Chapter 389 Real blow, the witch is finished
"Okay! Teacher Shi performed well. The Witch crew has called it a day and the others are staying."
Master Liu was sleepy for a long time. When he heard that the work was over, he suddenly became confused. He hung on his assistant, waved goodbye to Li Mingyang, and walked away with his head pulled up.
The actors left.
Li Mingyang hasn't called it a day yet.
Wu Zhikui took over Li Mingyang's position, and Li Mingyang put on a green leather suit and began to punch the brick wall, shake the floor with his feet, and kick the iron door...
The Rukawa Kaede experience card makes his physique different from ordinary people. He wears a finger tiger inside the leather holster and has steel plates on the soles of his shoes.
What originally required computer special effects, he could just do it manually.
With a punch, the wall turned gray and a deep pit appeared.
His feet plowed the wall, leaving a terrible deep hole in the wall.
In fact, it is not difficult to destroy. It is rare to destroy the edge of reality.
If the current level of special effects is used, the edges of the broken objects will be neat and the pieces will be regular. In reality, it should contain many layers, such as sand, debris, smoke, etc.
Real hitting is the best material.
You can also save a lot of money.
While reviewing the storyboards and adjusting the lenses, Li Mingyang worked all night long to complete all the materials. The rest was left to the special effects department to organize and integrate the materials.
"I'm going to bed first, Lao Wu, call me at twelve o'clock."
"Does the company sleep? There is construction outside during the day. I will take you to the hotel."
"Let's just do construction. It shouldn't wake me up."
Li Mingyang left the eighth floor and went to sleep on the ninth floor.
Others are also very tired, but the boss is working so hard that they are too embarrassed to take a rest now and have to connect the materials with the people in the special effects department.
This docking took a whole morning, and the special effects were extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive.
When the connection was just right, Lao Wu called Guo Fan over.
"Lao Guo, how's your adventure going?" Lao Wu asked after taking a sip of black coffee.
"It's almost done. Can it be submitted for review next week?"
"So fast?"
Guo Fan was worried about the special effects funds for the movie at the beginning of last month, but it was almost completed in less than a month!
"The concept design was actually done a long time ago. To save money, I made animation. Director Li was willing to support me, and it was done very quickly." Guo Fan said with a smile.
"Oh, the company has two projects, do you want to do them?"
"Those two projects are short of funds, so don't mess with me. When I started Li Xianji, my company was delayed and bankrupted. After finishing Li Xianji, I have to take a break." Guo Fan quickly waved his hand.
Lao Wu didn't force it, and chatted with Guo Fan for a while about the development of special effects software, then set an alarm clock and found a place to sleep.
Special effects companies can be said to be the most important, but also the least valued, part of the film and television industry.
The asset-heavy operating model of special effects companies relies heavily on projects and subsidies.
Inaccuracies in early quotations, arrears in project settlement, and low prices in vicious competition have led to the continuous collapse of such companies.
Correspondingly, the staff were owed wages and laid off despite working endless overtime.
This is a world problem.
There is a paradox in the special effects company's quotation: 1. The special effects company cannot afford the gap period.
2. Special effects companies cannot accept unreliable projects.
3. Special effects companies should accept as many projects as possible. If not, refer to 1. If they do, refer to 2.
Back then, Digital Domain would have gone bankrupt if it had taken over "Titnic" without losing money.
R&H's takeover of Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" became the straw that broke the camel's back.
Ang Lee went to win the Oscar. Nearly 500 special effects producers from R&H protested outside the Oscars ceremony for the company's unexpected filing for bankruptcy and layoffs.
……
On April 20, at around two o'clock in the morning, the Witch was finished!
The completion time is quite hellish.
However, Li Mingyang still prepared a closing banquet for everyone on the seventh floor.
Li Mingyang felt that he was pretty good.
I didn’t expect Rong Xinda, Tangren, and Yinghuang to be more like that.
The three girls were eating, and the company urged them to leave immediately. Li Yao and Bai Bin rushed to the Magic City, and Liu Shishi rushed to the Bubu Jingxin crew.
The crew of Bu Bu Jing Xin hasn't finished work yet...
"They shouldn't rest during the day, right?" Xiaoye said with a smile.
"It will definitely not stop..."
"There are three money trees."
"By the way, celebrity salaries are so high now and they are still rising."
"There are so many crews starting work, and there are only so many famous people. There are more wolves and less meat, and prices are soaring!"
"When can we get a salary increase..." someone whispered.
Li Mingyang listened to the discussion, but did not mention the salary increase.
Mingyang Entertainment’s wages are already among the first in domestic entertainment, and raising wages cannot solve the fundamental problem.
After the closing banquet, Li Mingyang returned to the office and sent WeChat messages to Wu Zhikui, Ye Xiangdong, Guo Fan, and Zhang Wei respectively.
Have them come to their offices for meetings.
Ten minutes later.
Li Mingyang looked at the four people sitting in front of him and lit a cigarette.
"The company's model needs to be changed. Do you have any suggestions?" Xiaoye was the first to shake his head.
Zhang Wei was the first to express her opinion. She adopts a centralized management model, similar to Alibaba's.
