My Animation Era

Du Hao is back.

He came back this time not because the production of the movie "The Lion King" was completed, but to participate in the general election of the China Animation Industry Association held in late March this year.

That's right!

Gu Miao has been the president of the association for two years. Although he has to be re-elected according to regulations, everyone knows that as long as he is willing to stand for election, the president will still be his.

But the problem is that the current president, Gu Miao, has no interest in being re-elected.

During the two years he served as the president of the Cartoon and Animation Association, he was really bored. He had no shit benefits and had to worry about all kinds of trivial things.

for example.

He was working on the "Bear Bears" animation when he suddenly received a call telling him that he needed to attend a certain event. He couldn't refuse and had to rush to the event venue overnight.

Let’s take another example.

As the president, Gu Miao is responsible for coordinating the conflicts among the members of the association.

Whoever had a quarrel with someone, or who had a conflict or dispute with someone, would always find him and ask him to come forward to administer justice, or to appease and persuade peace...

Whoever likes this president should be the president!

Anyway, Gu Miao was tired. No matter how the authorities tried to persuade her, she always maintained an attitude: I just want to be an ordinary member. As for the president, you should hire someone else!

Part of the reason why he declined re-election was family.

His son Xiao Sensen is growing up gradually, and his old father's health has not been very good recently. He can't be busy working all day and neglect to care for his family, right? If he continues to serve as president, his time will inevitably be occupied.

Therefore, this is an irreconcilable contradiction.

Gu Miao has earned so much money and has reached the level of success and fame. She no longer cares about these so-called false reputations.

A few years ago, perhaps he needed the position of president of the association to prove Wanbao's respected status in the industry.

But now, who cares?

Wanbao has already won an Oscar, and its latest masterpiece "The Lion King" is targeting the global market. For domestic friends, Wanbao is no longer a competitor at the same level.

You have already gone to cultivate immortality, but you are still in the secular world, competing for the throne with a bunch of mortals. Isn't it embarrassing to tell it?

Based on these premises.

In this election of association president, Gu Miao voluntarily abstained from voting, and Wanbao members fully supported Ma Kui's candidacy for president.

Of course, this is Tu Yile.

Ma Kui also knew that he had little hope, and his participation in the election was purely to get a few votes, so he was very optimistic. Even if the final result of the defeat was announced, he was not too disappointed.

The president is someone else.

The new president is a highly respected veteran in the industry. It is said that he has retired for almost 20 years.

He was promoted to be the president mainly for the sake of transition. After all, Gu Miao refused to be re-elected and a suitable successor would not be found for a while, so this was the only choice for now.

"I estimate that the next president will have to airborne!"

Lao Zhang said with a smile: "Which of these people in the association is not a good person? If you ask them to take time out to do such a thankless job, who would be happy?"

"really."

Gu Miao nodded.

The president of this association has a lot of power and is far away from home, but he doesn't have any benefits, and he doesn't even have a formal establishment. It's really boring to be in front of him.

In the next term, it is estimated that the higher authorities will step in and directly engage in "airborne gold plating".

After all, if you really let everyone choose, you can't choose at all. There are only a few people who signed up, so how can you elect the president?

"This so-called industry association is still of too little significance, and the officials don't pay much attention to us." Gu Miao couldn't help but sigh when she said this.

During his tenure as president, he once united members to make suggestions to higher authorities.

It probably means...

Can the review standards for domestic animation be in line with those of "TV series" or "movies"? Don't engage in classification discrimination?

As a result, when the opinions were raised, not only were they not resolved, but Gu Miao, the president, was named and criticized.

After all.

Although the achievements of domestic animation are not low, in terms of status, they are really not as good as TV series and movies...

When it comes to cartoons, many die-hards are sure that they are "for children" and that animations are linked to children, so there should be no XX content.

What kind of logic is this?

Gu Miao has always felt that the thinking of the older generation who forcibly associate animation with children and believe that only children can watch animation is too decadent and aging.

It is undeniable that the main audience of most animated works, whether they are TV animations or animated films, are minors.

But you can’t kill everyone with one shot!

There are still a small number of animation works whose main audience is not minors but young people, which is the so-called "adult-oriented" animation.

Everything has two sides.

There is nothing wrong with the current standards for animations broadcast to children and minors. But for adult-oriented animation, should we still follow this set of standards?

Except for underage children, other people are not qualified to watch cartoons, right?

"Director Wang is already giving us positive feedback on this issue. It is said that he has also prepared a proposal and plans to submit it to the leadership for review..."

Lao Zhang comforted Mr. Gu and said, "Don't worry! The ideas of the older generation are not so easy to change. We have to take it step by step and slowly."

"Besides, we Wanbao don't have any adult-oriented animations with this theme, so why are you so concerned about it?"

"I don't like to hear what you are saying."

Gu Miao raised her eyebrows and retorted to Lao Zhang: "It's not happening now, but that doesn't mean it won't happen in the future. As long as we let this hole go, we can make an animation for adults at any time."

"What the hell?"

"An animation for adults?" Huang Kun, who just opened the door and walked in, couldn't help teasing when he heard this, "It's not the kind of animation I thought, hey hey hey, right?"

"Mr. Huang, please be healthy. We are a serious animation company and driving is prohibited!"

Gu Miao rolled her eyes and said, "In your opinion, the so-called adult-oriented animation can only be about the kind of color-based themes?"

"What if?"

"Can't it be a dark and heavy story with a bit of philosophical meaning?" Gu Miao gave an example, "An animation that will leave you with endless aftertaste after watching it, just like those classic movies, and guides the audience to explore human nature, can it be considered an adult? Towards?"

"This must count!"

"But will the kind of animation you mentioned really have a market?" Huang Kun hesitated.

"It depends!"

Gu Miao shook her head and said uncertainly: "The market is not determined by you and me, but by the audience's aesthetics."

Most likely not now.

But in a few years, as the two-dimensional culture becomes more and more popular, and more and more young people like this subculture, there will definitely be a broad market for related adult-oriented animations.