Chapter 1: Parallel Worlds

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Midsummer, Egawa.

Gu Miao sat slumped on the sofa, staring blankly at the ceiling, her expression like a pig about to die.

He was a little confused.

It's been a week since I traveled to this parallel world.

From a middle-aged greasy director who specializes in vulgar family ethics dramas to a young man who has just graduated with the same name and surname, he thinks that his life is about to reach its peak.

Become the CEO and marry Bai Fumei!

As a time-traveler, isn't it easy to achieve these dreams?

But when Gu Miao further sorted out the interpersonal relationships and memories of his predecessor, he found that the actual situation was somewhat unexpected by him......

The pinnacle of life?!

Gu Miao works for a local animation company in Jiangchuan, although the scale of the company is not large, and the daily business is to take on some small jobs such as outsourcing and foundry.

This is also the norm for small companies.

But just half a year ago, the rich second-generation boss of the company didn't know what was crazy, and made the decision to "make an original animation with all his might" despite dissuasion.

"Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers!"

Thinking of this, Gu Miao didn't know how to evaluate his boss.

Engaging in originality, are you really not afraid of death?

If it were really that simple to create an original IP, there would be no cases of Disney acquiring Marvel and Bandai acquiring Tsuburaya.

If you can have a child, why do you have to go to the old Wang's house next door to adopt one?

So, the ending can be imagined.

Countless manpower and material resources were invested, and the original animation "Haiwa", which was pinned on by the company, premiered and died violently. A small company, which was already struggling to survive, suddenly fell into the quagmire of "financial crisis".

Originally, this had little to do with Gu Miao.

He is just a worker, no matter how much money the boss loses, he doesn't have to fill the deficit, and it's none of his business if the company goes bankrupt.

But the emotional intelligence of the predecessor is not enough......

After the failure of the "Haiwa" project, the company held an internal meeting to divide the pot, and he muttered on the side, "I have long thought that Haiwa is not good", but unfortunately the director of "Haiwa" heard it and immediately became the target of public criticism.

"You're so capable, are you coming?"

"Who wouldn't talk about this? If you think "Haiwa" is not good, then you should make a successful animation! ”

"It's just ......"

Gu Miao was originally a young man who had just graduated not long ago, and he had not yet become an old fritter in the workplace, and he was sneered at by so many people, coupled with his own feelings of "revitalizing Guoman", and he agreed for a while.

"Well, you'll be in charge of the company's next animation!"

The boss probably wants to see a joke too.

Although he said that Gu Miao was the person in charge of the new project and the chief director, this was just a blank check, and he would neither give money nor give people, a proper commander of the light pole.

Everyone was waiting to see him make a fool of himself.

How can animation be so easy? Under the premise of no money and no one, Gu Miao's "bold words" promised in public is undoubtedly a joke, and no one in the company is optimistic about him.

It's just that this guy has a stubborn personality.

The more no one thinks highly of him, the more he wants to make a performance to prove himself.

And then......

He died suddenly because he stayed up late and burst his liver.

"Too young, too simple Tucson breaks!"

encountered such a mess as soon as he crossed, Gu Miao's mood at the moment can only be described in one word, there is nothing to love!

If he could, he would have run long ago.

The best option at the moment is definitely to run away with a bucket and start over in a different place. With his identity as a traverser, at least it is not a problem to eat with a mouthful.

But he can't run!

If this is gone, no matter what he will become in the future, will he still live forever in the ridicule of others and will not be able to raise his head?

Moreover.

Looking at the storyboard sketches scattered all over the floor in the rental house, as well as the dialogue script and story synopsis that the computer had not had time to supplement and complete, Gu Miao couldn't bear it.

No matter how cheap a dream is, it is also a dream.

Others can unscrupulously ridicule and ridicule the predecessor, it doesn't mean that he will do the same, since he has crossed over to become this young man, he has the obligation to realize his dream for this young man.

Merely......

Do you want to animate?

Gu Miao scratched her head.

Don't look at his previous life, he was also a director, but he made a TV series! And the dramas he directed, what kind of crooked melons and cracked dates are they?

"Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law Qi is pregnant", "Mecha Frenzy of the Anti-Japanese War", "You at the Same Table, Crush on Me", "Harem Gu Concubine" and so on.

Be reasonable!

After this list of masterpieces, anyone who is serious can guess what kind of director Gu Miao is.

If he is allowed to return to his old business, he may be able to thrive in this parallel world of "cultural desert with little knowledge, and a love song as a treasure".

But when it comes to animation, he really can't do anything.

After all, the business is not familiar!

Animation and live-action dramas, those are two distinct fields, not that they are both called directors, then they can cross borders casually.

The gap between the two cannot be described in words. As long as anyone with a brain knows that the work content represented by making an animation and making a TV series or movie must be very different.

Moreover, the cross-border is also counted.

What's the situation now?

No money, no one!

The company doesn't give support.,The predecessor just graduated from college and the pocket is cleaner than the face.,But animation is an extremely money-burning industry.。

Whether it is 3D or 2D, domestic or foreign, as long as an animation work with excellent looks and feels, its production cost cannot be too low.

Again, this is not a live-action drama.

Live-action dramas can also save costs in many aspects such as salary, props, special effects costumes, and even crew lunches, anyway, the audience can't see the behind-the-scenes footage. Traffic idol dramas with tens of millions of salaries and low-cost romantic dramas with millions of new people, to be honest, the gap is not big.

But animation is different.

The production team has more money and less money, and the audience can find at a glance that the examples of cutting corners and being recognized are not uncommon in this industry.

For example, the story of xx.

Under such extremely harsh conditions, it is impossible for even Gu Miao herself to create a successful and excellent work.

Unless......

There is such a work that is not limited to the production level, the cost is unbelievably low, and it can be called shoddy, but it can be successfully popularized.

Does such a work really exist?

Which of the well-known animation works that can explode and make the audience familiar with them have an investment of less than seven figures? Anything below eight figures is rare!

But just now, Gu Miao thought of the answer.

As a traverser, he has excellent works from the original world for reference. Among them, there seems to be such a work that meets the needs and is very special.

An animation work that was once popular all over the country, low cost and rough production, but broke many records, with a life cycle of more than ten years, and has become the childhood memories of countless people-

"Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf"!

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