After making a wish, financial freedom

Chapter 371 It's time to make money
The production cost of 1 yuan per minute mentioned above refers to animation films that can be shown in cinemas.

Generally speaking, the production cost of anime that is normally played on a computer is much lower. The cost of an episode of 25 minutes is usually 50 million yuan, and the high-quality one is only a million yuan an episode.

Li Zhuo estimated that the cost of one episode of "Five Elements in the Fog Mountain" produced by Lin Hun might only be around 30 yuan, because they were too frugal, and the director did a lot of work alone.

Li Zhuo chatted with Wuyan for an hour, and got a general understanding of the general style of this studio.

It can be seen that their minds are not only focused on short films, but also aggressive in feature-length animated films and 3D animation.

Moreover, they are relatively flexible and will undertake some outsourcing to support the studio. When necessary, they can even design a very Japanese-style animation style to meet the needs of customers.

But the short films they really want to make are basically in the style of Chinese painting, which are more distinctive.

After Li Zhuo finished chatting with her, he said:
"If your studio wants to make animated films, it's still immature at the moment. As you said just now, the manpower is too small, and the production cost and publicity cost are relatively high. It won't be solved in a short while. 3D animation I would rather I think you can try it, I am willing to give you 500 million yuan in financing to help promote the development of the studio faster..."

The cost of 3D animation is generally considered to be 2-2 times that of 3D animation. Even if the cost is higher, it is still limited. 500 million is enough for them to produce seven or eight 3D short films.

Hearing this good news, Wu Yan was also very happy. She immediately called another partner to discuss the appropriate amount of shares for Li Zhuo.

After the partners came, they discussed for a while. Although this studio does well in short films and has a lot of products, it does not have a popular IP in China, so the valuation is lower.

In the end, they agreed to give Li Zhuo 28% of the studio's equity. After the negotiation, they quickly signed a shareholding contract. After the matter was settled, Li Zhuo quickly transferred 500 million to the studio's account.

With this money, Wu Yan felt that they could overthrow the original work progress plan. On the basis of recruiting more manpower, they could speed up the original work tasks and carry out the production of the first 3D animation .

The style of this studio is that there are few works, but they are basically high-quality works. Before leaving, Li Zhuo also insisted on this point: continue to make high-quality goods, and don’t abandon this point.

The two partners have no objection to this point. This is the foundation of their livelihood and their original intention to make animation.

After leaving here, Li Zhuo drove Meng Yuanyuan straight to the Bund.

The Bund and the opposite Lujiazui can be said to be the most distinctive landscapes in Shanghai.

Across the river, here is a group of Western-style buildings in the Republic of China, and opposite is the financial center of the new era, the most prosperous place.

They were all beautiful. They strolled around the Bund, and then followed the crowd along West Nanjing Road.

After they were tired from shopping, they drove back to the Shimao Shenkeng Hotel to rest.

The next morning, Li Zhuo transferred 100 million yuan to Meng Yuanyuan, asking her to buy any clothes and bags she liked, and also left her the Bentley Flying Spur for her to drive back to Hangzhou after shopping.

After that, he took a plane to Fengtian, the capital of Liao Province, and then to Chang'an.

In Fengtian, he went to Mochen's stop-motion animation studio located at the Xinqu headquarters base in Shenbei.

Founded in 18, this studio specializes in stop-motion animation.

Stop-motion animation is to produce characters or characters that seem to be alive by shooting objects one by one and then showing them continuously.Character props are often designed with clay puppets, puppets or mixed materials, which is obviously different from the popular drawing-based animation production.

In fact, "The Story of Avanti" produced by Shangmei Film Studio is the representative of the most famous stop-motion animation in China.

The production of stop-motion animation is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and expensive. As a result, domestic stop-motion animation is very rare in recent years, and it can be described as almost extinct.

Therefore, Mochen Stop Motion Studio, which can produce brilliant stop motion animations like "The Bridge of Wind and Rain", is very precious, and Li Zhuo intends to help them.

This studio is also a very small team. After Li Zhuo searched according to the address, he found that the office space is not big. The only thing that is special is that they have a decent prop space nearby, which is an old warehouse.

As for the team size of the studio, the fixed number is 6 people, plus the peripheral staff who come to help for free when there is insufficient manpower, a total of 10 people.

The person in charge of the studio is Liu Di, who was surprised to learn that Li Zhuo came here from Hangzhou.

Li Zhuo asked about the difficulties of stop-motion animation. He bluntly said that manpower, funds, props and venues are all problems.

According to his explanation, a "Wind and Rain Bridge" took them three years. Stop-motion animation is slow work and meticulous work. It needs to be produced, changed props, scenes, puppet movements, etc. for real shooting. If it goes well , It is good to be able to shoot 5-6 seconds of animation pictures in one day.

Li Zhuo asked:

"Have you calculated? How much does it cost to stop motion animation for 1 minute?"

"Forget it, if the stop-motion animation is produced normally under the condition of sufficient funds, the price should be around 5 to 1 yuan per minute. This is still in a city where the price is not high like Fengtian, and the price is more expensive in a first-tier city.

However, we were working on "The Bridge of Wind and Rain" at the time, because we overcame various difficulties and kept the cost down. After the film was completed, I calculated it, which was equivalent to 1 yuan per minute, less than 3 yuan. " Liu Di replied.

Knowing that this studio is working on a stop-motion animation called "Lantern Knife", Li Zhuo asked:
"Then are you short of money now? Has the publication of "The Bridge of Wind and Rain" brought in investment?"

Liu Di explained:
"If anything, Haochuan Animation has been helping with the joint production, and Penguin Films is also willing to help, but they are all helping in the promotion of the product, and the production funds are still stretched."

Li Zhuo nodded and said:
"If that's the case, then let me help, and I will invest 700 million in your studio."

He gave this studio more money, mainly because there were too few stop-motion animation workers, and Li Zhuo wanted to support him, so he gave more money.

Liu Di smiled wryly after hearing this:
"Boss, this small studio of ours has published "The Bridge of Wind and Rain". I don't know how many shares I should give you for 700 million."

Li Zhuo smiled and said:

"It's okay, give me 35% of the shares, I'll take less, and give you more room for financing in the future."

With this 700 million, they can make several stop-motion animations without worrying about running out of money to support the studio. Moreover, Li Zhuo's shareholding is very restrained. Under normal circumstances, it must be more than such a small share.

Liu Di was naturally happy and grateful, he felt that he had met a noble person.

After signing the contract, Li Zhuo transferred 700 million to the account of the studio.

In this way, there is still 3860 million yuan left in his bank card.

After that, he flew to Chang'an City again to fulfill his idea of ​​donating to military schools such as Xigong University.

He was running out of money, so he could only donate to Xigong University first, and donated 3000 million yuan to it.

Xigong University also paid more attention to it, and held a special ceremony for this. The principal awarded him a certificate of "Honorary Alumni" and asked him if he had any requirements for using the money.

Li Zhuo said:

"My original intention is to support the development of national military technology, so I hope that the money will be used for relevant R&D personnel, students or materials and equipment."

The principal agreed to this request.

After this matter was settled, there was only 860 million left in Li Zhuo's bank card, not much.

It's time for the next mission.

(End of this chapter)