Hong Kong Island Comic Master

Chapter 45 Animation Company
"Xiao Zhi, look at him coming here!"

At Xiaoxia's reminder, Xiaozhi turned his head and saw Squirtle following them, wearing sunglasses.

"Why don't you just come with us, Squirtle?"

Facing Xiaozhi's invitation, Squirtle, who took off his sunglasses, burst into tears, and then threw himself into Xiaozhi's arms.

"Please give me more advice, Squirtle!"

At this time, the voice-over sounded: "That's it. It's great to have Squirtle join us. Xiaozhi, you have to work hard!"

Then, the exciting music stopped suddenly, the screen zoomed out, and a line of English appeared below: "TO BE CONTINUED".

The animation has finished playing. There are more than 20 people crowded in the room, but there is silence. Everyone's attention is focused on the person in the front.

This young man has a strong and oppressive momentum, it is Li Wannian!
After the meeting at the company, Li Wannian came to Shenlong Animation Company again.

This company is not in Chong Hing Plaza, but on Waterloo Road not far from Li Mannien's studio.

The reason for this arrangement was not because Li Wannian wanted to keep it a secret, but because the rent of the office building in Chong Hing Plaza was very expensive and Li Wannian couldn't afford it!
Although Li Wannian has made a lot of money from comics in the past two years, the animation company is really burning money. What's more, for more than a year, the animation company has barely made any money, relying entirely on Li Wannian to generate electricity for love.

However, now it seems that these efforts have paid off!
"Clap clap clap..."

Li Wannian, who was sitting at the front, watched 12 episodes in a row. He was very satisfied with the effect shown on TV and couldn't help but applaud.

As Li Wannian clapped, everyone else in the room breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as Li Wannian is satisfied, the efforts of himself and others will finally be in vain.

"Brother Zhong, you did a good job!"

Li Wannian turned to look at a short man with long hair next to him.

This person is Li Wannian's favorite general, Cai Zhizhong, who is also the head of the Shenlong Animation Company.

The reason why Li Wannian chose this name was because Cai Zhizhong later founded a cartoon company called "Dragon Cartoon". By doing this at this time, he could be considered a success.

Second, in Neon, there is a very outstanding animation studio called "Dragon Son", which has cultivated a large number of animators and production companies with famous names in the future, including Sunrise, Crazy House, Bone Club, Sofa Cover, Beijing More than 20 animation companies, including Arnie, Clown Club, Festival Club, and Hegemony Club, are all his disciples and disciples. They can be called the Whampoa Military Academy in the neon animation industry.

And now, Li Wannian has named his animation company "Dragon Animation". Doesn't that mean that they all have to call their company "Grandpa"?
Of course, Ah Q is very energetic!
"Thank you. To be honest, we have tried our best. If we had more budget, we would definitely be able to do better!"

Cai Zhizhong is obviously not satisfied with the animation he made, and feels that there are many areas for improvement.

"It's not necessary. What we need is a commercial animation. We need to use limited funds to create animation that the audience will like. That's enough!"

In terms of animation production, Li Wannian is not the kind of "artist" with the spirit of craftsmanship. In this regard, he has fully studied the principle of master Osamu Tezuka, which is "save what you can"!
You know, Osamu Tezuka decided to reduce the budget for each episode to 60 to [-] yen in order to persuade the TV station to broadcast "Astro Boy" adapted from his own comics.

You must know that Neon's quotation for limited animation at that time was already one-tenth of that of American studios, but this time Tezuka's price was less than one-fiftieth of Toei's production fee!

In order to meet such tight production funds and time constraints, he not only streamlined Toei's shooting mode from "one shot two" (12 original pictures per second) to "one shot three" (eight original pictures per second), It is also the first to reuse transformation, fusion and other shots in each episode to fill the time, as well as a large number of short shot cuts in medium and close shots to avoid too much action performance, etc...

That's right, these evil animation time tricks are all leftover from Osamu Tezuka's tricks!
How else could he be the god of neon comics?
And Li Wannian was even better than his predecessor. In addition to getting these details in place, Li Wannian even gave the storyboards of the animation in his memory to the production staff of the animation company, and asked them to draw, shoot, and cut according to them!
It can be said that the employees have almost no autonomy and are completely foolhardy.

Although this is contrary to Cai Zhizhong's original concept of establishing a cartoon company, he can't resist Li Wannian's ability to draw cakes!He said that as long as the animation company can make money, it can produce excellent animations, and even give his "Death" to the company for production!

Once these words came out, Cai Zhizhong no longer had the slightest doubt.

Compared with "Pokémon" and "Chinese Master Chef" which pursue cost-effectiveness, the animation of "Death" is the top priority and the real challenge!

"Then what you promised before..."

Cai Zhizhong was a little embarrassed, and looked at Li Wannian eagerly with a bit of expectation in his eyes.

"The production of "Pokemon" still cannot be stopped, and the animation of "MasterChef" is also striving to produce the first episode as soon as possible. As for "Death"! The company currently has limited manpower. After the animation is broadcast, we will Let’s start recruiting people, and when the time comes, we can start the preliminary preparations!”

"Ah? Broadcast? We have done so many episodes, when will it be broadcast?"

No wonder Cai Zhizhong lacks confidence. It has been a year and a half since he established the company, and he has produced more than ten episodes of animation, but it has never been broadcast. This is really unacceptable!

"It's coming soon, it should be less than a month!"

"Really? That's great! We will be able to complete it smoothly!"

Just as Cai Zhizhong promised, the whole room suddenly turned into a sea of ​​cheers.

"yeah!"

As an animation practitioner, who wants to make these childish and crude animations?

They both wanted to make animation that would go down in history, and Bleach was clearly the key to get them into that realm.

Although "The God of Death" is just a hot-blooded manga in the final analysis, and its content is only average, it can't resist its popularity!
Moreover, the beautiful characters and poetic images are the favorites of many animation practitioners.

It would be an honor for them to be able to participate in the production of such an animation!
"By the way, Brother Zhong, have you guys finished the opening and ending scenes of "Pokémon"?"

After the cheers of the company's employees subsided, Li Wannian asked Cai Zhizhong on the side.

"It's done, but I haven't added it yet. After all, I don't have the songs yet. I'll need to arrange them when the time comes!"

"Yes, then I will give you the opening and ending songs recently!"

"is it finished?"

Cai Zhizhong looked at Li Wannian in surprise. Didn't he hear which singer he invited?
"No, not yet, I have to let them record songs recently!" Li Wannian sighed.

"Who is it?"

Cai Zhizhong was a little curious, which singer did Li Wannian invite?

"It's nothing, you'll know when the time comes!"

Li Wannian kept it secret and didn't say anything directly. He was just thinking in his heart: It seems that I have to go see how their rehearsals are going today!

(End of this chapter)