408. It must be that your aura of failure is too heavy

In May, "Minecraft" created Bomi's game sales history, and it is expected that it will be difficult for any game to surpass it later.

"Journey to the West" was launched in June, and it also achieved remarkable results.

Journey to the West is a horizontal action-type game in the original Journey to the West studio group of Bomi Company.

In this game, players can choose different sect professions such as Dragon Palace, Putuo, Tang Dynasty, Underworld, etc. This set is basically in line with "Fantasy Westward Journey". The only difference is that it is a horizontal version of fighting, and Fantasy Westward Journey is a turn-based battle game.

Because Fantasy Westward Journey itself has a lot of player base, and DNF has opened up a new market for horizontal fighting games, "Journey to the West" has still achieved quite good results after it was launched.

It itself is differentiated from DNF. The core players are composed of two groups, one of which is the players of "Fantasy Westward Journey". They have a high acceptance of this topic, and at the same time they think that the horizontal fighting type is relatively new. The other is the players who like horizontal fighting games, but they are not particularly interested in the story and world background of DNF.

Journey to the West is equivalent to attracting the crowds that DNF does not cover. The number of players in this part of the group itself is quite large. Therefore, in less than a month, the average number of online players in Journey to the West has exceeded 50,000.

Bomi Company ranks fifth in online game revenue, and at the same time, because of its high profit margin, it has become Bomi's fourth most profitable game.

...

On July 1, Bomi Pictures' "The Wandering Earth 2" was demonstrated internally in Boxue Hall in the Imperial Capital Bomi Building.

Still the same, Ai Xiaomi, as the producer of "The Wandering Earth 2", is also the main demo person today.

Below are Cao Yang, chairman of Bomi Group, CTO of Bomi Company, and also head of Bomi Technology Research Center, Yang Junrong, CEO of Bomi Music, Dou Haining, head of 3D rendering engine, Deng Zhixin, director of film art, Zou Jielun and chairman of PO Chaoting Xie Tingfeng.

Liu Guangran shouldn't have sat here. When he was auditioned for "The Wandering Earth" in the company for the first time, he was just curious about 3D movies and joined in the fun.

This time, Cao Yang was forcibly dragged over.

Because according to Cao Yang, there must be a [outsider] here, which can provide some more realistic viewing experiences.

And Liu Guangran is this layman.

Liu Guangran curled his lips, why did he feel so awkward?

However, if you can watch movies, and it is a 3D movie made by your own company, of course you still have to take a look, so Liu Guangran rushed over.

Deng Peiqiang no longer took charge of Bomi Film and Television's rendering engine, but gave it to Dou Haining completely. Dou Haining is also an old employee of Bomi Company. He has been in the engine team for many years. Dou Haining took on the main work for the last time when the engine research and development of the wandering earth's engine was developed. Since the technology here is relatively mature and Dou Haining is able to get started completely, Deng Peiqiang does not need to spend his time and energy here. The company has more important things waiting for him to solve.

For example, the production of the underground palace in "Ghost Blows Out the Light", the 3D architectural mosaic required by "Minecraft" to build the Forbidden City...

Those problems are much more difficult than 3D rendering. Deng Peiqiang is simply too lazy to clone and can only sigh that Boss Cao is really good at finding trouble for the engine team.

Now Bomi's engine is really equivalent to the engine in a car, and is a very important component. If this thing is done well, it is beneficial to the whole company. Therefore, Boss Cao invests in it at all costs. Although Deng Peiqiang does not have a CTO position, he is still in a high position as the boss of the engine department.

This time, Cao Yang didn't have much time to intervene in the art of "The Wandering Earth 2", so the art designs in it were all left to the film art director Deng Zhixin. This young man is also the company's up-and-coming star. He was also the main art director during the production of Wandering Earth 1. However, because Cao Yang had the title of creative director, he was not good at becoming the art director. However, when he was producing Wandering Earth 1, Cao Yang only provided basic creative drafts, and all the things were implemented and the details were supplemented by Deng Zhixin's team.

This time I went to Wandering Earth 2 and I would feel more at ease to leave it to him.

...

Yang Junrong, the head of Bomi Music, part of the soundtrack of Wandering Earth 2 was completed by Yang Junrong's studio, and the other part was still handed over to the American music master Hans Jimo.

This is also considered to be a beginning and an end. The success of wandering the earth (although it lost tens of millions, it is also considered to have created the history of a 3D science fiction movie), and a large part of it is the credit of the soundtrack.

Hans Jimo's musical talent is recognized throughout the circle. Since Wandering Earth 1 is played by him, Wandering Earth 2 will not be the same if it is replaced by another person.

However, there will be some changes in the theme of the movie, which is also a difficult part to grasp. Cao Yang is not sure if there will be any problems with the soundtrack this time.

PO Chaoting is still the main special effects production company of "The Wandering Earth 2". It was a good run-in last time, and this time it can be said that it is familiar with it.

With the production experience of "The Wandering Earth 1", PO Chaoting has also laid a solid foundation for 3D special effects production, and his own technical level has been improved by a great level. As a skilled worker, it is the second time that the price is naturally reduced.

