The Wright Digital Art Center is a very famous park-style architectural landscape in San Francisco. His reputation is not only because he is a master's work, but more importantly, the first generation of movie CG special effects was born here, which not only created Star Wars, but also created a new direction for movies.

On January 1, 1991, Zhou Ming had no time to sigh that he had been reborn and came back for another year, so he hurriedly drove here.

After parked the car in the underground parking lot, Zhou Minghe saw a familiar figure as soon as he walked out of the parking lot. Zhou Ming opened his mouth and called out his name: Mr. Jobs, I didn't expect you to pick me up in person.

Jobs joked about this: Of course, you are the largest investor of our Pis Animation Studio. If you don’t serve you well and you suddenly withdraw your investment, then we may have been drinking the northwest wind all year round. You know, for Toy Story, I have turned down all the company’s animation production business, and some even paid liquidated damages.

It seems that Lucas must be very happy now, because his Industrial Light and Magic Company lacks one of the biggest competitors. Even if it is only one month, he can still grab many orders from you. Zhou Ming also joked.

Although Zhou Ming and Jobs were both joking, from Jobs' words, Zhou Ming could tell that after he had his own investment, he was really trying his best to make the animated film Toy Story.

After some jokes, Jobs also invited Zhou Ming to walk into the Wright Digital Art Center and came to the Piss Animation Studio.

The office was very quiet, and dozens of employees were working hard in front of the computer. In the huge office, you could hear the buzzing sound of the computer CPU and hard drive running.

Suddenly, the sound of wooden boards slacking off next door. Jobs told Zhou Ming: It must be that bad guy looking for feelings again. You know that our protagonist is a cowboy sheriff with wooden boards under his feet, so whenever our painter has no inspiration, he will go to the next room to stick the wooden boards under his feet and walk, making people want to drag his shoes down and slap his face hard.

It seems that this artist must be very serious, which makes me look forward to his works very much. Zhou Ming casually echoed.

But I hope he won't cause trouble for me. Jobs said that this toy story will make people look forward to it, because it is completely made of 3D animation. He is not as rigid as other cartoons, but very three-dimensional. According to my requirements, this cartoon will give people the feeling that it happens in front of you. Only in this way can it bring the audience a kind of beautiful enjoyment.

Zhou Ming inspected Piss animation studio while listening to Jobs' explanation. After about a quarter of an hour, they came to Jobs' office.

Since leaving Aipai Company, Jobs has been an individual investor. Later, he acquired Piss Animation Studio and built it into his own office.

Zhou Ming sat down in the office, and Jobs brewed a cup of coffee for himself and Zhou Ming respectively.

I think Mr. Zhou Ming, you must have something very important when you suddenly visited today. Jobs sat down and asked.

Zhou Ming nodded without hesitation and said: That's right, I came here to ask when you plan to release this cartoon

According to my original plan, it will take at least three years later, but now, with Mr. Zhou Ming, you have investment, I expect the cartoons to be completed within two to three months. Including publicity and distribution, I expect to reach the summer season in 1992. Jobs was very serious about calculating with his fingers.

The summer season in 1992 is too far away. Can you speed up the progress? Zhou Ming asked, for example, let the movie be released within a month

Before Zhou Ming's voice was finished, Jobs immediately denied: This is impossible, Mr. Zhou Ming, are you kidding me in a month? Even if the studio works overtime, at most, you can only complete the production of the movie, as well as the review and grading of the film association, the promotion and distribution of the movie, and the schedule of the theater chain, etc., do you have to squeeze out these tasks within 24 hours?

I'm sorry, Mr. Jobs, I'm not joking. Of course, I understand that if you follow the normal film production process, it is absolutely impossible to complete these tasks within one month. Zhou Ming then changed his subject and asked, but Mr. Jobs just said that if you work overtime on this cartoon, then it can be completed within one month.

Jobs frowned. Although he was puzzled why Zhou Ming asked this, he nodded and answered correctly.

But the creation of a movie should be a burst of inspiration. Can you ensure the accuracy of time? Zhou Ming asked again.

If everything starts from scratch, including the script and all the background stories and personality settings of the characters, I can't guarantee it even in one or two years, but Toy Story is different. Jobs said that the detailed scripts of the entire cartoon and various storyboard scripts were already done, and even many sketches of the shots were drawn long ago, and the work we have to do now is to make these things that have been conceived long ago into pictures.

What is needed at this time is the mechanical work of the artists, so the time can be estimated. Even if we can join forces with other animation production studios, I believe this time can be shortened. Jobs said.

