Chapter 130: The Difficulties of the Comic Industry
At the time of the previous café.
Lu Yiming received a call from Zheng Huacai.
Inform him that the balance of the payment on the Jiangcheng side has been settled.
Regarding the consumption score of the Shenhao card, Lu Yiming has always thought that it is aimed at the overall consumption process.
Come to the parking lot.
After getting into the car.
Lu Yiming opened the data panel again and muttered: "So every consumption will be scored independently after settlement, right?" ”
You can see it at this point.
In the data panel, the system divides his consumption behavior three times.
Consumption score: Luxury Hospitality Fan Score A (41.47 million) Luxury Watch*2 Score A (990,000) Top Luxury Wedding Dress Prepayment Score S (2 million) (D%10, C%25, B%50, A%80, S%100)/5.54 million
Three consumptions, two high luxury, one top luxury.
The corresponding score of high luxury is A.
The rating of the top luxury is S.
From this, you can see what type of consumption the system wants him to make.
Entertaining fans is only evaluated as high luxury, which Lu Yiming did not expect.
But think about it, more than 10,000 per capita, it took four days and three nights.
This does not seem to be a top luxury consumption.
But the watch only gave a rating of A.
The pensive Lu Yiming muttered, "Is it because the value is not enough?" ”
can recognize him as paying for fan consumption.
This means that it must not be because he has a watch to give to Fu Xiaoli.
There is only one reason why the value is not enough.
A watch of 600,000 yuan can only be regarded as a luxury in the eyes of the system, and Lu Yiming couldn't help but sigh: "Is this forcing me to learn to spend money?" Yours is it! System! ”
2.99 million were consumed today.
This has a big impact on Lu Yiming's consumption outlook.
He needed to take his time.
Afterwards, milk tea and some pastries and snacks were bought per capita.
Lu Yiming rushed to his comic studio.
The studio Lu Yiming was completely handed over to Fu Xiaoli to be in charge, so he only came once on the day when it was officially run at the beginning.
The venue is a rented commercial and residential room.
In fact, it is a three-bedroom house converted into an office space.
It was Fu Xiaoli who opened the door to greet Lu Yiming.
Seeing the thing he was carrying in his hand, he immediately turned around and beckoned the people inside to come out to pick it up.
"Hey, hey! It's milk tea! Thank you owner! ”
"Wow! And pastries! Long live the boss! ”
"Thank you boss!"
There are only nine people in the entire comic studio, including Fu Xiaoli, all of whom work around the chief writer Su Xiaoqing, and the average age of the nine people is less than twenty-four years old, which is a very young studio.
Several people took things from Lu Yiming's hands one after another and thanked them.
In the end, Fu Xiaoli took over her this.
looked at Lu Yiming and smiled sweetly: "Why did you think about coming over!" ”
Fu Xiaoli's role in the studio is to supervise the producer and deputy to the hook assistant.
Needless to say, the producer.
The finished work must pass her level in order to be considered passed.
The hook assistant's deputy is involved based on her hobby.
Hearing this, Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Come and have a look!" I was planning to release the work in the near future, so I came over and asked you what you think. ”
Early last month.
Lu Yiming asked the studio to produce two shifts a week.
Five weeks have passed now.
Plus the first words he saw at the beginning.
Dou Po comics already have eleven episodes.
This is ready to start arranging for the go-live.
Hearing this, Fu Xiaoli called the chief writer Su Xiaoqing, and when Lu Yiming asked which platform the current comics were released on.
Su Xiaoqing looked at Lu Yiming with a strange expression and said, "Boss~ You won't prepare anything, so you will just caricature it first, right?" ”
Hearing this, Lu Yiming nodded.
Su Xiaoqing immediately raised her forehead and said, "Okay! I thought boss, what platform you had already cooperated with! ”
No wonder she reacts this way.
At present, the studio has invested quite a lot, and the salary of several of them is more than 100,000 yuan a month, and it is impossible for the boss to do this if she thinks that there is no monetization channel.
At present, comics without IP blessing in domestic operations are a dead end.
It's like she's also after two years of detours.
I chose to give up my identity as a manga artist, find a studio or switch to an anime or game company to make a living.
The domestic Internet has achieved corner overtaking, but it has also broken the physical book industry, coupled with the overly optimistic introduction of color comics, which has greatly increased the cost, which makes it more and more difficult to do in the comics industry.
At present, the biggest support for comics is the funds brought by the adaptation.
Lu Yiming is the anchor, and she knows it.
