You said you would make games by yourself, but how did you become the richest man by doing nothing?

After reviewing these materials, Lu Yu shook his head.

The domestic animation industry is not exactly a scene of widespread devastation, but it's certainly a field of desolate tombs.

A thought occurred to him: were their counterparts in the island nation doing any better?

Looking into it was even more disheartening.

Domestic animation companies generally lacked an international perspective and capability, unlike the island nation's companies.

Thanks to their stable output of blockbuster IPs and highly specialized division of labor, many animated works from the island nation were able to cause quite a stir internationally.

As the pillar industry of the ACG culture, island nation companies consumed most of the international market share.

This led to the birth of many well-known animation companies, such as Ghibli, GAINAX, Kyoto Animation, Trigger, MAD HOUSE, A1-PICTURES, Ufotable, Sunrise, WIT (Domination Company), Bones, JC Staff, and so on.

After looking into all this, the restlessness in Lu Yu's heart instantly calmed down.

How should he put it? Since this industry was so chaotic and prone to internal strife, entering it required caution.

It wasn't that he was worried about losing money; he was concerned about losing all the points he had painstakingly saved up.

To play it safe, Lu Yu decided that the animation of "NekoPara Adventure" would be produced in the form of outsourcing.

This way, even if the outsourcing company fell into uncontrolled internal strife, it wouldn't affect him personally.

Lu Yu opened the Youyi Workshop platform.

Currently, most domestic animation companies were taking on outsourcing work on creator platforms like Youyi Workshop in order to make a living.

Lu Yu browsed the list of outsourcing vendors for a long time,

His eyes grew tired, but he still found nothing.

The reason was simple: "NekoPara Adventure" was an IP with a very strong ACG flavor,

The charming and seductive white silk cat girls were the core.

However, almost all the vendors he saw offered either American realistic style or Korean greasy senior sister style.

This was because many animation teams, in order to improve their ability to take on game outsourcing, had shifted their main focus to realistic CG style.

Didn't these outsourcing companies have their own passions and preferences?

Didn't they want to challenge the status of island nation animation?

Lu Yu thought not, but not adapting to market trends meant going hungry.

After all, the times make the hero.

Lu Yu patiently continued to scroll down, and just as he was about to reach the end of the list,

Just as he was about to be completely disappointed, he suddenly saw a two-dimensional illustration with a relatively strong otaku vibe in the artwork display images.

This was an illustration of a white silk twin-tailed little loli.

The reason Lu Yu thought this illustration was professional was because every detail of it hit the G-spot of the LSP.

Smooth twin ponytails.

Round face, very childish.

Big eyes are delicate, resisting yet yielding.

The limb movements are also very particular, with arms crossed, but legs stretched out.

It is indeed guarded, but not completely guarded.

The figure is naturally a childlike big breast that cannot be found in reality.

And the finishing touch is the small tender feet shown to the audience.

The slightly translucent white silk is like ice cream in midsummer.

One look at it, you know the artist is professional.

Especially compared to their peers, it stands out even more.

It should be said that in this parallel world, most game and animation companies in the domestic industry do not understand ACG.

To give a very simple example, many manufacturers' understanding of Tsundere is too superficial, and they still stay at the stage where Tsundere is "hypocritical."

However, there is a suitable ratio between the "arrogance" and "tenderness" in Tsundere,

Three points of arrogance and seven points of tenderness are just right.

Because they don't understand this, many manufacturers who don't understand ACG design Tsundere female characters, always drawing a cat like a tiger, resulting in improper ratio allocation, and shaping the female character into a contrived and annoying character.

It was rare to find a satisfactory sample, so Lu Yu quickly opened the homepage of this outsourcing vendor.

The company's name is "Black Horse Animation."

On the right side of the company's homepage, other evaluations from Party A who have cooperated are displayed.

To Lu Yu's surprise, these evaluations can be described as terrible.

He randomly clicked on a few of them:

"As Party A, I ask you to draw what I want you to draw. Do you have to talk to me about art? I'm in a hurry to go online in the next version. Can art be eaten? I'm just asking you?"

The following is a reply from the official staff of the company:

"Hello, our company's employees have the pursuit of artistic enjoyment. This kind of cross-axis and chaotic sub-shot demand is insulting to us."

Party A was so angry that he continued to reply later:

"Dare to fight back? Your company should not be called Black Horse Animation, it might as well be called Pegasus Animation, and will never cooperate with you again!"

This conversation made Lu Yu laugh.

It is said that Party A is Dad, but this animation company has a bit of personality!

