People in later generations know that James Cameron is a technical maniac. Whether it is his Terminator series, the Big Ship Titanic or the Avatar of the aliens, they are all filled with a large number of special effects shots, such as Avatar, which is basically all special effects.

Cameron's relationship with film special effects starts with his first job in the film industry. In 1980, he joined Roger Kau's film company, and his job was to serve as the artistic director and produce special effects models in "The Battle of the Century".

With this, Cameron has become an absolute technical control and special effects control.

Movie Terminator is another science fiction action movie. Cameron can finally realize the wonderful ideas in his mind in this movie that is completely controlled by himself and have fun with special effects.

Before the script was found, Cameron had already drawn a large stack of concept sketches and had already made the final effort to produce the special effects needed.

So Qiao Feng, who promised to be controlled by himself and was only responsible for investing money, threw the funds into the account, and Cameron began to find someone to get special effects.

When I couldn't find investors before, Cameron thought that the special effects could be obtained by relying on himself and some people he knew before, but Qiao Feng had no restrictions and transferred all six million funds to the account in one step. His appearance as a rich man made Cameron feel that relying on such a rich man was a bit shabby and could not achieve the best effect in his heart.

So Cameron found the only company specializing in special effects at that time.

Special effects are the most expensive place for film production in the future, and it is also the most popular promotional focus when promoting blockbusters. They say that they are not 50 cents special effects, hoping to attract audiences to enter.

In the special effects industry, Industrial Light and Magic is the best special effects company in the next few decades. This company was specially established by George Lucas to shoot Star Wars.

Since Star Wars was launched in 1977 with a soaring trend that people would never dare to imagine, Industrial Light and Magic, a company that specializes in special effects, has appeared in the sight of filmmakers.

After several years of development, industrial light and magic technology has become increasingly mature. However, there are no independent special effects departments in large-scale production companies in the film industry, let alone small companies. In order to save expenses, the bosses of production companies have long cancelled the special effects departments, and no one is focusing on studying special effects.

In this case, Industrial Light and Magic has become a hot commodity. Any movie crew who needs special effects to be used in movies and feels that they are not satisfactory in their special effects, and do not want to make do with it, will ask Industrial Light and Magic to help.

Cameron is no exception. In order to achieve better results, he also came to Industrial Light and Magic.

This special effect is expensive, let alone hire a professional company to do it. Originally, it might only cost one million US dollars to make the special effect yourself, but when you hire Industrial Light and Magic, the cost is more than twice as expensive.

"I said Anne, you are the producer and you should control the cost and not let James spend money so casually." After talking to Cameron ineffective, Qiao Feng couldn't help complaining to Anne Hurd, who was standing by and watching.

"James is like this. No one can listen to anyone's words when working. And Mr. Joe is you who promised him that he could shoot movies according to his own ideas, and I have no right to care about it," Anne Hurd said shrugging.

Upon hearing this, Qiao Feng's face stagnated, and he was angry but couldn't say it anymore. Indeed, he did say this, but Anne Hurd is the producer, and even if he controls costs, he has the right to not let Cameron spend money indiscriminately. Anne Hurd said this, Qiao Feng, who was held in the chore, had no choice.

Qiao Feng could see that Anne Hurd was still worried about her forcing her to give up copyright. Although she would not make trouble, she was just a producer but did not do anything. Anyway, she couldn't hurt the money she spent was Qiao Feng's money.

Revenge, revenge that hides needles in the cotton without revealing the mountains and water.

However, this also taught Qiao Feng a lesson, knowing that investing in movies is not the same as earning a share of money by selling scripts in Hong Kong.

When investing in movies, since you have invested money, you have to send someone who believes in it to control the money, otherwise the money may be spent randomly.

Although Cameron is not considered a random flower, his involvement in the special effects system will undoubtedly increase considerable costs.

If the budget is enough, it would be fine to increase the cost, but Qiao Feng's budget is only seven million US dollars at the highest. If Cameron spends it like now, seven million is not enough.

If the capital chain exceeds seven million, the movie may be broken and the film can only be stopped, which will increase the cost.

Because every actor has time to sign a contract, for example, if Schwarzeneik buys his 500,000 yuan salary for a year, then the contract will be renewed after more than this year, and the extra salary will be paid.

Therefore, it is a very serious matter for the filming of this movie to exceed the budget and additional investment is required. Once it is not done well, it may trigger a chain reaction.

Fortunately, although Qiao Feng doesn’t have much money now, Daomadan sells well at the box office and the fast food truck will be released in more than a month. Then, he will have money to get it, which can fill the funding gap that must be exceeded.

Qiao Feng decided in his heart that as long as the movies he invested in in the future, he would definitely send reliable people to manage the money, and he would never let the director spend whatever he wanted.

But now is not the time to think about this, and the money you have to spend on asking Industrial Light and Magic is definitely not saved, so you can only find some money from other places.

After seeing Industrial Light and Magic and Cameron make special effects models with their own eyes, Qiao Feng had to admire the Americans' special effects technology.

The model alone can make people look fake when they are far away. If you stare at it in a movie, you may not necessarily see fake ones.

The T800 panoramic lens in a completely metal skeleton state, Industrial Light and Magic and Cameron made miniature models of equal proportions, and then shot them in stop-motion animation.

This is how the end of the world war between robots and humans was filmed like this.

Cameron was not very satisfied with the model made by Industrial Light and Magic. Later, the person in charge of Industrial Light and Magic suggested that he could find a special effect makeup expert to help with it. This proposal coincided with Cameron's idea.

So they found the first special effects expert, Dick Smith, but the expert thought he couldn't get it, so he recommended to them a person he thought was the most suitable one, that is, Stan Winston, a makeup expert known as the "robot expert" in the industry.

Qiao Feng naturally didn't know that this was a great man, he had been Terminator One or Two, Alien 2, and Jurassic Park One or Two's live dinosaur, he didn't know that he won four Oscars.

But after seeing the Terminator special effects makeup he painted for Schwarzenegger, he and Cameron, and designed together to create a real-life molding technique that uses a real-life molding method to apply alginate and gypsum to the human body to copy its shape to obtain Schwarzenegger's realistic avatar. Then, directly carve the outline of the machine skull on the avatar. The scene and the exquisite and realistic skull were made. Qiao Feng decided to set up a company that made special effects.
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