"Martin Martin, every morning you wake up ~ Martin Martin, there is a character waiting for ......"

As soon as she arrived at the company, Gu Miao heard her singing echoing in the empty office, which could be described as a lingering sound.

"Who's putting the song?"

Taking off the down jacket and hanging it aside, Gu Miao asked Xiao Wang, the secretary on the side, "You can't put it there, right?" ”

"This is Mr. Zhang's song."

Xiao Wang said with an embarrassed face: "He called on everyone to go to the Internet to listen to your singles, and if possible, play them at home." ”

Gu Miao: "......"

What does it mean?

Do you want him to make his debut as an idol so much? He admits that the songs he sings are really good, but there's no need for a single loop, right?

"Hurry up and change it...... Forget it, just turn it off, what song do you listen to early in the morning? ”

After waving her hand, Gu Miao walked to her desk and sat down, turning on the computer on the desk.

Today is the twenty-seventh day of the first lunar month.

The mutual spraying war between the movie "Dog Comes to Fuwang" and "Monster Hunt 2" is still ongoing, and on the way to the company, Gu Miao received a call from an intermediary.

The content of the call is to convey the "truce" intention of the producer of "Monster Hunt 2".

To put it simply, they hope that Wanbao will not catch "Monster Hunt 2" again, and the two sides should unanimously target "Operation Blue Ocean", which is in the limelight.

It's a pity that Gu Miao didn't agree.

What's the matter? The matter was provoked, and now if you say a truce, you will stop fighting?

What's more, the two fans are torn like this, is that a grievance that can be resolved by a truce? If nothing else, even if the two films are released, fans will still quarrel.

Liang Zi is finished.

But the good news is that the box office of both movies finally exceeded 2 billion, of which "Dog Comes to Fuwang" is slightly higher than "Monster Hunt 2".

Don't underestimate these millions of box office, this will be the last straw that will break the camel's back!

Considering that the Spring Festival holiday has ended, the ranking of new films released during the Spring Festival this year has also been released, and Blue Ocean Action ranks first without dispute.

Then there are Dog Lai Fuwang and Monster Hunt 2, ranking second and third respectively.

As for the films in the fourth place and after, there is no need to mention it at all, the gap with the top three box office is too big.

The first blue ocean action ended with 3.6 billion, and the second and third places also had more than 2 billion respectively.

These three films almost carved up the domestic box office of the entire Spring Festival file. The box office of other movies in the same period combined, and it is not half as high as the box office of Monster Hunt 2, which is in third place.

"Film Market, Winner Takes All!"

After the bloody battle of this Spring Festival file, Gu Miao has a deeper understanding of this sentence.

It's really cruel!

Moviegoers don't have as much choice as TV viewers. You can only watch what movies are scheduled in the cinema.

So this leads to the fact that if there are two or three new films with explosive popularity in this schedule, then the other new films released in this schedule can almost wait to die.

Because the theater chain will give priority to the blockbusters with higher popularity, as for the new films that no one knows, they can stay wherever they are cool.

It's a pity.

In this Spring Festival file, almost all eyes are focused on Blue Ocean Action, Dog Lai Fuwang and Monster Hunt 2.

In other movies, Mao didn't get it.

This even includes "Dragon Ball: No. 1 in the World" produced by Wanbao Pictures!

The first theatrical version of Dragon Ball performed well overseas, but it was really not good in China, and it only earned more than 20 million box office in half a month after its release.

Actually, the production is not bad.

Even Du Hao, the general manager of Wanbao Pictures, said that the production of the Dragon Ball theatrical version is very good, except for the plot is a bit "TV-oriented", all other aspects perform well.

But again, domestic audiences don't seem to like watching this kind of theatrical animated movie.

Or maybe the timing is wrong!

If it wasn't for the Spring Festival, wouldn't it be better to change to a summer vacation file?

Gu Miao didn't know the answer, anyway, he only knew that none of the three animated movies produced by Wanbao were at a loss.

That's enough!

Originally, the theatrical version was a continuation of the TV version.,As long as you don't lose money, you can continue to do it.,The momentary gain and distortion is nothing.。

If you really want to talk about it......

Wanbao is based on the foundation of the animation industry, which is actually TV animation. As long as this business is stabilized and nothing happens, the animated movie will pounce.

"When it comes to TV animation, Martin's mornings are really good."

