My Animation Era

A thousand-mile horse often exists, but a bole does not always exist.

There are still too few people who can discover the extraordinary features of "Dragon Ball" in advance like Nishio.

Most people were only belatedly aware of the possible adaptation value of this comic after the "Dragon Ball" comic had already taken off.

Unfortunately, it's too late.

Even Nishio, who realized that "Dragon Ball" was extraordinary so early and tried to pick up the slack, was rejected by Gu Miao. Naturally, these belated neon animation companies are no exception.

Gu Miao and Seto rejected more than a dozen animation companies from Neon who tried to win the rights to adapt the "Dragon Ball" animation.

It's not about money!

This is different from Nishio's previous attempts to pick up the slack. The current "Dragon Ball" comics have initially shown their "hegemony" potential. For a comic of this level of popularity, everyone’s price is not low.

But Gu Miao just shook her head slightly.

Selling the rights to adapt "Dragon Ball"?

This is impossible to sell, not in this lifetime. Because no one knows better than him what the IP of "Dragon Ball" means.

"Synonymous" with neon animation!

Creating the golden age of neon hot-blooded comics, it is the neon animation work with the greatest global influence and the most fans!

You can even be bold and say...

When the IP "Dragon Ball" finally developed, it was no longer just an animation work, but a cultural symbol and symbol.

The value represented by such animation IP can no longer be measured in terms of money.

This is a cultural icon and symbol!

For example, this is like our domestic "Journey to the West".

Not to mention that the original author, Lao Wu, is dead, even if Lao Wu is still alive now, if he wants to sell "Journey to the West" to foreigners, do you think he can sell it?

Impossible!

Although it is a bit outrageous to compare "Dragon Ball" to "Journey to the West", the meaning is the same. For Neon people, "Dragon Ball" is a cultural symbol and symbol, and it is no longer something that money can buy.

Of course, this is the original version.

Wanbao Edition's comics have just become popular now, the animation has not yet been broadcast, and its influence has not yet reached its extreme level. It is too early to say anything about cultural symbols.

But Gu Miao still wouldn't sell.

No matter how much money he pays, he won't sell it, because as soon as he thinks of a neon animation of the level of "Dragon Ball", it actually belongs to Wanbao's IP, and he is even the producer...

Tsk tsk!

Is this sense of historical achievement something that money can solve?

"There's still less money!"

Ma Kui muttered secretly: "If the price is 10 billion to 20 billion, I think you can sell it faster than anyone else!"

Gu Miao: "..."

Can you say that?

As his brother, his most trusted comrade, how could he say that to him? Does he seem like a person with no bottom line?

"Yes, you are right!"

Gu Miao stopped pretending, he was a person with no bottom line, and the reason for rejection was because the money was too little and he didn't like it.

If, as Ma Kui said, the other party directly offered him a price that he couldn't refuse, let alone "Dragon Ball", he could not wait to clean himself up and sell it to a big dog as a maid.

What's the bottom line?

Don't ask, just ask because the price you offered is not high enough to make Gu Sanshui turn around for you.

"But it's quite outrageous..."

Ma Kui clicked his tongue and said in surprise: "Everyone said that the neon animation industry has generally been in recession in the past two years, and every company is short of money. But when I look at their bids, it doesn't seem like they are short of money?"

"Then who knows?"

Gu Miao shrugged and said nonchalantly: "The rotten ship still has three pounds of nails! If you think they are short of money, maybe they are living better than you!"

"Okay, let's not talk about them anymore."

Ma Kui shook his head and put aside the fight over the rights to adapt the "Dragon Ball" comics in Neon. He picked up a stack of line drawings and said.

"This is the first batch of line drawings showing the skills. Mr. Gu, can you see if there is anything that needs to be modified?"

"Oh! Let me see..."

Reaching out to take the draft drawings handed over by Ma Kui, Gu Miao looked through them one by one.

Offspin serve!

Snake ball, spinning snake ball!

Swallows return to their nests, giant bears fight back...

These sketches are all simple "ball skills display" scenes drawn by the artist based on Shou Miao's description and explanation.

Most of it is right.

There are only a few unique moves and skills. The artist did not fully understand Gu Miao's meaning, and the painting was somewhat beyond his expectation.

For example, fields!

This trick was used by Nanjiro Echizen and Kunimitsu Tezuka in the original work. It was a super cool and powerful skill in the early stages of "The Prince of Tennis".

The general performance is that by applying spin to the ball, the opponent's tennis ball is always within one step of itself.

After performing this skill, you don't need to run to catch the ball. You just need to stay directly behind the court and slightly change your batting posture.

The first step in fantasy tennis?

Anyway, this is the principle, and it’s quite abstract to explain.

This is not the point!

Whether Domain's move is fantastic or outrageous has nothing to do with Gu Miao. What he really cares about is how to use the picture to present the perfect "field" effect?

"The drawing is wrong here..."

Gu Miao pointed to the tennis ball in front of Zhong Guoguang in the sketch and said: "The tennis ball that the opponent hits back does not come directly towards Zhong Guoguang, but flies to the left and right baselines first, changes direction in the air and is absorbed by the field."

He gestured with his hands.

It probably means that the opponent knows that the domain move is difficult to deal with, so when he fights back, he always hits the diagonal bottom line, which is the furthest distance from Zhong Guoguang.

As a result, when the ball was flying halfway, it suddenly made a sharp turn, was instantly absorbed by the field, and flew within one step of Zhong Guoguang.

This is not realistic enough!

But there is no doubt that such skills look good. As for whether reality can be revealed, what does that have to do with Gu Miao?

What's more, compared to those outrageous skills such as light hitting and hidden hitting, Gu Miao feels that the "field" is quite conservative and reasonable.

"Want to add some special effects?"

"Add some wind, swirling wind!"

Gu Miao touched his chin, carefully recalling the skill that once amazed him and made him still remember it many years later, and suddenly said.

"By the way! When performing this move, remember to take a close-up of the tennis racket! Let the audience see that the tennis ball has a strong spin when it is hit..."

These are all routine operations!

In fact, Gu Miao originally wanted to add some cool special effects to the Wanbao version of the "field" to make this move look more handsome.

After all, it’s killer tennis!

If you don't adjust the light effect or something, I always feel that your move is not very powerful.

But then he thought about it...

What special effects do you want? Echizen Nanjiro is a figure with a ceiling-level combat power. Does he have any devastating special effects in his field?

It seems not!

Perhaps being simple and unpretentious is what the field is supposed to be like. If you rashly add colorful lights, it may become nondescript.

Don't scare me, I probably just have a common cold. Thank you for your concern. Anyway, I'm dizzy and can't sleep, so I'll just write two chapters to make up for everyone...