The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 167 Animation Ambition
Chen Jingxing's answer completely exceeded Wu Han's expectations, because during the process of merging Tianhe Animation and Mo's animation group, Chen Jingxing had already announced the two animation projects of "Evolutionary 46 Billion Ensemble" and "Universal Super Battleship".

Of course, Wu Han admires Chen Jingxing's courage in the establishment of these two animation works. The hot-blooded comic "Star God" is already very different in the current atmosphere of supplying domestic animation films.

In his opinion, the two animation works that Chen Jingxing wants to produce are the alternative among the alternatives. They are very novel, and he can't find similar works in the animation themes of the United States and Japan.

However, in Chen Jingxing's view, this is not a big problem. "The 46 Billion Ensemble of Evolution" tells about a single cell named Lin who split and evolved continuously in the ancient times when life originated on a planet, becoming a powerful and unbelievable The process of a perfect life, of course, will witness the rise and fall of countless civilizations, the birth and death of species.

And Lin's truly powerful essence is that her consciousness can directly control all cells, as long as one cell still exists, she is immortal.

So this is an invincible and interesting story, full of contradictions, conflicts, powerful enemies and epic collisions, it is still very commercial, and there are many popular science elements in the outrageous setting.

Chen Jingxing's positioning for this animation is to be full of prehistoric style, dreamy enough, and extremely rich in color. The story also contains some knowledge about biology, such as referring to several biological evolution and mass extinction events on the earth.

In addition, the prototype of "Cosmic Super Battleship" - "Rebirth of Super Battleship" is a purely upgraded text for fighting monsters wrapped in a hard science fiction shell.

Before the destruction of the earth, the surviving warships of mankind wandered in the universe, constantly evolving, from the first-level civilization to the second-level civilization, the third-level civilization, the fourth-level civilization, etc., as well as technological civilization, alien civilization, mechanical civilization, ghost race, and so on. Settings such as Hao Civilization are the upgrade flow in the background of the universe.

The setting is novel, but the essence is quite commercial, and the world view is extremely grand.

Because of the establishment of these two animation projects, Wu Han always believed that Chen Jingxing allowed him to continue to do the second season of "Star God" in order to let him finish the finale, break his obsession, and then devote himself wholeheartedly to the next project of DreamWorks. Animating.

In fact, even so, he is already very grateful, because Chen Jingxing promised a production cost of 2000 million, which is a little more than the production cost of the first season of "Star God". The production cost is quite generous.

Unexpectedly, what Chen Jingxing meant was to tell him not to be in a hurry to finish. "Star God" can continue to be produced, which surprised him. He actually conceived a lot of plots. "Star God" is far from being finished. , and even the first season was just the beginning.

He didn't know that Chen Jingxing didn't regard "Star God" as a burden. Chen Jingxing believed that this animation had great potential and wanted to make it a big IP.

We can't blame Wuhan's inherent thinking, because with the current status of Guoman, it is difficult to recover the cost of a domestic animation produced at a cost of 2000 million, and it is unlikely that an online platform will purchase a domestic animation at such a price, even if it is the United States and Japan. Few animations can be sold at a copyright price of 2000 million in Huaguo.

Making animation is currently a very thankless act. Anime fans may praise you, but it is difficult to get real money.

But Chen Jingxing thinks that the copyright price of animation network in Huaguo is obviously on the low side - he doesn't expect much from the purchase price of the TV station.

With the rapid popularization of mobile terminals, several major video platforms have started a war of burning money. In the past two years, the online copyright prices of all film and television products have soared. In fact, animation works also benefit, but the price increase is not as high as other film and television works. That's all.

However, the number of people watching anime in China is increasing day by day - this is thanks to the cultural output of Hollywood and Japan that has cultivated many Two-dimensional audiences, and as the price of online copyright continues to rise in the next few years, there will definitely be animation copyright considerable growth.

As long as Chen Jingxing stands on this track and becomes the leader of Guoman, he will definitely reap benefits in the end.

In addition, the development of peripheral products also has great potential-this requires not only popular animation, but also high-level art design for animation.

And not only the domestic market, the overseas animation market is actually even bigger. After the second season of "Star God", "Evolution" and the first batch of animation works of "Battleship", Chen Jingxing plans to produce animations next That's Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, and Evangelion.

Except for "Cowboy Bebop", which may only have one season, but can also launch a theatrical version, the other five projects can release multiple seasons and multiple theatrical movie versions, enough for DreamWorks to eat for several years, and establish themselves in the global animation industry. status.

In addition, there are other animated film projects, such as "The Return of the Great Sage", "Wall-E", "Inside Out", "Kung Fu Panda", etc. Chen Jingxing plans to shoot "The Matrix" after "Gravity". "There will also be a corresponding animation version.

With the quality of these animation works, it is not difficult to open up foreign markets.

To start the production of these projects as soon as possible, DreamWorks needs a strong animation department.

So the merger of Tianhe Animation and Mo is just the first step.

After Tianhe Animation became a wholly-owned subsidiary of DreamWorks, Wu Han led his animation team of more than 100 people to merge with Mo's animation group. The merged animation department has as many as 150 people, making it the largest department in Mo. .

Out of planning for the future, Chen Jingxing named this animation department Tianhe Computer Animation Department, because when the time is right in the future, Mo’s computer animation department will definitely be separated to form a separate animation company. The light of Guoman, which has high hopes, still retains the hope of rebirth.

On the surface, it seems that Mo has annexed Tianhe Animation, but in fact, Tianhe Animation has annexed Mo’s animation group. In the process of this merger, Chen Jingxing also increased DreamWorks’ shareholding in Mo from 51% to 65%, mainly because Tianhe animation is really cheap.

And although the animation department's 150-person team seemed huge enough, such a small number of people could not cope with the animation project that Chen Jingxing explained.

So Mo started a grand round of recruiting again, brandishing the highest salary in the special effects industry to poach people from animation companies, special effects companies, and even game companies.

After the staff is fully staffed, Tianhe Animation Department will temporarily form four project teams, one special effects project team and three animation project teams.

Once the animation project team completes a season of animation production, it will be disbanded first, and will be reorganized into a new animation project team or special effects project team. Chen Jingxing needs the animation department to maintain a certain degree of mobility to ensure that the special effects work and animation production can be fully utilized. utilization and sharing of resources.

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