"The original version is worthy of being a Sino-French co-production, and there is really something, and the French animation foundation is still quite strong......"

Gu Miao sighed with emotion.

The key to the success of the animation "Martin's Morning" lies in the script and script, and in terms of animation painting, to be honest, it is okay to change people.

As for the script script, if he remembers correctly, the original version seems to have been written by the French, and the Chinese side is only responsible for the animation painting part.

That's the difference!

Sino-French co-production, it seems to be a co-production, but who contributes the most and who is most important to this animation, and the audience is not blind can be seen.

"French animation is still quite strong."

Huang Kun, who was summoned to the office by Gu Miao on the phone, couldn't help but comment: "Their attainments in art short films have also continued to the field of animation, and short animations are almost all excellent. ”

This has to be admired.

It's true that people can't come up with too many long-form masterpieces, but in the field of short animation, it is undeniable that the French are strong.

Trivia!

In fact, in a sense, the highly acclaimed LOL adaptation animation of "Battle of Two Cities" can also be said to be a "French" animation.

Yes, it's true.

Riot is a North American company, but when they made the anime Two Cities, they had a lot of French animators on the team.

In fact, Gu Miao knew this at the beginning after seeing the unique Art Deco style displayed by the Piltover scene.

One of his former friends didn't know how to pretend to understand, saying that the art style of "Battle of Two Cities" was "beautiful and comic", and he was speechless.

How can such an obvious steampunk and French Art Deco style be beautiful?

It can only be said that French animation is indeed a god among gods, but too many people don't understand it. When I see something that feels familiar, I don't think about French animation.

European animation is no worse than North American.

But North American animation is backed by Hollywood, and its fame and influence are greater than that of European animation, so many people think that Hollywood is the best animation in the world.

This is actually a misconception.

The artistic style of an animation does not depend on where it is produced, but on where the producer, that is, the director, comes from.

About half of the art styles of classic Hollywood animation are deeply influenced by European animation, and most of the directors or producers of these animations are from Europe.

"Europe is quite strong."

Gu Miao nodded and said, "But they despise the industrialization of animation, which is destined to lead to the decline of their animation industry and the outflow of talents." ”

"Yes, we have a lot of foreign animators from all over Europe."

Huang Kun lamented: "You can cultivate talents, but most of them will go to Hollywood, and this is the most embarrassing thing about European animation." ”

If you have the opportunity, you can actually go to Europe to dig into the corner, and there are still many animation masters who are engaged in art.

This is the proposal given by Huang Kun.

Gu Miao thinks it makes sense, there are indeed a lot of top animators in Europe, and just digging a few is enough for Wanbao to lie flat for decades.

But that's not the point, the reason why he used "Martin's Morning" to talk about French animation is mainly to ask Huang Kun, is he interested in taking over Baby Bus Studio?

Wanbao's newly established baby bus studio focuses on the first-hand European animation art style, and the first work is "Thomas and His Friends".

It's not a good style to master.

After thinking about it, Wanbao Animation only has Huang Kun, the old Bi Deng, who can control the overall situation.

"Me? I don't fit well! ”

Huang Kun scratched his head: "I really don't understand the art style of European animation!" If I'm not mistaken, Europe should love stop-motion animation? ”

"Yes, stop-motion."

Gu Miao said in affirmation.

European children's animation, especially "Thomas and His Friends", is very popular for stop-motion animation.

I don't know what their obsession with stop-motion animation is, anyway, as long as it's animation, no matter what the subject matter is, it can be made into stop-motion......

"Since it's stop-motion animation, then Liang Xiaodong is more suitable than me!"

Huang Kun said with a smile: "He is a veteran in this area, what puppet animation, paper-cut animation, stop-motion animation and clay animation, it is simply omnipotent." ”

"Liang Xiaodong ......"

After Gu Miao muttered, she felt that what Huang Kun said was not unreasonable.

If you have to say, Liang Xiaodong and the puppet studio to which he belongs are the most suitable production team for the animation "Thomas and His Friends".

But here's the problem......

Liang Xiaodong is the head of the puppet studio! Transfer him to the newly established Baby Bus Studio, what about the puppet studio?

"Doesn't he have a junior brother?"

"His junior brother has been with him for so long, and he has also participated in the production of many animations, so it should be no problem to replace Liang Xiaodong in charge of the overall situation, right?"

