In his previous life, Pixar Computer Animation Company first sold hardware. It developed an image processing computer called Pixar, which is mainly aimed at the high-end visualization market, such as medical systems, geophysics, astronomy and meteorology.

When Jobs first acquired it, he was attracted by the value of this computer and believed that it represented the direction of future computer development. Therefore, after he acquired Pixar, he began to promote this graphics computer.

But because this computer is too expensive, not counting software costs, the hardware alone costs $120,000, so the sales volume is extremely bad. After it was launched on the market, only more than 100 units were sold in total.

After the hardware sales failed, Pixar could only switch to the business and sell software. Fortunately, its graphics rendering technology is pretty good. In order to promote the technology, they also produced several short animations, won some awards, and also attracted the attention of Disney, the dominant animation industry leader.

After signing a contract for production of three animated feature films with it, Pixar became Disney's outsourcing service provider. Later, Pixar launched "Toy Story" with great hope, becoming a hit and eventually surpassed Disney to become Hollywood's most outstanding animation company.

Xia Tian knew the development history of Pixar, so when he first took over the company, his development goal was to develop software and sweep the Pixar graphics computer into the garbage dump.

Because no longer wastes energy on developing hardware, and all personnel are working hard to develop software, the development of graphics rendering technology is faster than in previous lives.

In addition to developing graphics processing software, Tianxia Animation also takes the advertising business as directed by Xia Tian. On the one hand, it accumulates creative experience and solves the income and expenditure problems on the other hand.

It is very expensive to develop new technologies. Although Tianxia Animation Company is not big, with less than a hundred employees combined, it still exceeds nearly 10 million US dollars every year. The computer alone has to be updated three times a year, and all of them require the highest and latest configuration.

Because graphics rendering tests performance, a short one-minute animation requires hundreds of computers to operate simultaneously. In the past life, Pixar used more than 6,000 processors to use a mainframe.

Fortunately, I opened a computer company in summer and could supply them at a cost price. Otherwise, the computer alone would cost two or three million dollars more.

Although Tianxia Animation’s income is not as good as its expenses, it can make some money. Moreover, it has gradually gained its reputation in the advertising industry and accumulated a lot of creativity and creative experience.

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Spielberg has also heard of the famous name of Tianxia Animation and has seen it make animation advertisements. To be honest, the screen effect is barely OK.

"Then let's see what you said first." He nodded.

"Okay, I'll invite the general manager in the afternoon and have a good chat with us." Xia Tian said with a smile when he agreed.

"Yeah." Spielberg nodded, "Then I'll go back first, I'll come over in the afternoon."

"Please wait." Xia Tian immediately greeted, "Mr. Spielberg, let's talk about the actors again."

"Now?!" Spielberg was stunned. Unexpectedly, Xia Tian was quite anxious to do things, and he planned to set the actor down so quickly. You know, it is still a question whether this movie can be made today.

"Anyway, we'll have to talk about it sooner or later." Xia Tian smiled slightly, "Then why should we drag it back?"

When Spielberg heard this, he felt it made sense, so he nodded, "Actors, I hope I can have autonomy."

"I agree in principle, but there are three characters that I have to decide." Xia Tian smiled slightly and stretched out three fingers and said.

"Three characters?" Spielberg frowned, "Which three?"

"The heroine, the second male lead and the scientist, I want to arrange my people to play these three people." Xia Tian explained.

"Then who do you want to arrange?" Spielberg asked in confusion again.

"All of us are actors from Hong Kong. I want to play the scientists by Jie Jicheng, I want to invite my girlfriend to play the heroine, and I want to invite Liang Jiahui to play the second male lead. He is a very famous actor in Hong Kong and his acting skills are also very good." Xia Tian explained.

"I have to see them before making a decision." Spielberg said after thinking for a moment.

Although he is a world-renowned director, when facing investors like Xia Tian, ​​he still has to give in when he should give in. After all, he is just a director. No matter how outstanding he does, he is just a worker. He needs the support of investors to make movies. Although he is not short of film contracts now, who knows what will happen in the future?!

Like Akira Kurosawa, who won the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award this year, was once known as the Emperor of Movies in Fuso and was even well-known internationally, but so what? It’s not that there is no film to shoot now.

Sergio Leon, who filmed the famous Detective Trilogy, failed the box office of a movie "The Past of America", and no film dealer dared to use it since then.

No matter how good a person is, no matter how popular a flower is, no matter how famous or talented a director is, he is weak in front of capital. Spielberg knew this truth, so he did not dare to refute Xia Tian's face.

"Yes." Xia Tian nodded, then smiled and said, "Don't worry, I invested in the movie, and I can't be able to get along with myself. If I were not a good actor, I wouldn't recommend it to you."

"Yeah." Spielberg nodded with a smile when he heard what he said.

Judging from the script alone, he knew that "Jurassic Park" was a major investment work, and the cost was likely to exceed 100 million US dollars. Today, Hollywood has no one dared to do such a big production except summer because they cannot afford to fail.

With so much investment of $100 million, Summer must have been counting on it to make money, so naturally he would not deliberately arrange bad actors and mess up the whole movie. Wouldn't that be a bad match for yourself?

"What are you going to choose other actors?" Xia Tian asked him curiously again.

"I think Harrison Ford is very suitable for being the leading actor." Spielberg said immediately.

He has collaborated with Harrison Ford on many films, especially the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series. Dr. Jones is smart, wise, quick and humorous, which is exactly the same as the professor in "Jurassic Park".

When Spielberg read the script, he imitated the image of Harrison Ford. The more he looked at it, he became more and more similar, so he brought it up to Xia Tian.

"Harrison Ford is suitable, but the pay is higher." Xia Tian smiled slightly, "To be honest, Mr. Spielberg, although I am not short of money and am willing to invest huge amounts of money in this movie, its budget is still limited. If you hire Harrison Ford, you will have to reduce some of the funds in special effects production. At that time, the picture effect will definitely be worse.
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