"What I want to thank the most here is Boss Chen. It's safe to say that without him, there's no telling when this Monkey King: Hero Is Back would ever meet everyone, or even if it ever would," Tian Xiaopeng said with a look of deep gratitude.
"So, Boss Chen, can you tell us why you were so optimistic about Monkey King: Hero Is Back?" the host asked.
Wenyuan, Chen Jing smiled and said, "Actually, at first my thoughts were pretty much the same as everyone else's: domestic animated films are just for kids, too naive, and definitely shoddy. At most, they're like Boonie Bears or Pleasant Goat, being 2D. China probably couldn't make a good 3D animated film. Then I have to thank President Wang of Enlight Media. He recommended Monkey King: Hero Is Back to me, so I took a look at the 3-minute animation clip Director Tian had brought along, and I was completely blown away! After watching those three minutes, I realized two things. First, domestic animation visual effects technology is no longer that far behind Hollywood. In fact, from my exchanges with Director Tian, I also learned that many Hollywood movie special effects are actually subcontracted to domestic visual effects studios. So in terms of technology, we really have no problems at all. The biggest issue with domestic 3D animation is that no one dares to invest, because there hadn't been any successful precedents for domestic 3D animated films before. Even now, the highest-grossing domestic animated film is only Boonie Bears…
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