I thought he had bought some great god's work and was going to jointly develop IP.
But now it seems.
This boss is the same as she was at the beginning.
It was with some fantasies that I broke into the comic industry.
Lu Yiming was very curious about how the face of the main writer changed.
At this time, he asked softly, "What's wrong?" ”
These words interrupted the main writer Su Xiaoqing's idea of starting infinite derivation.
Immediately began to introduce the current situation of the domestic comic circle for Lu Yiming.
There is one thing to say.
Lu Yiming didn't think that the comics industry was so miserable.
That's right!
It's miserable!
In Su Xiaoqing's mouth, if you want to make comics, you must meet at least two conditions.
The first had to be the Romans.
And the so-called Romans refer to the wealth and semi-freedom that they were born with, and they have a family to give a fixed economic support.
The second is not to care about things outside of you.
The thing outside the body here is the copyright of the work, and the copyright is not in your hands after you publish it on any platform.
In fact, it can be summed up in one sentence.
Freedom is limited, pluralism does not exist, and copyright cannot be preserved.
At this time, Lu Yiming was surprised: "This is an exaggeration, right?" ”
Hearing this, Su Xiaoqing smiled bitterly: "Let's say so!" We comic book indie authors are not even as human rights as delivery riders! ”
Lu Yiming looked at her with a serious face.
In fact, he believed what she said.
It's just surprise.
But anyway.
He still has to send this comic, at first he thought that if he didn't sign a contract, it was nothing more than that there was no so-called remuneration, but with Su Xiaoqing said some shady scenes in the industry.
Lu Yiming understood that his original idea was not working.
At this time, Su Xiaoqing continued: "If you want to launch the platform, I personally suggest that Mr. Lu can consider Penguin or Xiaopo Station, at present, these two platforms are considered to have traffic, and other platforms are either unfriendly to the platform, or piracy cannot be controlled, although these two cannot control piracy, but this is the situation in the comic circle!" You can only expect a lot of traffic to attract more paying users and increase revenue! ”
Hearing this, Lu Yiming shook his head and said, "No need!" Since the platform is all a urine sex, then I won't take the initiative to find the platform. ”
I could see that Su Xiaoqing seemed to be worried about something.
Lu Yiming got up and said softly: "Let's draw with peace of mind!" I didn't give up on breaking this comic meaning! ”
These words immediately made Su Xiaoqing feel at ease a little.
She had just found a job that felt good, and she didn't want to dissolve the studio because her boss couldn't see the money.
Garage.
Fu Xiaoli sat in the co-pilot.
She listened to the conversation between the two by her side, and couldn't help but say, "Do you really want to continue to do it?" ”
More than 100,000 expenses a month.
That's more than a million a year.
She was worried that her studio would become a burden to Lu Yiming.
Hearing this, Lu Yiming turned his head.
Looking at Fu Xiaoli, who was full of worry, Lu Yiming smiled and said, "No problem! I can't change the comic market environment, but I can let these platforms take the initiative to ask me for cooperation! ”
Hearing the sound, Fu Xiaoli didn't understand what this meant.
But still smiled and nodded.
She can do her part as much as she can.
Naturally, he couldn't put pressure on Lu Yiming.
As long as Lu Yiming thinks it's okay!
Then.
Lu Yiming took out a gift box and handed it to Fu Xiaoli and said, "I saw it when I went shopping!" See if you like it or not! ”
If you like it, you like it, as long as it is sent by Lu Yiming.
Looking at the watch in the gift box with some surprise, he also didn't know much about the watch, and kissed Lu Yiming's cheek to show his joy and asked, "This watch is thousands of yuan, right?" ”
Thousands?
More than 300,000!
Lu Yiming didn't say this, just nodded with a light smile.
Back home.
Fu Xiaoli went to prepare dinner.
Lu Yiming sat down in front of the computer.
From what he just learned from Su Xiaoqing, he knew that it was impossible for him to go to the comic platform for the first time.
This kind of platform that is not in your hands as soon as it is released.
Who can withstand it!
It can be said that this ruined the future of the comics industry.
Only that kind of studio assembly line work can support itself.
As for wanting to make boutiques.
Just look at Lu Yiming's studio.
More than 100,000 yuan was spent in a month, and there was no mature monetization channel, and the Romans really had to do it.
But Lu Yiming didn't panic.
In essence, he doesn't plan to make money from comics, as long as it can play a role in drainage.
Glancing at the time.
Lu Yiming called Zheng Huacai.
The time came early the next morning.
