my animation era

Chapter 1062 Is He Really a Genius?
Since the earliest "Magic Pig", "Pigman" has always been the most popular animation series in China.

The peak popularity is not inferior to Digimon and Magic Warrior.

As of this summer, the Pigman series has produced and broadcast five TV animation works. The latest season is "Fairy Tales of the Building Blocks World" based on the classic stories of "Andersen's Fairy Tales" and "Grimm's Fairy Tales". ".

It's been okay this season.

After landing on the TV platform, although it was not as popular as the previous seasons, it also gained the love of countless children and the ratings were very high.

No matter how you look at it, the development prospects of this series are broader than that of "Fruit Attack", and the future is also brighter.

If you can't make Guobao 3, then you can make a Pigman 6!
Bear is always excited.

After silently weighing the value and weight of the two IPs in his heart, he nodded and agreed without much hesitation.

He was even worried that Gu Miao would go back on his word, so he didn't even give him a chance to speak, and signed the agreement of intent without hesitation. The decisiveness of his actions surprised others.

"Mr. Gu, did you really ask Trollman to produce the sixth season of "Pigman"?"

After seeing off Mr. Xiong with a happy face, while waiting for the elevator to go down, Lao Zhang asked with some doubts: "If I remember correctly, Pigman is quite popular, right?"

"It's really hot."

Gu Miao admitted: "This series has always been very popular. It is considered an evergreen IP of our Wanbao."

"Then why..."

"No why, if you have to ask, my answer is that the series is in its sixth year."

When the elevator arrived, Gu Miao stepped into the elevator, pressed the button representing the 7th floor, and then explained to Lao Zhang: "It's lucky for an animation to be popular for five years."

"But this kind of luck cannot continue indefinitely. There will always be an end."

"You mean, the "Pigman" series is about to go downhill?" Lao Zhang heard the implication and frowned.

"It's not that it's starting to go downhill, but it's already on the way down."

The elevator installed in the Wanbao headquarters building was very fast, and within a few words, the seventh floor was reached.

The two walked out of the elevator one after the other. In the corridor leading to the office area, Gu Miao said in a deep voice, "Although "Fairy Tales in the Building Block World" performed well, the core old audience has already lost a lot."

This question is different from Pleasant Goat.

The loss of Pleasant Goat's audience is largely due to the fact that those old audiences have grown up and have passed the childish age of watching cartoons.

The main reason for the loss of viewers of the Pigman series is that the style has changed too much, which has caused many old viewers to feel that the animation has changed, and it is not as good-looking as before...

To put it bluntly.

Every season of Pigman animation will change to a different style, telling a completely different new story, and the animations in different periods are not strongly related.

for example.

Pigman in the first season is still telling a clichéd adventure story of "Dragon Quest, the knight saves the princess". In the second season, he travels to the small island of Olympus to start various sports competitions.

In the fifth season, the plot is directly applied to fairy tales, and even familiar characters have become fairy tale characters such as Snow White, Cinderella, Prince Charming, and Little Red Riding Hood.

Not only that.

Starting from this season, even the style of Pigman has changed, becoming more cute and fresh.

The advantage of such an animated series is that each season will tell an unexpected story, but the disadvantage is that it lacks continuity and coherence.

Take Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf as an example.

Will viewers who have watched the first season of Pleasant Goat find it strange to watch the second and third seasons?

will not!

Because Pleasant Goat's story background and character settings are all the same, and even the plot timeline is connected together, how can the audience feel strange?

But every season of Pigman's animation, not only the background of the story, but also the character design and painting style will be completely changed. This is not friendly to old audiences, because every time they watch it, they will feel very strange.

I just remembered the martial arts version of GG Bond, but you made a sci-fi version of GG Bond?All right!Just after getting to know the sci-fi version of GG Bond, the fairy tale version of GG Bond popped up?
Enough novelty and brain opening, humorous and funny plots, these were once the shining points of the "Pigman" series.

But as time goes by, especially when the production team's creativity is running out and they are unable to produce something good that will impress the audience, the bright spots will turn into fatal flaws.

"It doesn't matter that the "Pig Man" series is very popular now, but that's just a throwback."

"The production team is already out of work, and the innovation is weak and the inspiration is exhausted. At this time, it is a good thing to leave it to Troll Animation. After all, if you change the production team, maybe you can make a peerless work?"

