When Ding Yin said this, Ye Qing remembered.
Previously, when Disney and a few other foreign companies came to Zhongyun to order alloy artworks, Ye Qing did show them Monster Heavy Industries' unparalleled modeling skills.
But that was the masterpiece of a 3D camera. There was a physical object for them to shoot.
Interstellar spaceship …
Ye Qing wanted to cover his face. Where could he find such a thing? He couldn't just take a picture of the starry sky with a camera, right?
"Director Ding, I have a question to ask." Ye Qing hesitated for a moment and asked, "Why do you have to use computer technology to create special effects?"
"For example, we can create a 1: 1 or 1: 0.5 physical object for shooting."
"This way, not only will the image be more realistic, but it will also save a lot of time."
Hearing Ye Qing's question, Director Ding Yin was silent for a few seconds and said helplessly, "We also want to. There are many benefits to using a real spaceship for shooting. But in terms of movie models, we can't even compare to special effects. "
"In terms of special effects, at least we can use foreign technology as a reference. If we want to make a physical object, we can't really compliment our domestic technology. Especially this kind of sci-fi spaceship. If we make a physical object in China, it will definitely feel like a World War II warship. "
"How much do you plan to spend on the special effects of the spaceship?"
Now that the Monster Factory had reached the fourth stage, there were no urgent tasks for the time being. Ye Qing felt that if the price was right, he could take on this special effects job.
"CG special effects are bottomless pits. Whether it's overseas or domestic, CG special effects are charged by the second. We estimate that we will spend 30 million on the spaceship special effects for the entire movie."
"30 million?" Even Ye Qing, who was used to seeing big money, was a little surprised.
They actually spent 30 million on a spaceship CG that only existed in a USB drive.
"This is just the spaceship special effects." Director Ding Yin smiled bitterly. "They say that special effects burn money. Let me tell you a joke. When Director Chen was shooting Heaven's Fate, everyone asked him where he spent the money on special effects. "
"In the end, the people from the special effects company said that Director Chen probably has a phobia of choice. Later on, I asked them to change it to green, blue, purple, yellow, white, and black. Then they said forget it, they didn't want this effect … Later on, they said no, they wanted to change it to the first version of red. "
"Then the money was burned away …"
"So that's how it is!" Ye Qing smiled happily.
Director Ding Yin firmly believed that Ye Qing had unparalleled modeling technology, so he promised that if Ye Qing agreed to help them, he would add 20% to the original price.
At the same time, after learning about the modeling technology of Monster Heavy Industries, he felt that the modeling of industrial products like interstellar spaceships should be done by Monster Heavy Industries.
It did not have to be like those trees that could be enlarged many times, as long as the details were in place. During the process of the spaceship's descent, the swinging of the recoil engine at the bottom and the rolling posture were in accordance with the principles of mechanics.
The more Director Ding Yin thought about it, the more he felt that Monster Heavy Industries was the best choice.
Looking at the domestic special effects company that he had worked with before, it was okay to do a xianxia style.
But once they did this kind of hard sci-fi, they immediately exposed their weak foundation. When the spaceship was forced to land, it was like a paper airplane being blown by the wind.
"Mr. Ye, do you want me to send you the model data and the preliminary special effects?"
"Okay, then send it to my email first. I'll take a look."
…
At the old site of Chengzi Lake, Director Ding Yin hung up the phone and hurriedly asked his assistant to send the preliminary special effects video and the model of the interstellar spaceship to Ye Qing's email after Tianyun Film and Television Technology had spent a lot of effort and time to create.
To be honest, since the earliest version of Journey to the West, which used a lot of special effects technology, the level of special effects in China had improved a lot.
The special effects of Journey to the West were completely done by the cumbersome linear editing machine. They cut out the scene of Sun Wukong flying and then combined it into the sky.
Now, the special effects in China were all done with CG technology. The actors acted in the air, and the special effects company built the model with digital technology. Through rendering and pasting, they achieved the effect of passing off the fake as the real thing.
The gap between China and foreign countries was the accumulation of technology. This was not a gap that could be made up with money.
For the same explosion, domestic companies might only have a few choices of effects, but foreign companies could choose hundreds of effects from a rich database.
This was also the special effects in China. Many scenes were familiar to the audience. Weren't these scenes from a certain Hollywood movie or a certain foreign game?
Because they were reluctant to invest a lot of money in a new design, they could only buy mature models and pasting pictures from foreign countries and change them themselves to fool people.
Director Ding Yin didn't want to do this. He wanted to be innovative and integrate his own elements into the film. He wanted to shoot an authentic domestic sci-fi movie.
So, long before the official shooting of the movie, he spent a lot of money to go to Tianyun Special Effects Company to customize a unique spaceship model.
However, when the special effects were released, his dream burst like a beautiful soap bubble in front of the ruthless special effects video.
Fortunately, there was another investor for this movie — Xu Ninggong.
She saw the Alloy Tree model that Ye Qing showed at the signing ceremony at Sheraton. Even the entertainment giant, Disney, was shocked.
So she told the director Ding Yin that he could give this kind of industrial style interstellar spaceship to Monster Heavy Industry.
If the model was built well, then the rendering technology would not be bad.
When Director Ding Yin heard that Ye Qing agreed to take a look at the model, he was immediately overjoyed. He felt that the design of the most important spaceship was finally settled.
However, Ye Qing and Director Ding Yin's ideas were poles apart.
The film industry and heavy industry were two completely different industries. The leaders of these two industries naturally had different ideas.
Director Ding Yin always thought that only by putting in hard work on the model and carefully recreating every detail of the spaceship could he achieve the effect he wanted.
However, Ye Qing always thought that no matter how well the model was done, it was still a virtual model. It was something that did not exist.
So, after Ye Qing received the 3D model and data, he studied it carefully. He wanted to see if there was a 1: 1 possibility of creating a real spaceship.
If it was not possible, Ye Qing would reject Director Ding Yin. If it was possible, Ye Qing would build it.
This was a small interstellar spaceship with a length of 60 meters and a height of 5 meters. Perhaps because it was flying within the atmosphere, the entire spaceship was streamlined. The bow of the ship was flat like a blue whale, and the tail of the ship had a hexagonal structure with twin engines.
This was not only the blueprint of the outer shell. After the spaceship was forced to land, the female lead would use the spaceship as a temporary home. There would be a lot of shots inside the spaceship.
So, even the interior space was created. There was a warp drive room, a cockpit, a lounge, and a power room.
The structure and outer shell design were good. It was very sci-fi and beautiful. However, the color rendering and texturing were done poorly.
After looking at the 3D model, Ye Qing opened the video to look at the preliminary special effects.
"…" After watching the tens of seconds of CG, Ye Qing felt some sympathy for Director Ding Yin.
When the spaceship was flying in outer space, it was still okay. However, once it entered Earth, compared to the rich colors around it, it was obvious that it was distorted and stiff.
Moreover, this was a second-hand spaceship. It was necessary to highlight its old age. However, the texturing could not reflect this point. The old parts on it did not have the natural old feeling of a machine. Instead, it was comparable to a moldy cake.
In all fairness, if this kind of CG was used by other directors, it would be considered passable. However, Ding Yin could not do it. He was the best director in the country in terms of special effects. Using this kind of scene was destroying his own reputation.
Ye Qing sat on the mechanical engineered chair. He held his chin and carefully studied the possibility of building a 3D model.
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