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Chapter 214 "Evolution" and "Battleship" are being fought over

Chen Jingxing's visit to Mexico was not to celebrate the completion of the two animated series "Evolution" and "Battleship". In fact, he had already watched these two works before the "Signal" TV series was broadcast on Mango TV.

As expected, the production cost of a single episode exceeds 2 million. The effects presented by these two works are of course far inferior to those of animated movies. However, among animated dramas, even compared with the top animated series from the United States and Japan,

By no means inferior.

"Space Super Battleship" is a pure 3D animation work. Both the design and modeling of the battleship and the precision of the pictures have reached a very high level. The first ten episodes of the first season include the explosion of the earth and the orbit of the moon.

After the change, it hit Jupiter. Incredible material ejections and ray bursts swept across the solar system, and a considerable part of the mass hit the sun, and even broke through the troposphere, causing the stellar material to be thrown away, turning the solar system into a grand scene of hell.

It also includes several major battle scenes, capturing radioactive life on Jupiter; robots fighting strange bug life born in liquid methane on Titan, and using hydrogen bombs to exterminate them; after passing the Oort Nebula, encountering a mysterious alien force.

The star fleet ambush and counterattack; facing the third-level civilization around Tianyuan, fighting for survival and turning defeat into victory.

It can be said that the amount of information in ten episodes of less than 300 minutes is still very dense, and unlike the original protagonist whose soul is integrated into the super computer, the animated version has been changed to a dozen teenagers who remain dormant on the surviving spaceship. They are the only ones left on earth.

With the help of supercomputers that mutated into "strong artificial intelligence", human beings and teenagers escaped the disaster of chain reactions in the solar system due to the explosion of the earth, explored Jupiter and Titan, escaped from the solar system, and met various alien life forms and aliens.

Civilized contact and fighting with good intentions and bad intentions.

There are battle plots like "upgrade and fight monsters", there are adventurous exploration plots of the unknown universe, there are farming main plots of obtaining resources and technology to upgrade and explode warships, and there are more than a dozen teenagers who go from being weak to being strong, from being confused to being established, looking for the explosion of the earth.

The truth and the growth process of the firm belief in continuing human civilization. With the help of super intelligent computers, we can also understand the content of science and fantasy technologies such as the classification of cosmic civilizations, nuclear fusion, antimatter, etc.

In Xu Wenshen’s words, it is not only educational and entertaining, but also can inspire young people’s sci-fi feelings of “Stars and Sea”, and its commercial and educational qualities have reached a relatively high level.

Another work, "Evolved 4.6 Billion Reprises" is also a 3D animation, but it mainly uses the second-rendering and third-rendering technology, taking into account the exaggerated and gorgeous painting style, as well as realistic and more textured particle effects and light textures.

Compared with the science fiction style of "Battleship", although "Evolution" is also science fiction, it has a stronger scientific and educational color and is richer in knowledge in the first season, because in the ten-episode plot, although the time spans hundreds of millions of years

, but the plot is not complicated. The protagonist Lin, who started from Single Cell, is

After possessing the golden finger with "consciousness to control all the cells in one's own body across time and space", he experienced two mass extinction events including the Great Oxidation and a comet impact. When he woke up again, he found that the ocean was filled with dust and toxic substances, and then he landed and saw land.

All kinds of creatures that have evolved and formed on the earth.

If the agreement can be reached, then these two animations can get 21 million for just the copyright price. Coupled with the on-demand account + advertising account, Chen Jingxing is still very confident that he can recover the cost and even achieve profitability.

Therefore, in Chen Jingxing's view, the first ten episodes of "Evolution" are more like documentaries. Using animation, from the perspective of Lin, a magical being with "golden thighs", they experience the early evolution of life, and interact with each other.

Different from the gradual departure from normal life forms and entering a fantasy world in the middle and later stages, the description of early life evolution and several mass extinctions in the early stage is still very "scientific".

In any case, in Chen Jingxing's opinion, these two works are animations that will interest teenagers, whether from the gorgeous painting style or the compact and imaginative stories. Even adults can find something they like in them.

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Of course, the first season has not yet had time to show the wild imagination of the original "Evolution" in the middle and later stages, such as species as diverse as alien life, and boss life that is like a myth, and Lin is fighting against these magical life and learning.

In the process, it becomes an increasingly incredible magical life.

The animation not only experienced and described in detail the anaerobic era, the Ediacaran species explosion, and then to the land, there are many different animals that seem familiar, especially species like the Zerg that have a clear division of labor between individuals. At first glance,

It seems very realistic, but if you think about it carefully, you will find it very science fiction.

Currently, three video platforms, Penguin Video, Fantasy World and C Station, are interested in these two animations. Although C Station’s financial resources cannot be compared with the other three, as a video website that started out as an animation company, it will certainly not let go of quality easily.

An excellent Chinese comic.

However, Chen Jingxing did not intend to sell the exclusive copyright. Like the "Signal" TV series, he offered a bottom-line copyright price of 7 million for two packages - the price gap between exclusive and non-exclusive copyrights is very large - as long as he pays

You can get the copyright, regardless of platform, as long as you sign an on-demand bill sharing + advertising bill sharing agreement.

To be more precise, it can be described as a comprehensively upgraded version of "Three Thousand Questions of Naughty Blue Cat". It is a youth animation with a tighter plot, more beautiful graphics, and more adult drama.

Therefore, the two major video platforms offered a package price of 50 million for the exclusive rights (including the right of first refusal for the second season of "Star God"), which is not entirely for the sake of DreamWorks, nor is it entirely to snatch "Star God"

》The right of first refusal for the second season, these two animations really attracted

has aroused their interest. Although it is still difficult to say whether they can gain market recognition, the two major platforms are also willing to take some risks for the two animated series. Anyway, even if it is a loss-making transaction, 50 million for the rights to live-action film and television dramas are soaring in price these days.

It's nothing in the robbery battle.

Several major video platforms, especially Huanshi.com and Penguin Video, have watched these two animations, and they also find them quite amazing. There are few animation works of this kind in China before. You can say they are popular science animations, but they are

There are also very strong dramatic conflicts and big scenes. You can say that it is a purely plot-oriented animation. It is also entertaining and educational, and contains a lot of scientific knowledge.

Regardless of the mode of copyright transactions, there is no doubt that the package price offered by Fantasy World and Penguin Video still makes everyone in Mexico very excited. Even if DreamWorks and Mexico have signed a guarantee agreement, that is, if DreamWorks hands over

If the copyright income of Moji's animation projects cannot cover the cost, DreamWorks, as its controlling parent company, will make up the difference. For the production teams of Moji and several animations, this is almost equivalent to ensuring income despite drought or flood.

Judging from the effect, the guarantee agreement given to them by Chen Jingxing did not reduce the enthusiasm of the production team, but instead gave them a purer enthusiasm and gratitude to Chen Jingxing, allowing them to complete the animation production with a more peaceful mind.

Of course, Chen Jingxing was not taken advantage of. He only gave a guaranteed contract out of his understanding and trust of Mo’s senior management and team management. Moreover, it was limited to projects arranged by DreamWorks. If it was a project proposed by Mo himself, Chen Jingxing would not

Give them the benefit of the doubt.

The main purpose of his visit this time was to communicate with Mo's computer animation department about new projects.

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