Lu Yiming drove back to the company.
Seeing Lu Yiming's arrival, Zheng Huacai hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Mr. Lu! I've done it according to your requirements, this is a film for you to see! ”
Zheng Huacai received a call from Lu Yiming as soon as the plane landed yesterday.
Then he was given a new job.
It was an all-nighter for him to finish it overnight.
Looking at Zheng Huacai, who was quite tired, Lu Yiming was embarrassed and said, "Hard work!" ”
He didn't say it, in fact, he wasn't in a hurry.
This will discourage Zheng Huacai's enthusiasm.
Employees do well and quickly, just give a positive reply, and this kind of negative words is not necessary.
Lu Yiming's request was to make the original comic manuscript he sent into a video.
I am going to post directly to the D tone.
At that time, cooperate with the release of his new book to attract traffic.
This is a way of tweeting that only became popular two years later, but it is more of a IA comic stream, and his high-quality comic tweet is the first of its kind.
The video is the content of the first episode of the Dou Po comics.
The voice is voiced in IA.
made Lu Yiming watch it very dramatic.
immediately looked at Zheng Huacai and asked: "If you invite some professional dubbing, and then cooperate with this comic, do you say there is a problem!" ”
Yesterday, Lu Yiming had already dragged out all his thoughts.
Zheng Huacai thought about it and shook his head and said, "I don't know!" I researched last night, and there is currently no successful template for this model, but if it can be done twice a week, it should attract a large number of users, after all, it is free! ”
Zheng Huacai didn't know that it was normal.
After all, he is the one who is born again.
The studio's investment has been significant.
Plus voice actors.
This book has not yet been released, and Lu Yiming has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars at present.
Whether there will be a profit is unknown.
But at least it should be able to increase the number of subscriptions.
Then he said: "Don't be too tired yourself, prepare to be responsible for the operation of this project alone, the voice actor try to find someone who can sign a long-term contract, I don't want to have a situation where the role needs to be changed to a voice actor halfway, as for the choice of voice actor, you can arrange it and connect directly with the comic studio!" ”
Say you don't need to bother him.
But the preliminary work still requires Zheng Huacai to invest a lot of energy.
But the good news is that the company's operations are on the right track.
His job didn't put too much of a burden on him.
Then the two chatted for a while.
Lu Yiming left.
But I didn't just go away.
There are also three of his companies in the park.
Funan Fanxing Technology Co., Ltd.
It is the company that Jiang Yuanming is responsible for Lu Yiming.
The location is upstairs of Fanxing Live Company, and this floor was rented by Lu Yiming and divided into Fanxing Technology Co., Ltd., Pangu Intelligent Technology, and Fanxing E-commerce Co., Ltd.
Originally, I wanted to see how the platform was progressing, but I didn't expect Liu Zhenyun to be there.
"Mr. Lu! There you are! I'm discussing with Manager Liu whether I want to contact you today! ”
Jiang Yuanming was quite excited.
Lu Yiming smiled: "What? Is the platform ready to go live? ”
After having the skill of Heavenly Favor.
Anything that happens, Lu Yiming will think on the bright side.
However, here is good news for Jiang Yuanming.
There is only one project, the platform.
Hearing this, Jiang Yuanming scratched his head and smiled: "It's not too much, the platform can already start to try a wide range of internal testing, but I plan to carve out a little more details, the good news is that Manager Liu is here, Diting has been specially developed for the two games currently on the market." ”
Hearing this, Lu Yiming's eyes lit up.
immediately looked at Liu Zhenyun on the side.
Compared to Jiang Yuanming.
Liu Zhenyun was not so eloquent, and then directly invited Lu Yiming to his side to watch him give a live demonstration.
DNF has been dominating the top 10 of the popular game charts all year round.
The direct test requires the authorization of the penguin, not to mention the troublesome process, and it will also expose the existence of Diting in advance.
But it's not completely impossible to test, which brings us to some historical legacies.
To put it simply, it is to get a private server for testing.
And the private service, which is full of loopholes, can better reflect the power of Diting.
The entire testing process lasted three hours.
Three hacker teams were invited to assist in the paid prize, but unfortunately they only got a part of the compensation, and all the impact on the high prize money failed.
There was no progress for more than two hours.
That's telling.
Especially if you know in advance that it's a private service.
Hearing this, Lu Yiming grinned and said, "Yes!" But let's suspend the in-depth development of poisoned milk powder in the future, this game doesn't need our anti-cheat at all. ”
(End of chapter)