I’m Almost Losing to a Muggle

After practice and comprehension, and a lot of magic, Lin Dong has already finished casting spells with his bare hands.

I don't know if Xu Lang will go to the scene.

If he can go, he can give him a hair growth spell on the spot, which will definitely shock the audience.

Of course, it can only be said.

If Xu Lang had his hair planted, he would be so happy that he would never shave his head to cover up for Lin Dong.

The crew of Monster Hunt also saw Lin Dong doing magic tricks several times.

But no one connects this to magic.

Lin Dong finally realized one thing: Even if he held someone back and told him sincerely that he knew magic, no one would believe him.

Catching Monsters uses a lot of fictional characters.

Playing against the air is a test of an actor's ability, and many scenes and interactions have to be imagined by oneself.

Lin Dong didn't like this play at first, but after he actually acted it, he realized that he had encountered a new challenge.

Wanting to act with the air in a blank green screen environment is really a test of one's imagination and adaptability. Sometimes even the director can only rely on imagination to judge how well the actor is performing.

I think so.

Oh, I thought so.

After communicating once more, neither of them still quite understand what the other is thinking.

The director had to get someone to play various virtual characters, so that they could finally understand what was going on.

But this is still not enough. Whether the effect can be achieved is up to the special effects team.

There is another kind of person that is indispensable on the scene of this movie-special effects personnel.

Xu Chengyi, who was born in Hollywood DreamWorks, did not hire a special effects team from Hollywood, but used the domestic Base.

Pacific Rim, Change 4 and Special Forces 2 are all made by this company.

It is a well-known film and television special effects company in Asia. It has the largest film special effects team in China and has production bases in many places with a team of more than 300 people.

A young man named Hu Hailang was responsible for communicating with Lin Dong about special effects.

Hu Hailang is a fat man.

Dive headfirst into Base right out of school.

Holding the minimum salary, rushing to exhausting work.

When applying for the job, tell him that if he is not busy, he will leave work at six o'clock.

In fact, there is never a time when I am not busy, and the workload is basically about 2.5 times that of other companies.

Due to the high workload, he had to rely on food to maintain his physical strength. Therefore, the guy under the age of 30 had already eaten a hundred and eighty catties.

However, the lad is very enthusiastic about his work.

He took the trouble to explain to Lin Dong what special effects he needs to do, and what kind of effects he can make with his work.

Lin Dong listened to the truth, and when he was free, he always liked to chat with Hu Hailang about special effects.

He once asked Du Qixi to help find someone who knew how to play special effects, and planned to establish Kleist's own special effects team.

As a result, Du Qixi searched and searched but couldn't find a suitable one.

Regarding the special effects team, Lin Dong didn't want to find an unreliable person—otherwise, he would have asked Pei Qinhu to work on special effects.

You need to find someone who knows how to do this stuff.

If you don't develop, you can't burn money at all.

From Hu Hailang, Lin Dong learned that the current special effects factory is not doing well.

Digital Domain, which Cameron co-founded, went bankrupt in 2012. After that, it changed hands several times. Even Maben Film and Television accepted it.

Digital Domain is not the only one facing financial crisis, Industrial Light \u0026 Magic was also acquired by Disney in 2012.

When Lin Dong was chatting with Hu Hailang, he found that although this guy was young, he really had a deep understanding of special effects.

Monster Hunt is a domestic project, but Base attaches great importance to it.

Being able to entrust such an important project to him shows that Hu Hailang is really capable.

What do you think of Base? Lin Dong observed for several days, and finally decided to do it.

It's good, what's the matter? No matter what you think in your heart, it is absolutely impossible to slander your company in front of an outsider, especially if you have a cooperative relationship.

Can it represent the future of domestic special effects, and can it lead domestic special effects personnel to catch up with Hollywood special effects teams?

Lin Dong began to talk with him about life and ideals.

The question is profound.

Hu Hailang was silent for a moment, then shook his head.

Because the boss of the company Base is actually American.

To put it simply, it is a private enterprise run by foreigners. It has grown from a small team of a few people ten years ago to a regional scale of more than 300 people today. There have been several turmoil in the middle, but it has persisted and developed steadily. .

And Base can survive in the general environment where special effects companies are generally losing money and even going bankrupt. An important factor is inseparable, that is, using cheap domestic labor to produce foreign projects with relatively high prices, that is, receiving external orders.

This is unmatched by other foreign special effects companies.

His success has also attracted a lot of foreign capital to set up special effects companies in China or India.

This kind of contribution may be able to promote the development of the domestic special effects industry.

But base is still just a processing factory. Compared with some big foreign special effects companies, base only uses cheap labor to process foreign products. After gaining fame, it uses fame to process domestic products at the same time.

It is even less likely to represent the future of China's film special effects.

People will never give you the real thing at all, you are just a screw on the assembly line.

Are you interested in shouldering the important task of Huaxia's special effects in the future? Lin Dong asked expectantly.

They didn't speak, but Lin Dong knew this look.

Are you sick?

But it's normal to think about it. If someone finds you and asks if you would like to take on a future of something.

You probably have the same expression as him.

Lin Dong pulled him aside, and the two of them squatted on the ground, and Lin Dong began his deceitful career.

Finally, he solemnly introduced himself and said, I am Kleist's boss. I want to build a special effects team to shoulder the responsibility for the future of China's film special effects. Do you think I'm sick?

Hiss...you are... no no, of course not.

Hu Hailang shook his head again and again.

The previous assumption, if a big boss told you, you really have to think about it seriously.

Maybe you have potentials that you don't even know you have.

Appreciated now.

Turn on the lucky mode of life.

I would like to ask you to complete this matter with me. Lin Dong held out his hand to him.

But I'm just an ordinary special effects artist, and I don't know enough things... Hu Hailang is at least an honest person, and he said in embarrassment: Even if we have money, it is impossible to create special effects out of thin air. Come to think of it, our China's special effects are at least ten years behind Hollywood's.