My Animation Era

  Chapter 1062 Is he really a genius?

  Since the earliest "Magic Pigs", "Pigman" has always been the most popular animation series in China.

  Peak heat, no less than Digimon and Magic Warrior.

As of this summer, the Pigman series has produced and broadcast five TV animation works. The latest season is "Fairy Tales of the Building Blocks World" based on the classic stories of "Andersen's Fairy Tales" and "Grimm's Fairy Tales". ".

   This season's performance is not bad.

  After landing on the TV platform, although it was not as popular as the previous seasons, it also gained the love of countless children and the ratings were very high.

  No matter how you look at it, the development prospect of this series is broader and brighter than that of "Guobao Special Attack".

   If you can’t make Guobao 3, then you can make a Pigman 6!

   Bear is always excited.

   After silently weighing the value and weight of the two IPs in his heart, he nodded and agreed without much hesitation.

   He was even worried that Gu Miao would go back on his word, so he didn't even give him a chance to speak, and signed the agreement of intent without delay. The decisiveness of his actions surprised others.

   "Mr. Gu, did you really ask Trollman to produce the sixth season of "Pigman"?"

  Seeing off Mr. Xiong with a happy face, while waiting for the elevator to go down, Lao Zhang asked with some doubts: "If I remember correctly, Pigman is quite popular, right?"

   "It's really hot."

  Gu Miao admitted: "The popularity of this series has always been very high, and it can be regarded as our Wanbao's evergreen IP."

   "Then why..."

   "No why, if you have to ask, my answer is that the series is in its sixth year."

  The elevator arrived. Gu Miao stepped into the elevator, pressed the button representing the 7th floor, and explained to Lao Zhang: "It's very lucky for an animation to be popular for five years."

   "But this kind of luck cannot continue indefinitely, there will always be an end."

   "You mean, the "Pigman" series is about to go downhill?" Lao Zhang heard the implication and frowned.

  “It’s not the beginning of the downhill, but it’s already on the way down.”

  The elevator installed in the Wanbao headquarters building was very fast, and within a few words, the seventh floor was reached.

  The two stepped out of the elevator one after the other. In the corridor leading to the office area, Gu Miao said in a deep voice, "Although "Fairy Tales in the World of Building Blocks" performed well, the core old audience has already lost a lot."

  This question is different from Pleasant Goat.

  The loss of Pleasant Goat’s audience is largely due to the fact that those old audiences have grown up and have passed the childish age of watching cartoons.

  The loss of viewers of the Pigman series is mainly because the style has changed too much, which has caused many old viewers to feel that the animation has changed, and it is not as good-looking as before...

   To put it bluntly.

  Pigman will change its animation style every season, telling a completely different new story, and the animations in different periods are not strongly related.

for example.

  Pigman in the first season is still telling a clichéd adventure story of "Dragon Quest, the knight saves the princess".

  In the fifth season, the plot is directly applied to fairy tales, and even familiar characters have become fairy tale characters such as Snow White, Cinderella, Prince Charming, and Little Red Riding Hood.

Not only that.

  Starting from this season, Pigman has even changed his painting style, becoming more lovely and fresh.

  The advantage of such an animated series is that every season will tell an unexpected story, but the disadvantage is that it lacks continuity and coherence.

  Take Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf as an example.

  Will viewers who have watched the first season of Pleasant Goat find it strange to watch the second and third seasons?

Won't!

  Because Pleasant Goat’s story background and character settings are all the same, and even the plot timeline is connected together, why would the audience find it strange?

  But every season of Pigman animation, not only the background of the story, but also the style of the characters and paintings will be completely changed. This is not friendly to old audiences, because every time they watch it, they will feel very strange.

  I just remembered the martial arts version of GGBond, but you made a sci-fi version of GGBond? All right! Just after getting to know the sci-fi version of GGBond, the fairy tale version of GGBond popped up?

   Enough novelty and mind-opening, humorous and funny plots, these were once the highlights of the "Pigman" series.

   But over time, especially when the production team is about to run out of creativity and can't make a good job that will make the audience shine, the once shining point will become a fatal flaw.

   "Don't look at the "Pigman" series is very popular now, but that's just a flashback."

   "The production team is already out of work, and the innovation is weak and the inspiration is exhausted. At this time, it is a good thing to throw it to Troll Animation. After all, if you change the production team, maybe you can make a peerless work?"

   "It turns out that..."

