Chapter 248 Deliver It to Your Door (Please Subscribe!)

Putting down the phone, a smile appeared on the corner of Yin Jun's mouth.

Wei Xiaofan talked on the phone for more than an hour, explaining what he had done in the past few days and Yan Dingxian's intentions very carefully.

He said that he would call back tomorrow, which actually gave Yin Jun a little more time to consider the gains and losses.

But in Yin Jun's view, such cooperation is absolutely wishful thinking.

No one knows better than Yin Jun how huge and outstanding the Shanghai Animation Film Studio is.

In fact, the current group of elite masters are much more prominent in creativity and ingenuity than their younger generations.

What really constrains them is the current environment in Huaguo, as well as the long-term complacency and the constraints of the system.

If they are allowed to come into contact with more and more advanced and excellent animation cultures today, and open their minds, then there is no doubt that they will bloom with incomparably dazzling brilliance.

Of course, this matter is for them to do by themselves, and Yin Jun has no way to change it, and he doesn't have so much energy to deal with that group of leaders.

What he can do is to gather a group of outstanding masters under his command, let them help him complete the cultural dissemination of comics and animations, and seize this future big gold mine.

And at the same time, he can provide Shanghai Animation Film Studio with a lot of resources, so that they can also share in the growing success.

It's better now, Yan Dingxian directly proposed cooperation.

It is a collaboration between the entire Shanghai Animation Film Studio and Kylin Culture Co., Ltd.

With this cooperation, Yin Jun can not only get more talents, but also has a huge backup talent reserve base, and the support for the comics industry is continuous and sustainable.

What Yin Jun paid was nothing more than money.

In the eyes of the young man, money is actually the cheapest form of purchasing power, not to mention that the salary conditions in the mainland are very low now, according to the standard proposed by Wei Xiaofan, it is not too cheap.

yes.

The salary paid and promised by Wei Xiaofan is sky-high compared to the current salaries of mainlanders, even much higher than that of white-collar workers in Xiangjiang.

But do you think about the value they can create?

Think about the cartoons they drew and produced. Can tens of millions or hundreds of millions be summed up? Billions, tens of billions can't beat it!

Drawing comics is only the first step, and the second step is to make animations, which cannot be completed by a few or dozens of people.

A standard cartoon of about 20 minutes, excluding the beginning and end credits, requires about 30,000 frames of pictures.

Calculated by taking about 2 frames per animation, that is 16,000 pictures.

If it was in the era of computer production, it might be easier to have a computer to help with the process of making animation, as well as scenes, rendering, etc., but now there is no computer equipment, and there is no such software to make it. used for hand-drawn animation.

Therefore, it will take at least half a year to complete these more than 16,000 pictures if 50 painters come to work.

This does not include talents in shooting, sub-camera, dubbing, editing, effects, etc. The entire animation production process is absolutely extremely complicated, and it is more troublesome than a movie.

If Yin Jun can gradually turn the Shanghai Art Film Studio into his partner, or even a subsidiary affiliated company, to produce these exclusively for himself, it will save Yin Jun a lot of heart.

Originally, Yin Jun planned to let the Shanghai Animation Film Studio see the great development of the employees who went out, and then cooperated with him on a large scale under his coercion and temptation.

I didn't expect that there were smart people like Yan Dingxian among them, who knew the great benefits of cooperation, so they asked for all-round cooperation from the very beginning.

This is certainly a good thing for Yin Jun, but it is also a good thing for Shanghai Animation Film Studio.

Not only can they practice their skills and abilities in actual combat, but they can also get a steady stream of funds to help them develop themselves.

Ever since Mr. Wan made "Havoc in Heaven", they knew that this cartoon was all made with money.

Only with money can we talk about development!

The next morning, Yin Jun called Wei Xiaofan and asked him to negotiate a cooperation agreement with the Shanghai art film studio on his behalf.

