My Animation Era

There is no time limit for the production of the animation "Guardians of Yangcun", so it stands to reason that the progress will be slower than expected.

But in fact……

Ever since Gu Miao held the last meeting and stated that he would fire some of the people who were trying to catch fish, the production team has been working with high enthusiasm, and the progress has been more than twice as fast as planned!

He can't handle this.

When there is usually a construction period limit, each project is delayed and it is impossible to complete it in advance before the specified time.

As a result, there was no time limit this time, so the work was done faster than usual, and the quality of the materials was also better than usual.

This shows what?

It shows that in order to keep their jobs and avoid being targeted by the company for layoffs, everyone is really working hard to get to work.

"It's a good thing to have a sense of crisis!"

Lao Zhang said with a smile: "A very interesting fact is that the work attitude of employees before and after layoffs is simply turned upside down."

Wanbao has never laid off employees before, so many employees have the idea of ​​​​muddling along and go to work just to go around, and are completely black sheep.

Since Wanbao started laying off employees, and more than 200 people were laid off at once, it is obvious that the company's atmosphere has improved a lot.

The bastards who usually feel sluggish at work and would pick up their phones to check the time from time to time and wonder what to eat after get off work are now becoming more and more positive, fearing that they will be included in the layoff list and lose this job in the eyes of their relatives and friends. Decent work.

"It's long overdue."

Gu Miao said angrily: "In the past, the company was growing too fast and the talent pool couldn't keep up, so we tried our best to recruit people and didn't reject anyone who came."

What's going on now?

Wanbao's talent pool has kept pace with the company's development, and there is even overflow.

In this case, it is natural to change the strategy from "not rejecting all comers" to "admission on the basis of merit."

"Tell the Human Resources Department to set the threshold for school recruitment and social recruitment higher, and don't recruit everyone."

Speaking of this, Gu Miao was also very angry.

I don’t know who made the wild list, but he actually said that Wanbao Animation is one of the companies with the lowest average academic qualifications in the domestic animation industry.

Isn't this pure nonsense?

The source of his data is entirely based on the "recruitment standards" of major companies. But how big is Wanbao? Can the employment standards be the same as those of small workshops?

But one thing is right.

There are too many people in Wanbao, and a large number of animation professionals have gathered. Among them, there is a mix of good and bad, good and bad, and some people are indeed holding us back.

What Gu Miao needs to do now is not to expand blindly, but to rectify the personnel administration, eliminate those people who are just cheating within the company, and improve the work efficiency of each studio.

The Wolfsburg studio is particularly important.

As the independent studio with the largest number of core employees and the largest scale under Wanbao Animation, the chaos of Wolfsburg Studio has long been known to everyone.

A team of nearly 500 people is too big to be honest.

It has become the consensus of Wanbao Animation executives to dismember Wolfsburg Studio and optimize staffing.

Wanbao's current staffing configuration is very awkward. Ace teams such as Wolfsburg Studio have a total headcount of close to 500 people, while fringe teams like Puppet Studio only have more than 30 people at full capacity.

Lightning Studio has gone through several rounds of personnel transfers, project failures and budget cuts, and now only 18 core members remain.

How can this be done?

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Optimizing the company's staffing and dismembering the largest and most bloated Wolfsburg Studio has become one of Wanbao Animation's most important tasks in April.

There is an old saying in the industry that personnel changes will inevitably affect animation projects in production.

In order to reduce the impact as much as possible and reduce the interference on each animation project, Gu Miao and Lao Zhang thought of a way.

Suppose employee A is participating in the production of an animation project, then wait until his project is completed before executing the personnel transfer order.

for example.

The fifth season of "That Year of the Rabbit" is currently in production. According to the project ownership, this is also a project of Wolfsburg Studio.

But half of the members of this production team have already decided to transfer to Lightning Studio.

Then their current projects will not be affected, they can do whatever they need to do, report to whomever they should report to, and make adjustments after the animation goes online.

Most personnel transfers will not be effective until the second half of the year, so they will have no impact now.

After all, in April, Wanbao has no other animations confirmed to be broadcast except for one "Calabash Brothers".

"Calabash Brothers" is a TV animation that began preparations last year. It is produced by Puppet Studio and American Film Studio, with a total of 26 episodes.

Yes!

Wanbao version of Calabash Baby has 26 episodes.

It was originally planned to be made into a 52-episode feature-length animation, but Liang Xiaodong said that he really couldn't do it. The workload of 26 episodes alone made him exhausted, and he was afraid that he would not be able to save his life after more than 20 episodes.

This is the truth.

Gu Miao would probably not believe it when others said how hard and difficult it was to make his animation, but when Liang Xiaodong said this, he absolutely believed it.

After all, "Calabash Brothers" is a paper-cut animation!

Can this workload be compared with ordinary animation? To be honest, paper-cutting is still an intangible cultural heritage. How can it be as easy to do as imagined?

26 episodes is pretty good too.

In these 26 episodes of animation, the plot is mainly divided into two chapters. The first chapter is about the scorpion spirit and snake spirit that everyone is most familiar with.

The second chapter tells the story of the seven brothers who eliminated the snake spirit and the scorpion spirit, and accidentally discovered that the scorpion spirit actually had a sworn brother, the colorful centipede spirit.

When the Colorful Centipede Spirit learned that his good brother had been eliminated by the Calabash Baby, he was immediately furious and came with a demonic wind to capture Grandpa and the pangolin to vent his anger.

When the Calabash Brothers learned that their grandfather had been captured by the Centipede Spirit, they immediately set off to Qianzu Mountain, the home of the Centipede Spirit, to rescue their grandfather, and a new adventure began...

The setting of the colorful centipede spirit is actually an idea provided by Gu Miao.

He said that if the scorpion spirit has a sworn brother, it must be a centipede or a spider, which is also a poisonous creature.

It can't be a cockroach, right?

As for tigers, lions, jackals and other animal spirits, it seems unlikely that they will be mixed up with scorpion spirits.

After his complaint was heard by Liang Xiaodong, he immediately decided to make a colorful centipede spirit to reflect the gold content of "Poison Brothers".

Not to mention...

The Colorful Centipede is very powerful. He has a magical baby fan. He can fan the ground to make strong winds, then fan to make thunder appear, and then fan to make hail fall from the sky.

The Centipede Spirit is the main villain in episodes 14-26 of "Calabash Brothers". He is very cunning and insidious, and almost destroyed the Calabash Brothers.

Why do you say almost?

Because the villain always takes a breath and leaves the protagonist with the possibility of making a comeback in desperate situations.

If the whole group is wiped out by the Calabash brothers in one go, how will the plot continue to develop?