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The so-called CG movie, broadly speaking, refers to the movie itself shot in real scenes and mainly performed by real people, but interspersed with a lot of virtual scenes and special effects.The usual method is to use CG technology in traditional movies to add objects such as virtual scenes, characters, things, special effects, etc., so as to achieve the purpose of making it difficult to distinguish between true and false and enhance visual effects.

In a narrow sense, a CG film refers to a film in which all visual products (scenes, characters, objects, special effects, etc.) in the entire film are composed of computer-generated CG animations or CG pictures.But its visual effects are completely different from traditional 2D cartoons.

What Chen Xin wanted to make was naturally the latter.

In fact, the production cost of a full-CG movie in the true sense is very high.

Back then, Square Enix (a well-known Japanese game company) almost pawned all of its underwear for the filming of "Final Fantasy: Into the Soul". After the film was released, the company was on the verge of bankruptcy, which also contributed to the later acquisition of Enix A foreshadowing was laid.

Blizzard has also wanted to make "World of Warcraft" into a movie more than once, but investment has always been the biggest obstacle for this classic online game to go to the screen.

It is rumored that the opening animation cost of "Wrath of the Lich King" (Wrathofthelichking) is nearly 2000 million US dollars, including various internal expenses, as well as long original paintings, storyboard discussions, model design work, etc. occupying the time of game developers.

Some people have calculated that the cg length of "Wrath of the Lich King" is 198 seconds, and the cost per second is 10 US dollars. If you want to make a 90-minute movie (5400 seconds), you will need 5.4 million US dollars, and you will also need to pay a lot of money from Blizzard. people.

Moreover, without affecting product development, a large amount of work needs to be entrusted to outside professional special effects teams. Coupled with the cost of publishing and publicity, the cost has increased again.

You must know that the investment in Avatar is only 5 million US dollars, and Blizzard is unlikely to take such an exaggerated thing.

Another point is that even without the sky-high development costs, Blizzard itself does not have enough capacity to produce full-length CGI movies.

This is not to say that Blizzard's people are not good, but that Blizzard does not have the accumulation of software and hardware technology. A 2-minute cutscene and a 200-minute movie have several levels of software and hardware requirements.

Just look at how many companies in the world can afford CG movies. The current Weta Digital (Weta) grew up through the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and then relied on "King Kong" and "Avatar" And so on, the epic legend of the film special effects empire has been achieved.

As for Industrial Light and Magic, needless to say, Hollywood’s special effects blockbusters in the past 30 years almost all have its shadow behind them.

And CG studios like blurstadio can only do post-production special effects or animation short films for games and movies at most, and it is a bit reluctant to play full CG movies directly.

In fact, the foundation of these companies is still to do post-production CG special effects for live-action movies. Only Disney Pixar can really make money playing full CG movies.

But this is also understandable. After all, their real selling point is not the full CG, but the excellent plot and various cute cartoon characters. This does not include peripheral profits similar to Disneyland.

Once a decision was made, Chen Xin acted immediately.

But soon, he discovered that cg movies were not as simple as he imagined.

First of all, there was the problem of the script. Chen Xin would definitely not be able to write it himself, and it would be a joke to ask Gang Yan to write it.After all, steel is just a robot. Its "Laws of Survival" relies on creative and documentary writing. It is impossible for it to create from a human perspective.

As for the director, Chen Xin can only be regarded as an ordinary movie fan at most, and he doesn't even have the most basic knowledge of film theory.If he was asked to cg a short film about China's future aircraft carrier battle group, he would definitely be able to catch it, because these pictures have been simulated countless times in his mind.It would be difficult for him to make a cg movie with smooth plot and gorgeous picture.

In addition, due to the existence of steel forges, Chen Xin couldn't entrust these tasks to professionals, so he had to do it himself. When he thought about the dubbing, soundtrack editing and other miscellaneous problems, Chen Xin felt overwhelmed.

You should know that it usually takes about half a year for a small (5 to 20 people) team to produce a high-quality CG short film of about 30 minutes.It is still the original example of wlk (Wrath of the Lich King). Although the production level and artistry of the animation itself are very high, in terms of the complexity of the scene and the difficulty of realization, it can only be regarded as medium in those days.There are three characters, and there are almost no dynamic animations.One kind of scene, there is no complicated long-range view at all, and many of them are mattepainting (painting).The art director in the middle must have repeatedly considered the sub-shots, and the core team must have spent a lot of time establishing basic concepts.