The total production cost of Wandering Earth 2 is much less than that of Wandering Earth. It costs 460 million yuan in the first and second, and the special effects cost is only 300 million yuan. Xie Tingfeng's team received 150 million yuan.

Even so, I still make a profit by PO Chaoting.

This is also an inevitable result of technological development. As long as technology progresses, the cost will naturally be compressed. Computers in 2008 have made a lot of progress than in 2007, and software has also been updated iteratively. The company's engine has become better used, the rendering speed is faster, and the workload can be processed is more. This is in line with Moore's Law, and the price will naturally be further compressed.

Zou Jielun just released "The Secret I Can't Tell" and the box office was not ideal. I want to learn from it and see if I can make some science fiction movies in the future.

In addition to having many ideas about music creation, he also has many ideas about film and television, so Cao Yang thought it would be better for Zou Jielun to come and see it. At least he couldn't be a good actor, and he might become a good director in the future.

But don't just follow the path of "Panda Man".

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"The Wandering Earth 2" was completed at the beginning of this year, but it took a lot of time to pass the review. After getting the Dragon Chapter, it was scheduled until July 2008.

As the saying goes, "Bomie Company is a company that has made the first move in China's 3D science fiction movies. It has driven many related industrial chains and made considerable contributions to the film market, so this review was relatively smooth.

The main reason for the long review time is that

Da Liu's book involves many human confrontation parts, and some elements that may cause mapping to the authorities, so the above review is more careful.

Fortunately, it was a good idea to pass all the way in the end.

It was released in July, which was already a hot period. It was scheduled to be scheduled until the Spring Festival, mainly because Bomi Company was a newcomer and was not familiar with the film and television industry, and there was no big shot as a recommendation, so naturally the schedule was excluded.

Who would have thought that "The Wandering Earth" directly made the Spring Festival period popular, making the Spring Festival period a very important film schedule.

There are several reasons why July is hot:

First, July is the Domestic Film Protection Month, which is to allocate benefits to the bigwigs. Domestic Film Protection Month will not be imported from abroad, so domestic films have a strong advantage. In addition, the quality of Wandering Earth 2 is strong enough, and it is very likely that there will be a unilateral massacre and dominance of the list.

Second, the students are all on holiday, and most of the students in the summer season have nothing to do and just have time to watch movies.

It is precisely because of these reasons that the July period is booming.

The only thing that makes Cao Yang feel is that—

"The Wandering Earth 2" will be released at the end of July, and there will be an Olympic Games interspersed in the middle. If you may be impacted by the Olympic Games, the box office may not be ideal.

Or, being impacted is an inevitable thing, I don’t know if you will go to the cinema to watch movies in your free time watching the Olympics.

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Before the movie was screened, several people sat together, talking and laughing.

This year, Teacher Chen revealed a big melon. Xie Tingfeng was greatly affected, and Boss Cao did not dare to expose his scars.

So the topics related to World of Warcraft are still discussed.

Except for Cao Yang, several others were curious about when World of Warcraft would release the next major version.

Cao Yang showed a sly smile on his face, "It should be not long. Now the players of World of Warcraft are about to graduate, and many people's small entries have been trained almost. If they continue to consume at this speed, they will definitely have to release a new version."

"Hey?!Really?" Xie Tingfeng's eyes lit up, "When will a new version be released? Our Xingyuan Guild will organize it again, and you can get a first kill or something."

"It's getting soon." Cao Yang said with a smile, "I don't know the specific time. I have to ask about the operation of our company, which will be decided by them."

"Tsk~"

Xie Tingfeng and Zou Jielun didn't believe Cao Yang's words at all.

As the boss of the company, do you want to know the news, but can others hide it from you?

What's more, if something as big as World of Warcraft releases a new big version of content, you must send an email to your boss to report it.

Boss Cao is so stingy.

...

Although everyone here, except Liu Guangran and Zou Jielun, have more or less participated in the production of the movie, this is the first time that they have seen the effect of the movie.

Everyone can only understand this part of the content on their hands, but there is no bottom line in what the whole film looks like and how effective it is to integrate it together.

However, given the success of "The Wandering Earth", everyone is still full of confidence in "The Wandering Earth 2".

Of course, Ai Xiaomi must have watched it countless times as a director.

But when she was showing, her fingers were still trembling with excitement.

After about 5 minutes, the movie screening began.

The first thing that appeared on the big screen was the very familiar Dragon Chapter.

That is, the release license.

Because it is the image of a Chinese dragon, people affectionately call the supply license Dragon Chapter.

【Dragon Chapter

Release license

Telephone review of the ancient characters [2008] No. 001

National Film Administration

CHINA FILM ADMINISTRATICON】

After Longzhang, Bomi Pictures' logo appears

Then there is Xie Tingfeng's PO Chaoting.

Producer: Ai Xiaomi

Director-General Producer/General Director: Ai Xiaomi

Starring: Wu Jing, Ryoko Hiromo...

...

In the vast universe, a blue planet dragged a thin layer of atmospheric tail appeared.
To be continued...