My Animation Era

Paris, France.

Just after Pentecost in the traditional sense, Anthony had to leave home and go to various European countries to start his work.

Anthony is an "intermediary".

To be precise, he is responsible for promoting clients' animation works to willing buyers and publishers in Europe, thereby earning a substantial "commission" fee.

He has been doing this business for many years.

At first, he traveled between North America and Europe, bringing European animation to North America and North American animation to Europe.

Later, he discovered that Asia, especially neon animation works, seemed to be relatively unpopular in Europe. This was a market that had not yet been taken seriously.

So he began to try to contact Neon's customers, and brought their excellent works to Europe, recommending them to local TV stations or DVD recorders.

In the past two years, with his outstanding eloquence and his eye for selecting works, Anthony has really made a lot of money.

But this business is too "lucky".

It's possible that a work you pick at random will appeal to European audiences, especially children, and it will be snapped up at a high price.

It’s also possible that you traveled around the country for several months, and all you got was “sorry” in various tones, but nothing was gained in the end.

This kind of thing is impossible to say.

Anthony's career has not always been smooth sailing. Last year, he went over a car once and found a pretty good animation in Neon.

He assured the client that this animation would be very popular among European audiences and would make a lot of money by then...

As a result, he looked around and no one was interested in this animation at all. After four months of hard work, all the air tickets, food and accommodation were in vain.

Only once will you be fooled!

Since that time, Anthony has become much more picky in selecting works.

At the same time, his vision is no longer limited to neon, North America and other places. Under the introduction of a colleague, he also began to try the Chinese animation business.

OK!

This is not simple, because in Anthony's opinion, those square characters in China are too complicated and difficult to understand.

I don’t know how long he has been practicing, but Anthony is finally able to use Chinese to conduct simple business communications.

Then he went in search of his target.

The first animation that caught his eye was actually "Dragon Fighter".

In Anthony's opinion, this animation, which combines elements of mechas, different worlds, and fantasy adventures, has too many gimmicks, and there is no need to worry about making money.

But it's a pity...

When Anthony came to try to get the authorization from the producer of this animation, he was unexpectedly told: "Sorry! You're late!"

"Dragon Fighter" has long been targeted, and attempts have been made to introduce it to Europe.

It's just that this animation didn't create any waves in Europe, and the response was relatively average, so Anthony didn't know about it.

After learning this, Anthony was very disappointed. When he was about to say goodbye and continue to look for his next target, the animation company named "WanBao" recommended another work to him.

"Oh! GG Bond》

All right!

This name sounds weird, right? As a result, compared to the main film, the title of this drama is already quite serious.

"A pig? Let a pig be the protagonist of the animation? Well, I don't understand, why can't it be a person?"

Anthony complained wildly.

He has been in China for so long, and he understands the Chinese animation industry. There was just one problem that he still couldn't understand.

Why do Chinese animations like to use "non-human" protagonists so much?

Why?

All kinds of weird and weird animals can be the protagonists here, even a little too much. There are aliens, robots, and jelly men, but pure "human protagonists" are rare.

This is too abstract!

Of course, complaints are complaints.

Although Anthony did not like the setting of a pig as the protagonist, the animation "GG Bond" was indeed good, and he promised to bring it back to Europe.

This is the first animation work he brought back to Europe from China.

Moreover, this is also his first cooperation with "WanBao", a Chinese animation company.

Naturally, everyone is happy with the result!

The animation called "GG Bond" was recommended by him to be broadcast on many local European TV stations, and soon a "Super Piglet" trend was set off.

That's right!

Here in Europe, people call Pig Man "Super Piggy", which means that he is very awesome and can do many things that humans cannot do, such as defeating demons and saving princesses.

The success of "GG Bond" laid the foundation for Anthony's cooperation with Wanbao Animation.

After that, Anthony brought back many Wanbao animations one after another and recommended them to TV stations in France, England, Germany, Italy, Turkey and other European countries.

The results are pretty good.

Except for the more subtle love animation "Moonlight Is Beautiful", which did not perform very well, other Wanbao animations are very popular in Europe.

As the number of cooperations increases, Anthony becomes more and more valued.

For example, this time, he has obtained authorization from Wanbao Animation and can take the "Pokémon" animation that has not yet been broadcast to European countries to promote it.

This is so exciting!

You know, even in China, the "Pokémon" animation has not yet been broadcast on TV platforms, and only a few news have been revealed.

If Anthony can get hold of TV stations in Europe and convince them to buy "Pokémon", it will be equivalent to "global simultaneous" broadcast.

Anthony expressed full confidence in whether he could convince these TV stations.

Let’s not talk about anything else first…

This is "Pokémon"!

The predecessor of "Pokémon", the handheld game "Pokémon Trainer", is also very popular in Europe and has many players.

Under this premise, the animation adapted from the game of the same name naturally has a fan base. It can be said that it is popular before it is broadcast. As long as the TV station is not stupid, it will definitely buy it.

The only problem is.

For such a "popular" animation, how high are everyone's "expectations"? What kind of price can be negotiated?

This is not certain.

After all, games are games and animations are animations. The Pokémon game is very popular, no one can deny that. But among gamers, how many people will watch animations?

What is the conversion rate?

If Wanbao can guarantee it, 80% of game players will pay attention to and watch the animation. There is no doubt that "Pokémon" will be the most popular animation in the world this year.

Not even one!

After all, the game player base is too large. Even if only 10% of the players will be converted into animation audiences, that is not a small number.

It's a pity that this conversion rate...

Anthony couldn't answer. As the animation producer, Wanbao Animation could only shake its head and couldn't answer either.