   Lao Zhang was quite shocked when he suddenly learned the inside information about the production team of "Pig Man", especially the exhaustion of creativity.

   Are you running out of inspiration?

   Not so!

  The Pigman series is only the fifth TV animation. In terms of the number of sequels, it is not worthy of the Pleasant Goat series.

  Why is it that the Pleasant Goat series is still being reworked, but the Pigman series can't get new work done, and the production team simply failed?

   "Are five works rare?"

   "There are more than 400 episodes in total. Calculated by the 20-minute feature film of an episode, that is 8000 minutes!"

  Gu Miao complained: "Not to mention that Pigman will change the story background and character settings every season, and the lines play tricks on the plot, and the imagination will open up. Anyone who changes it will be exhausted..."

   Can’t compare with Pleasant Goat!

  Although there are many sequels to Pleasant Goat, except for "Yangcun Guardian", the story background and character settings have basically not changed much.

   Even if it is the guardian of Yangcun, the background of the story and the setting of the characters have not changed, only some details have changed.

  So this is incomparable with a new setting system of a sequel like Pigman, where the main character has several different versions of the animation.

   It's all too normal to run out of ideas.

  More than 8,000 minutes of animation creation, several sets of story backgrounds and setting systems, the members of the production team do not know how many hairs have fallen out.

   If it is not transferred to the outsourcing team, it will only get worse and worse if it is kept in the hands, until it becomes a pile of defenses, and then it is completely abandoned by the audience.

  In fact, for an animation like "Pigman", it is a good choice to hire an outsourcing team to produce it. After all, the three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang!

certainly.

   Choosing an outsourced production team also has to keep your eyes open. If you encounter the situation in "Date A Live 2", it will be too miserable.

  Fortunately, Gu Miao chose a funny animation for the sixth season of "Pigman". With the backing of Mr. Xiong, a big dog, at least there will be no embarrassing incident where half of the animation company suddenly goes bankrupt.

  …

  September's domestic animation is dominated by "Roaming the World of Animation"!

  Penguin's "The Great Devil" and Pili Pili's "Welcome to the Fist-Supreme Technical Secondary School Classroom" have both started broadcasting.

   But obviously, in front of the world's only true infinite flow screen, these two animations failed to make too much waves.

  The roaming animation world has been broadcast to the 12th episode, and the plot has come to the end of the world of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf".

  Through the unremitting efforts of Xiao Wanbao, Big Big Wolf and Red Wolf finally moved to Qingqing Grassland and started their great cause of catching sheep.

   "Come back often~"

   "Little Wanbao, after I catch the lamb, I will definitely invite you to have a mutton feast!"

   "Really? Uncle Gray Wolf!"

   "Of course it's true, when did my lord deceive you? Don't worry, the mutton will be full by then..."

   Under the warm farewell of the Big Big Wolf couple, Xiao Wanbao left the Qingqing Grassland and the animation world where the wolf catches the sheep in an infinite loop.

  For this episode, the most difficult thing for the audience is Big Big Wolf's promise to invite Xiao Wanbao to have a mutton feast.

   Good guy!

   Once this kind of Flag is said, Big Big Wolf will never try to catch sheep in this life. As for the mutton feast promised to Xiao Wanbao?

  Next time by all means! Definitely next time!

  Little Wanbao, who left the green grassland, returned home, and the animation elf came back with her.

  Lucky draw big turntable, start!

   After Xiao Wanbao completed the task, he actually got the unique skill of "Infinite Frying Pan" of Red Wolf, and the audience laughed wildly.

   Well, well, well, Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf's most powerful and perverted move in the world was learned by Xiao Wanbao.

  With this trick, even if she travels to a terrifying world like "Dragon Ball" in the future, she will not be afraid of being bullied.

   Just…

  The appearance of a seven-year-old cute baby holding a frying pan is really funny, and the comedy color is directly full.

   Didn’t keep everyone waiting too long. After the short break, Xiao Wanbao, urged by the animation elves, embarked on a journey to save the animation world again.

   This time it’s the world of The Bears.

  New journeys, new adventures, Bear Big Bear II who lives in the zoo, Bald Qiang who takes in Xiao Wanbao... With the broadcast of the latest episode, the number of animation views has taken off again.

  At this moment, Gu Miao was completely numb.

   After all, watching the broadcast volume of "Roaming the Animation World" skyrocket every day, almost two or three hundred million in a day, it is a person who will feel numb.

