The Goddess Shines on America

For the production of movie special effects, the importance of the computer is self-evident. With its help, not only can many special effects be made extremely simple, but also many effects that are difficult to achieve by humans can be easily put on the screen.

So as early as when Lucas made his Star Wars, he pioneered the way of renting supercomputer computing power to assist in the production of special effects for movies. Although this must bear a lot of cost, just look at the effect of "Star Trek: Khan's Wrath" in 1982 with the first use of computer-assisted shooting, and compare it with "Alien" in 1979. The gap between the two It's clear at a glance.

And that was in 1982, even if it was the most powerful supercomputer in the world at that time, its computing power was only 400 million times per second, and "Khan's Fury" did not rent an exaggerated share. But now, the guy at the Roland Shiremoa National Laboratory in California, where Alice and Mai Mai are heading, has 3.9 billion times!

What is the concept of 3.9 billion times?

It's roughly equivalent to a Core i3 dual-core processor in the 21st century, and it's the kind of grade with a higher frequency and close to the i5 series.

However, it is impossible for Alice to rent all the computers of the baby that was just released last year, so the one that can be obtained is a Pentium 4 processor level.

Quite rubbish.

But it's enough.

Aka ◇ long ◇ wind ◇ literature ◇ studies, w￡ww.cfw⊕x.ne∨t Mr. Man is a soldier, and Maimi is independent and independent, and he still goes to the “office” with Alice, so be quick to his daughter Aunt Kaori, who was staying at home, had no objection to the sudden departure from the city during dinner. That's why these two girls raided their laboratory in the middle of the night, hundreds of miles away from Los Angeles.

In general, the process is smooth.

Even if laymen do not know the specific status of this national laboratory, since it can have the strongest supercomputer newly released last year, it is obviously not comparable to that of ordinary scientific research institutes. For this kind of laboratory with a full schedule, there are a large number of people working even in the early morning, and of course they will not be caught off guard by the uninvited two girls.

As for the lease invitation, it went very smoothly.

Supercomputers of any era have the business of renting out. The question is who the renter is and how long it needs to be rented. For the capitalist America, if Alice takes the lead and spends huge sums of money to buy the vast majority of supercomputers, even if NASA wants to study rocket launches, they must honestly line up.

The final result is that Alice rents this supercomputer 3.9 billion times per second, which is equivalent to 75% of the computing power of the Core i3 low-end processor, for a lease term of four months.

It’s also because this computer just settled in the laboratory last year, and many companies and institutions that need computing power are still in line with other supercomputers, otherwise Alice will not be able to dominate three-quarters of the share.

Well, 75% of the 3.9 billion times is still rubbish, but it is still equivalent to the original Core i3, at least much better than the Pentium 4.

The entire ten million US dollars of funds were only used to rent supercomputers. Such huge expenses made Wu Mi utterly shocked. However, Alice's words made her even more speechless.

"The more developed the economy, the more and more high-cost movies will be produced, and there will be many similar situations in the future. Let alone one to two thousand, even if it is a filming cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, it will be certain after 2005. Will appear!"

As for why it was 2005, Maimi certainly had nothing to say, but she did feel that Alice was correct. Looking back at the filming costs and box office of the entire Hollywood, isn't it just getting higher and higher?

Of course, neither the arrival of the tens of millions of dollars nor the beginning of the lease will take effect from now. After all, Alice hasn't even revised the script yet. As a director, Cameron has to recruit actors immediately. Mr. Lawrence also intends to be a producer himself, and there is still a lot of related work.

Therefore, when Wu Mi drove the Hummer, added fuel three times, and finally returned to Los Angeles, Alice was about to show up at DreamWorks again.

This is a movie with an unprecedented investment cost!

Whether it is the cost history of Alice and DreamWorks, or all the movies in the entire history of Hollywood, this "Alien II" will cost the most!

"Ten million dollars, just to rent a supercomputer!?"

At the office of the chairman of DreamWorks at noon on a working day, Lawrence was frightened from ear to ear by the sky-high price: "Is it necessary to be so extravagant!? Even for Lucas’ new Star Wars hope, the entire shooting cost is only 1,300 Ten million, right? Ten million is just for renting a computer. What are your plans to make the shooting cost so high!?"

However, if Lawrence is distressed for money, Cameron is like a child looking forward to a year, just getting the coveted Christmas gift, and laughed excitedly: "The most advanced supercomputer in the world! 75 % Of the computer share! Haha, Alice, tell me a lot, when you and the girl from Akaman ran to someone’s laboratory, were the people scared and stupid!?"

