muscle actor

Chapter 158
"For example, the great directors Zhang and Feng never learned what is called CG in the film school back then, and there may not even be a director of the older generation who knows the real production process of CG."

"In Hollywood, after the script is finalized, the position of special effects director is immediately available, because CG is the highlight of the whole movie, and it is the essence of spending a lot of money to do it with heart."

"In China, it is more often to save money. To use a simple analogy, building explosions in China are often done with computers because the price of a real explosion is too high. So once your quotation is higher than the actual If you shoot, you will be passed."

"The reason why the price can be very high in foreign countries is often because the director wants to make the building explode with the special visual effect he wants, but it is difficult to achieve real-life explosions."

"Therefore, the price of the special effects company will be very high, and the production staff is also very enthusiastic to achieve effects that have never been achieved by others. It is an honor!"

"In the past, I often heard that a certain director accused the domestic special effects team of being so poor, but after getting in touch with it, I realized that it was all hype that was greater than reality."

"There are more than one or two films that were badly made abroad and then reworked in China. A master once asked me to count how many names of our domestic special effects producers are in the prologue of the 84th Oscar for Best Visual Effects Award."

"I even dropped a sentence: Of all the special effects that can be seen on the market, one is counted as one, and I dare to pat my chest and say that there is nothing they can't do!"

Having said that, Ding Cheng sympathizes very much. Ask yourself, is it really just the technology that we are lacking?

Even if there is no "2012" yet, do you think there is a domestic director who can clearly describe the scene of a magnitude 100 earthquake?
Even if there is no "Avatar" today, do you think there will be a director who can clearly describe a beautiful Pandora planet to you?
Could it be that the director said that he should be more beautiful, and a technical geek who plays special effects can give him a planet of Pandora?

“《头号玩家》耗资1.75亿美元，其中超过1亿花在特效上。”王天感叹道：“《变形金刚5》制作成本2.17亿美元，特效占1.3亿美元。”

“《阿凡达》制作成本2.37亿美元，特效占1.5亿美元。《蜘蛛侠3》制作成本2.58亿美元，特效占1.55亿美元。《加勒比海盗3》制作成本3.42亿美元，特效占2亿美元……”

"This kind of example abounds, but in any Hollywood visual blockbuster, the special effects fee accounts for at least 60% of the total production fee!"

Ding Cheng was stunned to himself. Calculated in this way, the average movie is two hours, and hundreds of thousands per second is really not a joke.

Curiously asked: "Why so much money?"

"Hey, I've asked many people about this. Regardless of the specific difficulty, hardware costs account for 30%, software costs account for 10%, and labor costs account for more than 60%."

"In fact, the production of special effects is just a general term, roughly divided into two parts and ten links, namely: [-]D special effects: modeling, material, animation, lighting, rendering and synthesis Special effects: keying, erasing wire, color correction, compositing , Huijing."

"In other words, it's true that the special effects are done with computers, but they are not the ordinary computers we usually use, but large workstations and servers, with dozens or millions of them casually."

"It is such a top-level hardware that needs to run continuously for more than 50 hours to render a frame of special effects."

"And a movie has at least 1 frames per second, and a five-second special effects shot takes 24 days for a machine to render!"

"Mature large-scale special effects companies like Industrial Light & Magic and Weta Digital have built their own rendering farms internally, with thousands of workstations and servers running day and night.

"Then there is software. A lot of professional software is used in every link, and each one is expensive. It is not uncommon to install dozens of software on a machine at the same time, and you have to buy genuine copies, all in US dollars."

"Weta Digital, the special effects company of "Avatar" and "The Hobbit", heard that the annual cost of it alone is as high as 1.8 million. Isn't it scary?"

"These are just drizzle, and the most expensive thing is the labor cost. There are many process links, complicated software debugging, and time-consuming production. It takes thousands of people to work together for several years."

“听说《阿凡达》特效团队1855人、《泰坦尼克号》739人、《复仇者联盟》1453人、《哈利波特与死亡圣器》1180人、《变形金刚3》1178人……”

“普通特效师年薪4万美金、高级特效师年薪6万美金、顶级特效师年薪约15万美金。这样一个1000人的团队，每年下来光工资就要5700万美元！”

"The production cycle of a movie usually takes two or three years. Hey, who can support it?"

"If you haven't studied blasting, you can't do the time-stagnant shocking explosion in "Inception"..."

"If you haven't studied materials, you can't make the thick and heavy mecha in "Bad Pacific"..."

"If you haven't studied biology, you can't restore the lifelike animals in "The Jungle Book"..."

"If you haven't studied physics, you can't imagine the breathtaking high-dimensional space of "Interstellar"..."

"If you haven't studied fluid mechanics, you can't show the beautiful mirror of the ocean in "Fantasy Drifting of Boys Pi"..."

Wang Tian looked at Ding Cheng's shocked look, and smiled wryly: "This is only part of the theoretical basis. Next, masters need to be familiar with more than 50 kinds of professional software, be proficient in at least ten kinds of large-scale software, and adapt to the update iterations of countless plug-ins at any time. Familiar with the new production process..."

"Because special effects technology basically undergoes a small innovation every six months and a major revolution every two years. It is no exaggeration to say that every top special effects artist is a scientist who spends countless time and money!"

"Do you know how much the best special effects in our country are paid every month?"

Wuyou took a sip of tea and said, "There has never been more than [-]!"

"Two days ago, I found a few interns from prestigious universities, and rushed to work at [-] a month."

"Chatting with them, I heard that Ogilvy had just died of a special effect a few days ago. According to what they said: That buddy's health is too bad, right?"

"Ogilvy seems to be just a design company, only responsible for creating ideas and tracking execution. For a real production company, not going home for three days is just the entry requirement. The overtime record of not sleeping for five days and not washing your face for seven days is simply incredible. All of them.”

Looking up at the time, he stood up and said, "It's useless to listen to me, a layman. I'll take you to see a good man."

Ding Cheng happened to be idle and had nothing to do, so they went out together, came to the private room of the hotel, and saw a simple little brother in his early thirties.

"Ding Cheng, you don't need me to introduce you, right?" Wang Tian pointed at the little brother and said with a smile, "This is Yang Yu, nicknamed Dumpling, a true animation special effects director."

"Nezha was made by him!"

(End of this chapter)