Rebirth Enchanted Xiangjiang

"This, this is the computer animation department." George Lucas said casually with an imperceptible irritability.

"Computer Animation Department?" Qiao Feng asked with a look of surprise: "Can animations be produced by computers? Shouldn't they be hand-painted? Those Disney cartoons I watch are all hand-painted."

Qiao Feng vividly interprets the image of a soil bun who knows nothing.

"Computers can do it, but this is not the mainstream yet. Hand-drawn animation is still the most important way of animation production." George Lucas said embarrassingly.

"Then, Mr. Lucas, you are at the forefront of the industry again. It seems that another department that can make a lot of money was born in your hands. Look, I just said that Mr. Lucas can just get a department. Come out is the best, most advanced and most profitable." Qiao Feng opened his eyes when he saw the soil buns of Da Shimian, and exclaimed with envy.

"Haha, haha. Yeah, why is Mr. Joe interested in this?" Lucas asked with an awkward smile, his expression moved.

"What can you do if you are interested, Mr. Lucas, you have made this out, and I can't keep up with you no matter how much I try." Qiao Feng said with a look of disappointment.

"Hehe, that's not what I said. Mr. Joe is interested. We can talk about it. Are we partners?" George Lucas said with his eyes lit up.

"What are you talking about? Can you still sell it to me, Mr. Lucas?" Qiao Feng continued to lose.

"It's not impossible for Mr. Joe to buy, so I have to talk about it." Lucas said with a smile.

"Really?" Qiao Feng asked.

"Really." Lucas nodded.

"Well, since Mr. Lucas said so, let's talk about it." Qiao Feng put on a smile again.

"Mr. Qiao, please." Lucas stretched out his hand to let Qiao Feng and his party go out first. After they all went out, Lucas showed a bright smile on his face. Looking at the back of Qiao Feng and his party was like seeing the waiting Taken on.

Just like Qiao Feng said, at this time the animation production was hand-painted, and it was not mainstream, but the real big animations were all hand-painted, and there was no computer animation production at all.

In 1975, George Lucas couldn't find a professional special effects production company because he wanted to shoot Star Wars, so he founded the special effects production company Industrial Light and Magic to produce special effects for Star Wars.

After that, the success of Star Wars also allowed George Lucas to see the vast prospects of special effects production. He not only expanded his special effects company, Industrial Light and Magic, but also focused on the field of animation production.

Because among the seven major Hollywood film companies, other film companies are mainly producing live-action movies, but Disney is mainly producing animated movies.

In addition, Disney can firmly occupy one of the seven major film companies in many Hollywood studios with its main production of animated films, and you can imagine how big the market for animated films is.

George Lucas thinks this is a big cake that no one is competing for except Disney. Coupled with the success of Industrial Light and Magic, he feels that computer-generated animation will also be the future development direction, and it has great prospects.

So, in 1979, Lucas established a computer animation department under Industrial Light and Magic. Of course, the establishment of this department is certainly not only for animation. George Lucas hired Ed, the director of the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Laboratory. Vinkatem served as the head of this department, letting him and other technicians design electronic editing and special effects systems.

As for Edwin Catham, his personal dream is to become an animator and he has been developing on this road. However, he used to do two-dimensional animation. Later, Catham and his team finally left two-dimensional animation and began to work on Three-dimensional computer graphics entered the film industry.

For various reasons, the situation in the computer graphics laboratory has become more difficult. Even if the technology is improving, they still feel that there is no actual progress.However, their efforts have attracted the attention of some Hollywood giants,

Because Lucas had previously reached an agreement with a company called triple-i, asking them to make a digital model of an X-wing fighter in Star Wars. They did. Although Lucas did not use it in the film, He saw the potential of computer graphics (cgi).

Catham felt that Lucas was a suitable employer, so in 1979, after leaving the academy, he became the deputy director and principal of Lucasfilm's computer graphics department, which is also the computer animation department.

George Lucas was thinking about the development of animation and other computer graphics, but Catem was the person in charge with the dream of an animator, so the development direction of the brain animation department he presided over was mainly on the development and production of computer animation. .

But helpless, the mainstream of animation production at this time is hand-drawn two-dimensional animation. The so-called three-dimensional animation is not accepted.

Since the establishment of the computer animation department in 1979, Lucas has embarked on the journey of smashing large amounts of research and development funds. It has been squandering for seven or eight years. As a result, it has been 86 years this year, and there are still no results. Of course, it is not completely. Unsuccessful, 3D animation technology has been developed a lot, but the most important money is not earned back.

I don’t know how much money I have invested in seven or eight years, but it’s all lost. There is no money back. George Lucas is rich, but he didn’t spend it like that.

Who knows when he is a head after spending so much time, he was full of confidence in 1979 and now there is only one exhaustion and disappointment left. George Lucas felt that this could not go on.

Someone brought a pillow when he was sleeping, and Qiao Feng appeared at the right time.

Qiao Feng is actually interested in this tasteless department. From Lucas's point of view, this is just being taken advantage of, it is his own savior.

Not only did I just signed a five-million-dollar contract to myself, I am still interested in buying this money-losing product. I am really a relative.

"Mr. Joe, audiences now are tired of Disney's unchanging hand-drawn animation. Computer animation will be the mainstream way of animation production soon, and three-dimensional animation will be the choice of future audiences..." In the conference room that was signed before, as soon as George Lucas sat down, he talked about the prospects of computer animation and three-dimensional animation. While talking, he also made very contagious gestures.

George Lucas said that his mouth was dry, but he found that Qiao Feng's expression was indifferent, and he was completely uninfected by his depiction, which made him feel like a heart attack.

"Mr. Joe, what do you think?" Lucas asked unhappily.

"how much is it?"

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