Chapter 65: Art Designer and Scripter (1)

Miyadai is browsing ListenNepster's music site, which was already online at the scheduled time before the final episode of "Black Rock Shooter" was played.

Of course, he doesn't look at the website to care about the design of ListenNepster's pages, let alone their operations...... He just wanted to see how many of the songs from Hatsune Miku, which had started offering paid downloads on the site.

First, in this way, he can emotionally estimate the popularity of Hatsune Miku's project and the publicity effect; Second, the number of downloads is related to his personal income.

Hatsune has a total of six songs online, and each song listed on the page costs 550 yen to download...... With a single CD priced at just over 1,000 yen, the price of this digital audio is by no means low. According to the copyright exclusivity agreement signed in advance, Miyadai Songwriter, as a songwriter, has a high percentage of 17%.

This is the main reason why he agrees with this exclusivity...... Theoretically, the number of mobile phone downloads is much higher than that of Internet downloads, after all, the ringtone business is in a stage of vigorous development, and if there is no such a high percentage, why should he agree to the way of exclusive distribution on the Internet?

"I've cleared the production of 'Black Rock Shooter', So-kun, guess how much money we made?"

While Miyadai was browsing the web, Iwami Mai Rinka said beside him with a stack of financial statements.

"Is it a loss? I think our cost control is pretty good. Miyadai responded. At this time, the layout of the web page made him a little uncomfortable, so he operated a little clumsy.

"We can't lose money, we still make money, but the amount of money we make is ...... A total of 235,700 yen. Iwami said in a rather subtle tone.

After several months of busy work, I only earned 230,000 yen...... To be honest, this is a dismal outcome.

"Sure enough, it is not feasible to make money simply by taking production fees, so that at most it can only maintain the survival of the enterprise, and further ...... Sure enough, I still need to join the production committee, and Mad Poihat doesn't make as much money as I personally make in this anime project. "This kind of result was actually expected by Miyadai, after all, he still had a point in terms of how much money was spent in the process of making the animation, and when they were working as Black Rock Shooters, they didn't have the idea of cutting corners.

Because of the first work, in order to ensure the quality, they are willing to spend all the production.

As for the fact that Mad Poihat did not make as much money as Gong Dai, this is true...... The series consists of 300,000, the script is 900,000, the original character is 400,000, and the music copyright royalty is 300,000 X8, just such a simple calculation, he can get 4 million.

It's no wonder that some animation companies have retreated from the stage of production and independent production to the stage of collaborative production (such as Tong Meng, after making ghouls, they no longer make their own works for unknown reasons), because it is really uncomfortable to make money after bothering and working hard.

Therefore, in the final analysis, animation companies still need to make their own capital investment, although this is a venture capital, but it is also an inevitable one.

For example, Mad Poihat is now working on "The Flying Witch".

"Yes, there is only a harvest if there is input, and working for the production committee must be the only result." Mai Iwami also understands this truth.

"Is there a plan for the release of the Black Rock Shooter over there at ListenNepster?" Miyadai asked.

The Black Rock Shooter's work is basically done, and Mad Poihat's production efforts have shifted to the Flying Witch, but if ListenNepster has a plan for a Blu-ray release in the near future, then Mad Poihat will also be responsible for correcting, modifying, and optimizing the graphics.

After all, the Blu-ray, which is not so much for the audience to buy, is no different from the version broadcast by TV, and the better part that should be done still needs to be done.

"I contacted them before, and the saying there was that they would put this matter on hold for the time being, after all, their website has just been launched, and there are a lot of busy places, so they can only put the matter of Black Rock in the second echelon...... I guess by that time the popularity of the anime has already dropped. ”

This is quite a helpless thing, after all, ListenNepster is a music company and not an animation company, and the animation project of Black Rock Shooter is just an occasional phenomenon, which is a part of publicity, not their core business, and naturally it will not be put in the first place.

"That's right...... That's a bit of a pity, and to be honest, I'd like to hope that the Black Rock Shooter can get a good sale. Miyadai said.

Although Mad Poihat will not get a penny no longer regardless of whether the Black Rock Shooter sells well or badly, as a producer, he naturally hopes that the work he produces will sell well.

"How? Has the next funding for the flying witch been settled? ”

"There must be a fall, right?" Miyayo said uncertainly, because there was no other sound source, so Hatsune's song was quite high in the download ranking of ListenNepster, but the number of downloads on the website was not first, so he didn't know how.

Let's assume that the average number of downloads per song can reach 100,000, and the total number of downloads is 200,000...... Then there is more than a fall, 50 million is simply in hand.

Rinka-senpai put the financial statements on Gong Daiyu's desk, and then inadvertently saw a stack of documents on the table.

"What is this?"

"Some of the design drafts of the Flying Witch sent by the art designer ......," Miyayo said.

Including the indoor environment of the home where the heroine lives, the overall layout of the town where she lives, and the clothes worn by the heroine in each episode, etc., these are all things that need to be responsible for the art design.

Because the heroine's body is the key part of the work, the design of the costume is very important, in addition to the school uniform, she has to change at least one set of clothes every word, and these clothes are basically skirts...... Since it's a work that sells stockings, it doesn't always make the character ship sweatpants, and she has to expose her legs.

The right clothing is extremely important, which has a direct impact on sales.

"Wait a minute, why do these clothes look familiar?"

The things in front are too problematic, but when the senior sister looked at a few character pictures, she felt a little wrong, how to look familiar with these clothes.

"Familiar? I also think it's a little bit like that, which shows that our aesthetics are very similar. Miyadai finally turned his head from the computer screen.

“……”

The senior sister looked at him with rather speechless eyes, is this a matter of aesthetics?

The animation is different from reality, but ...... The clothes worn by this heroine are all worn by her, that is, she unknowingly became a model, or the kind without permission.