"So that's how it is..."

Lao Zhang was quite shocked when he suddenly learned the inside information about the production team of "Pig Man", especially the fact that he was running out of ideas.

Running out of inspiration?
Not so much!

The Pigman series is only the fifth TV animation. In terms of the number of sequels, it is not worthy of the Pleasant Goat series.

Why is it that the Pleasant Goat series is still being worked on continuously, but the Pigman series can't get new work done, and the production team simply failed?

"Are five works rare?"

"There are more than 400 episodes in total. Calculated by the 20-minute feature film of an episode, that is 8000 minutes!"

Gu Miao complained: "Not to mention that Pigman will change the story background and character settings every season, and the lines and plots will open up the imagination. Anyone who changes it will have to run out of inspiration..."

You can’t compare with Pleasant Goat!

Although there are many sequels to Pleasant Goat, except for "Yangcun Guardian", the story background and character settings have basically not changed much.

Even if it is the guardian of Yangcun, the background of the story and the setting of the characters have not changed, only some details have changed.

So this is incomparable to a new setting system for a sequel like Pigman, where the protagonist has several different versions of the animation.

It's all too normal to run out of ideas.

More than 8000 minutes of animation creation, several sets of story backgrounds and setting systems, the members of the production team do not know how much hair they have lost.

If it is not transferred to the outsourcing team, it will only get worse and worse if it is kept in the hands, until it becomes a pile of defenses, and then it is completely abandoned by the audience.

In fact, hiring an outsourcing team to produce animations like "Pig Man" is a good choice. After all, the Three Stooges are better than Zhuge Liang!

of course.

If you choose to outsource the production team, you have to keep your eyes open. If you encounter the situation of "Date A Live 2", it will be too miserable.

Fortunately, Gu Miao chose a funny animation for the sixth season of "Pigman". Backed by Mr. Xiao Xiong, a big dog, at least there will be no embarrassing incident where half of the animation company suddenly goes bankrupt.

……

The domestic animation in September is dominated by "Roaming the World of Animation"!
Penguin's "The Great Demon Lord" and "Welcome to the Fist-Supreme Technical Secondary School Classroom" introduced by Pili Pili have both started broadcasting.

But obviously, in front of the world's only true infinite flow screen, these two animations failed to make too much waves.

The roaming animation world has been broadcast to the 12th episode, and the plot has come to the end of the world of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf".

After little Wanbao's unremitting efforts, Big Big Wolf and Red Wolf couple finally moved to Qingqing Grassland and started their great cause of catching sheep.

"Come back often~"

"Little Wanbao, after my lord catches the lamb, he will definitely invite you to have a feast of mutton!"

"Really? Uncle Gray Wolf!"

"Of course it's true. Since when did my lord lie to you? Don't worry, you'll be full of mutton by then..."

Under the warm farewell of the Big Big Wolf couple, Xiao Wanbao left the Qingqing Grassland and the animation world where the wolf catches the sheep in an infinite loop.

For this episode, the most difficult thing for the audience was Big Wolf’s promise to invite Xiao Wanbao to have a mutton feast together.

Good guy!
As soon as this kind of flag is said, Big Big Wolf will never try to catch sheep in this life. As for the mutton feast promised to Xiao Wanbao?

Definitely next time!Definitely next time!
Little Wanbao, who left the green grassland, returned home, and the animation elf came back with her.

Lucky draw big turntable, start!

After Xiao Wanbao completed the task, he actually got the special skill of Red Wolf's "Infinite Pan", and the audience burst into laughter and patted their bellies.

Okay, okay, Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf's most powerful and perverted move in the world, it can be said that Xiao Wanbao has learned it.

With this move, even if she travels to a terrifying world like "Dragon Ball" in the future, she will not be afraid of being bullied.

only……

The appearance of a seven-year-old cute baby holding a pan is indeed very funny and full of comedy.

Everyone was not kept waiting for too long. After a short break, Xiao Wanbao, urged by the animation wizard, once again embarked on a journey to save the animation world.

This time it's the world of The Bears.

New journeys, new adventures, Xiong Da Xiong Er living in the zoo, Bald Qiang who took in Xiao Wanbao... With the broadcast of the latest episode, the number of animation views has taken off again.

At this moment, Gu Miao was completely numb.

