China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 167 Animation Ambition

Chen Jingxing's answer completely exceeded Wu Han's expectations, because during the merger of Tianhe Animation and Mo's animation group, Chen Jingxing had already announced the two animation projects "Evolved 4.6 Billion Reprise" and "Cosmic Super Battleship"

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Of course, Wu Han admires Chen Jingxing's courage in projecting these two animated works. "The Legend of the Star", a hot-blooded comic, is already very unusual in today's atmosphere where domestic animations only supply one piece.

The two animation works that Chen Jingxing wants to produce, in his opinion, are simply the best of the best, very novel, and he cannot find similar works in the animation genre in the United States and Japan.

However, in Chen Jingxing's view, this is not a big problem. "The 4.6 Billion Reprise of Evolution" tells the story of a single cell named Lin who continued to divide and evolve in the ancient era when life on a planet began, and became a powerful

The process of an incredible and perfect life, of course, will witness the rise and fall of countless civilizations, and the birth and death of species.

The truly powerful essence of Lin is that her consciousness can directly control all cells. As long as one cell still exists, she is immortal.

So this is an interesting story of the Invincible style, with many contradictions, conflicts, powerful enemies and epic collisions. It is also very commercial, and there are also many popular science elements in the outrageous setting.

Chen Jingxing's positioning of this animation is to be full of prehistoric style, dreamy enough, and extremely colorful. The story also contains some knowledge about biology, such as referencing several biological evolutions and mass extinction events on the earth.

In addition, the prototype of "Space Super Battleship" - "Rebirth of Super Battleship" is a pure monster-fighting and upgrade text wrapped in a hard science fiction shell.

Before the destruction of the earth, the surviving battleships of mankind were wandering in the universe, constantly evolving, from first-level civilization to second-level civilization, third-level civilization, fourth-level civilization, etc., as well as technological civilization, alien beast civilization, mechanical civilization, ghost tribe, and so on.

Settings such as Hao Civilization are an upgrade flow in the context of the universe.

The setting is novel, but the nature is quite commercial, and the world view is extremely grand.

On the surface, Mo annexed Tianhe Animation, but in fact, Tianhe Animation annexed Mo's animation group. During the merger process, Chen Jingxing also increased DreamWorks' holding of Mo from 51% to 65%, mainly because of

Tianhe animation is really cheap.

We can’t blame Wu Han’s inherent thinking, because with the current situation of domestic animation, it is difficult to recover the cost of a domestic animation produced with a cost of 20 million. It is unlikely that online platforms will purchase a domestic animation at such a price, even from the United States and

Very few Japanese animations can sell a copyright price of 20 million in China.

In fact, even so, he is already very grateful, because Chen Jingxing promised a production cost of 20 million, which is a little more than the production cost of the first season of "Star God". It can be said that it has basically reached the average of American and Japanese animation.

The production cost is quite generous.

With the rapid popularity of mobile terminals, several major video platforms have begun a money-burning war. In the past two years, the online copyright prices of all film and television products have soared. In fact, animation works have also benefited, but the price increase has not been as high as other film and television works.

It's just that big.

And not only the domestic market, the overseas animation market is actually even bigger. After the second season of "Star God", the first season of "Evolution" and "Battleship", Chen Jingxing plans to produce the next animation

They are "Cowboy Bebop", "Ghost in the Shell" and "Neon Genesis Evangelion".

Therefore, the merger of Tianhe Animation and Mo is just the first step.

Except for "Cowboy Bebop" which may only have one season, but can also be released as a theatrical version, the other five projects can all be released with multiple seasons and multiple theatrical movie versions, which will be enough for DreamWorks to survive for several years and establish itself in the global animation industry.

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After Tianhe Animation became a wholly-owned subsidiary of DreamWorks, Wu Han and his animation team of more than 100 people merged with Mo's animation team. After the merger, the animation department had as many as 150 people, becoming

Mo's largest department.

Because of the establishment of these two animation works, Wu Han always believed that Chen Jingxing allowed him to continue working on the second season of "The Legend of the Star God" just to let him finish the finale, end his obsession, and then devote himself wholeheartedly to the next project of DreamWorks

Animation in production.

With the quality of these animation works, it is not difficult to open up foreign markets.

In addition, there are other animated film projects, such as "The Return of the Great Sage", "WALL-E", "Inside Out", "Kung Fu Panda", etc., and Chen Jingxing plans to shoot "The Matrix" after "Gravity"

》There will also be a corresponding animated version.

In addition, there is also great potential for peripheral product development - this not only requires the animation to be popular, but also requires the animation to have a high level of artistic design.

Chen Jingxing believes that the current price of animation online copyrights in China is obviously on the low side - he does not expect much from the purchase price of TV stations.

However, the number of people watching animation in China is increasing day by day - this is also thanks to the cultural output of Hollywood and Japan that have cultivated many two-dimensional audiences. As the price of online copyrights continues to rise in the next few years, animation copyrights will also have a considerable amount.

growing.

To start the production of these projects as soon as possible, DreamWorks needs a strong animation department.

Unexpectedly, Chen Jingxing meant that he should not be in a hurry to finish "The Star God" and that "The Star God" could continue to be produced. This surprised him. He had actually conceived a lot of plots, and "The Star God" was far from being completed.

, even the first season is just the beginning.

As long as Chen Jingxing stays on this track and becomes the leader of Chinese comics, he will definitely reap benefits in the end.

Out of planning for the future, Chen Jingxing named this animation department Tianhe Computer Animation Department, because when the time comes in the future, Mo's computer animation department will definitely be separated to establish a separate animation company. Tianhe Animation, which has been used by many animation enthusiasts,

Guangguang, which has high hopes, still retains hope of rebirth.

He didn't know that Chen Jingxing didn't regard "Star God" as a burden. Chen Jingxing believed that this animation had great potential and wanted to build it into a big IP.

At present, making animation is a very thankless activity. Animation fans may praise you highly, but it is difficult to obtain real money.

And although the animation department's team of 150 people seems large enough, such a small number of people can't handle the animation projects assigned by Chen Jingxing.

So Mo Zhong started a grand recruitment drive, poaching people from animation companies, special effects companies, and even game companies with the highest salary in the special effects industry.

After the staff is fully staffed, Tianhe Animation Department will temporarily form four project teams, one special effects project team and three animation project teams.

Once the animation project team completes one season of animation production, it will be disbanded and reorganized into a new animation project team or special effects project team. Chen Jingxing needs the staff in the animation department to maintain a certain degree of mobility to ensure that the special effects work and animation production can be fully completed to the greatest extent.

Utilize resources and share resources.

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