The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

Outsourcing of CG short films?

Listening to what Fan Zhe said on the phone, Lu Yuxiang's face became a little weird. He asked, Why did you switch careers to do this?

Recently, I partnered with a few friends to build a special effects studio... Leaving this aside, do you have any suitable outsourcing work?

No. Lu Yuxiang denied it at first, but then added: But I know there is a big studio that just needs this, and the budget is about 400,000. If you want to do it, I can help you with it.

OK.

But... Lu Yuxiang hesitated for a moment, and then said, Their requirements are relatively high... Boss Fan, it's not that I don't believe you, but I can't smash my own brand, can I?

Lu Yuxiang actually regretted telling Fan Zhe about this matter. He didn't think that Fan Zhe, or the new studio he set up, was capable of meeting the requirements of the project.

The CG short film demand he mentioned is an independent game project that a relatively large studio in the industry is working on. Although this studio is not a big factory, its previous works have a good reputation and sales. They made some money from previous projects, and their new works are more ambitious. They want to make a better opening CG animation, but they lack the energy to directly create such a short film, so they plan to outsource this work.

I know your concerns. Fan Zhe said on the phone, Well, I have a small test product in my hand. Although the film is short, you can see our strength. I think it should be enough. The other party's request.

Okay, you can send me an email, and I will reply to you after I read it.

After hanging up the phone, after a while, Lu Yuxiang saw Fan Zhe's email.

After downloading the short film and opening it, the 13-second short film ended quickly, leaving only Lu Yuxiang with a shocked face.

After a while, he regained his composure, and couldn't wait to click on the replay, and watched it for the second time; if he still didn't think it was enough, he played it the third time, the fourth time...

Lu Yuxiang was already shocked by what was shown in the 13-second short video.

The more he watched, the more excited he became, he immediately picked up the phone and dialed Fan Zhe back.

Seeing so quickly? I thought you had to evaluate it carefully.

Evaluate what! Lu Yuxiang said, With samples of this level, what else is there to evaluate? Your technical level is quite good.

Okay.

Can something from black technology work?

Their needs are about a short film of one and a half to two minutes long. It is roughly a battle scene. There are three protagonists who require very fine details. The original paintings of the characters are available, but you have to design and draw the concept map of the short film yourself. The scene requires you to do it. It needs to be more popular, and the overall working hours are a bit rushed, and it needs to be completed within three months... the general requirements are just like this, with a budget of 450,000, but I think there should be room for negotiation. Would you like to quote a price?

Three detailed characters, a short film of about two minutes... um... five or five hundred thousand?

Five hundred thousand?

Will it be too much?

It's not... It takes about two minutes to make this quality, and it only costs half a million dollars? Is it US dollars?

RMB...

...

There was silence on the phone for a while, Lu Yuxiang adjusted his mentality, and said seriously: Are you sure?

“A higher price is of course better.”

The price is not a big issue, I will talk to them. Lu Yuxiang said, But can you really guarantee that you can produce a short film of this quality for two minutes within three months?

Three months is too late. Fan Zhe said, I don't have enough manpower here, and the quality will definitely drop.

I think even if it drops two grades, it's enough to make a difference, and they still make money. All right, let's do this. I'll take this short video of yours to chat with others. If you have this level of seriousness, let this work It's not a big problem to take it down. This time the list is relatively large, and we are old friends, so I'll give you a discount and draw five points, do you have any objection?

without.

Wait for my news.

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yuxiang's mood calmed down a lot. Playing with his mobile phone, his mind flew away from the matter itself.

He, Lao Lu, has been an illustration intermediary for many years, and he has a good reputation in this circle. There are always many masters looking for him. He also holds a lot of very good painter resources in his hand. As a broker, he can live a very prosperous life.

However, people always have something else to look forward to, and he is the same, looking forward to a bigger and better future.

All along, he has been trying to find a new path, but the new path is difficult to find and walk. Anyway, since he had this idea, he has not found any good opportunities until now.

However, right now, it seems to be a good opportunity.

...

On the other side, after finishing the call, Fan Zhe rubbed his face.

He found that doing visual effects is more profitable than he imagined.

The premise is that he did it himself. Otherwise, throw it to a normal special effects company, 500,000 yuan? I'm afraid it's just enough for the electricity bill.

Of course, this is a joke, a bit exaggerated. However, such things as full CG special effects short films are indeed a big money burner. For some blockbuster movies released, the expenses for special effects are calculated by the second, and hundreds of artists and technicians need to work together for a long time to produce the final result.

The annual salary of these people alone is astronomical, not to mention a large amount of high-tech equipment and a large amount of time cost.

But in the hands of Fan Zhe, he can do it by himself, relying on the 'dimension system'.

Of course, if he really does it alone, the time consumption will be very, very long.

It took him two months to make the 13-second short film sent to Lu Yuxiang before. It takes a lot of time to draw the original concept painting, not to mention the subsequent importing of pictures and modeling projects. Although Dimension solves most of the problems, there are still many places that require his manual operation.

If the two-minute opening animation is based on the quality of the short film made by Fan Zhe before, Fan Zhe may have to do it for a year alone, and people will definitely not be able to wait for him for so long.

But this list, Fan Zhe will definitely follow up. The temptation to solve most of his debt problems in one go is quite huge.

As for the existing problems, there are two solutions before him:

One is to find another person to work with; the other is to reduce the quality of the finished product.

They originally had a budget of 450,000 yuan, so they definitely didn't expect to make super-first-class CG animation directly. Therefore, in terms of quality, Fan Zhe has a lot of room for maneuver. Just like Lu Yuxiang said, even if the quality of the sample short film cannot be achieved, it is no problem to lower it by two grades.

As for the manpower...he thought of one person.