A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

Chapter 333 News
In autumn, the weather in Shanghai continues to heat up.

Xia Yan also returned to Shanghai at the end of September. In the past few years, he has been studying and jumping back and forth in two directions in his career. Although he finally left the single at the end of college, strictly speaking, he His energy is far less beautiful than outsiders imagined.

Everyone in the two-dimensional industry thinks that Xia Yan has achieved great success and promise at a young age. At the age of 21, he founded Xiatang Animation, a legendary new star company in the animation industry in Longguo, and single-handedly established Beizhou Comic Company and Liuli. The influence of the book club has risen to the first place in the country.

Now it is the holder of the number one sales record for BD in the animation field, ratings, single-volume sales in the field of comics, and single-volume sales in the field of novels.

Of course, success in career means that Xia Yan's life is extremely boring.

If one day Xia Yan is in the 996 work mode, it means that Xia Yan has a relatively small amount of work and studies this week, and has been suppressed for several years. This is a rebound from the bottom.

Although his trip of less than three months was temporarily suspended under Tang Yin's persuasion, he only resumed the serialization of Sword Art Online and Hunter x Hunter when he returned to Shanghai.

One to twenty thousand words of novel updates per week and the creation of a storyboard draft, for Xia Yan now, these tasks can be easily completed.

As for the creation of the four animations in Xiatang Animation, Xia Yan will not interfere too much now.

Of course, Xia Yan will definitely come up with the original classic bgm of the two works of Slam Dunk and Ganglian in the parallel world animation, such as the old version of "Brothers" by Ganglian, and the classic "Three Belts" of Slam Dunk. .

It's not that he doesn't believe in the creative strength of Longguo's local musicians, but Xia Yan just instinctively resists risks.

There is a high probability that the music made by the people under his subordinates will not be able to surpass the original, and there is a very small probability that it will be better than the original bgm. In the case that the original bgm itself has the level of gods, there is nothing wrong with Xia Yan's head, for sure I will not gamble on the pitifully small possibility of "Super God".

So it is said to let his subordinates play freely, but Xia Yan has already arranged at least one-third of the workload for the bgm part of the two animation works that Xia Yan values ​​most.

Then there is the human aspect
The animation style of Ganglian can be adjusted, for example, it can be designed to be more beautiful.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with the protagonist, and the characters of the two brothers Edward and Alphonse are reserved for summer.

It's the supporting actors.
They are all big round faces, and there are obvious heroines like Wendy
Why do you find ten passerby female characters in the works, at least two or three will be prettier than her.

The heroine must have a painting style that matches the heroine, and she can't put on a passerby's face.

So in this regard, Xia Yan also made certain adjustments.

The rest of the animation storyboards, rhythm, etc., are all handed over to the top animation team dug by the subordinates.

The salary of millions of dollars a year is not for nothing. Xia Yan invited them to come, and the high salary is not for these people to restore the works of the parallel world to the same level as the original.
Rather, it is better.

So in this regard, Xia Yan can't restrict them too much.

Of course, the deeper reason is that Xia Yan doesn't want to affect the work of his subordinates too much.

They are the big bosses of companies worth billions of dollars, and they also take care of the work of their subordinates. There is really no need for this, and it will put too much pressure on them.

And the progress of animation production.
There is nothing to say about Xia Tang Animation.

After all, Xia Yan had enough money and enough bonuses. Last season's rebellious Lelouch finished, and Lelouch's production team shared a bonus of more than 20 yuan per person. This amount of money was almost equal to the five-year average salary bonus of Longguo residents.

Of course, with a production team of only 200 people, the bonus cost is only about 4000 million, which is nothing compared to Lelouch's estimated copyright income of more than 20 billion.

But not every capitalist in Longguo is as generous and capable as Xia Yan. Xia Yan's works have earned so much money. From investment to publicity, Xia Yan personally contributed.With this kind of achievement, no one would complain even if Xia Yan didn't give everyone a bonus, but Xia Yan still gave it, so much back.

This also makes the employees especially motivated to work now. Xia Yan doesn’t advocate 996’s internal involvement. The company has enough staff, so the work can’t be finished, and it also has the money to hire other top animation production companies to outsource some of the tasks. , but for employees who are willing to work overtime, the overtime pay in the rules and regulations is quite high.
This also made the subordinates often live at night and work overtime to earn overtime pay, and these behaviors also greatly advanced the production progress of Xia Yan's several animations.

For Fullmetal Alchemist, which will start broadcasting in January next year, it's only October, and the company's publicity has already begun.

As for Xia Yan
After returning to Shanghai, in addition to creating swords and hunters, or staying at home to catch up on the Dragon Kingdom animation dramas, novels, and comics that I want to watch but have no time to watch in the past few years
Or, fully armed, cosplay at the manga exhibition, and play as a pure coser.

