China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 164 Treasure Team

Wang Shiyong, general manager of Tianhe Animation, drove Wu Han to the outskirts of Beijing in his car.

On the way, Wang Shiyong explained to Wu Han the whole story of the incident.

In fact, a week ago, Wang Shiyong received a call from DreamWorks, and it was also a call from Chen Jingxing, the boss of DreamWorks and a trendsetter in the Chinese film market.

Regarding DreamWorks' clear acquisition request, Wang Shiyong was shocked at first and then felt a mixture of joy and sorrow.

Wang Shiyong first started out as a video website. He was one of the founders of Tomato.com, one of the earliest video websites in China. Later, the website was acquired by Huanshi.com, and he got his first pot of gold.

Once people don't have to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation, they have the foundation to pursue their dreams, and Wang Shiyong's dream turned out to be animation.

Wang Shiyong's generation has been deeply influenced by American comics and Japanese comics, and they have also witnessed the development of American comics that rely on the film and television industry to market themselves around the world.

However, in the past 20 years of development, domestic animation has not advanced but retreated. This gave him the idea to found an animation company and develop non-sub-supply animation in China. As a former Internet entrepreneur, he knew marketing well.

Everyone shouted the slogan, Chinese comics are on the rise.

It was also through his relationship that "Star God" was finally sold to Fantasy World at a sky-high price for domestic animation at the time.

However, when he debuted at the peak of his career, he was carried away by his own slogans. He did not fully understand the current situation of the domestic animation industry and the film market at that time, which put his second entrepreneurial venture on the verge of death.

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This photography studio is located in the Digital Industrial Park on the outskirts of Beijing. It was built by Guoying. "Source Code" was also shot here. Guoyang, as the investor of "Gravity", has already cooperated with Meng under the instructions of Qin Zhonghe.

The factory signed a 20-year lease agreement.

Therefore, Wang Shiyong was certainly happy to have DreamWorks as a major customer, but he was also concerned that DreamWorks would not be able to clear up Tianhe Animation's current debt situation and whether Chen Jingxing could accept the conditions he proposed that seemed rather harsh to outsiders.

Regarding the debt problem faced by Tianhe Animation, Chen Jingxing must have done enough background research before deciding to acquire it. Regarding this concern, Chen Jingxing gave a positive answer.

Therefore, he proposed that Wang Shiyong bring animation team director Wu Han to come to him, and both parties should have full communication before making a final decision.

He even believed that the talents responsible for visual art design in this animation team would definitely be able to make a name for themselves even if they switched careers to industrial design.

But they have hit a wall one after another, and there are not many people who are willing to take over. Although the price offered is very low, no one wants to continue to support Tianhe Animation's high-paying team.

In the past two years, thanks to the relationship with CCTV, the sub-gongxiang animation produced can barely maintain the team. After all, many of the teams formed by Wu Han are animation talents who have returned from the United States and Japan. They are not so talented.

A team like this cannot produce a high-quality Chinese comic like "The Legend of the Star God". Even if such a team uses its ideals to spread the pie, its basic treatment cannot be too bad.

And what Qin Zhonghe meant was that not only other leaders of National Film Group, but also the leaders above were very satisfied with Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks.

Even compared with the excellent Chinese comics that Chen Jingxing had seen in his previous life, few can match them. No wonder many animation fans still remember them, and single-handedly set off the rise of Chinese comics in this dimension - although it has also been criticized.

He interrupted with a palm of his own hand.

However, although Chen Jingxing readily accepted Wang Shiyong's request, he still had to maintain a basic attitude and not be too enthusiastic so that the other party could obtain the capital to bid - it is important to value the purchase price, and the purchase price still has to be compared with every penny.

There’s the gold-eating beast of “Gravity.”

What DreamWorks acquired is the largest single studio, covering an area of ​​16,000 square meters, and the rental price is only 12 million per year. When DreamWorks has no shooting tasks, it can also rent the studio to other companies - in Zhengzhou

With Guoying's consent, it can be said to be almost a free gift.

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"Star God" can barely be regarded as a science fiction work. It involves the setting of spaceships and numerous lives on various planets. Whether it is the design of spaceships, weapons, alien planets, and character designs, it all reflects the extremely high level of visual art design.

Skills, this is what Chen Jingxing values ​​most.

Even now, no other domestic animation can surpass the "Star God" three years ago. It is not that the story is amazing, but that its character modeling, artistic design and picture expression are completely beyond the current domestic animation.

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Qin Zhonghe's persuasion also dispelled Chen Jingxing's concerns - after all, it is a state-owned asset, and Chen Jingxing has to worry about the risks that may arise after Qin Zhonghe retires.

How much money can you get from selling TV animations to CCTV? It is completely unnecessary to maintain such a high-standard team. They do not plan to produce any animated movies. How can the TV animations currently broadcast in China require so many high-tech talents to produce?

?So the conditions given were to either reduce salary or lose weight.

Even without doing detailed background research, Chen Jingxing can tell that this team is definitely a big treasure, and through detailed understanding, he also knows that there are many talents in this team who have returned from the American and Japanese animation industries, and this means

The Tianhe Animation team has sufficient potential for training and improvement.

"Gravity" was filmed in a special effects photography studio built by DreamWorks.

As for the requirement to maintain Tianhe Animation's current team, Chen Jingxing is naturally extremely happy, because he himself is here for the team.

The team will definitely not be able to maintain the salary reduction, and Wu Han is also strongly opposed to the thin body, and it will definitely not be able to maintain the team.

Barely maintaining the team, but unable to repay the debt, Wang Shiyong saw no hope at all, and he was really reluctant to let Wu Han, a very combative animation production team, break up and go their separate ways. In the past few years, he also thought about selling himself to see if it would work.

People can take over this team.

Chen Jingxing's goal is to produce an animated film of the level of "Wall-E". Tianhe Animation is already the team with the highest starting point and highest potential that he can find so far. He will only think that its people are not skilled enough, and will not think that its technology is

The excess leads to salary cuts and downsizing.

According to Qin Zhonghe's mysterious gossip, in the chapter of China's cultural undertakings report on the work of next year's Two Sessions, DreamWorks' two movies, especially "Signal", are likely to be "domestic cultural undertakings...especially

Appeared in "The Booming Development of the Film and Television Industry...and the Export of Film and Television Culture".

After all, this is the first time in nearly ten years that China's film and television works have once again achieved outstanding results and been praised by mainstream media in other major markets in the world, especially in developed countries in Europe and the United States.

Doesn’t this mean that the country’s various policy supports for the film and television industry in recent years have yielded fruitful results so quickly?

The Confucius Institute for Traditional Culture is in full swing, and film and television popular culture has also been successfully exported overseas. How can the cultural department not be happy? Is there any more outstanding political achievements than this?

Qin Zhonghe even patted Chen Jingxing on the shoulder and told him not to worry about the funding problems of "Gravity" - if there was overspending or DreamWorks' funds had problems on other projects - if other commercial banks did not dare to provide "Gravity"

"Gravity" loan, after all, is too risky, but Chen Jingxing can definitely get the cultural industry loan from China Development Bank as long as he applies for it.

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