Chicago 1990

After spending time with the governor’s wife, Song Ya returned to San Francisco again. His new home in Silicon Valley was chosen by Hayden in Atherton, a high-end residential circle near Stanford University.

Occasionally come to a place to stay. There is no other big need except for privacy. Hayden chose a lot located deep in the community, sheltered by woods, with a swimming pool, and the size and size of the house is similar to the old Hyde Park house. Second-hand villas can be completed in less than 1.5 million.

"In addition to the new wealthy people in the Silicon Valley technology industry, neighboring residents also have some old money, such as John Ali Larga, who sold the land to the American music website. Of course, his residence is manor-style, which is much more expensive than here."

Hayden’s incarnation as a real estate agent introduced one by one. Regardless of his average job abilities, this guy from a car salesman’s background really did not depreciate the real estate he was looking for. Of course, it was mainly related to the economic environment.

In the evening, he summoned the senior executives of A+ clothing in San Francisco, A+ pedals in Sunnyvale, A+ wine, A+ audio, 3DFX in San Jose, and A+ Ventures, and they were considered a door.

Rise, who manages A+ Liquor Industry, and A+ Apparel President Scott, they quarreled not long after they met. It is still an old problem. After Song Yaqiang ordered A+ Apparel to use soft sister currency profits for blood transfusion to A+ Liquor Industry’s production base in China, they The two parties have been in conflict over issues such as equity distribution and capital use.

The personal relationship between these two guys is completely finished, and they can't be saved. Song Ya asks Dilai to stare at it and leave his hands alone. "I heard that the VOODOO graphics card's selling price is too high?" He The main accountability target is the 3DFX trio.

"Yes, those damn board manufacturers!"

The trio had the same rhetoric as Dr. May, but they were more emotional, "They are playing price alliances, shameless tricks! And those memory manufacturers, NEC, Hitachi, Micron, Samsung, Hyundai, LG...books , Shilla people all deserve to die!"

"There is no way for the time being. In short, we will definitely be able to complete the listing task at the specified time."

President Ballard was calmer. He took out several games and IT magazines. "After a series of games and IT exhibitions in the first half of the year, the market has very high expectations for our products. You can't imagine the game industry and the graphics card industry. How crazy about our VOODOO1, APLUS, we have no competing products, and other peers can only eat our exhaust."

"Yes, yes, we have overfulfilled the task." The trio nodded collectively.

"I have been paying attention." Song Ya nodded his forehead, "I know that you are becoming popular now, but the first task of running the company is to make a profit. Don't forget this."

"Of course, of course, we know, we know, don't worry."

The trio continued to peck rice in front of the hip-hop star.

"Ok."

Song Ya just wanted to warn them. Dr. Mei also said that the three brothers were very desperate to work. He had been working overtime for a long time in order to catch the shipment before June.

At this time Yeremov called, "Boss, the plan has changed, you may need to join the group early."

"Why?" This would completely disrupt my plan.

"Industrial Light & Magic said that some special effects will have a very long cycle, and most of them are related to the scenes where you appear. Therefore, Catherine and I think that the sooner you participate in the shooting, the better." Yeremov replied.

"Ok."

Song Ya also knows that with the fact that true lies and a series of special effects films such as Jurassic Park conquer the world, the film industry now finally dares to spend a large amount of production costs on visual effects.

According to Mira told herself, Luc Besson claimed that 80 million of the 90 million budget of the Fifth Element Project would be used to produce special effects, and she learned that the male lead Bruce Willie had a pay cut and observed the rough set of the crew. For a long time, I thought that the French director was bragging and exaggerating the production cost in pursuit of her.

Blade Warrior, as a superhero movie with a budget of less than 30 million and a real-life action story, probably has to give 10 million dollars to the special effects company Industrial Light and Magic. This is still an excellent friendship between Catherine and George Lucas. price.

"Are you free tomorrow?" he asked the 3DFX trio after hanging up.

"what's up?"

"Shall we go to the Industrial Light and Magic headquarters to play?"

"Yeah."

The headquarters of Industrial Light and Magic is also in San Francisco, and the group of people went there easily and exported the Star Wars series. George Lucas, who had a profound influence on the Americans, was busy with projects in Hollywood. The four people took a brief tour under the leadership of the staff. Fan.

"This is the project team that we will connect with Blade Warrior..."

The special effects bosses here all use SGI professional graphics workstations, and they have a common language with the three people who have worked at SGI. "Look, what is playing is the most important special effects demo."

Blade Warrior is a guy who specializes in slashing vampires. According to the settings of the screenwriter David Goyer and Marvel, the vampire will turn into dust after being slashed by his katana. Now it demonstrates how to achieve the steps, a real-life model body Gradually shattered, the skin first turned into dust, exposing the bones inside, and then the bones disappeared until they disappeared completely.

The technology is advancing so fast. Song Ya remembers that MJ’s Remember The Time MV seemed to cost millions, and the special effects are no longer as good as the demo before.

"The rendering time of each frame is longer than we expected, so... the sooner we get the original material, the better." said the special effects boss in charge of the presentation.

Song Ya stared at the SGI graphics workstation for a daze. He recalled how he was tricked into the semiconductor industry by the trio...

"Uh, what technology did you use to achieve this?" The trio interrupted quickly.

No way, the project of his company is starring himself again, and Song Adam refused to let him, so he had to modify the schedule.

Los Angeles, San Marino, after three weeks of shooting for the black film produced by Xue Linfen, Song Yashun sent Robb back, "It’s up to you, I’m really too busy, and the nanny who left me is also taking care of him. Aunt Susie still likes him so much and often visits."

Song Ya pushed her son in front of her.

"Is he liked by Susie?" Xue Linfen frowned.

"Bi Chi!" Little Robb shouted at her with a smile.

"Now you know the reason?" Song Ya smiled bitterly.

"It seems that I have no holiday, come here!" Xue Linfen grabbed her son's little hand and strode him into the room.

"Forgive me, I'm so helpless." Song Ya heard his son's crying and was a little bit reluctant. "I'll go to Hollywood to have a crew preparation meeting and come back tonight!" he shouted inside.

"Go ahead."