And those animated films like those shot by Pixar require the teamwork of hundreds of people for about a year to complete, and the investment is calculated in hundreds of millions of dollars.

Chen Xin didn't think about the size of his project at all. After careful consideration of the difficulties he was facing, he decided to make a CG micro-movie to practice his hands.

The concept of micro-movies has only become popular in the past one or two years. As the first commercial "micro-movie" in the true sense of history, "On the verge of firing" starring Wu Yanzu is the prototype of "micro-movie".

Before 2010, what we called short films were live-action feature films, animated feature films, student feature film assignments, and online videos.

From Hu Ge's "A Murder Caused by a Steamed Bread" to Chopstick Brothers' "Old Boy" and "Father", the term "micro-film" has gradually changed.Compared with the huge investment in film, short films have lower requirements in terms of shooting equipment, funds, teams, processes, etc., and are suitable for the actual operation needs of graduates of film majors.

However, micro-movies mainly rely on advertising placement and other means to make profits, and Chen Xin mainly does it for practice and to increase the popularity of the studio.

Before that, he registered a special effects studio called Cybertron Digital through an intermediary.

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Some media even published articles specifically analyzing this network incident.

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Chen Xin has been worrying about the script for the past two days. He searched a lot on the Internet, but he was not satisfied.

Later, when I asked Gang Yan, Gang Yan raised his legs and pointed his fingers: "How about we shoot "Buddha is the Way"? What about "Covering the Sky"? Or "The Legend of Ordinary Cultivation of Immortals"..."

Chen Xin rolled his eyes and said, "We are making a micro-movie, micro-movie, understand? Such a long novel, how do you want me to adapt it? "Mortal" has not been finished until now, and Old Devil Han is still reading in the spirit world. Xiaoguai, the day of ascension to the fairy world is far away, even a long-form TV series cannot be filmed."

Gang Bian spread his hands, shrugged and said, "Then I can't help it, you can look for it yourself, I'll go to code first, readers are urging to update."

Saying that, it lowered its head, and its whole body was like melting ice and snow, and it got into the computer again.

Chen Xin is helpless. Ever since he knew that his novels can make a lot of money, Gangyi has become more and more difficult to discipline, especially yesterday when his novels were released on the shelves, with more than 24 subscriptions in [-] hours, breaking the record for newcomers at the starting point. It can be called a book of gods.

Chen Xin had no choice but to wait on QQ and go to the [Steel Iron Support Group] to find support.

In just a few days, the [Steel Support Group] was full of thousands of people. When Chen Xin proposed the idea of ​​making a micro-movie, a netizen named [It’s so boring] quickly replied: “Why not Making "Laws of Survival" also opened my eyes to what the legendary Cybertron is like."

Chen Xin was speechless, and typed: "This novel has already been booked, so it cannot be filmed."

At this time, [watercool] jumped out: "Then shoot "Three-Body Problem", or Liu Cixin's other short stories, I am a fan of Magnet Liu (Liu Cixin)."

Chen Xin returned a smiling face: "When I have money, I will invest in "Three-Body Problem". At that time, I will recruit the best actors in the world and make a super sci-fi film that will sweep the world."

[watercool] directly replied with a contemptuous expression.

But Chen Xin didn't show up again, the answer from [watercool] reminded him just now.

The name Liu Cixin is no stranger to Chen Xin. You can often see his works in the "Science Fiction World" you bought at newsstands in high school.

Works such as "The Wandering Earth", "Caring for God", and "Mountain" all left a deep impression on Chen Xin, especially "The Wandering Earth". Chen Xin also considered this novel, but after thinking about it, he gave up .There are too many classic and magnificent scenes in this novel. If it is filmed, it can directly blow up a classic disaster film like "2012" into scum, and it would be too wasteful to make a micro-movie.

And his most famous "Three-Body Problem" trilogy, Chen Xin only read the first part, which happened in [-]. Later, after his parents had an accident, he stopped paying attention to the news in this area, and only occasionally heard recommendations from friends. It is said that Liu Diangong's "Three-Body Problem" series is more exciting than the last one.

Chen Xin thought about it, and simply downloaded the electronic version of Liu Cixin's collection of short and novel science fiction from the Internet, to see if there were works suitable for adaptation into microfilms.

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