I’m in Hollywood Chapter 705: Go and see
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As soon as the Alan Hassenfeld voice fell, another voice sounded behind him: "Eric, do n’t mind if we also listen to your views on Transformers?"
Eric turned his head, Michael Eisner and Edgar? Bronfman walked side by side.
Michael Eisner and Edgar? Bronfman noticed that Alan Hassenfeld took the initiative to talk to Eric not far away, and then quickly came over in an attempt to prevent the possible negotiations between the two on Transformers copyright.
Although Firefly is cold on Transformers copyright on the surface, no one can deny that it is Transformers copyright ’s strongest competitor. The details of Alan Hassenfeld ’s active contact with Eric have also given Michael Eisner a sense of crisis. Moreover, if Eric is allowed to **** Transformers copyright on party of Universal, they will become the laughing stock of Hollywood.
"Of course no problem, Michael," Eric nodded with a smile. Of course he didn't mind Michael Eisner's observation. He even hoped that his next words would spread throughout Hollywood.
With the actions of the two Michael Eisners, some other Film Studio guests who noticed the situation here have also come together casually, and they are also very interested in Transformers copyright.
The Diane Kruger and Cindy Crawford beside Eric found that in just a few minutes, Eric became the focus of the field again. Around these high-level Film Studios, which were difficult to reach in the past, they are now star-studded. Surrounded Eric in general, and made an ear-sounding appearance without a shelf. The two of them held Eric's arm fortunately, but the Linda Evangelista three girls were squeezed to the periphery of the crowd by these big figures, and it was inevitable to look at them with envy.
Although Diane Kruger and Cindy Crawford know that these big people are not the two of them, they still have some inexplicable satisfaction and pride in their hearts.
Alan Hassenfeld looked at the crowd around him and Eric had a good look, but it had a bad feeling. I also felt a little regret in my heart to take the initiative to come and talk with Eric.
The current posture of Eric is obviously not like to say good things for Transformers.
And, with the status of Eric in Hollywood, what he said. The past will definitely not be ignored lightly, and Alan Hassenfeld does not believe that Eric will talk nonsense simply to suppress Transformers copyright.
Sure enough, patiently waited for everyone to come around, Eric said: "When I heard that everyone recently paid attention to the adaptation rights of the Transformers movie. I also became interested in this toy series, and I privately considered some production plans, but the final result was The conclusion is that under the current conditions, Transformers does not have much adaptation value. If Live-Action Film is forcibly produced, the cost and risk are very large. "
If no one connected the Transformers film adaptation rights to Firefly, there would not be so many people participating in the competition. Nine out of ten people did not believe the export of Eric, but they did not rush to refute.
Eric looked around for a week and continued: "According to my assumption, if you want to make a live-action big movie, the image design of Transformers should be a complex and full of metal texture composed of hundreds of parts. Sophisticated mechanical lifeforms. These lifeforms also need to be seamlessly and flexibly converted between car and robots. I discussed my ideas in detail with special effects engineers in the digital field, and came to the conclusion that if you follow this idea For production, the difficulty of producing CG special effects of the film will be more than ten times that of "Jurassic Park", and the production cost is even more expensive. "
After finishing Eric, although Michael Eisner has a smile on his face, he asked very sharply: "Eric, I am curious, Transformers is more than ten times harder to make" Jurassic Park ", how are you doing this 'ten times' Statistics? "
Everyone in the surroundings just used the "ten times" Eric as an adjective describing the difficulty of making Transformers. If Michael Eisner does not speak, no one will chew on the text at all.
However, Michael Eisner suddenly took advantage of this to send troubles to Eric. Although everyone still had a sincere and curious expression on the surface, they felt gloating. I want to see how Eric intends to cope with the tricky problem of Michael Eisner.
What disappointed them was that Eric There is nothing in the expression that makes you angry or angry, hear Michael Eisner Problem, the smile on the corner of the mouth remains the same, saying: " Michael , I think you are unclear about the specific software development, technical testing, 3D modeling and other processes involved in CG special effects. Let's take the most critical image rendering of CG special effects as an example. Special effects engineers in the digital field told me that if I want to achieve the kind of CG effect I need, every frame of CG special effects in the movie requires a current top-level rendering workstation to work continuously for 630 hours. "
After hearing the inhalation of surprise around you, Eric smiled and said: "Everyone will definitely think that 630 hours of rendering time is a bit incredible, but if you do n’t believe it, you can call the digital field to verify. Of course, there is another point. In the digital field, the large post-rendering farm in Florida has just 10,000 rendering servers. If all are working, rendering such a frame only takes more than 3 minutes, which seems trivial again. But do n’t forget, I said Is only one frame, if we assume that this movie has a 30-minute special effects scene, then the number of frames involved is 43200 frames, even if the rendering parameters of all the pictures can be in one step, no test is required, and numbers are required. The rendering farm in the field is fully operational for 115 days to complete all the work, while the "Jurassic Park" two years ago, the post-rendering work took only about a month, and the use of the digital field in Venice Beach is about to be eliminated soon. Farms, if you consider the difference in computing speed, because of the comprehensive upgrade of scale and equipment Florida tall Venice Beach should render farm render farm eight times, so I just said "Transformers" the difficulty of making ten times "Jurassic Park" above, there is nothing wrong. "
The expression of Michael Eisner is slight, and in recent years, CG special effects have risen vigorously. Of course, he cannot understand at all.
