Chapter 312 Four Animation Projects
Sun Lu took Liu Hongmin on a tour of the company and introduced it to Liu Hongmin.
"This is the production site of Transformers. There are 107 people working on the Transformers project now. We produce a feature-length animation every year and an animated film every two years. The first animated film was completed last year and earned 5600 million yuan at the box office, with a profit of more than 1200 million yuan."
"This year we applied for a piece of land in Beijing, and with more than 1200 million yuan, we asked Jinpeng Construction Company to build a Transformers-themed residential quarters for the Transformers project team. It is expected to be completed next year. The residential quarters are residential areas, and the east and west sides are amusement parks, which have characteristic buildings and ways of playing for the Decepticons and Autobots..."
Liu Hongmin became interested. "Really? Let me know when it's finished. I want to go and take a look."
Sun Lu nodded. "Of course. We designed it this way because we want to rely on these two amusement parks to provide jobs for their families, increase their family income, and allow them to become the first to get rich."
“It’s a good idea to respond to the call of the country.”
Liu Hongmin praised them. Now the country allows some people to get rich first, so why can't it be his employees? These people are pure people, much better than those who steal and cheat.
"The front is the production site of Detective Conan. There are 127 people working there now. They are all veteran detective fans, and many of them are your fans."
Liu Hongmin jokingly asked, "Really? Should I hold a fan meeting?"
Sun Lu smiled and opened the door. Everyone inside was standing in a straight line. When they saw Liu Hongmin, they immediately clapped their hands and said, "Welcome Detective Liu to solve the case!"
Liu Hongmin was startled, and then couldn't help laughing. This way of meeting was indeed unique. Just now in the Transformers project team, those employees also welcomed Liu Hongmin, but they were very polite.
"Hello, great detectives!" Liu Hongmin waved with a smile, then walked to some work stations and took a look.
Sun Lu explained, "This is a promotional poster, which will be used for the animated film after it is released..."
"These are editorial positions. They provide scripts for animations..."
"This is a storyboard, and also the draft of the comic..."
Liu Hongmin picked up the script and took a look at it. "Not bad! It seems that handing the script over to you was the right choice."
Sun Lu smiled and said, "Compared to the script you wrote, it's still a lot worse. Although some of it has been applied, it has been polished for a long time."
Liu Hongmin commented: "Don't underestimate yourself. This story I have is good. Who wrote it?"
A shy boy raised his hand, "I disassembled it according to your script and put it together according to the various elements."
"This is a good method, but don't use it all the time. You have to understand it yourself."
"I will!"
Liu Hongmin looked at Sun Lu, "How many scripts do I have left?"
"It can probably be used for another five or six years!"
"We will vigorously train screenwriters and strive to achieve self-sufficiency within the project team before the scripts run out." Sun Lu nodded, "We will recruit more screenwriters in the next two years."
Liu Hongmin walked out of the production site of "Detective Conan", followed by Sun Lu. "This year, the animated film "Detective Conan" was released, with a box office of more than 4800 million and a profit of more than 1100 million. We also built a family community and a playground for the "Detective Conan" project team, but this playground is indoors and has produced many puzzle games. We also ordered a large number of "Detective Conan" peripherals from the toy factory as rewards to tourists who successfully solved the puzzles."
"This is a great idea. With rewards there will be competition, and then many children will be willing to come here to play."
Sun Lu smiled and said, "We think so too. After the two project teams' playgrounds are built, we can speed up the construction of the family quarters with the income from the playgrounds alone. After the scale is established, we will build primary schools, middle schools, hospitals and other ancillary facilities. In the future, we can build an animation city in Beijing."
Liu Hongmin praised, "This is a good idea, go for it boldly. If there are any problems, report them to Lao Ma."
Ma Weidu nodded, "No problem, if there is anything that cannot be solved, I can help."
Sun Lu: "Of course, I have troubled Teacher Ma a lot over the years."
Ma Weidu quickly waved his hands, "I can't be called a teacher."
Walking forward, we came to another project team.
"This is the project team of Journey to the West. We reached an agreement with the middle and high-end platforms to use this location to produce the feature-length animation of Journey to the West."
Sun Lu opened the door and introduced Liu Hongmin: "This project team has 186 people, 49 of whom are employees of our company, and the rest are specially hired or seconded from other animation companies or art academies. This is a professor from the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts..."
After getting to know a group of people, Liu Hongmin didn't stay too long.
In addition to the project team, Sun Lu said: "If the middle office had not asked us for help, we would not have participated in this project. This project has few profit points, and these specially hired and seconded people cannot stay permanently, which is not conducive to our training of our own talents."
Liu Hongmin nodded, he also knew the situation. But he still had to give face to Zhongtai, even if he had a bad relationship with Zhongtai, the animation company could not refuse Zhongtai's request.
“How long will it take to complete?”
"For about a year, the specially hired professors and students could not come to work every day, so the production progress was slow. If all of them were replaced by our people, it would have been basically completed by now."
The employees of the animation company are highly motivated, so they work efficiently. In addition, the employees are familiar with each other, which can reduce the time for each unit to get used to each other, and the work process will naturally be faster.
Keep going forward and you will reach the last project group.
“This is the production site of The Lotus Lantern, and it’s also the project I’m directly responsible for.”
Liu Hongmin was a little surprised when he heard the name of "Baolian Lantern". "Why did you think of making "Baolian Lantern"?"
Sun Lu said: "We planned to find a relatively famous traditional story to make into an animated film. At first, we considered Journey to the West, but it happened that China Television found us and wanted to make a long-form animation. In addition, the most exciting part of Journey to the West, Havoc in Heaven, has already been made into an animated film, so we gave up the idea of making Journey to the West and turned our attention to other stories. We considered that the fame of the character is very important. Since Sun Wukong cannot be moved, we should choose Erlang Shen, so we decided to adapt The Lotus Lantern."
(End of this chapter)
