Chapter 360: The Heavenly Empire
Wang Ming left with regrets.
Yue Qianming did not see her off, although she would meet at school after a while, she would still feel lonely. Shaking his head, he secretly said: "Everyone is still young now, if there is really fate, they will definitely come together in the future." β
Boarding the plane, Wang Ming and Dongfang Ming sat together, and the two began to discuss the next problems.
This time I went to the capital, and there were not many people who followed, and most of them would return to the demon capital after the company stabilized, so the first thing at the end of the company's site selection was recruitment. Now Wang Ming is not short of money, what he lacks is talents from all walks of life, which can only rely on a little bit of accumulation, and he can't be in a hurry.
The two laymen had just discussed for a long time, and they fell into a point where they had nothing to talk about, looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and Wang Ming turned the topic to anime.
"How many submissions has the company received recently?"
Station B has become the favorite two-dimensional website of young people across the country, since the popularity of "Fate zero" in March, Station B has become the first choice of many animation companies, and it will receive contributions from animation companies all over the country every day. The level of these submissions is uneven, including children's films, educational films, war films and many other works.
No matter how good or bad the film is, as long as it doesn't go online, Wang Ming doesn't mind accepting it. The audience agrees with the animation produced by station B, not the animation of station B, even if there are many bad movies, the website doesn't need to pay anything, but can make a lot of money. Station B sets the same standard for all animations,The download fee is three or seven cents,The reward fee is eighty-two cents,Animation companies need to pay 1 to 100,000 yuan for each episode uploaded.
It stands to reason that the website should pay the animation company copyright fees for the introduction of animation, but when it came to Wang Ming's B station, it became the animation company to pay money to the website, although the cost was not much, but the money was not blown by the wind, so I was naturally distressed.
Even if they feel distressed, they will grit their teeth and pay for this expense. The average daily traffic of station B has jumped to the third place in the whole network, the second in the video network, and the first in the social network. It only took one year to achieve this point, which is the confidence of Station B.
Dongfang Ming is the company's animation director, and is the highest person in charge of animation in addition to Wang Ming. For the submission data, he has already prepared. took out a pile of documents from the briefcase, and read it according to the data above: "In April, the website received a total of 163 submissions, of which 24 passed the line, 61 did not agree to the requirements of station B, a total of 78 animations were put on the shelves, 39 instant noodles in the animation, 22 were put in half and consciously cut in half, and the remaining 17 animations "Temperament Girl" and "Fantasy Heaven" created nearly 10 million benefits for the website, and the other dozen or so also exceeded one million ......"
With his memory, Wang Ming calculated the profit figures of Station B, "In the past three months, the profit amount of animation has reached 100 million?"
"Yes!"
Dongfang Ming nodded, turned the information in his hand to the last page, and then said: "This part of the data does not include "One Punch Man", "Spring Things", "Demon Forbidden", the three animations produced by Station B, if you count, Station B's profit in these three months will exceed 300 million, of which the benefits created by "One Punch Man" are as high as 87 million, and the benefits of "Spring Things" are the lowest, only 43 million. However, statistics show that the production difficulty, cycle, manpower and other factors of modern harem love animation are much lower than those of the magic blood class, and the market research department gives a suggestion that love animation will become a typical ...... with low cost and high income in the future."
Wang Ming had already guessed this result. You don't see seventy animations in one season, one-third of them are harems, three-fifths are in love, there are only a dozen hot-blooded films, and half of them are engaged in Ji (Ji).
This is the inevitable process of animation commercialization, and the pursuit is to pay low and produce high. Speaking of the three animations released on station B alone, the profit of spring things is three times the cost, and one punch is only twice as much, and there is a world of difference in the difficulty of production between the two, so the inevitable consequence of commercialization is the "era of waste cuteness".
Dongfang Ming is one of the few people in the company who supports Wang Ming, he knows the meaning of "waste cute" in his heart, he does not allow himself to do this kind of thing for the sake of profit, animation should bring joy and thinking to the audience, not just cuteness and love.
Dongfang Ming is not against the elements of moe and love in the animation, but against only two elements: moe and love. It's a mouthful, but it's easy to explain. Take "Madoka Magica" as an example, this work takes into account the cute elements that have always been the most popular among the audience in the Magical Girl series, beautiful clothes, cute Kewpies, gorgeous transformations, soft mouthmarks, these are all cute elements, all of them are in "Madoka Magica", but it's not only these.
Frustration and struggle, hope and despair, reflection on fate......
These are the things that are shown in this work, which are different from those magical girl works that are just trying to cheat money, and these elements are also the reason why Madoka has achieved such an achievement.
Let's talk about "LOVELIVE!", the nine protagonists of this work are very beautiful, which is a typical waste of cute fans, but after increasing dreams, struggle, and friendship, it is also stronger than waste cuteness.
In addition to corrupting people's hearts, the waste of the cute fan has no effect.,I don't even remember the plot after watching it.,This is a cart before the horse for animation.,What the audience sees from the animation should be what the protagonist has learned in the plot again and again.,Instead of watching the protagonist sell cuteness in the plot.γ
Judging from the submissions received by station B,Waste Meng Fan accounted for a quarter of the April submissions,This number has doubled in July,208 submissions,110 belong to waste Meng Fan,How terrifying is this ratioγ
Dongfang Ming can't control others, he can only control Station B, set Station B as an industry benchmark, and even put all his expectations into the next animation that will be played, "I hope that the advent of "EVA" can change the status quo of the industry. β
The plane landed slowly, and Wang Ming led everyone to the hotel that had already been booked.
In his previous life, he was setting foot on this land for the first time.
As the capital of the Dragon Kingdom, Tenkyo has a history of more than 1,000 years.
On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there was an invasion of the northern nomads, when the Tang Dynasty Emperor Li Li was the grandson of Li Xia, in order to express the belief that the Son of Heaven was warlike, not afraid of war, and the battle would be won, he moved from the old capital to Yanjing City, which was only 100 kilometers away from the front line of the war, and renamed it Tianjing, which means the city where the Son of Heaven is located. This is where the name Tenkyo comes from.
Now, this thousand-year-old ancient capital can still see a lot of buildings left over from the Tang Dynasty, the most magnificent is the city wall around the city, and the Great Wall of Qin, the pyramid is called the world's most cultural heritage.
Walking on the road of this thousand-year-old city, as far as the eye can see, there are energetic faces, and the Tang costumes that can be seen everywhere are the most distinctive features of the city, and the feeling is far more comfortable than seeing a group of office workers in straight suits. At this moment, Wang Ming had a more intuitive feeling of the four words of the Heavenly Empire.
The Celestial Empire is humble and courteous, the Celestial Empire is literate, the Celestial Empire is not afraid of power, and the Celestial Empire is not afraid of war, nothing more.