After all, watching the number of views of "Wandering in the Animated World" skyrocket every day, almost two to three hundred million in a day, would make anyone feel numb.

He still prefers to deal with advertisers than such vulgar playback data...

That's right, advertisers!

With the explosion of "Roaming the World of Animation", more and more advertisers have their eyes on this animation and began to come to their door, hoping to sponsor the work.

The most exaggerated offer came from an Internet e-commerce company. As long as the advertisement "Online shopping at XXX, Banana Phone is sold for one dollar" is included in the title of the video, Wanbao can receive approximately 3200 million yuan in sponsorship fees.

It's scary!

You must know that the highest bid for the opening advertisement of "Yangcun Guardian" did not exceed [-] million yuan. This time it directly increased by six or seven times, which is enough to show how exaggerated the popularity of "Roaming the World of Animation".

By the way...

Gu Miao's gold-lettered signboard is still very attractive. Even though "Go Boy" is still in production and has not been aired, and the specific completion quality is not sure, there are still many advertisers coming to apply for sponsorship.

This is the gold content of Qingqing Grassland Shepherd, Chuangjieshan Conductor, Gouxiongling Bandit, Sailor Black Hole, Thunder Speed ​​Riding King, Maggot Pokémon, Beechburg Councilor, and Superman's best friend!
The animation is not finished yet, and half of the cost has already been paid back by advertising revenue alone.

This alone is enough to prove how popular the project "Go Boys" is. Even if it is not finished, people still come to give money.

Of course, the reason why Go Youth has attracted much attention and expectations is not only Gu Miao's golden signature, but also partly because of Xiao Ke's joining.

Anyway, a world champion.

Although Xiao Ke in this period has not achieved influence through abstraction to break through the circle, he is already very famous in the circle of Go.

There are also some entrepreneurs who play Go. When they heard that Xiao Ke participated in the production of Go animation, they immediately became interested, and it made sense to come to sponsor the animation.

But then again.

After all, "Go Boy" is an animation with "unpopular themes" in the eyes of everyone, and the sponsor is definitely not as generous as "Roaming the World of Animation".

It's good if people are willing to sponsor, how can Gu Miao think the price is low?
Besides, the production team is not short of money.

The animation "Boys of Go" is not an animation with an explosion of funds. On the contrary, this animation is quite economical in a sense.

After all, an episode of animation, except for the literary part, the rest of the time is all about the changes in the "chess game".

Isn't it easy to draw a chessboard?

Gu Miao can do this job by herself, and the effect is not much worse than those of professional painters.

Only in the process of playing chess, adding various light effects and special effects to the chess pieces and chessboard is a bit of a delay. Under normal circumstances, drawing the chessboard is not troublesome.

A game of chess seems to have endless changes, but in the animation production process, it was simplified into a kindergarten doodle.

After all, the chessboard is a piece of horizontal and vertical crossing lines distributed on a whole piece of wood-colored background canvas, using the copy-and-paste method to arrange the white and black chess pieces according to Xiao Ke's instructions.

This process does not require any mental effort. After all, the work of studying the game record and deducing the chess game has been handed over to Xiao Ke. The painters only need to follow the game record and carefully arrange the positions of the chess pieces.

Misplacement of chess pieces is common.

After all, chess records are easy to read, and sometimes chess pieces are misplaced if you are not careful.

At this time, Xiao Ke, the special consultant, played a role.He will carefully check every move to ensure that the game will proceed according to his deduction.

During this process, an interesting thing happened.

Xiao Ke took out a chess record and asked the artists to draw key frames according to the game record. As a result, during the drawing process, an artist remembered the wrong position of the white chess and drew the wrong one.

This is a simple mistake that just needs to be caught and corrected in time.

But when Xiao Ke saw this wrong move, his eyes lit up and he said that there was no need to redraw it. White's move was very good and awesome, and it was more reasonable than the chess record he provided.

The real-time winning rate of the AI ​​shows that the wrong position of this move has suddenly increased the winning rate of white chess by ten percentage points.

The hand of God is not perfect, but it is indeed a good hand, it can be kept completely, and it can even overturn his original chess record...

"Huh? So amazing?"

Gu Miao didn't expect this to happen. When he came to his senses, he immediately said that he would record the incident and cut it into behind-the-scenes footage for broadcast.

He thought about the title.

"Was it careless or deliberate, is he really a Go genius? "

(End of this chapter)