My Animation Era

Gu Miao's guess was accurate.

The box office of the movie "Okja Love Story" was indeed average. It cannot be said to be particularly bad, but it cannot be said to be very good either.

One week after its release, Neon's local box office was approximately 75.84 million yen. Judging from this trend, it is estimated that it will have about 300-500 million yen by the time it is released.

It’s a success if you really get your money back!

Originally, he had no expectations for the box office of this movie, so after seeing this performance, Gu Miao didn't feel particularly disappointed.

At least the reputation is pretty good...

"Okja Love Story" was originally launched as a word-of-mouth movie. The box office was a little poor, but the word-of-mouth can be maintained.

In this regard, the performance of Okja's Love Story can be said to be in line with expectations, and its reputation has been exceptionally good, with everyone who has watched it saying it is good.

[Childhood sweethearts are so wonderful. It would be great if I also had a childhood sweetheart like Tamako...]

[There was no kissing or hugging, just looking at each other from a distance. Just one sentence made me burst into tears. It is indeed a Wanbao, highly recommended! 】

[No one will not be moved by this ignorant and young first love, remember! nobody……】

【Tamako...hehe! My Okja...]

[Very good movie, made my lips spin, Love Comes from Porcelain, Love Comes from the River of Dark Dragon! 】

In fact, it is not difficult to understand the problem that the movie continues to receive good reviews and has extremely high ratings on major ACGN forum websites, but the box office growth is slow.

"Tamako Love Story" is adapted from the TV animation "Tamako Market", and "Tamako Market" is a small-circle animation after all, and not many people have watched it.

Therefore, even if the reputation is great, most people have never seen the original TV work, so naturally they will not be interested in the theatrical version.

If the popularity of the TV original "Tamako Market" could reach the level of "Dragon Ball" or "Superman", with the current reputation, the box office would have skyrocketed.

But then again.

There’s nothing wrong with a masterpiece that’s self-motivated. For an animated movie like this, it’s a good thing not to leave the industry, because once its influence leaves the industry, who knows what valuables will be attracted to it?

Gu Miao has also been working hard to promote the introduction of "Yuzi Love Story" to domestic release.

Unfortunately, the movie's box office performance was so mediocre that many domestic theater chains and film distributors were simply not interested.

"Then it won't go to theaters."

Gu Miao thought for a while and decided to log on to the Wanbao Video website to pay for viewing, and was too lazy to go to the cinema.

Anyway, after half a day of tossing around at the box office, you won’t get much, so it’s better to go directly to the online version to save yourself the trouble.

Kyoani has no objection to this.

For a theatrical version of "Okja Love Story", it is not a big problem whether it can be released in overseas theaters, as long as there is a channel for overseas audiences to see the film.

The online version is also available, but if you just pay to watch it, how much should it be priced at?

"Just 3 yuan!"

Gu Miao thought about it and felt that the previous 6 yuan was still too expensive, especially for a film like "Yuzi Love Story", which many viewers were reluctant to spend to watch.

Then you can watch it for three yuan!

This price is already quite cheap for many online versions of movies that require payment to watch.

It’s only three yuan, and no one will probably pick it up if it’s thrown on the ground. Everyone spends three yuan to experience a pure and beautiful youth love story. There are still many people willing to pay.

There will definitely be a fee.

After all, "Okja Love Story" has given up showing in Chinese cinemas. If the online version is still broadcast for free, wouldn't it be a big loss?

Don't forget, although the investment in this movie is not high and not as good as the "Dragon Ball" theatrical version, it still cost a lot of money to produce.

How can you just give someone free prostitution?

…

It’s a new year again!

Along with happy New Year's greetings, the Wanbao Cup Go Junior Open has also come to an end.

The primary school group was no surprise.

A 10-year-old Ding Duan boy from China successfully won the national championship title, and in the middle school competition, the champion turned out to be a female chess player from Bingcheng.

This is surprising!

You must know that in the Go world, the number of female players is far less than that of male players. There are even fewer female players who can achieve results, let alone win the championship by defeating many male players.

Even Xiao Ke was shocked and called her "good guy, this is a rare Go genius girl!"

"How about it than Eagle-chan?"

"Yingjiang? You can pull her down! At her age, Yingjiang doesn't have such terrifying chess skills." Xiao Ke said with disdain.

Got it, Eagle Sauce Plus version!

