My Animation Era

  Chapter 172 AI football? (seeking subscription)

  October, Zhonghai.

  The 8th Huaguo Animation and Game Exhibition came as scheduled. Animation, comics, and game practitioners from all over the country gathered together to promote their works for domestic and overseas markets.

  Wanbao Group also participated in the exhibition.

  Different from the seventh animation and game exhibition, although the previous one was held in Jiangchuan, Wanbao had a natural "home field" advantage, but at that time Wanbao was too weak.

  The organizers did not invite Wanbao.

   Director Wang felt that he could use this platform to introduce the animation "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" to overseas media practitioners, so Gu Miao rushed to participate in the exhibition.

  But this year is different...

  As the saying goes, 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, don’t bully Wanbaopoor!

  It hasn’t been thirty years yet, and in just one year, Wanbao has gradually transformed from a start-up company into a major player in the industry, with many well-known masterpieces under its umbrella.

  In this case, even if no one reminded, Gu Miao forgot about it. The organizer will also make a special call to invite Wanbao to participate in the exhibition.

What?

  You say this is differential treatment?

  The organizer said that we hate the poor and love the rich, and we are shameless, if you don't accept it, just hold back!

   Not everyone gets an invite!

   Being invited by the organizer to participate in the exhibition shows that the hard power of Wanbao Animation has reached the level of the first-tier domestic manufacturers.

simply put…

  In the past, when Wanbao was still weak, it was a great honor for Wanbao to participate in the exhibition. Now, it is the honor of the organizers for Wanbao to participate in the exhibition.

  Gu Miao didn't really want to participate in the exhibition at first.

   But the organizer was too enthusiastic and nice to speak, so he was too embarrassed to refuse, so he could only send a team of elite soldiers, led by Huang Kun, to participate in this exhibition.

  He will not go by himself.

  The production of the animation "Happy Baby" is coming to an end, and he is very busy. How can he go to Zhonghai to participate in some animation exhibition?

   It happened that Huang Kun had nothing to do recently, so he simply asked him to take the "Happy Baby" PV trailer and the draft plan of "Pokemon" to participate in the exhibition.

  Flying Animation also participated in the exhibition.

  Mr. Xiong personally led the team, not only took out the unannounced "Quiba" movie trailer, but also prepared more than a thousand copies of "The Book of Kuiba".

   Looks good?

   But according to the news Huang Kun sent back to Gu Miao, the trailer of "Quiba" exhibited by Feiyang Animation this time did not achieve a good promotional effect.

   The thousand copies of "The Book of Kuiba" were not sold out. According to Huang Kun's visual estimation, only about half of them should have been sold.

   "Director Hou's face turned black."

  After Huang Kun came back, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Mr. Gu, you didn't go to the scene, and you didn't know how deserted the exhibition area was..."

   Think about it too!

   Compared with light novels, "The Book of Kuiba" is more inclined to "historical materials" works. The content is boring. If you are not particularly interested, you may get sleepy after reading two pages.

   Just this kind of book, do you still want to sell it?

   You are not fools. Instead of buying this kind of book, you might as well go to the next door Wanbao comics exhibition area to buy two comics, or go to other exhibition areas to find two light novels.

   Gu Miao had expected this.

  Although "The Book of Quiba" was proposed by him, to be honest, he doesn't like to read it himself, it's too boring.

  Sold half of it is great!

  If it was him...

  Gu Miao scratched her head and thought about it. If he had encountered this situation, he would have chosen to "give free books" to tourists.

   Who doesn't like free?

   As long as it's free, these books should be given away quickly. Those who received the book, whether they like it or not, have to open it when they get home, right?

  OK!

  Just take a few glances and get a little understanding of the world view of "Quiba". When the movie is released, you have to take a look anyway, right?

   This forms a cycle!

  It's a pity that Xiao Xiong, or the director of Feiyang Animation, doesn't have the courage and is reluctant to part with the little money.

   "Quiba" is cold, as expected.

  But in this exhibition, another brilliant work shocked Gu Miao.

Do not misunderstand!

  He was not surprised that someone stole the limelight from Wanbao Animation, let alone that this animation turned out to be a very rare "sports competition" theme.

   What really surprised him was that it was a story about an "artificial intelligence robot" playing football at the command of its master.

   "Super Smart Football"?

  Gu Miao immediately thought of this name, and thought it was a change in the world line that led to the birth of this animation.

  After asking Huang Kun, I found out that this animation work that made a big splash at this exhibition is not called super-intelligent football, but "AI Football".

   To be honest, there is a big difference between the two.

   "AI Football" is a technology Internet company. In order to promote its own AI assistant, it specially commissioned an animation company to produce an animation with huge sums of money.

  The character design of the plot is also far from the "Super Smart Football" in Gu Miao's impression.

  The only thing in common…

  Probably the protagonists are all AI robots, the theme is football, and thanks to the large investment of Internet giants, the animation is of high quality.

   "This animation is awesome!"

  Huang Kun said in amazement: "Looking at the scene, the quality of the completion should have reached the top level in the industry. I estimate that the average production cost per minute will not be less than 200,000."

   This is scary!

   200,000 per minute, if an episode is 20 minutes, that is 4 million! 40 episodes is 160 million, a super big production in various senses.

   It can only be said that, worthy of being an Internet giant, it is generous to do so.

  The production cost made Gu Miao next door cry. Even though Wanbao earned so much money, he was really reluctant to let him engage in such expensive animation.

   "This is the first domestic TV animation produced in 16:9 high-definition format, which is of great significance..."

  Huang Kun shook his head and said, "Almost everyone was stunned, the exhibition area was so hot! Many media reporters said that this is the most technically produced domestic animation they have ever seen!"

"fart!"

   Gu Miao dismissively said: "Expensive is better? What kind of nonsense conclusion is this! In the era of pure hand-painting, the few animations produced by Zhonghai Film Studio were the embodiment of technical strength!"

   "I'm an amateur..."

  Huang Kun said with a smile: "In the eyes of these laymen, "AI Football" spends so much money to produce such an exquisite and high-quality animated feature film, and the technology is really good."

   Of course, this is a layman's view.

  In fact, as long as the money is sufficient, Wanbao can also produce an animation of the same quality, and it can even be more exquisite and gorgeous than "AI Football".

  But the problem is...

  Where does the money come from? Wanbao is not an Internet giant, how could it spend so much money on such "fancy" animation?

  So, the conclusions of these laymen are outrageous.

  In their eyes, other domestic animation companies are all hot chickens, and only the company "AI Football" is the real god.

  People are backed by big money owners, not short of money, and other companies are self-reliant, can that be the same?

  (end of this chapter)