Lance couldn't help feeling a little nervous because this is the digital field and James' territory. His behavior just now did make James speechless, but he couldn't predict James' attitude at this moment. If James completely angered James, not to mention whether James would remember him as an unknown person in the future, but it was really not good for the "day acquired" crew.

However, Lance didn't have many choices, so he could only temporarily put James and Scott behind his head and focus all his attention on the concept map discussion meeting in front of him.

"So you mean, this cold wave invades south along the Arctic and then freezes the entire northern hemisphere?" Jonathan asked with a frown, pointing to a concept design drawing on the slide.

Lance stood next to the slide and nodded, "I hope to treat the cold wave as a combination of tsunamis and tornadoes. As the impact goes all the way, those more fragile buildings will fall below freezing point and turn into icicles, and a strong wind will break into countless pieces." This sentence calmed the three people in the office. In addition to Jonathan, Matthew Butler (matthe-but1er) and Chris Watts (chris S-atts) are also members of the special effects production team of "acquired".

"Then this picture?" Matthew spoke and pointed to the picture on the slide. As a New York landmark building, the Statue of Liberty, can be said to be a landmark building worldwide. At this moment, the entire Statue of Liberty is surrounded by icicles, and all the icicles protrude from each other in the same direction. More importantly, the lower half of the Statue has been surrounded by ice fields, leaving only one-third of the chest.

"This is the effect that appears after the invasion of the cold wave. I hope to create two or three cold wave upgrades in the movie, which will be more serious each time. This is the effect after the most serious cold wave. As a landmark building, the Statue of Liberty is used to display, which is more visually impactful than the Empire State Building. "Lance explained quickly, "The Hudson River and even the Atlantic Ocean have been frozen into the shape of the Arctic Ocean. The river and sea water have risen rapidly due to freezing, freezing all buildings within the sight."

Since the White House was destroyed directly on "Sunday", the destruction of landmark buildings in disaster movies has become a routine, because this can make the audience more empathetic and the impact and shocks brought by it are even more surging. But even so, Lance's idea once again calmed everyone in the office.

Imagine that the whole world is icy and snowy, with only a piece of white. The only object seen on the vast snowfield is the Statue of Liberty surrounded by icicles. When I passed by, I stood at the chest of the statue. The tiny contrast of the wild contrast was magnified to the extreme in an instant.

Jonathan couldn't help but flash an excited look in his eyes. The concept map James designed before was very outstanding, which cannot be denied. If it was a full score of 100 points, it could be at least 80 points. But overall, James's conception still has traces to follow. While it is magnificent, it lacks a little spark that makes people shine and shocked. For disaster movies like "the day after tomorrow", James' 80 points is not enough. It requires 100 points, or even 120 points.

At this moment, Lance was showing Jonathan a "one hundred and twenty" visual effects concept picture, and his body couldn't help but lean forward, "So, what you mean is that all buildings are frozen, and even if they are hiding in buildings, they can't resist the cold. Is that true?"

"Yes!" Lance's eyes lit up. Percy adjusted it at Lance's sign and found the slide accurately. "Actually, I hope that the second wave of cold wave will produce such an effect, but the third wave is even more fierce. Even marble, steel, concrete, etc. will form frost, becoming extremely hard, and it also becomes extremely fragile. A tornado comes, and the entire building may be shaking."

Above the slideshow, a layer of white frost was covered with the ancient marble building, and even the enlarged snowflakes could be vaguely seen. In the depths of the building, a group of people curled up together, snuggling next to a cluster of tiny flames, seeking warmth. Compared with the empty building, the flames of survival in despair made the frozen ice-like building more shocking.

Jonathan also stood up at this moment and said excitedly, "We can design that seawater invades New York, causing the cargo ship to enter New York City. Next to the Statue of Liberty, there can be two ships... No, a cargo ship sinks halfway, just like the Titanic sinking, the bow sinks and the stern rises, but when it sinks halfway, it is frozen by the cold wave and directly inserted into the ice layer. The stern is raised high and even comparable to the Statue of Goddess. The two buildings just stare at each other alone, and apart from that, nothing can be seen on the entire ice field. No, it should be said that at the end, you can see New York City, which has become the Kingdom of Ice and Snow."

