The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 213 The Gap Between People
Chen Jingxing handed over the casting of "Matrix", especially the choice of the leading actor to the film's producer team, who will draw up the list, and then Chen Jingxing will see if there are any suitable candidates for the role in his mind.

After quietly launching the "Matrix" project, Chen Jingxing came to Mo's office in the capital. Mo's current number of employees has exceeded 320, and it is still expanding. However, as Mo's reputation is increasing day by day, his salary and benefits are widely known. , the threshold is getting higher and higher.

The rapid expansion of the number of employees has also kept Mo's office environment in a cramped state-even though Mo has rented two more floors, becoming the company with the largest office area in this office building.

At 09:30 in the morning, this office building entered the peak stage of busyness, and groups of people went up and down, starting their day's work.

He Chao stood on the catering floor on the third floor holding breakfast while waiting for the elevator, while chatting with his colleagues about work.

"What time did you come back yesterday?"

He Chao smiled wryly and compared the numbers.

"12 o'clock?!" The colleague was a little surprised, gave him a sympathetic look, and then asked in a low voice, "I heard that Lao Liang went crazy again last night?"

He Chao sighed and nodded.

"Tsk, our team went to communicate with him yesterday. He seemed to have taken medicine. I thought your team would probably have to work overtime again." The colleague had an expected expression on his face, and of course the "overtime" in his mouth It's overtime after overtime. After all, who in this company can't work overtime.

He Chao shook his head: "One painting has been changed a hundred or eighty times. People who don't know it will think that what our company has produced is some kind of masterpiece. The original painting he finally selected is so demanding. It's so awesome."

The colleague also nodded approvingly, looked around, and whispered in He Chao's ear: "I guess the rumor is true. He wanted to change jobs, but they didn't want him."

He Chao was noncommittal, but he quite agreed with it in his heart. Lao Liang is the person in charge of his group, and he is considered an old animator. Sneer, Lao Liang is purely a bastard, so he has a good relationship with the boss, otherwise he can be the main beauty based on his level?
Although He Chao didn't respond, his colleagues could still see his thoughts from He Chao's expression, and asked softly: "I've read all the new materials you gave... To be honest, it's a bit like..." The colleague pointed A little bit up.

He Chao said blankly: "This is Lao Liang's idea, and the higher-ups have agreed to it. I have also raised my opinion before, but they don't care."

The colleague is pointing upwards at Mo. The company they work for is an animation company, which is not well-known among many colleagues in Beijing. They have produced two or three well-known animation works. The location of this office building is relatively remote. The rent is not expensive, and more than half of the floors are occupied by game companies and animation companies.

Among them, Mo is the star company of this office building. Since Mo worked here, several other animation companies and game companies have also been poached by him. It’s not that the bosses of their companies have never thought about moving their offices, but the capital office building It is relatively tight, and it is not easy to find an office building with a suitable rent, a suitable space, and a suitable area in the short term, and it will cost a lot of money to renovate, so the boss complained a few times in private, but took no action.

But it can’t be said that there is no action at all. For example, their company recently set up an animation project, the style is hot-blooded animation. Recently, this theme of animation is more popular, because DreamWorks spent 2000 million to produce the second season of "Star God". The second season hasn't come out yet, and many animation companies have started to follow suit and set up projects. When their works are released, they are sought after by the market, and if you react to them, they will be eaten, and nothing can keep up with the hot ones.

Of course, the investment in these follow-up works is not large, and most of them use inferior three-rendering and two-rendering technology, which takes a short time and low cost. Even if this trend is wrong in the future, the loss will not be much.

However, the production can be shortened, but character modeling and art design are one of the most important foundations of an animation. "if.

Obviously, the animation company that He Chao works for wants to "learn from it". It may be that the big boss has always had a grudge against Mo's poaching. The boss readily agreed.

Of course, it’s not a copy of the original model, it’s a patchwork of various elements, this background is good, use it, this character set is good, use it, this pose is good, use it.Even clothes, accessories, eye color and hair color can be taken directly and slightly modified for use.

Therefore, the original paintings produced by He Chao’s group really have a strong sense of sight in the eyes of colleagues, especially the character design and painting style of the protagonist group. They are all industry insiders who have worked in the animation industry for several years. "Naturally, I have watched them all, and I am too familiar with them.

But this kind of "reference" is difficult to constitute plagiarism. It feels like "plagiarism, but it is difficult to classify it as plagiarism at the legal level". "How can I play the side ball more innocently" and work overtime crazy, which is actually technical. He said that he changed an original painting a hundred and eighty times, which is not an exaggeration.

Ask He Chao to say that with the energy and time, it’s better to create originals by yourself, but unfortunately, original companies don’t want them. They can become popular, which means that animation fans like their character design and character design. You can’t do originals. For reference, can it pass the market test?

"We're all in the same building, aren't you afraid of being knocked on?" the colleague said half-jokingly.

他们在这栋楼的17层和18层，墨是19层和15、16层，位置和关系相当微妙。

He Chao was about to speak when he saw the elevator door open. Except for a few employees in suits and leather shoes who looked like high-level insurance companies, there was only one young man in casual clothes. The two walked into the elevator with dull heads and continued to chat : "Have you heard? Mo's two animation works "Evolutionary 46 Billion Ensemble" and "Space Super Battleship" have been produced, and it is said that the copyright is about to be negotiated."

"I heard that Huanshi.com and Penguin Video are both vying for the exclusive copyright, and the price is this amount!" He Chao stretched out five fingers.

The colleague shook his head and sighed: "It's amazing. The production cost of these two animation series is more than 4000 million, right? And each one has only ten episodes, and a single episode is more than 200 million! The highest cost of a single episode of Dongying animation can't reach this The number is really astronomical! The amazing thing is that they can still make a profit!"

"More than that, I heard that one episode lasts 30 minutes, but our company can't split it into 20 episodes?"

"It's not about making money at all."

He Chao sounded like he knew the inside story: "They have DreamWorks. Why do Huanshi.com and Penguin Video dare to pay such a high price for two animations? Isn't it for the sake of DreamWorks? How much money did World.com and Penguin Video earn? 5000 million is nothing. If we have such a powerful parent company, we can also concentrate on polishing the works like Mo, and don’t touch any gold or silver. This is animation. Let’s What did you do?"

Colleagues know that He Chao is also the kind of person who thinks he is "unappreciated for his talents", and has always been aggrieved about his situation. His idol is Wu Han, who once produced "Star God".

The colleague looked at the opening elevator door on the 16th floor, and sighed, "I'm not envious..." What he envied was mainly Mo's salary.

After the young man in casual clothes walked out of the elevator, they suddenly realized that the 16th floor was Mo's floor. After looking at each other, they turned their heads and looked at the sky.

On the one hand, He Chao held his breath to suppress his embarrassment, on the other hand, he suddenly felt that this young man who had just walked out wearing sunglasses looked familiar...

(End of this chapter)