Ye Weilun sat opposite Gu Mojie, talking eloquently about how to broaden the company's cash flow in the next stage.

"At present, the company has invested a lot in the production of game animation. In particular, we want to make Hatsune Utahime an open mod platform, so the R&D strength in animation engines and other peripheral resources far exceeds that of domestic counterparts - you can't deny this. ”

Gu Mojie nodded: "Go on." ”

"And I've observed that the engine our company is currently using is better than the original physics acceleration engine that AGEIA proposed in March. THERE ARE ALSO MANY UNIQUE FEATURES TO THE MODELING DEVELOPMENT LIBRARY, WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE OBTAINED SOME UNIQUE LICENSES FROM ADOBE AND OTHER GRAPHICS GIANTS. ”

Ye Weilun said so much foreshadowing, and seeing that Gu Mojie always looked as usual, he also took a deep breath and gave his final conclusion: "So, according to my observation, the company has so many resources, and it is really a waste to just develop games by itself." We can take advantage of this aspect and find more cash cows. ”

Gu Mojie finally raised his interest: "Let's be specific. ”

Ye Weilun took out a few materials that had been prepared a long time ago, and some of them were red-headed texts. Gu Mojie glanced at it and saw the "Support Plan for Accelerating the Development of the Animation Industry in Qiantang City" and "Several Measures for Further Running the China International Animation Festival" and other materials issued by the municipal government, provincial and municipal cultural departments/bureaus, which were also among them.

Ye Weilun pointed and said: "Qiantang City has hosted the first China International Animation Festival since 04, and the exhibition area is in Binjiang Baima Lake. 04 years ago, Qiantang's animation industry can be said to have started from scratch, but now more than a year later, there has been a slight climate, the municipal government and the Cultural Bureau, these units, have also come up with a lot of money to subsidize the development of the animation industry. I think our company has such good conditions that we can take some money out of it.

With the company's current investment in animation technology, it only relies on the game Hatsune Utahime. and Hatsune Video's anime channel earning back, it's too slow. ”

Gu Mojie didn't understand the essence of Ye Weilun's words, and thought that Ye Weilun still wanted him to curry favor with the government and kneel down to beg for financial subsidies and support, and suddenly his face changed: "Mr. Ye!" I'm looking for you. It's not for you to teach me how to do PR, you ......"

Ye Weilun hurriedly explained: "Can you listen to me?" I didn't let you seek unspoken rules, I let you make money in a dignified manner. ”

Gu Mojie was stunned: "Are you asking me to make cartoons in real time?" The investment is too large, the cycle is too long, and the recovery investment is far away, which is not suitable for us. ”

"It's not for you to really take animation seriously. You'd better listen to me patiently. Ye Weilun was interrupted by Gu Mojie and was a little temperless, shrugged, and continued:

"Here's my plan. According to the current subsidy of the Qiantang Municipal Government, the Cultural Bureau and the Department of Culture, a subsidy of 2 to 3,000 yuan per minute has been provided for traditional non-3D animation, and a starting subsidy of 8,000 yuan per minute has been provided for 3D animation.

This quota is not affected by the final quality of the film, ratings, and any market feedback, as long as the technical hard indicators are met, registered, and the film does not have any illegal content, it can definitely be obtained. If you can get an overseas release. Then you will get an additional subsidy, up to 15,000 minutes.

Therefore, we don't really have to show much strength to make a good film. As long as we use the engine and graphics processing technology we have mastered, and buy some outsourcing resources, so that we can brush bad films in batches and push the cost of bad films far below 8,000 yuan, then we can make a profit by relying on financial subsidies alone.

Of course. I know that Mr. Gu, you cherish the goodwill of Hatsune Network, and these things are not suitable for doing in the name of Hatsune. So we can choose to register an empty shell cultural and creative company, and then buy engines and resources from Hatsune at a high price, and then sell films in the name of this cultural and creative company. Hatsune made money by selling the engine's related transactions at a high price. ”

Gu Mojie understands in seconds.

That's right. It's like when some fiction websites in later generations first opened, they offered a full attendance bonus of more than 1,000 per month, as well as a higher, easy-to-get subsistence allowance. No matter how bad the market response to the writer's book is, give this number.

When the subsistence allowance and full attendance are too high, there will inevitably be a bad phenomenon called mixed full attendance. At this time, there will be some books that copy, paste, and copy materials in large sections. Just to cheat the subsidy.

In 05, the domestic animation industry was still in its infancy. The China International Animation Festival has only opened for the second time, and Qiantang, as the largest base of the domestic animation industry, is still in a state of wilderness, with few films coming out every year.

In order to show their determination to support, the local government gives four or five billion yuan in subsidies every year to companies that make cartoons. It's just that because the support policy is new, the form is very simple and rude, and it is directly about giving money for a long time.

This also led to the rampant goods in the following years, because businessmen quickly aimed at a profitable business - as long as the cost of the per-minute system was reduced to below the government's per-minute subsidy, then no matter how bad the shooting was, it would be safe to make a profit.

