The cacophony suddenly fell silent.

Everyone, journalists, guests, even DD Pictures and Weta Digital, especially Richard Brown. Taylor, he knew that Daniel himself came up with a script for an animated film, and got Andrew . Stanton's praise for the fact that they were able to largely complete the work in just one year. Richard was surprised that the special effects work on a film sometimes took more than a year, let alone an animation that had to be created entirely with computer technology.

It's just that this film has always been highly classified by DD Animation, and of course, it's not Richard who is guarded against, but the media.

This was the first time he had seen the film, called "Wall-E."

The first picture looks very good, the nebula is gorgeous and dreamy, the Earth is real, and the spaceship in the distance is very sci-fi.

The drastic reduction in production time does not seem to affect the quality of the cartoon.

Richard breathed a sigh of relief, he was actually a little resentful of Daniel's insistence, but he also knew very well that Daniel, who owned 20% of Weta Digital's shares, should not be his enemy. So although it is not a good reason to manage Chad, he finally reached the current cooperation model with Daniel, but this does not mean that he has no other opinions on this, and he even took the initiative to write a clause in the agreement, DD Pictures can acquire the equity ratio of Weta Digital at a price of no more than 160% of the original estimate. In other words, Weta Digital acquired a 20% stake for 32 million, a clause proposed by Richard that allowed Daniel to recover this stake at a price of no more than 51.2 million.

It's almost plain telling Daniel that I don't want to do this, but I can't say no, so I'm telling you, even if the value of this company increases tenfold in the future, I won't ask for a matching interest. To put it bluntly, in addition to being unwilling, I am not optimistic.

A promotional video of about half a minute began to appear on the big screen.

Towering garbage blocks like skyscrapers, a ruined and dirty earth, and a tattered cleaning robot - the only coherent image of the whole fragment. In WALL-E's well-equipped "home", when he cleaned up the simple human objects from the garbage heap, a cutlery that looked like a spoon but had a fork on top made him feel confused for a moment. Finally, it was placed in the middle of the spoon and fork. In the second paragraph, when he was about to go out, he pressed on the cockroach that accompanied him, and the little cockroach that jumped up and looked at Vali's unique eyes.

The clip ends with a space shuttle landing on the ground, and the full picture of the plane is not even shown.

The last flash of the picture left a line of words.

"WALL-E will be released on December 19, 2005"

"Wow!"

Everyone in the audience exclaimed. It's not that the Christmas file can't be done, as one of the hottest schedules of the year, of course, there is no problem with the last cartoon, the problem is that Weta Digital only decided to do animation a year ago, why is there already a finished film that can be launched now, it will be released in December, and it needs to be basically completed by the end of June at the latest, otherwise the trailer, promotional posters, peripherals, etc., will not be produced at all. Not to mention the cumbersome propaganda program to be implemented.

Andrew doesn't introduce the basic plot of "Wall-E" like "Happy Feet", but simply summarizes it.

"It's a story about robots, love, and existential reflection, but it's by no means boring, and the perspective is very unique. WALL-E is a garbage cleaner abandoned on Earth, dutiful and lonely, who has come to appreciate the taste of loneliness over a long period of time, probably 700 years. When the flower of his love suddenly blooms, Vali, who is kind and simple, decides to give everything he has to pursue his love. In a sense. He's also a superhero, a superhero who's not so powerful and not so cool. But he will tell us what love is and what companionship is. ”

"We are determined to have 'WALL-E' released later this year. It's all because the whole DD anime can't wait to share this story with the audience, it's so funny, and it's touching the beauty of love. With more than 20 years of experience, I assure you that this is a well-made and incomparably good animation that almost completely covers all the meanings that an animation can have: imagination, fun, emotion, connotation. It will undoubtedly be a model for all future works of DD Anime. ”

Andrew's statement was moving.

In Hollywood. The behind-the-scenes work for years and years will earn them a rare reputation. This time, Andrew is clearly vouching for Wall-E with his reputation, a dangerous but very useful move. The scene was all entertainment media, and he knew Andrew's status in the industry very well, and he also knew that with his vision and credibility, it was impossible to make such a statement about a shoddy work.

