Chapter 196: Funding Problems
When Zhang Liang was still thinking about what gimmick this issue of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" was going to do, whether to let Ge Datie go on stage to twist and dance twice or something, it was estimated that it would become a topic of conversation or something. Shao Xiaomin came directly to his office, and then directly gave Zhang Liang three words: no money.
For a moment, Zhang Liang was stunned.
What do you mean by running out of money? What is running out of money?
And the reply was that the animation studio had no money!
In an instant, Zhang Liang was stunned again!
How can there be no money! There is a 10 million allotment! A whole 10 million! Not a thousand!
How could it be that there was no money so quickly?
It's only been a long time since it started, and it hasn't even been half a month!
10 million is gone? What the hell? Is there any mistake?
After Shao Xiaomin's explanation, Zhang Liang sat down on the chair in an instant, still looking at Shao Xiaomin in disbelief.
3D animation costs so much money, doesn't it?
And after asking Shao Xiaomin, I learned that even if it cost 10 million, "The Return of the Great Sage" was only about ten minutes of plot!
10 million and 10 minutes? Wouldn't that movie cost 100 million?
I'll it!
Oh my God!
At this moment, Zhang Liang finally knew why 3D animation was called a cancer, Nima turned out to be so expensive!
And all this is not because Zhang Liang thinks too ideally, how can the production cost of plane animation be the same as 3D animation, not to mention that the overall style of "Those Things About the Rabbit That Year" is relatively simple, so it is relatively cheap, and the personnel are relatively small, and the post-production is relatively small, and the cost is naturally a lot less, but now it is a big movie, and it is also a 3D animation movie!
The requirements of image quality inevitably require that each frame need to be finely produced, which is a rather exaggerated consumption, plus a variety of modeling and rendering, which is a large amount of manpower and material resources, not to mention the purchase of so many instruments and equipment, it is actually quite difficult for 10 million to last so long.
To be exact, it is not easy to do 10 million for ten minutes, and the fast spending is still because of Zhang Liang's pursuit of speed.
So, Zhang Liang hurriedly contacted Zhu Zaibao, naturally asking for more funds from above, it is impossible for Zhang Liang to pay for it himself, right?
But when Zhu Zaibao received a call from Zhang Liang and heard about it, he almost didn't answer it in one breath and hiccuped directly.
Aren't you playing an international joke on me?
At the beginning, I clearly asked how much money you wanted, and I still directly promised to help you apply for a penny, and now you tell me that there is no money?
And it's only been more than half a month! 10 million!
Do you use 10 million as firewood to generate electricity? Who spends it so fast as you?
The point is, you spent 10 million to make 10 minutes of content, this is a big movie, at least 90 minutes, right?
No way!
Not to mention the door, not even the window!
At the beginning, so many people told you that 3D animation is not feasible, but you insist on going your own way, I thought you were a little beep in your heart!
What do you tell me to do now?
This kind of thing is naturally impossible, how to say that this is an investment of 10 million!
But if it continues, what will happen to the funds? This is a big gap, this is not something that can be done with 10 million, and at this pace, at least tens of millions of funds will be needed to operate!
Replace it with flat animation?Give up the ten-minute plot of 10 million productions and re-produce it in a flat way, which will save a lot of overhead, but it will not achieve the 3D effect, the key is...... Zhang Liang doesn't know how to adapt this product at all! He's just a copyist!
Zhu Zaibao can only say that he will talk to the above again, and whether he can get the money can only depend on the will of God.
looked at the money in his card, the original more than 20 million plus the more than 20 million from the Xihang Satellite TV pit before, there are 40 million available funds, but I really don't know if this money is enough to invest in it, but it is naturally impossible for Zhang Liang to give up like this, so at present, I can only use it first!
And at this time,The changed script and so on on the neon side have also been sent to the Ministry of Culture,This "Journey to the West" has undergone a series of revisions,On the surface, it's just a story about Journey to the West.,Even the background of the Tang Dynasty was not brought in it.,It's already a kind of alternate history.,Since it's an alternate history,Naturally, there is no blackening of the statement.,The Ministry of Culture naturally can't use insinuation as an excuse to let people revise it.。
After all, many times, strict self-discipline is a Chinese characteristic, isn't it?
So,This neon animation with the coat of "showing favor to China",Finally successfully passed the review of the Ministry of Culture of China,Finally about to start their intensive production,For a country with such a developed animation industry,It's really hard to say how much time it takes for such a flat animation film,But the script and character design have already been completed.,It's just that because of the review problem, it hasn't passed.,Maybe part of it has already been produced.。
Therefore, it is estimated that this "Journey to the West" will appear in major theaters in China in a short time!
Neon is so urgent, and Zhang Liang has such a fork here, which really makes the Ministry of Culture popular!
In the end, they also had to allocate another 10 million, and this is the last support!
Moreover, if the production of the film cannot be completed under such circumstances, the Ministry of Culture may even start to severely punish Zhang Liang, which already has a feeling of fooling the country!
And after Zhu Zaibao gave Zhang Liang an allocation of 10 million this time, he naturally proposed to change this animation to a flat animation, so that the 10 million fund should be enough for the production of the film under such circumstances.
But......
Zhang Liang will not change on the one hand, the key is that do you think Huaxia's own flat animation can really fight with such a fierce and deliberately killed neon animation?
Besides, Zhang Liang is also a face-saving person, right?
So many people say that he does all kinds of 3D animation, and if he retreats at this time...... How will you look up in the future!
He also wants to save face!
After slapping so many people in the face, do you want to be slapped in the face this time?
Naturally, no!
Isn't it just money! 40 million plus 10 million, isn't 50 million not enough to make "The Return of the Great Sage"?
I really don't believe it!
And in the end, it turned out......
Well, it's not enough!21010