Chapter 420 Fast Progress!

Until 2020, Xiangjiang has no weekends, and the weekly statutory holiday is only Sunday.

But surprisingly, mainlanders have less concept of rest days than Xiangjiang people.

Maybe it's because of the fear of poverty. Many people don't have any concept of resistance to overtime work. Instead, they think it's good to have a class.

During this Christmas and New Year's Day, people in Xiangjiang usually have two days off, but the animators who just came back from the United States didn't have a rest, and they didn't even have the idea of ​​going shopping, shopping, or eating in the streets. I just had enough energy, sat on the animation photography stage, and started the intense work of "Transformers" animation production.

The Chinese workers in this era are still very simple, especially these workers in literature and art.

The 13 animators recruited by Yin Jun basically stayed in Xiangjiang for less than a month, then went to Japan to study for a few months, then went to the United States to study for a few months, and only came back in the last two days.

In other words, they receive Yin Jun's salary every day, but they don't make any contribution to Yin Jun. Instead, Yin Jun spends money for them to study further.

That's all, after "Kirin Weekly" started to go on sale, they actually have their share in every dividend bonus, and they are all above the average amount. The dividends are still 10,000 to 20,000 Hong Kong dollars a month, which makes them I am so ashamed.

Hu Yi, the captain who led the team several times, proposed on behalf of the 13 of them that if he hadn't made any contribution, should he not receive bonuses for the time being, and wait until he and others made contributions?

But Yin Jun said, since everyone is a whole, then the credit must belong to everyone.

Since you feel a little embarrassed, then work harder when you come back, make the cartoon well, and earn more money, so that you can earn more money for me.

Everyone knows that this is what Yin Jun said to comfort everyone. While his heart is warm, he is also desperately learning the concepts and techniques of animation production in the United States and Japan, to the point of forgetting to eat and sleep.

People in 2020 know through the Internet that in fact, when they are abroad, Huaguo students are bugs.

Students from no other country can compare with Huaguo students in terms of overall quality, especially rote learning and hardworking spirit.

The favorite assistants of American professors are Huaguo students, because they can always take care of the rest of the affairs in an orderly manner outside of the professors' regulations, instead of waiting like stupid European and American students and African students. The teacher comes to order, or as lazy as you can be.

This is around 2020, the international students who have come out of the honeypot.

The group of foreign students in the 1980s and 1990s was even more terrifying. Their craziness in learning knowledge was completely beyond what people today can imagine.

It is said in the legend that you can take a look at the plane of the Soviet Union in the Komsomolsk City of the polar bear, and you can come back and draw the detailed size, design and other details. Needless to say, the ordinary foreign students can be able to Learn advanced knowledge from foreign countries.

The same is true for technology, there is no Chinese who can't learn it.

Around 2006, the Europeans, who had been lonely for 20 or 30 years, finally developed a technology called "photovoltaic industry". As a result, within a few years, the people of Huaguo had already learned how to do it, and it was better to use it at a lower price. The technology directly crushed the technology of the Europeans and took over the global market.

This made the Europeans go crazy. They scolded the Chinese people everywhere for being shameless. They also imposed heavy taxes on the photovoltaic industry sold by Hua to Europe, and even launched an anti-dumping investigation. This is the reason.

It is not the Europeans who suffer, Americans and Japanese also suffer too much.

We don't care whether these are moral or not, but at least it can show that there are many smart people in Huaguo, and they are also very talented in learning things.

Such talents also exist in this group of animators.

Originally, they planned to stay in Japan for half a year and the United States for half a year, but their excellent learning ability directly cut this time in half, and they returned from Japan and the United States after only half a year.

Seeing them familiar with working on the animation stage, seeing their familiar directing the painting of those students from the Academy of Fine Arts, Yin Jun felt a burst of emotion in his heart.

If you want to do something, it really depends on us Hua people themselves!

After several days of familiarization and work, Hu Yi and the others have already assured Yin Jun that the first episode will be produced by late January at the latest, including a 20-minute feature film, a 1.5-minute prelude and a 1-minute episode. The end of the half hour.

After finishing the first episode, the subsequent speed can be accelerated, and one episode can be completed in about half a month.

This was based on 31 people working together and using Tezuka's animation stage and techniques, otherwise the time would have increased.

When Hu Yi mentioned it, he was a little embarrassed. After all, they only made two episodes a month, and they still had 31 people to do it, which seemed a bit slow.

But Yin Jun did not blame them, but praised them.

You know, when TAKARA and Hasbro made "Transformers", they only made one episode in about a month, and sometimes they had to add more time.

For the animators on my side, it is already very good to be able to make an episode in half a month.

But this also reminded Yin Jun that there will be more cartoons to be produced in the future. In addition to recruiting more large-scale manpower, the division of work must be done well.

Subdivision of work is to make each step as detailed as possible, and each person is only responsible for his own work, so that the finished product will be faster.

This can also be called the pipeline of animation.

Of course, the work on the assembly line is very boring, but most of these employees do not have only one skill, so let them change the projects they are responsible for every now and then. It's boring.

In terms of recruiting manpower, Yin Jun must give priority to recruiting manpower from the mainland.

Still the same sentence, one's own people are always more reliable.

And after they arrived in Xiangjiang, what they can rely on is the Kirin culture, which is suitable for the centripetal force of the Kirin culture.

With more and more loyalists under Yin Jun, his influence in Xiangjiang will increase.

As for the question of whether Xiangjiang people will protest... Hehe, let them compare their professional skills. If they are better than the students and elites in the mainland, I can hire you too!

