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Chapter 337 The Strongest Law Department Takes Action
🕑 Added 2025-05-19 15:20:17 +0000 UTCThe 3D production mentioned by Nanaya is certainly not ordinary 3D particle special effects.
Instead, it is a 3D movie format that became very popular in later generations.
Yes, it's the 3D that requires glasses to watch.
This was something that Nanaya decided upon after being informed by Shion a few days ago.
In fact, Nanaya had no intention of touching 3D so early at the beginning. He is not a director like James Cameron who likes to expand the market.
The risk was too great, and Nanaya simply couldn't afford the risk of failure.
What Nanaya hopes more is to follow others and wait until they have developed the market to a relatively mature level before he enters the market to make money.
It was completely an accident that the movie was shot in 3D this time.
The source of the whole thing has to start with James Cameron's "Avatar".
The truck driver's next box office-topping movie has already started production. After all, Cameron is famous for his slow work and it is normal for him to spend several years honing his skills.
Because Cameron has a morbid obsession with his own movies. If the movie is not perfect, he must make it perfect.
For this purpose, he could spend more than 2 million US dollars to redo a set of prop tableware, just to make sure that the tableware had the White Star Company logo that would never appear in the camera.
Similarly, when existing technology cannot achieve the visual effects he wants, he will not choose to make do like other directors, but ask the special effects company to develop the special effects he wants.
This was the case with "Titanic" and the same is true for "Avatar" which is still in production.
So, there is only one James Cameron in this world.
Although the concept of 3D movies has existed for a long time, only "Avatar" has been able to apply it commercially and lead the trend.
The epoch-making special effects technology of "Avatar" certainly did not come out of nowhere. Cameron had been preparing for this movie a long time ago.
Many special effects gradually matured during the production of "Avatar" and were eventually accepted by the film market.
Among these technologies, there are two that are most important for future film production. One is that the cost of motion capture technology has been greatly reduced, and the other is the promotion of 3D and IMAX in the commercial field by movies.
Coincidentally, the special effects company that James was looking for to produce "Avatar" was Weta Workshop, which had a close working relationship with Washimine.
As early as when Nanaya was filming "Goblin Slayer", Washimine's special effects team had already established a good cooperative relationship with Weta Studio.
At the time, this cooperation seemed to be a win-win for both parties, but after the filming of "Goblin Slayer" and "The Lord of the Rings" was completed, the cooperation between the two parties did not end.
On the contrary, seeing the benefits of cooperating with Weta Workshop, Washimine has been actively courting Weta Workshop in recent years.
Up to now, although the two studios are still owned by two different companies, they are almost as close as wearing one leg of pants.
In the process of making "Avatar" for Cameron, Weta Studio accumulated a lot of advanced 3D production technology.
These technologies will be applied to "Avatar", but no one knows what the specific effects of these technologies will be.
It’s not that Weta Workshop has no confidence in their technology, but they are struggling with whether these technologies can perform well in commercial films.
Although Cameron is very confident, the problem is that no one can say when "Avatar" will be released.
After all, Cameron is a well-known king of delayed releases. Not to mention "Avatar 2" which caused endless resentment among movie fans, even "Titanic" was delayed countless times.
In order to realize these technologies as quickly as possible, Weta Workshop urgently needs a guinea pig that can help it test these technologies.
In almost a second, they thought of their studio's official guinea pig, bah, it was their old friend - the great director Mr. Nanaya Kiryu.
Originally, Nanaya had no real interest in this matter. Given the current popularity of 3D projection equipment, producing 3D equipment separately would only increase costs unnecessarily.
Because there are too few theaters capable of showing 3D movies, the money earned from 3D is not enough to cover the increased costs of making the movies.
Of course Nanaya thinks that 3D is useless at this stage, but others don’t think so.
No, it should be said that the cost issue that Nanaya thinks is not a problem at all in the eyes of others.
What Weta Workshop wants to see is the market reaction and whether there is a market for this new 3D technology they have developed.
You should know that although the early red and blue 3D technology can produce a three-dimensional visual effect, it causes too much fatigue to the human eyes, and generally a break is needed after about 30 minutes.
But you can't have an intermission when you watch a movie, right?
So except for some special movies, mainstream commercial films are still skeptical about 3D.
Of course, Weta doesn't want to spend so much effort to develop something that is just a showpiece that can be seen but not used.
So they made a request that if Seven Nights' movies used their new 3D technology, they would give a 50% discount on the fee (3D portion only).
