My Animation Era

Wanbao's Spring Festival holiday this year will be a few days earlier than its peers, with the holiday starting on the 20th of the twelfth lunar month.

the reason is simple.

The great Director Gu conducted a survey and asked everyone for their opinions on the benefits of Spring Festival goods. Should they issue shopping coupons or physical gift cards?

As a result, everyone unanimously requested that the company no longer distribute new year goods. I really want everyone to have a good New Year, so let’s take the holiday in advance!

Some people's hometowns are far away. If you go home during the Spring Festival, you have to queue for a long time just to buy air tickets, and you may not be able to buy them.

Compared with all kinds of frivolous and impractical Spring Festival benefits, early vacation is the most practical. At least everyone will sincerely thank Director Gu.

This makes sense.

After discussing it with Lao Zhang, Gu Miao felt that since this was the unanimous request of the employees, he should satisfy them.

Originally, Wanbao Group's Spring Festival holiday dates were synchronized with those of enterprises and institutions, that is, they were held on the 26th and 27th of the twelfth lunar month.

But this year it's a week earlier.

Don’t underestimate this week. Having a holiday so many days in advance is enough for everyone to buy air tickets home and avoid the peak Spring Festival travel period.

"Great!"

The employees all cheered when they received the notice of early vacation.

This kind of Spring Festival benefit is much better than the big gift packages of rice, grains and oils, or the shopping vouchers and gift cards.

After all, working in Wanbao, everyone's salary and bonus are quite high, so few people really appreciate this small profit.

Compared with these impractical things, people who have been busy all year would like to take a few days to spend with their families, get together with friends, and have a good rest at home.

"Then it's settled."

"Not only this year, we will have a holiday at this time every year in the future, giving everyone enough time to take a vacation." Gu Miao made the decision.

Their line of work is not a physical manufacturing industry, so taking a few days off early for the Spring Festival will have no impact at all.

In this case, let's just make a rule that the holiday will be on the 20th of the twelfth lunar month every year, and the Spring Festival holiday will be extended by five days.

certainly!

Not everyone can take a vacation. Of course, ordinary employees have no problem and can go home when they need to. The same goes for animators, original animators, etc. who have no urgent tasks at hand.

However, the financial department and copyright operation and management department cannot take a holiday for the time being.

Because at the end of the year, debt collection becomes the biggest headache for the financial director and his subordinates.

Wanbao has many IPs!

These IPs will be authorized by Wanbao, and those authorized companies will settle IP commissions monthly or quarterly in accordance with the provisions of the contract.

for example!

A clothing factory in Guancheng has obtained the official authorization of the "Digimon" IP to produce clothes with animated characters printed on them.

According to the contract, Wanbao will charge a licensing fee of 5 yuan for every piece of clothing produced with the copyrighted pattern of "Digimon" printed on it.

Remember, it’s production, not sales!

What does this mean?

What this means is that you have to pay money when the goods are produced. Whether you can sell them or not has nothing to do with Wanbao. Anyway, you pay the IP licensing fee as much as you produce.

This method also creates a problem, that is, many authorized companies produce a large amount of IP peripherals, which are all backlogged in warehouses and have not been sold.

They haven't paid back, and their cash flow is in jeopardy, but Wanbao is asking for money again, and they won't let you sell if you don't give them money...

As a result, many authorized companies have chosen to default on the balance due to insufficient cash flow, preferring to pay a liquidated penalty rather than settle the Wanbao licensing fee.

"Isn't this just an old guy?"

Coco was knitting a sweater and asked in confusion: "If you don't pay them, why don't you sue them?"

"No, the nature is different."

"They are not scumbags. They will pay the liquidated damages stipulated in the contract, but they really can't come up with the money. It's useless even if you sell the factory to them."

Gu Miao said helplessly: "If you don't let an authorized enterprise like this have no money in its account and a large number of unsold goods, no one will get the money."

"Generally when encountering this kind of situation, we charge a penalty first, and then urge them to clear out the backlog of inventory as soon as possible, and settle the accounts all at once at the end of the year."

That's how business works.

If ordinary people think about it, if they encounter this kind of thing, they will definitely sue without saying anything and go through the legal process.

Gu Miao thought this way before.

But after more experience, he can understand the difficulties faced by some small businesses. He took the garment factory in Guancheng as an example.

They didn't do anything wrong, it's just that the market is really bad this year and the clothing business is hard to do, so the inventory can't be sold.

It would be a pity to tell the truth if you just define the other party as a bad guy who "doesn't pay back the money" without saying a word, and force the other party to go bankrupt.

