Firefly's studio base is larger than the combined Universal Studios and Warner Studios in Burbank, and the base park is well organized. Near ten o'clock, a Chevrolet SUV and another red BMW car drove into the park one after another , parked in the parking lot of the office area of the digital domain, the doors of two cars opened, and five women got out of the two cars respectively.
Even though we are used to seeing all kinds of beauties at the studio base, the appearance of the five women still attracted the attention of many passing employees.
Julia didn't like the gazes of passers-by around her, so she got into the SUV to search, and asked, "Liz, where are my sunglasses?"
Elizabeth took off the Ray-Ban glasses hanging on her chest and put them on, saying, "How do I know!"
"I clearly remember that I put it on..." Julia raised her head in distress, and saw Elizabeth's sunglasses at a glance. She was stunned, and then rushed over: "Okay, return it to me quickly."
Elizabeth dodged it with a smile: "If you don't pay it back, you can grab it if you have the ability."
"It's so childish," Drew complained to Tina Fey and Claudia Schiffer, who got off the BMW sedan behind him. The field studio came out, but because the big Chevrolet SUV blocked the line of sight, Elizabeth and Julia, who were laughing and pestering, didn't see Eric's figure.
Drew gave a wicked smile, reached out and poked the two girls beside him, and then pointed to Julia and Elizabeth who were fighting not far away: "Hey, let you watch a good show."
Tina Fey pursed her lips and smiled, and Claudia Schiffer asked curiously, "What's the fun?"
"Just look carefully." Drew pointed in the direction of the two women again. Eric was on the other side of Elizabeth and Julia's SUV by this time.
Both Tina Fey and Claudia Schiffer stared in that direction intently. Eric turned from the front of the SUV, appeared in front of Elizabeth and Julia, and said something. Then, they saw the two girls who were entangled with each other quickly separated. Elizabeth was better and said hello to Eric, but Julia, who had been messing with Elizabeth just now, seemed to shrink in size. Son, it feels like a little mouse being pressed under the cat's paw.
"How is it? Is it fun?" Drew laughed heartlessly.
Claudia Schiffer suppressed the smile on the corner of her mouth and asked doubtfully, "Why does Julia seem to be afraid of Williams?"
Drew shrugged. She also discovered this situation by accident, and asked Eric the reason, but only got a shudder: "It shouldn't be fear, but I don't know what it is, if you want to know, you can ask Oh Eric."
Claudia gave Drew a blank look: "Why don't you ask yourself?"
Next to the suv, Eric asked a few words, grabbed Elizabeth and took off the sunglasses and handed them to Julia before waving towards him.
"It's already ten o'clock. Why are you here now?" Eric greeted and asked casually. Take a few girls and walk towards the studio in the digital field.
Drew ignored other people's gazes, hung on Eric's arm affectionately, and said: "There is a traffic jam on the road, the street is so lively today, didn't you see it?"
Eric nodded and didn't say much.
The main office areas for employees in the digital field are three standard commercial lofts, which are divided into upper and lower floors. These tall buildings like factory buildings are eight meters wide and more than 30 meters long. Each building can accommodate up to two hundred people working at the same time.
Tina Fey walked into these studios behind Eric, looked at the exquisitely decorated open office area and the digital employees who shuttled back and forth, and couldn't help but let out a soft sigh.
Eric heard Tina Fey's voice, turned his head with a smile and asked, "Are you envious of their working environment?"
Tina Fei nodded with a smile. In the newspaper office she used to work in, more than a dozen employees crowded together in a small office. The daily dream of many colleagues was to have a spacious office one day.
"If you want, you can experience it here for a while in the future," Eric said casually.
Tina Fey shook her head again, and pointed to the special effects artist in a cubicle on the left who was burying her head in front of the computer and drawing: "I don't know how to do this."
"It takes a while to learn the Maya software for developing special effects in the digital field. Besides, don't you know how to draw? You have a good foundation."
While Eric was talking, a slender hand stretched out, gently pinched his arm, and whispered in his ear: "How do you know she can draw?"
Eric pushed Elizabeth's face away from his ear: "There are so many people watching, pay attention to the impact."
Elizabeth snorted softly, and pulled Julia away from Eric by a distance of one meter to express her dissatisfaction.
Eric didn't care, and said: "Jeffrey will come later, let's go and see the later stage of "Ghost in Disguise" first."
There are not many special effects shots in "Ghost in Masquerade", but the special effects style is very cartoonish. In order to solve this problem, Digital Domain specially seconded two animators from Pixar to design the shots together.
After checking the special effects progress of "Ghost in Masquerade", several women were very interested in the technology of combining special effects images with real-life scenes, and they all went to the special effects artist to ask questions, although Eric couldn't do it himself , but he already knew the principles of these technologies well, and he didn't go over to watch the fun. He walked to the staff cafe alone, ordered a cup of coffee, picked up a movie magazine, and read it on his own.
After watching the special effects artist demonstrate how to process a scene, Elizabeth turned her head to look, and found that Eric had disappeared, so she also walked out, asked a few people, and found Eric sitting alone in the coffee shop. Asked for a cup of coffee from the waiter at the bar, Elizabeth walked towards Eric with it, and sat down opposite Eric, staring at Eric intently, with a "I know what you did" on the corner of her mouth 'smile.
Eric still flipped through the magazine in front of him without looking up, and after a while, he saw a consultation that he was very interested in. Then he said, "Go find a pen for me."
Elizabeth was suddenly a little discouraged to find out. His posture was in vain. He stood up angrily and walked to the work area, borrowed a pen and paper from a staff member, and threw it in front of Eric.
Eric picked up the pen and recorded quickly, and said at the same time: "Look at your anticipation just now, if you have anything to say, just say it."
