A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

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

Xia Yan also returned to the Magic City 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 became single at the end of college, strictly speaking, he has not been single in the past few years. The energy is far less beautiful than outsiders imagine.

Everyone in the two-dimensional industry thinks that Xia Yan is famous and promising at a young age. At the age of only 21, he founded Xia Tang Animation, a legendary new star company in the Dragon Kingdom animation industry, and single-handedly integrated Beizhou Comics and The influence of Liuli Publishing House has increased to the first in the entire Dragon Kingdom.

Currently, he is the holder of the number one record for bd, ratings, single-volume sales in the comics field, and single-volume sales records in the novel field.

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

If Xia Yan is in 996 work mode on any day, it means that Xia Yan has a relatively light workload of work and study this week. He has been suppressed for several years, and now he has bottomed out.

Although his trip, which lasted less than three months, was temporarily stopped due to Tang Yin's persuasion, when he returned to the Magic City, he only resumed the serialization of Sword Art Online and Hunter.

The novel update of 10,000 to 20,000 words a week and the creation of a storyboard draft can easily be completed for Xia Yan now.

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

Of course, Xia Yan will definitely bring out the original classic BGM of two works such as Slam Dunk and Steel Refining in the parallel world animation, such as the old version of Steel Refining's "Brothers" and Slam Dunk's classic "Three Belts". .

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

There is a high probability that the music made by the people in the music team will not be able to surpass the original work, but there is a very small chance that it will be better than the original BGM. Since the original BGM itself is at the level of a god, there is nothing wrong with Xia Yan's head. I won't bet on the pitifully small possibility of being a "super god".

Therefore, it is said that he is free to let his subordinates perform freely, but for the two animation works that Xia Yan values ​​​​the most, Xia Yan has arranged at least one-third of the workload for the BGM.

Then there’s the character aspect

The animation style of Steel Refining can be adjusted, for example, to make it more beautiful.

Of course there is nothing wrong with the protagonists, but Xia Yan retains the characters of the two brothers Edward and Alphonse.

Just the supporting characters.

They all have big round faces, and there is an obvious heroine like Wendy.

Why do you find ten female characters who are passers-by in this work, at least two or three of them will be prettier than her?

The heroine must have a style that matches the heroine, and cannot have a passerby face.

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

Other animation storyboards, rhythm, etc. were all handed over to the top animation team recruited by my subordinates.

The salary of millions a year is not free. Xia Yan invited them here and offered such a high salary to restore the works of Parallel World to a level comparable to the original works.

Rather, it is better to be better.

Therefore, Xia Yan cannot restrict them too much in this regard.

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

He is a big boss of a company with a net worth of several billion, and he still takes care of the work of his subordinates. It is really unnecessary and will put too much pressure on them.

As for the animation production progress.

Xia Tang Animation has nothing to say.

After all, Xia Yan has given enough money and bonuses. Last season, the rebellious Lelouch was completed. The Lelouch production team received more than 200,000 bonuses per person. This amount of money is almost the bonus of the five-year average salary of Dragon Kingdom residents. .

Of course, with a production team of only one or two hundred people, the bonus expense is only about 40 million, which is nothing compared to Lelouch's estimated copyright income of more than 2 billion.

But not every capitalist in the Long Kingdom is as generous and capable as Xia Yan. Xia Yan's works have made so much money, from investment to publicity, all funded by Xia Yan personally. After achieving such results, even if Xia Yan didn't give everyone bonuses, no one would complain, but Xia Yan still gave them, so much.

This also makes his employees extra motivated to work now. Xia Yan does not advocate 996 involution. The company has enough people and can't finish the work. It also has money to hire other top animation production companies to outsource part of the work. , but for employees who are willing to work overtime, the overtime pay provided in the rules and regulations is quite high.

This also allowed his subordinates to often work overtime at night to earn overtime pay, and these behaviors also greatly accelerated the production progress of several of Xia Yan's animations.

For Fullmetal Alchemist, which will be broadcast in January next year, it is only October, and the company's promotion has already begun.

As for Xia Yan

After returning to the Magic City, apart from creating swords and hunters, I would either stay at home and catch up on the Dragon Kingdom animation series, novels, and comics that I wanted to watch but had no time to watch in the past few years.