The animators are busy, and Yin Jun's newly established "Kirin Toy Studio" is not resting.

Playing with Transformers toys is addictive, and studying these transforming Transformers toys is also addictive.

For the five designers, the simple level of piecing together Transformers toys is completely unsatisfactory for them.

After confirming that Yin Jun needs to make mid-to-high-end variable body Transformers toys, all their energy is basically spent on this.

A good designer, usually a good painter, is also a good architect.

In addition to drawing pictures for product parts every day, they also use various plastics, cement and other things to piece together and imagine their own Transformers.

Yin Juncai didn't go there for a few days, and when he entered their office again, there were dozens of dolls, large and small.

Although the style is weird, Yin Jun is very happy.

If the designer is rigid, he has no future at all.

They just want to be different, and they want to be weird, which means that they have intentions to research and develop.

Throughout the ages, how many inventions and creations have come from unconstrained ideas that ordinary people can't imagine?

Yin Jun didn't disturb their conception and imagination, he took the models made by the 5-person group to look at them, and looked for the appearance of the Transformers toys he had seen before.

Obviously, the simplest and cheapest non-deformable toys were created first. The most important thing about them is the shape and majestic appearance, and then a little more colorful, not so cheap, is enough .

The price is only 10-50 US dollars, how good design concepts and materials can you expect?

Uh... Although the cost of these is only a few dollars, the cheapest one is even less than 1 dollar.

But Yin Jun should earn the money.

This is the value of intellectual property rights!

Therefore, this is also the most troublesome thing for foreign technology companies in mainland China, and it is also a problem that Yin Jun will inevitably face in the future.

They also designed some simple deformation modes, such as those that can be disassembled and then assembled into a car robot. This is a bit like the patchwork mode of Lego toys. It looks fun, but it is still not a Transformers toy. The essence.

The 5-person team is still exploring the most complex body deformation designs.

This matter cannot be rushed, and there is no way to do it well.

But with the ideas provided by Yin Jun and their many years of experience in making toys, the advanced version of Transformer body deformable toys should be designed soon.

In addition to them, the artists and screenwriters of the supplement department newly recruited here are not idle either.

As early as October, after the sales of "Kirin Weekly" had completely stabilized, Yin Jun transferred 4 artists and 2 screenwriters to start a supplement.

The first supplement was Resident Evil.

Considering the length of the issue, "Resident Evil", which was originally planned as a supplement, was directly published as a separate booklet.

If there are too few, it doesn't seem to be very interesting. The release of the booklet with an episode of two months can quickly attract fans.

If it wasn't for the bloody content of "Resident Evil", it could be published once every two weeks or a month, just like "Chibi Maruko-chan".

And the current "Resident Evil" can only be put on the 18X logo and sold on the shelves.

Because of the good foundation of the previous booklet, "Resident Evil" was immediately welcomed by many book fans after it was released.

But this popularity is also regional.

Japan and South Korea actually have a very strong death culture, and their acceptance of subjects such as zombies and vampires is definitely no lower than that of Europeans and Americans.

Therefore, the sales in Japan and South Korea are very good. Japan sold out 500,000 copies in four days, and South Korea sold 300,000 copies in five days, ranking first and second in the sales list of "Resident Evil".

As for Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Singapore, and Southeast Asia, the sales volume is not so good, and the total is only 400,000 copies.

The sales of the other eight single volumes sold on the same day as "Resident Evil" went from 1.6 million copies to 2 million copies in one go. The difference between the two is very obvious.

But Yin Jun was not worried at all.

"Resident Evil" is a book that becomes more interesting the more you read it, and the setting in it is very interesting, and it has a particularly loyal fan base. Once word of mouth spreads, there is absolutely no need to worry about its sales.

In the previous life, the company that developed it made a lot of money just because of the Japanese market. After all, Japan has a population of 150 million and belongs to the ranks of developed countries. Such a population base is already enough to support the sales of many products. ——This is also an important reason why Japan's mobile phone market can be different from the global one, and you can play your own game.

Besides, the sales volume of "Resident Evil" is still in Europe and America!

European and American book fans may not be very interested in some small and warm comic books in Asia, but they have a soft spot for heavy-duty stories like "Resident Evil".

Originally, European and American booksellers were already negotiating with Kirin Culture about the booklet. I believe that with "Resident Evil", in a few days, the booksellers there would not be able to resist coming over to reach an agreement.

As long as "Resident Evil" becomes popular in Europe and the United States, it will be time to make computer games when Microsoft's Windows system comes out in a few years.

In another three to five years, the TV series of "Resident Evil" can be produced.

In this way, around 90 years ago, the first big "Resident Evil" movie could also start filming and release.

According to Hollywood's rule of making a big movie every three years, as long as the script is done well at the beginning, don't just focus on doing special effects, but write the story well, and it will not be a problem to make it to 2020.

Then, Yin Jun can also make "Resident Evil" into his own theme park, like Universal Studios' "Jurassic Park Zone", "Spiderman Zone", and "Harry Potter Zone". A good project that can make money in the long run.

Of course, the earning power of "Resident Evil" is definitely not as good as "Transformers", but it is definitely a great high-quality resource. Yin Jun can earn more than 2 billion US dollars from it, which is quite appropriate.

If Yin Jun didn't pursue it, the project "Resident Evil" could last a lifetime, just like Lucas' space opera "Star Wars".

If you think about it, planning for the next 40 years started in 1980, and only Yin Jun can do it!