After visiting the entire company, Zhang Shaojie found that the comic creation process was different from what he had thought.

In Zhang Shaojie's mind, comics are nothing more than cartoonists drawing them one by one, and then serializing them in the form of biweekly magazines. This does not seem to be any different from a novel being serialized in a newspaper.

However, in fact, the difference between comic creation and novel creation is very big!

Compared with the creation of novels, it is a very personal and handicraft business.

Comic creation is often done in a very collective, industrialized, and cooperative form. Today's cartoonists basically rely on teams to produce comics, and the entire comic creation is like a project, subcontracted to different people to complete the whole process.

Yulang International Company is like this, in addition to some of the main cartoonists, the company is more comic assistants, and many cartoonists have a large team of assistants at hand.

In the team of assistants, in addition to some painters, there are also some screenwriters. These screenwriters have continuously set up novel martial arts skills by drawing on a wide range of martial arts novels, as well as domestic and foreign fantasy works, myths and legends, and so on. and create more plots, characters, maps, and more.

With more than 300 assistants, the cartoonists can work together, but only the key areas need to be written themselves. The rest of the tedious work is done by the rest of the team's assistants.

In this way, the efficiency of comic creation is far higher than that of Hong Kong comic writers in the 70s.

The entire company, with more than a dozen teams, continues to produce comic works.

Then, these comic works are sent to typeset and printed into finished products, and they will soon be able to go on sale.

Such a model is as efficient as an industrial assembly line.

"How? I didn't expect the comic creation process to be like this, right? Huang Yulang smiled.

Zhang Shaojie nodded desperately and said, "It's really very different from what I imagined." ”

Seeing Zhang Shaojie's shocked expression, Huang Yulang said proudly: "Hong Kong has only a few million people, but this city has more than one million comic readers, and such a huge comic consumer market is second only to the United States, Yueben and other comic countries in the world. However, compared with the United States, the number of cartoonists in Hong Kong is still too small. It takes at least 5 years to train qualified manga artists. Therefore, I had to adopt this division of labor and cooperation to reduce the demand for top cartoonists. Rather, it is a way to cultivate a large number of assistants and speed up the efficiency of creation. ”

"Because our model is the most efficient in the entire Hong Kong comics industry. At the same time, basically more than ninety percent of the famous painters in the entire Hong Kong comic circle are in our company! As a result, we were able to publish more than a dozen comics in series. These serialized weekly and biweekly comics can sell as little as 10,000 copies and as many as 100,000 copies per issue. A serialized comic book is as effective as a medium-sized newspaper in Hong Kong! It won't be long before we'll make enough money to buy major publishing companies, even TV stations, film and television companies, and game companies! Become the overlord of the entertainment industry completely! ”

The development speed of Yulang International Company makes Huang Yulang full of confidence and confidence!

In later generations, it was very common for this kind of comic studio to have multiple staff members working together.

However, in the 80s, this model was quite ahead. Of course, this model goes a step further, that is, the comic and animation industry in the later years directly outsources some post-creation tasks of animation and comics to China and other regions with lower labor salaries. This model is more cost-effective than using local comic companies.

Huang Yulang was able to summarize the division of labor and cooperation model suitable for Hong Kong comic creation, which has made the development of Hong Kong's comic industry a big step forward!

Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but sigh in his heart, although Huang Yulang was very talented, he was still too carried away. Therefore, at the peak of 87 years, the value of 2 billion Hong Kong dollars fell to a deep prison, the company was acquired, and its cadres read one after another.

When he came to Huang Yulang's studio, the assistant handed Zhang Shaojie a stack of sketches.

Zhang Shaojie glanced at it a little, and the painting style was still quite pleasing, at least full of classical Chinese style. However, the characteristics of Hong Kong comics, men's muscles, women's bodies, this kind of cliché is still unavoidable.

A Kou Zhong, the muscles on his body appear stronger.

One is Xu Ziling, whose muscles are a little thinner.

"Can you, I mean, be delicate, if Hong Kong Man always shows strength with muscles, it will obviously go to a dead end." Zhang Shaojie said, "At this point, the setting of the characters over there is slightly richer. Even if it's a combat-oriented comic, it can actually make the characters more beautiful and fashionable, not necessarily by muscle! ”

The character design was denied by Zhang Shaojie, Huang Yulang did not get angry, but took it seriously and said: "How do you think it should be drawn?" ”

Zhang Shaojie said: "Refer to martial arts TV series, after all, there is a martial arts charm. Follow the more handsome characters in the martial arts TV series to be a model and participate in the production of comics. It's said that there is cosplay for drawing comics over there! ”

“cosplay？” Huang Yulang looked a little puzzled and said, "I really don't know this, Shaojie, you can explain it to me!" ”

Zhang Shaojie was stunned, he didn't know cosplay, or the godfather of Hong Kong comics? But soon, Zhang Shaojie was relieved. In recent years, there have been real people in the comic industry who have cosplayed to model cartoonists.

But the word cosplay was coined in 1984 when Nobuyuki Takahashi, the president of the company, explained the phenomenon of cosplay to industry insiders at the World Science Fiction Annual Conference held in Los Angeles, USA, and coined cosplay.

In the 90s, the ACG industry held a large number of public animation and comic exhibitions and game exhibitions, and real people began to wear costumes from animation and games and perform live-action cosplay performances, and since then, the term has been widely spread.

Zhang Shaojie thought of this and said with a smile: "I invented this word. Saying that, Zhang Shaojie began to ask Huang Yulang to explain the relevant information of cosplay role-playing.

Huang Yulang applauded when he heard this, and said, "Good! Very good! Real people wear comic clothes, model us, and hold animation and comic exhibitions, and use cosplay to create gimmicks and attract audiences! Haha, Zhang Shaojie, you are really a genius, you have all figured it out! ”

Originally, Zhang Shaojie just suggested that Huang Yulang paint the character more perfectly and delicately, and then suggested using a real model to play the role in ancient costumes.

Unexpectedly, it was actually extended to cosplay, and what is even more surprising is that Huang Yulang is very interested in cosplay, a new way of promoting and promoting comics.

"If Hong Kong comics preemptively launch cosplay? So, will it develop more rapidly? Zhang Shaojie thought silently.