Or, just go to the comic show with full gear and cosplay, and have fun as a pure coser.

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

If you don't show your face, it won't cause riots at the comic show and affect the organizer's activities.

Otherwise, if Xia Yan were to appear in these places in person, it could be said that the organizers of these comic exhibitions and the various partners participating in the exhibition would never be able to achieve their goals of promoting their works. The news headlines the next day would definitely be about Xia Yan.

Of course, Xia Yan was sitting at home during this period, occasionally going to comic exhibitions, cultural exhibitions, or being invited to attend some charity evenings, etc. His living situation was relatively unsatisfactory, but people from all walks of life still found people through various channels. Come up.

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

There are also some variety shows that invite Xia Yan to appear, and the prices are 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's novels, "Journey of Youth" and "Unknown Flower Names" were also blocked by various forces in the Dragon Kingdom's two-dimensional industry. Encirclement and suppression.

Xia Yan's current works either have their own copyrights or are jointly held with Beizhou, Liuli and other book publishers.

Needless to say, Xia Tang Animation Company holds its own copyrighted works, and Xia Yan will definitely not sell the copyrights of TV series, movies, game adaptations, etc.

Not to mention too much, just the work of Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Xia Yan adapted it into a live-action movie. With Xia Yan's popularity and its reputation among the two-dimensional people, it can easily earn at least a billion in box office at home and abroad.

Adapted into a live-action movie, there will also be hundreds of millions or even more profits.

In the same way, works such as Lelouch and Cyberpunk can make money in the market twice or even three times through the same operation. And as long as the quality is guaranteed after you turn it into a real person, fans will even happily invest in these works. Second and third consumption.

Not to mention game adaptations.

There is still huge potential for the value of these works. It is definitely impossible for Xia Yan to sell the copyright. When he has time in the future, it will not be difficult for Xia Yan to recruit people to set up a TV series, movie, or game adaptation department within the company. It just depends on whether he can be so energetic.

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

He has good personal credit, a good reputation, and excellent business conditions. He does not take loans or finance, and does not have any bad habits. He also has a very harmonious relationship with the leaders of various official departments in the Dragon Kingdom. Anyone who wants to set a trap for him will not be able to do anything.

So. The two works that were published in Hongfeng Novel Society that year.

This directly led to a frenzied scramble from Longguo Capital.

The animation rights for Journey of Youth and Unknown Flowers have long been sold, and even the animation of the former was completed four years ago. However, due to the producers' shoddy workmanship of the animations, a love animation actually had broken characters and stiff dubbing by voice actors. , frame drops, background distortion and other problems, plus Xia Yan had not announced his identity as a "love warrior" at that time, so he achieved fourth place in the quarter.

But now, the film and TV series adaptation rights of the two works have become a hot commodity in the Longguo film and television industry.

Seven of the top ten film and television production companies in the Dragon Country participated in the bidding competition for the copyright of Red Maple Literature. The final winner bought the film and TV series copyrights of two works for 75 million.

Of course, the reason why the copyrights of these two works are still in the hands of Hongfeng and Xia Yan is that Hongfeng Literature, the copyright joint party, saw the huge potential in Xia Yan, and in the past few years, it has covered up the copyrights and not sold them, preparing to sell them at a high price. Consider.

When the contract was signed, Hongfeng Literature had the rights to trade the copyrights of the two works and a small portion of the profits, while Xia Yan had the majority of the copyright profits.

Therefore, Xia Yan also made tens of millions of dollars in revenue from two works after a few years.

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

Of course, the company that bought the rights to Journey of Youth and Unheard Flower Names will definitely not let go of the attention of so many people on the market.

Just a few days later, it was announced that four projects in film and TV series would be launched simultaneously for two works.

TV drama buds, popular movie stars, and idols in the Dragon Kingdom market are like sharks smelling blood, and they are rushing towards the adaptation project of the two works.

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

Compared with the influence and traffic of the cultural industry, there is a huge gap between those traffic stars who rely on their reputation and Xia Yan.

If Xia Yan wanted to make movies and TV series, his appeal would definitely be stronger than these A-list stars.

