Chapter 2046 New Arrangement
Chen Zigui can also tell that Yin Jun really likes such detailed cartoons.
For him who has turned into an administrator, no matter how good the animation is, it should be linked to performance.
If it weren't for "Transformers" being the most profitable project under Kirin Culture, I'm afraid not many people could bear their production cost of 2 million yuan per episode.
However, Yin Jun felt that it didn't matter.
It's not that Yin Jun is rich, so he thinks it doesn't matter.
Chen Zigui was also a screenwriter. He knew very well that Yin Jun did not view "Transformers" with the mentality of a manager at all, but viewed this work as a creator and a technician.
Such an identity change, of course, he would not think it was a waste, he would only think it was so serious and exquisite, he really deserves to be an animation elite production talent!
"They were planning to apply for the production of "Slam Dunk" before, but they were ultimately rejected by the company." Chen Zigui turned to another topic, "The company feels that it is the Japanese's production sophistication and work efficiency. Do a good job of "Slam Dunk" and come out on time... After all, "Slam Dunk" has been published for 2 years, if you don't come up with cartoons, anime fans should smash the company's windows."
"Slam Dunk" was published in September 1983, and it has been 2 years so far.
According to the published space of about 30 pages in each issue, it has now reached the stage of confrontation with Xiangyang High School.
In terms of the plot, although it is only one-fifth, comic fans and anime fans don't care about it. Since the serialization of "Slam Dunk" two years ago, they have strongly demanded to release cartoons as soon as possible. To see to favorite! ——There are also videotapes for TV dramas and cartoons, and the sales are very good for those with high ratings.
It's just that Kirin Culture has never panicked, and will not change their plans because of strong demands from consumers. They are very organized in doing things.
According to previous experience, the best time to start animation should be 2 years after the manga is serialized, so that the progress can be maintained almost one episode a week until three years later.
In this way, after catching up with the progress of serialization, you can stop and wait for another year or two before starting production again.
Calculated in this way, almost 10 years is enough to finish most of the comics.
Even if it is not over, then just another program like this will do.
It's not that there is nothing to do in the middle, they can make side stories one by one according to the plot of the comics, or side stories that everyone likes to hear.
For example, "Wolongyuan" made about 20 episodes of extra stories about the two masters when they were young, and it is still very popular.
"Tomb Raider" also has the heroine Laura's father, the adventure story of a long time ago.
These branch plots developed based on the main trunk will not only enrich the overall story, but also increase the love of fans.
Not to mention "Slam Dunk", Xiandao, Uozumi, Fukatsu, Morishi Hiroshi, etc., if you want to make side stories, at least hundreds of episodes can be produced.
Of course, this is something that will come later. At present, the main story of the Xiangbei Five is still the main story.
Considering the plot development and production sophistication of "Slam Dunk", although Kirin Culture has decided to start producing animations since the beginning of this year, after a period of competition between Shangmei Factory and Asahi Group, coupled with Hualuo The Asahi Group's various preparations afterwards led them to officially start the production process starting in June.
At this rate, there won't be many episodes saved until February and March next year.
After all, such fine animation is required, even if Toei Animation has formed a working team of as many as 70 people, there is no way to achieve one episode a week.
If it is replaced by the animation team of Kirin Culture, I am afraid that it will be able to keep improving to the point of making one episode a month.
Yin Jun also felt inappropriate.
After all, animation is a commercial thing, you can do it seriously, but you can't ignore the overall commercial promotion at all.
A cartoon with one episode a month is lifeless.
Not to mention cartoons, even manga.
If the three major migrant comics, and those super comics, were not published once a week, could they have such a strong influence?
Therefore, handing over "Slam Dunk" to the Asahi Group is still a very reliable and practical approach.
Of course, the reason why the animation team of Kirin Culture has not increased its speed is also because computer production has not been popularized.
If it takes another ten years, when the computer technology can reach the point of around 2010 in the previous life, then they can produce "Slam Dunk" at a rate of one episode a week.
"Why, they still have time to do other animations?" After thinking about it, Yin Jun smiled, "Even the speed of "Transformers" can only be kept at two weeks and three episodes. Don't they have to be busy?"
"Who says it's not?" Chen Zigui said, "there are 160 of them, plus more than 100 assistants from the Academy of Fine Arts and trainees, nearly 300 people, and they only do one animation... This is the only thing that our "Kirin Weekly" is ridiculed by. department!"