The specific details of the contract will be faxed to Xiangjiang after the two parties discuss the appropriateness. After Yin Jun's consent, it can take effect immediately.

Including the nine employees in front, they can also wait in Shanghai temporarily and come with the follow-up talents.

Since the Shanghai Animation Film Studio fully supports it, Yin Jun's preliminary plan is to recruit 30 elites in art and 10 elites in the animation department who are relatively young, preferably around 26-28 years old, for a total of 40 Personally, of course, it doesn't matter if you can have more.

With Yin Jun's current strength, he can completely accommodate so many talents.

Even the elites of those 10 animation departments will not work in Xiangjiang at all. Instead, they will first go to Japan and the United States to study and work for a period of time, and then return to Xiangjiang to produce after they are familiar with more advanced animation production methods. Animation, Yin Jun can still pay for their various expenses.

I went to Japan mainly to learn animation production, and I went to the United States mainly to learn computer knowledge, which can be used in the future.

As for whether these people are willing to come back?

Hehe, of course Yin Jun will sign an agreement with them. Except for Yin Jun and Yin Jun's appointment, they are not allowed to work for others within 20 years.

Such contracts may not be of much use in the mainland, but in Japan or Europe and the United States, they have very strong legal effects. The Japanese dare not use them at all, otherwise they will wait for Yin Jun to sue them for bankruptcy.

Moreover, Chinese people are notoriously nostalgic and prefer to live on their own land.

Yin Jun gave them good working conditions and a good salary, so why would they not want to come back?

Yin Jun knew what state-owned factories in Huaguo looked like in this era. After reaching a preliminary cooperation agreement, Yin Jun directly asked Wei Xiaofan to take 200,000 US dollars to Shanghai Animation Film Studio as the signing bonus for the first year. prepaid.

Many tools and equipment of Shanghai Animation Film Studio have to be imported from abroad. They used to be poor and had no money, so they could only buy some second-hand goods.

Now that there is such a huge sum of money all of a sudden, they are so excited that they even jumped out of the four old men and special old men, saying that I want to buy this, I want to buy that, and bring them back to me quickly, so that Let's get to work!

However, due to giving too much fanfare, the people in the Shanghai Animation Film Studio were not happy for a few days, the money was taken away by the superiors, and then 200,000 yuan was allocated to the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. The name also said that your cooperation is very good, and we are very supportive of being able to work closely with the compatriots in Xiangjiang.

This made a group of old men so angry that they called and went to the city every day to make trouble, but they couldn't change the decision of the higher authorities.

After all, the mainland is really short of US dollars now. Seeing such a channel, how can we not grasp it?

This is not enough, I heard that I can get a signing bonus of 1 million RMB per year, and the higher-level department directly asked to change it to 500,000 US dollars, and then everyone will split it in half, otherwise this matter will not be possible.

If it wasn't for Wei Xiaofan's firm opposition, they would all want to say that you should pay all the salary in US dollars, and then you don't care about the rest-this is again wanting to exchange RMB for US dollars.

Those employees may not object, because their interests are still the same, and they should be paid in RMB.

But this is different for Kylin Culture Co., Ltd.

The signing fee of 1 million RMB can be settled by Xiangjiang with only 2 million Hong Kong dollars.

But you have to use the mainland’s standards to calculate. They shamelessly say that 500,000 US dollars is 900,000 RMB. In Xiangjiang, 500,000 US dollars is 2.7 million Hong Kong dollars, which is a 35% loss!

Fortunately, they also knew that this proposal was unreliable, so in the end, they did not ask for such a signing bonus, but instead asked Kirin Culture Co., Ltd. to pay 2 million Hong Kong dollars.

In this way, they can also take advantage of foreign currency, and Yin Jun doesn't have to pay more.

