Hong Kong Comic Master

"Zhuangzi Says", as well as the comics "Laozi Says" and "Liezi Says" which have not yet appeared in the world, are all classic series of comics by Cai Zhizhong.

You can say that Cai Zhizhong is a late bloomer, or you can say that he is a genius, and the two are not contradictory.

The reason for this is that Cai Zhizhong did not start to create four-frame comics until 1983, when he was 35 years old. Before that, although Cai Zhizhong also drew comics, his main energy was focused on making cartoon animations.

Therefore, before that, he had never created any famous comics.

Now, Cai Zhizhong wants to draw comics. From the perspective of the company, Li Wannian is unwilling to do so, after all, this will make him lose an excellent manager.

But from the perspective of a cartoonist, seeing that Cai Zhizhong can pursue his heart and give up wealth and glory, Li Wannian really admires him.

After all, Cai Zhizhong is not as good as himself!

After stabilizing Cai Zhizhong, Li Wannian left Shenlong Company and went to DreamWorks Company.

As mentioned before, DreamWorks is now overcrowded and there are not enough offices.

The animation department of DreamWorks is relatively better. Although there are many people, the space it occupies is not small and it is a little more spacious.

After Li Wannian came to DreamWorks, he went to the animation department as soon as possible.

When he walked in, he was still shocked by the crowded environment inside, which was more crowded than the class.

"There are more than 200 people in the animation department, which are currently divided into four project groups. They are going to produce four animations, "Transformers", "Rogue Teacher", "Ulongyuan" and "Pokemon", so there are still not enough people!"

After Li Wannian came, the head of the animation department came to him as soon as possible to explain to him.

The head of the animation department is named Lu Ziying, who was the president of the "Firebird Film Club". After graduating from college, he joined the animation department of DreamWorks and became the director of the animation department of DreamWorks a few years later.

In addition, he has a sister named Lu Yuying, who is the deputy director of the department.

"It is impossible to increase the number of staff. The company currently does not have the budget. It will be difficult for at least two years!"

"Okay, boss, we will find a way to overcome it!"

Li Wannian rejected Lu Ziying's request without mercy.

To be honest, Li Wannian is not suitable to be the boss of the company. If it were an ordinary boss, he would definitely stabilize him first and then start to paint a big picture!

But unfortunately, Li Wannian's ability to paint a big picture is really worrying, so he told the truth directly.

If it were an ordinary subordinate, he would definitely be frustrated, but Lu Ziying would not. He is a technician with a single-minded mind. When Li Wannian said this, he would only think that Li Wannian was sincere.

"Well, how is the animation of Transformers going?"

"It's still a bit difficult at the moment. Even with the help of the production staff of Gundam, it's still hard to make it look like a comic book!"

"What's the main difficulty?"

Lu Ziying frowned, and then he shouted to his sister Lu Yuying who was not far away: "Yuying, come here!"

A woman with glasses and a ponytail came over with a frown, looking angry.

"What's the matter?"

"Mr. Li wants to know about the current difficulties of Transformers. Tell me about it!"

After hearing this, Lu Yuying turned her head and looked at Li Wannian, and said incessantly: "Mr. Li, the current difficulties of animation are mainly in character design. It's difficult to grasp the degree of roughness of lines. The lines of the comics we made before were too subtle..."

At the beginning, Li Wannian did not give the Transformers animation project to Shenlong Animation, but to DreamWorks.

After producing many animations over the years, the technology of DreamWorks Animation Department has improved rapidly, which is why Li Wannian dared to hand over Transformers to them with confidence.

However, because "Transformers" is an animation work that Li Wannian wants to enter the North American market, it needs to meet the tastes of North American audiences. However, this is very difficult for the DreamWorks project department, which has never been exposed to the North American market, and it is difficult to grasp this degree!

"Well, I understand! Let's do this. We will complete the official acquisition of Marvel in the near future. At that time, I will invite people from the comic company to help you make it!"

"That's great. With the help of knowledgeable people, we can also reduce the trial and error and complete it as soon as possible!"

"The company wants to acquire Marvel? This... this..."

Lu Ziying and Lu Yuying almost dropped their jaws when they heard the news!

Compared with Taiwan's obsession with Japanese culture, Hong Kong Islanders are more influenced by British and American culture. They have always believed that British and American things are better.

And now, Marvel, one of the two major comic companies in the United States, is about to be acquired by their own company. This behavior of swallowing an elephant is like a dream in their eyes!

"Oh, by the way, this matter is still confidential, don't tell anyone yet!"

Li Wannian suddenly came to his senses and quickly put his finger to his mouth to warn.

"Uh... Mr. Li, don't worry, we will keep it a secret!"

"That's right, we are the most secretive!"

Seeing that the brother and sister kept it a secret, Li Wannian was relieved.

"Okay, you guys keep busy, I'll go back to the office first!"

When he arrived at his office, Li Wannian found that someone was waiting for him at the door.

"Wannian!"

When the man saw Li Wannian, he hurried forward.

"Brother Guangrong? Why are you here? Are you back from Neon?"

The man's name is Zhao Guangrong, the younger brother of Li Wannian's sister-in-law Zhao Yazhi, who had previously attended university in Neon.

"Hey, I came back yesterday. I heard that you would come to work at the company today, so I came over!"

"You should have called me in advance. You must have waited for a long time, right? Come on, come in!"

Li Wannian opened the office and invited Zhao Guangrong in.

"Wannian, this is the information that Miss Zhong asked me to bring you!"

As soon as he came in, Zhao Guangrong handed the file bag in his hand to Li Wannian.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Brother Guangrong!"

Li Wannian took the file bag and opened it. Inside was some information from Capcom, including the game development progress of Street Fighter, which he had been thinking about.

"That... Wannian!"

Li Wannian, who was reading the file, suddenly found that Zhao Guangrong had not left yet, and asked him with a tangled look.

"What's wrong? Is there anything else?"

"Um... can I come to your company to work?"

"Haha, you, Mr. Zhao, don't go home to inherit the family business, why do you think of coming to me?"

Hearing Zhao Guangrong's words, Li Wannian almost laughed out loud.

Zhao Guangrong looked embarrassed after hearing this.

After that, after his story, Li Wannian realized that it was because he and his father had a disagreement on the direction of the company's development, and Zhao Guangrong wanted to quit his father's company in anger!

"I understand the disagreement you just mentioned, but I also have an idea here, you can try it!"