Chapter 213: On the Right Track
After Gu Yan left, Chu Yu breathed a sigh of relief, then turned to look at Huang Ming, and asked the doubts in his heart.
"Brother Huang, there's something wrong with you today! You actually have the mood to make Gu Yan seem to have tried and wrong so many times here, and patiently point out her shortcomings. To be honest, the first time she felt wrong, I I thought you would let her go straight away!"
"If I had to choose a talent for animation production in Jiuxing, I would definitely not have the patience, but now time doesn't allow it. Gu Yan still has potential. I wasted so much time just to see if she can satisfy Chengtian and Mingli. , and the minimum requirements for the dubbing of Mikako, but judging from the results, it seems to be not bad!" Huang Ming looked at Chu Yu.
"Also, the main thing is to consider you."
"Considering me, what do you mean?" Chu Yu asked.
"Brother Chu, you should comprehend the truth here yourself! It seems that you are an ordinary person, so how could you be like this in these aspects."
Huang Ming shook his head and left his office to work.
The personal grievances between Chu Yu and Lu Mu only lasted for a few days and then basically dissipated.
In terms of influence in the Dragon Kingdom, Lu Mu, who is only an associate producer, is naturally far less than Chu Yu.
After all, Chu Yu has as many as two million Chu Yu's Weibo fans alone. In terms of actual comic fans in Long Kingdom, I don't know how many.
But in the animation industry, Chu Yu really took his tricks.
The seiyuu replacement information of 5 Centimeters Per Second and Voice of the Stars was announced by Huang Ming on the official Weibo of the two works after Gu Yan signed the contract. Chu Yu forwarded it with his own account and followed Gu Yan's Weibo.
Overall, in the eyes of Chu Yu's fans, this is just a daily change of personnel, and they naturally don't know the truth.
But whether it was Chu Yu or Huang Ming, they were actually full of anger in their hearts, but both of them held back for the time being and devoted their energy to the production of the two animations.
As for Gu Yan, the day after joining the animation production team, he dubbed the two works together with several other voice actors in a rented dubbing studio.
It's just because Gu Yan's school is really close to the studio, so if Gu Yan is free one day, he will always come over here in the name of learning and getting a deeper understanding of the character, and come to Chu Yu to explain the author's understanding to her.
As for Chu Yu, what can he understand?
Fortunately, there is the original animation, and the voice actors in it are already very good, so Chu Yu can only make Gu Yan move closer to that direction as much as possible.
After two weeks, Gu Yan was basically acquainted with everyone in the animation studio.
She often buys some fruits and brings snacks here, and everyone in the studio has a good impression of her.
The time is already mid to late November.
"Chu Yu, eat some fruit!"
Nine o'clock in the evening is the indulgence time of ordinary office workers, but it is the busiest time for this animation studio.
Because of the two works, Chu Yu and Huang Ming, the two investors of 5 Centimeters Per Second and Voice of the Stars, if there is no situation, they usually finish their work during this time period and come here to watch the production progress of the animation.
And after Gu Yan got acquainted with everyone and completed his dubbing work during the day, he would often come over at night to help everyone out.
"Oh, thank you!" Chu Yu asked while picking up a plate of peeled apples brought by Gu Yan and eating them with toothpicks.
"How about the dubbing of the two works?"
"If you read five centimeters in a second, Akari's girlhood is over, it should start next week, and the dubbing of Sumida will be done. For the voice of the stars, Mikako's dubbing will officially start next week. Anyway, we only have three hours left. In a week or so, we need to make some time for post-processing!" Gu Yan said while looking at the scene that Chu Yu had drawn on the drawing paper.
Nowadays, the two works are carried out simultaneously in major sections. The soundtrack, dubbing, post-animation, and publicity are basically carried out according to Huang Ming's plan.
If the progress of any link is delayed, it may affect the progress of other links. If Huang Ming was not coordinating these matters, Chu Yu would not be able to handle it.
Fortunately, in terms of funds, Chu Yu did not lose the chain, and he did not know the name of the surrounding sales. There was no delay in his own manuscript fees. It was just the release of the Natsume friend's bill book, although nearly a month had passed since the release date, three copies. The single book has sold nearly two million copies so far. If you calculate the royalties alone, there should be four or five million Dragon National Coins in revenue, but this money has a settlement cycle and has not yet arrived in the account, otherwise Chu Yu may join directly. Investment, spend more money for Huang Ming to use for publicity.
Now, when you open the animation section of each video website, open a little bit, it's basically a frozen witch, Xia Cheng, I kneel on the washboard in another world, these are the promotional information of the big animation animation broadcast in January. The introduction of Centimeter and the Voice of the Stars is very far away, so Chu Yu wanted to see if he should mortgage his hometown and use it for publicity.
But after Chu Yu told Huang Ming about his idea, he was discouraged by him.
"With additional investment, the cost recovery pressure of our two works will be too great!"
"It's just two short animations that can only be split into four episodes, but the production cost is 5 million yuan. After all, we are a private animation studio now, and we don't have a reputation, so the broadcast price of animations can't be too high, otherwise the price is too high. It will drive away the hesitant audience."
"But I have full confidence in the quality and plot of our two works, although the production cost is not high, but because of that, I am bold and negotiated with major websites to pay 1.5 Dragon National Currency per episode. To play, I won’t say much about the specific calculation process, because these two works are not suitable for the development of peripherals, so if we want to recover the investment cost of 5 million, we need at least more than 10 million network broadcasts, that is, two episodes per episode. Only with a score of more than 1.5 million can the capital be preserved.”
"For the first animation produced by a small animation studio with low investment, no gimmicks, and no reputation, this kind of achievement is a bit difficult even if I consider your popularity, brother Chu, and then add additional funds to promote it, basically The investment and the return are not directly proportional!”
Chu Yu was confused at the time, but was finally persuaded by Huang Ming.
It's just that I don't care about the return line that Huang Ming said with an average set of 2.5 million. After all, the average set of Unheard Flower Name is 9 million, although there is no investment and investment like the previous production of Unheard Flower Name by Nine Stars. Propaganda, it's not that the two works of five centimeters per second and the voice of the stars will be so much worse than the unheard flower name!
But for the time being, I only have these funds, so I can only dispel those thoughts.
"By the way, Producer Huang said that next week, we are going to intercept some dubbing and soundtracks with a speed of 5 centimeters per second, and make them into a short trailer for release." Gu Yan suddenly said.
"Yes." Chu Yu nodded.
After next week, it will be almost December. For a work that airs in January, it is too late to release a promotional video one month in advance.
But fortunately, from the current point of view, the progress and so on are all in Huang Ming's plan, and there is no problem with the broadcast of the two works in January.