Of course, if he dares to go to the scene, the cosplay is definitely either a masked man in an anime character or a non-human creature, such as a character wearing a doll suit.

Not showing your face will not cause riots at the comic exhibition and affect the activities of other organizers.

Otherwise, if Xia Yan wants to appear in these places in person, it can be said that the organizers of these comic exhibitions and the various partners participating in the exhibition want to promote their works, which will definitely not be achieved. The next day's news headlines must be about Xia Yan.

Of course, during this period of time, Xia Yan sat at home, occasionally went to comic exhibitions, cultural exhibitions, or was invited to attend some charity galas. come up.

For example, many cultural industry companies at home and abroad would even offer several million a day if they wanted Xia Yan to attend their company's activities.

There are also some variety shows that invite Xia Yan to appear, and the price is basically the same.

And because Xia Yan became famous, when he was in high school, the copyrights of the two serial works created by Yu Hongfeng, "Youth Journey" and "Unheard of Flower Names" were also subject to the copyrights of all parties in the Longguo Two-dimensional industry. encirclement and suppression.

Xia Yan's current works are either copyrighted by himself, or jointly owned by Beizhou, Liuli and other publishing houses.

Needless to say, the copyright works held by Xiatang Animation Company, Xia Yan will definitely not sell the copyrights of TV series, movies, game adaptations, etc.

Not much to say, just the work of Magical Girl Madoka
Xia Yan adapted it into a live-action movie. With Xia Yan's popularity and its reputation among the Two-dimensional masses, it can easily win at least one billion yuan in movie box office at home and abroad.

If it is adapted into a live-action movie, it will also earn hundreds of millions, or even more.

In the same way, Lelouch, cyberpunk and other works can make money in the market twice or even three times in the same way, and as long as the quality is guaranteed after you become a real person, fans will even happily support these works. Second, third consumption.

Not to mention game adaptations.

The value of these works still has a huge potential. Xia Yan will definitely not be able to sell the copyright. When she has time in the future, it will not be difficult for Xia Yan to gather people to set up a TV drama and movie department within the company, or a game adaptation department. Just to see if he can be so energetic.

The capital market is salivating over the "Xiayan" money printing machine, but Xiayan has no flaws at all.

He has good personal credit, good reputation, excellent business conditions, no loans, no financing, no bad habits, and a very harmonious relationship with the leaders of various official departments in Longguo. There is no way for anyone who wants to set him up
So. The two works of Red Maple Novel Club that year.
It directly caused the capital of Longguo to scramble frantically.

The animation copyrights of Journey of Youth and Unknown Flower Name have been sold long ago, and even the animation of the former was completed four years ago. However, because the producer made rough animations, a love animation unexpectedly had characters collapsed, and the voice actors dubbed stiffly. , frame drops, background distortion and other problems, and Xia Yan hadn't announced that he was a "soldier of love" at that time, so he got the fourth place in the season.

But now, the film and TV adaptation rights of the two works have become the favorites in the film and television industry of Longguo.

Seven of the top ten film and television production companies in Longguo participated in the copyright bidding of Red Maple Literature, and the final winner bought the film and TV series copyrights of two works at a price of 500 million.
Of course, the reason why the copyrights of these two works are still in the hands of Hongfeng and Xia Yan is because of the copyright joint party, Hongfeng Literature. Seeing the huge potential in Xia Yan, the copyright has not been sold in the past few years and is ready to be sold. consider.

When the contract was signed, Red Maple Literature had the right to trade the copyright of two works and a small portion of the proceeds, while Xia Yan had the majority of the copyright proceeds.

So after a few years, Xia Yan made tens of millions of dollars in two works.

This is the status quo of popular creators like Xia Yan. As long as there are enough works, there will be past works that will bring you unexpected income every year.Even if Xia Yan retires now, the passive income from past works will be hundreds of millions every year.

Of course, the company that bought the copyright of Youth Journey and Unheard Flower Name will definitely not let go of so many double-focused eyes in the market.

Just a few days later, it was announced that four projects in the film and TV series of the two works will be launched at the same time.

In the Longguo market, the TV series Xiaohua, popular movie stars, and idols are also like sharks smelling blood, flocking to the adaptation projects of the two works.

Just kidding, who can match Xia Yan's tens of millions of fans in Longguo who are willing to spend money on his works?

Comparing the influence and traffic of the cultural industry, those traffic stars who rely on face, compared with Xia Yan, there is a huge gap.

If Xia Yan wants to make movies and TV shows, his appeal must be stronger than these first-line stars.

This... is Xia Yan's position in the industry now.

Although he is in the two-dimensional world, in the film and television industry, he is already an existence that radiates money in the eyes of everyone.

This incident became the headline of the Longguo Two-dimensional industry in October.