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

Although he is from the two-dimensional world, in the film and television industry, he is already a person who shines with money in everyone's eyes.

This incident became a big headline in the Dragon Kingdom two-dimensional industry in October.

Although the two works of Journey of Youth and Unknown Flower Names have relatively average results among Xia Yan's early works.

But their author’s name is Xia Yan

This allows them to sell this kind of copyright price in Dragon Kingdom.

From novels, comics, to animation adaptations

Then go to the industry chain adaptation of games, movies, and TV series.

An industrial chain with its central point anchored in Xia Yan and then radiating to various categories of Longguo's cultural industry is being born.

Time enters November

While Xia Yan was watching animation at home, he declined Liuli Book Club's invitation to participate in a variety show in the Imperial Capital over the phone, but agreed to the other party's proposal to hold a novel signing event in Long Kingdom next month.

Participating in variety shows is taking advantage of Xia Yan's traffic, so Xia Yan will definitely not do it.

However, Xia Yan still holds less than five novel signing events a year.

After all, staying active in front of fans is also very important for Xia Yan to maintain his popularity.

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

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

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

As for Song Lingyun.

After Xia Yan and Tang Yin returned to the Magic City, they looked the same as before, pretty, beautiful, and calm, but Xia Yan himself could feel the subtle atmosphere exuding from her body.

However, she has also been busy recently promoting her new novel.

The average sales volume of Song Lingjun's new novel has reached 18 million.

She is now the well-deserved No. 2 writer of Liuli Publishing House.

But the gap with Xia Yan’s Sword Art Online’s average sales of 28 million volumes is still too far.

But she's trying too.

Moreover, Liuli Publishing House does not want to put all its treasure on Xia Yan. Now Xia Yan does have a good relationship with Liuli Publishing House, but there is no guarantee when Xia Yan will be poached by Xingkong Novel and Qingze Novel. When the time comes, Song Lingjun will You have to take the lead.

Naturally, Liuli Publishing House also gave publicity resources to Song Lingjun for insurance reasons.

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

After graduating from school, everyone becomes busier with their careers.

Xia Yan thought for a while at home, and then took a long breath.

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

November flies by quickly.

The temperature is getting closer to colder than the previous autumn.

Pedestrians on the street changed from their previous short-sleeved and white-legged attire to long-sleeved, coats and black stockings.

But in this season when the temperature is gradually dropping.

Xia Tang Animation Production Company

In late November, a bombshell was dropped.

There was no large-scale publicity, and there was no information forwarded by industry insiders.

However, on the official website of Xia Tang Animation, at four o'clock in the morning, without any notice, a one-and-a-half-minute animated trailer was quietly released.

About the upcoming broadcast in January

"Fullmetal Alchemist"!

At four o'clock in the morning, some night owls just accidentally came to the official website of Xia Tang Animation and glanced at it as usual. They thought it was an ordinary early morning and there would be no changes.

But after seeing this preview video

Invisible earthquakes began to brew throughout the second dimension of the Dragon Kingdom.

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

Everyone in the group rushed to forward relevant news.

In the deserted group at the end of the night, it was rare to see one person speaking all night, but today, at four o'clock in the morning, these fans were all awake.

A large number of people began to flock to the official website of Xia Tang Animation. As of five o'clock in the morning

The number of views on Xia Tang Animation’s trailer video exceeded 700,000.

Rao Zhijun, who has been a fan of Xia Yan for six years, found out when she woke up early in the morning to drink water and casually looked at the fan group on her mobile phone.

The Xia Yan fan group that I joined actually had more than 2,000 unread comments pop up while I was asleep. I only found out after a quick look.

Steelmaking trailer released?

Dragon Kingdom Xia Yan fans have been looking forward to it for more than half a year, and have been discussing it nonstop during this period. It is one of the four new works of Xia Yan, and it is also the trailer of Fullmetal Alchemist, which has the highest average investment in the series.

Finally out.

A wave of hot blood surged into his brain, and Rao Zhijun's sleepiness suddenly disappeared.

Something was delayed again today. I wanted to make up for the late update last night, but as a result, I will make up for it tomorrow. I'll definitely be able to make up for it during the weekend tomorrow...