Game Design: Players are moved to tears

Chapter 114 Do animation first
Three days later, experience the store.

Liu Wei welcomes his partner - Blu-ray Technology.

Blu-ray Technology was once the king of the domestic animation industry and produced many popular works in the past few years.

Like "National Treasure", "Super Beast", "GGboy", "The Seven Heroes of Rainbow Rabbit and Blue Cat"...

Known as a rising star in China, it is also a representative of domestic animation.

But... due to reports from some parents, most of its anime were removed from the shelves.

There are also many anime that are hurriedly offline without even ending.

There was a shortage of capital, internal and external troubles, and he even made a super invincible tribute work——

"The Legend of the Armored Flying Dragon"

Trying to use emotions and gimmicks to attract a wave of funds to survive, but the result...

Now the person in charge is sitting in Liu Wei's shop to discuss cooperation.

Liu Wei pushed over a few original paintings: "I hope you can make this into an animation."

The person in charge named Zhou took it and took a look, shook his head and said: "Mr. Liu, although I have not seen the entire manuscript, from the perspective of the character image, with all due respect..."

"It's hard for children today to accept this style of painting."

"I know..." Liu Wei said, "Children now like pink hair dryers."

Pink hair dryer?
The person in charge named Zhou almost spit out a mouthful of tea and looked at Liu Wei in surprise.

This is too bold to say. Aren't you afraid of being reported by your parents?
But it was because of Liu Wei's words that the person in charge had a slightly heightened sense of Liu Wei.

"And you don't have to worry." Liu Wei added, "I'll pay for it, so you can just go ahead and do it with confidence."

"I am responsible for all the line drafts, storyboards, and story lines. You only need to do one thing, get money, and then spend it."

"Any questions?"

The person in charge named Zhou wanted to cry a little.

Listen, is this human?

This is clearly God whispering in my ears!
For an animation company, when online drafts, storyboards, and story lines are all ready, making animation is like picking up money.

"Mr. Liu, it's not a big problem, but the price..."

"We have multiple plans here. I will give them to you later..."

The person in charge surnamed Zhou was interrupted by Liu Wei in the middle of his speech.

"No need, choose the most expensive one, I'm not short of money."

The person in charge named Zhou was stunned for a moment, and then became ecstatic.

Heaven, earth, what kind of fairy gold master father is this!

Even so, the person in charge surnamed Zhou still cautiously reminded: "Mr. Liu, what we are benchmarking is the highest level of production in the country."

"Excluding the opening and ending songs, an episode of anime lasts about 10 minutes. Based on the price of 1 per minute, the cost of an episode is 40."

"And the opening and ending songs are also money. Generally, animations are selected songs, that is, they directly spend money to buy the songs they own. But for such a large production like ours, we have to arrange the songs separately. This is another expense..."

"Voice actors also make a lot of money..."

Liu Wei did a rough calculation.

40 per episode. According to market standards, there are 500 episodes in a season, which is a small [-] million per season.

This is without the price of the opening, ending, and dubbing. If all were based on the highest standards, it would be estimated to be over 600 million.

Hiss... No wonder Blu-ray is on the verge of bankruptcy. According to this standard, it will never make money back in this life.

You must know that the biggest difference between Chinese comics and Japanese comics is profitability.

The profits of Chinese comics come from TV stations purchasing copyrights, while Japanese comics directly sell CDs and peripherals.

The profitability of the two is not at the same level at all.

Of course, the price is not calculated that way.

For example, Liu Wei provided core elements such as line drafts, characters, story lines, and shots.

Blu-ray is equivalent to a processing factory and only charges part of the processing fee.

Moreover, although the duration of Chinese comics is just over 10 minutes, there will be a lot of repeated scenes, and these repeated scenes will not cost money.

But even so, this is not a small number.Liu Wei thought for a while and said: "The number of episodes of this anime is about two hundred. Can it be cheaper?"

Pfft... This time, the person in charge named Zhou couldn't hold back and sprayed it out.

"How many, two hundred episodes?"

"Mr. Liu, are you kidding me?"

Looking at Liu Wei's serious expression, the person in charge named Zhou was sure this time that the young man in front of him had no intention of joking.

But two hundred episodes is too risky.

The reason why anime has a twelve-episode season is because there is too much uncertainty.

There are too many episodes, and if you fail, you will lose all your money.

And the number of episodes is too few, and players will find it unpleasant to watch.

So all in all, twelve episodes in one season is the optimal solution.

If it becomes popular, continue filming; if it fails, there will be no sequel.

Unless it is an adaptation of a very famous IP, such as "Mortal Cultivating Immortality" which became popular some time ago.

The investment is huge, and the series has only 24 episodes, so there is no fear that the audience will not pay for it.

Facts also proved that their original idea was correct.

But even "Mortal Cultivation" only has 24 episodes as the base season, and it's unclear whether it will reach [-] episodes.

Now a person popped up and said that I want you to make an anime for me, with [-] episodes as the bottom line, anyone would be pissed off!
But Liu Wei didn't do anything right, and even had a plan to forget it if you said no.

After all, "Yu-Gi-Oh!" has been completely popular in the previous life. Even now, as long as there are card players, it will not be popular.

The person in charge named Zhou thought about it and gave a suggestion: "Mr. Liu, if you really want to shoot [-] episodes, I don't recommend you choose this high configuration. You can just follow the configuration of [-] episodes."

The person in charge surnamed Zhou gave Liu Wei a popularization of the difference between 40 and [-] configurations.

The configuration of 40 is equivalent to "The new version of the wolf catches the sheep and has to cook it, but it runs away", while [-] is the benchmark for those very famous love stories in Japanese comics——

Whether it's color matching, light chasing, or composition, it's all straight forward.

The well-known healing show "Shave, Hokkaido God of War" is almost the top price.

After understanding the configuration, Liu Wei said decisively: "If you want to say that, then get the most expensive one."

Everyone in charge named Zhou was dumbfounded.

No, Mr. Liu, is there a problem with my expression or with your understanding?
I have said it before, the top configuration of this series is a waste of money!

But Liu Wei had his own considerations.

First of all, the top configuration means a big gimmick during publicity.

Two hundred episodes, according to 2000 episodes, only [-] million.

But according to the top allocation, that is hundreds of millions of investment funds.

Needless to say, it was very impressive during the promotion.

Moreover, when others make animation, they must first consider the cost of failure and how much money they can make.

Liu Wei doesn't care about this at all. "Yu-Gi-Oh!" has long proven its success.

The most important thing is... everything is arranged according to the top.

When Liu Wei makes AR games, he can directly use top-quality materials without spending extra money.

It seems that 8000 million yuan was spent in vain.

However, multiple analyzes from a publicity perspective, a practical perspective, and a gaming perspective can achieve an effect far exceeding 8000 million.

Seeing that Liu Wei had no intention of changing his mind, the person in charge named Zhou sighed silently in his heart...

You still make money by making games. You can throw away [-] million without blinking an eye.

"Okay, then Mr. Liu, let's sign the contract first, and then you'll pay the deposit."

Liu Wei nodded.

I also sighed deeply in my heart.

How much money can you make by making games, or making money by making animations? This [-] million contract was negotiated.

(End of this chapter)