“Outsourcing of CG short films?”

Lu Yuxiang's face became a little strange when he listened to Fan Zhe's words on the phone. He asked, "Why did you change your career and do this?"

"I recently worked with a few friends to build a special effects studio... I won't mention this for now, do you have any suitable outsourcing work there?"

"No." Lu Yuxiang denied it first, but then added: "But I know there is a large studio that happens to have this demand, with a budget of about 400,000. If you want to do it, I can help you with the next step."

"That's good."

"But..." Lu Yuxiang hesitated for a moment and said, "They have higher requirements...Boss Fan, I don't believe you, but I can't smash my own sign, right?"

Lu Yuxiang actually regretted telling Fan Zhe about this. He didn't think that Fan Zhe, or the studio he had newly built, had the ability to meet the project requirements.

The CG short film demand he mentioned is an independent game project that a larger studio in the industry is working on. Although this studio is not a big manufacturer, its previous works, reputation and sales are very good. They made some money in several projects, and their new works are more ambitious. They want to create a better opening CG animation, but they lack the energy to create such a short film directly, so they plan to outsource the work.

"I know your concerns." Fan Zhe said on the other side of the phone, "This way, I have a small finished product to test the waters now. Although the film is short, you can look at our strength. I think it should be able to meet the other party's requirements."

"Okay, send me my email address and I'll reply you after reading it."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yuxiang saw Fan Zhe's email.

Download the short video and open it. The thirteen-second short video ended soon, leaving only Lu Yuxiang with a shocked face.

After a while, he recovered and couldn't wait to call the replay and watch it for the second time; he still felt that it was not satisfied, the third time, the fourth time...

The short video in just thirteen seconds was shocked by Lu Yuxiang.

The more he looked, the more excited he became. He immediately picked up his cell phone and called Van Zhe back.

"See so quickly? I thought you still need to evaluate it."

"What are you evaluating!" Lu Yuxiang said, "With samples of this level, what else can I evaluate? Your technical level is quite good."

"It's okay."

Can something produced by black technology work?

"Their needs a short film of one and a half minutes to two minutes, which is basically a battle scene. There are three protagonists who require very detailed designs and original characters, but you have to design and draw the concept picture of the short film yourself. The scene requires a little more exciting, and the overall working hours are more urgent, and it needs to be completed within three months... The general demand is all, with a budget of 450,000, but I think there should be room for negotiation. Please take a look at the price?"

"Three fine characters, a short film of about two minutes...well...500,000?"

"Five hundred thousand?"

“Will there be too many?”

"Not... Is it only cost 500,000 US dollars for this quality, for about two minutes?"

"Renminbi..."

“…”

After a while of silence on the phone, Lu Yuxiang adjusted his mentality and said seriously: "Are you sure?"

“It is certainly better to have higher prices.”

"The price is not a big problem, I will talk to them." Lu Yuxiang said, "But can you really guarantee that you can produce two minutes of short films of this quality within three months?"

"Three months is too fast," said Fan Zhe. "I don't have enough manpower here, so the quality will definitely decline."

"I think even if it drops by two levels, it's enough to get a good deal, and they're making money. OK, so let's just do this. I'll use this short video to talk to others. If you have a serious and this level, it's not a big problem to get this job. The order this time is relatively large, and we are old friends, so I'll give you some discounts and get five points. Isn't it a problem?"

"without."

"Let me get news."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yuxiang's mood calmed down a lot. Playing with his cell phone, his mind flew away from this matter itself.

He has been working as an illustration agency for many years and has a good reputation in this circle. There are always many other companies looking for him. He also holds many very powerful painter resources. By being a broker, he can live a very comfortable life.

However, people always have some other hopes, and they are the same, looking forward to a bigger and better future.

He has always tried to find a new path, but it is difficult to find and walk. Anyway, since he came up with this idea, he has not found any good opportunities so far.

However, it seems to be a good opportunity now.

...

On the other hand, Fan Zhe rubbed his face after the call.

He found that doing visual effects industry is more profitable than he imagined.

The premise is that he did it himself. Otherwise, if he throws it into a normal special effects company, it will cost 500,000 yuan? I'm afraid it's just enough electricity bills.

Of course, it is a joke, which is a bit exaggerated. However, it is true that all CG special effects short films are money-burning players. In some released blockbusters, the funds burned by special effects are calculated in seconds. Hundreds of artists and technicians need to work together for a long time to achieve the final result.

The annual salary of these people is astronomical, not to mention a large number of high-end and sophisticated equipment and a large amount of time costs.

And when he reached Fan Zhe's hands, he could do it alone and rely on the "dimensional system".

Of course, if he really does it alone, the time will be consumed very long.

Previously, the thirteen-second short film sent to Lu Yuxiang took him two months to produce. The drawing of the original concept of light was a lot of time, not to mention the subsequent import of pictures and modeling of these projects. Although the "dimensionality" solved most of the problems, there were still many places that required manual operation by others.

If the two-minute opening animation is calculated based on the quality of the short film that Fan Zhe made before, Fan Zhe will probably have to do it for a year alone, so they will definitely not be able to wait for him for so long.

But Fan Zhe must have the next step to solve this order. The temptation that he can solve most of his debt problems in one breath is quite huge.

As for the existing problems, there are two solutions to what is in front of him:

First, find someone to work with you; second, reduce the quality of the finished product.

The original budget was 450,000 yuan, so I definitely didn't expect to directly make a top-notch CG animation. So in terms of quality, Fan Zhe has a huge room for maneuver, just like what Lu Yuxiang said, even if the quality of the sample short film is not enough, it is okay to reduce the two levels.
Chapter completed!