Jobs' answer made Zhou Ming very happy: So, as Mr. Jobs said, is it possible that Toy Story will be released within one month?

This is impossible for Jobs to blurt out his answer, but he then calmed down his emotions before asking, "I think before I deny it, I need to listen to your reasons, Mr. Zhou Ming, including the reason you came here today and the reason you want Toy Story to be released within a month; because if there is no sufficient reason, I will definitely refuse to let an assembly line movie not be released through artistic creation, but through the rush of construction periods, even Mr. Zhou Ming, your request will not work."

Zhou Ming was not surprised by Jobs's question at all.

It seems that Mr. Jobs really regarded this toy story as an art. Zhou Ming made a random joke and then said seriously that it was because my investment was targeted and it was very serious. If I could not complete an excellent big project within a month, I would probably have a very bad result.

Then Zhou Ming told Jobs about Tang Ran's inheritance of the Tang family's industry and then coming to Jeko's company for assessment. After listening, Jobs fell into silence for a long time.

After a while, Jobs finally sighed heavily: I really didn't expect that there would be such a thing. It seems that I know too little about this world.

After making fun of himself, Jobs said again: For this reason, I think I would be happy to obey your orders by Mr. Zhou Ming, but sometimes the problem is not as good as we want. As I said just now, a month is only the shortest time for making cartoons, not including post-production editing and posting to the Film Association for review, as well as the promotion and distribution of the film. These cannot be completed within one day.

So if the production of the movie and the promotion of the movie are carried out at the same time, Zhou Ming asked.

If this method is the case, it will be too late in time, but I think Mr. Zhou Ming, you have ignored the most important issue, that is, the censorship of movies by the Film Association.

Jobs then told Zhou Ming: A movie is not allowed to be released in theaters before it passes the review by the Film Association. Therefore, the process of all movies is first reviewed and then the promotion and theater schedule is initiated, because if the review is not passed, or the grading results of the Film Association are different from our publicity, it will not only cause a lot of waste of resources, but will even seriously affect the reputation of the film itself.

Speaking of this, Jobs paused for a moment, then looked at Zhou Ming and said: It is precisely for this reason that I have hardly heard of that movie that was promoted and released before it was sent for review, because such behavior is simply unreasonable.

But if I have a way to perfectly avoid all the problems you mentioned by Mr. Jobs and can also minimize the publicity cost, Zhou Ming asked remarks.

Facing Zhou Ming's rebuttal question, Jobs was stunned at the time, and his eyes were full of incredibleness when he looked at Zhou Ming.

Jobs was very confident in his eloquence. Because of this, he also believed that he had explained the problem of being released in a hurry very clearly, and more importantly, many problems here are almost inevitable.

If you want to promote the movie before the review, you will not have any impact unless you do not disclose the name of the movie or play any movie clips. But the problem is that the promotion of the movie is to tell everyone what kind of story my movie tells, and to attract audiences to the cinema through wonderful clips. Don’t say anything? That’s what promotion is called

Jobs shook his head. If it were others, Jobs would have left the seat in anger at this time, but to Zhou Ming, Jobs still patiently said: I'm sorry, Mr. Zhou Ming, I think I can understand that you hope the movie will be released within one month, but unfortunately what you said is impossible.

But Mr. Jobs, I can tell you responsibly that nothing is impossible. Zhou Ming said firmly.

Zhou Ming's words made Jobs's eyes lit up: So, Mr. Zhou Ming, do you have any good solutions?

Zhou Ming shook his head and replied: No.

Hearing this answer, Jobs was in a mess on the spot. If Jobs hadn't been able to confirm Zhou Ming's serious tone, he would have thought Zhou Ming was joking. Otherwise, how could he be so firm that there was a way, and then answered so easily that there was no way. Isn't this a lunatic?

Zhou Ming smiled at this and said: I can understand what you feel is incredible, but what I want to say is that I really have no choice now. After all, I have to promote the movie without revealing the name and content of the movie and not having any negative impact on subsequent movie promotion. This is completely contrary to the word "promotion". I am not a genius, so how can I think of it when I think of it?

Zhou Ming then suddenly changed the subject and said: But I always believe that there is no problem that cannot be solved, only brains that are unwilling to use. As long as we think hard, there will definitely be a solution.

Jobs was shocked by Zhou Ming's answer. If it were someone else, Jobs would definitely think that he was too blind and conceited, but Zhou Ming and Jobs had a very strong premonition: he could fulfill his promise.
Chapter completed!