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Unit Eight Success Kevin Baillie and Ryan Tudhope’s story is like a fairy tale. They have been friends since kindergarten. In high school, independent, talkative Baillie wanted to be a lawyer. The intelligent, quiet Tudhope wanted to be an engineer or a scientist. But luckily for us, their plans changed one day in the ninth grade, when they discovered a software program called 3D Studio. They played around with the program for hours after school every day. After a while, they were able to make short movies. Someone liked one of the movies so much that he paid the boys $15,000 to create an advertisement for Seattle’s Space Needle. Their excellent work on the advertisement got them jobs at Microsoft when they were still at high school! Then George Lucas heard about them. Only a week after they graduated from high school, they started working for him on Star Wars: Episode 1. Now, the capable and motivated friends are visual effects supervisors at a top visual effects studio in San Francisco, California. The company, The Orphanage, specializes in visual effects for movies and advertisements. Including their time at The Orphanage, they have worked together for about 15 years. They have worked on about 20 movies, including Sin City, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Charlie’s Angles 2, and Superman Returns. These two intelligent young men have accomplished a lot in less than 30 years. Just imagine what they will do over the next 30 years. 凯文·贝利和赖安·图德霍普的故事就像一个童话。他们从上幼儿园起就是朋友了。在高中，独立、健谈的贝利想成为一名律师;而聪明、安静的图德霍普则想做一名工程师或者科学家。对于我们来说幸运的是，他们的计划在九年级时的某一天改变了，当时他们发现了一个叫做“3D工作室”的软件程序。 他们每天下课后都要花几个小时摆弄这个程序。不久，他们就能制作电影短片了。有人非常喜欢其中一部电影，于是他付给两个男孩15000美元为西雅图太空针塔做一个广告。他们绝妙的作品使得他们在高中时就得到了在微软公司工作的机会。接着，乔治·卢卡斯知道了他们。高中毕业后仅一个星期，他们就开始为卢卡斯的《星球大战:前传1》工作了。 现在，这两个能干且动力十足的朋友担任加利福尼亚旧金山一家顶级视觉效果工作室的视觉效果总监。这家叫做“孤儿院”的公司专门制作电影和广告中的视觉效果。加上他们在孤儿院公司工作的时间，他们已经在一起共事巧年了。他们帮助制作了约20部电影，包括《罪恶城市》、《哈利·波特与火焰杯》、《霹雳娇娃2》和《超人归来》。这两个聪明的年轻人在不到30年的时间里已经做到了很多事情。试想一下他们在未来的30年里会做些什么吧。 Text A Success is a Journey Life is a