This system is actually quite suitable for Mingyang Entertainment, but Li Mingyang is not as ambitious as Alima, and he doesn't want to cross industries.
Taking this road would exhaust him to death.
Guo Fan proposed using Huawei’s guild shareholding system, which is quite thoughtful.
"In charge of production, I feel it's time to lay off staff in the special effects department. We don't see a future for special effects, so it's better to outsource it," Wu Zhikui suggested.
"What do you think?"
"No matter how you do it, you have to outsource it. The special effects project is too big for one or two companies to handle." Guo Fan mused: "The biggest advantage of domestic special effects is that it is cheap. Our company seems to have nothing to do with cheapness."
"I agree with Mr. Wu. Last month, the employee salary expenditure was more than 3 million yuan, but the income was not much. It was a loss-making operation." Zhang Wei said.
"Where are you, Xiaoye?" Li Mingyang asked.
"I feel..." Xiaoye scratched his head, "I feel that the company is getting bigger and bigger, but people's hearts are becoming more and more divided. I feel that the people you loaned out, boss, will find it difficult to come back."
Ye Xiangdong's overall ability was average, so Li Mingyang brought him up, mainly because he helped negotiate the copyright for One Punch Man.
However, as the company grew bigger and bigger, Li Mingyang found that this boy was very different. He could play with anyone and had a very strong affinity.
"Why?"
"Boss, you are so famous that you have raised us all to a level that does not belong to us. The temptation outside is too great. Everyone wants to climb up. No one is willing to be behind the scenes all his life. They all want to stand in front of the stage..."
"I have never signed a non-compete agreement with you. If you want to go out and have a career, I support it."
"I never wanted to leave..."
Li Mingyang took a deep breath of cigarette, "Yang Mi wants you to come over?"
Xiaoye was embarrassed this time.
I didn’t know what to say for a while.
"Those who want to leave can't stay, and those who don't want to leave will naturally come back. In fact, it's good to go out and walk more and see more."
"Let's forget it... I'll be fine if I follow along and record it. As a director, I feel guilty."
"Anyway, someone will pay for you if you lose." Li Mingyang thought for a moment and said, "In fact, the company will be disbanded by the end of the year."
"The building under construction, although I own the building and I am also the major shareholder, the company does not belong to me alone. There will be many giants taking shares."
"Old Wu, no matter what, I hope you will bring the special effects department as a whole and pay attention to it. I am not afraid of burning money. Anyway, it is not my own money that is burned. The more you burn, the greater the sunk cost will be. No one will Can’t run away”
Old Wu smiled bitterly and shook his head. Others couldn't understand, but he finally understood.
Li Mingyang hasn’t changed!
But this time the trap is even bigger!
Throw those domestic people who want the Three-Body Problem into the special effects industry with the least prospects.
"As for the future development of the company, I have a plan to set up a studio with Huabou Video as the core. Yes, it is similar to the competition system when the company started, but this time not all employees will be eliminated. I plan to divide it into five tasks room out.”
"Five studios, five producers. If the producers are not up to standard, they will be replaced."
“Does it feel similar to outsourcing?”
"Outsourcing will not be supported by data." Li Mingyang said with a smile: "I plan to set up a big data center to use data to analyze user preferences, and do whatever users like."
"Isn't this the model of Keton Media?" Zhang Wei asked doubtfully.
"Absolutely. Since you understand this model, the big data center will be in charge of you. Are there any problems?"
Zhang Wei hesitated for a few seconds, nodded heavily, and accepted the important task.
"Boss, according to your plan, can I go to Jiaxing in advance to get familiar with it?"
"Okay."
……
At the end of the meeting, Zhang Wei, Ye Xiangdong, and Guo Fan left.
Li Mingyang left Wu Zhikui alone.
Wu Zhikui lay secretly on the door, listened for a while, and after making sure that the three of them had left, he made an OK gesture to Li Mingyang.
"That's the only thing that's not good about newcomers. Once they achieve some results, they feel that they are good."
Li Mingyang took out a large bag of peanuts from the drawer and sat on the sofa in the reception area. Old Wu opened the refrigerator and took out six cans of beer.
The two of them talked about the current situation of the company while drinking, sighing and shaking their heads.
It’s hard to take care of too many people.
Especially now that everyone feels that Li Mingyang has cultivated a group of incredible young talents, they are all poaching them.
And this group of young talents also think that they are very good, but they are not good at it...
It is really difficult for a group of young and energetic college elites in their twenties to work as tools in a down-to-earth manner.
In Li Mingyang's view, a company with more than 500 people is actually not that big.
In the previous life, Ming Yang Entertainment had more than 500 people, but the average age of the company's employees was over thirty, and most of them were unsatisfactory people.
Although the abilities are quite average.
But he works hard and is very obedient.
"Old Wu, stay with me all those storyboard artists, don't get poached away." Li Mingyang said.
"I have transferred them out, Ah Huo is watching."
"Do you think Xiaoye can do it?"
"If he can do it, I will be Zhang Yimou." Wu Zhikui shook his head.
(End of chapter)