"Hmph, I found out about you and Columbia," Elizabeth said in a tone of "please come and please me, or the queen will speak out".
It took Eric a long time to react and spit out a word: "Oh."
"..." Elizabeth resisted the urge to spill the coffee in her hand: "Aren't you nervous?"
Eric finished copying the information in the magazine. Folded it and put it in the shirt pocket, he said, "You don't think you're the only smart person in Hollywood, do you?"
"Then don't you have to worry more about others talking about it?"
"Of course don't worry, I have already got all the distribution resources of Colombia in South America, and the most important thing is Europe, even if someone wants to make trouble, Sony received the information without any evidence, and then conducted an investigation, waiting for them To find out the truth of the matter, Firefly has almost obtained a part of Colombia’s distribution resources in Europe. The distribution channels of the remaining Southeast Asian countries can be used, or not. At that time, Sony knew very well. The matter has become a fact. It's not good for both parties, even if they go to court, they can't win, so they will accept this dumb loss."
"I can't help but want to praise you," Elizabeth said teasingly.
Eric said: "At the end of the day, the Japanese are just outsiders. If it is a domestic company in the United States, this kind of thing is definitely not possible. Just wait and see, Sony and Panasonic, these two companies stay in Hollywood. Soon, even if they barely adapt, they won't achieve much, because once they want to diversify like Warner, they will definitely be constrained by various aspects, and in the end they can only stick to film production, a relatively low-profit industry. business."
"News Corporation is also an outsider," Elizabeth retorted with some complacency.
Eric glanced at the girl: "How many times has your old man changed his nationality?"
Elizabeth choked immediately, as if swallowing a big boiled duck egg.
Jeffrey soon came to Playa Vista by car. Eric took his daughters and Jeffrey to the studio where the dinosaur model was designed. The team here was led by Stan Winston himself. .
Among the dinosaur models, the most important one is of course the Tyrannosaurus Rex, in addition to the sick Triceratops.
"Wow, come and see, this eye looks real," Drew excitedly walked around the studio, and was soon attracted by a mechanical eyeball the size of an orange.
Under the control of the modeler, the mechanically controlled eyeball can not only blink, but also the pupil can expand and contract freely, which is simply exquisite.
"These are just small things, Miss Barrymore, come with me, let's go and see that big guy," Stan Winston said with a smug smile.
A group of people walked into a large warehouse, and a Tyrannosaurus rex model that had begun to take shape appeared in front of them, and five or six modelers were busy on the scaffolding.
"This tyrannosaurus rex is 13 meters long and 5 meters high. We plan to use 40 hydraulic transmissions for manipulation..." Stan Winston stood beside Eric and explained with some excitement. Although he is a top model special effects Master, but it is the first time to make such a behemoth. Even the Alien Queen a few years ago is not as shocking as this Tyrannosaurus rex. After all, the Alien Queen is just a fictional creature, while the T-Rex actually existed in Earth's history.
Eric looked at the uncolored white Tyrannosaurus rex in front of him and asked, "Can it be completed before June?"
Stan Winston knew that Eric planned to start the machine at the end of June, nodded and said, "No problem."
"What about the cg special effects?"
"This is more complicated," Stan Winston said: "If modeling out of thin air, in order to obtain a more realistic effect, a large number of calculations and rendering tests are required on the material of the dinosaur skin, which is costly and time-consuming, so , they recently conceived an idea that after the model is completed, they use a laser scanner to scan the entity into the computer, which can reduce a lot of work."
Eric said with satisfaction: "This is a good way. Don't worry about the funds. As long as it is necessary, Firefly will definitely support it."
The time soon came to noon, and I had lunch at the restaurant at the base. Throughout the afternoon, Eric was discussing the design details of the dinosaur model with Stan Winston.
I don't know how long it took, Eric and Stan Winston were standing under the Tyrannosaurus rex model, talking to a blueprint in Stan Winston's hand, and a group of girls who had been wandering around the base all afternoon reappeared In front of him.
Stan Winston saw Eric surrounded by a group of Yingying Yanyan, shrugged, and walked towards Jeffrey.
"Eric, it's past four o'clock, we're going home."
Unexpectedly, a day passed without knowing it. Eric just opened his mouth and suddenly remembered the reason why he was here today. He raised his wrist and looked at his watch. It was already 4:50, and Rodney King's case should have been pronounced by now, but he hadn't heard any news of the commotion.
From Playa Vista to Beverly Hills, you must pass through downtown Los Angeles. The few girls in front of you are all beautiful girls. If you are surrounded by mobs, what will happen...
Eric couldn't help shivering, looked at the pretty faces in front of him and said, "Don't go back tonight, go to my place together later."
Hearing these words, the five women immediately looked at each other in dismay. Drew looked indifferent, and even a little excited. Julia shrank her neck, and Elizabeth glared at him dissatisfied. You bastard, and Tina Fey and Claudia Schiffer's faces were a little blushing.
"Eric, Emma, Emma is still at home." Julia said weakly.
"Isn't there a nanny watching, it's all right."
Elizabeth couldn't take it anymore, she pulled Julia and said, "We won't mess around with you, I'm going back with Julia."
Eric also knew that the women's minds were a little crooked, but no matter what, he couldn't let a few women leave at this time. Seeing that Elizabeth was leaving, Eric reached out and fished Julia over: "If you want to leave, you Go yourself, Julia stay here."
"You... how could you do this!" Elizabeth stomped her feet, but didn't move any further.
"That's it, I called the manor's helicopter to pick us up," Eric didn't look at Elizabeth's face, took out his mobile phone and dialed the number. (To be continued..)