The company is on the right track, and Happy has quietly transferred Po to the new server group, communicating with it every day, and is developing and researching an intelligent assistant animation software. In terms of 2D animation, the most complicated thing is to transform static into dynamic, for example, Japanese animation is about 22 original drawings per second, and the cost of making zuò is about 500,000 yuan. If the average animation has more than 30 original pictures per second, the image quality will fly well, but then the cost will be doubled.

In Japan, you can sell CDs, comics, comics, figurines and other peripheral goods to collect money. There are very few pirated goods in Japan, so there is no need to worry about competition.

Domestic animation uses 6-7 original drawings per second, so the cost of making zuò per episode is only 2-40,000. Piracy is rampant in China, and it is impossible to recover costs by selling peripheral goods. Therefore, domestic animation can only be sold to TV stations after it is done, but it is impossible for TV stations to give a lot of money, which is also the main factor restricting the development of domestic animation.

Far away...... Every second of animation requires a huge amount of repetitive painting work, and it has to be meticulous.

The animation software that Happy wants to develop is to greatly reduce this level of repetitive work. And these are just the basics, the purpose is to prepare for the 3D animation zuò.

Pixar's major shareholder is indeed Steve Jobs, and the creativity is also controlled by John Lasseter, but without the electronic editing and special effects system developed by Edwin Catem, there would not be the birth of today's purely computer-produced Zuò films.

Po's IQ is already very high now, and the result of the standard IQ test is 250, but the highest score in that set of questions is only this number. But Po's common sense is very narrow, only the software environment of the computer is composed, and he understands the role of every piece of code of all the programs contained in the machine - this is something that he can't do himself, who is full of food and can read the code paragraph by paragraph.

Ah Bao has no aesthetics at all, although it already knows how to use a qiē graphics processing program, and Happy also helped it make a computer synthesis sound system, which can already give a reasonable response to some expressions, but I am happy to do the film and television animation production of zuò, and Ah Bao can only help with assistance. Once again, he asked Po to color a panda based on the information from his investigation, and he was stunned to fill in a black and white panda into four dislikes, so it is more reassuring to do this kind of thing by himself.

"Sir, you have a new email." The work interface suddenly pops up a prompt from Bao.

"Tune it out."

He guessed that it was news from Japan, and when he opened it, he saw that it was true.

After a simple translation and review, the fifteen first-line editors of "Weekly Shonen Jump" unanimously gave a very high evaluation to this comic "Chess Soul" from China - absolutely excellent!

It's been a long time since there's been such a boutique, and Ghibli, the editor-in-chief of Weekly Shonen Jump, is excited. At the same time, he sighed: "It is worthy of being an ancient big country in the East, and the traditional culture is deeper than Japan." ”

The antique Chinese architecture in the comics, the costumes of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period worn by Yiqiu, as well as the national costumes such as Hanfu worn by the protagonist during festivals, and various famous snacks also make people want to go to China for a walk.

But they also had some misgivings, worried that Japanese teenagers would not be able to accept the story from China: it would be better to change the names of the characters to Japanese names, and it would be even better if the story could be set in Tokyo.

So Ono Ghibli personally contacted Happy to express his thoughts.

happily crackled and replied, clarifying straightforwardly: If you want to release it in Japan, you can modify the name of the protagonist appropriately, but don't change the background of the story, otherwise it will cause a strict conflict in the later plot. Because the follow-up story also involves China's rookie king competition, Tianyuan battle, rank competition, celebrity competition, etc. It is not excluded that when the ending is involved, it will involve an international Go tournament.

Ono Ghibli is also in his forties, he was a manga manga maniac when he was a child, the speed of the letters between the two sides is not fast, because he does not know English and Chinese, even this English email is asked to be written by the same company staff.

But he can actively discuss the future plot trend, the length of the article, the number of manuscripts, whether the copyright is in or not, and other issues, the more he talks, the more confident he will be, and the concerns in his heart will gradually be dispelled. After all, it's a comic, and it doesn't involve political issues. Overall, this is a universal manga that is suitable for distribution throughout East Asia.

Combined with Sakuragi-kun's introduction, he probably has a preliminary image of Happy: this Happy Mr. is also a graduate of the directing department of USC, and has also participated in the production of the famous Pixar animated film "Toy Story", and has now founded his own animation company. Even before the release of the comic of "Chess Soul", he was already preparing to produce the cartoon of "Chess Soul...... None of this should be treated as a general contributor.

