Chapter 251. Barbecue on heroes
The trio arrived at a long-established barbecue restaurant in Ningjiang, which uses charcoal-grilled, high-quality beef, and its signature dish is a beef platter arranged in a wooden ladder around the oven, with a portion of beef taken from a different part of the cow on each step.
Wu Yi sat opposite the two, looked at the young couple, and said with emotion.
"I talked to someone a few years ago, I don't know who the famous goth Lori in the industry will end up with, but I didn't expect you two to secretly get married."
Wu Yi didn't know about Xu Rui and Yi Qianqian's marriage until he saw the two together at the booth and learned about it after Xu Rui's introduction.
"Yi Qianqian is the dream lover of many animators, haha, if this matter spreads, Xu Rui, you are probably going to be nailed again."
He said with a small sip of beer.
"I'm not bad for this one anyway."
The waiter puts a few slices of beef on the iron net, and the heat causes the surface of the beef to quickly form a white film, which can lock the juices inside the beef, and make the outside charred and tender inside.
He quickly divided a few slices of meat into their respective plates, and Xu Rui picked them up with chopsticks and put them in his mouth.
The beef is very good, and the roasting technique is also very skillful, and the beef is tender and delicious, which is evocative.
"Look at you, your company has grown, the animation is applauded and popular, and you have such a good wife, this is a real winner in life."
Wu Yi sighed with emotion and ate the meat.
"Hmmm, it's delicious."
He was as happy as a child.
The three of them chatted a little more, perhaps after drinking some wine, and Wu Yi finally began to talk about his own business.
The cause Xu Rui guessed correctly, it was about the theatrical animated film he was producing.
Specifically, Wu Yi already had his own plan, but the bosses of Rainbow Media felt that it was not good, especially the boss in charge of the product, who had taken the initiative in the company since the popularity of Tomato Video Network began to decline.
These products are said to have product thinking every day, and they go deep into all aspects of the operation of Tomato Video Network, from video websites, to animation production, and game production.
For example, the new animation of martial arts, they feel that although the imagination is good, it is not down-to-earth enough, and the products want to be as close to people's lives as Xu Rui's "Classical Literature Society Series".
The product also feels that the plot of the juvenile adventure of martial arts is outdated, and now the strongest consumption power is women, and the animation needs to meet the needs of women, it is best to add some emotional lines, the male protagonist and the female protagonist, the male protagonist, the female protagonist, the male and female protagonists, the two women, the two men, the three women, and the three women are mixed together, the more chaotic the better, and not only must there be men and women, but men and women cannot be left behind, and women like this kind of really chaotic plot in your circle.
The key is that the people in the animation production team of Wuyi have no way to fight against the product, after all, they are holding the orders of the big boss, and no one dares to disobey them.
The editor on the video site before, because he felt that the product didn't understand the video at all, put forward opinions, and as a result, he was rectified by the product and left several old editors.
Moreover,The best thing about the product is to do PPT,No matter how miserable the status quo is,As long as the PPT of the product is made,You can only see the rise,You can't see the fall at all,For example, the video site has been getting new users for free recently,All kinds of paid dramas are also free for tourists to watch for a limited time,Although the traffic was increased for a while,But the user payment rate plummeted,However,In PPT,The website is still rising。
Hearing Wuyi's complaints, Xu Rui could only shake his head helplessly and eat the beef tongue on the plate.
"This kind of layman interfering with the insider's thing, I didn't think Tomato Video Network would do."
His words made Wu Yi shake his head.
"Speaking of which, this is also caused by your Chuyin Video Network,The traffic of Chuyin Video Network continues to rise,The development of various aspects is more dynamic than that of Tomato Video Network,This makes the bosses have a sense of crisis,But they themselves are not from this aspect,Can only believe in those products that blow up the sky,After all, people have experienced many Internet companies,Have rich product experience。
Probably because he drank a lot of wine, or maybe because he had been suppressed for too long, and Wuyi became talkative.
"But in fact, these products don't understand animation production at all, and many people haven't even seen animation, and when someone mentioned director Li Xiuming's work in a previous meeting, they even asked Li Xiuming to be the company's employee, and asked him to come to the conference room, which is really ridiculous."
Yi Qianqian was silent, but she also knew very well that when an Internet company became bigger, similar problems would inevitably arise, and the products and operations that didn't understand the content only relied on numbers to understand the market, but they didn't trust colleagues who understood the content.
Tomato Video Network is different, this is a listed company, the boss was not a video background at the beginning, but followed the wind to invest in the video industry, recruited a group of people who are interested here, and relied on the foil of peers to get to today's position, such as Liu Xueyan and Wu Tong, who are such old employees of the company.
In the eyes of these veteran employees, video websites and animation companies, content is king, and companies should focus on the improvement of content, rather than those bells and whistles marketing.
However, the new products born in the Internet era pay more attention to operation and the so-called user experience, but ignore the most essential content, the fact is that old editors like Liu Xueyan have grown up with Tomato Video Network, and have deep feelings for the website and this industry, but these products are not the case, what they are best at is job hopping, they don't care about a company at all, the life or death of an industry, anyway, go to the next one if it goes out of business.
Dinner was almost the same, and after Wu Yi said about the predicament he had encountered recently, he also eased the depression in his heart a little.
At this time, Xu Rui suddenly spoke.
"In that case, have you ever thought about changing companies?"
His words made Wu Yi, who was drinking, stop the cup in his hand and look at Xu Rui with wide eyes.
"Do you know what you're talking about?"
If it's someone else, it's okay, Xu Rui's meaning of saying this to Wuyi is obvious, and he is inviting Wuyi to jump ship to Phantom Electric Animation.
This is quite controversial, because Xu Rui himself is an excellent director, in the eyes of martial arts, he is not inferior to himself at all, if martial arts enter the phantom lightning, he must get a certain number of people to create his own creation, which is equivalent to getting power from Xu Rui, and ordinary bosses will not do this.
This is equivalent to parachuting a director of the same level as Xu Rui, not only is it difficult for the employees of Phantom Electric to be convinced of Wuyi, but it is also difficult for Wuyi to rebuild his team from scratch, after all, the funds of animation companies are a little stretched, and there is not so much budget for two parallel production teams.
As for the rich ones like Rainbow Media and Tomato Manufacturing, they are all based on the group system, and each director must have his own exclusive production team, which will not lead to contradictions, and if martial arts come to Phantom Electric, what can Xu Rui give him?
"Of course I do, and I know what you're thinking about."
Xu Rui saw the idea of martial arts and explained.
"Actually, I've always felt that the scale of Phantom Animation is not small, and I'm looking for a second set of production team, I hope you can think about it, as for the funding, you don't have to worry."
There is not much in the fantasy animation, only the most money!