Chapter 217 Independent Production + Outsourcing and OEM
"No, it's still slow, and you have to promise me that each episode should be completed within six days." Han Li said to Fan Xiaoya.
When Fan Xiaoya heard Han Li's words, she couldn't help frowning and said, "Mr. Han, this speed is already the fastest limit we can do at present."
If you want to speed things up, you'll have to expand the size of your team.
But for the sake of this project, it is not cost-effective to expand the production scale of our team.
Besides, there are enough people in 2D animation right now. In addition to our cartoon "Summer Morning Talk", there is also our "That Rabbit" project production team, and the number of people in that team is more than that.
If we continue to recruit people to expand the team, once our project is completed, it will take a huge amount of money every month just to support these people. ”
Fan Xiaoya's worries are right, in order to be able to make several projects at the same time, during this period of time, their company has started a crazy recruitment mode.
Among them, there are more than 30 employees who joined in April alone, not counting the recruitment situation of the post-production special effects studio and the game operation and production studio.
After this series of recruitment, the number of people in the company has now skyrocketed to more than 70 medium-sized companies, and the offices that used to be relatively empty have become lively.
And that's not even counting the team of more than thirty interns they recruited from all over the place.
If these people can successfully complete the internship training and pass the final assessment in the future, the number of people in the company will reach 100, which is definitely the scale of a large company in the domestic animation industry.
At that time, nothing will be counted every month, and the salary paid for these people alone will reach five or six hundred thousand.
This is still in a city with a low wage level like Anxi, and if it is changed to a first-tier city, then the salary paid will be close to 1 million, which is by no means affordable by ordinary enterprises.
Thinking of this, Han Li also knew that the current team size would definitely not be able to expand in a short period of time. If you want to speed up your production, you'll have to look elsewhere.
So how to solve this problem, Han Li moved his gaze to everyone. When everyone saw Han Li's gaze, they all shook their heads slightly.
And just when Han Li was racking his brains and thinking hard, Song Xiaoguang's words on the side made his eyes light up instantly.
"Mr. Han, can we hand over some of the less important production aspects of the project to other animation companies?"
"Outsourcing, OEM?" Han Li was surprised.
Song Xiaoguang nodded and said: "That's the case, instead of us expanding the team, I think we might as well keep the core production team and hand over some unimportant links in the production process to other animation companies."
At present, except for a very small number of large-scale animation companies in China, most of the other animation production companies are also small teams of one or twenty or twenty or thirty people.
As for this part of the animation company, because of the lack of its own independent projects, it is in a more difficult situation.
And in order to survive, they either take on some cheap outsourcing to make a little money, or they rely on government support funds.
So I wondered, can we give them that part. It can not only solve our current dilemma of slow production, but also support these animation companies that are struggling to survive. It's also a contribution to domestic animation, so why not. ”
After listening to Song Xiaoguang's words, Han Li thought about it.
Fan Xiaoya on the side said: "If that's the case, we don't need to recruit so many production personnel." Only the core production team is retained, and the rest can be outsourced to the OEM. I think it's a new mode of making that we can try it out. ”
In this regard, Han Li shook his head and said: "No, we still have to keep the production team, but this scale must be controlled, and it is not easy to be too large."
Outsourcing is just a tool to assist us in production, and we can't rely on it excessively. If we didn't have our own production team, then our company's projects would be very less risk-resistant.
Although the projects have just begun, it is not cost-effective to raise the production team. But in the long run, it is much more cost-effective than outsourcing OEM. ”
Speaking of this, Han Li thought for a while and then said: "I think so, first sort out some content that needs to be outsourced and OEM for this project, and then give it a try to bid outside and see the situation." If it meets our needs, then we will gradually move forward with the implementation.
In addition, in terms of internal team control, especially in our animation project department, we began to change our strategy, from quantitative to qualitative change, and strive to build an excellent animation production team. ”
"I get it, and we'll start implementing it right away." Fan Xiaoya nodded.
Well, Han Li smiled and said, "When do you expect the trailer of this animation to be completed, I'm waiting to release it." ”
Fan Xiaoya thought for a moment, and then said to Han Li: "Soon, the pictures in the trailer are all intercepted from the feature film, and when we finish making these pictures, we can complete the synthesis and editing." Give us two more weeks, and in two weeks we'll definitely take it out. ”
Han Li shook his head when he heard this: "No, you must bring out the trailer to me before June, it is related to whether we can carry out the signing and promotional activities with the city smoothly."
In this way, let my colleagues in the project team work overtime and make the trailer for me first. ”
Hearing Han Li's words, Fan Xiaoya's face was bitter, but she still nodded and said, "Okay, I'll arrange it when I go back to make sure that the film can be completed before the event."
Mr. Han, how did you think about what I told you last time? ”
"What did you tell me last time?" Han Li couldn't remember what it was for a while, so he said blankly at her.
"I'll tell you about dubbing." Fan Xiaoya rolled her eyes and reminded.
"Oh, you're talking about setting up our own dubbing studio." Han Li thought about it instantly.
Fan Xiaoya nodded and said, "With more and more of our works and projects, our needs for dubbing, soundtracks and foley have also increased.
As a result, we naturally spend a lot of money on this. Even if you don't consider the expenditure, there are very few excellent dubbing teams and dubbing studios in China, basically they are dubbed by so many people, or they are directly dubbed by stars.
So I thought that if we could set up such a dubbing studio, we could not only serve our company, but also face the market and make profits on our own.
Now so many TV series, movies and animation works emerge every year, and there is little or no sound at the same time, and most of them still need post-dubbing.
I feel like it's a big market and we should give it a try. ”