I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 343
[Chapter 339 Unrealistic Plans]
? While the studio has changed dramatically over the past year, nothing has changed in the way Pixar employees work, still as casual as Eric saw a year ago.
Aside from the fact that a young female employee recognized Eric when he passed by the office area and shouted out a bunch of sisters who jumped out and asked for a few autographs, Eric’s arrival did not cause any big reaction.
In a screening room, Eric, together with John Lasseter and several other directors of Pixar, watched the finished “Toy Story” film that had been produced. Although there was no sound, the completed clips were still very interesting. , at least Joanna, who was sitting beside Eric, watched with relish from beginning to end.
Compared with the original version in memory, this version of “Toy Story” has indeed greatly improved the details, the picture is more delicate and real, and the movements of the toy are more flexible.
Eric, I think you came here today, not just to see our production succeed?
Eric smiled slightly and pointed to the chief technology officer of Pixar sitting next to John Lasseter: “Of course, in fact, I’m here to find Mr. Ed Carmore
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Ed Carmore’s original interest was not too high. If it weren’t for Eric’s big boss, Ed Carmore would have already got into his office to study technology. Compared with socializing, he still prefers work. Seeing Eric suddenly pointing to himself
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Ed Camere recovered from a technical problem: “Looking for me?
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“Yes, let’s go to the conference room and talk.”
Eric stood up and said.
The group moved into the conference room. Eric sat down at the top. Allen took out a stack of documents from the official bag and distributed them to Ed Carmore and John Lasseter.
“Originally, Mr. Stan Winston should have come too, but he was entangled in some things and couldn’t get away, so I, a layman, came to talk.
Although I have seen some materials before, if there is anything unrealistic, you can always bring it up.
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Hearing what Eric said solemnly, Ed Carmore and John Lasseter nodded solemnly.
Eric quickly said: “This is a plan I made with the help of Stan during the filming of “The Ghost Story”. As for the software engineering plan for film and television special effects technology, you can first Take a look, we’ll talk later.”
Ed Carmore and John Lasseter opened the document that Allen just distributed to them in front of them, and after reading the document, John Lasseter was fine Some, Ed Carmore showed a shocked expression. He was a Ph.D. in computer technology.
Therefore, if you imagine the huge scale of the plan proposed by Eric, you will have a deeper understanding.
In the document, Eric proposes a plan that Ed Carmore thinks is somewhat unrealistic.
He hopes to create a top-notch technical team to software engineer the computer effects technology used in future films.
usually.
In a film that uses computer special effects, the film director encounters a problem, for example, he wants a living person in the shot to melt like a heated candle, then the engineers of the computer special effects department will specifically solve it This problem, and develop the corresponding program code.
In general, after solving this problem, the code becomes useless data.
In Eric’s vision, he really hopes to further process these useless data into a set of fixed software. If you encounter the same kind of special effects problems again, you can use them directly.
Although many movies have begun to use computers to produce special effects, in general, computer special effects are still in the era of model special effects.
Therefore, the plan proposed by Eric seems to be very unrealistic and extremely wasteful. After all, it is quite time-consuming and labor-intensive to develop the corresponding code program in order to solve the special effect problem. If these are reprocessed into software, it will waste more time and money, and whether the processed software can still be used in the future is also a very big problem.
The two read Eric’s plan in detail, and then raised their heads.
Eric shrugged: “Okay, if you have any questions, just ask them directly, John, you say it first.”
“Eric, I don’t think it’s necessary at all, it’s a waste.” John. Lasseter made his point quite bluntly.
“What about you, Ed?”
“I think like John, it’s a very wasteful thing to do,” Ed Carmore said. Facial expressions are more realistic, and it took our team a month to write the corresponding program code to solve this problem. But if we want to make this set of codes into software, it will definitely consume more time than writing the code. , UU Reading www.sonicmtl.com Moreover, after the software is made, it is necessary to upgrade and maintain the software with the upgrading of computer hardware, which is another consumption. It is difficult to say whether this software can be used again in the future. Qing, even if there is a sequel to “Toy Story”, it can be used three or four times at most, or four or five times.”
Eric nodded: “I understand what you mean, but I have already given this point in the plan. For solutions, we will set up a very professional evaluation team to evaluate the usability of special effects programs, classify the code programs developed by technicians to solve special effects problems, and then select the programs that are most likely to be used in the future for software engineering.”
John Lasseter still asked: “Eric, I want to know, why do you do this? There are very few movies that use computer special effects, and compared to computer special effects, model special effects are much cheaper, and many times To be much more realistic, I can’t think of any studio that would give up cheap and realistic CGI for expensive, but not very good CGI.”
Eric said: “Because I have a kind of I have a hunch that computer special effects will become the mainstream of film and television special effects in the future. Now I can’t prove my claim, but it won’t be long, as long as James Cameron’s “Terminator 2” and my “Jurassic Park” project are completed. , you can definitely experience this.” (To be continued…)
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