After all of them were reborn, who would still be an actor?

Chapter 309: Suffocated by dreams!
"Let alone anything else, the special effects you guys did are awesome! How did you do it?" Li Mingyang asked.

Everyone smiled but said nothing, keeping the secret.

"Director Li, the first part has been completed, and we're just waiting for you to start editing." Wu Zhikui stepped forward and pulled Li Mingyang to the editing room.

Li Mingyang came to the editing room and sat on the chair.

Wu Zhikui opened the file and played it.

Li Mingyang was quite curious about the One Punch Man created by Wu Zhikui.

Every time Wu Zhikui sent a video, the clarity was a bit low, and they were mostly special effects, explosions, and fighting scenes. He had always only seen a small part of the picture.

Li Mingyang read it carefully.

Halfway through, he suddenly stopped and asked, "How much did you spend?"

Wu Zhikui waved his hand behind him, and a fat boy with uneven eyes ran over and handed him an account book.

Wu Zhikui handed the account book to Li Mingyang.

Li Mingyang didn't look at it, "Just tell me directly."

"3650."

Li Mingyang nodded, slid his chair to the operating table, and continued watching. This time he no longer looked at it in detail, but played it quickly.

The movie lasts one hour and thirty-five minutes, with special effects shots taking up nearly one hour.

It's outrageous! How did they achieve so many special effects with less than 40 million? Although it can't be compared with Hollywood, the speed is too outrageous...

Finished watching the One Punch Man online movie.

Li Mingyang could no longer suppress his curiosity, "How did you do it? It's impossible to produce so many special effects so quickly by outsourcing..."

Wu Zhikui still kept the secret and motioned Li Mingyang to follow him.

When Li Mingyang came out of the editing room, he found that there were few people on the sixth floor.

I followed Wu Zhikui into the elevator and arrived at the eighth floor.

Ding!
The elevator door opens.

What comes into view is a huge city sand table, which is the city smashed by the giant.

A group of staff members holding small models, holding up the models and green figures in their hands.

"You actually used the shooting techniques of special effects films to shoot it."

No wonder it looks weird...

“Yes! Although the effect is not as good as CG special effects, it is fast!” said Wu Zhikui.

"You're too modest. Your special effects are one level ahead of the rest of the country." Li Mingyang came to the city sand table and asked curiously, "Who made these props? They're very well made."

“We did it ourselves.”

"Uh... why did you think of making it yourself? This thing is quite troublesome."

"In the beginning, we actually planned to ask a manufacturer to make it custom-made, but their work was so bad and fake. Just in time, Aaron and his friends are Warhammer fans who know how to paint, so they suggested that we do it ourselves. We learnt pretty quickly," Wu Zhikui said, pointing at Aaron.

Li Mingyang was stunned. What you said is too simple.

I can also paint, and I'm also a Warhammer fan! But I can't make models like yours!

Li Mingyang became more and more curious and wanted to see how they made the real-life model.

The real-life model was made in an operation room the size of a basketball court on the eighth floor. The white mold was custom-made, and the painting was done by Aaron, Wu Zhikui and his team.

Another group of people are responsible for the splicing, scenery and decoration.

Two of my friends can also do micro-carving...

A high proportion of manual work...

It looks quite rough, but the finished product, from a distance, really looks like the real thing.

"Although the model is well made, it seems... that it can't produce the effect of One Punch Man. How did you put the person in there?"

Wu Zhikui knew that Li Mingyang would ask this question, so he smiled and said, "It was photoshopped in."

Li Mingyang picked up the green man on the table. He finally knew what this thing was used for.

"This is a huge project. The movie has about an hour of special effects, 3600 minutes, 24 seconds, frames per second, and more than images."

"Actually not that many, more than 15. I did it at frames per second. Also, for the action scenes, I added a lot of black images to increase the number of frames and create a delay."

clap clap clap!
"Old Wu has finally gotten the point! He did a great job this time!"

Li Mingyang applauded and was convinced. Wu Zhikui used the animation techniques to create One Punch Man!
It works!
It turns out it works!

If it is released in theaters, it won’t work because the frame rate is too low. The movie must have at least 24 frames to have the so-called cinematic feel.

If it is broadcast on an online platform, most people nowadays do not have high requirements for clarity, and it doesn't matter if it's a little blurry, and they can still enjoy watching it.

For example, Hong Kong’s old erotic films and everyday action films.

As for Blu-ray level movies, few people go out of their way to download them because they are too difficult to download and they take up hard drive space.

Netizens’ demands are very simple: first, it must be free, and second, it must be interesting.

Li Mingyang became even more curious about Wu Zhikui's production techniques.

I walked around the eighth floor with Wu Zhikui and other responsible persons to inspect the production process of One Punch Man.

Finally, I went back to the special effects department on the sixth floor to see Wu Zhikui communicating with the special effects company and the progress of the material retouching.

The special effects company is a small company in the north, and was on the verge of bankruptcy. However, it was chosen by Wu Zhikui because of its extremely low quotation of only 300 yuan per picture. The effect it produced was good, so they started a long-term cooperation.

There used to be more than 20 small companies like this, with varying results. Now there are only eight left, with relatively satisfactory results. After more than a month of cooperation, they have basically unified their style.

