my animation era

Inuyasha was one of the more classic neon animations that Gu Miao had seen when he was a child, and left a deep impression on him.

without any exaggeration.

The red-clothed and white-haired Inuyasha was the male god he admired the most when he was a child, and Kagome, who was lively, kind and not slowing down, was his favorite anime goddess when he was a teenager.

Because of this, Gu Miao still cared about the establishment and production of the "Inuyasha" animation project even though it was thousands of miles away.

Soon after the "Inuyasha Production Committee" was established, Gu Miao joined it as a special consultant.

He wasn't there to make up the numbers.

On the contrary, Gu Miao, as a special consultant, stood on the shoulders of her predecessors, and with the perspective of two worlds, she gave many useful suggestions to the animation production team.

For example, the jade of the four souls.

As the most important item in the project of "Inuyasha", it is also a key prop to promote the progress of the whole story. The Jade of the Four Souls runs through the entire work.

But when designing this psychic gem, many people don't know where to start.

It was Gu Miao's suggestion to design it in the shape of a bead, so that after being shot by Kagome with the magic-breaking arrow, it can basically guarantee that each piece is about the same size.

This is not his nonsense!

The design of the jade of the four souls into a bead shape is supported by scientific principles, and it is not easy to change the shape.

"Change the shape, such as a cuboid, a cube, and a cylinder. After being shot by Kagome with the magic-breaking arrow, what do you think the fragments will look like?"

"Uh... different sizes?"

"That's right!"

Gu Miao snapped her fingers, nodded and said, "Although we can make other shapes of the jade of the four souls shatter evenly, that's too fake, and the shape of round beads is more suitable."

"By the way, jade means small balls or beads in the neon language, and the original meaning of the jade of the four souls is the orb formed by the crystallization of the four souls."

"Ah? What's the matter?"

Ma Kui said in amazement, "This is different from what I thought. The jade in my impression is more irregularly shaped jade articles such as jade pendants and jade seals."

"Oh yes, and Yuzu!"

Gu Miao: "..."

Let's talk about the jade of the four souls, Ma Kui suddenly said "Jade foot", he couldn't fix it.

"Ahem, look at this."

After clearing her throat, Gu Miao, who was almost led into the ditch by a sentence of jade feet, turned around and took out a faxed document.

"what is this?"

Ma Kui, who took the document, looked puzzled, flipped through the document casually, and his expression became even more puzzled.

This is a proposal for the licensing and cooperation of the character image of the animation "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", proposed by the world-renowned fast food brand Golden Arches.

What's so strange about this?

Wanbao Animation has a large number of popular animation characters, and receives thousands of applications for authorization and cooperation of animation characters from all walks of life every day.

Ma Kui is not the person in charge of copyright operations, and this aspect has nothing to do with him, so he can't figure out what the purpose of President Gu showing him this cooperation plan is.

Is it possible...

Mr. Gu felt that he was not suitable for a professional technical position, and planned to transfer him to an administrative management position, so that he would be responsible for the copyright operation business in the future?

"Don't think so much."

"I just want to ask you, do you think animation works like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are suitable for these commercial cooperation?"

What's wrong with business cooperation?
Ma Kui didn't turn the corner at first, thinking that there is nothing to consider, isn't it just a business cooperation, a bastard who has money but doesn't make money!

But before he could say anything, he suddenly realized what Mr. Gu was worried about.

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is different from other animations, most of the other animations are fictional characters, but the characters in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms are all ancient celebrities whose names are recorded in the history books.

Using these people to make profits, and to engage in commercial cooperation under the banner of ancient celebrities, it is really not nice to say it.

Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei...

Which of these names is not a well-known historical celebrity?
Although the character image is designed by Wanbao and has independent copyright, it is no problem to authorize it to anyone.But this name is indeed a bit taboo in the field of business cooperation.

This has to introduce a concept.

Take the animation "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as an example. Wanbao owns the absolute copyright of the character images in it. After all, they are all original results drawn by themselves.

But what about the name?

Character animation images are original, these names can't be original, right?

If it is authorized to a cooperative enterprise, then what they use is the character image + name, not a separate character image.

"I don't feel well..."

After hesitating for a moment, Ma Kui gave his opinion: "If the names of Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei, and Guan Yu are misused by us, some fans may resent them."

