The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 214 The Contested "Evolution" and "Battleship"

Chen Jingxing did not come to Mexico this time to celebrate the completion of the two animation series "Evolution" and "Battleship". In fact, he had already watched these two works before the TV series "Signal" was broadcast on Mango TV.

As expected, the production cost of a single episode exceeds 200 million. Of course, the effects of these two works are far from the animation movies, but in the animation dramas, even compared with the top animation dramas in the United States and Japan, they are absolutely amazing. Not inferior.

"Cosmos Super Battleship" is a pure 3D animation work. Whether it is the design and modeling of the battleship, or the fineness of the picture, it has reached a very high level. The content of the first ten episodes of the first season includes the explosion of the earth and the orbit of the moon. After the change, it crashed into Jupiter, an incredible mass ejection and ray burst swept across the solar system, and a considerable part of the mass hit the sun, and even broke through the troposphere, causing the stellar mass to be ejected, turning the solar system into a grand scene of hell.

It also includes several big battle scenes, capturing radiation source life on Jupiter; weird insect life born in the robot war against liquid methane on Titan, and exterminating it with a hydrogen bomb; The star fleet ambushed and fought back; facing the third-level civilization Jedi Survival around Tianyuan, the process of turning defeat into victory.

It can be said that the amount of information in less than [-] minutes of ten episodes is still very dense, and unlike the original protagonist whose soul is integrated into a supercomputer, the animation version has been changed to a dozen teenagers who remain dormant on the surviving spaceship. They are the only ones left on Earth. With the help of supercomputers that mutated into "strong artificial intelligence", human beings and teenagers escaped the disaster of the chain reaction of the solar system caused by the explosion of the earth, explored Jupiter, Titan, escaped from the solar system, and interacted with various alien life and aliens. Civilized good and bad contact and combat.

There are "upgrading and fighting monsters"-style battle plots, there are plots of adventurous exploration of the unknown in the universe, there is a main line of farming to obtain resources and technology to upgrade explosive battleships, and there are more than a dozen teenagers from fragility to strength, from confusion to establishment to find the earth explosion The truth of the truth and the growth process of the firm belief in the continuation of human civilization, and the content of scientific fantasy technologies such as understanding the classification of cosmic civilization, nuclear fusion, antimatter, etc. with the help of super intelligent computers.

In Xu Wenshen's words, it not only achieves entertaining and entertaining, but also stimulates the sci-fi feelings of "stars and seas" among young people. The commercial and educational aspects have reached a relatively high level.

Another work "Evolutionary 46 Billion Ensemble" is also a 3D animation, but it mainly uses the two-rendering and three-rendering technology, taking into account the exaggerated and gorgeous painting style, as well as realistic and more textured particle effects and light textures.

Compared with the science fiction style of "Battleship", although "Evolution" is also science fiction, it has a stronger scientific and educational color in the first season and is richer in knowledge, because in the ten episodes of the plot, although the time spans hundreds of millions of years , but the plot is not complicated. The protagonist Lin, who started from a single cell, had the golden finger of "manipulating all her cells with consciousness beyond time and space", and then experienced two mass extinction events, namely the Great Oxidation and Comet Impact. After waking up again, After discovering that the ocean was filled with dust and toxic substances, he landed and saw all kinds of creatures that had evolved on the land.

The animation not only experienced and described in detail the era of anaerobic bacteria, the explosion of species in the Ediacaran period, but also many different animals on land, especially those with a clear division of labor between individuals like the Zerg. It seems very realistic, but after careful consideration, it will feel very sci-fi.

Of course, the first season has not had time to show the unrestrained imagination of the original "Evolution" in the middle and late stages, such as the variety of species like alien life, and the boss life like myth, and Lin is fighting against these magical life. In the process, it becomes more and more unbelievable miraculous life.

Therefore, in Chen Jingxing's view, the first ten episodes of "Evolution" are more like a documentary. In the form of animation, from the perspective of Lin, a magical life with "golden thighs", she experiences the evolution process in the early stages of life. In the middle and later stages, it is different from gradually breaking away from normal life forms and stepping into the fantasy world. The early descriptions of the evolution process of early life and several mass extinctions are still very "scientific".

In any case, in Chen Jingxing's opinion, no matter in terms of the gorgeous painting style or the compact and imaginative story, these two works are animations that will interest young people, and even adults can find something they like. .

Several major video platforms, especially Huanshi.com and Penguin Video, have watched these two animations, and they also feel quite amazing. Huaguo’s previous animation works rarely have such works. You can call them popular science animations. There are also extremely strong dramatic conflicts and big scenes. If you say it is purely plot-oriented animation, it can also entertain and teach, and contains more scientific knowledge.

To be more accurate, it is a fully upgraded version of "Blue Cat's Naughty Three Thousand Questions", a youth animation with a more compact plot, more exquisite pictures, and more adult-oriented drama.

Therefore, the two major video platforms offer a package price of 5000 million yuan for the exclusive copyright (including the right of first refusal for the second season of "Xing Shen Ji"). "The right of first refusal for the second season. These two animations have indeed aroused their interest. Although it is still difficult to say whether they will be affirmed by the market, the two platforms are willing to take some risks for the two animation series. Anyway, even if it is a loss Buying and selling, 5000 million is not a big deal in today's skyrocketing copyright competition for live-action film and television dramas.

However, Chen Jingxing did not intend to sell the exclusive rights. Like the "Signal" TV series, he offered a bottom-line copyright price of 700 million yuan for a package of two parts - the price gap between exclusive and non-exclusive copyrights is very large - as long as you pay You can get the copyright, regardless of the platform, the condition is to sign an on-demand account sharing + advertising account sharing agreement.

At present, three video platforms, Penguin Video, Huanshi.com and Station C, are interested in these two animations. Although the financial resources of Station C cannot be compared with the other three, but as a video website that started from animation, of course he will not easily let go of the quality Excellent manga.

If the agreement can be reached, then these two animations can get 2100 million yuan just for the copyright price, plus the on-demand sub-account + advertising sub-account, Chen Jingxing is still very confident to recover the cost, and even achieve profitability.

Regardless of the mode of copyright transaction, there is no doubt that the package price offered by Huanshi.com and Penguin Video still makes everyone in Mo very excited. Even if DreamWorks and Mo signed a guarantee agreement, that is, if DreamWorks hands If the copyright income cannot cover the cost of an animation project for Mo, DreamWorks, as its holding parent company, will make up the price difference. For Mo and the production teams of several animations, this is almost equivalent to guaranteeing income from droughts and floods.

From the effect point of view, the guarantee agreement Chen Jingxing gave them did not reduce the enthusiasm of the production team, but instead gave them more pure enthusiasm and gratitude to Chen Jingxing, and they were able to complete the animation production with a more peaceful mind.

Of course, Chen Jingxing is not being taken advantage of. It is because of his understanding and trust in Mo's senior management and team management that he will give the guarantee contract, and it is only limited to projects arranged by DreamWorks. If it is a project proposed by Mo himself, Chen Jingxing will not Give them the bottom line.

The main purpose of his visit this time was to communicate with Mo's computer animation department about new projects.

(End of this chapter)