Gu Miao nodded clearly, presented the awards to the two champions, and encouraged them to keep up their efforts and achieve greater success in the following world championships.

Then he came to Jiangchuan No. 3 Primary School.

This is the filming location for the animation "Martin's Morning" and the school scene of Martin, Lorna and Guo Mo in the animation.

The original version of "Mornings with Martin" was a Sino-French co-production, so it's hard to say whether the animation was filmed anywhere. Even if it was filmed, it would probably be in France.

But this is the Wanbao version...

Now that the producer has been changed and the animation "Martin's Morning" has become a purely domestic animation, the filming location naturally became Jiangchuan, and the school became Jiangchuan No. 3 Primary School.

The framing matter was actually completed a long time ago.

Gu Miao came here this time, on the one hand, to tell the school leaders to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings after the animation is broadcast.

On the other hand, he also came to school to find a suitable voice actor for the animation "Martin's Morning".

In the animation, in addition to the fixed iron triangle of Martin, Guo Mo and Luo Na, there are also several equally interesting supporting characters, such as the head teacher, Teacher Dong, the dean of students, Director Ge, Principal Gao, etc.

Teacher Dong already has a voice candidate.

But for the roles of Director Ge and Principal Gao, the animation production team did not hire professional voice actors, but they did not produce the effects that "dean" and "principal" should have.

Then, Gu Miao came up with an extremely bold idea.

Since it is difficult for professional voice actors to achieve perfect effects, why not let real deans and principals dub animations?

So here he is.

When he expressed his intention, the principal and director looked at each other.

Let them dub animations?

No!

They don't have much experience in dubbing. It's okay if you ask them to train students, but if you ask them to dub animations, isn't that deliberately making things difficult for others?

"You don't need to deliberately learn any skills. As long as you keep your usual work style, you don't even need to memorize your lines. You can just play as you like."

Gu Miao smiled and said, "Just pretend that in reality, there really is a student like Martin."

Acting in true colors?

When the principal and dean heard this, they thought it was quite interesting. Since they were acting in their true colors, it seemed like they couldn't do it too?

What's more, what a rare experience it is to participate in animation dubbing work? The reason why they hesitate is because they are worried about their lack of ability.

"Okay, we agree."

After securing the principal and dean of the third primary school, the dubbing team of the animation "Martin's Morning" welcomed two heavyweight guests.

Other voice actors have real-life identities that have nothing to do with animated characters, and they rely solely on their skills and abilities to dub.

Only the two characters of "Principal Gao" and "Director Ge" have the same identity on and off the screen. They play their true colors and their tone and tone of reprimanding the students are simply amazing.

After hearing this, Gu Miao called her an expert.

Yes, this is right!

As expected of a real principal and a real dean, the tone and accent of his words instantly made the animated character come to life.

Especially Director Ge.

While trying his best to please the current principal, he also secretly reports to his superiors in the hope of overthrowing the principal himself. The "double-faced man" attitude is truly worthy of life.

It doesn't look like an act. I suggest the principal check this dean after he gets back!

…

The production of "Martin's Morning" progressed very smoothly, and basically encountered no major obstacles.

Under Gu Miao's supervision, the animation has completed nearly 30 feature episodes, and it is expected that all content production for the first season will be completed before the Spring Festival holiday.

The speed can be said to be very fast.

However, this is a unit drama, and it is filled with a lot of dialogue, and there are no complicated fighting storyboards, so the production difficulty is not high.

certainly!

Another factor that contributed to the rapid progress of the production was the monotony of the characters in the scenes.

If there is no special identity or plot in Martin's Morning, then there are only a few scenes and characters that come and go.

Materials are shared.

As long as you complete the production of the first few episodes and accumulate a rich enough material library, it will be very simple to produce subsequent episodes.

It's like Tom and Jerry.

The early "Tom and Jerry" animation was very time-consuming and labor-intensive to produce, and it was not always possible to complete an episode in a week, because many materials did not have ready resources.

But the further you go, the faster the animation production progresses, because the material library is getting richer and richer, and there are fewer and fewer original materials.

for example.

When you first create Tom Cat, you need to draw various expressions and movements for it, which will be very time-consuming.

But in the later stage, the material library basically has ready-made accumulation of any action or expression of Tom Cat, so you can just use it directly.

This is why many animation companies claim that the company's material library is an "important asset."

This is definitely an asset!

With Wanbao's current material library accumulation, if it is shared with any small workshop, it is estimated that this small workshop can transform into a world-class animation production company.

