my animation era

"Journey to the West" is Gu Miao's favorite novel among the four great classics, and the main character, Monkey King, is also the hero he admired the most when he was a child.

Therefore, when CCTV asked Wanbao if he was interested in the project, he agreed without hesitation.

He has high expectations for this animation, and he is also mentally prepared for a hemorrhage. He has recruited Mr. Bear, CCTV and other capital partners in advance to ensure that there will be no shortage of money during the production process.

But the investment is limited.

Although Gu Miao's attitude is very firm and he is very generous in giving money, but if it really drags on to an unbearable upper limit of investment and affects the operation of the entire company, he will still reluctantly give up the project.

After all, he is not a money printing machine.

And it is impossible for him to bet the entire future of Wanbao Animation on this animation.

This is a financial consideration.

In addition, there is still time. For an animation work, the production period is always a hurdle that cannot be bypassed.

Everyone knows that time honed to perfect perfection.

Even a pig, given tens of thousands of years, can produce a masterpiece that shocks the world.

But the problem before us is that it is impossible for a pig to live for tens of thousands of years, and 20 years is considered a long life!

So it's not realistic.

By the same token, everyone knows that the longer the construction period is delayed, the more perfect the work will be.Do you believe that given a ten-year production period for Alienation Three-Body Problem, this well-recognized answer can be transformed into a masterpiece?

It doesn't even take ten years, half of it will be enough for five years.

But obviously, this is a difficult thing to do. Five years does not sound like a long time, but for many animation production teams, this is an unimaginable time limit.

"Are you sure you want to make a perfect wooden barrel?"

Ma Kui wanted to answer Gu Miao's question, "Yes, that's what I thought", but when he got to his mouth, he found that he couldn't say it.

The two hurdles of funds and construction time limit him, making it impossible for him to create a perfect wooden barrel.

Trade-offs are inevitable.

Since we can't get around these two hurdles, we can only find a way to make the long board as long as possible and the short board as short as possible within the constraints of these two hurdles.

"In the era of planned economy, animation was a handicraft, because the animators at that time were eating big pots of rice with iron rice bowls. They didn't have to worry about the future, they just had to bury their heads in animation and it was over."

"So in that era, the American Film Studio was extremely brilliant and created amazing works that are still great to this day."

Rather than continue to undermine Ma Kui's self-confidence, Gu Miao turned to tell the story of Meiying Studio: "Take "Havoc in Heaven" as an example. Do you think the industry can still produce such pure hand-drawn animation now?"

"cannot……"

"Yes, times have changed."

Gu Miao nodded and said, "The current animation is more of an industrial product than a handicraft in the past."

"I understand."

Ma Kui seemed to understand Mr. Gu's meaning, and sighed, "According to what you said, "Journey to the West 3D" can't be a hexagonal warrior?"

"Look, you're getting into a dead end again!"

Gu Miao shook her head and explained with a speechless face: "A wooden barrel, some boards are very long and some are very short, it seems that it can't hold too much water."

"But if its shortest board is longer than the longest one of others, do you still think it holds very little water?"

Make sense.

What kind of rotten fish and rotten shrimp is the current domestic animation industry?

If "Journey to the West 3D" is really produced according to strict and high standards, even if it is a so-called short board, it can still beat all the peers, so is this a hexagonal warrior?

10 points for screen, 7 points for plot, the plot is undoubtedly a shortcoming, but what if the highest score of other animations in the industry is only 5 points?

"I see."

Ma Kui, who was awakened by Gu Miao's words, suddenly realized: "I know what to do. As long as my shortcomings are higher than other people's longcomings, it is not called a shortcoming."

but……

Ma Kui, who had just realized this level, frowned again and suddenly thought of a question.

What direction should the animation "Journey to the West 3D" take as a breakthrough, the so-called "long board"?

"Of course it's 3D!"

"Movie-level quality, vivid character modeling, smooth and silky fighting depiction, these can be used as longboards."

Gu Miao said without changing her expression: "As for being ignored and discarded, that is the shortcomings. It depends on how you choose."

Regardless of the circumstances, Gu Miao personally thinks that for a project like "Journey to the West 3D", the plot is a shortcoming that can be sacrificed.

Don't be surprised.

