My Animation Era

The initial allocation budget is as high as 100 million. This does not include the additional investment in post-production and publicity. The total may be 150 million.

Such a big move made Gu Miao couldn't help but panic.

even though……

Hou Bin has repeatedly said that the reason for spending more money is because there are many animation episodes. An animation with more than 100 episodes will definitely cost more than an animation with more than 50 episodes.

In fact, based on the average price, the production cost of a single episode is only RMB 600,000 to 700,000, which is not particularly outrageous...

But it couldn't support the large number of episodes, so the total budget seemed very high, even exceeding nine figures.

"It won't be three-body, right?"

Gu Miao had a black line on his forehead. When he thought about a certain animation that claimed to have invested over 200 million, but turned out to be a piece of shit, he immediately felt bad.

Don't blame him for his random thoughts.

The main reason is that there are too many similar cases. Those animations that have no content to talk about and can only use billions of investment as a gimmick to attract audiences are all scum in all likelihood.

"Don't worry, I won't do that."

Hou Bin knew what Mr. Gu meant and made it clear that he would not use "investing over 100 million" as a publicity stunt, nor would he live up to the company's trust in him.

Gu Miao was still reassured by his guarantee. At least he felt that with Hou Bin's character and quality, he should not be able to make a "billion-yuan" stool.

Moreover, the applications were approved.

It is impossible to regret. Not only can we not regret, but we must also fully support Hou Bin to prevent this 100 million investment from being wasted.

After returning from southern Hunan, Gu Miao held a meeting to confirm that Wanbao would use "Magic Chef Little Fugui" as its core work this year, and asked all departments of the company to do their best to cooperate with Hou Bin.

The animation production team is composed of core members drawn from Wolfsburg Studio, Konjac Studio, and Lightning Studio.

Quite a luxurious lineup!

Not only is the production team very luxurious, but based on the successful experience of "Super Beast Arms", the production of "Master Chef Xiao Fugui" will also adopt a similar method to form a "Galactic Battleship" level screenwriting team.

The money was given and the people were in place.

The only suspense is probably that the animation production cycle is based on years or months?

"Let's do it for one year!"

Gu Miao pondered: "After all, the investment is so large, it is really not appropriate for the construction period to be too short. But it is not suitable for it to be too long. This is not "Tom and Jerry", right?"

One year is just the right amount of time.

Taking a year to create an animation, coupled with a huge investment of 100 million, "Master Chef Xiao Fugui" is indeed worth looking forward to.

"By the way, what's going on at Lightning Studio?"

Gu Miao looked at Lao Zhang curiously: "Hou Bin went to borrow manpower, and other studios readily agreed. Why does Lightning Studio need to delay for a few more days?"

"The reason they gave is that the new work has not been completed yet, and now is a critical period, so the core staff cannot be mobilized for the time being." Lao Zhang explained.

"New work? Oh yes..."

"I remember, they are working on that animation about four-wheel drive vehicles, right?" Gu Miao slapped her forehead and suddenly thought about it.

"Four Drivers Brothers"!

This is the new work of Lightning Studio to replace the "Lightning Rush" series, and it is also their bold attempt to rejuvenate the game.

The Leisuden series is lonely.

The fourth season of the animation died suddenly, and the remote control car was unsaleable. Lightning Studio has had a difficult time in the past two years and urgently needs to find a new way out.

Under Gu Miao's guidance, they chose to use "four-wheel drive vehicles" as a breakthrough point and went all out to produce the animation "Four-wheel drive Brothers" in an attempt to bring children back into the arms of Lightning Studio.

At first, people like Ma Kui Lao He expressed strong protest at the conference because of the name "Four Drivers Brothers", believing that Lightning Studio was "blaspheming" the company's executives and disrespecting them.

Thanks to Gu Miao's support and persistence, otherwise the animation "Four Drivers Brothers" would have been aborted long ago because the name alluded to its own executives.

"The animation is almost finished!"

Seeing that Mr. Gu was very curious, Lao Zhang immediately introduced him to the latest progress of the "Four Wheel Brothers" project.

According to Lao Zhang, the animated "Brothers of Four Drivers" project has been the core and most important project of Lightning Studio from the establishment of the plan to the present, and it is also the project with the largest investment.

There are more than 100 people in Lightning Studio, all working hard for this project.

no way!

Wanbao Animation is a big family. Under the head of the family, Mr. Gu, there are many children.

The brothers and sisters all strive to do their best, and their old father Mr. Gu also loves them very much. At the end of each year, his father gives them more lucky money than the other brothers and sisters.

Lightning Studio is the fringe kid with the least sense of existence and the least potential in the big family of Wanbao. Not only is he not favored by his old father, but he also gets less New Year's money at the end of the year than his other brothers and sisters.

If you don’t steam the steamed buns, you’ll lose your reputation!

Lightning Studio is ambitious and unwilling to lag behind its brothers and sisters. It also wants to receive more year-end bonuses so that Mr. Gu can take care of them and pamper them more.

So they need "4WD Brothers" and a new animated series to prove themselves...

Facts have proved that the year-end bonus is very delicious!

For the year-end award, the energy unleashed by these fringe guys at Lightning Studio cannot be underestimated. The completion of the animation "Four Wheel Brothers" is very gratifying.

At least that's what the sample looks like.

The sample film Gu Miao got was a rough cut, without soundtrack and dubbing, but even so, the animation still looked good, making him excited to watch it.

The story is actually not complicated.

The protagonists, the Liehao brothers, got a basic mini four-wheel drive vehicle from the doctor, the Charge God of War and the Sonic War God of the God of War series.

Then the Liehao brothers modified the car to make it grow continuously, and competed against many mini four-wheel drive drivers in the competition...

A very orthodox "kingly" plot.

The animation of "Wangdao Passion" is basically this way. In addition to the growth and transformation of the Liehao brothers, the animation mainly describes various passionate and adrenaline-filled four-wheel drive races.

It's pretty good in this regard...

To put it bluntly, the four-wheel drive competition is not as competitive as a remote control car!

After all, remote control cars also have the "player control" aspect. Four-wheel drive cars are completely uncontrollable. It stands to reason that the viewing and competitiveness of the game are not as good as that of remote control cars.

But Gu Miao was very satisfied with Lightning Studio's handling of the competition process.

In the animation plot, he can feel that the Charge God of War and the Sonic War God are no longer just a simple four-wheel drive vehicle, but a partner of flesh and blood.

That's right!

His first impression after watching the animation was that the two racing cars, Charge War God and Sonic War God, although they cannot speak, are also important "characters" that promote the development of the plot.

This is different from the Raisuden series.

The Leisuden series is mainly about the friendship between players. Although there is an abnormal setting of "the integration of man and car", the relationship between man and car is not reflected.

As for the four-wheel drive series, it can be seen from the plot that it is about the spiritual bond between the players and the racing cars. The racing cars are the most important partners of the Liehao brothers!