The richest man starts from a street stall

Chapter 316

The cultural media company is also the department that Chen Shi feels most at ease. From the beginning of the company's construction to its normal operation, Chen Shi never intervened in specific affairs, and the general manager Yang Hanwen has always been in charge.

Today, Chen Shi is still quietly listening to Yang Hanwen's report, only to see him say:

"Cultural media companies currently have three main tasks, the first is the publication, publicity, printing, retail and after-sales of physical books.

At present, the second phase of printing work for Dou Po, Materials/Empire and Chen Shi Anthology has been completed, with a total of 500 million copies printed, 10 million copies printed for the first ten volumes, and 20 million copies printed for the 5000th to 20th volumes; 30 to [-] volumes are being typeset,

5000 million copies were printed for Materials/Empire and 7000 million copies for Boss Anthology"

"The second job is the production of Doupa Comic, which is progressing relatively smoothly and is planned to be officially released in early April."

The company is too short of money, years ago Chen Shi asked Yang Hanwen to quickly start the work of Doupa comics.

There are a total of 40 volumes of Doupo comics in the plan, with a total price of 1000 yuan. Chen Shi believes that the market for comics is very large. With his current number of fans, Guangdoupo may have a market of billions or even tens of billions, which cannot be ignored.

Comics, like any other art, can be deeply personal.Story outline, storyboard, draft, and final draft.

Due to individual reasons, each artist has a different painting style, and it is not advisable to change people in the middle of the production of each comic, otherwise it will be difficult to have a consistent painting style.

Even if a volume has 200 pages, if a top painter draws 5 pages a day on average, it will take five or six years to finish all the planned volumes.

According to relevant data, in an island country where comics are popular, a popular professional cartoonist usually has a workload of 21 pages a week, but the speed is 2-3 pages a day, which refers to black and white comics.

If one person is solely responsible for drawing color comics, the speed is even slower.

Of course, if there is a story structure, it will be much faster.Doupo's storyline has already taken shape, and only some key plots and dialogues need to be screened out.

Therefore, with Chen Shi's estimate of five pages a day, and with many assistants, it shouldn't be a problem to finish a comic album together.

In fact, at the speed of five pages a day, it will take five years to complete 40 volumes, but the progress is a bit slow for Chen Shi's request. The cartoon department of Doupa is given up to two years, so a dozen people were established. The comics department of the company is only responsible for drawing Doupa.

With a market of nearly [-] billion yuan, it is worth spending a lot of money to invite (poach corners) skilled painters in the industry to be in charge. Seven or eight professional painters are enough to handle it. With some post-production, a cartoon department with more than a dozen people can be competent. The production of broken comics.

This department was established with the approval of Chen Shi. Currently, there are 13 people in total, all of whom are industry elites. The main comic writer is still an industry god, with an annual salary of millions.

Chen Shi also personally reviewed the first draft of the manga, and put forward some suggestions for revision. After all, he is the author of Dou Po, and he probably knows the book better than anyone else.

If someone retorts to him, "You don't understand Doupa at all, so why do you have any suggestions for revision", it is a big joke.

Fortunately, the staff of the newly established manga department admired Chen Shina very much. They thought about why Chen Shi made every opinion, and the problem Chen Shi pointed out was indeed the case.

Yang Hanwen went on to say: "The third key task is the animation production of Dou Po, which is also the focus of the cultural media company's future work."

If the manga department is just a small department with more than a dozen people, then the animation department has already reached 500 people, and the plan is to reach 1000 people, which is actually about the same as a large company.

Of course, you don't need so many people to make an animation.

If it is a Flash animation, one person or several people can complete one episode of animation in a few weeks;
If it is like the island animation, there will be 12-13 episodes in a season, and the total number of people in each category will be around 150 or even more.

At present, the production cost of one minute of domestic animation is about 1 yuan. Of course, there are some special examples. For example, the production cost of a single episode of "Ghost in the Shell" in the previous life is as high as 3 million yen, which is equivalent to the production cost of one minute. 3000 yuan, almost touched the ceiling of the island animation.

Of course, the above is just an animation with poor picture quality.

However, what Chen Shi asked for was better quality than ordinary movie CG, comparable to the animation special effects of the movie Afan DA in his previous life. He asked for the quality to be able to go to theaters, so the requirements were different.

