My Animation Era

  Chapter 639 The machines are smoking (for subscription)

  As an audience, as a fan, I am really happy to meet a team like Puppet Studio. At least I can see such a well-made clay animation movie without buying a ticket.

  But as a boss, as an investor, Gu Miao can't wait to drag Liang Xiaodong out and kill him...

  If you are not in charge of your family, you don’t know how expensive firewood is!

   With such a large investment and such a long production period, the clay animation will be broadcast for free if it is said to be free?

  「Dizzy by dog ​​employees.JPG」

  It doesn't matter if you are angry or depressed, since this matter has been announced, Gu Miao can only grit her teeth and swallow it in her stomach, accepting the reality calmly.

  Luckily…

  Although "Chicken Run" was broadcast on Wanbao Video website for free, it directly reduced a large amount of expected box office revenue, but free does not mean that you can't make money.

   There are still advertising fees.

  If the amount of broadcasts of this clay animation movie is not bad, it should be able to share a considerable amount of advertising revenue.

   Of course, not much money.

  Don’t even think about recovering production costs. It can only be said that it’s better than nothing, and it’s better than not earning a penny.

   Gu Miao has also seen the feature film.

   I have to say that this is the first time he has watched the so-called "clay" animation, and it feels quite novel and unexpected.

  The surprise is that he did not expect that the animated characters handcrafted with clay can be so vivid, and there is no so-called "sense of weariness" at all.

  This is true!

   In addition, Gu Miao was also very interested in the hand-painting techniques used in the clay animation production process.

  The charm of pure handwork...

  If it wasn’t for the fact that clay animation was time-consuming and labor-intensive, he would have wanted to do it himself and try a stop-motion animation using clay as a carrier.

   "We must strongly support!"

  After watching the feature film, Gu Miao immediately said that whether it is clay animation or puppet animation, these are projects worthy of support, even if they don't make money, they can do it.

   Not for anything else, just to inherit and carry forward this ancient way of animation production.

   More than just clay animation.

  Hua’s traditional ink painting style, paper-cutting, shadow puppetry, origami, and even fabric and paper art can all be used as carriers for stop-motion animation!

   If Gu Miao remembers correctly, China Overseas Film Studio has done a lot before. Regarding these types of stop-motion animation attempts, the results are quite good.

   "The more you have a bigger brain, don't be too rigid about the form. In my opinion, your creative constraints are still too great, and you haven't completely let go."

  Gu Miao suggested: "Have you ever seen the paper-cut window grilles pasted on the windows during the Chinese New Year? Do you think this kind of paper-cut can be made into animation?"

   "You can shoot!"

   "Isn't that enough? Clay animation and puppet animation are pretty good, and try as many other themes as possible."

   Speaking of this, Gu Miao seemed to have thought of something. He bent down, rummaged through the drawer for a while, took out a model of "Guobao God of War" and said, "I think this kind of model toy can also be used for animation."

  Of course, the workmanship of the models used for shooting must be more delicate.

   But the reason is interlinked.

  Airplane models, car models, toy models... Lego can do animation, and cube people like "Minecraft" can do animation. It makes no sense why they can't do anything else.

   After all, the creative freedom of stop motion animation is quite high.

  As long as the thinking is not slippery, as long as the script is well written, everything around me can be taken casually, and it will become a good stop-motion animation work.

"I see."

  Liang Xiaodong originally had a lot of ideas, but after being inspired by Mr. Gu, his imagination became even bigger.

   Gu Miao is quite looking forward to what kind of tricks he and the core creative team of the puppet studio he leads will come up with all kinds of brain-opening ideas.

  …

  After a period of broadcasting, the animation "Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel City" is finally coming to an end.

  The second season of Pokémon is still early. After all, there are many episodes, even if it is two episodes a day, it will take a long time...

  The plot of Duel City follows the previous work "Duel Kingdom".

   The importance is quite high.

  In terms of plot and dueling classics, Duel City is no worse than Duel Kingdom. It can even be said that Duel City chapter is the soul of "Yu-Gi-Oh DM".

   Of course, that's not the point.

  The point is that starting from this season, the duel rules of "Yu-Gi-Oh" have finally matured, removing the biggest obstacle to the promotion of gameplay, and giving "Yu-Gi-Oh" cards a foundation to become popular all over the world.

  Although it is quite popular now...

   Since the Wanbao version of the "Yu-Gi-Oh" animation was broadcast, the unique card gameplay of "Duel Monsters" created by it has become popular all over the world.

  After the sequel "Duel City" was broadcast, the gameplay of this card game was further spread, and it has reached the level of a "duel of all people".

  In terms of popularity and discussion, animation is not even comparable to its peripheral derivatives.

   That's right!

  "Yu-Gi-Oh" is such a magical anime IP, and the popularity and discussion of its peripheral derivatives have crushed animation all the year round, even when the animation is on the air.

   This is so real.

   Card players only like to play cards, and their attitude towards animation is very simple. I watch it when I have time, and I don’t watch it when I don’t.

Therefore.

  The animation "Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel City", even though its influence is already the most popular works in the same period, but in terms of ratings, it is not as good as "Pokémon II".

"no way."

  Lao Zhang joked with a smile: "Watching other people play poker on TV is not as satisfying as playing poker by yourself."

   "Besides, it depends on who you compare to if the ratings are not high? Besides "Pokémon II", which animation can compete with Yu-Gi-Oh?"

   This is true.

  Wanbao Animation internally compares "Pokémon" and "Yu-Gi-Oh" all day long, which makes Gu Miao's vision even higher.

   In fact, I took it out to have a look.

   Is the second season of "Yu-Gi-Oh" still good enough? It is quite difficult to find an opponent for such an animation work with world-class influence.

   What's more, although animation ratings have been suppressed, isn't "Yu-Gi-Oh" the biggest winner in the sales of peripheral products?

  Old He has won!

  He didn’t know where to find the 18-hand printing production line. It is said that some time ago, in order to meet the needs of foreign card players for new cards, even the machine was dry and smoking.

   Whoops!

   Isn't it good to smoke?

  Print one more card, then you can earn more money. Especially under the premise that most of the "Yu-Gi-Oh" cards can be exported abroad to earn foreign exchange, Jiangchuan's management departments at all levels are more anxious than Wanbao.

   Good guy!

  Because of the smoke coming from the factory machines and the urgent need to purchase new machines, the animation IP that alarmed the tax department and the import and export management department came forward to solve it.

  (end of this chapter)