Thanks to Wanbao's rich accumulation and the fact that "Martin's Morning" is indeed not complicated, animation production was quite easy.

Gu Miao was already thinking about how to broadcast it.

First of all, Red Crane Cartoon has been harassing him during this period, and he must give them a copy of the premiere. Secondly, his own Wanbao Video, in order to boost the stock price, he also needs to produce several high-quality exclusive animations.

There's no choice.

As for the TV platform, Red Crane Cartoon is the best choice. If no other TV station comes to compete, the first broadcast rights will definitely be given to Red Crane Cartoon.

The online platform is Wanbao Video.

It’s funny to say that a friend, Perak and Perak, actually wanted to come to Wanbao to buy the broadcast rights of several animations to enrich their animation copyright library.

This is the same as in the previous life, when Station B went to Penguin Animation to buy online literary-reformed national animation.

The key is, Penguin agreed!

Thunderbolt itself has shares in Penguin, which is barely a family member of Penguin Video, so they can buy the national animation produced by Penguin.

But what do they have to do with Wanbao?

Wanbao doesn't have any shares in Pili Pili, and Gu Miao is not his father, so why should he authorize the animation to them?

"Tell them to get lost."

Gu Miao shook her head and said: "Penguin owns their shares and is half a godson, so he is not afraid of competition. We don't hold any shares, we are still competitors. No matter how much money we give, we will not sell to them."

Not only will he not sell it, he will also use the high-quality exclusive IP in Wanbao's hands to further compress the living space of Pili and Pili, and attract all those two-dimensional users to Wanbao Video.

He also wants to be an uncle!

Who wouldn’t be greedy for the fat meat of the second dimension and the business of making a video website?

Wanbao Video is already the second largest website in China in terms of user base and number of VIP members after Penguin Video.

If we can take the opportunity to suppress Pili and Pili and absorb all those loyal 2D users, we might not be able to surpass Penguin Video and become the number one online video media platform in China.

From now on, there will be no Uncle Chen, but Uncle Gu!

Thinking of this, Gu Miao suddenly felt a little sad. He went from slandering his uncle to understanding him, and now he is almost becoming an uncle.

What does it mean that the butt decides the position?

Having said that, if he becomes the new uncle of the second dimension, won't a Mongolian top laner also appear to greet him kindly?

"Be on guard first..."

Regardless of whether this was possible, Gu Miao decided first to focus on all users with the "XX order" format on the Wanbao video website.

If there is such a sign, kill the top laner as soon as possible without giving him a chance to sneak attack on Uncle Gu.

Actually speaking...

With the rise of Wanbao Video, especially the broadcast of more and more high-quality exclusive animations, Pili, Pili and Pili are becoming increasingly unavailable.

Bankruptcy is a matter of time.

A certain B from the original time and space can also buy some new neon movies. Although the Holy Light is always deleted, it is better to watch it than not watch it.

But in this parallel world, Pili and Pili are miserable. Neon's new series doesn't have a share, Wanbao has bought all of it, and Guochuang Animation doesn't have a share either. Penguin and Wanbao share half of the country.

Desperate, they actually started making their own animations and invested in several animation studios, planning to make a desperate comeback.

Gu Miao was not optimistic about them.

This all-or-nothing approach is useless even if it succeeds. One or two hit animations cannot change the outcome of Pili and Pili's market share being gradually eroded by Wanbao.

If you fail, the consequences will be even worse.

Pili, Pili, has not yet been listed on the market. It is all burning investors' money. After all the money is burned, no results can be produced. What else can it do except go bankrupt?

"Actually, their best way to break the situation now is to merge into either Penguin or Wanbao."

Lao Zhang said with a smile: "With their current basic base, if we get it, we can catch up with Penguin and rank first. If Penguin gets it, it can completely suppress us."

"Indeed it is……"

Gu Miao thought for a while, frowned and said, "Send someone to contact them secretly and ask if they have any idea of ​​​​merging into Wanbao Video. You can retain a certain right to speak."

Thunderbolt Thunderbolt is not expensive now.

If you spend some money to win it over and make Wanbao Video become the largest online video platform in terms of domestic market share, it will be quite profitable.

The title of No. 1 is not just a mere name. If the acquisition is completed, he dare not imagine how high the stock price will rise.

Happy Mid-autumn Festival! Have you decided where to go during the holidays?