These photoshopped images cannot be used directly and will be refined by the company's special effects department.

In order to reduce the modification time, several technical backbones of the special effects department spent nearly a month developing a plug-in for the fine processing of photoshopped images, which greatly increased the efficiency.

This is how the One Punch Man that Li Mingyang saw could be created in such a short time.

Seeing everyone's faces filled with smiles that he hadn't seen for a long time, Li Mingyang suddenly realized that Wu Zhikui was right. Zhang Zhao's approach was not suitable for Mingyang Entertainment.

Mingyang Entertainment is the world of young people. Putting shackles on them will only limit everyone's imagination and kill everyone's dreams.

Young people don’t pursue their dreams…

Do I have to get married, have children and become a mortgage slave?
Let us suffocate for our dreams together!
How many celebrities, investors, and shareholders have been "cheated" out of their money by this sentence from Lao Jia?

Even when people ran away, Zhang Zhao still believed in him. Countless people believed that he was really an ingenious car maker and a true hero!
dream……

Only those who have dreams can turn decay into magic!

Opening up a new path...

Li Mingyang crossed his hands, flexed his fingers, then sat down at the editing table in the editing room, put on headphones, and under everyone's attention, made the final edit for everyone's dream.

Although this One Punch Man is still a long way from the One Punch Man he wants.

Although it will not cause the phenomenal popularity of "Running Man" and "Diaosi Man".

Although it is rough and not perfect.

But...it is a movie that was made by everyone in Mingyang Entertainment with one heart and one mind, and it can truly be called a work of art.

All technical deficiencies can be continuously improved in the future.

And you must have the determination to make a movie.

Suffocate for the dream!
……

The next two days.

Li Mingyang used his talent for rhythm to edit One Punch Man.

He cut 25 minutes from the original one hour and 35 minute One Punch Man web movie.

Make the story more compact and the pace faster.

I re-composed the music for One Punch Man again. I didn't do the theme song because the original theme song was not good. On the contrary, the interlude One Punch Man's Justice Execution has become a hit song on Tik Tok...

It became the most classic climax ballad and was edited in various ways.

I don’t remember the whole thing, I just remember the climax… was added in.

Finally, Li Mingyang bought the ending song of Slam Dunk, "Until the End of the World", and asked Yao Beina to cover it.

Everything is ready.

Li Mingyang called Lao Gu and prepared to broadcast the first part of One Punch Man on Youku.

"Director Li, this... forget it."

"Forget it?" Li Mingyang asked in surprise, "Didn't you ask for ten online movies? I've already made them, and you say forget it?"

"how to say……"

"Speak up if you have something to say."

"If you took the photo, I would consider it, but yours is still the same as before, just those little guys messing around with it. Really, forget it!"

"You refuse without even looking at it?

"It's meaningless... You should just focus on the movie. Your name, how much do you plan to sell it for? Money is not a question... Hey, hey..."

Li Mingyang hung up the phone and called Gong Yu from iQiyi. Gong Yu didn't want it either. He wanted the exclusive online broadcast rights for your name, which cost five million.

Li Mingyang made several more calls, but no one was willing to take it.

Too strange……

One Punch Man, he didn’t even mention money, and he didn’t even want the stingy Zhang Chaoyang. It’s so weird.

Li Mingyang couldn't figure it out, so he called Wang Changtian.

Wang Changtian was also very puzzled. Online movies were not valuable. They could either be bought out in one go, in which case one million was considered a high price. Or they could be paid by the clicks, and if the clicks exceeded 100 million, the price would only be a little over one million.

It’s really not expensive.

"Wait a minute, I'll go ask about the situation."

Wang Changtian kept asking for most of the day, but didn't get a reply until the evening.

"A few days ago, major domestic video platforms signed a movie online broadcasting rights contract with Huayi and Yinghuang. The online broadcasting rights of If You Are the One 2 and Let the Bullets Fly, as well as the online broadcasting rights of movies released by the two companies next year, were all sold in a package. The price is that major video platforms will no longer broadcast the One Punch Man that you have been working on for more than a year..."

"Is the news reliable?"

"Zhang Zhao said so."

"Damn it! They are working together to get me! Aren't they afraid of problems with ticket subsidies?"

"Haha, Wang Xing is running to China Film Group every day now, his legs are almost broken from running."

The power of life and death over ticket subsidies is still in the hands of Zuoshandiao.

After all, it was he who managed to bring forward the ticket subsidy by 6 years, under tremendous pressure.

"Don't ever tell me that you can't do anything and that you're counting on me."

"That's not the case... But Huayi and Yinghuang already want to kick you out. After all, if Penguin really comes, it will be a life-and-death battle."

"Brother Xiao Ma really wants to get off the field?"

"It's urgent. The 3Q war has hit the wall. Penguin wanted to tear it down, but the higher-ups wouldn't let him. He had to find another way. Penguin has money but can't spend it. It's actually very painful."

After chatting with Wang Changtian for more than half an hour, Li Mingyang found that everyone was forcing him to leave.

Many people want to beat him up...

There are also many people who want to pull him...

He is the biggest variable in the Lunar New Year box office battle.

(End of this chapter)