Chapter 402: Saint Seiya
"What, let me make a cartoon?" Yang Ming couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
"I can't help it, now among all the programs of our TV station, the "Animation World" program at six o'clock is relatively weak. Wu Yuanzhi said with a frown.
In the past few days, as Phoenix TV has become more and more popular, more and more people have watched it, and some issues that were not paid much attention to before have now been infinitely magnified, and some people have been picked on and brought to the media to talk about things.
The programs that Yang Ming dug up from well-known hosts were all ideas that he copied from those classic programs in his previous life, even if there was a problem, it was not a big deal, at most, it was just that everyone had different tastes.
However, compared with other columns with their own characteristics, the cartoons of the six o'clock file are indeed a lot of problems.
At that time, Phoenix TV was in a hurry, whether it was Yang Ming and Wu Yuanzhi, they didn't take into account the cartoon, Wu Yuanzhi's idea was that cartoons were also a niche in the niche anyway, and when the time came, she just bought a cartoon to broadcast the emergency first, so she didn't remind Yang Ming that she spent a suitable price from elsewhere and bought a cartoon "Forest Lion".
However, with the popularity of Phoenix TV and its increasing influence, this slightly shoddy cartoon has been criticized by people from all walks of life.
Originally, this was not a big deal, and even the cartoons of some other TV stations were not as good as Phoenix TV, but there was no way, who called Phoenix TV too strong now!
Listening to Wu Yuanzhi's narration, Yang Ming rubbed his eyebrows, to be honest, he really didn't notice this at that time, after all, he paid attention and energy to those very influential columns at that time, and really didn't notice the cartoon.
He really didn't expect that this flaw would also be used by people with ulterior motives, as for these people, Yang Ming didn't have to think about it, he knew that they must be those veteran TV stations that were poached.
No one but them would take advantage of this to attack Phoenix TV.
Now that Phoenix TV has an unstable foothold, it still needs time to consolidate its position, and it can't make any mistakes!
"Sister Wu, don't worry, I'll take care of the matter, and I'll give you a new cartoon in a week!" Yang Ming said fiercely, since those TV stations don't give up, then he can only make a big move.
"Okay!" Wu Yuanzhi breathed a sigh of relief.
Hanging up the phone, Yang Ming immediately began to make a phone call to Liu Xinsheng, Sister Zhu, and Ma Yun respectively, asking them to find an animation production company suitable for acquisition.
The animation industry is also part of his plan, originally he didn't want to start so soon, but there have been too many changes during this time, and now he has to start getting involved in animation early.
In fact, Yang Ming can also find an animation company to pay for the production of zuò cartoons, but now he directly buys an animation company in one step and does it himself.
At present, in the animation industry in China, except for those old and large animation companies that are profitable, most of the other animation companies are mainly loss-making. There is no way, the animation market in China is too small.
The next day, Yang Ming hurriedly went to the airport early in the morning to pick up the master and the two senior brothers and sent them back to their place, and immediately went to the company to discuss which animation company to acquire.
After a short meeting decision, Yang Ming immediately made a decision to acquire an animation company named Ma Liang.
This animation company is also a well-known animation company in China, the scale is not too large, but it has been losing money year after year, and now it is on the verge of bankruptcy, and the boss of Maleonn Animation Company has long wanted to get rid of it, but no one is willing to accept it.
Therefore, when Yang Ming saw the details of this company, he immediately decided to acquire this company.
In addition to the advantages of this company's small but well-equipped facilities, another point is that the company's animation works all have strong Chinese style characteristics, which makes Yang Ming very satisfied.
You must know that many classic animation works in Yang Ming's mind are foreign, and they need to be transformed into animation works suitable for the Chinese background of today's world.
Yang Ming asked Liu Xinsheng to handle the acquisition of Maleonn Animation, and now he has to consider which classic cartoon to make.
Sometimes it's a nuisance to have too many things to choose from.
Yang Ming sat in the office, wrote and drew on paper, and began to analyze the classic features in his mind, which cartoon to choose.
"Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf"? This cartoon can be called the most profitable and successful cartoon in domestic cartoons, but I don't know why Yang Ming doesn't want to take out this cartoon so early for the time being.
It's not reluctant, it's not that the style doesn't match, it can be said that this cartoon doesn't need any changes, and it can be directly taken to the cartoon of this world.
However, Yang Ming didn't know why, and he couldn't make up his mind to choose this cartoon.
After thinking about it, he felt that maybe it was probably the reason why this cartoon was not his favorite cartoon when he was a child!
"Saint Seiya"!
Yang Ming wrote these big words vigorously on the paper, this is the favorite of their generation in their childhood, and no cartoon can replace the status of this cartoon in his mind!
Even "Dragon Ball", "One Piece", "Slam Dunk", "Detective Conan", "Crayon Shin-chan", "Doraemon", etc.
