"Reinvention is a very hard work, which is literal hard work, physical labor. It requires very good hardware equipment and people who can operate it. Sometimes we have to stay in the studio all night to ensure that the rendering can go smoothly... Once the equipment gets stuck, everything may have to start over."

"The top special effects engineers in Hollywood are paying thousands of dollars a week and are doing the same job on the assembly line. In 2003, I decided to put some special effects shots from "Deep Sea Rescue" in China for production. This decision was very crazy, but I think the future of the special effects industry is here."

"You have the largest number of engineers in the world and the cheap labor costs."

"I found a small team that rendered 3D pictures for real estate developers and asked them to make 85 simple special effects shots. Some colleagues have not received professional training. They have learned and made them while learning. This took me eighteen months. Despite this, the special effects shots we made have passed, which became the beginning of my Chinese career."

"Although I personally encountered some financial difficulties, I still believe that base is the leader in the Chinese special effects industry in the future. It is not just Chinese special effects..." Lao Ke used a very authentic adjective, "Whampoa Military Academy."

“…and, it will become a world-class special effects production company because you won’t shoot feature films forever.”

After Lao Ke finished speaking, he did not mention how much money Fang Yi needed to invest, but asked him to check the current work situation of the base company by himself, and emphasized, "I did not remind them in advance."

Fang Yi and Guo Fan browsed the two floors of Base Company as investors. The employees seemed to be used to visiting someone, and it was not surprising that the office desk was messy, but they always seemed to find the tools they needed. Fang Yi deliberately followed Guo Fan, wearing a mask, so that he would not be able to lose his visit today after being recognized.

Since the rumors that Lao Ke wanted to sell some of his shares, different investors have come to try their luck one after another, but most of them have returned empty-handed.

There are two reasons.

ASE's first business came from the connections that Lao Ke had left behind after years of hard work in Hollywood. The company has been established for eight years and is still outsourcing Hollywood, while there are very few domestic movies.

The founder of Industrial Light and Magic is George Lucas, the great director of the Star Wars series. While making movies, he supports his own special effects company, with his left hand facing his right hand. Lao Ke gradually realized that he must find a capable partner in China. This person needs professionalism and connections, either having resources himself or introducing resources to him.

The most suitable one is Huaxia Film and Television, but Huaxia Film and Television is devoted to learning technology from Koreans.

Where is the Hong Kong and local companies?

To put it bluntly, they will use Singapore, treasure islands, and local ones... except mainland China.

This alone can eliminate most speculative investors.

Another reason is that Lao Ke is not cheap for his outsourcing team, but everyone in the industry knows what's going on. Making shirt buttons will always be used to make shirt buttons. It is really difficult to upgrade the industry to making aircraft engines.

Especially the leader is still a foreign expert.

The two of them did not see any hope in these employees, such as being full of talents.

Halfway through, Guo Fan suggested, "Let's go have a cup of coffee to see if there are any chats, and listen to what the employees say, don't just listen to foreigners bragging."

The two of them stayed at the coffee maker for half a day, and the coffee in their hands was almost cold, and they didn't see the second one coming to drink coffee.

Fang Yi and Guo Fan then discovered base's first corporate culture:

Wolf sex culture.

Guo Fan trembled and drank his coffee and said, "I remembered the light bulb factory - the kind of factory that just came out in the 1980s and 1990s. The workers kept putting on the filaments day and night, and the wages were so low that a light bulb was less than a cent. They forcibly eliminated the high-end automatic production line. This is what Lao Ke mentioned as an engineer."

Fang Yi didn't know what to say for a moment.

China Film will do some strange questionnaires, one of which is about "what is the biggest gap between China and the United States", and "special effects" answered by 70% of people."

Then, the question is “How big do you think the gap between China and the United States special effects industry is.”

Three answers were provided. "Never catch up", "at least twenty or thirty years apart", and "no gap".

The first one accounts for one third, the second one accounts for nearly two thirds, and the third one is 2.3% of the people who may be foreign guests friendly to China.

This is the end of the first inspection of base. Investing in base is not a small amount of money. You need at least two houses in Beijing to maintain the current team of leading domestic special effects.

Fang Yi and Guo Fan came out of the base and walked along the banks of the river. Because the cost of office buildings was too high, the base's company address came to a few dozen kilometers away from the straight line of CBD in Beijing. This may not be intuitive enough. This place is only one river away from Tongzhou. Tongzhou was the boundary of Hebei Province when the founding of the People's Republic of China. Part of it was included in the capital in 58 years.

The river water is not clear, and there is no popularity on both sides of the road. Only Fang Yi and Guo Fan were basking in the sun. Looking at the river water that was invisible, the willows on the bank were swaying, and I couldn't help feeling desolate in my heart.

Guo Fan thought of the camera he had seen before and said excitedly, "Although he was not good-looking, this is the beginning of the blockbuster. Do you know the 'those things in the Ming Dynasty'? Zhu Chongba's start was only a broken bowl. We won't always make buttons, sooner or later, we will do the opposite."

Fang Yi: "Let the bullets fly for a while."

“Is there any other choice?”

"There are many choices, and you and I are all small people for special effects. The one who can really make money is Zhongying."

As we all know, the strongest person in China Film is the legal team. With the word "China", foreign wars are like divine help, but it will also cultivate internal strength. Previously, at the press conference of the documentary "We Are Born in China", Fang Yi saw the banners put out by China Film:

"Cultivate cultural confidence and promote Chinese culture."

On a larger level, there have always been special funds to support enterprises, hold some similar forums, activities and exchanges with foreign countries. The officials are willing to pay to participate in the film industry and support the industry to overcome difficulties. This is a good condition that the United States did not have at the beginning. Relatively speaking, the domestic special effects industry is not short of money and the equipment is not bad.

China Film has set up a China Film Base in Huairou, the suburb of Beijing, with the largest film and television studio in the world and a large number of digital film and television production equipment with hard indicators. What Americans use and what we use.

Since he is planning to practice "The Twelve Zodiacs", Fang Yi naturally has to insert his own people into and hone a group of teams that can be combined and trustworthy. Otherwise, the action scenes are family classes, and the funds are Yinghuang Entertainment. Fang Yi goes in alone to make movies. His so-called "right to speak" is empty text, and no one can do anything for you, so he has no right to speak.

However, the blockbuster filming next year is still early, and now he has to get the advertisement first. Liu Tianxian is not a pretentious personality, and is surprised that he wrote such a "popular" book. He has been laughing at him these days.
Chapter completed!