Chapter 1204 I didn’t expect that Lin Fan would be so well-known in the international film industry two years ago!
As soon as Xia Yan’s first movie footage was released, it immediately attracted attention from all sides.
In particular, other filmmakers, investors and production companies carefully studied this behind-the-scenes video from beginning to end, trying to find some clues about Lin Fan's new movie.
But such a brief clip can reveal too little information. All we know is that Lin Fan is really serious this time.
As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement, experts watch the doorway. The fans' attention was all on Xia Yan, and even if they saw the equipment on the scene, they didn't understand their specific functions.
However, insiders who see the equipment captured in the video are fully aware of its functions and effects.
"This is a model launched two years ago. At the time, it was the most advanced motion and expression capture technology. Even today, two years later, this equipment still occupies a leading position. The crew that just held the opening ceremony a few days ago used equipment that is not as good as this one!"
"More than that! If it were two years ago, this equipment could not be purchased even if you had money. You could only rent it, and you had to compete with the overseas blockbuster crews to queue up. You could only rent it when it was your turn. If it was not your turn, you could not rent it no matter how rich you were.
It was only after two years that this equipment was sold. But the price of one set of equipment is enough for us to shoot a commercial blockbuster! I didn’t expect that Lin Fan would be so well-known in the international film industry two years ago.
"Don't you think about it? Two years ago, Lin Fan shocked the entire Blue Planet with his film Titanic. He won numerous awards and the box office was ridiculously high. It was at the height of his fame. If he wanted to rent a set of equipment, of course there would be people willing to give him a big hand."
That being said, I still feel sad.
After all, from this incident, these insiders have come to realize a fact: even if they were as far-sighted as Lin Fan and realized two years ago that they needed to shoot such a large-scale special effects blockbuster, they could not get the most advanced shooting and production equipment at the time.
They can only settle for second best and choose inferior equipment, and the final effect of the film is destined to not be the best.
If a special effects movie does not spend a lot of effort, money, and time to meticulously craft every detail to perfection, it will be replaced and eliminated by new movies shot with new technology and new equipment within two years after the movie is released.
This is the result of the progress of the times. The only way to compete with the rapidly developing times is to do our best and achieve the best.
But in such an era, is there really anyone who would spend so much energy and time to make a special effects movie that will not become outdated even after three, five, or even ten years?
Lin Fan told everyone: Yes!
Fans and audiences only know that Lin Fan’s special effects movie started filming two years ago and has not yet been fully completed.
But in fact, the script of this movie has been completed long ago, and the preparatory work such as world framework, design, modeling, etc. had already begun when Earthling Studio established its own animation studio.
In the later stage, there is also work to develop new holographic projection technology and so on. If we count from the time when the script was drafted and the preparations began, this film has taken at least five or even six years.
But before the movie was officially scheduled, or before the holographic projection technology was announced, Lin Fan, Xia Yan, and the entire Earthling Studio kept silent about the matter.
It's not for the sake of keeping secrets or anything, but before something is produced, the guys in the Earthling Studio are reluctant to talk about the relevant content casually. After all, this thing hasn't been done yet, it's not worth bragging about, and we shouldn't waste time bragging about it.
So until now, Earthling Studios took the initiative to reveal relevant information about the film, and the outside world was able to truly get a glimpse of this huge project.
And it is the easiest role: compared to the huge preparation work and the frustrating post-production, the work during the shooting period is really too easy.
Not to mention anything else, the guys in the animation studio have been sleeping on the floor in the company for who knows how long.
Even Yang Hongxia doesn't dare to go to the animation studio easily now, mainly because she is afraid of seeing the miserable plight of her friends. She can't bear it, so she gives them a holiday to rest.
Then this movie will really have to be postponed and released later.
Thinking of this, Yang Hongxia's heart hardened again: "Now everyone, hold on a little longer. After the movie is released, I will give you a month-long vacation! The kind with pay! If you want to go out and relax, the company will reimburse all your travel expenses. If you don't want to go out and just want to sleep at home and make up for the sleep you missed during this period, the company will also compensate you with a big red envelope.
In short, get through this period, do the work you need to do, and everything will be fine."
Although they knew that Yang Hongxia was holding a delicious carrot to entice everyone to work hard, but seeing that the carrot would actually fall into everyone's stomach in the end, the friends in the animation studio could still continue to work hard.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
After all, working in this industry is a normal thing. If you encounter an unscrupulous boss, not only will there be no carrots hanging around, but you may even be whipped to make you run faster.
At Earthman Studio, although there was a lot of work and it was tiring every day, the boss, mainly Yang Hongxia, was very strict, but the problem was that the money was also high! Not to mention the various New Year and holiday benefits, every time a movie produced by the company was released, the whole company could get a thick red envelope according to their personal contribution.
In addition, the artists in the company, including Brother Fan, occasionally give out small benefits, small surprises, various subsidies, overtime allowances, reimbursements, etc. There are so many items that no one can remember them all, and colleagues from the Finance Department have to come over to remind everyone that it’s time to prepare for reimbursement! For this reason, no matter how hard the friends in the animation studio work, they will never fail.
And finally, two months before the release date, this movie, which had tormented everyone for two years, was completed!
As soon as the news came out, several bigwigs in the company, without being notified, gathered in the company's sample screening room on their own initiative, waiting to witness with their own eyes the first official broadcast of this time-consuming, laborious, mentally demanding, and extremely expensive special effects blockbuster.
(End of this chapter)