No matter how grand the party is, there is always a moment when the party ends. At midnight, the guests left one after another. The party company worked very efficiently. It only took an hour to restore the messy party scene to its original state.
As the manor servants and party company employees withdrew from the villa one after another, the brightly lit Liberty City gradually dimmed. The paparazzi drifting on the sea in the distance took pictures of the terrace of the mansion for a whole night, and at this time they also brought harvest , satisfactorily drove the speedboat and left silently.
After changing out of his evening dress for the party, Drew went into the bathroom and took a shower. After dressing himself up nicely, he only put on Eric's sky blue T-shirt, and walked into the bedroom with two bare white legs.
"Eric, where's my birthday present?" Xiao Nizi jumped onto the big bed and asked coquettishly beside Eric like a cat.
Eric pushed aside the girl's little paw stretching towards the magazine in his hand, and said, "Isn't there a whole room in the storage room downstairs? You won't be able to finish it tomorrow."
"I'm not curious, I'm asking about the birthday present you prepared for me?"
"Well, I went shopping on Rodeo Drive, and the things there are too expensive, so I'm not willing to buy..." Seeing Xiao Nizi's 'cooperative' crying with a baby face, Eric continued: " So, I made a $∝ by myself, one."
After Eric finished speaking, he took out a beautifully wrapped small box from under the pillow behind him and handed it to Drew.
Xiao Nizi couldn't wait to open the box and took out the things. The solid wood picture frame, which was slightly smaller than the 32-carat book, contained a small sketch of a baby-faced girl in a t-shirt with a navel and hot pants. , standing on the wide street. With a smile on the corner of his mouth, he looked at the people passing by on both sides. besides. The girl has a pair of wings on her back, which are painted a light gray.
The lines in the picture are very slender. Although the whole picture is only the size of an ordinary photo, even the girl's fingers or the feathers of the wings in the picture look 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 pair of wings of the girl in the picture and said, "Eric, why are they painted in gray?"
"Because the gray symbolizes being lost," Eric touched the girl's soft blond hair, recalled many memories of Drew before rebirth, and the bits and pieces after the two met in this life, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said slowly: "Lost angels with gray wings, they are not like holy angels with missions and constraints, nor are they different from the evil and perdition of fallen angels. They only live for their own happiness, they are not inspired, and they don't love the world. Willful and indifferent, gods are jealous of their unrestrainedness. So they said they were too selfish and exiled them in the world. I just picked one up, and it was entangled and I couldn't get rid of it, so I drew her to remind myself not to do the same thing again mistake."
Drew leaned in Eric's arms and listened quietly, his eyes flashed a little bit of light at some point. After Eric finished speaking, she put aside the picture frame in her hand, flung herself softly on Eric, wrapped her arms around Eric's neck, and moved her ruddy lips closer. Eric didn't push Xiao Nizi away like before, but hugged Drew's soft waist and kissed her.
The next day happened to be Saturday, Xiao Nizi's initiative made the two of them toss until four or five o'clock in the morning before going to bed. It was already ten o'clock in the morning when Eric woke up, and Drew even stayed on the bed until the afternoon before crawling stand up.
For the rest of February, Eric spent the intense preparations for "Tornado". Budgeting and hiring of cast and crew has been done.
The digital realm is located in a studio at the headquarters in Venice Beach. Eric and many technicians waited patiently around a small computer.
As a special effects artist sitting in front of the computer skillfully operated the machine in front of him, a playback 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 wilderness, but the surroundings of the house are all displayed in a gray background. This house that is difficult to distinguish between real and fake looks a little weird.
However, everyone present knew that this house was completely made by CG, and it was hard to tell if it was real or fake after being rendered with complicated materials, so no one made a fuss. But everyone is 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 indistinguishable from real or fake, but now no one doubts it anymore.
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 came into contact with the house, the wooden house began to shake and gradually shattered. Although the screen was still and silent, the onlookers People seem to hear the whistling of the tornado and the crackling of houses being torn apart by the strong wind. Seconds later, the house was devastated by the tornado and reduced to nothing but its foundations.
After the short 8-second shot was played, everyone in the studio applauded spontaneously.
Cameron was originally doing the post-production work of "Terminator 2" in the digital field. He heard that there were good things to watch, and Eric came to the studio in person. The amazing scene in front of him, 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 scene ended, Cameron patted Eric on the shoulder and said: "It's unbelievable. I didn't expect that these were all made by computer special effects. If I didn't know it beforehand, I would definitely think that the house is real. Yes, and the images of houses being destroyed by tornadoes are even more shocking."
Stan Winston on the other side sighed: "It's just too expensive. The footage in 8 seconds cost 3 million US dollars, which is enough to make a good independent movie, and it's a pity that this footage cannot used in the film."
Eric watched the special effects artist play the shot just now again, and he was relieved.
When making this material, Eric told the special effects artist to make this shot according to the highest-level specifications. Although the picture is not complete and there are no other scenes around the house, this short 8-second shot is just a post-rendering On the one hand, the rendering farm that has just invested 10 million US dollars in the digital field was allowed to work at full capacity for 16 hours, and the huge processor cluster of the rendering farm burned more than 100,000 US dollars only in power consumption.
However, at this time, Eric didn't feel the slightest pity that he invested 3 million US dollars in the 8-second shot. He was as excited as the special effects artists around him. The results of this footage at least prove that all the money and energy he has invested in this year are worthwhile.
"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 a movie. Come on, let's go to your office to chat." (To be continued...)