After thinking about it in his mind, he had to admit the fact that those classic anime in the previous life were basically all small Japanese, but in this life, they will be regarded as Chinese!
Let's start with Saint Seiya!
Because Japanese culture was born out of China, and this cartoon is mainly based on Greek mythology, there are relatively few things that need to be changed, and they can basically be copied.
As soon as Yang Ming thought of "Saint Seiya", a cartoon that he had been watching every day as a child, he suddenly became excited, and he immediately picked up the pen and began to write the plot.
Liu Xinsheng's acquisition was very fast, and it only took 1 day to deal with all kinds of things.
The boss of Maleonn Animation intends to get rid of it, but Yang Ming is not bad for money, and he offered a price of 23 million for that boss, directly erased the fraction, and made a lightning deal at a price of 20 million.
When the employees of Maleonn Animation came to work the next day, they found that their company's signboard had been replaced by the signboard of Oriental Animation, and some people even thought that they had entered the wrong company!
Oriental Animation is also in Yanjing, and when the acquisition was completed, Yang Ming came to this company, which already belonged to him, with the plot of "Saint Seiya", and held the first meeting.
When he printed out the script of "Saint Seiya" and sent it to the elites of the original Maleonn anime present, after a while, the elites who read part of the script became excited and breathed harder!
"Boss, this anime script is so creative, especially the tricks in it are so attractive!" said a man with thick glasses standing up and foaming at the mouth.
Yang Ming glanced up at the glasses man with a smile on his face, and knew that this glasses man who looked a little homely was called Lian Xingyu, who was the chief painter of the original Maleonn Animation.
In fact, the foundation of Maleonn animation is not bad, and the animation painting style is also unique in China.
If it is operated properly, it will never be on the verge of bankruptcy at a loss, which also shows how incompetent the former executives of the animation company were in charge of business development.
Therefore, after taking over the animation company, Yang Ming resigned all the senior executives in charge of business operations, and asked Liu Xinsheng to re-recruit suitable personnel, as for all technical personnel, he retained all of them, and his salary increased by 10%.
"Everyone!" Yang Ming knocked on the table, coughed lightly, and said: "I myself am a director, and the script is what I am good at, now that you recognize this script, then the next thing will be handed over to everyone here, I hope you can produce a classic animation work!"
"Mr. Yang, you can rest assured, with your idea, as well as the draft drawing, if we don't do it well, all of us will simply commit suicide together, we can't afford to lose this person!" Lian Xingyu pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said very seriously, and after finishing speaking, he also asked loudly to the people around him: "What do you think?"
"Lian Gong is right, if this can't be done well, we will hit the tofu headlong and die!"
"That's it, that's it, if that's the case, we'll have to put our heads in the crotch of our pants in the future......!"
All the technicians present in the conference room shouted very seriously, Yang Ming saw this scene, and slowly put his mind at ease, he was afraid that because of the previous failures of Ma Liang Company, these technicians would lose confidence or be perfunctory, and now it seems that the military heart is available!
Immediately, Yang Ming also devoted himself to the discussion of the plot and the design of the character image.
Because he already had a very complete picture of each character in his mind, he didn't waste time, he directly drew the general image of each character, and wrote out the character requirements of each character one by one, so that the technicians could perfect the fullness.
For two days, Yang Ming was eating and drinking at the newly acquired Oriental Animation Company, discussing the details of "Saint Seiya" with the staff.
Even the procedures for borrowing from the Redwood Fund were handled by Manager Cao with the contract, and after getting the money, Yang Ming asked Chen Yongjun to acquire Donghai Cinema Line.
As for Phoenix TV, Oriental Company, and Popcorn Network, they are all developing according to the plan, and there are no major matters that Yang Ming needs to deal with personally, but "Liu Laogen" cooperated by Oriental DreamWorks and Zhao Laoyan is also about to be filmed and will be broadcast on Northeast TV.
Now with Phoenix TV, this alternative network TV station communication channel that completely belongs to Yang Ming, whether it is Zhao Laoyan or Wang Qidong, they are no longer worried about their cooperation with Oriental DreamWorks Star Studio.
Because, Phoenix TV is too popular now, especially in terms of popularity on the Internet, which completely crushes all other TV stations in Huaxia, and the number of viewers of Phoenix TV on the Internet has risen wildly to the point that it is impossible to ignore in just two weeks.
In addition, the number of subscribers of the network telecommunications company is also increasing rapidly, and the number of viewers on the cable TV side of Phoenix TV is also increasing.
It can be said that the ban on Oriental DreamWorks by those first-line TV stations is just a joke.
At this time, Yang Ming forgot to sleep and eat in the animation company for a week, and a group of technicians rushed to produce it day and night, and finally gave the first five episodes of "Saint Seiya" to the production, and he immediately called Wu Yuanzhi and immediately prepared to start playing.