"Then how do you tell who is really in trouble and who is the real bastard who doesn't pay back the money?" Coco asked curiously.

"It's very simple!"

"If there is really a difficulty, he will not object to liquidated damages and will actively negotiate with us for follow-up solutions."

Gu Miao smiled and said: "As for Lao Lai, will he take the initiative to pay liquidated damages? Will he actively negotiate and communicate a solution?"

One yard owned by a yard.

When encountering authorized companies that are really in difficulty, Wanbao will not push them too hard, and will even take the initiative to help them sell their overstocked inventory at the official flagship store and clear their accounts before the end of the year.

The end of the year is the final line.

If you exceed this limit, it doesn't matter whether you are really in trouble or pretending to be in trouble. Wanbao's legal department is not a vegetarian. It will directly issue an ultimatum to Hex. If you don't pay, you will die.

This is why other Wanbao employees have gone home one after another during the holidays, and employees in the legal, financial and IP management and operation departments are still working overtime.

Wanbao's outstanding balance this year is as much as 7.8 billion.

If such a large amount of money is not recovered, it will definitely not work, so Gu Miao gave a death order to the Ministry of Justice and must get back more than 70% of the balance.

Treat the rest as bad debt and wait for the court auction later.

Speaking of the final payment, Gu Miao immediately thought of the pile of houses, cars and toys under the company's name used to pay off the debt, and her expression was very speechless.

The most classic example is the owner of a Binhai toy factory. When faced with Wanbao's financial staff, he immediately slapped the real estate deed on the table and said that if anything happened to his factory, he could only use this as payment.

What to do?

Although it is a bit unreasonable, since people can't come up with the money, they can only make do with a write-off.

There are also some people who simply use the goods to offset the balance and let Wanbao go to the warehouse to pull the goods. They can take away as much as they can. They have everything from clothing, electrical appliances, plush toys.

"Otherwise, where do you think the groceries sold in our Wanbao official online store come from?"

The more Gu Miao thought about it, the angrier she became.

Wanbao's official flagship store has a wide variety of products, ranging from keychains and refrigerator magnets to air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, snacks, daily use, car bedding, and even adult products.

These cannot all be produced by Wanbao itself. Only a small part of the core peripherals are produced, and the rest are inventory pulled from major authorized companies to offset the balance payment.

All I can say is outrageous!

Here I would like to focus on criticizing the movable inflatable doll of Bald Strong produced by an authorized company. The product manager is simply a weirdo, and he actually thought of using "Bald Strong" to make such a product.

Now it's broken, and the product is backlogged and cannot be sold. Wanbao brought back a batch, but it also cannot be sold...

That thing has been hanging in the Wanbao flagship store for more than a year, and the sales volume has only been 5 orders so far. Gu Miao sometimes doubts that Teacher Nantong is not among the customers of these 5 orders, right?

…

This year is the Year of the Dog!

In order to cater to this zodiac sign, Keke and Gu Miao decided to raise a puppy after discussing it.

I haven’t decided on the specific variety yet.

With Gu Miao's worth, he could afford to keep even the rarest dog, but he had to consider the type of dog that Xiao Sensen liked, and his son's liking was the most important thing.

In the end, Xiao Sensen spent a long time choosing, and actually chose the most common and ordinary Chuan Chuan native dog in the countryside, which was a bit beyond Gu Miao's expectation.

The puppy was brought from the countryside.

I originally planned to go to the pet store to buy one, but the ones they sold there were all kinds of expensive varieties, and there was nothing that Xiao Sensen wanted.

So Gu Miao specially asked someone to get a "little yellow" born from "big yellow" from the countryside.

Xiao Sensen named him "Wangcai", which was very rustic but somehow suited the puppy. Anyway, his son was happy with it, but Gu Miao didn't say anything.

Although the name he originally thought of for the puppy was "Magui"...

New year, new atmosphere!

Gu Miao, who was rarely able to relax, decided to take the whole family to the cinema on the first day of the new year to support Hou Bin's "The Dog Comes to Happiness".

This is the sixth major film in the "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" zodiac series and the second animated film produced by Wanbao Pictures after its establishment.

"Six years have passed in a flash!"

Thinking back to the original "Snake Comes Around", Gu Miao couldn't help but sigh: "I thought it would take a long, long time to finish all the twelve zodiac signs, but it turned out that half of it was done in the blink of an eye..."

"yes!"

"When I saw "Snake" in the cinema, I was still in my prime! But in the blink of an eye, my hair turned gray."