Well, this means that DD Animation spent a year producing a high-quality animated feature film, and almost not a minute was wasted, and on the day of its establishment, the release plan of the work was announced.

On a deeper level, what does this mean?

On behalf of Daniel's planning and management of DD Animation, it may not be as crazy and impulsive as the outside world speculates, everything may be under control, and now it is just being promoted step by step, slowly expanding Daniel's power territory in Hollywood.

The not-so-good-looking robot on the big screen just now appeared in the minds of the reporters again.

……

"We have a new plan that will start after WALL-E ends." Andrew said with a smile, "It's a very interesting story, it's very special, because this story is not quite the same as our cultural background, it's a story from the East, China." ”

"We call him 'Kung Fu Panda'!"

This time, only one poster appeared on the big screen, and the poster was a giant panda that looked quite rich in connotation, which was not the same as the panda in the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., not so honest, and added some human expression elements. The giant panda does the golden rooster independent pose in Chinese kung fu, and kung fu is probably one of the most recognizable elements in China, and Bruce Lee's kung fu films, An Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Jack Cheng and Chinese martial arts instructors have all contributed to the formation of this concept.

So DD animation blends the giant pandas loved by Americans with the Chinese kung fu that Americans are familiar with, which is indeed very smart, taking into account the advantages of exotic elements and the problem of adaptation.

"We call him Ah Bao, he lives in ancient China, in fact, the whole story is set in ancient China, the sets, costumes, characters, etc., Ah Bao will realize his dream of being the king of kung fu, and the final battle with the evil forces, and then save his friends. It's a familiar story, but it takes place in another dimension of time and space, and everything becomes very different. We already have the full script, which is an interesting idea. ”

Andrew didn't say much about "Kung Fu Panda", and the time was very short.

After the presentation of the project, the press conference, which lasted no more than 2 hours, ended and Sebastian and Andrew moved to the interview area while the others left.

"I'm glad you're here."

Daniel personally put Meyer in the car, with a heartfelt smile on his face, Meyer shrugged his shoulders, "Hopefully it's a happy choice." ”

"Of course!"

After sending Meyer, Daniel didn't care about Andrew, who was bombarded by the media, and left the press conference directly.

So, the next afternoon, when he met with Andrew at DD Animation, Andrew complained that he wasn't very authentic.

"Do you know how terrible those journalists are? It was like they were going to eat me. In fact, many questions should be completely considered by you, why did you make a panda-themed cartoon? Why was WALL-E born? Why did you create DD animations, and how do you comment on DD's massive expansion...... Wait, God, I'm just a poor man hired to sell my labor, how could I know so much. ”

Daniel kept the corners of his mouth in a certain arc in the midst of Andrew's chattering complaints.

DD Animation's office is a bit away from DD Pictures, 10 minutes by car, if the road conditions are good. It is a newly renovated office building, with a large frosted glass partition of the space into two shifts, with managers inside and various departments outside. The tofu cubes are divided into pieces on the glass, and there are cute and hideous anime characters everywhere, which are obviously the work of these animators.

**, Vali, Po...... Well, there will be more and more in the future. ”

"On duty today: The Sakuman Demon King?" Daniel Yile, "Andrew, who is the Grand Demon of the Sacumen?" ”

Before Andrew could find someone, a petite and weak-looking girl stood up, "That's me, boss." ”

"Ah...... Oh...... Well, nice to meet you, Sakuman. ”

The office erupted in laughter.

Andrew couldn't help but look at her with a smile, "She's Judy, very good, and the only college graduate we admitted." ”

"I'm glad you're joining DD Animation, Judy...... Beelzebub. ”

Daniel smiled and walked on, the closest place to Andrew's office, with several newspaper clippings pressed on the magnet.

"These are all yesterday's reports," Andrew said, "The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Sun, basically cut out a few copies, and the printed ones are online reports, USA Today, AOL. ”

The New York Times piece was still quite large, almost a page and a half, and at most there was a small tofu cube on the side of it. Daniel didn't expect The Times to be so interested in the establishment of DD Animation, and spent so much time covering it. He stopped there and looked carefully from beginning to end.

"On the 18th, DD Pictures ......" (to be continued.) )

PS: The third update, the last hour of this month, thank you for your support over the past month, bow!