I’m in Hollywood Chapter 346: Maya

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The rendering software Cameron is known. In simple terms, the role of this software is to make the image effects become more authentic and trustworthy through the complex calculations of the primary renderings produced by the computer in terms of lighting, materials, colors, etc. , Even to the extent that true and false are difficult to distinguish.

The special effect Production Studio Industrial Light & Magic of "The Abyss" now uses the renderman rendering software developed by Ed Carmore.

When Ed Carmore was still in Industrial Light & Magic, George Lucas bought the right to permanently use the software in a forward-looking manner. After Jobs bought Industrial Light & Magic's Animation Department and established Pixar, Ed Carmore adopted this The software was placed in Pixar to obtain a certain shareholding, but as Jobs continued to inject funds into the lossy Pixar, the shares of several Pixar managers were eventually recovered by Jobs, and the reanderman software also became the property of Pixar.

When Eric wanted to take over Pixar from Steve Jobs, Jobs also tried to strip out the renderman software from the property list of Pixar studio, and finally failed to succeed, which shows the value of this software.

After reading about the development plan of fluid simulation software, and understanding the general situation of redanderman rendering software, Cameron immediately became very interested in the 3D modeling software that Eric just said. From the words of Eric, Cameron felt keenly So, the 3D modeling software mentioned by Eric is the top priority of this plan.

"San Francisco has n’t discussed a detailed plan yet. I originally planned to commission Autodesk to develop this software, but I did n’t talk about the ownership of the software. In the end, I can only do it myself." Face Cameron Curiosity. Eric explained.

"Autodesk?" Cameron asked doubtfully.

"It's the famous autocad software industrial design software development company," said Eric. According to the information in the memory, previous life's major 3D animation design software maya, and softimage are products of Autodesk, Autodesk The company has almost monopolized this type of film and television special effects software.

But even if there is no change in history, it is more than ten years later.

The current Autodesk is also focused on the development and operation of autocad, an industrial design software. Because computer movie and television special effects are just emerging, Autodesk is not interested in the development of 3D animation software for movie and television special effects. Because they think that such high-level professional software does not have much business prospects.

The reason why Eric wants to entrust Autodesk to develop is mainly because Autodesk has nearly 10 years of technical accumulation of 3D design software development, which can greatly shorten the development time of 3D modeling software, but Autodesk is not sensitive to such software. Interested, but still want to share the ownership of the software with Eric, in the end, the two sides did not discuss, Eric can only organize their own team to develop.

On hearing Eric mentioned autCameron, I remembered it and asked a series of detailed questions. Cameron finally asked: "Eric, how much do you plan to invest in these plans? I think this must be a very large expense."

"The development of fluid simulation software and the optimization of renderman does not require too much money. 30 million USD is enough. The main thing is Maya. This software needs continuous investment, but I think it will definitely bring me in the future. Enough to return. "

"Maya, do you mean the name of the 3D modeling software you said, I never thought you would be interested in the mysterious Maya civilization."

Eric explained: “Maya here does not refer to the Mayan civilization of South America, but the pronunciation of an ancient Indian vocabulary, which means‘ dream ’.”

"The name is still ... appropriate," Cameron said with a smile.

"Of course, in fact, 3D modeling is just the most basic function of maya. In my planning, 3D animation, simulation, special effects and other functions will be added in the future, and will be connected with the redanderman rendering software to form A complete special effects production process, "Eric talked confidently, of course, these are just his technical ambitions.

The reason why there are so many mainstream or non-mainstream special effects software for previous life is mainly because within ten years of the rise of computer special effects, most software giants are not optimistic about the business prospects of this type of software. Many old special effects companies can only After researching and developing by oneself, after the software industry giants see the huge commercial output scale of special effect software, the special effect software on the market has become various, and it is almost impossible to monopolize.

But now, Eric has made this move much earlier than many people, and he did not let the digital field have the idea of ​​exclusive maya, but after the software design is mature, to ensure that the digital field technology is absolutely Under the leading situation, it is planned to be introduced to the market. He believes that when there is a mature special effects software that can be used, there will not be many special effects companies willing to develop independently.

This is still the first step. With the development of the digital field and the promotion of Maya software, slowly, many solutions and plug-ins for film and television special effects will be developed based on Maya software, just like many application softwares are based on aya's software status for the film and television special effects industry is already equivalent to Windows and operating system. Even if those software giants have the funds, technology and strength, they can only watch this piece of fat 10 billion USD and glared.

It ’s always troublesome for women to pack up. Eric came back from the tennis court. It only took more than ten minutes to take a bath and change clothes. Famke Janssen took more than half an hour to walk into the study with a pot of coffee. I have replaced the hot navel vest and hot pants, wearing a simple white t-shirt and loose khaki slacks, with a slight wetness on my hair, and a light makeup on my face.

"Husband Cameron, Ms. Bigelow, do you need coffee?". Famke Janssen asked upside down.

The Kathryn Bigelow who originally stood by the wall to appreciate the Eric sub-lens draft turned around, smiled and nodded, and took the initiative to step forward to help, but the Cameron, which was just amazing by Famke, was completely lost to beauty. After I was interested, I discussed the special effects of the disaster film series with Eric with excitement. When I heard the inquiry from Famke, I just nodded slightly, and didn't even turn my eyes.

"Miss Jensen, don't mind, Jim is like that. Focusing on one thing will not care about anything anymore," Kathryn Bigelow said apologetically after seeing Cameron ignoring Famke.

Famke Janssen served two cups of coffee to Cameron and Eric, and returned to the sofa here to sit down and said, "It's nothing. In fact, Eric sometimes does the same. I once saw him frowning by the window. After walking around, I stepped forward to the question, but Eric seemed to be awakened and became very angry, saying that I drove his inspiration away. "

After Famke Janssen finished speaking, the two women glanced at each other, and they all felt the same sympathy.

Probably for this reason, the two women quickly chatted together and called each other by their nicknames. (To be continued ...)

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