In Japan, manga makers and manga artists are two different species, and if you want to publish your own manga, you need to conceive the content, draw a first draft, get the editor's approval, draw a storyboard, ink and line, copy the line, and finally the effect and paste the dots. If the first draft is rubbish, you'll have to redraw it.

This is a complete set of processes that have been spontaneously formed by the Japanese animation industry at its peak. It is also under this almost rigorous process that classic anime such as "One Piece" and "Naruto" were born.

If you compare the later generations of Guoman according to this process, even the empty picture of "Qin Shi Mingyue" is the same, the characters are no different from dead, very bloody and emotionless.

Because he hadn't seen the comic version of "Chess Soul" in his last life, all his comic scripts were drawn in strict accordance with the director's storyboard script format of the film and television production.

The story line is clear, the camera is full of content, there are almost no superfluous discarded shots in the comic manuscript, and the progress of the story is also very gratifying, without dragging or irrigating. According to this kind of draft, even if it is directly made into a movie, it is enough.

It is also for these reasons that this comic can be caught by these strict editors at a glance.

Happy professional Cheng dù is comparable to Japan's top manga artist.

Under all these conditions, Ono Ghibli could not be too picky. It was immediately decided to conduct a trial serialization on "Weekly Shonen Jump", and if the effect is good, the Chinese version will also be published in Taiwan's "Treasure Island Boy" and Hong Kong's "EX-am Weekly", and make an appointment to go to Japan to negotiate the agreement and sign the contract as soon as possible.

Happy where to go, authorize Sakuragi to negotiate on your behalf.

"Jingle Bell~~"

The phone in the office rang suddenly, and seeing that the caller ID was actually overseas, Bai Xiaoya paused for a moment, and then connected. There was an English conversation on the other side, but fortunately her English oral communication was quite qualified, otherwise she would have been cowardly. But the other party's spoken English also sounded very awkward, it didn't seem to be as good as her, and she also heard that it was not Europe and the United States, but it seemed to be an awkward pronunciation of Japan and South Korea. After a while, it took a lot of effort to figure out the other party's intentions, and then his eyes suddenly widened: "Boss, phone." It's from Japan. ”

"Well, transfer it to me."

It was Sakuragi who called, and he came to show his merits. “…… According to your requirements, the distribution rights of the single book and the copyright of the animation film and television adaptation are not sold, and the price of the animation is 20,000 yen per page, plus 50% of the color page. And this price is not fixed, there will be a negotiation after the release of March. If the market responds well, the manuscript fee will be increased. Of course, if you do, you're also going to face a bad market reaction. Do you agree to the floating price, I can also fight for it again. ”

Happy is naturally confident in the comics, 20,000 eight yen, and now the yen is appreciating, according to today's exchange rate of about 14.3 yen to huàn 1 yuan, that is, 1958 yuan per page. This price is quite high, and the price difference from that of well-known cartoonists is not much.

Of course, there is still a gap between those top ones such as Akira Toriyama, Yuhiko Inoue, Yoshihiro Tomiyatsu, Eiichiro Oda and others. They are all big taxpayers, and I heard that the government specially built a road to his doorstep in order to keep Akira Toriyama.

This comic manuscript fee is only one of them, and the real big head is the copyright fee for single books, toy figures and other peripherals.

"Well done, that's it." Said happily: "Sakuragi, you finally impressed me once." You are a great contributor to the publication of comics, and I can't let you work for nothing...... Well, in the future, 5% of my comic income will be your commission, and you will be fully responsible for the agency work of "Chess Soul" in Japan, how about it? ”

Sakuragi licked his lips, a little excited, but he still habitually bragged, "It's all a trivial matter, everyone is a classmate, and I want to thank you for taking care of me at school." The main thing is that the quality of your comics is excellent, and I didn't help much, so how can I ask for your commission. ”

"That's right...... That's fine, it's just 3%, and you're not short of money anyway. ”

Sakuragi: "......"

Happy was not as calm and decisive as on the phone, as soon as he hung up the phone, he immediately came with a flowery laugh and sang: "...... Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now it is stepping forward from the beginning. Wha! ”