My Animation Era

  Chapter 23 Corporate Framework

   Mid-Autumn Festival just passed.

  In order to facilitate management, Gu Miao established Jiangchuan Wanbao Group, which has three subsidiaries: Wanbao Toys, Wanbao Animation and Wanbao Comics.

  Wanbao is the abbreviation of "Wanzhibao".

  Wanbao Toys, also known as the previously acquired Wanzhibao Toys. Wanbao Animation is the changed name of Wolf Castle Animation.

  The original "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" production team was incorporated into the Wolf Castle Studio under Wanbao Animation to independently produce and operate the "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" series of animations.

this way…

  It is not only convenient for management, but also conducive to the development of the company. When producing new animation works in the future, it is enough to set up another studio.

   Similar three-tier architectures are common.

  For example, Tencent Group has a subsidiary Tencent Games. Under Tencent Games, there are also independent studios such as Tianmei and Photon.

   Of course, frames belong to frames.

  While the current Wanbao Group sounds quite large, apart from the Wolf Fort Studio, there is only one toy factory in the suburbs.

   As for Wanbao comics?

   This is a shell company!

   Originally, Gu Miao planned to turn the TV animation of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" into comics, and create a monthly magazine similar to "Zhiyin Manke" to test the comics market.

   However, the review process is too long.

  According to the information that Taiwan Director Wang helped to inquire about, similar publishing qualification review, even if it is a green light all the way, it will take four months at the earliest to get the result.

   Then wait slowly.

  After adjusting the company's management structure, Gu Miao also carried out a round of promotions for her confidants.

  For example, Ma Kui is now the vice president of Wanbao Group and the general manager of Wanbao Animation.

  He is called "Vice President Ma"!

   It sounds pretty good, but the actual work is still the same as before, and even the salary has not increased.

  Huang Kun, the former deputy director and animation supervisor of Pleasant Goat Production Group, was promoted to content director of Wanbao Animation.

  Although Director Huang's title is not as smooth as Ma Kui's "Vice President", but in fact, he is Gu Miao's most trusted confidant.

  How should I put it...

  Although Ma Kui is an animation major, his talent seems to be a bit crooked. The animation is not very good, but the administrative management and flattering of the boss are first-class masters.

   If he is not promoted, who will be promoted?

   Compared with Ma Kui's "doing nothing", Huang Kun, as an animation director, is much more professional.

  Gu Miao is very busy.

  Although he has the title of "chief director", in fact, apart from participating in the animation production in the early stage, he basically didn't get involved in the production team in the later stage.

  As the animation production of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" was on the right track, he handed over many affairs to Huang Kun to take care of.

   To put it bluntly!

  Without Huang Kun's serious and responsible work, there would be no animation of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf", which is now popular. He is the veritable chief director.

  Gu Miao is very optimistic about him.

  After the Pleasant Goat animation production came to an end, he planned to let Huang Kun lead the team to produce an animation alone, and gradually cultivate a great director of the company.

  Cultivate it!

  It's quite exciting to think about it.

  …

   "OMG!!"

  “【Dou Zui】【Love】”

   Gu Miao, who was instructing the original artist to draw the first version of the character image of "Smart Superman", suddenly received a chat message from Director Wang.

   Pleasant Goat broke the record again!

   Before the ratings broke through 10 points, it had shocked the industry and made countless people amazed. Now the record has been raised again, the highest audience rating of episode 211 has reached 15.01%!

   Now, it's not just the animation circle.

  Even the group of people next door who are engaged in live-action TV series and movies were dumbfounded when they received this news, which is enough to see how amazing the ratings are.

   How outrageous?

  Decades ago, this ratings can be squeezed into the top five of the TV show list, and the animation category is the first.

   It can be said that this is the animation with the highest ratings and the most influence in ten years, not even one of them.

   No wonder Director Wang is so excited.

   "Calm down."

   Gu Miao replied: "This is so far! Remember what I said? Pleasant Goat's ratings potential is far more than that."

  15% is very high.

   But it's still a little short of squeezing out the ratings potential. The original version of Pleasant Goat, but almost surpassed the animation program of "Lianbo News".

"What's the meaning?"

   "Do you think that the ratings of Pleasant Goat may continue to rise?" Director Wang asked in disbelief.

How is this possible!

  15% is such an astonishing figure, in the TV circle, it is a proper ten-year hegemony. If it is higher than this, then the viewership share must exceed 80%, right?

  Of the ten TVs that are on, at least eight of them are broadcasting Pleasant Goat?

   That's outrageous.

   It's not that he's timid, but he really doesn't believe that an animation can achieve such a high achievement. This is not the 1980s and 1990s when programs were scarce, but a new era of TV flooding and the rise of the Internet.

   "Not possible, but inevitable."

  Gu Miao knew what Director Wang was thinking, and explained to him: "Pleasant Goat's ratings peak should be after the broadcast of "Battle in the Weird World"."

   Breaking through 20% is a bit difficult.

  But 17% and 18% can still be won. After all, the quality of the special episode of the Weird World is excellent, and the ratings cannot be lower than it is now.

   "So here comes the problem."

   "October is coming soon, have you finished your weird world yet? [Curiosity]"

  Gu Miao: "..."

  He also wants to finish it as soon as possible, but reality does not allow it!

   "Battle in the Weird World" has a total of 60 episodes of nearly 1000 minutes, the workload can be imagined.

  Compared to the first 280 episodes of the animation, the special episode of the weird world in episodes 281-340 has been greatly improved in both the quality of the painting and the performance.

what does this mean?

  Under the premise of improving the quality of animation, the production progress was instantly slowed down. Not to mention ten episodes a day, two episodes a day would be nice.

  Starting from the first episode of the special episode "Brave into the Weird World" in mid-September, a total of 40 episodes were produced in 20 days.

  The current plot is roughly the stage where Big Big Wolf and the lambs return to the Qingqing Grassland. Because they are worried about the safety of Brother Xiaosha and Dandan, the lambs decide to return to the underground world.

  After that, the bright props were destroyed, Brother Xiaosa merged with Eggy, turned into "Superman Xiaosha" and tried to influence Marshal Hei, but unexpectedly brought about the ending of "Big Big Wolf King".

  Speaking of...

  As the core thread running through "Battle in the Weird World", the bright props are Nima's "shower"?

   "Original power really knows how to play!"

   After admiring the strange brain circuits of the original power once again, Gu Miao fell into deep thought.

  How is the shower head designed as a toy?

  Compared with Big Big Wolf's various weird inventions in the main chapter, there are not many props that appear in the special chapter of the weird world.

  The ones that can be sold as toys are the yin and yang ion balls, bright props, handsome black man and balls.

  If the bright prop is a shower, can it be made into a "water gun"?

   It seems that it is not impossible.

  (end of this chapter)