In fact, this is quite normal. After all, the original "Journey to the West" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and there is not much room for expansion.

Instead of spending a lot of time and energy on improving the plot, and engaging in plot variants such as "The Legend of Wukong", "Black Myth", and "Journey to the West", it is better to follow the original work honestly.

After all... the main body of Wanbao's adaptation is the original work of "Journey to the West", rather than creating derivative works based on the original work.

This is also a point that Gu Miao attaches great importance to.

Please note that the goal of Wanbao and CCTV is to put the famous "Journey to the West" on the TV screen, not to renovate this famous book.

The title of the animation is "Journey to the West", not "The Legend of Wukong", "The Return of the Great Sage", "The Black Myth of Wukong"...

The title alone determined that Wanbao could not make serious magical changes to the original work.

After all, you have changed it, is it still the "Journey to the West" animation that the audience wants to watch?

"OK, the plot remains unchanged."

Ma Kui took note of this proposal and said in full agreement: "I originally thought so too. Since I am a porter of masterpieces, it would be good to reproduce them based on the original works."

This is the same as the original production of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" animation. The plot does not need to be changed too much.

This saves a lot of trouble.

After all, for other animations, it takes a lot of time and effort just to conceive a wonderful plot, not to mention the dialogue.

"You just have to figure it out."

Gu Miao was afraid of taking the blame, so she quickly warned: "Master Porter, the plot will not be changed word for word. It's okay for us to have a few words in private, but don't tell anyone else."

If the fans heard this, they might scold them like that. They thought Wanbao was lazy on purpose and cut corners on the plot!

Although this is a fact, we cannot admit it so straightforwardly!
In the face of outsiders, it must be all kinds of complaints, saying that in order to adapt the famous "Journey to the West", the production team tried to restore the classics as much as possible.

"really!"

Ma Kui winked and said, "I said the same thing after the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" animation was broadcast last time."

Facing the reporter's interview, he and Koizumi looked at each other, and told everyone about the difficulty of making "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in the form of cross talk.

Why, in order to ensure the vividness of the characters and write the most temperamental plot dialogue, a brand new "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" novel was turned yellow by him.

This kind of nonsense is just fooling a pure passerby who doesn't understand anything.

In fact, the most difficult thing about adapting "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is not the plot, but how to shape the characters.

……

The film market in September has cooled down a lot compared to July and August.

Even the most popular "Wolf Warrior 2", which has become a social phenomenon, has ushered in a sharp decline after entering September.

But Wolf Warrior 2 is too abstract.

Even if the box office fell, it still crushed a lot of new films in September, vividly explaining what it means that a skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

Today, the total domestic box office of Wolf Warrior 2 has broken through the 55 billion mark, and is steadily moving towards 60 billion. No one knows what kind of record this movie will eventually create.

Anyway, Gu Miao couldn't understand.

If he remembers correctly, the original version of "Wolf Warrior 2" doesn't seem to be that powerful, and the final box office should be around 56 billion.

But in this parallel world, Wolf Warrior 2's box office seems to be even more outrageous, and the sensation it caused is even more exaggerated.

It can't really be 60 billion, right?

Gu Miao couldn't help but sigh when she thought of this possibility. It was indeed a pity that she couldn't even take a bite of such a big cake.

Just cast a little, that's hundreds of millions of terrifying returns!Moreover, the cycle is short, and the speed of getting money is comparable to stock trading!

Speaking of stock trading...

With his unremitting efforts, Wanbao Video, the rotten stock king, has successfully captured a group of die-hard fans of Wanbao.

Good guy, Gu Miao was scolded so badly!
Every day, people leave messages on his social account, saying that Gu Sanshui is really ruthless and does not cheat outsiders, only his true fans.

Everyone trusted him so much that they spent huge sums of money to buy the shares of Wanbao Video, thinking that they would pass it on to their sons and grandchildren in the future, and witness the birth of a great company with their own eyes.

As for now?Don't be a great company, the stock price has risen!It's been cloudy all day long, Gu Sanshui, when will your mother die?
"Isn't it?"

To be honest, Gu Miao also didn't understand why the share price of Wanbao Video has not rebounded after so long?

The results of "Roaming the Animation World" are so explosive, dominating the new show in September, it stands to reason that this is good news, and the stock price has to go up no matter what.