"I think so too."

Gu Miao nodded.

The copyright operation department has already piled up a thick stack of cooperation proposals for the role authorization of the animation "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but he never nodded his approval.

The main thing I think is that Wanbao is not short of money now, so there is no need to over-consume the fame of these historical figures.

Business cooperation must be cautious!
After all, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is not an ordinary animation. Every character in it is an ancient person whose name was left in the history book.

Let Zhuge Liang endorse some milk tea, and the prime minister agrees after drinking it!Asking Liu Bei to endorse some sneakers... Isn't this purely crazy about money!

Gu Miao still has a bottom line.

In his opinion, the Three Kingdoms Animation is not a work for making money. If you don’t want to engage in commercial cooperation, don’t engage in it.

The reason why Ma Kui was asked was also to respect his opinion as a director.

Since Ma Kui also agrees with him, no business cooperation, no external authorization, then this matter can be finalized.

If there is a similar cooperation proposal in the future, the copyright operation department will directly reject it.

"So be it!"

"By the way, wait for you to go to the high-speed rail station and pick up someone for me."

"Who?"

"Do you still remember the die-hard fan of Nuan Yang Yang I mentioned before? She will arrive in Jiangchuan in the afternoon, so you can pick her up and arrange a hotel for her."

Gu Miao said with a smile: "In addition to her, we also invited about 50 loyal fans to organize a group visit to Wanbao Animation tomorrow morning. There will be media interviews at that time. Remember to shave and dress decently."

Fan group visit?

Upon hearing this, Ma Kui suddenly showed an expression of anticipation.

This is the first time that Wanbao Animation has opened to the outside world, welcoming fans from all over the country to visit. It is definitely a big event!

How about just shaving?
Ma Kui wondered, in order to make a good impression on the upcoming fans, how about getting a hairstyle?

……

Children's Day is approaching.

In order to let children know more about Wanbao and enhance intimate communication with fans, the ever-mysterious Wanbao animation was opened to the public for the first time, and the "Wanbao Open Day" event was held.

At the invitation of Wanbao, 51 fans from all over the country, as well as many TV media and self-media animation bloggers, went to Jiangchuan to attend the appointment.

In addition to the Wolfsburg Studio, Feiyang Studio, Dimension Studio, and Puppet Studio that everyone has been looking forward to, the area for this open exhibition also includes the company's internal gym, canteen, and president's office.

This should be regarded as a pilgrimage to the Holy Land!
As the leader of domestic animation and one of the world's animation poles, it is definitely the ultimate wish of countless fans to be able to visit the inner workings of Wanbao Animation.

Unfortunately……

In order to reduce the disturbance to the employees as much as possible, and taking into account the company's reception capacity, this "Wanbao Open Day" event, a total of 98 fans + media bloggers.

It's really not that Gu Miao is stingy, he is reluctant to invite more fans to visit.

But Wanbao's workplace is so big, and the reception capacity is also very limited. Too many people come here, which is really beyond Wanbao's tolerance.

In fact, Wanbao was exhausted enough to arrange accommodation, food, drink and entertainment for these 100 people.

Liu Zida is one of the media representatives invited to visit as an animation blogger recommended by Wanbao Video Website.

Originally, he didn't want to come. After all, he was a black fan of Wanbao. It would be strange if he didn't get kicked out when he came to visit Wanbao!

But I couldn't stand Wanbao Video's persistent persuasion: As the animation blogger with the highest number of fans in Wanbao Video, if you don't go, who is qualified to go?
What's more, I went to visit Wanbao Animation. If this is made into a video, the number of views will explode?

With these in mind, Liu Zida accepted the company's arrangement calmly, and arrived at Jiangchuan Jinma Hotel last night with the invitation letter.

The hotel is arranged by Wanbao.

Anyway, it's a five-star hotel, the environment and service are not bad, at least Liu Zida slept comfortably.

After getting up, washing up and having breakfast, he took the gimbal and action camera, and under the guidance of the staff, boarded the bus to Jiangchuan Animation Industrial Park.

The bus drove in the park, and after about ten minutes, it finally stopped at the parking lot in Zone B, which Wanbao Animation belongs to.

"The area is quite large..."

It was the first time for Liu Zida to visit Wanbao Animation Headquarters. After getting out of the car, he took a look at the building, and his first impression was that it was big.

