I’m in Hollywood

Just as Alan Hasenfield finished speaking, another voice sounded behind him: Eric, do you mind if we also hear your opinion on Transformers?

Eric turned his head, Michael Eisner and Edgar Bronfman walked side by side.

Michael Eisner and Edgar Bronfman noticed that Alan Hasenfield took the initiative to talk to Eric not far away, and they hurried over to prevent the two from negotiating the copyright of Transformers. .

Although Firefly is indifferent to the copyright of Transformers on the surface, no one can deny that it is the strongest competitor of the copyright of Transformers. The Snares had a sense of crisis, and if Eric were to steal the Transformers rights at Universal's party, they'd be Hollywood's laughing stock.

Of course no problem, Michael, Eric nodded with a smile, he certainly didn't mind Michael Eisner's audition, and he even hoped that his next words would spread throughout Hollywood.

Following the actions of Michael Eisner and the two, some other studio guests who noticed the situation here also approached casually, and they were also very interested in the copyright of Transformers.

Diane Kruger and Cindy Crawford, who were leaning on Eric's side, found that in just a few minutes, Eric had once again become the focus of the arena, and those around them were hard to come by in the past. The high-level executives of the film company, but at this time surrounded Eric like the stars and the moon, and made a sound of listening without pretension. The two of them were holding Eric's arms, but Linda Evangelinsta's three daughters were unceremoniously pushed to the outside of the crowd by these bigwigs, and they looked at them both with envy in their eyes. .

Although Diane Kruger and Cindy Crawford knew that these big men didn't care about them at all, they still felt an inexplicable satisfaction and pride in their hearts.

Alan Hasenfield looked at the people around him and Eric's confident appearance, but he had a bad feeling. I also regret that I just took the initiative to come over and talk to Eric.

Eric's current posture obviously doesn't mean he wants to say good things for Transformers.

And, with Eric's status in Hollywood. What he said would never be dismissed lightly. Alan Hasenfield also doesn't believe that Eric will talk nonsense simply to suppress the copyright value of Transformers.

Sure enough, waiting patiently for the crowd to gather around, Eric said: When I heard that everyone was paying attention to the Transformers movie adaptation rights recently, I also became interested in this toy series, and privately considered some production plans, but finally came to The conclusion is that in the current conditions, Transformers does not have much value for adaptation. If it is forced to make a live-action movie, the cost and risk are very large.

If it hadn't been for someone who slavishly linked the rights to the Transformers movie to Firefly, there wouldn't be so many competing for it. Nine out of ten people didn't believe Eric's words, but they were not in a hurry to refute.

Eric looked around for a week and continued: According to my assumption, if we want to make a live-action version of a big movie, the image design of Transformers should be a complex and metal texture composed of hundreds of parts and components. Sophisticated mechanical lifeforms. These lifeforms also need to transition flawlessly and flexibly between cars and robots. I discussed my ideas at length with special effects engineers in the digital domain and came to the conclusion that if this idea is followed Production. The CG special effects production of the film will be more than ten times more difficult than that of Jurassic Park, and the production cost is even higher.”

After Eric finished speaking, although Michael Eisner had a smile on his face, he asked very sharply: Eric, I am very curious, Transformers are more than ten times more difficult to make than Jurassic Park. , how did you count this 'ten times'?

Everyone around just took Eric's 'ten times' as an adjective to describe the difficulty of making Transformers. If Michael Eisner didn't speak up, no one would read the words at all.

But Michael Eisner took advantage of this to attack Eric. Although everyone still had a sincere and curious expression on the surface, they couldn't help but gloat at the misfortune. I want to see how Eric intends to deal with this tricky question from Michael Eisner.

To their disappointment, there was no hint of anger in Eric's expression. Hearing Michael Eisner's question, the corner of his mouth remained smiling and said, Michael, I think you are not clear about the specific software development, technical testing, 3D modeling and other processes involved in CG special effects, so let's take Let’s take the most critical image rendering of cg special effects as an example. The special effects engineer in the digital field told me that if I want to achieve the kind of cg effect I need, every frame of the movie involving cg special effects needs a current top 630 hours of continuous work on the rendering workstation.”

Hearing the surprised inhalation, Eric smiled: Everyone will definitely think that the rendering time of 630 hours is a bit incredible, but if you don't believe it, you can call the digital field to verify, of course, there is another point, Digital Domain's large post-rendering farm in Florida has 10,000 render servers, and it takes over 3 minutes to render a frame like this when all are working, which seems trivial. But don't forget, I said It’s just one frame. If we assume that this film has a 30-minute special effect scene, then the number of frames involved is 43,200 frames. Even if the rendering parameters of all the pictures can be achieved in one step, there is no need for any testing, and the digital field is also required. The rendering farm was running at full capacity for 115 days to complete all the work, while the post-rendering work of Jurassic Park two years ago only took about a month, and the digital realm in Venice Beach was about to be phased out. If you take into account the difference in computing speed, because of the comprehensive upgrade of scale and equipment, the rendering farm in Florida should be eight times that of the Venice Beach rendering farm. Therefore, I just said that the difficulty of making Transformers is Dwarf. There is nothing wrong with more than ten times that of Luo Ji Park.

Michael Eisner's expression is slightly embarrassed, and CG special effects have risen strongly in recent years. Of course he couldn't understand it at all.

