My Animation Era

Following the trend is inevitable.

After all, following in the footsteps of successful people is always closer to success than working behind closed doors.

But following the trend is not a good thing either.

The homogeneity is too serious, and the audience will easily get bored of it. Similar routines or settings will soon be abandoned by the market and become junk themes.

Hou Bin also meant the same thing.

On the surface, "Light Messenger", as a companion piece to "Dragon Fighter", has huge advantages at first glance, but if you think about it carefully...

What if the audience doesn't like your idea?

It's not impossible!

Although "Dragon Fighter" is good-looking and exciting, after all, there are so many copycats popping up, and the otherworldly mecha theme is almost exhausted.

At this time, it would be really risky for you to create a companion piece.

"Do not worry."

Gu Miao said with full confidence in it: "Although it is a companion piece, "Light Envoy" is different from "Dragon Fighter"."

They cannot be lumped together.

Those otherworldly mecha animations that follow suit don’t even know what the core selling point of “Dragon Fighter” is. How could they possibly affect “Lightbringer”?

Isn't this a joke?

Do you think children like it very much, watching you control a robot and chop it around? That's right! The kids really enjoyed this.

But what the children really like is the "moment" when Xiaodu raises the Dragon Sword and summons the Dragon God.

Or when Xiaodu shouted "Must kill! Climb the Dragon Sword"!

The same goes for "Lightbringer".

When children watch this animation, the most exciting and anticipated moment is definitely when Dadi draws a "six-pointed star" on the ground to summon the Demon King.

Can you use your brain to cut it?

This is just like a magical girl animation that emphasizes transformation. If you haven’t done the summoning of mecha yet, how dare you follow suit?

You have to stick to the core selling points!

"Indeed."

After Gu Miao's explanation, everyone nodded.

Although what Mr. Gu said is very abstract, if you think about it carefully, it seems to be true! When children watch the animation "Dragon Fighter", isn't it when Xiaodu summons the Dragon God that they are most looking forward to and excited about?

As expected of Mr. Gu!

Everyone praised, Mr. Gu is Mr. Gu, his ability to grasp key points is really strong!

"Let's talk about the puppets again..."

Gu Miao glanced at the document, looked at Liang Xiaodong who was silent on the side with a strange expression, and asked: "Since when did your puppet studio fall into the lap of Meiying Studio?"

"It's not the thigh!"

Liang Xiaodong couldn't laugh or cry and said: "Normal cooperation, okay? My master is a master of puppetry after all, and he has many friends, so that's no problem, right?"

"no problem."

Gu Miao waved her hand and said, "So you want to tell me that Meiying Studio plans to cooperate with us on a puppet animation?"

"Well, it's like this..."

Liang Xiaodong introduced the specific cooperation content, including some consensus reached by both parties.

The cause of the matter is actually very simple.

Gu Miao previously told Liang Xiaodong the story of "Afanti" and hoped that the Puppet Studio could adapt it into a puppet animation based on the folk legend.

The coincidence happened.

When Liang Xiaodong went to collect folklore about "Afanti", he accidentally met a friend of his former master at China Overseas Animation Film Studio.

From his mouth, Liang Xiaodong learned something.

China Overseas Film Studio also plans to produce an animated film focusing on "Western Regions" based on the folk tale of Afanti.

Okay!

Is this a collision of themes?

When Liang Xiaodong said that his company Wanbao Animation also had the idea of ​​adapting the folk legend of "Afanti", Meiying Studio was very curious.

So the two sides started contact.

As the understanding deepened, both parties realized that both the animated films produced by American Film Studio and the puppet animation produced by Wanbao actually had great shortcomings.

So why not learn from each other's strengths?

Driven by Liang Xiaodong and his master's old friend, the two project teams decided to cooperate and jointly produce a puppet animation about the folklore of "Afanti".

"oh?"

"Are they also interested in puppet animation? Is this your request or their own idea?" Gu Miao asked.

"Half and half."

Liang Xiaodong explained: "I told them that if they want to do it, they should do puppet animation. I can't do other animations and I don't want to do it."

"It happened that they were also very interested in this, so we agreed to use puppets as a carrier to produce the animation of "Afanti's Story"."

That was really interesting.

Unexpectedly, Liang Xiaodong would take advantage of Meiying Studio and reach a cooperation with them. Gu Miao was looking forward to it.

Puppet Studio Plus...ugh!

etc!

If he remembered correctly, the original "Afanti's Story" puppet animation seemed to have been produced by American Film Studio, right?

Why is it that after going around in circles, I still can't get around the Meiying Studio?

Gu Miao, who felt that there was something hidden in this matter, frowned and asked, "You said they are interested in puppet animation?"

"yes!"

"Mr. Gu, don't underestimate Meiying Studio. There are many great people there, and they also have professionals who are engaged in puppet animation." Liang Xiaodong reminded.

This is not nonsense!

I wonder which Chinese people don’t know that there are a lot of great masters in American film studios? After all, it is a large state-owned factory that has produced many classics that have been handed down for generations, and its heritage is still very deep.

Gu Miao was just surprised.

Since they can make puppet animations on their own, and may be stronger than Liang Xiaodong in terms of technical strength, why would they want to cooperate with Wanbao?

It’s not about supporting the younger generation, right?

"Maybe it's because... they actually have strong technology but not much money?" Ma Kui said weakly.

Okay!

As soon as these words came out, the entire conference room fell into silence. Although Ma Kui's words were suspected of "spreading rumors," this seemed to be the most reasonable explanation.

"Forget it, never mind it."

Gu Miao shook her head and said: "It's a rare opportunity to cooperate with Meiying Studio. You all should take the time to visit Liang Xiaodong and look for opportunities to learn from him."

"It's okay to poach people, just look at the great master opposite and dig them for me. Of course, you have to be careful what you say, after all, there are old men and women over there..."

After giving the instructions, Gu Miao seemed to have thought of something again, and turned around and asked, "By the way, I forgot to ask."

"Since it is a cooperation, what about the copyright and income? What does the American Film Studio think?"

"Half for each person."

Liang Xiaodong said without hesitation: "They seem to require that the title of the American Film Studio be added when the animation is broadcast."

What about Wanbao Animation?

The title of the film is "Meiying Studio" and the end of the film is "Wanbao", right? Or should we just squeeze it in, you put up the title sequence and I’ll put up the title sequence too, and see whose LOGO looks better?

In this wave, Wanbao has the advantage!

Gu Miao always feels that it is a "very fulfilling" thing for Wanbao Animation's logo icon and the Meiying Studio icon to appear in the title of the same animation?

It’s full of dishes!

Will you be able to say when you go out in the future: I am in a 50-50 relationship with Meiying Studio?

With you and me, we can work together!