Chapter 88 Advance Training

Finally, under the strong pressure from Ori, Nanaya gave the extra 30,000 yen of tuition fees for each Tsuburaya employee to the studio for safekeeping.

However, Ori, who was counting the money with a smile on his face, didn't know that Nanaya's offer to the Americans was actually 50,000 yen per person.

In other words, Nanaya still stole a lot of personal funds, but no one knew about it except himself.

After all, Ori was more or less considerate of Nanaya's face and did not make a fuss in the studio, which allowed Nanaya to escape and the kickback issue was not exposed.

Although his private treasury was reduced a lot, for Nanaya, this amount of money was enough for him to live a little more freely while abroad.

Of course, Nanaya doesn't have many opportunities to enjoy himself while abroad. On the contrary, he is very busy.

As his first large-scale commercial film, the preparations for Goblin Slayer made the inexperienced Nanaya a little flustered. Unlike the low-budget films like Kara and Magical, which could be filmed as soon as all the people were assembled, the preparations for Goblin Slayer were much more complicated.

During this period, Nanaya traveled from Japan to London, Los Angeles, Wellington and Matamata (a small town in New Zealand) many times to discuss the production of "Goblin Slayer".

Apart from work, Nanaya basically spent the rest of his time on the plane. Even so, he spent most of his time on the plane working, because he wanted to use the time in the sky to make a storyboard sketch for the movie.

Fortunately, Washimine helped him solve most of the financial and technical problems, otherwise Nanaya would have been really busy.

Nanaya was generally satisfied with the special effects team that Washimine Shion had found. The only thing that made him regretful was that this team was mainly engaged in model making and computer special effects, and these people were not good at the motion capture technology that Nanaya wanted the most.

In fact, this cannot be blamed on the unprofessional people hired by Shion Washimine. After all, motion capture technology is so rare nowadays.

At present, even in Hollywood, motion capture technology is still not good enough to watch. The characters are stiff and expressionless. This situation can be said to be basically a death sentence for the practical application of motion capture technology special effects.

This situation did not change until the release of The Two Towers, the second film in The Lord of the Rings series, at the end of 2002. The character of Gollum, played by Andy Serkis, completely overturned people's inherent impression of motion capture technology.

"According to the current filming progress of The Lord of the Rings series, they should have already started filming the second part. I wonder if Peter Jackson's Weta Workshop has found a talent for motion capture technology. I hope so, I can borrow some of it."

During this period, Nanaya took time out to visit Weta Workshop in Wellington several times. Unfortunately, because "The Lord of the Rings" project is the studio's current focus project, all related project matters are kept confidential.

However, Nanaya still reached a preliminary cooperation agreement with this future leading special effects studio. Although he did not meet Peter Jackson himself, Peter the Great readily agreed to borrow extras and set designs when he learned about it.

After all, the current Weta Workshop is still a small workshop compared to other special effects studios, not to mention the top ILM in the industry. So when Nanaya brought the project to cooperate with the other party, the other party still agreed with both hands.

With the future of "The Lord of the Rings" project uncertain, if this Japanese wants to give them money, then they can't refuse, right?

However, what made Nanaya feel a little unhappy was that because the two parties had not yet signed a final cooperation agreement, the New Zealanders were somewhat secretive about the application of special effects technology in "The Lord of the Rings". This made Nanaya unable to determine what the other party's motion capture technology talent skill tree had been.

Although Nanaya plans to use makeup to deal with most of the goblins, some special goblins and monsters cannot be dealt with by makeup. After all, makeup plus a leather suit will give people a sense of stiffness, which is far less convenient than motion capture technology.

If Weta Workshop had already revealed this talent point, then Nanaya would have it a lot easier.

However, these are things that happened after the official signing of the contract with Weta Workshop. What Nanaya needs those American employees of Washimine to do now is to use "Magical Illya" to complete the running-in between team members.

Fortunately, Nanaya's work progress on "Magical Illya" was far ahead of the TV station's broadcast progress, which gave him plenty of time to coordinate the entire team.

However, because the special effects production company was changed midway, the post-production progress of "Magical Illya" immediately slowed down.

This is partly due to the team's adjustment in the United States, and of course partly due to the working habits of Americans.

It's not that these Americans don't work hard, but they don't have the Japanese spirit of overtime. Unless there is a particularly urgent work, these Americans will definitely leave work on time at 5:30.

This made Nanaya very uncomfortable. When he was in the Japanese workplace, he hated working overtime. But now, he missed those employees who worked enthusiastically and consciously worked overtime until 9 o'clock before leaving.

As for working overtime on weekends, that is even more impossible.

Fortunately, TBS also knew that the special effects produced by these Americans would be better, so although the progress was a bit slow, TBS did not rush too much. They just had to ensure that the original film was submitted to the TV station for review one week in advance.

"So, why can't the Americans learn from the hard work of Japanese workers?"

"That's because you, Senior, are now sitting on the side of the capitalists!"

In response to Nanaya's whining, Ori mercilessly exposed his true face.

"Please give me some face..." Nanaya sighed, "I called you from London, am I just here to hear you expose my true colors?"

"Haha, aren't you here as the skinning supervisor to supervise my work progress?" Ori smiled coldly. As a newcomer and director, he might not be so confident, but he knew his senior brother's temper very well.

"Well, I can't hide anything from you. How is the progress of your work here?"

Seeing that he was exposed, Nanaya immediately admitted it shamelessly. After all, international long-distance calls are not cheap, so if he really wants to chat with Ori for a long time, he should wait until he returns to Japan.

Ori on the other end of the phone glanced at the foreigners working hard in front of the computer screen, and then said into the microphone: "Basically, there are no major problems. The special effects production of the last few episodes of "Magical Illya" went very smoothly. Although these Americans don't like to work overtime, they can still guarantee efficiency when they are officially working. How is London?"

"It's just so-so." Nanaya said with some distress, "Luvia and Gawain are okay, but as for Rin..."

As he was speaking, Nanaya saw Rin fall to the ground because he exerted too much force.

Looking at Rin who had been lying on the floor for a long time without getting up, Nanaya smiled bitterly and said, "Anyway... I'm afraid Rin won't be able to do well."

"That's because you've given her too much of a burden. How about letting her rest once in a while?"

Hearing Rin's cry of pain on the other end of the phone, Ori sighed helplessly.