  Compared to such vulgar playback data, he still prefers to deal with advertisers...

   That’s right, advertisers!

  With the popularity of "Roaming the World of Animation", more and more advertisers are eyeing this animation and began to come to their door, hoping to sponsor the work.

  The most exaggerated quotation came from an Internet e-commerce company. As long as the advertisement of "online shopping on XXX, banana mobile phone one yuan flash sale" is added in the opening title, Wanbao can receive about 32 million yuan in sponsorship fees.

   This is scary!

   You must know that the highest bid for the opening advertisement of "Yangcun Guardian" did not exceed 10 million yuan. This time it directly increased by six or seven times, which is enough to show how exaggerated the popularity of "Roaming the World of Animation" is.

  By the way...

  Gu Miao's gold-lettered signboard is still very attractive. Even though "Go Boy" is still in production and has not been broadcast, and the specific completion quality is not sure, there are still many advertisers coming to apply for sponsorship.

  This is the gold content of Qingqing Grassland Shepherd, Chuangjieshan Conductor, Gouxiongling Bandit, Sailor Black Hole, Thunder Speed ​​King, Maggot Pokémon, Beechburg Councilor, and Superman's best friend!

  The animation has not been finished yet, and half of the cost has already been paid back by advertising revenue alone.

   This alone is enough to prove how popular the project "Go Boys" is. Even if it is not finished, people still come to give money.

  Of course, apart from Gu Miao's golden signature, the reason why Go Boys have received much attention and anticipation is partly because of Xiao Ke's joining.

   After all, he is a world champion.

  Although Xiao Ke in this period has not achieved influence through abstraction to break through the circle, he is already very famous in the circle of Go.

   There are also some entrepreneurs who play Go. When they heard that Xiao Ke participated in the production of Go animation, they immediately became interested, and it made sense to come to sponsor the animation.

   But then again.

   "Boys of Go" is, after all, a "unpopular subject" animation in the eyes of everyone, and the sponsor is definitely not as generous as "Roaming the World of Animation".

  It's good if people are willing to sponsor, how can Gu Miao think the price is low?

   Besides, the production team is not short of money.

  The animation "Boys of Go" is not an animation with an explosion of funds. On the contrary, this animation is quite economical in a sense.

   After all, an episode of animation, except for the literary part, the rest of the time is all about the changes in the "chess game".

   Isn’t it easy to draw a chessboard?

   Gu Miao can do this job by herself, and the effect is not much worse than those of professional painters.

   Only in the process of playing chess, it is a bit of a delay to add various light effects to the chess pieces and the chessboard. Under normal circumstances, drawing the chessboard is not troublesome.

  A game of chess seems to have endless changes, but in the process of animation production, it was simplified into a kindergarten doodle.

  In the final analysis, the chessboard is a piece of horizontal and vertical crossing lines distributed on a whole piece of wood-colored background canvas, using the copy-and-paste method to arrange the white and black chess pieces according to Xiao Ke's instructions.

  This process does not require much brainpower. After all, the work of studying the game record and deducing the chess game has been handed over to Xiao Ke. The painters only need to follow the game record and carefully arrange the positions of the chess pieces.

   It is common for chess pieces to be placed wrongly.

  After all, chess records are easy to read, and sometimes chess pieces are misplaced if you are not careful.

  At this time, Xiao Ke, the special consultant, played a role. He will carefully check every move to ensure that the game will proceed according to his deduction.

   During this process, an interesting thing happened.

  Xiao Ke took out a chess record and asked the painters to draw key frames according to the game record. As a result, during the drawing process, an artist remembered the wrong position of the white chess and made a wrong drawing.

   This is a simple mistake, as long as it is discovered and corrected in time.

  But when Xiao Ke saw this wrong move, his eyes lit up, indicating that there was no need to redraw. White played this move very well and it was more reasonable than the game record he provided.

  AI's real-time winning rate shows that the move of drawing the wrong position has suddenly increased the winning rate of white chess by ten percentage points.

  God's hand is not perfect, but it is indeed a good hand, it can be kept, and it can even overturn his original game record...

   "Huh? So amazing?"

  Gu Miao didn't expect this kind of thing to happen. When he came back to his senses, he immediately said that he would record this incident and cut it into a behind-the-scenes clip for broadcast.

  He has already thought of the title.

  《Is it careless or intentional? Is he really a Go genius? "

  (end of this chapter)