"Got it......"

Liu Jian, who served as the painting supervisor of this small animation studio set up by Chu Yu and Huang Ming, finally had an intuitive impression of what kind of quality and style Chu Yu wanted to achieve for the two works of Five Centimeters per Second and Voice of the Stars after Chu Yu took out the colored sketches he had drawn and listened to Chu Yu's explanation.

At this time, most of the people in the studio ran over to surround the two, they were all industry professionals, and after roughly understanding Chu Yu's request, they didn't feel that Chu Yu's request was too excessive.

It's just that......

Liu Jian frowned and looked at Chu Yu.

"It's not difficult to just make the animation picture more beautiful, the main thing is to find excellent, experienced and reliable artists and post-production personnel, Huang Ming and we know a lot of people like that in the industry, but the problem is ........."

"What's the problem?" Chu Yu asked.

In the parallel world, the second five can be successful, in addition to the excellent plot, the biggest highlight is the exquisite picture, and the reason why the voice of the star is not obvious in Makoto Shinkai's work is also because the picture is too scummy.

Animation is a thing, the plot is as important as the picture, if Chu Yu really wants to make these two works popular in the Dragon Kingdom, then it must be controlled well at the level of the picture.

"The question is. ”

"You have to add money........ Liu Jian looked at Chu Yu.

"If you pursue quality in animation, manpower is never the first priority, budget is the ......"

"If the two works want to meet the requirements of such a boss as a whole, even if we can make the excellent artists we find appropriately less in remuneration, but according to Huang Ming's predetermined allocation of funds, I think the investment in painting is still not enough......." Liu Jian spoke very directly, regardless of Huang Ming standing next to him.

"That's it!" Chu Yu frowned.

Chu Yu thought for a while, and then ran to another room with Huang Ming to discuss the matter.

"Brother Huang, how do you think this matter is handled?" Chu Yu asked directly.

"It's something that is inevitable in animation. Huang Ming sighed.

"Anyway, the quality and budget of the work,It's two things that are directly proportional.,I also understood your previous requirements for this work.,Indeed,In terms of the market of the magic capital,Want to keep these two works,Nearly an hour and a half of animation together,It's really difficult to achieve it with our budget......."

"It's just that it's no problem to make half of the pictures meet the requirements, but when the time comes, some important pictures will be invested in fine production, and some unimportant pictures will sacrifice the picture to save some budget. Huang Ming looked at Chu Yu and said.

Chu Yu nodded when he heard this, animation production is basically like this, Makoto Shinkai in the parallel world spent millions to make five centimeters per second, which does not mean that Chu Yu can also spend the same amount of money to produce it.

Not to mention anything else, I don't know how much money I saved for the project just because of my ability to manage the team and my ability to wear multiple hats.

Although the animation production team formed by Huang Ming seems to be really good now, it is obviously not up to the level of Makoto Shinkai's team in the parallel world, since in this case, Chu Yu still wants to require the picture quality to reach the same level of effect, and there is no other way than to increase the budget.

It's just that since Chu Yu did it, he was definitely not ready to do it casually.

"Then how much additional budget do you need to achieve the effect I requested?" asked Chu Yu.

"At least more than a million!" Huang Ming thought for a while.

"If we do that, we might end up investing five million. ”

Huang Ming said slowly.

This is still the reason why the remuneration he asked for from these old friends in the past is not very high, and Huang Ming has found a lot of paintings through his connections, and the leadership of the outsourcing company in the later period is familiar with him, and the asking price is also low, otherwise if someone else goes, people will definitely ask for a sky-high price.

"Then let's do it!" Chu Yu looked at Huang Ming.

"All the publicity and distribution expenses we originally planned were put into the animation production!"

"What about Xuanfa?" Huang Ming frowned.

For a work, publicity is very important, good publicity can push a garbage work into a popular work, on the contrary, it is common for excellent works to be ignored because the publicity is not in place.

Although the budget for the publicity and distribution of these two works is less than one million, it is better than nothing.

