Chapter 49: The Task Force
There may not be so many people who have heard of these two works, and in terms of content, they are indeed out-and-out niche.
The former writes about paleontology, which is a bit hard sci-fi; The latter is the protagonist messing around with a bit of nonsense.
If he could, Fan Zhe didn't want to take some copyrights that were more popular and more public-oriented. If you get the copyright of "Breaking the Sky" in your hand, and then cooperate with your own technical ability, as long as the publicity can keep up with it a little, it will definitely be able to give birth to a popular work.
But this is not possible.
There is a gap of 3 million yuan inside and outside, and I still want to get a popular work, I'm afraid it's not a dream.
In fact, as far as Fan Zhe knows, the price of Lewen's selling copyright is very high, especially some of the more popular works.
Moreover, they seem to be more inclined to develop it themselves, or cooperatively.
Purely selling copyrights, these companies that are doing content now, as long as they are a little ideal, will not do it. Marvel is a lesson from the past, if the copyrights of Spider-Man and X-Men are still in Marvel's own hands, they don't know how much more money they will make than now.
It's easy to sell the copyright, but it's very difficult to get it back.
It's to be expected that you can't get those hot IP copyrights - you can't buy them for three million.
In this case, it is a relatively better choice to settle for the next best thing and find some more distinctive works.
That's it.
When Fan Zhe is ready to start his next project, these two works will be a good start, which will be his own project, and not be checked and balanced by the partner of the Levin Group like "Full Time".
It's just that if you develop a new work by yourself, there will be other problems.
Doing the opening animation for "Giant God Game" and the second season of "Full Time" for Levin Group, these are just working as a simple producer and taking money. As for what to do with the work after it is finished, how to distribute it, and how to make a profit, these are all completely unconsidered.
But if you do it yourself, it's a different story.
Scratching your head, you can not talk about profitable things for the time being, but which work to do, this choice itself is quite a headache.
Both works are too niche.
He did a little bit of the conceptual design of both works.
Personally, he likes the work "The Evolution of the 4.6 Billion Reciprocal" even more.
But according to his basic judgment of the existing market, the audience of this work is much smaller than the other. If this one is made, it will definitely be biased towards popular science, or even something like a documentary.
In front of the public, how many people can like this style?
It's a very uncertain thing.
After comprehensive consideration, Fan Zhe decided to ...... Just do the "Special Events Task Force"?
Scratching his head, Fan Zhe took the pen tablet and began to sketch the characters little by little.
The style of this work is relatively nonsensical, the dialogue of the content is interesting and dark, and the dialogue is full of many eighteen forbidden contents, and the scale can be described as quite large. There are also some racist words at the beginning, saying that 'a black-led country must be what it is,' which is also very inappropriate.
It doesn't matter what Fan Zhe's own political attitude is, if these things are openly made into animations and broadcast on the Internet, they will inevitably cause an uproar.
It's just a matter of death.
Although Fan Zhe himself doesn't like Uncle Hei.
If this film was to be made, Fan Zhe decided to make it into an animation. The style of painting must not be like "Full Time", taking the Japanese and Korean style of beauty, which does not match the taste of the whole drama.
What Fan Zhe is thinking about is to make a choice between high-quality CG animation and European-style card ventilation.
In the end, he decided to do the card ventilation.
High-quality CG is not impossible, with 'dimension' in hand, he must be confident that he will do a good job and control the cost.
However, when I first made the opening animation of "Assassination Squad", Fan Zhe himself worked overtime all night every day, and Miller was also working at full strength, and the two of them spent nearly three months working on a two-minute animation.
If "Special Events Task Force" were to do it at the same level, one episode would be twenty minutes long, and one season would be ten episodes......
With the current manpower of 'Dimensional Entertainment', it takes too much time to do. In addition, the amount of work required for the calculation is also large, and the entire production cycle becomes very long.
What's more, the company's main focus is now on the production project of the second season of "Full Time".
Of course, the company will definitely continue to expand in the future, but judging from the current situation, Fan Zhe hopes to be able to come up with works faster, obtain faster capital turnover, and accelerate the company's expansion.
If you have money, you will have talent, and you will be able to better and faster launch the things that Fan Zhe wants to make in his heart.
Moreover, even if it is made into a high-quality CG, it is difficult to have a particularly good bonus for a work with a unique style like "Special Events Task Force".
On the contrary, the European and American cartoon style is indeed more suitable for expressing the nonsensical, absurd, and heavy flavor characteristics of this work.
What's more, the difficulty of making cartoons is several grades lower than that of high-quality CG, and you don't need too many people to invest, and you can quickly come up with a work.
As the thoughts in his mind continued, Fan Zhe also simply sketched a character.
Fan Zhe is still quite satisfied with the effect of the painting. Although there is still room for modification in many places, the overall taste has come out.
This is the main character, the monkey.
He is a character with a more exaggerated painting style, looking a bit like a little ruffian, who has nothing to do with handsomeness and cuteness, but has a slightly sloppy style. In terms of color style, Fan Zhe's pen is very heavy, with high contrast, high saturation, and more exaggerated color matching, which makes the characters look a bit absurd and weird.
Fan Zhe nodded with satisfaction, and just wanted to continue to revise, Tang Zhiqi called him outside.
"Boss, it's time to get off work."
"Well, you guys go first, I'll stay a little longer."
"Okay, but you still have to take care of yourself."
"Well, don't worry too much."
Seeing the girl's figure disappear from the door, Fan Zhe picked up his mobile phone, ordered a takeout, and then continued to work.
He recently rented a one-room apartment in a neighborhood near his work, where it takes only about five minutes to walk to work. Fifty square meters, finely decorated, the kind of bag check-in. However, he rarely goes back, and usually stays in the company until late, goes to sleep, and wakes up and comes directly to the company.
Even in the most difficult times of the past, he had never lived such a life. He has always been a person who thinks that work is for a better life, sacrificing life for work, putting the cart before the horse.
But now it's a little different, he doesn't feel hard to fight for the cause he loves, but he is highly excited.