I’m in Hollywood

?? No matter how grand a party is, there will always be a time when the party ends. At midnight, the guests leave one after another. The party company's work is very efficient. It only takes one hour to restore the messy party scene to its original state.

As the manor servants and the employees of the party company evacuated the villa one after another, the brightly lit Liberty City gradually dimmed. The paparazzi drifting on the sea in the distance photographed the terrace of the mansion for a whole night. , contentedly drove the speedboat away silently.

After changing the party dress, Drew got into the bathroom to take a shower, dressed himself up nicely, only put on a sky blue t-shirt of Eric, and walked into the bedroom with bare white legs.

Eric, where's my birthday present? Nizi jumped on the big bed and asked coquettishly beside Eric like a cat.

Eric pushed aside the girl's paw and stretched out the magazine in his hand, and said, Isn't there a pile of rooms in the storage room downstairs, you won't be able to dismantle it in one day tomorrow.

I'm not rude. I'm asking about the birthday present you prepared for me?

Well, I went to Rodeo Drive for a walk, and the things there are too expensive, I'm not willing to buy it... Seeing Nizi's 'cooperating' crying baby face, Eric continued: So, I made one myself.

After Eric finished, he took out a beautifully packaged box from under the pillow behind him and handed it to Drew.

Nizi couldn't wait to open the box and took out the contents. The solid wood frame slightly smaller than the book contained a pair of sketches. The baby-faced girl in a cropped t-shirt and hot pants was standing in the wide open. on the street. With a smile on his lips, he looked at the people passing by. besides. With a pair of wings on the girl's back, it was painted a light gray.

The lines in the picture are very slender. Although the whole painting is only the size of an ordinary photo, even the girl's fingers or the feathers of the wings in the picture are very lifelike. Obviously, a lot of thought has been spent.

Drew looked at the picture frame in his hand, grinning, obviously very satisfied, but still pointed to the girl's wings in the picture and said, Eric. Why is it painted gray?

Because gray symbolizes loss, Eric touched the soft blonde hair of the girl in his arms, recalling many memories of Drew before his rebirth, as well as DiDi after the two met in this life, with a smile on his lips, he said slowly: Lost angels with gray wings, they are not burdened with missions and constraints like holy angels, nor are they different from the evil and sinking of fallen angels. They only live for their own happiness, they are not inspired, and they do not love the world. Willful And indifferent, God is jealous of their unrestrainedness. So they were too selfish and exiled them to the world. I just picked up one and was entangled in it, so I drew her to remind myself not to make the same mistake again. .

Drew leaned against Eric's arms and listened quietly, a few flashes of light flashed in his eyes. After Eric finished, she put aside the picture frame in her hand and threw herself on Eric softly, wrapping her arms around Eric's neck and bringing her rosy lips together emotionally. Eric didn't push Nizi away like before, and hugged Drew's soft waist and kissed it.

The next day happened to be Saturday, and Nizi's initiative made the two of them toss until four or five in the morning before falling asleep. It was ten in the morning when Eric got up, and Drew stayed in bed until the afternoon before getting up.

For the rest of February, Eric spent the intense preparations for Tornado. After many rounds of audition, all the main roles of the film were determined. By the beginning of March, the pre-screen script of the film was decomposed, the production schedule was arranged, Budgeting and hiring of cast and crew are all done.

The Digital Domain is located in a studio at the headquarters in Venice Beach, where Eric and a group of technicians wait patiently around a computer.

As a special effects artist sitting in front of the computer skillfully operated the machine in front of him, a play window appeared on the computer screen after a while, and the special effects artist operated the mouse and pressed the play button.

In the silent picture, there is a wooden house standing alone in the field, but the surrounding of the house is all displayed as a gray background.

However, everyone present knew that this house was completely made of CG, and after complicated material rendering, it looked difficult to distinguish between true and false, so no one was surprised. But everyone was also excited about the success of their design. Even a few months ago, they were not sure whether the pure CG special effects could reach the level of indistinguishability, but now no one has any doubts about it.

One second after the still shot of the house appeared, a gray tornado suddenly appeared on the left side of the screen and rolled towards the house. As the tentacles of the tornado contacted the house, the wooden house began to shake and gradually shatter. People seemed to hear the whistling of the tornado in their ears and the crackling of the house as it was torn apart by the wind. Seconds later, the house was devastated by the tornado, with only its foundations left.

In a short 8 seconds, the shot was played, and everyone in the studio spontaneously applauded.

Cameron was originally working on the post-production of Terminator in the digital field. Hearing that there are good things to watch, and Eric's visit to the studio, Cameron came up curiously, but he didn't expect to see the order in front of him. It is an amazing scene. As a director who is keen on technology, Cameron can understand the technical content contained in this short 8-second shot better than anyone else.

After the picture ended, Cameron patted Eric on the shoulder and said, It's unbelievable, I didn't expect that these were all made with computer special effects. If I didn't know it in advance, I would definitely think that the house was real. , and the image of the house being destroyed by the tornado is even more shocking.

Stan Winston on the other side sighed: It's just too expensive, these 8-second shots cost a million dollars, enough to make a good independent film, and it's a pity that this shot can't. used in movies.

Eric was relieved when he watched the special effects artist play the scene just now.

When making this material, Eric instructed the special effects artist to make this shot according to the highest-level specifications. Although the picture is not complete, there are no other scenes around the house, but this short 8-second shot is just post-rendering. On the one hand, when the render farm, which had just invested $10 million in the digital domain, was working at full load for 16 times, the huge processor cluster of the render farm burned more than $100,000 in power consumption alone.

However, at this time, Eric didn't feel any pity for investing $1 million in the 8-second shot. He was as excited as the special effects artists beside him. The results of this shot at least proved that all the money and energy he put in over the year was worth it.

Okay, Stan, these inputs are necessary. If you can't accurately test the feasibility of the tornado CG footage, there is no need to make the movie. Let's go, let's go to your office and talk. (To be continued..)