However, Nanaya was still not interested in this matter, and it was Shion's request that changed Nanaya's mind.
Shion felt that this 3D screen display method could be applied to games, making Washimine's games more attractive to players.
For example, playing full 3D games at home can be used as a form of promotion.
Therefore, in order to verify the advantages and disadvantages of these technologies in practical applications, the Washimine game department also applied to Shion, hoping that Nanaya could use this method to shoot a movie, and then they would participate in the production of the movie throughout the whole process.
Shion agreed to their request and told Nanaya about it.
The general meaning is that all the technical costs for 3D processing that will be used during the filming of Seven Nights will be included in the game department's development budget this year.
"Will Satoru actually agree to such a stupid proposal?"
When Nanaya received a call from Shion, his eyelids began to twitch.
Although Nanaya is not a technical person, based on the future development of game consoles, he feels that this kind of thing is very unreliable.
Anyway, until 2019, Nanaya has not seen any successful cases of applying 3D technology to home consoles.
Nintendo did develop a handheld game console with naked-eye 3D technology, but due to the limitations of its functions, although there are some masterpieces like "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D" with excellent 3D effects, most of the works are relatively mediocre.
"You don't have to be so absolute." Shion encouraged with a smile, "Anyway, you won't suffer any loss in this matter. Perhaps this is a good opportunity for the technical department to waste budget."
Nanaya pinched his brows and said, "Yes, everyone likes to waste budget. But the problem is that even if you have money, you can't waste it like this, right? Moreover, shouldn't wasting budget be left to the end of the year? It's only the beginning of the year. Are the people in the game technology department planning to live on growing potatoes in the second half of this year?"
Shion asked curiously, "Why grow potatoes? You can't use them to make network servers."
Nanaya suddenly wanted to teach Shion something about a certain playground that had an inextricable relationship with potatoes, but seeing that Shion was very busy, he decided to forget it.
"Okay, I've almost arranged everything here. When will you finish your work?"
"It's almost done. There are still a few troublemakers." Shion's voice was full of joy. "Once we have dealt with them all, we will go back to Japan. I can't wait to see the constipated face of that middle-aged uncle."
It turns out that those who gathered to protest [See Moon] are paper tigers.
The strongest legal department took action and let these people know that Washimine’s people are not easy to mess with.
Washimine's legal department conducted a comprehensive investigation of the protesters to see if they had infringed on their company's patents and copyrights.
As soon as there is any, we will immediately take legal action and let these guys who have nothing better to do have a taste of what it feels like to be screwed.
Most people think that Washimine is very strict about the copyright of his characters, but they don’t know that Washimine’s most amazing thing is his massive number of patents.
As a century-old company, Washimine has many strange patents, which are detailed and complex.
For example, there is the infamous cross key patent, the patent for continuing the game after the console is put into standby mode, and a large number of patents related to touch screens, etc.
Generally speaking, Washimine only uses these patents as a form of self-protection, which is very different from patent trolls like Konami.
After all, if you really want to be serious, 80% of the games on the market involve patent infringement.
If this is really the case, then no one should make games anymore and just spend all day in lawsuits.
Therefore, as long as the fundamental interests of Washimine are not infringed, they generally will not take these to the level of legal sanctions.
But if someone pushes Washimine into a corner, then Washimine can only say sorry, it was you who acted like a hooligan first, so don't blame me for pulling down your pants and fucking your ass.
As a result, those who protested were severely punished by Washimine. Three-quarters of them were found to have committed copyright infringements, and at least one-third faced lawsuits.
After all, Washimine’s copyright and patents are really weird. Who knows when he will cross the red line.
There were indeed a group of other people who were innocent and had not committed any infringement, but when they saw that Washimine was serious, they immediately backed down.
As a result, the originally massive protest was immediately reduced to just two or three kittens.
It is not known whether these people are in a difficult situation, or are really dissatisfied with [See Moon], or are just born masochists. The more Washimine messes with them, the more excited they become.
In short, there is still a small group of stubborn elements left, and they are still protesting.
"Don't worry, these guys are just grasshoppers after autumn, they won't be able to jump for long."
Shion said nonchalantly on the phone, as if these guys were really just a trivial matter.
"I can finish it in three days, and then we'll go back to Japan together to attend the Japanese Oscars."
Yes, the time has now come to March 2006, and the most crucial battle in the war between Washimine and Lin Bao over who will be the industry boss is finally about to begin.