Instead of speaking immediately, Lance conceived the picture Jonathan said in his brain, and then his eyes lit up bit by bit. Many times, compared to having nothing, the visual impact brought by direct comparison is often stronger. "Excellent! It's really great!"

Before Lance and Jonathan could speak, Chris walked behind Percy, "We should write this down." But Percy glanced back at Chris, "I've already recorded it down." Then he pointed at the notebook next to him with his fingers - Percy had obviously recorded all his creative ideas.

Chris touched his nose, "I just think it's more convenient to use a computer." But after looking at Percy, he still had no intention of letting go. Chris could only take the notebook left by James on the desktop, and was almost busy on it.

Lance and Jonathan did not notice this little detail. Jonathan's hands were exaggeratedly circled in the air. "The shot of flooding New York City is very difficult. We should refer to the previous tsunami documentary to see how to design it. Thirty-story high waves? This seems not enough... God, God!"

"No, no, the flood floods New York, we don't need special effects." Lance interrupted Jonathan, who was extremely excited, which immediately stunned Jonathan, Chris and Matthew. His disappointed expression was beyond words, and Jonathan looked even more excited, "Why? Why! Don't you believe in our strength? How can you do this!"

"Because it's too expensive," Lance shouted, which immediately made Jonathan's passion come to an abrupt end. Lance then put the tone down, "Calm down, it's just because it's too expensive. I've done my homework before. All the shots of flooding New York City were completed with computer special effects, which cost at least about 20 million. Our budget was only 100 million US dollars, which accounted for too much." Now it's only 2oo3 years, the rendering of the flood and tsunami is not mature enough. Even the industry's strongest digital field requires a lot of time and money to produce, and the effect produced is not realistic enough.

There are too many special effects of "acquired" and the budget of 100 million US dollars must be carefully calculated to make the best use of it. After careful consideration of the scene of flooding New York City, Lance decided to take a real scene.

"So, are you going to build a model?" Although Jonathan is an otaku, his understanding of movies is not limited to computer effects.

Lance nodded, "I will make a smaller model and put it in the water tank to submerge the entire New York City in the flood. At the same time, a second smaller water tank is set up on both sides of the water tank. During the shooting, open the gate between the two water tanks and use a blowing system to impact it to create a storm effect."

In the eyes of laymen, shooting commercial movies is not difficult, because there is no plot structure or character creation. You only need to control the computer special effects and the rhythm of the film, so that the quality of the finished product will not be too bad. But this is a misunderstanding. It is indeed not difficult to shoot a commercial movie, but it is very difficult to shoot a successful commercial movie.

What's more, the box office results of "the day after tomorrow" in the previous life were good, but they were far from amazing. They can only be said to be passing. Lance did not want to play insurance cards after taking this movie. Therefore, as early as the planning stage, Lance began to read a lot of information and used his own way and his own ideas to create this movie. Not only the script, but also came up with many new ideas in terms of visual effects.

"In fact, this movie only has a panoramic part. I plan to use computer special effects. I will shoot the other parts in real scenes, so as to increase the reality to the extreme as much as possible, and also add the details of the movie." Lance did not conceal his ambitions.

Jonathan opened his mouth, and at this moment he finally understood why Lance was going to challenge James' authority, because according to Lance's idea, the workload in the digital field was not as much as expected. In other words, a large part of the budget that should have belonged to the digital field was taken for real-life shooting.

Thinking back to the conceptual picture designed by James, Jonathan was really amused and crying. Lance almost overturned James' idea, "You know, you will make us unemployed."

Lance raised his eyebrows slightly, "You know, I need a shot of a cold wave gradually freezing all buildings, and even the flags flying in the air are frozen. This shot takes three minutes."

Jonathan closed his mouth and lit his chin slightly, then showed a hesitant and entangled expression, "Yes... this shot may take two months, or even three months." This is the fact, and then Jonathan put his hands on his hips and said curiously, "So, what do you mean is that just a few sets of shots will take us half a year?"

"No, I mean, just a few sets of shots are enough to define the thrillingness of the movie "After Day"." Lance's words were sincere in their calmness, and that touch of cunning was hidden deep in his eyes, radiating a faint light.

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Chapter completed!