But even with the major benefits, Wanbao Video's stock price remained the same, showing no sign of rebounding, which made him confused.

"The water in the stock market is very deep, Xiao Gu, you can't grasp it, so let me do it!"

Mr. Xiong, a veteran stockholder and also a shareholder locked up by Wanbao Video, said that he does not believe in this evil, and the more Wanbao Video falls, the more he wants to increase his position.

"Sooner or later, it will go back up. Believe me, I haven't failed in investing yet!"

"really?"

Gu Miao doubtfully said: "It's not that I don't believe you, I just think that if you increase your position like this, you will be able to join the board of directors soon."

"You guys, don't you want to secretly get a seat on the board of directors under the guise of adding positions to stop losses?"

"..."

Little Bear is always in a state of exasperation.

When did he want to join the board?What exactly caused Gu Sanshui to have the illusion that the board seat of Wanbao Video is very valuable?

Damn it, if he hadn't been trapped and couldn't get rid of it, he would have wanted to liquidate his position and run away. Do you really think that trading in stocks and becoming a shareholder is a good thing?

"Shut up now!"

"The thing I regret most in my life is that I listened to your slander and bought a bunch of shitty shares of Wanbao Video."

Mr. Xiong rolled his eyes wildly and said: "Garbage company, ruin my youth! This money is used to make animations, so it has doubled."

"How many times?"

"I don't feel ashamed to say this. It's okay to make a small amount of money from the animations you invested in, but making big money is just a fool's dream." Gu Miao sneered.

The projects that Xiao Xiong voted for were either non-mainstream or ruined the three views, and they were all limited-edition animations that could only be broadcast in the middle of the night.

Counting on this kind of animation to make a lot of money is definitely overthinking.

So far, there has not been any restricted late-night animation that has achieved far more achievements than "all ages" animations at the commercial level.

"How about "Guobao Special Attack 2"?"

"That's not restricted!"

Gu Miao coughed, and then said again: "And you didn't earn much, most of it was taken away by our Wanbao."

"What? You made a 2, and you still want to make a 3?"

"No?" Little Bear asked.

"Unfortunately, no..."

Due to the declining reputation of the second season of "Fruit Strike", Gu Miao set a test for the production team under Mr. Little Bear: design a new set of mecha that fits the background of the Three Kingdoms era!

If the design is good, the third season can continue to be handed over to them for production. If the design is average or even poor, then Wanbao will take back the production rights and produce the third season by itself to save word of mouth.

The results are clear at a glance.

The group of Troll Animation couldn't design an "Ancient Wind Armor" that fit Gu Miao's wishes, so the third season's affairs would naturally come to naught.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Xiong still refused to give up, he talked about this point, and wanted to continue to fight for the right to produce the third season.

It's a pity that Gu Miao didn't give him a chance.

No matter how close Xiong is, he still upholds his original attitude. "Guobao Special Attack 3" will be produced by Wanbao himself, and he is not at ease handing it over to Troll Animation.

"This series is dying."

Gu Miao explained: "If the third season is well done, the "Fruit Attack" series will still be saved and will not decline rapidly."

Gu Miao was definitely worried that such an important work would be handed over to a half-hearted team like Troll Animation.

not to mention……

Regarding the project planning of "Fruit Attack 3", Wanbao Animation has already discussed a result.

In this case, unless Gu Miao is crazy, it is impossible to give "Guobao Special Attack 3" to Troll Animation for production, after all, the third season is different from the second season.

Seeing that Xiaoxiong's expression was a bit disappointed, as if he couldn't let go of the series "Fruit Special Attack", Gu Miao hurriedly comforted him: "Guobao Special Attack can't be done, but Pigman can!"

"Pigman?"

"Yes! How about the latest season of Pig Man? Are you interested?"

Gu Miao tried her best to confuse, "This is more popular and famous than "Guobao Special Attack"! If the company is not short of people, I would not find an outsourcing team."

"It's not impossible..."

Mr. Bear, who was originally reluctant to give up on "Fruit Attack", suddenly changed his mind when he heard the name "Pig Man".

Pigman is even hotter!

There is a more popular and famous animation IP to choose from, why choose Guobao special attack?

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