Since the earliest "Magic Pig Chronicle", "Pig Man" has always been the most popular animation series in China.

The peak popularity is not inferior to Digimon and Divine Soldier Junior Generals.

As of this summer, the Pigman series has produced and aired five TV animations, the latest season of which is based on the classic stories of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales and Grimm's Fairy Tales.

This season has been okay.

After landing on the TV platform and broadcasting, although it was not as popular as in previous seasons, it also gained the love of countless children, and the ratings were very high.

No matter how you look at it, the development prospects of this series are broader than those of "Fruit Treasure Attack", and the future is brighter.

If you can't make Fruit 3, then you can make a Pig Man 6!

The bear is always excited.

After silently weighing the value and weight of the two IPs in his heart, he nodded and agreed without much hesitation.

Even he was worried that Gu Miao would regret it, so he didn't even give him a chance to speak, and signed the agreement of intent without any delay, and his decisiveness surprised others.

"Mr. Gu, really let Fun Anime produce the sixth season of "Pig Man"?"

Sending away Mr. Xiao Xiong, who was full of spring breeze, while waiting for the elevator to go down, Lao Zhang asked with some doubts: "If I'm not mistaken, Pig Man is quite popular, right?" ”

"It's really hot."

Gu Miao admitted: "The popularity of this series has always been very high, and it can be regarded as our Wanbao's evergreen IP." ”

"Then why ......"

"There's no why, if you had to ask, my answer is that the series is in its sixth year."

When the elevator arrived, Gu Miao walked into the elevator, pressed the button representing the 7th floor, and then explained to Lao Zhang: "An animation can be popular for five years, which is already very lucky." ”

"But this luck can't last indefinitely, there will always be an end."

"You mean, the Pigman franchise is going to go downhill?" Lao Zhang heard the sound outside the strings and frowned.

"It's not that it's starting to go downhill, it's already going downhill."

The elevator equipped with the Wanbao headquarters building is very fast, and after a few words, the seventh floor will be reached.

The two walked out of the elevator one after the other, and in the corridor leading to the office area, Gu Miao said in a deep voice: "Although the results of "Fairy Tale of the Building Block World" are very good, the core old audience has lost a lot. ”

This question is different from that of Pleasant Goat.

The loss of Pleasant Goat's audience is largely due to the fact that the old audience has grown up and has passed the childish age of watching cartoons.

The loss of audience for the Pigman series is mainly due to the excessive change in style, which causes many old viewers to feel that the animation has become tasteless and not as good as before......

To put it bluntly.

Each season of Pigman's animation will change its style, telling a completely different new story, and the animation of different periods is not very related.

Here's an example.

In the first season, Pigman is still telling a cliché adventure story of "Dragon Quest, Knight Saves the Princess", and in the second season, he traveled to the island of Olympus to start various sports competitions.

In the fifth season, the plot directly applies fairy tales, and even familiar characters have become fairy tale characters such as Snow White, Cinderella, Prince Charming, and Little Red Riding Hood.

And that's not all.

Since this season, Pigman has even changed his painting style and become more cute and fresh.

The advantage of such an animated series is that each season tells an unexpected story, and the disadvantage is the lack of continuity and coherence.

Take the Pleasant Goat and the Big Big Wolf as examples.

Viewers who have watched the first season of Pleasant Goat, will they feel strange after watching the second and third seasons?

No!

Because the story background and character settings of Pleasant Goat are the same, and even the plot timeline is connected, how can the audience feel unfamiliar?

But every season of Pig Man's animation, not only the story background, but also the character style will be completely changed, which is not friendly to old audiences, because every time you watch it, you will feel very unfamiliar.

I remembered the martial arts version of GG Bond, and as a result, you made a sci-fi version of GG Bond? All right! Just after getting to know the sci-fi version of GG Bond, the fairy tale version of GG Bond came out?

is novel enough to open the brain, humorous and funny plot, these used to be the shining points of the "Pig Man" series.

But after a long time, especially when the production team's creativity is about to dry up, and the audience can't make a good job, the once shining point will become a fatal flaw.

"Don't look at the "Pig Man" series is very popular now, but that's just a return to the past."

"The production team can't work anymore, innovation is weak, inspiration is exhausted, and it's a good thing to lose it to Fun Animation at this time, after all, with a different production team, maybe you can make a peerless good job?"

