987, Tinker Bell Studio
After Tang Shuang returned to Yuezhou from the magic capital, he immediately came to the apprentice entertainment company. Peng Lei, the head of the film and television department, told him that he had found a suitable studio acquisition target.
Tang Shuang wants to buy an art studio to create Doraemon comics. I had previously entrusted the film and television department of Apprentice Entertainment to help find a suitable target, and now I finally found it.
This company is in Guangdong, is a small company, 20 people, the average age of 27 years old, belongs to a relatively young people, originally 3 young men co-founded, worked for 5 years, can not continue.
The Chinese comics and animation industry has always been sluggish, and if pure comic companies want to survive, they must find another way, otherwise it will be difficult to operate healthily.
The three young men who started the business originally persevered for 5 years with enthusiasm and spent all their belongings, but now they are unsustainable and have to find a rich man to take over.
Peng Lei prepared a lot of materials, some of which were provided by the studio itself, and some of which were investigated and analyzed by the company itself, giving a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to the current situation of the studio.
Tang Shuang quickly flipped through the materials. This studio had a net loss of 3 million last year, 2.6 million the year before last, 3.5 million the year before last, 1.2 million the year before last, and 800,000 in the first year.
I haven't made a profit, I've been losing!
He took a closer look at the studio's works over the years, there are five in total, but there is really a market and only one of them, called "Pony Galloping", which has been serialized since the previous year and is still being serialized.
It was because of this comic that the management team of the studio continued to hold on for two years, otherwise it might have changed hands or closed two years earlier.
But the profit generated by "Pony Galloping" was not enough to turn the studio into a profit, and it was precisely because there was no possibility of profitability that the management team had to make the final choice.
When Apprentice Entertainment came to the door, the other party did not hesitate much, and chose to be willing to transfer, just waiting for the price to be negotiated.
Peng Lei thought very thoughtfully, and specially bought this year's "Pony Galloping" comics. Tang Shuang flipped through it, it was not bad, but it was limited to a story that was not bad, decent, and this pony was quite cute.
Tang Shuang said: "I saw that these three owners are also cartoonists themselves, and two of them are also the creators of "Pony Galloping", and if the studio is transferred, I need them to stay." ”
In these 5 works, there are basically the names of these three people, which shows that these three people are the soul of this studio.
Peng Lei said: "I asked them formally about this, but they didn't give a positive answer, and they need to look at the future development plan after the studio is acquired before they can make a choice." ”
When Tang Shuang heard this, he roughly understood that the other party actually didn't want to leave, probably because the entrepreneurial experience exhausted them.
"5 million for the price? Make an appointment and I'll talk to them face to face. Tang Shuang said that he had no opinion on 5 million, but he wanted to persuade the three members of the management team to stay.
In the afternoon of the same day, Tang Shuang and Peng Lei met with the other three of them. Tang Shuang verbally talked about his follow-up development ideas for the studio, and the other party was very interested in Tang Shuang's "Tinker Bell" comics, holding the drafts of the first three episodes he brought and reading them over and over again, amazed and loved.
The three of them happily agreed to stay and show off their talents.
Next, the three of them took Tang Shuang to visit the studio, which is a private house located in the old town of Yuezhou, which is very old and old, but the inside is decorated and whitewashed, simple and bright, and very modern.
"It's actually in a good location, it's convenient, and it's quiet! It's like living in the country, but you can enjoy the convenience of a big city. The other party introduced.
The day after he went back, Tang Shuang bought this studio in the name of Candy Capital and directly renamed it "Tinker Bell", and the logo was Blue Fatty.
No matter what classic comics the studio will create in the future, Tinker Bell will be the most important one.
The studio has been bought, so the next thing to do is to draw the first dozens of episodes of Tinker Bell comics as soon as possible.
Candy, this little piggy, is lazy from time to time!
Usually when she doesn't care about her, she often shouts to paint, but when she is asked to paint seriously, she grinds foreign work, sticks to Tang Shuang to chat, or holds the doll to chat, or watches TV, or sleeps, but she just refuses to work hard.
Tang Shuang took her to the Guangdong branch of the National Art Examination for this reason, and the scene of thousands of people painting nervously in the hall was very shocking, not to mention the little person Candy.
She looked stupid.
It was the first time I saw so many people painting together, and there were so many people, but no one spoke, and they were all busy nervously and quietly.
That tense atmosphere, even if she was a child, felt it deeply.
Tang Shuang took her inside for 5 minutes before leaving.
"Come, tell me how you feel. Tang Shuang asked.
Candy's eyes widened, and she said nervously: "The Lun family's heavens, do you have to take the exam to draw and draw? The exam is not fun! The Lun family's heaven~"
"How can you get into college without exams? Tell you, there are 1,400 people in this exam room today, which is more than all the children in your kindergarten class, middle class, and small class combined. ”
"So much?!" Candy asked in shock.
"That's right, that's it, please close your little mouth, okay? ”
Candy immediately supported her little chin with her little hand, closed her small mouth that had opened inadvertently, and whined sullenly.
Tang Shuang: "...... You can open your mouth when you speak!You really, how can you talk without opening your mouth?!"
"You are really Xiaoshuang, you were the one who made the Lun family close their little mouths, and now they say that the Lun family will not open their small mouths, where did the Lun family's small mouths provoke you~ Really!"
"I won't talk to you, what I'm going to tell you is that there are 1,400 brothers and sisters here, but there are less than 400 of them who can be admitted to university and continue to learn to paint, you know? There are more than 1,000 people who are going to be eliminated and can't draw. ”
"Why, why do you want to draw, you can paint, you can draw candy, you can draw if you don't want to paint, you can sleep. ”
Because you're a piggy!
"Because not everyone has such conditions as you, you have to be content, you know? Now there is such a good opportunity in front of you, let you participate in the production of Tinker Bell's comics, just like the green cabbage essence, you don't cherish it well, and you are always deserting, lazy, grinding foreign workers, for a while this thing, a moment of that thing, I will ask you, can you be serious. If you are half serious with these brothers and sisters in today's exam, you will be a genius beautiful girl. ”
"The Lun family, the Lun family is now a genius beautiful girl~" Candy Er said vigorously, the honor that should be fought for must be fought for.
"You have it, genius and beautiful girls are very hardworking, are you industrious? You are not industrious, you are lazy, you are a lazy sheep. If you are not good like this, you will fall, you will sink, you will become a bad boy. I'm taking you to see you today to show you that if you don't draw me the story of Tinker Bell and Bear going fishing tomorrow, I won't let you participate in Tinker Bell's drawing, I'll find someone else to draw and expel you. ”
When Candy heard this, her eyes rolled and she said suspiciously: "You scare the child." ”
"I didn't scare the child, I did what I said, you must not underestimate my determination, I don't want to indulge you anymore, connivance is a crime, I don't want our little pig to go to jail. ”
Candy didn't believe that Frost would fire her, but it seemed like he would.
The little guy covered his little head, tilted his head, made a headache, and shouted: "Ah-don't scream, Xiaoshuang~"
Tinker Bell is hers, and you can't draw Tinker Bell without her.
But she wanted to draw a little bit and play for a while, and she didn't want to paint all the time.
Tang Shuang seemed to have figured out the psychology of this little person, did not give her any room for bargaining, and said: "You can not answer now, I see your actual actions, if you don't finish painting Tinker Bell and Little Bear to go fishing tomorrow, then you will be expelled, Tinker Bell will no longer have anything to do with you, I will give it to other people to paint, you can go to kindergarten with peace of mind." ”