Chapter 032: Major Cases
Liu Shuo spent a week a week in major cities across the country to promote and sign until the official start of classes on October 8.
In the past month or so, "The Wizard of Wonderland" has achieved very good results, selling more than two million copies at once. Liu Shuo's royalties are directly tens of millions. Coupled with the royalty income of League of Legends, Liu Shuo has now accumulated more than $5 million in liquidity.
However, there is still no news from Jianglong's side, and it is estimated that the investors of the Riot Company have not relented.
The students of the School of Animation have returned to school, and most of them have taken advantage of the internship opportunities in September to see the production capabilities of many companies. Among these people, there are many capable people, and they are the most important reserve talents in China's animation industry at this stage. Liu Shuo just doesn't have any extra funds now, otherwise he will definitely set up an animation production company to wipe out all these people.
After entering the third grade, Liu Shuo no longer dared to miss classes, because with the continuous deepening of the course, he could no longer ensure that he was ahead of others. If he refuses to take classes again, then it is very likely that by the time he graduates, his level will basically not change from when he first entered the school, so there will be no point in him being close to this school at all.
In order to have more time, Liu Shuo has already pushed the job of a teacher. He's not short of that amount of money now, and he's been teaching reformation for several years. Those who stay in school can replace themselves as new teachers.
Everything calmed down, and Liu Shuo once again resumed his rhythm of life in class and drawing comics.
But in November, an event shattered that calm.
After two months of interrogation by the police, someone confessed that Wanteng Company had bribed relevant officials in three cities and spent more than 10 million yuan to win the right to apply for the animation industrial park. Later, these animation industrial parks were built into real estate, and the profits from selling and renting out were hundreds of millions of yuan.
The public security organs have officially approved the arrest of the legal person and management personnel of Wanteng Company, arrested the officials who took bribes, found more than 50 million yuan of stolen money, and also implicated several real estate companies.
It's really a big deal, but it's bigger than Liu Shuo expected. Now the case has become a national case, involving more than a dozen officials, seven companies, and a chain of interests. This chain of interests is headed by Wanteng Company, which defrauded the interest chain of the animation industrial park, and hundreds of people have illegally made more than one billion yuan in this chain of interests.
This incident was directly broadcast on the news network, and all of a sudden the country's attention was focused on the animation industry. No one thought that the animation industry, which needs to rely on state support, can generate so many illegal profits.
So a CCTV reporter began to investigate the shady scenes of the animation industry, and a reporter relied on his painting skills to work in an animation studio. This studio is actually producing a national project, but the quality of the production is really worrying.
The project cost more than 20 million yuan and was contracted to be produced by an animation company in Shenyang, so it stands to reason that it should not appear in this studio. This studio took over the outsourcing work, could it be that the animation company outsourced it? The reporter was puzzled and verified in many ways, and finally learned which company's project the studio undertook.
However, the company undertaken by the studio is not the company that contracts the project, and the income of the project contracted by the studio is very low, and the employees can only maintain a salary that is more than the basic salary. Everyone's enthusiasm for work is not very high, and many models are just doing things casually and coping with things.
So in mid-November, the reporter sent all the secretly recorded footage back to the TV station, and then he took the film crew to the company for an interview. During the interview, he found out that the company made things from that studio, and he even saw a model of the original painting he had drawn.
The animation of that episode was also produced by the studio, and he also recorded it. The contractor made some minor tweaks, and then the recording was post-production.
When the reporter interviewed, he raised some questions about whether to outsource, and the answer was indeed no, and all the things in this project were done by the company itself.
A few days later, the Focus Interview aired the story. Another kind of chain of interests in the animation industry is presented to everyone. That's the animation contracting project, which is then outsourced by various companies, and finally goes into the hands of small studios. After this layer of outsourcing, the production expenses are also deducted layer by layer, and in the end, the actual funds that can be used may not even be one-tenth.
CCTV took action with its own project this time, and directly slapped its own face with its hand. And also quoted the video of Liu Shuo's speech at the Comic Con, quoting what he said about the TV station.
Finally, the host said: "The country will inevitably take detours to promote the development of the animation industry. But when walking, we can't close our eyes and just ask a passer-by for directions. Instead, we should find a guide who really knows how to do it, because these guides will show us the right way. ”
It was not said who was the guide in this statement, but in this focus interview, Liu Shuo's video was played, which is naturally self-evident.
Liu Shuo was once again pushed to the cusp of the storm, and countless reporters began to come to Beiying, hoping to interview Liu Shuo. The large number of reporters every day has seriously affected Liu Shuo's studies and the normal teaching of the school, forcing the school to restrict the entry of people from outside the school in order to restrict reporters.
Not only that, CCTV quickly banned the contracting rights of the contracting company, and then found a new company to produce and evaluate the company. CCTV showed a look that there were mistakes that could be corrected, and it got a lot of thumbs up, but what the final result will be, we still need to wait for the animation to be produced.
3D animation is not so easy to do, and you can't polish a good 3D animation without a few years of effort.
Yang Mi, who was promoting the TV series outside Yang Mi, made a call to He Dan, "I have worked so hard to publicize, but I can't catch up with the cannon that you put at random, you have seriously hurt my feelings." ”
He Dan smiled and said, "Really, then I'll let my family replace your heroine?"
"Don't, I'm just kidding. Yang Mi said flatteringly: "Now everywhere I go, many people call me Qiu Niang, at first I was still wondering, what does Qiu Niang mean? Later, I inquired and found out that Liu Shuo had drawn me." ”
"Can I draw you!" He Dan said proudly: "You are my good sister, we won't help you help anyone!"
"Wait a few days, I invite you to go to Lao Guo to listen to cross talk. Yang Mi said coolly.
"Okay, we'll wait for you to come back!"