"That's ...... so"

Suddenly learned the inside information of the production team of "Pig Man", especially the exhaustion of creativity, Lao Zhang was quite shocked.

Is this a dry source of inspiration?

Not really!

The Pig Man series has only come out to the fifth TV animation, and in terms of the number of sequels, it is not worthy of lifting shoes for the Pleasant Goat series.

Why is the Pleasant Goat series still alive, but the Pig Man series can't do anything new, and the production team is simply rotten?

"Is five works a minority?"

"There are more than 400 episodes in total, and if a 20-minute feature film is counted, that is 8,000 minutes!"

Gu Miao complained: "Not to mention that Pig Man will change a set of story backgrounds and character settings every season, and the lines and stalks will open up the plot, so whoever comes will have to run out of inspiration......"

It can't be compared to the Pleasant Goat!

Although there are many sequels to Pleasant Goat, except for "Guardian of Sheep Village", the story background and character settings have basically not changed much.

Even if it is the guardian of Sheep Village, in fact, the story background and character settings have not changed, only some details have changed.

So this can't be compared with Pigman's kind of sequel and a new setting system, and the protagonist has several different versions of the animation.

It's all too normal for inspiration to run out.

With more than 8,000 minutes of animation creation, several sets of story backgrounds and setting systems, the production team members don't know how much hair has fallen.

If you don't transfer it to the outsourcing team, you can only do worse and worse if you stay in your hands, until it becomes a lump of defense, and then it is completely abandoned by the audience.

In fact, for an animation like "Pig Man", it is a good choice to hire an outsourcing team to produce it, after all, the three stinkers beat Zhuge Liang!

Of course.

If you choose to outsource the production team, you have to keep your eyes open, and if you encounter a situation like "Dating Wars 2", it will be too miserable.

Fortunately, Gu Miao chose a funny animation for the sixth season of "Pig Man", backed by the big dog of Mr. Xiaoxiong, at least there will be no embarrassment that half of the animation company will suddenly go bankrupt.

……

September's domestic animation, led by "Roaming the World of Animation"!

Penguin's "Big Devil" and Thunderbolt's "Welcome to the Fist Supremacy Secondary School Classroom" have both been launched.

But it's clear that in front of the world's only true infinite flow screen, neither animation has been able to make too many waves.

Roaming the world of animation has aired to its 12th episode, and the plot has come to an end in the world of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf".

After Xiao Wanbao's unremitting efforts, the gray wolf and the red wolf finally moved to the Qingqing grassland and began their sheep hunting business.

"Come back often~"

"Little Wanbao, when the king catches the lamb, he will definitely call you to eat a mutton feast!"

"Really? Uncle Big Wolf! ”

"Of course it's true, when did King Ben deceive you? You can rest assured, the mutton tube will be full ...... then."

Under the warm farewell of the gray wolf couple, Xiao Wanbao left the green grassland and left this animation world of infinite loops of wolves catching sheep.

For this episode, the most difficult thing for the audience is the promise of Big Big Wolf to invite Xiao Wanbao to eat a mutton dinner together.

Boy!

As soon as this kind of Flag is spoken, the gray wolf will not want to catch the sheep in his life, as for the mutton feast promised to Xiao Wanbao?

By all means next time! By all means next time!

Xiao Wanbao, who left the green grassland, returned home, and came back with the animated elf.

Lottery Wheel, Launch!

After Xiao Wanbao completed the task, he actually drew the "Infinite Frying Pan" of the red wolf, and the audience laughed wildly.

Okay, well, the strongest and most perverted trick in the world of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf can be regarded as letting Xiao Wanbao learn.

With this trick, even if she crosses into the terrifying world of "Dragon Ball" in the future, she is not afraid that she will be bullied.

Merely......

The appearance of a seven-year-old cute baby holding a frying pan is still very funny, and the comedy is directly full.

didn't let everyone wait too long, and after a short break, Xiao Wanbao embarked on a journey to save the animation world again at the urging of the animation elves.

This time it's the world of "Bear Infested".

A new journey, a new adventure, the bear who lives in the zoo, the big bear two, and the bald head who takes in the little Wanbao...... With the airing of the latest episode, the anime has taken off again.

At this time, Gu Miao was completely numb.

After all, watching the broadcast volume of "Roaming the World of Animation" skyrocket every day, almost two or three hundred million a day, it is a person who will feel numb.

