Walking downstairs, Guo Weiren couldn't help but touch his coat pocket, but remembered that he had already quit smoking.

He looked back, glanced at the building that had been extremely familiar in the past, sighed, walked out of the old park, and walked towards the high-tech development zone.

Kwok is not a warehouse manager, and he doesn't even work in the park.

He came downstairs to Tomato Video Network, took out his employee card to enter the door, and took the elevator to the sixth floor, which is the office of Tomato Manufacturing.

Passers-by didn't say hello when they saw Guo Weiren, he walked to his place in the corner alone and sat down, there was no familiar open-screen desk and scratch paper on the workstation, but a brand-new pen tablet and the latest computer.

He is an original artist, 16 years in the industry, 12 of which have been spent in fantasy animation, I don't know if it's a coincidence, just now Xu Rui screened the 35th episode of "Little Deer Chaqi", which was a famous snowstorm scene in the industry at that time, was written by Guo Weiren.

Kwok Wai-yan, who was still a fledgling boy at the time, was in charge of the original painting alone for the first time, so he consulted the information, combined with his own experience in the north as a child, and painted this amazing two-minute blizzard with a burst of liver, which became famous in the industry.

When Xu Rui's father died of illness, there was a disagreement among the employees of Phantom Animation, looking at the internal turmoil, Guo Weiren felt very tired, and at the same time, the newly founded Tomato Manufacturing just extended an olive branch to Guo Weiren, so he left Phantom Animation and joined Tomato Manufacturing.

"Lao Guo, where did you go just now? Forget it, here's a piece of information for them to use in a drawing meeting later, you can help sort it out, hurry up. ”

Before the chair was hot, a group leader of the original painting team came over with a stack of materials and commanded unceremoniously.

Guo Weiren didn't say anything and took over the information.

Originally, Guo Weiren thought that he would be able to set sail again in Tomato Manufacturing, but soon, he realized that the reason why Tomato Manufacturing hired him was entirely to improve the company's reputation.

He is proficient in hand-drawing, but he is not very good at pen tablet creation, looking at the digitally drawn lines in the materials, Guo Weiren deeply felt the changes of the times.

He is thirty-nine years old, his son is studying, and life no longer allows Guo Weiren to resign willfully to pursue his animation dream, so he sinks, and only occasionally when everyone is busy, he returns to the old building of Phantom Animation alone to see the place where he used to chase his dreams.

It was really accidental to meet Xu Rui this time, Guo Weiren didn't recognize the other party, and thought that a new animation company had bought the building.

Thinking of the young man's explanation of animation, Guo Weiren did feel his enthusiasm for animation, but Guo Weiren also knew that in today's industry, how difficult it is to build an animation company from scratch, Rainbow Media, Mushroom Pictures, Porco Rosso Studio, the existence of these top companies in the industry directly occupies a lot of resources, even if there is enthusiasm, it is difficult to defeat reality.

Besides, that young man is so young, it is estimated that he has no experience in the industry at all, maybe the rich second generation who loves animation came to play tickets, and if he wants to rebuild the phantom animation, it is difficult to reach the sky.

After sorting out the information, Guo Weiren returned to his position and unlocked the computer screen, which displayed the page of Tomato Video Network, and the video played happened to be the recently popular animated short film "Voice of the Star".

Kwok has seen this short film countless times, and the blood and throbbing of the original animation came back to his heart, and he glanced at the title of the video and sighed deeply again.

"If the author of this video were to reconstruct the electric animation, maybe it would really bring some changes."

He said to himself, but Guo Weiren knew that newcomers of this level would soon be absorbed by large companies and become a member of the animation migrant workers.

"Alas......"

Guo Weiren shook his head and didn't think about it anymore.

......

A week later.

"The Voice of the Star" on Tomato Video has occupied the top click list in the animation area for a week, with more than 8 million views, more than 4 million recommended votes, and more than 100,000 comments, which is a real phenomenon-level video.

Since uploading an account is not a contract, the video cannot be rewarded, and there is no way to get a traffic share, otherwise, Xu Rui can earn a six-figure income just by relying on this one video.

Just a week after the release of "Voice of the Stars", the largest knowledge sharing platform in China, Wenhu also pushed a full amount of splash screen topics, the name is "From "Voice of the Stars" to the first year of literary animation", which is quite a gimmick, the editor applied the concept of literary film to animation, and defined "Voice of Stars" as literary animation, with the concept of the world system that Xu Rui once mentioned, it seems to have a lofty feeling.

In the special feature, there are many excellent answerers who ask about the animation area, and they analyze why this work is popular from various angles and what inspiration it has for animation producers.

The political commissar of the famous animation question answerer wrote passionately in his article: "This animation will definitely go down in the history of domestic animation production, which marks the beginning of a new animation genre and makes people full of reverie for the future!" ”

Another big V Erlang praised it like this: "Although some people think that compared to the theatrical version of the animated film produced by a professional animation company, "The Voice of the Stars" has many flaws and shortcomings, but in my opinion, a graduation project produced by a senior student in half a year can be compared with the works carefully polished by animation companies with hundreds of people, which is already a victory!" ”

The text of the Q&A main Remy Remi is more rational: "We should reflect on why for so many years, only one "Voice of the Star" has been able to resonate so widely, and our animation industry is booming, but has it fallen into a strange circle of self-containment, and whose problem is all this? ”

Due to the detailed content and relevance of the topic, the number of visits has been increasing, and the authors of these articles have gained many new fans.

However, in the big V group in the animation area, the atmosphere is solemn.

[The Past Is Like Smoke]: ...... At the beginning, I said that whoever wrote the topic was a dog, why did you all secretly write it???

[Menmenmen]: That's it, you're too undisciplined, a few hundred dollars were sent away!

[Black Sugar]: Hehe, I usually laugh at me for worshipping money, but one or two licks it more diligently than anyone else.

[Erlang]: Actually, I didn't want to, I asked an acquaintance over there to ask me to write before I started writing.

[Remy Remi]: I'm about the same as Erlang, and I owe others a favor.

[Political Commissar]: It's all about taking money to do things, and it doesn't represent our position.

[Azure Vision]: But the most profitable thing this time is the anime soul of the ham, I think the attention is almost 80,000.

[Aji]: Is he in the group? I've never seen him come out.

[Political Commissar]: No, I used to be there, but I quit the group later. Now that they have received the investment in tomatoes and started their own company, they have long been different from us.

[The Past is Like Smoke]: No matter how the ham is, you are too good at playing, and you can't believe half a sentence of what the group says in the future!!