"Kirin Weekly" now has nearly 800 regular employees, and then there are more than 200 interns from art colleges in mainland China, and there are about 500 assistants who are interns.
Such 1,600 people support the world's largest comic magazine and one of the most profitable companies in the world.
They are second only to a transformational company like Kirin Game Company, with a mere one or two hundred people, they can create a market worth tens of billions of dollars.
"Well, this efficiency should be improved a bit." Yin Jun pondered for a while, "Well, don't we have a lot of myths and legends in Huaguo? You specially find a dozen screenwriters and ask them to sort out these myths and stories. Then ask them to make animated shorts. It doesn’t need to be too many, five or seven episodes will do.”
"So few? Is there a seller's market?" Chen Zigui asked in surprise.
Three to five episodes, seven or eight episodes of cartoons are usually a one-off deal, and the price is not expensive.
But the production cost is not cheap.
"It doesn't matter in the seller's market. It is best to recover the cost. If not, it is equivalent to popularizing mythology and ancient culture." Yin Jun said with a smile, "The most important thing is to train them. There are so many people, we can't all fall into one animation. Above, the efficiency should also be improved.”
"okay, I get it."
Only then did Chen Zigui suddenly realize that it was to sharpen them!
Should!
Why do you three hundred people always procrastinate like this?
"As for the rest of the cartoons..." Yin Jun continued, "Aren't there still a few cartoon factories in the mainland? Give them one for each factory and let them try their hand. The best way to cultivate them... ...After all, he is also his own, which is more reliable than Disney and Toei Animation."
"In the mainland, there are Jichun Film Studio and Huajing Science and Education Film Studio. Their animation teams have had frequent exchanges with us in recent years. There are more than 80 artists and animators working in Kylin Culture. Well." Chen Zigui said, "If animation is to be done, they all have to go back. In this way, our manpower will be relatively tight in a short time."
"Can you overcome it?" Yin Jun asked directly.
"Yes." Chen Zigui said helplessly.
He originally wanted to sell it badly, and then asked Jun Shao to solve the problem of some recruitment quotas, but he didn't expect that Yin Jun would stop him with a word.
In "Kirin Weekly", there are more than 200 students from the Academy of Fine Arts and about 500 trainee assistants, all of whom are not official employees of Kirin Culture.
Needless to say, those from the Academy of Fine Arts, they are here for internship and sharpening. They are still students or have just graduated, and they will have arrangements when they return to the mainland.
The trainee assistant is a new employment mode, which is specially aimed at the animation industry, which is very labor-intensive and has a very high elimination rate.
Kylin Culture will hire them only if they have not left their jobs after two or three years and have good technical skills.
In fact, the elimination rate of these trainee assistants is generally more than 30% every year, either because they cannot bear the hardship or because they are not capable enough.
Those who can really stay after three years are about 10%.
At the same time, they get half the money of ordinary employees, and there is no bonus.
Even if this is the case, their salary can reach 6,000 yuan a month, but it is still too hard, and it is normal to work more than 12 hours a day.
There is no department that does not want its department to have more people and more power.
Therefore, "Kirin Weekly" really wants to give better treatment to some outstanding talents in it, but this kind of treatment must be formally hired, and Kirin Culture is stuck with the number of people hired, and they are not allowed to be like before. In that way, dozens or even hundreds of people were hired at one go.
Now Yin Jun has no intention of expanding the scale, Chen Zigui can only sigh sadly, waiting for the next opportunity.
It's just that compared to "Kirin Weekly", the animation teams of the two mainland film studios are really blessed.
Not only did they get dozens of elite employees who had been honed in "Kirin Weekly" for a long time, they also got the opportunity to make a cartoon.
If you do well in a year, you can get tens of millions of RMB in production costs.
This amount of money is definitely a very high income in the Mainland!
Even now they have no way to pose a big threat to the Shangmei factory, but if they continue to develop like this, if they can do well, there is a great possibility of forming a tripartite confrontation.
Chen Zigui is a smart man, he knew that this was Yin Jun's plan long ago.
Yin Jun deliberately let the mainland not only have one animation production factory, but also let them compete with each other.
Only by competing with each other, only by chasing after each other, can a positive atmosphere be formed, without arrogance and arrogance, without seeking to make progress at all!