"The design of this biological exoskeleton is good. It fits the contours of your body well."
Lu Yanchu lowered his hand and sat back down. "Liu's team spent more than two weeks on it. They'd be thrilled to hear that praise from you."
Ji Ting turned back to the screen and continued, "I've looked over the modeling and animation design. I'm not an art specialist, so I won't comment on that. But the rendering of the particle effects exceeded my expectations, and the smoothness of the Live-Action Compositing met the standard too."
Lu Yanchu smiled faintly. "They owe much of what they've achieved in such a short time to your technology."
Back then, Ji Ting had bundled his self-developed physics engine and its related technologies together and sold them to Lu Yanchu for six hundred million.
After having professionals assess them, Lu Yanchu hadn't tried to knock a single cent off the price. He had even added a clause that practically amounted to giving money away.
If Ji Ting was willing to provide occasional technical guidance, Lu Yanchu would give him seven percent of the total box office earnings once the film trilogy was released.
The Ji Ting of today certainly wouldn't have agreed, but at the time, he hadn't yet given up on going back. The funding for equipment and materials had made him say yes.
When Lu Yanchu said occasional, he really meant occasional. More than six months had passed since filming began, and including this visit, he had only approached Ji Ting three times. Ji Ting had provided remote guidance online the first two times. This was their only in-person meeting, and Lu Yanchu had come alone.
"What I made is only a tool. How well they use it depends on their individual abilities."
Lu Yanchu knew