As far as the sun1.0 graphics workstation is concerned, its performance is a little worse than the minicomputers of ibm and dec, but the price is 50,000 US dollars, which is much cheaper than the minicomputers of more than 100,000 US dollars, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. There are more, so once it is launched, it is very popular in the market!
Li Zetian directly asked Disney to purchase 500 sun1.0 workstations.
Both movie special effects and computer animation require the use of high-performance graphics workstations. Li Zetian is doing this to promote the rapid development of Disney in these two fields!
Industrial Light and Magic, now also a company owned by Disney, is in need of a large number of graphics workstations to produce computer special effects and at the same time develop technology.
Many people only know that Industrial Light and Magic is a computer special effect production company, but they do not know that Industrial Light and Magic is more like a technology development company, and most of its annual revenue is used to develop new technologies!
The reason why ILM has always been a leader in the industry and can produce lifelike, realistic and shocking computer special effects is because its investment in technology research and development has always exceeded that of other special effects companies!
If you want to do good work, you must first sharpen your tools!
Right now, the sun1.0 graphics workstation is naturally the best tool for ILM!
After Disney purchased a large number of sun1.0 workstations, Li Zetian stopped by Disney. Since he moved to Disney last year, the company has undergone a sea change, reorganizing its creative animation department.
However, this animation department belongs to the traditional Disney animation department, each animation is purely hand-painted, then photographed, and then played continuously. It can be said that every animation is drawn frame by frame.
In fact, it's not that Li Zetian doesn't want to make changes, but the computer animation production technology is not mature enough, and the production cost is high, not to mention the effect is not as good as traditional animation!
Of course, computer 3D animation is the future development trend. Li Zetian separated the computer animation production department of Industrial Light and Magic and established Pixar Animation Studio, specializing in the research of computer animation technology production, which was listed by Li Zetian as a Disney company. Key projects.
In addition to animation, Disney also produces and distributes live-action movies.
Although Li Zetian did not intervene too much in the development of Disney, he could not ignore it completely.
After coming to the company, Li Zetian invited Steven Spielberg over to discuss a business worth about two billion US dollars.
Of course, the global box office is only 792.9 million US dollars, but the revenue of peripheral products is much more than the box office. Li Zetian has already asked well-known Hollywood screenwriters to write the script according to his idea. Steven Spielberg has also promised to help him make movies before, but he must read the script first.
Li Zetian chatted with Disney CEO Michael Eisner in the office, and it didn't take long for Steven Spielberg to arrive.
Everyone chatted for a while, and then Li Zetian said straight to the point: "Director Spielberg, you finished filming for George Lucas, should you help me make a movie now? I even have the script ready!"
Spielberg nodded: "Of course no problem, did you bring the script? Let me see how the script is written first!"
"Well," Li Zetian replied softly, and immediately took out the script from the drawer and handed it to Spielberg.
Spielberg took over the script and read it carefully. As soon as he read the beginning, he was completely attracted by the story of the script, as if this was the story he had always wanted to tell in his heart...
After Spielberg read the script, he raised his head and looked at Li Zetian, and said excitedly, "mr.li, I've accepted this movie!"
Li Zetian smiled, because he was very sure that Spielberg would be willing to shoot, so he was not surprised. He stretched out his hand at this time and said to Spielberg, "Director Spielberg, I am happy to work together, and I hope to become a classic with good reputation and box office!"
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It is a very warm sci-fi family movie, which is very suitable for the whole family to sit around and enjoy together, and it always brings tears to the eyes inadvertently. The movie genre was a perfect fit for Disney, which beat out blockbusters such as and the likes to be voted the greatest children's movie of all time.
The investment budget is only 10 million US dollars, which is a small-budget film.
When Disney announced the filming, it didn't attract much media attention.
The press wanted to see Disney filming, however, that plan has been put on hold for now. Li Zetian is well aware that frequent shooting of sequels will easily cause the audience's aesthetic fatigue. As the saying goes, "Distance produces beauty", and if you shoot one in a few years, the effect will be better.
Li Zetian didn't know much about the popular movies in Hollywood in the 1980s. It was a movie he was more familiar with. If he were asked to talk about a few more well-known movies, he would definitely not be able to answer them. It was a lot of movies that were born in the 1990s. well known.
Therefore, Li Zetian cannot provide Disney with more suggestions for investing in movies for the time being.
In fact, under the management of Michael Eisner, the company is prosperous, and there is no need for Li Zetian to worry.
However, for a long-term plan, Li Zetian decided to win some super ip, such as, and Marvel Comics.
In particular, Marvel Comics, due to the downturn in the comics market, changed hands several times in the 1980s and 1990s, and sold a large number of superheroes, such as Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Wolverine, Deadpool, X-Men, Green giants, etc.
Li Zetian feels that if he does not buy Marvel Comics now, it will be difficult to take back these comic heroes in the future.
After leaving Disney, Li Zetian thought of this, so he ordered Dongfang Yuqin to send someone to investigate first.
These things are easy to investigate. The next day, Dongfang Yuqin put the information on Li Zetian's desk.
In 1969, the United States company in the United States bought the copyright of the two books and the management rights of all related products from Tolkien for 10,000 pounds, including the film adaptation rights. 7.5% of related operating income was paid as royalties to Tolkien and Tolkien's testamentary beneficiaries. In 1976, Luen Mei sold the rights to Sal Zaenz, who still owns the rights to this day.
After reading the information, Li Zetian smiled lightly: "Haha, that is to say, just buy the copyright of Hehe from Sal Zaenz!"
"Yes, mr.li." Dongfang Yuqin nodded with a smile, and then added, "According to the evaluation given by professionals, the copyright price of the two books is around 10 million US dollars!"
"$10 million? It's not expensive. I'll inform Disney later and buy it as soon as possible!" He is two fantastic novels that have shocked the past and the present. The value of surrounding industries is an extremely staggering number. $10 million is really not expensive, it's simply the price of cabbage.
Then, Li Zetian began to read the information of Marvel Comics, which was founded in 1939 and used to be called "Times Comics", and was officially named Marvel in 1961. Due to the downturn in the comics market, Marvel's main competitor, DC Comics, has been acquired by Warner Bros. and has made movies. And Marvel Comics is still struggling to find a buyer.
It's a pity that Marvel Comics is worth more than $90 million, and no one is willing to buy it right now.
Marvel Comics bosses always sigh about this...
ps: There are 2 more updates today, and I recommend a new book by the way. Author: Xiyuan Baoshao, who has written two million-word novels, belongs to the old author.
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