How much do special effects in Hollywood blockbusters cost?

It's too expensive. To what extent? As ordinary working-class people, we earn tens of thousands of dollars a year after hard work, and hundreds of thousands a year (excluding cities in the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen). Then, if we ordinary people want to support Hollywood's special effects this year, it may only take one second to three or four seconds ~ if the facial special effects and animal special effects are fine to the pore level, it may not last for a second. Because some films with high quality requirements are even calculated according to frame by frame. You know, in a movie, there are generally 24 frames per second. Of course, this is not the highest number of frames in a movie. Some directors who are interested in movies, such as Ang Lee, once made movies into 12 frames per second.

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

1. First of all, the labor cost in foreign countries is very expensive. Everyone often hears the news that walking dogs abroad costs 4 dollars an hour. Of course, this is a minority, but on the whole, the labor cost abroad is very high. That's why so many enterprises have to set up labor-intensive factories in developing countries to reduce expenses and increase income. The special effects film is different. It requires both high-end skilled talents and a large group to write. The income of high-end talents is not cheap, and the film preparation time is long. Some films, such as Transformers, took ten years to prepare. For ten years, the cost of this special effect has never stopped burning.

2, special effects equipment and rendering costs are high, and they have learned three-dimensional design or understand animation. Everyone knows that the more elaborate the scene is, the rendering will make people collapse every second, and the general computer can't move it at all. There are hundreds of thousands of machines that can support movie rendering. As I said before, this requires assembly line work, and the machines such as 3D modeling, post-processing and special effects processing are all burning money. Then there is the rendering part. It is said that it takes 2 to 3 hours to render each frame of special effects in Hollywood movies. Therefore, many large-scale special effects companies have their own rendering farms, which is unimaginable for us ordinary people even if the electricity bill comes down in one year.

3. Modification is expensive, and everyone who has studied design knows the pain of modification, 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 change it, and sometimes even overturns the reconstruction. The cost is naturally higher.

in a word, you have your reasons. It is precisely because of the burning funds behind the scenes that some blockbusters become more exciting. Now, some domestic films have begun to amaze the world in terms of special effects. For example, The Wandering Earth's "Nezha" in recent two years and so on, 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.