With this conversation as an example, it is conceivable what kind of evaluation this Black Horse Animation will get later.

"Black Horse Animation, don't put on airs, is the customer's needs a joke in your eyes? What are you pretending to be?"

"I cooperated with you because I saw that your prices were cheap, but it was really cheap and not good. There was no sincerity at all. I wanted a bloody feeling of a 10,000-person decisive battle at the Purple Golden Peak.

Is your family's painting style too naive? And why are there all kinds of white stockings? Does your company have any obsession with stockings?"

The animation company replied: "Hello, this may be a bit naive for children, but it's just right for us adults."

"Upstairs, it's fine if their paintings are naive, but can you please don't be a mess? I sent a message at 11 o'clock in the evening to ask for needs, and the other animator scolded me and then blacklisted me."

Animation company reply: "Good scolding, is 11 o'clock in the evening the time to communicate needs? Why don't you communicate at 4 o'clock in the morning, you big smart? Don't bring others with you if you want to die suddenly."

"Your small broken company dares to talk about art, it's ridiculous. I want you to draw according to my needs, but your director talks to me about everything, don't talk to me if you don't have the ability."

Animation company reply: "Ah yes yes yes, I don't know my own needs, but I gesticulate and interrupt the production many times. It's like this when an outsider directs an insider, sweating yellow beans.jpg."

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Lu Yu turned around and his eyes lit up.

What the hell? Having one's own artistic pursuit, valuing one's own employees' artistic enjoyment and rights, and resolutely not getting involved in internal strife during rest time, isn't this a top team?

Lu Yu felt that this company's aesthetics and corporate culture were in line with his taste. He could outsource the animation of "NekoPara Paradise" to this company to test the waters first, and then make follow-up plans.

Moreover, he was not a big fool with money to spend indiscriminately. For the sake of insurance, he decided to go to this company for on-the-spot investigation first.

He quickly dialed the phone of Black Horse Animation, and a person named Manager Gong answered the phone.

Lu Yu agreed with him to go to the company for on-the-spot investigation on Wednesday to discuss cooperation.

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yu called Liu Mengyuan to him:

"In the past few days, I have to keep an eye on things on other business lines. As for game development, I'll leave it to you."

"Okay, don't worry."

Liu Mengyuan nodded, and was about to leave, but remembered something, and turned back.

"By the way, go home for dinner tonight, I'll go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables."

"Oh? What to eat?"

"Stewed turtle soup." Liu Mengyuan said shyly.

"Turtle... turtle?" Lu Yu was stunned.

"Yes, Teacher Fan Jing taught us a new recipe. According to the teacher, this is an exclusive secret recipe for turtle soup, which nourishes qi and blood."

Liu Mengyuan secretly said in her heart: Of course, it can also supplement other things.

"I recently... I eat very well in the company, I don't think it's necessary to make such a big supplement." Lu Yu was at a loss.

"It's always good to supplement more."

Liu Mengyuan insisted.

Although, the last time in the kitchen was a misunderstanding, it completely opened up the girl's thinking and pattern.

That's right, there is no need to limit future battle scenes to the bedroom!

Kitchen, living room, balcony, bathtub... or even the company's underground hot spring, meeting room, storage room, toy cabinet...

As long as the love is deep, an encounter may occur anytime, anywhere.

Although the two of them haven't mentioned this matter on the surface yet, it's always right to let Lu Yu make strategic reserves in advance.

If there is food in the warehouse, you will not panic in your heart.

After speaking, Liu Mengyuan stepped on her small leather shoes and left.

Lu Yu looked at her back.

Today's Liu Mengyuan is wearing mature and sexy OL makeup, with a white lace shirt and a black hip skirt complementing each other.

I don't know if it's his illusion, but the girl's femininity is getting stronger and stronger.

Moreover, how should I put it, he felt that the relationship between the two people had undergone a subtle change after that birthday.

Before, after all, it was a co-rental of single men and women, and many things had to be avoided.

But recently, this girl seems to be getting more and more open.

The specific manifestations are that she used to stagger her time with Lu Yu when she went to the bathroom to take a bath, but now she often wanders around the house in a bathrobe.

She also stacked the washed pantyhose and panties on the sofa without shyness.

Every morning, the two of them do housework and make breakfast together, chatting about family matters,

When I come back in the evening, I occasionally go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables and cook a small stove. Everything is so harmonious and natural.

Although, he didn't know what happened on his birthday that caused the other party's change, but it was always a good thing.

Moreover, speaking of birthday, Lu Yu suddenly remembered.

That's right!

It seems that there is still a video in the system storage space that I haven't watched.