When it comes to making movie special effects, the importance of computers is self-evident. With its help, it will not only make many special effects extremely simple, but also make many effects that are difficult to achieve by humans easily put on the screen.

So as early as Lucas was making his Star Wars, he took the lead in creating the way to rent supercomputers to assist in making movie special effects. Although this must be a considerable cost, just look at the first computer-assisted shooting, what is the effect of Star Trek: Khan's Wrath in 1982, and compare the aliens in 1979, and the gap between them will be clear at a glance.

And that was in 1982. Even the most powerful supercomputer in the world at that time had only 400 million times per second, and Khan's Wrath did not rent much exaggerated share. And now, the guy from the Livermoa National Laboratory in Rolands, California, where Alice and Maiya were rushing to have a total of 3.9 billion times!

What is the concept of 3.9 billion times?

It is roughly comparable to a Core 3 dual-core processor in the 21st century, and it has a high main frequency, approaching the level of the 5 series.

However, Alice is not able to rent out all the computers of the treasures that were just released last year, so the one you can get is the level of a Pentium 4 processor.

Quite rubbish.

But it's enough.

Mr. Akaman is a soldier. Wuya is very autonomous and goes to "work" with Alice. Therefore, Aunt Kaori, who is staying at home, has no objection to her daughter's sudden departure from the city when she is about to supper. This is why these two girls raided at their laboratory hundreds of miles away from Los Angeles in the middle of the night.

Overall, the process went smoothly.

Even if the layman does not understand the specific status of this national laboratory, since it can have the strongest supercomputer released last year, it is obviously not comparable to that of ordinary research institutes. For such a laboratory with a full schedule, even in the early morning, there are a large number of people working, so of course they will not be caught off guard by the uninvited arrival of the two girls.

And the rental invitation went very smoothly.

Supercomputers in any era have business to rent out. The question is who the renter is and how long it will take to rent it. For the capitalist United States, if Alice is ahead and buys many supercomputers with huge amounts of money, even if they want to study rocket launches, they must line up honestly.

The end result is that Alice rented this supercomputer 75 with a price of 10 million US dollars, which is equivalent to the computing power of the Core 3 low-end processor, with a lease period of four months.

Thankfully, this computer just settled in the laboratory last year. Many companies and institutions that require computing power are still lined up with other supercomputers, otherwise Alice would not have taken a large share of three-quarters.

Well, 75 of 3.9 billion times is still very rubbish, but it can still be equivalent to the first generation Core 3, at least much better than the Pentium 4.

The total 10 million dollars of funds were only used to rent a supercomputer. Such huge expenses made Maiya so shocked that she couldn't stop talking. However, Alice's words made her even more speechless.

"The more developed the economy, more and more movies will be produced for high costs, and there will be many similar situations in the future. Not to mention tens of thousands or 20,000, even if the shooting cost is hundreds of millions of dollars, it will definitely happen after 2005!"

As for why it was 2005, Wuya certainly had nothing to say, but she did think Alice was right. Looking back at the cost of filming and box office in Hollywood, aren’t it just getting higher and higher?

Of course, neither the receipt of the ten million US dollars or the beginning of the lease period will take effect from now on. After all, Alice has not even revised the script yet. As a director, Cameron has to recruit actors immediately. Mr. Lawrence plans to be the producer himself, and there are many related work.

So, when Maiya drove a Hummer, added oil three times throughout the journey, and finally returned to Los Angeles, Alice was about to show up at DreamWorks again.

This is a movie with unprecedented investment costs!

Whether it is the cost history of Alice and DreamWorks, or all the movies in the entire Hollywood history, this Alien II will have the greatest expense!

"Ten million dollars, just to rent a supercomputer!?"

At the office of DreamWorks Chairman at noon on weekdays, Lawrence was so scared by the sky-high price: "Is it necessary to be so extravagant? Even Lucas's New Star Wars Hope, the entire shooting cost is only 13 million, right? Ten million is just to rent a computer. Are you planning to make the shooting cost so high!?"

