How much are the special effects in Hollywood blockbusters?

It's too expensive. To what extent? As ordinary wage earners, we work hard for tens of thousands of dollars a year, hundreds of thousands of years (excluding cities in the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen). So if we ordinary people want to support Hollywood special effects this year, it may only take one second to three or four seconds ~ if facial special effects and animal special effects are fine to the pore level, we may not be able to persist for one second. Because some films with high quality requirements are even calculated frame by frame. You know, a movie usually has 24 frames per second. Of course, this is not the maximum number of frames in a movie. Some film-seeking directors, such as Ang Lee, used to make films at 120 frames per second.

So what's the difference between foreign special effects? Why do you burn so much money? It is really because the cost is too high.

1. First of all, the labor cost abroad is very expensive. You often hear the news that dogs are walking abroad for 40 dollars an hour. Of course, this is a minority, but overall, the labor cost abroad is very high. This is why so many enterprises have to set up labor-intensive factories in developing countries to reduce expenses and increase income. Special effects films are different. It requires both high-end skilled talents and a huge group to write. The income of high-end talents is not cheap, and the film preparation time is long. Some movies, such as Transformers, have been prepared for ten years. For ten years, the cost of this special effect has never stopped burning.

2, special effects equipment and rendering costs are high, and I have learned three-dimensional design or understand animation. As we all know, the more detailed the scene is, the rendered effect will make people crash every second, and the average computer can't move at all. There are hundreds of thousands of machines that can support movie rendering. As I said before, this requires assembly line operation, 3D modeling, post-processing, special effects processing and other machines are all burning money. Then the rendering part. It is said that it takes 200 to 300 hours for Hollywood movies to render each frame of special effects. So many large special effects companies have their own rendering farms, which is unimaginable for us ordinary people even if the electricity bill comes down for one year.

3. The cost of revision is high. Anyone who has studied design knows the pain of revision, and so does the film industry. The director is not satisfied with the change, and Party A's father suddenly wants to change the plan and sometimes even overthrow the reconstruction. The cost is naturally higher.

In short, it is expensive for a reason. It is precisely because of behind-the-scenes money burning that some blockbusters become more exciting. Now, some domestic films have begun to amaze the world in terms of special effects. For example, "Nezha", a wandering globe in recent two years, etc., so I hope that in the future, China films will pay more and more attention to quality rather than flow, and make better film products.