"It's only the end of July, and there are still five months left before the scheduled broadcast date in December, haven't I recently serialized the comic book Initial D? Based on its remuneration, the half-year manuscript fee will be about one million after deducting taxes, so use the money to make up for it when the time comes!" Chu Yu said.

"And my Natsume friend's account has been serialized for nearly nine months.,According to the length, it's estimated that a single book or an animation adaptation or something will be soon.,Maybe there will be an unexpected income at that time.,No matter how bad it is, I still have a house in my hometown of Los Angeles.,Although it's old.,Hundreds of thousands of dollars can still be mortgaged.,If there's still a lot of money, I'll mortgage it first.,Save a few months of comic manuscript fees and then redeem it.,At most, pay some interest to the bank.。 Counting our previous cost of 3.6 million, which is only a budget of 5 million, I think I can still squeeze it out by gritting my teeth and squeezing it......"

Huang Ming, who was just listening to Chu Yu's settling accounts next to him, looked strange, and finally couldn't help it after hearing Chu Yu's sigh.

"You sigh a yarn, I haven't had five million assets after working hard in the magic capital for so many years, what if you fill the gap of your millions of funds in a few months?"

After Huang Ming complained, he thought about it and added one more sentence.

"At that time, the money will not be enough, and we will increase the additional budget in various proportions, and the agreed sharing ratio will not change anyway. ”

"That's okay!" Chu Yu said there was no problem.

"It's just, Brother Chu, if you do this, it means that you may invest all the assets on your body now, aren't you afraid?" Huang Ming looked at Chu Yu.

"What are you afraid of?" Chu Yu asked rhetorically.

"Aren't you afraid that you will lose all your money when the time comes?"

"I'm afraid that these two works are not popular, as for the loss of money caused by this, then I think it doesn't matter, you can make more money when the money is gone, this work is not popular......" Chu Yu's words stopped at the right time.

"What will happen?" Huang Ming looked at Chu Yu strangely.

So where do I go to earn rewards?

It's just that Chu Yu definitely can't explain to Huang Ming, otherwise Chu Yu wouldn't have invested all the money on his body into animation production.

Even a little improvement in quality may be the key to whether these two works will earn him system rewards at that time.

......

It's just that when Chu Yu was busy with all kinds of things, this week, the major comic clubs in the magic capital almost as if they had been discussed, launched more than a dozen comics about racing, and in the face of this situation, the entire Xuan Turtle became nervous.

For such a situation, Xuan Turtle has long expected it, after all, before the initial D, there are no decent racing comics in the entire Dragon Kingdom comic market, so for this theme, the degree of excavation is not high.

But in the past month or so, the popularity of the initial D has been obvious to all, from the popularity of the first and second episodes, to the comic clubs aware of the huge potential of this theme, comics create new racing comics, submit, and arrange serialization and printing in various comic clubs, which is basically this time process.

It's just that more than a dozen works with the same heart were published at once, which is indeed a bit unexpected......... Although the other seven of the magic capital did not make the same choice rashly, if the racing comics of these small and medium-sized comic clubs also achieved good results, it was obvious that the other six of the seven magic cities would naturally not let go of this theme.

And the promotional posters of some of these comics are directly marked with words like beyond the initial D, and the plot is also similar to the plot of the mountain road, and for a while, many comic fans of the initial D were also attracted.

At least judging from the results of the first phase of these works, the response is not bad.

Because of this, Li Xi has been a little upset in the past few days.

Chu Yu saw her frowning brows when she came to pick up the comics, and from the fact that Lin Fan and He Sheng were also talking and worrying about the same thing in the past few days, they could also guess what Li Xi was worried about.

So he took the initiative to bring up the topic.

"Li Xi, you don't have to worry about what impact those works that follow the trend will have on the initial D. ”

"How can you not be worried!" Li Xi sighed.

"I understand that with the strength of those small and medium-sized comic book club cartoonists, the quality of their works will definitely not reach the height of the initial D, but what I'm worried about is that when the time comes, several other big comic companies in the magic capital will see the potential of this theme and come in together to stir up the situation, if that's the case, even if the plot of the initial D is exciting, I'm afraid it will attract a lot of popularity. ”

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