In terms of salary payment, Shanghai Animation Film Studio also has some careful thoughts. They are determined to let Yin Jun pay most of the salary directly in Hong Kong dollars, and then only need to take about 10% of the salary for Xiangjiang. Anyway, Yin Jun is Food and lodging for the employees, these people have no place to spend money, so it is better to get it here for the family, and then let the Shanghai Animation Film Studio have a hand, the purchasing power between Hong Kong dollars and RMB The difference is also a place where you can make a little money.

Such an idea, of course, would not have been thought up by Yan Dingxian. From the conversation between him and Wei Xiaofan, we can know that this person is very generous and doesn't care about such trivial details.

But the Shanghai Animation Film Studio is not his place alone, so it is not surprising that there are various interests and voices coming out.

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Not to mention Wei Xiaofan's battle of wits with those old foxes in Shanghai, Yin Jun also has something to do in Xiangjiang.

The first thing he has to do is buy a license.

What authorization?

Of course it is the first gold-absorbing weapon - the authorization of "Transformers".

wait a minute!

"Transformers" was not launched by Japan's TAKARA company in 1983. In 1984, they cooperated with Hasbro to launch animations. In 1985, Marvel gave life to Transformers and made them the prototype of intelligent robots. ?

It's 1979, TAKARA doesn't even have any ideas, right?

In fact, if only "Transformers" is concerned, this is true.

Japan's Takara Company sold the idea of ​​"Transformers" to Hasbro in 1984, allowing them to produce and sell it in North America.

Then Hasbro felt that the setting of "Transformers" was too rough and uninnovative, so it entrusted Marvel to conceive and create the story of Transformers, and then made it into a cartoon, which became popular all over Europe and the United States. Then naturally, they sold out of the "Transformers" toys and made a lot of money.

This is what happened four or five years later, and it really has nothing to do with the present.

However, if it comes to the deepest level of copyright issues, there are actually two small loopholes.

The first one is "MSI Little Superman", which can't be bypassed. This is also the work of TAKARA. They launched this series of character dolls in 1974. There are cars and robots, which can be transformed and assembled. This is deformation. The prototype of King Kong was also based on this, and they later produced a more systematic "Transformers".

Last year, "MSI Little Superman" was also adapted into a comic book in the United States, and it was drawn by the famous Marvel Corporation.

Moreover, the setting of "MSI Little Superman" is completely impossible for "Transformers" to bypass.

Its main content is that two superman factions on a planet have fought for a hundred years, which caused the destruction of the planet, and then came to the earth to start the struggle.

Although you can say that we are robots and you are Superman, they are completely different, but considering the logic and the robot model that can be deformed and assembled in "MSI Little Superman", this hurdle is obviously not so feasible step over.

Since you can't step over, go ask for authorization.

Now TAKARA has never thought about the idea of ​​Transformers, and it should not be expensive to buy "the right to produce derivative works and products" from them-who would have thought that this would involve a huge industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars chain?

In addition to this, there is one more thing that cannot be bypassed.

That is Hasbro's "element body" patented technology, which is the movable joint technology of the doll. Without it, the Transformers doll cannot be deformed.

A Transformer who can't transform, what kind of Transformer is that?

Regardless of TV movies, or the most basic dolls, there is no place to play, and it cannot arouse the crazy pursuit of children all over the world.

On this point, Americans and Japanese are the same, as long as their own core interests are not involved, they will consider transferring these patented technologies, it's just a matter of price.

If you want to do a project, you must plan it with the most demanding attitude. Only when you are fully prepared, you will not encounter so many problems when you harvest the results in the future.

As long as Yin Jun can get the authorization of these two patents and rights, then "Transformers" will have no obstacles at all. This behemoth worth hundreds of billions of dollars will definitely belong to Yin Jun alone!

Think about it, in the future, people in Europe, America, Japan, South Korea and other countries will watch the "Transformers" animation and movies produced by Huaguo, and play with Transformers toys produced by Huaguo, and they will continue to get money and goodwill. How invigorating is this?