Chapter 127 Conversation and Animation Investment

Some creators are very stubborn and do not allow anyone to interfere with their works. Even if they are editors, they will ignore you if you suggest to modify the plot. If Mo Ran has this tendency, there is really nothing you can do. After all, working together to create comics is like eating from the same bowl as others. Everyone has to adapt and cooperate with each other. Some people can stand it, and some can't.

Mo Ran thought carefully for a long time after hearing this, and then raised his head and said.

"I don't resist my words. I just want to become famous as a cartoonist. As for becoming famous through comic plots or comic painting, I seem to be able to accept it." Mo Ran blinked and said. .

"But. I haven't considered this direction before. And in the Dragon Country comics industry. There is no example of a top cartoonist who is only responsible for painting and not conceiving the plot. Can this work?"

"Why not? Things depend on people. Someone has to set this precedent." Xia Yan said.

"That's what I said, but according to your suggestion, where can I find a partner who can match my drawing skills and be responsible for plotting?" Mo Ran's head hurt even more when she thought of this.

Her eyes fell on Xia Yan at this time

Xia Yan also turned his eyes at the same time.

He saw Mo Ran's thoughtful eyes.

He had figured out Mo Ran's personality in the past few days. She was lively, cute, and straightforward.

She basically didn't hide her emotions.

Hmm?

Xia Yan was a little scared by her look, and after a few seconds, he immediately realized what she was thinking.

"Senior sister, stop your imagination. I still have my own novels to update and my own animations to make. I don't have the time and energy to work with you as a cartoonist." Xia Yan immediately interrupted her fantasy.

Xia Yan's voice extinguished Mo Ran's inner restlessness.

"Does that mean you don't plan to develop in the direction of comics in this life?" Mo Ran heard this, his expression condensed, and he was a little disappointed. ♝♦ ♦♦

Mo Ran also knew that her thoughts just now were a bit whimsical. Xia Yan and she were just ordinary college alumni.

Cooperating in comics is a business behavior.

On weekdays, everyone studies painting and music together, which is called cultivating sentiment and enriching hobbies.

But when it comes to business and money, how can it be so simple?

Who is Xia Yan?

A co-writer of Liuli Book Club, the first place in the selection of the novel "New God Ascension". If light novel writing can enter the college entrance examination, it can be said that Xia Yan is the first in the country among the college entrance examination candidates in the light novel writing industry in the past two years.

Any of his works can make a profit of more than one million yuan when serialized into novels. Cooperating with her, a college student who has not yet debuted in the comics industry? She herself thinks it is impossible.

If she were Xia Yan, if such a person came to make such a suggestion, she would definitely let that person get out of here as far as possible.

However, Xia Yan did not speak for a long time after her question just now, which made her a little strange.

Looking carefully, she saw Xia Yan who was in deep thought.

[Are you not planning to develop in the direction of comics in this life? 】

Mo Ran's words, though light and airy, made Xia Yan's brain start thinking all of a sudden.

In the Dragon Country's two-dimensional world, comics, novels, animations and other categories all have intersections.

If a work wants to be popular, it must be adapted from novels, comics, and animations, and strive to include all categories of two-dimensional audiences.

Just like Xia Yan's Anohana comic copyright has been sold, and there are companies negotiating the comic copyright of To the Moon.

Will Xia Yan have the opportunity to develop in the comic industry in the future?

The answer to this question should be that Xia Yan can't help but develop in this direction.

Works like Parasyte can actually be barely adapted into novels.

But in fact, Xia Yan felt that there was a problem when he adapted the Parasyte novel this time.

The text version of Parasyte is never as clear and intuitive as the original comics and animations, and the tension that can only be reflected on some pictures, and the effect of the text is never as profound as the original, which is a little worse.

If he could draw comics, he would definitely not make the work of Parasyte into a novel version, but directly make it into a comic and serialize it in the comic magazine of Dragon Country.

Parasyte is okay. It's just a little inconsistent after the novel adaptation, which is irrelevant to the overall situation.

If I learn about works like Slam Dunk and Soul of Chess from Yuan Qing's memory in the future.

There are hundreds of chess pieces on a chessboard. What is the situation of the game between the protagonist and the supporting characters? How to describe it?

The positions of ten people on the basketball court, how to run, how to defend, how to attack, how to describe such things?

Some excellent classic works are not suitable for being written into novels.

But Xia Yan can't give up it just because it can't be written into a novel.