He still prefers to deal with advertisers rather than this kind of vulgar broadcast data......

That's right, advertisers!

With the explosion of "Roaming the World of Animation", more and more advertisers have their eyes on this animation and began to come to the door, hoping to sponsor the work.

One of the most exaggerated offers came from an Internet e-commerce company, as long as the "online shopping on XXX, banana mobile phone one yuan seckill" advertisement was added to the title, Wanbao could receive about 32 million yuan in sponsorship fees.

It's scary!

You must know that in the previous opening advertisement of "Guardian of Sheep Village", the highest price did not exceed 10 million, but this time it directly increased by six or seven times, which is enough to see how exaggerated the popularity of "Roaming the Animation World" is.

By the way......

Gu Miao's golden sign is still very attractive, even if "Go Boy" is still in production and has not been broadcast, and the specific quality of the completion is uncertain, there are still many advertisers who come to the door to apply for sponsorship.

This is the gold content of the Green Prairie Shepherd, the Genesis Mountain Conductor, the Bear Ridge Bandit, the Sailor Black Hole, the Thunder King, the Maggot Pokémon, the Beechburg Councilman, and the Superman's Best Friend!

The animation is not finished yet, and the advertising revenue alone has already paid back half of the cost.

This alone is enough to prove how popular the project "Go Boy" is, and even if it is not finished, there are still people who come to the door to send money.

Of course, the reason why Go Boy has attracted much attention and expectation, in addition to Gu Miao's golden signboard, is also partly because of Xiao Ke's joining.

He's a world champion.

Although Xiao Ke in this period has not yet broken the circle with abstract influence, he is already very famous in the circle of contact with Go.

There are also some entrepreneurs who play Go, and as soon as they heard that Xiao Ke was involved in the production of Go animation, they immediately became interested, and it made sense to come to sponsor the animation.

But then again.

After all, "Go Boy" is an "unpopular" animation in the eyes of everyone, and the sponsors are certainly not as generous as "Roaming the World of Animation".

It's good that people are willing to sponsor, how can Gu Miao think the price is low?

Moreover, the production team is not short of money.

The animation "Go Boy" is not an animation with explosive budgets, on the contrary, this animation is quite cost-effective in a sense.

After all, in an episode of animation, except for the drama part, the rest of the time is all about the changes in the "chess game".

Isn't it easy to draw a chessboard?

Gu Miao can do this work herself, and the effect is not much worse than those professional painters.

It is only in the process of playing chess that there is some delay in adding various lighting effects to the chess pieces and chessboard, and under normal circumstances, it is not troublesome to draw the chessboard.

A game of chess, which seems to have infinite changes, has been simplified into a kindergarten graffiti painting in the process of animation.

In the final analysis, the chessboard is a series of horizontal and vertical lines distributed on a wood-colored background canvas, using the copy-and-paste method to arrange the white and black pieces according to Xiao Ke's instructions.

This process does not require any brain power, after all, the work of studying the chess game and deducing the chess game has been handed over to Xiao Ke, and the painters only need to follow the chess game and carefully arrange the position of the chess pieces.

It's not uncommon for chess pieces to be misplaced.

After all, it's easy to look at the chess game, and sometimes if you're not careful, the pieces are misplaced.

At this time, Xiao Ke, a special consultant, plays a role. He carefully checks every move to make sure that the game will go according to his deduction.

In the process, an interesting incident happened.

Xiao Ke took out a chess game and asked the artists to draw the key frames according to the chess game, but in the process of drawing, one of the artists remembered the wrong position of the white chess pieces and drew the wrong one.

It's a simple mistake that needs to be detected and corrected in time.

But after Xiao Ke saw this wrong move, his eyes lit up, saying that there was no need to redraw, and the white move was very good and good, which was more reasonable than the chess game he provided.

The AI real-time win rate shows that the wrong move suddenly increases white's win rate by 10 percentage points.

God is not a single move, but it is indeed a good move, which can be kept completely, and even overturn his original chess game for this reason......

"Huh? So amazing? ”

Gu Miao didn't expect this kind of thing to happen, and when he came back to his senses, he immediately said that he would record this incident and cut it into behind-the-scenes footage for broadcast.

He had all the titles in mind.

"Is it carelessness or deliberateness, is he really a Go genius?" 》

(End of chapter)