If what Eric said is true, then Transformers really has no production value at present, with 115 consecutive days of post-rendering workload. Even if the producers are willing to pay this huge rendering fee, the digital field will not be willing to undertake it. The digital realm accepts special effects orders for dozens of films large and small every year. There is absolutely no way a movie can occupy a render farm for four months.

Moreover, in the whole of Hollywood, only the digital field has enough economic strength to build large-scale rendering farms. Other second- and third-tier special effects companies often can only rent rendering servers from large companies on a small scale.

Michael Eisner fell silent, but Aaron Hasenfield asked, Eric, can't we lower the production specifications?

Of course you can, but I don't know if you do it. Will the audience buy it, Eric shrugged and smiled again: I'm a bit of a perfectionist, which is not a good habit in making movies. So you can Don't pay attention to what I said just now, there must be a cheap production plan, and you can even shoot with a model, this will definitely be cheaper, and then I will go to the cinema to see it.

When everyone heard Eric's words, they all slandered, since Eric said that. How could they ignore it.

Eric just killed or buried it. After speaking, he felt a little hungry. Just put aside the people with different thoughts and walked towards the buffet table in the hall.

Cindy Crawford and Diane Kruger were still following Eric step by step, and the three daughters of Linda Evangelinsta, who had just been squeezed outside, also followed.

Picking up the plate with Eric and picking out food, Cindy Crawford asked, Eric, does it really take 630 hours?

Eric put the grilled shrimp on his plate and nodded: Yes, this involves very complicated technical details, but the rendering time of more than 600 hours is real.

Diane Kruger also said: Doesn't that mean that Transformers will never be produced?

Of course not. According to Moore's Law in the semiconductor industry, the computing speed of a computer doubles every one and a half to two years. Then it only takes ten years to render the same frame. It only takes more than ten years. It's only an hour, and other technologies will develop simultaneously, and it will be very simple to complete the vision I just imagined.

In 1995, the semiconductor industry had just entered the era of microprocessors a few years ago. The mainstream CPU cores were all made using the 0.35-micron process, which is still a long way from the nano-era. The bottom-level instruction of a computer CPU is actually a set of 0 and 1 instructions issued by millions of transistors. With the development of Moore's Law, the number of transistors on a chip of the same size keeps doubling, and the CPU processes information. The speed is also doubled accordingly.

Ten years later, work that would take more than ten hours to complete now requires more than 600 hours. This limitation is not so easily broken, and we can only wait patiently for the development of technology. So now is simply not the time to make Transformers.

Moreover, Eric repeatedly mentioned the digital realm in what Eric just said, and also conveyed another message to those people, that is, in Hollywood, even if you want to make Transformers, it is impossible to bypass the digital realm. Because in the whole of Hollywood, only the digital field has the ability to undertake the special effects of Transformers. Although the digital field has maintained a state of independent operation in recent years, and has not rejected any special effects orders from Firefly's competitors, this does not mean that Firefly will never do so.

As for Industrial Light and Magic, in recent years, almost all CG special effects blockbusters are produced in the digital field. The continuous special effects orders not only bring a large amount of income to the digital field, but also allow the digital field to have enough financial strength to continuously invest in technology. R\u0026D. At this time, the digital field has left Industrial Light and Magic far behind in terms of technology accumulation. Take the rendering farm in the digital field as an example. Firefly has invested a huge sum of US$100 million in the rendering farm in Florida. The powerful computing power is enough to support the rendering needs of all orders in the digital field, and even if ILM can bite its teeth Squeeze out 100 million US dollars to build a rendering farm of the same scale, but the income brought by the CG special effects orders in its hands may not even be enough to support the maintenance and upgrade costs of such a large-scale rendering farm.

Eric thought about this, and Cindy Crawford next to him heard what he just said, but said: Ten years is only six times at most, how can it become more than ten hours.

Eric was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and smiled. He looked at the other women, obviously showing a puzzled expression, and couldn't help but sighed at the mathematical level of these beautiful beauties.

On the other hand, Diane Kruger understood it first and said, It doesn't seem to be six times. If it doubles continuously, it should be the sixth power of two, which is... um, sixty-four times, Eric, what I said. Is it right?

Smart, Eric nodded, picked up a grilled shrimp and handed it over: Hey, I'll reward you.

Haha, Diane Kruger smiled happily, looking at the other girls, especially Cindy Crawford, with a little smugness in her expression. Cindy Crawford wrapped around Eric, making her feel a great threat.

Cindy Crawford noticed Diane Kruger's eyes, and sneered disdainfully in her heart, how stupid, how many men would like smart women. With this thought in mind, Cindy Crawford's expression had already brought out a little resentment. She stretched out the dinner plate in front of Eric, and said softly, Eric, I want it too.

Okay, okay, Eric picked up a grilled shrimp and put it on Cindy Crawford's plate, watching the other three women also stretch out the plate, didn't mind, and joked while holding the grilled shrimp Said: How about we take away all the grilled shrimp in this tray?

Seeing Eric's gesture of holding up the whole tray, the girls hurriedly stopped them and said with a smile, Hehe, don't, you will be laughed at.

After eating something and dancing with a few women for a while, he noticed that Hasbro's CEO Alan Hasenfield left the party not long after talking to him, and Eric also wanted to leave.

However, looking at Diane Kruger and Cindy Crawford, who seemed to be planning to leave with him, and even looking forward to the other three women, Eric could only say, Cindy, I am going home.

Eric, I haven't been to Sharphorn Manor, can you take me to see it? Cindy Crawford said boldly, completely ignoring Diane Kruger on the other side.

(To be continued.)

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