"It was really taken aback."

Alice admittedly smiled: "Ten million US dollars. For a laboratory, this is a sky-high income, enough for them to conduct many experiments. After I showed the property certificate, the director seemed to be afraid that I would regret it. Like, I hurriedly urged me to pay the deposit, the whole process went unbelievably smooth."

However, Lawrence still looked distressed: "But it's 10 million. I only spent so much to promote the "Ghost Record" last year. Even if you paid the money yourself, 10 million... "

"Uncle Roger, why did you suddenly fall into the eye of the money?"

Alice supported her chin with one hand and looked at Lawrence contemptuously: "The problem is that you have to look at it the other way around. Since this movie costs such a big price on special effects, how can the box office be bad? I rely on "Ghost Record". Those who have sold 200 million at the box office, the subject matter and sequel nature of "Alien II" are all here, but if the box office also exceeds 100 million, isn't it a big profit?"

"Roger is simply heartbroken."

Sitting on the corner of the sofa, Mumi, who was purely a driver for Alice again, was holding a cashew nut in his mouth, and suddenly interrupted: "But Alice, now that you have computing power, how do you plan to use it? Hire Industrial Light & Magic has to spend a lot of money again, right? This is not considered equipment rental. I think you have to rent armored vehicles from the U.S. Army because of your posture, right?"

Lawrence nodded vigorously and smiled bitterly: "This is what I worry about, Alice, Lucas's asking price is never cheap. If you can guarantee that you can do the special effects part by yourself, I won't be so. Distressed, but..."

"Then let Alice be my special effects artist!"

Cameron spoke up. With such great input from Alice, the excitement of his whole body was aroused: "The upper movie is the director, and "Invasion Brain Cell" is the screenwriter. I said girl, since you are so good at talking, special effects You should be the team leader, right?"

"Just kidding, it's just like playing."

Of course, Alice took the job: "Just my head, the endless creativity in my head, and my computer technology, giving you special effects for this movie, isn't it easy to die?"

Seeing the girl boasting so carelessly about her cleverness, two adults and a high school girl in the room immediately burst into laughter.

"Okay, okay, then I will hire one less person!"

Cameron slapped Alice **** the shoulder, but then said, "However, you are not a professional special effects artist after all. I still have to hire some people in the industry. Let me see..."

"Isn't it good for Industrial Light and Magic to do computer special effects in the industry?"

Alice waved her hand and said, "Leave the job to me, so don't worry. The Industrial Light and Magic people, to put it bluntly, are a large collection of experts who teach and teach. You just need to hire some as they are... let me see... "

After thinking about what technology is needed in "Alien II", Alice said: "Model designer and mechanical designer, these two types of people hire five to help me, it's enough!"

It's really enough.

Whether it is the design of the spaceship shape, the design of various sci-fi firearms, or the design of colonial buildings, and many other aspects, with Alice’s head, the design drawings are all a one-time concept. There are five model designers and five mechanical designers, and they are responsible for making them by hand in accordance with Alice's requirements. Just like a battlefield command center has many mining prospecting machines, it is enough to simply obey orders.

Cameron thought briefly and agreed.

If it was replaced by other little girls running in front of him to say these, if it weren't for girls, he would have kicked people out long ago by Cameron.

But since it is Alice, at such a young age, a girl who has become a multimillionaire by relying on technology patents is another matter.

After all, since she has already thrown in ten million into renting a computer, she will not spoil the movie she invested in, right?

"But I still have a question."

But Cameron still has a question: "You are the only one who understands computer operations. Since UU reading www.uukanshu.com has rented so much computing power, you must have a way to make computer special effects? What kind of software do you use? It's industrial. Those of Light Demon?"

"Oh, this..."

Alice touched her chin: "Maya, Premiere, AfterEffects, Nuke, ..., there are so many things you can use."

Cameron frowned deeply, forming deep forehead lines: "Maya...Which company's software is this? Why haven't I heard of it?"

"Oh, of course you haven't heard of it."

Alice shrugged her shoulders and chuckled, "Because these are all the software I developed when I was bored, I also plan to open another IT company to buy them~"

"The name of the company...?"

"Adobe! Don't ask me why I started this way, I think it sounds good!"

"I didn't ask..." (To be continued.)