I’m in Hollywood Chapter 339: Unrealistic plan

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Although the studio has undergone tremendous changes in the past year, the working methods of Pixar employees have not changed. It is still as casual as Eric saw a year ago.

Except when passing through the office area, a young female employee recognized Eric and called out a bunch of sisters to jump out and asked for several signatures. The arrival of Eric did not cause any big reactions.

In a screening room, Eric, together with several other persons in charge of John Lasseter and Pixar, watched the already made "Toy Story" film. Although there is no sound, the finished clip is still very interesting, at least sitting The Joanna around Eric is full of interest from beginning to end.

Compared with the original in memory, this version of "Toy Story" does have a great improvement in details, the picture is more delicate and real, and the movement of the toy is more flexible.

After watching the finished film, Eric chatted with John Lasseter for a while, and after affirming the finished product, John Lasseter finally asked: "Eric, I think you came here today, not just to watch our Was the production successful? "Eric smiled slightly and pointed to the CTO of Pixar sitting next to John Lasseter:" Of course, actually, I came to find Mr. Ed Carmore.

"Ed Carmore was originally not too high in interest. If it ’s not Eric Big Boss, Ed Carmore has already got into his own office to study technology. Compared to socializing, he still prefers work.

After seeing Eric suddenly pointing to himself, Ed Carmore recovered from a technical problem: "Find me?" "Yes, let's go to the meeting room to talk," Eric stood up and said.

The group moved to the conference room. Eric sat down at the top. Alan took a stack of documents from the official package and distributed them to Ed Carmore and John Lasseter.

"Mr. Stan Winston should have come here.

But he could n’t get away from being caught in something, so I had to come over and talk.

Although I have read some information before, but.

If there is something unrealistic, you can always ask.

"I heard Eric said solemnly.

Ed Carmore and John Lasseter both nodded solemnly.

Eric said quickly again: "This is a plan I made with the help of Stan in the process of shoots" Ghost ". You can take a look at the software engineering solution for film and television special effect technology. Let's talk later.

"Ed Carmore and John Lasseter just opened the document that Alan just assigned to them. With the reading of the document, John Lasseter was better, but Ed Carmore showed a shocked expression.

He was born in Ph.D. in computer technology, so I imagined the large scale of the plan proposed by Eric for a deeper experience.

In the document, Eric put forward a plan that seems unrealistic to Ed Carmore. He hopes to create a top-notch technical team to software engineer the computer special effects technology used in future movies.

Generally speaking, in a movie that uses computer effects, the movie Director encounters a problem. For example, he wants a living person in the lens to melt like a heated candle.

Then, engineers in the computer special effects department will develop corresponding program codes specifically to solve this problem.

In general.

After solving this problem, these codes will become useless data.

In Eric ’s vision, it is indeed hoped that these useless data will be further processed into a set of fixed software. If they encounter the same type of special effect problems, they can be used directly.

Although many movies have begun to use computers to create special effects, computer effects are still in the era of model effects.

Therefore, the plan proposed by Eric.

Daily Ed Carmore looks very unrealistic and extremely wasteful, after all.

It has been quite time-consuming and labor-intensive to develop corresponding code programs in order to solve the special effects problem, if these are reprocessed into software.

It is even more wasteful of time and money, and whether the processed software can be used in the future is also a very big question.

The two read the Eric plan in detail and then looked up.

Eric shrugged: "Okay, if you have any questions, just come forward, John, you say it first.

"" Eric, I think this is totally unnecessary, it is too wasteful.

"John Lasseter bluntly expressed his views.

"Ed, how about you?" "My view is the same as John, this is a very wasteful thing.

"Ed Carmore said:" Take "Toy Story" for example, in order to solve the facial expressions and movements of the cowboy Woody appear more realistic, our team spent a month to write the corresponding program code to solve this problem.

But if you want to make this set of code into software, it will definitely consume more time than writing the code, and after making the software, you need to upgrade and maintain the software as the computer hardware is upgraded. Another consumption.

It is difficult to tell whether this software can be used again in the future. Even if there is a sequel to "Toy Story", it can be used up to three or four times, or four or five times.

"Eric nodded:" I understand what you mean, but at this point, I have given a solution in the plan, we will set up a very professional evaluation team to perform usability evaluation of the special effects program, and will technology The personnel classify the code programs developed to solve the special effects problem, and then select the programs most likely to be used in the future for software engineering.

"John Lasseter still asked:" Eric, I want to know, why are you doing this? There are still few movies using computer special effects, and compared to computer special effects, model special effects are much cheaper and often more realistic. I really ca n’t think of any producers who would give up cheap and realistic computer special effects. Use expensive computer effects that are not too good.

"Eric said:" Because I have a hunch, computer special effects will become the mainstream of film and television special effects in the future. Now I ca n’t prove my statement, but it wo n’t take long, as long as James Cameron ’s “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” and my “Jurassic Park” After the project is completed, you will definitely realize this.

"(to be continued)

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