Hong Kong Comic Master

"Ding..."

With a crisp sound, the elevator door opened, and Lu Ziying, the director of DreamWorks Animation Department, and Lu Yuying, the deputy director, appeared at the front desk of Li Wannian's office.

"Secretary Chen, the boss wants to see me?"

Lu Ziying came to Chen Farong and said politely.

Although he is much more experienced than Chen Farong, but as a seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister, Lu Ziying still has to be polite to him. After all, it is not easier to see Li Wannian than to see the emperor these days!

Chen Farong was sitting at the front desk at this time, and he stood up quickly after seeing the two of them.

She understood why others were polite to her, but she couldn't take it for granted. If she was really confused and attributed it to herself, then what was waiting for her would be an abyss.

"The boss is waiting for you! Please come in!"

With that, Chen Farong took the two of them and walked in through the door behind him.

Of course, before entering, she knocked on the door first.

"Boss? Are you looking for us?"

When Lu Ziying walked into the office, he saw Li Wannian sitting on the sofa and looking at the report in his hand.

After hearing Lu Ziying's voice, he raised his head and waved to the two of them, "Sit down! What do you want to drink?"

"Coffee!"

When the two of them sat on the sofa, Li Wannian said to Chen Farong who had not left yet: "Go and get ready!"

"Yes!"

After Chen Farong left, Li Wannian put the report in his hand on the coffee table and said: "I have read your report. Tell me, why do you want to split the animation department?"

Li Wannian read the reports all morning, but he was not sure about this report, so he decided to call the head of the department to the office to ask.

In fact, when Lu Ziying heard Li Wannian calling him, his first reaction was that Li Wannian was actually in the office?

Now several famous animation companies under DreamWorks have moved to the Second Dimension Building, so Lu Ziying can rush to Li Wannian's office as soon as he gets the notice.

Lu Ziying was obviously prepared for Li Wannian's question. He opened the folder he had brought with him, took out a document from it, and handed it to Li Wannian.

"Boss, please look!"

"What is this?"

Li Wannian took the document in his hand, opened it, and found that it contained some personnel configuration information for the animation department.

"Dong Dong Dong!"

At this moment, Chen Farong knocked on the door with coffee in his hand, put the coffee in front of the two, and left again.

"Currently, DreamWorks' animation department has a total of 282 people, responsible for four animations, "Zhuangzi Says", "Pokemon", "Ulongyuan" and "Captain Tsubasa World Youth Championship". On average, there are more than 50 producers for each animation. Such a team and organization are already bloated!"

Lu Ziying picked up the coffee and felt it was a little hot, so he put it down again. Seeing that Li Wannian had almost finished reading, he continued to explain to Li Wannian.

"Is this a lot of people?"

Li Wannian had made animations before. Even with the help of computers in the future, 50 people are not many for the birth of an animation, not to mention that computers are not popular nowadays, and the original drawings have to be drawn by the original artists one by one!

"It's already a lot. Now our company only needs more than 20 people to make an animation. There is no need for so many people!"

"What? More than 20 people? How did you do it?"

Li Wannian was surprised to hear Lu Ziying's answer. Is this guy a genius? How did he do it?

You know, when making an animation, the most expensive part is the personnel expenses. How much can paper and pen cost?

Now Lu Ziying actually said that he can reduce the cost by half, then this advantage is too obvious!

"Uh... outsourcing!"

"Ah? Outsourcing?"

Originally, Li Wannian was looking forward to Lu Ziying giving him an amazing answer, but he didn't expect it to be this?

This made Li Wannian very disappointed.

Lu Ziying also saw Li Wannian's disappointment and couldn't help but look at his sister.

Lu Yuying saw her brother's gaze and took over his words and replied: "Boss, it is actually normal to outsource part of the business to Suzaku Company. Not only our company, but almost all animation companies in Hong Kong do this!"

The animation industry in Hong Kong is now very developed. Such a small place actually has more than dozens of animation companies, although most of them are small workshop-style micro-companies.

The reason why these companies can survive under the pressure of DreamWorks and Shenlong Animation is that they rely on Hong Kong's reputation as the "City of the Second Dimension" and the cheap outsourcing animation companies in Shekou.

After Lu Yuying's explanation, Li Wannian also understood that although these small animation companies have animation production departments, there are only a few people in the department.

The work they are engaged in is mainly designing and producing scripts. As for the most time-consuming and laborious original painting link of animation production, it will be handed over to the animation outsourcing companies in the north.

With the emergence of Suzaku Animation, more and more mainlanders have realized that there is such a way out for painting.

So some smart people came to Shekou and set up animation outsourcing companies. All of a sudden, an animation industry park appeared in Shekou's industrial park, with dozens of animation companies of all sizes.

These animation companies recruit art students from universities, colleges or technical schools in mainland China. They generally have a solid foundation in painting and are better than the original artists in Hong Kong!

With strong ability and low price, this is the original artist that animation companies dream of.

Therefore, not only Hong Kong, but also many animation companies in Japan have begun to bring part of their own company's animation to Shekou for them to produce.

Among them, the leader of Shekou is naturally Suzaku Animation Company.

The business volume they undertake can reach 40% of all animation companies in Shekou combined, which is already a very amazing number!

After figuring out Lu Ziying's approach, Li Wannian was a little bored.

Originally, he thought that Lu Ziying had found some new method, but he didn't expect it to be outsourcing. This method had already been thought of when he founded Suzaku Company!

However, he didn't expect that it would develop so fast now?

After thinking for a while, Li Wannian asked Lu Ziying again: "Have you ever thought about a question, that is, what to do with these eliminated people?"

"Of course, boss, don't worry about this. After the integration, I will deal with these original artists in batches. Some will be given to Shenlong Company, and the other part will be used to establish the animation film department of the animation department. In short, there will be no large-scale layoffs!"

"Hmm, hm? You are also going to make animated films?"