My Animation Era

Starting from the earliest "Pig Man", "Pig Man" has always been the most popular animated series in China.

The peak popularity is no less than that of Digimon and the Magic Weapon.

As of this summer, the Pigman series has produced and broadcast five TV animations. The latest season is "Fairy Tales in the World of Building Blocks" based on the classic stories of "Andersen's Fairy Tales" and "Grimm's Fairy Tales" 》.

This season's performance was okay.

After being aired on the TV platform, although it was not as popular as the previous seasons, it was also loved by countless children and the ratings were very high.

No matter how you look at it, the development prospects of this series are broader than that of "Fruit Attack", and the future is also brighter.

If you can’t make Fruit 3, then you can make a Pig Man 6!

Little Bear is always excited.

After silently weighing the value and weight of the two IPs in his mind, he nodded and agreed without much hesitation.

He was even worried that Gu Miao would regret it. He didn't even give him a chance to speak, and signed the agreement of intent without delay. His decisiveness surprised others.

"Mr. Gu, do you really want Funny Animation to produce the sixth season of "Pig Man"?"

After seeing off the cheerful Mr. Bear, while waiting for the elevator to go down, Lao Zhang asked with some confusion: "If I remember correctly, Pig Man is quite popular, right?"

"It's really hot."

Gu Miao admitted: "This series has always been very popular. It is considered an evergreen IP of our Wanbao."

"Then why..."

"There is no reason. If you have to ask, my answer is that this series is in its sixth year."

When the elevator arrived, Gu Miao stepped into the elevator, pressed the button representing the 7th floor, and then explained to Lao Zhang: "It's lucky for an animation to be popular for five years."

"But this kind of luck cannot last indefinitely. It will end eventually."

"You mean, the "Pig Man" series is going to go downhill?" Lao Zhang heard the implication and frowned.

“It’s not that it’s starting to go downhill, it’s that it’s already going downhill.”

The elevator installed in the Wanbao headquarters building is very fast. In just a few words, we reached the seventh floor.

The two of them walked out of the elevator one after another. In the corridor leading to the office area, Gu Miao said solemnly: "Although "Fairy Tales in the World of Blocks" has achieved very good results, it has lost a lot of its core old audience."

This problem is different from Pleasant Goat.

The loss of Pleasant Goat's audience is largely due to the fact that the old audiences have grown up and have passed the childish age of watching cartoons.

The main reason for the loss of viewers of the Pig Man series is that the style has changed too much, which has caused many old viewers to feel that the animation has changed and is not as good as before...

To put it bluntly.

The animation of Pigman will change to a different style every season and tell a completely new story. The animations in different periods are not strongly related.

for example.

In the first season, Pigman was still telling a cliché adventure story of "a brave man fights the dragon, a knight saves a princess." In the second season, he traveled to the island of Olympus and started various sports competitions.

By the fifth season, the plot is directly adapted from fairy tales, and even familiar characters have become fairy tale characters such as Snow White, Cinderella, Prince Charming, and Little Red Riding Hood.

Not only that.

Starting from this season, even the style of Pigman has changed, becoming more cute and fresh.

The advantage of such an animated series is that each season tells an unexpected story, but the disadvantage is that it lacks continuity and coherence.

Take Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf as an example.

Will viewers who have watched the first season of Pleasant Goat feel unfamiliar when watching the second and third seasons?

Won't!

Because the story background and character settings of Pleasant Goat are consistent, and even the plot timelines are connected together, how can the audience feel strange?

But every season of the Pig Man animation, not only the story background, but also the character style will be completely changed. This is not friendly to old viewers, because they will feel strange every time they watch it.

I just remembered the martial arts version of GG Bond, but then you made a science fiction version of GG Bond? All right! Just after getting to know the sci-fi version of GG Bond, the fairy tale version of GG Bond appears?

The novel, imaginative and humorous plot were once the shining points of the "Pig Man" series.

But as time goes by, especially when the production team's creativity is running out and they are unable to produce something good that will impress the audience, the bright spots will turn into fatal flaws.

"It doesn't matter that the "Pig Man" series is very popular now, but that's just a throwback."

"The production team is no longer able to do anything. Innovation is weak and inspiration has dried up. It would be a good thing to leave it to Fantastic Animation at this time. After all, if we change the production team, maybe we can do a great job?"

