My Animation Era

  Chapter 226 Tens of thousands of hand-made models? (seeking subscription)

   Directly buy a ready-made IP universe?

  To be honest, Gu Miao didn't quite agree with this proposal. Because in his opinion, the superhero series Meiman IP can actually be regarded as an "assembly line" product, which is not particularly rare.

  This thing...

  As long as you want to reproduce, design according to the "superhero" template, you can have as many as you want. Don't you see that there are countless superheroes in the future Marvel DC universe?

   There is another main reason.

  Gu Miao calculated her family fortune, and found that she didn't have much available cash flow left.

   Money wisely!

  The large investment of tens of millions, or even tens of millions of dollars, has plunged headlong into the deep pit of "American comics", and it is not known when they will be able to climb out.

  So, after some serious thinking, he rejected the proposal submitted by Mr. Nantong.

   But he didn't outright veto it.

  He just disagrees with the plan of directly taking the "acquisition" route to buy, buy, buy. If it's poaching people and making original superheroes or adaptations, it doesn't really matter.

  It doesn't cost much anyway...

  In addition to Wanbao Manga, the president of Wanbao Games, Kobayashi, also submitted a "new game" project proposal to Gu Miao at the beginning of the new year.

  Gu Miao looked it over and felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so she took a pen and signed her name for approval.

   Xiaolin's mind is quite active.

  The new game project he submitted is actually an IP fan-oriented customized game derived from the animation "Sailor Moon".

   This is the right taste!

  In his conception, this is a free mobile game that mainly focuses on PVE map competition, and the core is "drawing cards" and "krypton gold".

   "Hold the grass! SSR bunny!"

   "Golden Legend, Crown of the Moon..."

broken!

   Xiaolin has only switched from console to mobile game for less than half a year, and he has learned the core cheating routine of mobile games.

  Gu Miao smiled happily.

  Although most of the reviews of this kind of game are not very good, but one thing must be admitted, the turnover of this kind of fan-oriented card-drawing game is really high!

  Especially a new card pool...

   Good guy!

  For the sake of the beloved wives, for the good-looking new clothes, and for the new and stronger weapons, these dead houses can’t spend all their krypton gold, just empty the card pool?

   "You, big big good!"

  Gu Miao patted Xiao Lin, the former president of Elf Game Studio and now the president of Wanbao Games, on the shoulder, and said with satisfaction: "Wanbao has so many excellent animation IPs, you have a heavy burden on your shoulders!"

  Low EQ: Make more efforts to collect money!

  High EQ: The burden is heavy!

Kobayashi didn't know if he understood, so he nodded and replied: "President, in fact, we have considered adapting animation works such as "Dragon Fighter" and "Rainspeed Lightning Crossing Line" into games, but in terms of R&D funds ..."

   "Lack of money? You should have said earlier!"

   "I don't have much else, but I have a lot of money! How about this, I will give you 10 million first, and then come to me after spending it!"

  Gu Miao said with a smile: "As long as you can continue to launch new games and bring rich returns to the group, money is not a problem."

   "Hi Yi!"

  After seeing off President Xiao Lin of Wanbao Games, the cheerful Gu Miao just wanted to go to Wanbao Toys to have a look, but she was blocked by Teacher Nantong as soon as she went out.

  Nan Tong had a dark face and unfriendly eyes.

  Gu Miao blinked, not knowing why this guy was crazy, and asked cautiously: "What's wrong? Who messed with you again?"

   "You still have the nerve to ask?"

   "Mr. Gu! What do you mean by that? Everyone is a member of Wanbao. Why should Xiao Lin give him money when he asks you for money, but you don't give me any money when I ask you for money?"

  Mr. Nan Tong said full of grief and indignation: "I have been working for Wanbao for so long, and there is no credit but also hard work, right? Then you treat me like this?"

   "Not fair! Not fair!"

   Okay!

   So it was because of this...

   Seeing his grief and indignation, Gu Miao also felt quite embarrassed, so she explained to him: "The situation is different, Xiao Lin can create more profits for the company with the money!"

   "If it were you, how would you choose?"

"I do not care!"

  Nantong simply cheated and said: "If you don't give me money today, I will rely on you and not leave."

  Gu Miao: "..."

what? Everyone treats him as a money-scattering boy? It is understandable that Kobayashi asked for money, after all, game development is very expensive.

  What kind of money did Nantong ask for?

   I'm too lazy to talk to this guy, he is willing to hang on, so let's not go. Anyway, in Gu Miao's plan, the comic company does not need to allocate any financial resources.

  Nantong keeps his word.

  Since he has made up his mind to make a piece of brown sugar, he will go wherever Gu Miao goes.

  When Gu Miao left the company and drove to inspect Wanbao Toys No. 2 factory in the suburbs of Jiangchuan, he also ran over there.

   "President Gu, this is..."

   Seeing Nantong who was making a bad face and looking upset at everyone, Lao He asked in surprise, "Why did he come along?"

"Leave him!"

  Gu Miao waved her hand, signaling to Lao He not to mind, and said, "This is my first visit to Factory No. 2, please tell me about the situation."

  Wanbao Toys, formerly known as "Wanzhibao" Toys Co., Ltd.

  The old factory area, that is, the factory area left over from the Wanzhibao era, is called the No. 1 factory.

  The No. 2 factory where Gu Miao is located is a brand new factory selected and built by Wanbao Toys in the outskirts of Jiangchuan in order to expand production capacity and categories.

  Compared to the old factory...

  Factory No. 2 not only has a larger area, but also has more workers and production lines. At the same time, the production capacity has also increased by five times. Under the premise of three shifts at full capacity, the highest record is that about 150,000 copies of the "Dragon King" demon robot were produced in one day.

   "At the No. 2 factory, the product categories produced are relatively miscellaneous, and the production capacity has basically been transferred here."

  Old He introduced: "Factory No. 1 is the old factory area. From now on, we will only make hand-made models."

   Figure model? !

  Hearing this, Nan Tong, who was eavesdropping on the side, suddenly became interested, and couldn't help asking: "Mr. He, do you produce a lot of hand-made models? Do you need to separate a factory area?"

"a lot of!"

   "More than you can imagine!"

  Old He smiled and explained: "So far, there are close to 10,000 toy models produced by us or authorized by third parties!"

  One... ten thousand models?

   Not only Nantong, even Gu Miao was a little shocked when he heard this number.

  How many works does Wanbao have?

  From "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf", which started as a dream, to "The Moonlight Is So Beautiful", which has not yet aired, there are only seven or eight animations.

   Seven or eight animations, ten thousand figures?

  Just thinking about it makes Gu Miao feel dizzy, he really can't imagine, how did this "subdivided" category come up?

  There are really so many characters, can they be made into hand-made models? Or, there are hundreds of different styles of hand-made models for a single character?

  (end of this chapter)