Although the two works of Youth Journey and Unheard Flower Name are relatively average achievements in Xia Yan's early works.

But their author named Xia Yan
This allows them to sell this copyright price in Longguo.

From novels, manga, to animation adaptations
And then to games, movies, TV series adaptation of the industrial chain.
An industrial chain whose central point is anchored in Xiayan, and then radiates to various categories of Longguo cultural industry, is being born.

time to november
Xia Yan, who was watching cartoons at home, rejected the invitation of Liuli Book Club to invite him to participate in a variety show on the phone at the same time, but agreed to the other party's proposal to hold a novel signing event in Longguo next month
Participating in variety shows is because variety shows take advantage of Xia Yan's traffic, and Xia Yan will definitely not do it.

But for the novel signing event, Xia Yan still maintains a steady schedule of less than five events a year.
After all, being active in front of fans is also very important for Xia Yan to maintain his popularity.

"I feel... I'm getting more and more boring after graduation." Xia Yan was the only one in the empty room.

After Tang Yin returned to Shanghai, she fell into work. A group of overseas copyright dealers were waiting for her to sign the contract on behalf of Xia Yan. She had already left Longguo for three days.

Mo Ran is a cartoonist group with Xia Yan, because of Xia Yan's salty fish, Mo Ran basically went to the "author" meeting of this work this year, and the work was created by two people together Yes, but now Hunter's "image spokesperson" is basically Mo Ran, and she has already set off to the Imperial Capital to promote her work for a week.

As for Song Lingyun.
After Xia Yan and Tang Yin returned to the capital, they looked the same as before, beautiful, beautiful, and calm, that is... Xia Yan could feel the subtle atmosphere emanating from her.

However, she is also busy with the promotion of her new novel recently.

The average sales volume of Song Lingyun's new novel has reached 1800 million.

She is now the well-deserved No. [-] writer of Liuli Book Club.

However, the average sales volume of Xia Yan's Sword Art Online is 2800 million volumes, and the gap is still too far.

But she's trying too.

Moreover, Liuli Book Club does not want to put all the treasure on Xia Yan. Now Xia Yan and Liu Li Book Club have a good relationship, but there is no guarantee when Xia Yan will be poached by Xing Kong Novels and Qing Ze Novels. At that time, Song Lingyun may We have to take the lead.

Naturally, out of insurance considerations, Liuli Publishing Club also gave Song Lingyun its publicity resources.

She also seldom came back in the past half month, and she was cooperating with the work of Liuli Book Club.

After graduating from school, on the contrary, everyone is busier with their careers.

Xia Yan thought about it at home, and then let out a long breath.

"It's so deserted." Xia Yan sighed with a wry smile.

November passed quickly.

The temperature has moved closer to the cold from the previous autumn.

Pedestrians on the street have changed from short-sleeved, fair-legged attire to long-sleeved, outerwear, and black stockings.

But in this season when the temperature is gradually dropping.

Xia Tang Animation Production Company
At the end of November, a bombshell was dropped.

There is no large-scale publicity, and there is no information forwarded by people in the industry.

It's just that on the official website of Xiatang Animation, at four o'clock in the morning, without any notice, a short animation trailer with a duration of one and a half minutes was released quietly.

About the upcoming broadcast in January
"Fullmetal Alchemist"!
At four o'clock in the morning, some night owls just came to Xiatang Animation's official website by accident and glanced at it as usual. They thought it was a normal morning and there would be no changes.

But after seeing this teaser video
In the two-dimensional realm of the Dragon Kingdom, an invisible earthquake began to brew.

After being depressed for almost half a year, fan groups in various cities and regions of the Dragon Kingdom became active.

In the group, everyone scrambled to forward relevant news.

In the dead of night in the group, it was rare to see a single person speaking all night, but today, at four o'clock in the morning, these fan groups did not go to sleep collectively.

A large number of people began to flock to the official website of Xiatang Animation, until [-] o'clock in the morning
The number of hits on the teaser video of Xiatang Animation exceeded 70.

Rao Zhijun, who has been a fan of Xia Yan for six years, only found out when he woke up in the early morning to drink water and casually looked at the fan group on his mobile phone
The Xia Yan fan group that I joined actually had more than 2000 unread comments pop up while I was asleep.
The Steel Refining Announcement?

Fans of Longguo Xiayan have been looking forward to it for more than half a year, one of the four new Xiayan works that have been discussed non-stop during the period, and it is the preview of Fullmetal Alchemist with the highest average investment.
Finally out.

A surge of hot blood surged into his brain, and Rao Zhijun lost all sleepiness immediately.

　There was another delay today. I wanted to make up for it today, but I ended up making it up tomorrow.Tomorrow weekend, I will definitely make up..
　　
　　
　
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