However, if Lawrence was feeling sorry for money, Cameron was like a child who had been looking forward to a year. He just got the Christmas gift he had always dreamed of, and laughed excitedly: "The world's most advanced supercomputer! 75 computer share! Haha, Alice, talk to me, when you and Akaman went to someone's laboratory, were those people scared!?"

"I was really shocked."

Alice smiled with sincerity: "Ten million dollars, for a laboratory, this is a sky-high income, enough for them to conduct many experiments. After I presented the property certificate, the director seemed to be afraid that I would repent, so he quickly urged me to pay the deposit. The whole process went smoothly."

However, Lawrence still looked heartbroken: "But this is 10 million. I only spent so much to promote the ghost record for you last year. Even if you pay the money yourself, 10 million."

"Uncle Roger, why did you suddenly fall into money?"

Alice supported her chin with one hand and looked at Lawrence with contempt: "The problem is to look at it the other way around. Since this movie has spent such a big price on special effects, how can the box office be bad? I have someone who has made 200 million yuan in box office through ghost recordings. The theme and sequel of Alien Two are all here. If the box office is over 100 million yuan, isn't it a big profit?"

"Roger just feels sorry."

Sitting in a corner of the sofa, Maiya, who was just a driver for Alice, was holding a cashew and suddenly interrupted, "But Alice, now you have computing power. How do you plan to use it? Hiring Industrial Light Magic will cost a lot, right? This is not about renting equipment. I think you are in a position to rent a US armored vehicle, right?"

Lawrence nodded vigorously and smiled bitterly: "This is what I worry about. Alice, Lucas's asking price has never been cheap. If you can guarantee that you can handle the special effects part by yourself, I won't feel so distressed, but"

"Then let Alice be my special effects engineer!"

Cameron spoke, with Alice's investment, his excitement was aroused: "The previous movie was the director, the invading brain cells and the screenwriter. I said, "I said, "Since you are so eloquent, you should be the leader of the special effects group, right?"

"Just kidding, that's like playing."

Of course, Alice took over the job: "Just my head, the endless creativity in my head, and my computer technology, I will give you special effects on this movie, aren't it easy to die?"

Seeing the girl praising her intelligence so carelessly, the two adults and one high school girl in the room immediately burst into laughter.

"Okay, okay, then I'll hire one less person!"

Cameron patted Alice on the shoulder hard, but then said, "But, you are not a professional special effects engineer after all, so I still want to hire some staff members in the industry. Let me see."

"At present, the only one in the industry who does computer special effects is Industrial Light and Magic?"

Alice waved her hand and said, "Leave the work to me, don't worry. The Industrial Light and Magic people, to put it bluntly, are just a gathering of experts from all walks of life and all. You just need to hire some for me to see."

After thinking about what technology needed to use for Alien Two, Alice said: "Model designers and mechanical designers, these two types of people hired five of them to help me, which is enough!"

It's really enough.

Whether it is the design of spacecraft shapes, the design of various science fiction guns, the design of colonial buildings, etc., with Alice's head, the design drawings are all concepts of forming in one go. Five model designers and mechanical designers are responsible for making them in person according to Alice's requirements. Just like a battlefield command center has many mining probes, it is enough to simply obey orders.

Cameron thought about it briefly and agreed.

If it were other little girls who ran to him and said this, if it weren't for the sake of the girl, Cameron would have kicked the man out long ago.

But since it is Alice, a girl who is so young and who has become a millionaire by relying on technical patents, is a different matter.

After all, since she has thrown ten million into the rental computer, she will never ruin the movie she invested in, right?

"But I have another problem."

But Cameron also has a question: "You are the only one who knows how to operate computers. Since you have rented so much computing power, you must have a way to create computer special effects, right? What software are you using? Are they from Industrial Light and Magic?"

"Oh, that's it"

Alice touched her chin: ",rr,rs,sn,bsn, there are many things to use."

Cameron frowned deeply, forming a deep forehead pattern: "Which company's software is this? Why haven't I heard of it?"

"Oh, of course you haven't heard of it."

Alice shrugged and laughed: "Because these are all software I developed myself when I was bored, I plan to open another company to buy them."

"What is the company name?"

"b! Don't ask me why I'm so good!"

"I didn't ask" to be continued.

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Chapter completed!