"So that's it..."

Lao Zhang was quite shocked when he suddenly learned the inside information about the production team of "Pig Man", especially the fact that he was running out of ideas.

Are you running out of inspiration?

Not so!

The Pigman series is only the fifth TV animation. In terms of the number of sequels, it is not worthy of being a shoe-in for the Pleasant Goat series.

Why is it that the Pleasant Goat series is still being reworked continuously, but the Pigman series cannot be reworked, and the production team is simply failing?

“Is five works a small number?”

"There are more than 400 episodes in total. Based on a 20-minute episode, that's 8,000 minutes!"

Gu Miao complained: "Not to mention that Pig Man changes the story background and character settings every season. The lines and plots are so imaginative that anyone else would have run out of inspiration..."

You can’t compare with Pleasant Goat!

Although there are many sequels to Pleasant Goat, except for "Guardian of Yangcun", the story background and character settings have basically not changed much.

Even for the Guardian of Yangcun, the story background and character settings have not changed, only some details have changed.

So this is incomparable to the animation of Pig Man, a sequel with a completely new setting system and several different versions of the protagonist.

Running out of inspiration is all too normal.

With more than 8,000 minutes of animation creation, several story backgrounds and setting systems, the production team members didn’t know how much hair they lost.

If it is not transferred to the outsourcing team, it will only get worse and worse until it becomes a piece of cake and is completely abandoned by the audience.

In fact, hiring an outsourcing team to produce animations like "Pig Man" is a good choice. After all, the Three Stooges are better than Zhuge Liang!

certainly.

You also have to keep your eyes open when choosing an outsourced production team. If you encounter a situation like "Date A Live 2", it would be too miserable.

Fortunately, Gu Miao chose Funny Animation for the sixth season of "Pig Man". With the support of Mr. Bear, a big boss, at least there would be no embarrassing incident where the animation company suddenly went bankrupt halfway through the animation.

…

Domestic animation in September is led by "Wandering Animation World"!

Penguin's "The Big Boss" and Thunderbolt's "Welcome to the Fist-First Vocational School Classroom" have both started airing.

But obviously, in front of the world's only true infinite moving picture, these two animations failed to make much waves.

The Wandering Animation World has aired to its 12th episode, and the plot has come to the end of the world of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf".

After Xiao Wanbao's unremitting efforts, Big Gray Wolf and Red Wolf finally moved to Qingqing Grassland and began their great business of catching sheep.

“Come back often~”

"Xiao Wanbao, after I catch the lamb, I will definitely ask you to come for a lamb feast!"

"Really? Uncle Big Wolf!"

"Of course it's true. When has my Majesty ever deceived you? Don't worry, by then the mutton will be enough..."

Under the warm farewell of Big Big Wolf and his wife, Xiao Wanbao left the Qingqing Grassland and left this endless animation world of wolves catching sheep.

For this episode, the most difficult thing for the audience was Big Wolf’s promise to invite Xiao Wanbao to have a mutton feast together.

Good guy!

Once this kind of Flag is spoken, Big Big Wolf will never catch a sheep in this life. As for agreeing to Xiao Wanbao's mutton feast?

Definitely next time! Definitely next time!

Xiao Wanbao, who left Qingqing Grassland, returned home again, and the animated elf came back with her.

The lottery wheel is on!

After Xiao Wanbao completed the task, he actually got the special skill of Red Wolf's "Infinite Pan", and the audience burst into laughter and patted their bellies.

Okay, okay, Xiao Wanbao has learned the most powerful and perverted move in the world of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf.

With this trick at hand, even if she travels to a terrifying world like "Dragon Ball", she won't be afraid of being bullied.

only……

The appearance of a seven-year-old cute baby holding a pan is indeed very funny and full of comedy.

Everyone was not kept waiting for too long. After a short break, Xiao Wanbao, urged by the animation wizard, once again embarked on a journey to save the animation world.

This time it's the world of Bears.

A new journey, a new adventure, the bear Big Bear Er who lives in the zoo, the bald Qiang who takes in Little Wanbao... With the broadcast of the latest episode, the number of animation views has taken off again.

At this moment, Gu Miao was completely numb.

After all, watching the number of views of "Wandering in the Animated World" skyrocket every day, almost two to three hundred million in a day, would make anyone feel numb.

