Chapter 172: Money burning effects (1/2)

Chapter 172: Money burning effects

Translated by me, edited by drpetro.

When Ding Yin mentioned this, Ye Qing finally thought of how he could help.

Before, when Disney and several other international companies came to order metal art pieces, Ye Qing showed them just how unparalleled the Monster Heavy Industry’s skills were.

But that was all thanks to the 3D camera, and many of those things actually existed.

Space ship……

Ye Qing really wanted to facepalm. Where the heck was he going to find these things, it’s not like he could just go into space and take pictures……

“Director, I have a question.” Ye Qing hesitated before asking something that had been bothering him for a long time: “Why must you use CG effects?”

“For example, you could create a 1 : 1 or even 1 : 0.5 spaceship to film with.”

“This way, not only would the film seem realistic, it would even be able to surpass all effects, and can even save a butt load of time.”

Hearing Ye Qing’s question, Ding Yin first was silent for a bit before replying helplessly: “We want to. We really really want to, but the movie model makers in the country are actually worse than the effects.”

“For special effects, at least there’s existing effects to act as a reference. However, if it’s making real models, then that’s basically next to impractical, especially for stuff like fantasy spaceships. If we actually were to make some real models then it would definitely looking like some battleship out of WWII, and domestically made at that.”

“How much money are you going to spend on the spaceship effects?”

Now that the Monster Factory had reached Rank 4, there wasn’t any more immediate tasks that required his attention. Ye Qing felt that if the price was right, then he wouldn’t mind dabing more into this film.

“CG effects are literally a bottomless pit. No matter if it’s domestic or foreign, the effects are all calculated by the second, which was why we originally planned on spending 30 million just for the spaceship.”

“30 million?” Even after he had gotten used to seeing large sums in transactions, Ye Qing was still quite shocked.

To actually spend 30 million on a CGed intergalactic spaceship that could only exist on a USB key.

“And this is only for the spaceship.” Ding Yin helplessly laughed: “They all say special effects are a money burner. Let me tell a joke, when Director Zhen was shooting «Heaven’s Extreme», everyone asked him where the special effects money had gone to.”

“Yet the people for the special effects company said, Director Zhen probably has some indecisive disorder. First he wanted it in green, then blue, then purple, then yellow, then white, then black, then said screw it and gave up on the effects……. But then not long after he came back saying he couldn’t not have the effects, so the original red it was.”

“And then all the money was gone……”

“Ahh, so it was like that.” Ye Qing found this quite hilarious.

Ding Yin firmly believed that Ye Qing possessed some uncomparable modeling skills, which was why he promised he would raise the original price tag by 20% if Ye Qing agreed.

At the same time ~ After having gotten to know the extent of Monster Heavy Industry’s modeling capabilities, he believed that for industrial modeling things like the spaceship, of course it was best to leave everything to the professionals.

It didn’t need to be as detailed as those extremely enlarged trees, but as long as the majority of the detail, such as the physics of shock wave engine vibrations during landing and what not were present, it was all good.

For these kinds of hardcore industrial science, the more Ding Yin thought about it, the more he felt that there was no one better than Monster Heavy Industry.

Just look at those special effects companies he had worked with before, they were fine with Xianxia style effects.

But as soon as they were asked for real effects, then they immediately revealed just how subpar they are. Like when a spaceship would be landing, it would actually look like a wind blown paper airplane.

“President Ye, do you want me to send you the model data and the test effects?”

“Sure ~ send it to my mailbox, I’ll take a look.”

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At the film site, as soon as Ding Yin hung up the call, he immediately had his assistant send the test effects made by Tianyun Effects after lots of effort and time, and the model of the spaceship to Ye Qing’s mailbox.