Being able to own such a large piece of land in the Jiangchuan Animation Industrial Park, where every inch of land is precious, shows the detached status of Wanbao Animation.

"I heard that Wanbao Animation has thousands of employees?"

"It seems to be, but a group of people were laid off some time ago, and now I don't know how many people there are!"

"Look, their gate looks like the iron gate of Yangcun. The security booth is the watchtower of Yangcun, right?"

"It's really similar!"

Liu Zida couldn't help but turn his head to look at the door that he hadn't noticed when he came over due to the discussions of people around him.

Really don't say...

The design of this gate is indeed like the iron gate of Yangcun in the animation "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf".

Too abstract?
Liu Zida had a black line on his forehead, he really couldn't figure out, who came up with the idea to design the entrance of his company like this?Where do you put this anti-wolf?

"Everyone, welcome to Wanbao!"

Just as Liu Zida picked up the action camera to take pictures of the Iron Gate of Yangcun, a very familiar voice came from his ear.

He turned his head to look, and it turned out that Gu Sanshui led a group of executives from Wanbao Animation to greet everyone.

This is the real Gu Miao?

Liu Zida looked at it carefully, and finally confirmed that this guy looks good in reality, not as handsome as he boasted, but his facial features are still pretty good.

Most importantly, Gu Sanshui is so tall?
You may not feel it just by looking at the photos. It was the first time I saw Gu Miao in real life, and many people at the scene exclaimed. I didn't expect Uncle Gu to exceed 1.8 meters.

That's pretty high.

After all, most of the fans invited here today are minors, and those self-media bloggers are generally only 1.7 meters long.

Standing together, Gu Miao looks very tall, standing out from the crowd!
While leading everyone to go inside, Gu Miao answered the curious fans' doubts for a long time.

For example, is there a second season of "Yangcun Guardian"?What projects has Wanbao been working on recently?When will Superman air and so on.

Everyone has a lot of questions.

But this is not a good time for communication. Gu Miao calmed down the excited crowd first, and then arranged for Ma Kui to take everyone to visit the Wolf Castle studio.

In the Wolf Castle Studio, fans saw some behind-the-scenes materials and tidbits of "Yangcun Guardian", and also communicated with the production team members.

Then in Feiyang Studio, everyone received a limited edition Pikachu plush doll, and listened to the animator explain the production process before and after Xiaozhi won the championship...

The puppet studio and the dimension studio should be the two most profound studios for everyone to experience during the visit.

Because in the puppet studio, everyone experienced the whole process of "paper-cut animation" production, and also watched a shadow puppet show of "Calabash Brothers".

In Dimension Studio, everyone put on motion capture suits and experienced the magic of motion capture technology under the guidance of professionals.

And Du Hao also took advantage of this open day event to show everyone a sample material of "Bear the Treasure Hunt".

There are a lot of media and video bloggers here today, Du Hao showed them, mainly because he wanted to use these media and video bloggers to further expand the influence of "Bear Soldier".

One thing to say, it works great!
These animation bloggers and media reporters can't wait to see the feature film after watching a sample of the material, saying that they will definitely give fans and audiences Amway this movie when they go back.

The most boring part of the open day was probably visiting the president's office of Wanbao Animation.

before coming.

Whether it is an ordinary fan or a media blogger, everyone thinks that there must be many secrets hidden in Uncle Gu's office.

It was only after I came here that I realized that the bullshit secret, besides all kinds of hand-made dolls, is game consoles and light novels... a proper fat house e-sports room.

The unwilling fans even turned on Gu Miao's computer.

Well, it's confirmed now!
Uncle Gu really doesn't do much business, the computer desktop is full of game icons, you call this an animator?
"Cough, don't look!"

Seeing that everyone's expressions were a bit strange, the president's secretary hurriedly coughed, and under the gaze of everyone, he bravely defended Mr. Gu: "Mr. Gu doesn't usually work here, and he is very busy, so he doesn't have time to play..."

"You lied, the game time shown here is 1069 hours!" A child noticed the abnormality and shouted.

When everyone heard it, they immediately showed speechless expressions.

The total duration of any game is more than [-] hours, you call this busy?Are you busy clearing the customs and earning all the achievements?

The jade fragments of the four souls seem to be of different sizes, but this is not important, just mentioning it...