After the Shanhai Animation Festival, the heads of Penguin Animation Network, Station 8 and Shanhai Animation Studio met together, and strictly speaking, this was the first official meeting of the three jointly established film companies "Xizi Pictures" - the name is simply the name of the place.

Xizi Films, each of the three accounts for 30% of the shares, and the remaining 10% of the shares are individual shareholders, looking for bigwigs with distribution resources, and the voting rights of these bigwigs are all mandatory in Shanhai Animation Studio in accordance with the agreement, in other words, Shanhai Animation Studio still has the most voting rights in Xizi Pictures, but it does not absolutely control the votes.

After going through some procedures that had not been completed before, the real topic began, that is, the next project to be done by Xizi Pictures. It is true that it signed a five-year contract with Pixar for three works, but the purpose of Xizi Pictures is not only to cooperate with foreign film companies, but to make Huaxia animation by itself.

There are more companies making animated films in Huaxia, but compared to the growing film market in Huaxia as a whole, it is really better than nothing, for many reasons, strictly speaking, too much, in the final analysis, the money is too slow, after all, an animated film that is put into the film market to make money needs to invest too long, so long that many investors don't want to touch it. Without financial investment, it is even slower to make an animated film that requires a lot of investment in every frame, and it is completely stuck in a vicious circle.

That is, in recent years, with the rise of domestic animation, especially the rise of children's animation, there is a relatively high national IP, which can quickly pull funds or have its own funds and quickly make movies, even if the quality is average, but with IP influence, it can still make money.

In addition, the movies that have emerged over the years that can make money or have a good reputation have all been polished for a long time and have been almost given up several times due to lack of funds during the polishing process.

With the rapid growth of the two markets of Chinese animation and film, animation film practitioners do have a better creative environment than before, but there are also limited sincerity. Investment is still difficult to pull, difficult to pull down is not that it can't be pulled, but most of the things that can be pulled have a lot of requirements, and the control over the use of funds is also strict, in short, there are still great constraints. Of course, if you want to say the other way around, you think that Huaxia Animation Company's production capacity is not strong, so investors are not confident enough to forcibly intervene if it is not good, that also makes sense, after all, there is nothing that only one party has problems, and it has always been comprehensive.

This time, the three joint ventures to establish an animation film company, in addition to the combination of a big platform and Meng Fan's fame, but also because of the resources integrated by the Shanhai Animation Festival, two very important resources, one is talent, the other is capital, as for the content of the project, this is really not lacking.

Now there are so many projects in the meeting that there are so many how to choose!

With the integration of these multiple resources, it is definitely necessary for Xizi Pictures to choose a project that can get off to a good start, otherwise, it will have a great impact on the future.

In terms of the selection of the project, it must be for the box office and word of mouth, and after it is made, it is not a failure if one of the two can be accounted for. Of course, it would definitely be the best if it could achieve a double harvest at the box office and word of mouth, but it was not easy, let alone a newly established animated film company, even Pixar was not 100% sure.

For animated movies and even animation itself, although Chu Tiankuo learned this background, he is not proficient, so he mainly listens to the meeting, but his vision and aesthetics are there, he must grasp the last hurdle to make decisions, otherwise he will not be forced to have so many voting rights.

As for the movie itself, because the corresponding task has not been triggered so far, Meng Fan will definitely not spend time to study in depth, even if he has a strong learning ability, so he will not be too involved in the production process.

At the end of the meeting, two big IPs and an original comic were discussed as the final candidates, and then they all looked at Meng Fan.

"Lack of money?"

"Is there a shortage of people?"

"Since there is no shortage, let's do it all!"

Meng Fan made a bold decision: "Everyone is a senior or unique practitioner in this industry, and the advantages and disadvantages will actually come out in the production process. In a word, ask for money for money, ask for people to give people!"

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After the meeting, Meng Fan went to the imperial capital to participate in the final rehearsal of the Lantern Festival Gala, and then recorded it the next day - the recording of the CCTV Lantern Festival Gala.

Before that, he didn't go back to Hangzhou, and after staying at the imperial capital's house with Wu Tong for a day, he went to the training base, and Wu Tong also started the normal Forbidden City painting.

Soon after the Lantern Festival, it entered March of the Gregorian calendar, and Meng Fan, who had been resting for about half a year, was about to enter the athlete competition period again.

Before Meng Fan appeared at the training base, the first team members of the three teams of lifting and wrestling were basically in place, except for some who could not train in time due to injuries, Meng Fan still served as a coach during the training camp. In fact, as far as Meng Fan's current strength is concerned, as long as he maintains a competitive state in training, that is, the coach of the weightlifting team will be more anxious and want Meng Fan to produce a higher weight, and he doesn't know how to ask for it if he wants to ask for it in wrestling and judo, which is too invincible.

At the beginning of April, there were wrestling and judo Grand Prix and Masters, all the team members held their breath and wanted to achieve good results, and the wrestling center also set a goal, except for Meng Fan, strive to win at least five medals and two gold medals in other men's and women's classes.

This training camp lasted for half a month, time passed quickly, for Meng Fan, everything was fine, there were no hard requirements for his training and guidance time, and he was free to enter and leave - he could go to the imperial capital to meet Wu Tong at any time - the only uncomfortable nature was food, although the chef of the training base had changed his tricks and the taste was really good, but he still didn't eat well, and he drooled every time he thought of hot pot.

After returning to Hangzhou, Meng Fan became even busier, in addition to daily training and painting, he also had to take make-up exams every day - many school exams Meng Fan did not catch up, because of the status of national team athletes, the exams can be retaken at any time - and writing graduation thesis, as for the graduation exhibition, Meng Fan has no mind and time to do it.

In addition, as soon as you have time, you will go to Xizi Cultural and Creative Park to wander around, because of the entry of Xizi Pictures, coupled with the influence of the Shanhai Animation Festival, the current Xizi Cultural and Creative Park is completely full, and even the area that is still expanding has basically been booked, and it has firmly established the position of the first brother of Hangcheng Cultural and Creative Park.

The progress of the three animated films, Meng Fan has been paying attention to.