The government is only going to make money, but it doesn't matter, because the government wants results. At the beginning, in the government work report on "developing the cultural industry in the region", the target set was to "achieve a compound annual growth rate of XX% in the total animation output time of animation enterprises in the city every year". Since the people below have brushed up this long number, there are political achievements. As for whether the boss's surname should be seen as this kind of rotten goods, that's another question.

However, before Gu Mojie entered the circle, most of the people in this circle were still brushing traditional animations with similar picture quality to the old version of the blue cat, and the reason for this was that the cost of 3D animation production in 05 was too high, and if no one watched the things filmed, it still couldn't make much money by subsidies alone.

However, Gu Mojie is obviously different from other domestic animation companies. HE RELIED ON HATSUNE MUSUME'S "GRAPHICS MASTER" TO OPTIMIZE AGEIA'S ENGINE AND THE RENDERING SOFTWARE LICENSE BOUGHT FROM ADOBE AND OTHER CHANNELS, AND IF HE DIDN'T CONSIDER THE ORIGINALITY AND ARTISTRY OF THE PLOT, AS LONG AS THE POLICY INDICATORS MET THE SUBSIDY CONDITIONS, HE COULD BRUSH A LOT OF 3D ANIME IN MINUTES.

To put it in layman's terms: using Hatsune Uchihime's engine to make an MMD video, theoretically it's also a 3D anime, right? Although the goods are too watery, they can't even pass the script review.

IF GU MOJIE WANTS TO DO THIS BUSINESS, THE ONLY THING HE NEEDS TO DO IS TO BUY AGEIA, WHICH IS NOT VERY VALUABLE NOW, COMPLETELY BUY THE COMPANY, AND THEN GET MORE TECHNICAL LICENSES FROM ADOBE AND OTHER 3D GIANTS, AND THEN HIRE A BUNCH OF CHEAP LABOR OF THIRD-RATE SCREENWRITERS TO BRUSH UP BAD MOVIES LIKE AN ASSEMBLY LINE.

Ye Weilun saw that Gu Mojie had basically thought through it, so he continued to persuade him step by step: "Originally, I didn't dare to come up with this idea, because once this kind of thing is done, it will be discovered by the above in the future. In that case, the company's government relations will deteriorate, and some yamen will strictly enforce the law against us in the future.

However, since you said a while ago that Hatsune will never do gray business, then it doesn't matter whether our relationship with the government of the cultural department and the optoelectronic department is good or bad, as long as we don't cross the line, he won't be able to bite us. Whether this business can be done or not depends on whether you have the determination to do so. ”

"Do it, why not do it." Gu Mojie calmly promised, and he couldn't see the psychological burden at all, "Mr. Ye, if you cooperate with me more in the future, you will understand how I am alone."

I won't do anything illegal. After breaking the law, you still expect to rely on power to override the law, let the higher authorities turn a blind eye to you, and escape punishment, that is a problem with your character.

However, I appreciate being a 'bad guy' against the bottom line of the law, and if you don't do that, you have a problem with your IQ. Since there are still loopholes in this law today, I will use this loophole to squeeze the last drop of oil until the government uses the law to plug this loophole.

Anyway, the loopholes in laws and policies are left there, and if I don't exploit them, others will take advantage of them, and they will not end until this financial subsidy is burned out. In this case, instead of making money from those who work hard to make bad movies, it is better for people like me to make bad movies easily - at least I waste less material resources than them, right? ”

Ye Weilun smiled.

Many Taiwan businessmen come to the mainland to make money, and most of them uphold this mentality. It is rare for Taiwanese businessmen to really seek collusion between officials and businessmen to do illegal things, but they like to study the details of the mainland's policy subsidies. For example, those enterprises in the field of electrical appliances, once they know that there are energy-saving financial subsidies for things such as LED lights, other energy-saving lamps, inverter air conditioners/refrigerators, etc., even if they sell other things, most of them will issue invoices into categories with relatively high subsidies.

Anyway, your government likes not to act according to the laws of the free market, and you like to use visible hands to regulate and support, so then support it, let's follow along.

Ye Weilun has never been a boss himself, but he is a Taiwanese businessman who has studied and worked in the United States for many years. His values are too consistent with Gu Mojie's in this regard.

Don't do things that are illegal, but do things that are allowed by law, make the most of them. You can't be without character, and you can't be without intelligence. And, of course, look for white gloves.

The two have reached a strategic consensus on this set of plans, and they actually have a sense of confidant who hates to see each other.

Ye Weilun said very excitedly: "I will arrange this matter in the next few days, and it is estimated that it will not cost tens of millions of yuan to buy AGIEA, and the cost of this business is still within the acceptable range of our cash flow." It is estimated that the first batch of bad films will be released in November and submitted for review to earn subsidies. ”

Gu Mojie agreed, thought about it, and added: "During the gold rush, selling shovels and jeans is more profitable than directly panning for gold." We don't have to earn all the subsidies ourselves, it's too slow. If you want to spread the news of the discovery of gold mines, and then sell the tools directly, wouldn't it be faster to return the funds at that time. ”

Ye Weilun was dumbfounded, and looked at Gu Mojie with a demonic look.

This guy's brain is really poisonous. (To be continued.) )