Liang Xiaodong's junior brother?!

Gu Miao thought about it seriously, and immediately picked up the landline phone on the table and called Liang Xiaodong.

It didn't take long for Liang Xiaodong to come to Gu Miao's office and meet Mr. Gu and Huang Kun.

When he learned that Mr. Gu wanted to transfer him to Baby Bus Studio to produce the animation "Thomas and His Friends" as the person in charge and director, he was stunned.

"Can be ......"

"It's okay, then it's decided, you pack up and go directly to the baby bus to report, and pull the production team up as soon as possible."

Gu Miao didn't wait for him to finish, and made a decisive arrangement: "Before June this year, I want to see Thomas's little train galloping on the TV screen." ”

"Okay, Mr. Gu!"

Although there were many doubts in his heart, since Mr. Gu had made arrangements, Liang Xiaodong could only nod and agree.

As for the puppet studio, as Mr. Gu said, there is still his junior brother anyway, and there will be no chaos.

"Baby buses are important!"

Worried that Liang Xiaodong would not take the project seriously, Gu Miao explained: "Most of the audiences covered by this studio are preschool children. ”

"The influence of this kind of animation is very exaggerated, and if it is done, it will not be worse than SpongeBob SquarePants in the future."

"And your thinking can be more lively, and the work of the baby bus doesn't have to be an animation!"

"Ahh It doesn't have to be an animation? ”

Liang Xiaodong and Huang Kun were stunned.

What do you mean? Is it possible that a work made by an animation studio is not animation?

"Of course!"

"As I said, your goal is to reach as many preschoolers as possible, as long as it catches their eye, you can do anything."

Gu Miao shrugged her shoulders and said, "Live-action TV series, as long as these preschool babies like to watch it, you can also shoot it." ”

Peppa Pig won't talk about it.

What Gu Miao wants to express is actually "Teletubbies" and "Garden Baby", which are special works between live-action TV series and children's animation.

These two works are often included in the category of "children's animation".

But the original version is played by real people.

It's embarrassing.,You say it's a live-action TV series.,It's not quite in line.,You say it's a children's animation.,That's not ......

That's why Gu Miao asked Liang Xiaodong to open his mind a little bigger, don't keep thinking about animation.

In the eyes of preschool babies, the boundary between children's animation and children's programs is not so clear, and it can be said to be the same nature.

Not to mention.

Gu Miao originally approved the establishment of the "Baby Bus" studio, and it was the idea of "Teletubbies" and "Garden Baby".

"Thomas and His Friends" is just a test of the waters, a simple test of the depth of the preschooler cartoon animation.

After trying the depth of water, it's time to sacrifice big killers like Teletubbies and Garden Babies to brainwash kindergarten friends all over the world.

Peppa Pig will have it too!

The wind review of this pig is actually quite good, although the painting is indeed very abstract and does not meet the aesthetics of most audiences.

But this is a toddler's cartoon animation! People don't make it for you to see, what's there to complain about?

Of course, this is limited to Peppa Pig in the early stages.

"Peppa Pig" a few years ago is indeed a god among gods, and it is reasonable to sweep the world and become a phenomenal anime work.

But the latest seasons......

With the addition of "same-sex couple" characters to the animation of "Peppa Pig", after the producer frantically carried private goods, Gu Miao guessed that this IP was going to rot.

Regardless of the private goods and death in the later stage, if you only look at the early stage, "Peppa Pig" is really good, as a child-oriented animation, its popularity and influence are very amazing.

You may not have seen the anime, but you must have heard of it.

You may not be interested, but when you see that pink "hair dryer" pig, you will definitely recognize that it is Peppa.

That's a manifestation of influence.

Works like Teletubbies and Garden Babies may not be particularly compatible with Wanbao Animation.

But "Peppa Pig" is definitely a good fit, after all, animation companies engage in animation, isn't it a matter of course?

"Good job!"

Gu Miao patted Liang Xiaodong on the shoulder and encouraged: "Few audiences in the puppet studio may know about it, and few children like your previous works." ”

"But Baby Bus is different, each animation you make here will be a world-renowned super IP, sought after and loved by countless children."

really made the works of Peppa Pig, Teletubbies and Garden Baby, Liang Xiaodong is also famous at home and abroad.

(End of chapter)