He still prefers to deal with advertisers than this kind of vulgar playback data...

That’s right, advertisers!

With the popularity of "Wandering in the Animated World", more and more advertisers are eyeing this animation and starting to come to us, hoping to sponsor the work.

The most exaggerated offer came from an Internet e-commerce company. As long as the advertisement "Online shopping at XXX, Banana Phone is sold for one dollar" is included in the title of the video, Wanbao can receive approximately 32 million yuan in sponsorship fees.

This is scary!

You must know that for the previous opening advertisement of "Yangcun Guardian", the highest bid did not exceed 10 million. This time it directly increased six to seven times, which is enough to show how popular "Wandering Animation World" is.

By the way...

Gu Miao's golden name is still very attractive. Even though "Go Boy" is still in production and has not been broadcast, and the specific completion quality is uncertain, many advertisers still come to apply for sponsorship.

This is the value of the Green Grassland Shepherd, Chuangjie Mountain Conductor, Gou Xiong Ridge Bandit, Sailor Black Hole, Thunder Speed ​​King, Maggot Pokémon, Bikini Castle Senator, and Superman’s best friend!

The animation hasn't even been finished yet, and half of the cost has been repaid from advertising revenue alone.

This alone is enough to prove how popular the "Go Boy" project is. Even if it is not completed, people still come to send money.

Of course, the reason why Go Youth has attracted much attention and expectations is not only Gu Miao's golden signature, but also partly because of Xiao Ke's joining.

After all, he is a world champion.

Although Xiao Ke at this period had not yet achieved influence through abstraction, he was already quite famous in the circles that were exposed to Go.

There are also some entrepreneurs who play Go. When they heard that Xiao Ke was involved in the production of some Go animations, they immediately became interested, so it made sense to come to sponsor the animations.

But then again.

After all, "Go Boy" is an animation with "unpopular themes" in the eyes of everyone, and its sponsors are definitely not as generous as "Wandering the Animation World".

It would be great if they were willing to sponsor. How could Gu Miao think the offer was low?

Moreover, the production team is not short of money.

The animation "Go Boy" is not an animation with a huge budget. On the contrary, this animation is quite economical in a sense.

After all, an animation episode, excluding the literary and dramatic parts, the rest of the time is all about the changes in the "chess game".

Isn’t it easy to draw a chessboard?

Gu Miao can do this job by herself, and the effect is not much worse than those of professional painters.

Only in the process of playing chess, adding various light effects to the chess pieces and the chess board is a bit of a delay. Under normal circumstances, drawing the chess board is not troublesome.

A game of chess seems to have endless variations, but during the animation production process, it was simplified into a kindergarten graffiti.

In the final analysis, the chessboard is composed of horizontal and vertical intersecting lines distributed on an entire wood-colored background canvas. The white and black chess pieces are arranged according to Xiao Ke's instructions using the copy-paste method.

This process does not require much mental effort. After all, the work of studying the chess records and deducing the chess game has been handed over to Xiao Ke. The painters only need to follow the chess records and carefully place the positions of the chess pieces.

It is common for chess pieces to be placed incorrectly.

After all, it’s easy to look at chess records, and sometimes the pieces are misplaced if you’re not careful.

At this time, Xiao Ke, the special consultant, comes into play. He will carefully check every move to make sure the game will proceed according to his deduction.

In the process, an interesting thing happened.

Xiao Ke took out a chess record and asked the painters to draw the key frames according to the chess record. As a result, during the drawing process, one of the painters misremembered the position of the white chess piece and drew it wrong.

This is a simple mistake, as long as it is discovered and corrected in time.

But when Xiao Ke saw this wrong move, his eyes lit up and he said that there was no need to redraw it. White's move was very good and awesome, and it was more reasonable than the chess record he provided.

The AI's real-time winning rate shows that this move in the wrong position suddenly increased the winning rate of white by ten percentage points.

It's not a god's hand, but it is indeed a masterful hand. It can be kept completely, and it can even overturn his original chess record for this reason...

"Huh? So magical?"

Gu Miao didn't expect this to happen. When he came to his senses, he immediately said that he would record the incident and cut it into behind-the-scenes footage for broadcast.

He had already thought of the title.

"Is he careless or intentional? Is he really a Go genius? 》