Brother Dao Took the Entertainment Industry by Storm, Fans Beg Me Not to Kill Anymore

Chapter 488: Special Effects Study, Rendering Competition

"Knock knock."The office door was knocked, and Dai Bo walked in.

"Sorry, I'm a bit late."

Dai Bo greeted Yuan Ling and Xiao He respectively.

Xiao He then also stood up, actively inviting, "Come on, Old Yuan, it's mealtime, let's go out for a meal. Dai Bo and I will treat you!"

Yuan Ling glanced at the watch on his wrist, then shook his head, "Forget it, you two go ahead. I'll eat at the cafeteria. I have a class in the first period this afternoon."

"Oh, a class after two o'clock, there's plenty of time. Let's just sit somewhere near the gate," Xiao He urged. "Come on, come on, come on. I don't even know when I'll be able to come back next time. I finally have some free time to visit—"

Yuan Ling thought for a moment, then finally nodded helplessly, "Alright then, let's go."

So, Yuan Ling followed his two students to a relatively well-known restaurant near the school.

Since it was an old establishment, there were no private rooms, so Xiao He was recognized by a passing university student while eating.

Fortunately, the three of them were originally just there for a meal and casual conversation, so they didn't stay for very long. They left after finishing their meal, not causing too much of a stir on-site or attracting more students to gather.

In the parking lot, Xiao He originally intended to give Yuan Ling some fruit, but Yuan Ling refused again.

Xiao He could only regretfully give up.

Before leaving, Yuan Ling hesitated for a moment, then still said to Xiao He, "Life indeed offers many choices. However, I hope that when you decide to choose one path, you don't abandon your mastery of the other path. I hope you have the courage to follow one path to the end, and also the confidence to switch paths at any time."

Xiao He was somewhat stunned.

He seemed completely unprepared for Yuan Ling to suddenly say such words to him.

But what followed was a rising bitterness in his heart.

The teacher didn't know why his student suddenly ran off to the entertainment industry. The teacher just hoped his student would have smooth sailing in everything in the future, neither fearing any storms nor lacking a sufficient sanctuary to retreat to.

This is the kindness of a true teacher.

Yuan Ling also couldn't say anything more. He just raised his hand, patted Xiao He's shoulder, then turned and walked towards the teaching building, "In the future, if you have anything, just message me on the phone. You're a busy person too, it's not very convenient to run to the school frequently. I'll reply when I see it after my usual classes."

Then, as he walked away, he deliberately waved his hand with an air of coolness.

Dai Bo, standing to the side, also walked forward with Yuan Ling, but halfway, he suddenly turned back towards Xiao He and clenched his fist, showing encouragement.

Xiao He stood in place for a long time, then let out a helpless, light laugh.

Although the friendships forged in university were few, they were immensely precious.

That Teacher Yuan was still willing to continue helping him, a student who had long graduated, without expecting anything in return, truly made one feel ashamed.

Xiao He shook his head, deeply feeling that he had been fortunate to encounter noble people all along the way. Finally, he turned around, got in his car, and discreetly left the school.

...

Xiao He's visit to Hu University to see his teacher didn't cause much discussion online. With the guidance of a professional teacher, Xiao He's learning progressed rapidly.

With a foundation in hacking skills, anything in the computer field, as long as he could understand the principles and then get hands-on practice, meant he could master it in just a few short days.

In the end, the special effects artist who came to teach Xiao He, looking at the international award he had just received in his hand, then at Xiao He's "Mecha vs. Aliens" created in just over a week, fell into a long silence.

"Teacher, what do you think of my rendering here?"

"Teacher, this movement still feels a bit off. Does it mean we can only find motion capture to bind the skeleton again?"

"Teacher, this position of mine..."

"Teacher..."

Teacher: ...

A person receiving an award abroad, who accidentally discovered a guy with talent so hard it could chop down trees, now feels the award in his hand is cold, as if it's about to fly away. What's going on?

Teacher: "Xiao Xiao, I think you've already successfully mastered this. I have nothing left to teach you. Let's contact each other less in the future, okay?"

Xiao He: "Huh? But teacher, actually, I wanted to invite..."

Teacher: Offline. Don't contact if there's something. Thanks.

Xiao He: ???

"Actually, I wanted to ask if your team has any availability..."

Looking at the now blacked-out screen, Xiao He finished his unsaid words.

However, the person on the other side ran away too fast and couldn't hear it anymore.

Xiao He sighed.

Alright, he admitted he was somewhat outrageously talented, but this was already the lowest efficiency.

After all, training in the morning, studying in the afternoon, and waiting for rendering at night—his current speed was completely dragged down by the rendering speed.

As is well known, for production to be high-quality, rendering time must be long. In many post-production special effects workflows, the rendering stage typically accounts for 30%-60% of the time. Rendering a single shot can take several days, and a complete process taking over a month is already the norm.

This is also why many people in the industry would say, "Rendering is fun for a while, the fan is the funeral pyre."

Because this thing really consumes graphics card hardware. Once frame drops occur, it's equivalent to all the previous rendering being wasted, just waiting for the algorithm to reset and start rendering all over again.

And once rendering starts, it's definitely the main battlefield for the CPU and cooling.

Even Xiao He's self-assembled, ultra-high-performance computer had to start high-power cooling at this time, driving away the heat and pressure brought by rendering.

This is the power of "rendering."

Thus, higher-level special effects technology also means more complex basic hardware and server clusters.

It must be said that this is indeed a very "money-burning" project, and it's truly not something Xiao He could save money on by doing it alone.

In this situation, labor might be the cheapest expense. More funds are all spent on the machines and servers behind it.

So, even though he had successfully mastered the skills, Xiao He gave up on the idea of doing the work himself to save money and proactively extended an olive branch to that person's team.

Unfortunately, the other party seemed to have been scared off by him.

Xiao He: ... What else could he say?

Forget it. Anyway, the production team hasn't started filming yet. It seems a bit too early for him to look for post-production now. There's still plenty of time to work on it later!

So Xiao He happily decided to put this matter aside for now and wait until the teacher's team returned.

However, while flipping through materials earlier, Xiao He coincidentally saw that there was an international rendering competition in the industry in August. This was considered one of the most influential events in the industry. Considering that the ready-made work was just sitting there, after researching the participation requirements and specifications, Xiao He simply revised his "Mecha vs. Aliens" again and casually tossed it into the competition's submission email.

After that, Xiao He didn't pay any more attention to the matter.

Because at the end of June, "Cangyue Calamity" finally aired its grand finale.

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The adaptation everyone had been looking forward to for a long time did not appear. The final story was quite similar to the original comic's plot.

In the grand finale, during the last cycle, the female lead, the male lead, and others within the sect joined hands to battle the Demon God, finally succeeding in defeating him.

However, because the Demon God had long been bound to the soul of the second male lead, the Senior Brother, if he died, it also meant the Senior Brother would die along with him.

Everyone hesitated, unable to make a choice.

But how could someone like the Senior Brother bear to let others be put in a difficult position because of him?

So in the end, everyone else survived successfully and achieved a perfect ending. Only the second male lead, the Senior Brother, chose to perish together with the Demon God, completely dissipating from the world.

—From then on, soul scattered, not entering reincarnation. The world no longer had the earth-shattering Demon God, nor the peerless Senior Brother.

The viewers cried uncontrollably.

[I'm really begging you all! You didn't adapt the parts that should have been adapted, and just easily earned my tears like this, wuwu—]

[Give me back my Senior Brother!]

[Author, are you there? Screenwriter, are you there? Can I have a home address? No other meaning, just want to send some local specialties.]