If Eric is true, then the current "Transformers" really has no production value, 115 days of continuous rendering work, even if the producer is willing to pay this huge rendering fee. The digital field will not be willing to undertake. The digital field has to accept special effects orders for dozens of large and small films every year. It is absolutely impossible for a film to occupy the rendering farm for four months.
Moreover, for the entire Hollywood, only the digital field has sufficient economic strength to build a large rendering farm. Other second- and third-tier special effects companies often only rent rendering servers from large companies on a small scale.
Michael Eisner was silent, but Alan Hassenfeld asked: "Eric, can't we lower the production specifications?"
"Of course, I just don't know how to do it. The audience will buy it," Eric shrugged and smiled again: "I'm a perfectionist, this is not a good habit in making movies. So you guys You can ignore what I just said. There are definitely cheaper production schemes. You can even use the model shoots. This will definitely be cheaper. I will go to the cinema to see it. "
Everyone heard the words of Eric, but they all couldn't help but Eric said so. How could they ignore it?
Eric is just killing and burying. After finishing the talk, I feel a little hungry, so I threw a lot of people with different thoughts and walked towards the buffet table in the hall.
Cindy Crawford and Diane Kruger are still following Eric step by step, and the Linda Evangelista three girls who have just been squeezed in the periphery have also followed.
With Eric picking up the dinner plate and picking food, Cindy Crawford asked: "Eric, does it really take 630 hours?"
Eric sandwiched grilled shrimp on his plate and nodded: "Yeah, this involves very complicated technical details. But more than 600 hours of rendering time are true."
Diane Kruger also said: "Doesn't it mean that Transformers can never be produced?"
"Of course not, according to Moore ’s Law of the semiconductor industry, the running speed of a computer will double every one and a half to two years. Then it only takes ten years, if you want to render the same frame, just It takes more than ten hours, and other technologies will also develop synchronously at that time. It will become very simple to complete my vision just now. "
1995. The semiconductor industry has only just entered the era of microprocessors. The mainstream CPU cores use a 0.35 micron process, which is still a long way from the nano age. The bottom-level instructions of a computer CPU are actually a set of 0 and 1 instructions issued by millions of transistors. With the development of semiconductor technology and Moore's Law, the number of transistors has doubled and the speed of processing information by the CPU is corresponding. Doubled.
Ten years later, it only takes more than ten hours to complete the work, but now it takes more than six hundred hours. This kind of restriction is not so easily broken, and we can only wait patiently for the development of technology. Therefore, it is not the right time to produce "Transformers".
Furthermore, Eric mentioned the digital field repeatedly in that remark, and also sent another message to those people, that is, in Hollywood, even if you want to make Transformers, it is impossible to bypass the digital field. Because the entire Hollywood, only the digital field has the ability to undertake Transformers special effects. Although the digital field has been operating independently in recent years, and has not rejected any special effects orders from Firefly competitors, this does not mean that Firefly cannot do so.
As for Industrial Light & Magic, almost all of the producers of CG special effects movies in the past few years have been in the digital field. The continuous special effects orders not only bring a large income to the digital field, but also allow the digital field to have sufficient financial strength to continuously invest technology R & D. At this time, Industrial Light & Magic is far behind in the digital field in terms of technological accumulation. Take the rendering farm in the digital field, for example, Firefly has invested heavily in 100 million USD for the rendering farm in the digital field in Florida. The powerful computing power is sufficient to support the rendering needs of all orders in the digital field, and Industrial Light & Magic can be squeezed out of the 100 million USD construction. Rendering farms of the same scale, but the income from the CG special effects orders in their hands, may not even be enough to support the maintenance and upgrade costs of such a large-scale rendering farm.
Eric was thinking about this. The Cindy Crawford beside him heard what he just said, but said: "In ten years, it is only six times at most. How could it be more than ten hours."
Eric froze for a while, then shook his head and smiled, looked at the other women, and clearly showed a puzzled expression, could not help lamenting the mathematics level of these beautiful beauties.
It was Diane Kruger who came to understand it first, and said: "It doesn't seem to be six times, if it doubles in a row, it should be the sixth power of two, that is ... well, sixty-four times, Eric, am I right?"
"Smart," Eric nodded, picked up a grilled shrimp and handed it over: "Nà, reward you."
"Oh," Diane Kruger smiled happily, looking at several other women, especially Cindy Crawford, with a little triumphant expression in his expression. Cindy Crawford wrapped around Eric, making her feel a great threat.
Cindy Crawford noticed Diane Kruger's eyes and sneered a little disdainfully. It was stupid. A few men would like smart women. Thinking so in my heart, Cindy Crawford's expression has brought out a small bitter grudge. He stretched the dinner plate in front of Eric and said softly, "Eric, I want it too."
"Okay, okay," Eric picked up a grilled shrimp and sent it to the Cindy Crawford plate. While watching the other three girls also extend the dinner plate, they did n’t mind. They joked while holding the grilled shrimp: "Yes Shall we take all the grilled shrimps from this tray? "
Looking at Eric's posture to hold up the entire tray, several women quickly stopped and laughed: "Oh, no, they will be laughed at."
I ate something and danced with some women for a while. I noticed that the CEOAlan Hassenfeld of Hasbro left party and Eric soon after talking with himself.
It's just that looking at Diane Kruger and Cindy Crawford that seemed to intend to leave with him, and even the other three women looked forward, Eric can only say: "Cindy, I'm going home."
"Eric, I haven't been to Cliff Peak Manor, can you show me?" Cindy Crawford said boldly, completely ignoring Diane Kruger on the other side. (To be continued.)