Lao Gu smiled.

He doesn't know much about animation, but he has watched almost every animation produced by his son.

How do you say that?

He doesn't understand animation, but he knows that it was made by his son, so whenever others praise the animation, he will feel sincerely proud.

"You were still in your prime, but you have turned into a bad old man!" Aunt Chen joked.

"Okay, okay, don't talk about this."

It's rare for a family to go out to watch a movie. It's a bit heavy to talk about old age, so Gu Miao quickly changed the subject and said, "The movie is about to start!"

Thumb thump thump~

The familiar dragon logo, the familiar Wanbao animation logo, and the Wanbao Pictures logo that many viewers saw for the first time.

The movie officially started.

The first thing to appear was the brand-new green grassland and the familiar Wolf Castle.

Big Big Wolf was once again kicked out of the house by his wife and wandered through the forest with a piece of grass in his mouth.

My wife is tired of eating frogs and wants to change her taste, but what else can she eat besides frogs?

It is impossible to catch sheep by catching them.

After General Wolf's battle, Yanglang has already achieved peace, and Xiao Huihui is still going to school in Yangcun.

"Then let's catch fish!"

Big Big Wolf had an idea and thought of the fishing secrets passed down by his wife and grandfather, and ran to the river excitedly.

Ouch!

But Big Gray Wolf was running when he suddenly tripped over a paw sticking out of the grass, and fell hard into the mud.

"Who is plotting against this great king?"

Big Big Wolf was furious. After getting up from the ground, he immediately decided to teach the owner of this paw a lesson.

But when he opened the grass and looked inside, he suddenly showed a surprised expression.

I saw a simple and cute "wolf" sleeping in the grass, with a strange snoring sound!

The fellow villagers burst into tears when they saw the fellow villagers.

It was rare to encounter a wolf tribe in Qingqing Grassland, and it was a fellow wolf tribe that he had never seen before. Big Big Wolf seemed particularly enthusiastic.

Although the various behaviors of this compatriot made him question whether this guy was a wolf? But after all, they looked very similar, so Big Big Wolf didn't think much about it.

"Hahaha!"

Unlike Big Big Wolf, the audience in the theater recognized the true identity of this strange little wolf at a glance.

Ouch, isn’t this a husky?

Look at his wise eyes, they will recognize him even if he is burned to ashes.

Big Big Wolf had never seen Husky before, so he didn't react for a while and thought he was a good brother of the wolf clan who was wandering around the world alone.

So, the story begins.

When this husky named "Wang Wang" ignorantly got into the wolf clan, relied on various dog luck, stole the show in the hunting competition, and defeated a group of wolf elites by chance, and ascended to the throne of the wolf king, everyone Everyone laughed like crazy.

Are you really lucky?

Wang Wang didn't do anything. He was so stunned that the wolf tribe admired him so much that he even became the wolf king.

The whole process can be said to be full of laughter, with no peeing spots throughout the whole process, and you can't stop laughing from the beginning to the end.

The key is that the Husky's "house-destroying" nature has been misunderstood by Slow Sheep and Big Big Wolf as "original wolf nature" and contains violent factors in the body.

So the wolves worshiped him even more.

look! This is our Wolf King, with the original wolf nature in his body. This is the true posture of the wolf clan...

We should learn from the Wolf King and do what the Wolf King does.

Can you imagine a group of hungry wolves looking up to the sky and roaring, shouting the name of the wolf king "woof"?

It’s so hard to stretch!

Although Wang Wang's identity was eventually revealed and he had to leave the throne of the Wolf King, the movie was still so packed with laughs that it made people feel sick from laughing.

When leaving the cinema, many viewers were still immersed in the scene of a husky blending into a pack of wolves, which then attracted admiration and imitation by the pack.

"Ha ha!"

Even though Lao Gu was decades old, he was still amused by the movie and laughed non-stop, saying that the screenwriter had an idea.

How did you come up with this?

When Gu Miao told Lao Gu that the idea for the film came from a news event about a dog mother adopting a wolf cub, Lao Gu was dumbfounded.

"You mean, does this really happen in reality?"

"Yes, I have!"

Gu Miao smiled and explained: "Dogs and wolves are close relatives, so it's normal for this to happen, right?"

There are many interesting things in the zoo.

Not only are dog mothers adopting wolf cubs, there are also even more outrageous cases of cat mothers adopting tiger cubs!

Of course, the authenticity of these news is questionable. The only thing that is certain is that as long as we spend enough time together, deep feelings can be established even if the species are different.

Happy National Day!