Although Xia Yan's suggestion just now was given to Mo Ran, now that he thinks about it,

he seems to be one of the audiences of this topic.

Xia Yan thought for a while, and then looked up. Both he and Mo Ran looked thoughtful.

Mo Ran saw from Xia Yan's hesitant expression and attitude.

Xia Yan is definitely not uninterested in the category of comics.

That's right, why did he join his own comics club if he has no interest in comics.

Of all the people she knew, no one was better at plot creation than Xia Yan.

At least the novel To the Moon completely conquered her. Last year, she read the serialized chapters of this novel while crying with the three members of the comics club who had not yet graduated.

If she really wanted to find someone to cooperate with, Xia Yan was the strongest partner she could find at this stage.

But

She couldn't take the initiative to talk about this topic.

She was indeed moved by Xia Yan's proposal and ideas.

But the gap between her and Xia Yan's status in the two-dimensional industry is too big.

An ordinary person with nothing wants to cooperate with a genius in the light novel industry? Why?

Because she is beautiful? Because she is cute and charming? Because she is gentle and virtuous, and is a good girl that is rarely seen in a thousand years?

What does that have to do with Xia Yan?

Mo Ran still has this self-knowledge.

After November, Xia Yan's life in the Magic City area has become stable.

She attends classes during the day, participates in club activities when there are fewer classes, and then writes novel manuscripts at night.

After the serialization of Parasyte's novel began, Xia Yan and Tang Yin had discussed the work of investing in the animation studio.

If Tang Yin's animation studio was not invested, it would definitely be disbanded, but the residual value of its personnel structure, equipment and rented office space was also worth about two million.

As for the animation Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

Although the detailed investment cannot be listed in detail because Xia Yan has not yet fully created the script.

But in the animation studio, Yao Jiyong, who is the animation director, explained the situation to Xia Yan very clearly.

"There are ways to make animation when you don't have money and ways to spend money when you spend money. A magical girl-themed animation can be made for three to five million yuan at a lower price. It's nothing more than lowering the picture quality, frame rate, special effects, and drawing fewer original paintings. If you want to save on employee wages, you will definitely not be able to find excellent painters to join. For example, fresh graduates of animation majors need internships in their senior year. Tell them that participating in the production of this animation can add color to their resumes. Drawing big pictures can also attract some low-cost interns to do the basic brick-moving work. Maybe some of them will work for free."

Yao Jiyong is a very direct person. He is middle-aged and a little fat. He has elderly parents and children to take care of. But he didn't lie to Xia Yan because he was a pure animation newcomer. Instead, he told him the truth.

But no matter what, an investment of three to five million is definitely necessary. For animation production, labor costs are the largest, followed by publicity.

The general industrial and technological products in Longguo are very cheap, but labor costs are the same in high-income countries. Very expensive.

"But normally, small animation companies like us rarely spend more than 10 million yuan to produce an animation. Only those mature animation companies will spend about 20 million to produce a quarterly animation, and the cost of producing an animation for those truly large animation companies is unlimited. There are hundreds of millions of Longguo currency to produce an animation. After all, those companies have overseas sales channels."

Xia Yan ran to the animation studio that Tang Yin rented in the suburbs of the Magic City, which occupied one-third of the area of ​​this floor of the office building. After talking with Yao Jiyong for a long time, he understood what Yao Jiyong meant.

It all comes down to one sentence

You get what you pay for.

Animation, picture quality, painting, viewing experience, that is piled up with money.

"I understand." Xia Yan thought for a while.

He now has a total of 23 million yuan in funds in his account, and he will receive passive copyright income from previous works almost every month, about 1 million yuan.

But Xia Yan never likes to bet everything on anything.

He is not a gambler.

The probability of Madoka Magica failing in this world is very low, but not zero.

Some people can win a million-dollar lottery with two dollars, but the probability of Madoka Magica failing is still much higher than the probability of winning the lottery.

"In this way, I can invest 16 million yuan in our company's next work."

Xia Yan, in front of the company's animation director Yao Jiyong, music supervisor Chi Rong, animation supervisor, and a series of important members of the studio in the conference room, opened the animation plan of "Magical Girl Madoka" that he spent three days writing on his laptop.

Of course, Xia Yan's PPT is quite ordinary, even rubbish, but the content is concise and clear enough.

After he explained it for ten minutes,

"So boss, are you going to invest 16 million yuan to make a magical girl-themed work that you yourself created?"