xiangdong's family can be considered to be content with a small fortune...

The first batch of people recruited by Li Mingyang all had good family conditions, and there were even a few low-key second-generation people. At least one-third of them had family connections with TV stations.

"Xiao Ye, I remember you are quite interested in Japanese comics."

"Ah."

"How about I transfer you to Ah Huo's comic studio? Maybe you can find what you want."

"Isn't that a place for storyboards? What does it have to do with comics?" Ye Xiangdong had been there a few times and found it really depressing in there. No one talked...

"Ahuo, you can make comics if you want to make storyboards, but you have to bear your own profits and losses! I will create the conditions for you, and you can pay for the comics yourself."

Ye Xiangdong's eyes lit up, it felt good!
He learned Japanese because he wanted to read more comics. He had liked them since he was a child. After he entered junior high school, he would ask his cousin to mail him every issue of Jump.

Zhiyin Manke also buys every issue.

"Boss, you're making a comic magazine. I think there's money to be made in this!"

"I only provide you with the conditions. Everything else is up to you. You are responsible for your own profits and losses."

Domestic comics make shitty money, and domestic comic magazines are on the verge of death...

"Row!"

As they chatted, Li Mingyang tricked Ye Xiangdong into going to Ah Huo.

It's late and I'm a bit hungry.

Li Mingyang called a nearby restaurant and ordered three plates of appetizers and two boxes of beer. The three of them ate and chatted until they were almost done.

Li Mingyang lit a cigarette and started talking about business.

"I must win this Academy Award. Damn it, no one can do anything about it."

(End of this chapter)