The cost of movie CG quality is very high. In the previous life, the production cost of "How to Train the Dragon/The Master" was more than 10 billion Chinese dollars, and the production cost of "Toy Story 3" was nearly 13 billion Chinese dollars.

CG animation is actually produced with a 3D simulation engine. The picture is gorgeous and real, and the cost is extremely high. If the movie "Toy Story 3" is calculated in 103 minutes, the cost of CG for 1 minute is more than 1000 million yuan.

These CG animation productions do not involve factors such as photography, scenery, actors, etc., and the cost is much easier to calculate than ordinary movies.

The production cost of an animated film (excluding the cost of publicity and distribution) is roughly composed of these parts: manpower, production software, working computer + server, rendering workshop (supercomputer for animation production), rent, water and electricity, and general company operations cost.Add these costs together and multiply by the production time, which is the production cost of the animated film.

In Chen Shi's animation department, more than a hundred employees were joined by personnel from the two animation companies that were acquired.

Hundreds of employees, as well as equipment and software costs, the two acquired companies, Chen Shi spent a lot of money in this animation department, at least 3 million yuan.But this is the animation department that has been established for less than two months, and the staff has not yet reached the 1000 people in the full-staff plan.

Professional special effects companies at home and abroad have no less than a thousand employees.For the CG production of an animation, it is normal for hundreds or even thousands of people to produce it.Of course, that doesn’t mean thousands of people did it from start to finish.

For a Doupa, if one episode lasts about 120 minutes, Chen Shi plans to make about [-] episodes, making it into a series of movies, which can probably tell the complete story of Doupa.

Generally, it takes three to six months to produce an episode of an animated film, and a series of Dou Po movies is enough to play for many years.

Even if one thousand animation employees are employed, the annual wages and salaries will be 3 million yuan, which means that Chen Shi is so rich that he can use the money to test the waters.From the planning and establishment of this department to the actual implementation, it didn't take much time. It was all spent money and bought two animation companies at a premium.

Seeing that Yang Hanwen had finished reporting his work, several middle-level managers were reporting on their work.

Finally, Chen Shi made a short work summary, and then said something that excited them:
"Mr. Fang, if you can complete the work tasks in the next fifteen cities, I will mention the M8 level to you.

Similarly, Mr. Zhang, if you can complete the development tasks of the two urban complexes and operate them normally, I will also mention the M8 level to you;

There is also Mr. Yang who is in charge of the cultural media company, and the animation company has reached the international first-class level.

In my business layout plan, M8 level, the annual income will not be less than 2000 million yuan.

All the management present here, including all employees of the group, have the opportunity to improve, as long as you are capable and capable.I'm not drawing a big pie for you, but this big pie really exists.

The benefit of the group is good, even if your job level remains the same, as long as you make performance, everyone's salary will increase. "

Of course, Chen Shi is just painting a big cake, but it is a real big cake, if he works hard, he can still meet the requirements.

Fang Zhiyuan has to complete the work of launching specialty stores in 15 cities, and it may take one or two years to complete, which is very easy to complete.

It will take two or three years for Zhang Qian to complete the two urban complexes.The construction is easy to complete, but it is very difficult to operate smoothly. This is the first one to eat crabs.If the first high-end comprehensive shopping mall can succeed, the second and third ones will not be a problem.

As for Yang Hanwen, the difficulty of completing the task may be the greatest, and it may not be possible to complete it in five years.

Their three senior levels are M7, and their annual salary income is about 400 million yuan, including dividends.

If the job level remains the same and they do a good job, maybe Chen Shi will give some more year-end bonuses, and it will not be a problem for the comprehensive annual income to reach 1000 million.

However, if he reaches the management M8 level, Chen Shi promises that the annual income will not be less than 2000 million, which is very easy to achieve based on the company's huge profits.

When Chen Shi said this, these high-level officials were very excited.

They don't have enough money at the moment, but who would want too little? Moreover, this is very challenging and a sense of accomplishment, just like upgrading and fighting monsters in the game, it is addictive.

The other managements are also full of fighting spirit.

The boss has said that in the future ten cities and fifteen cities strategy, they will have the opportunity to achieve greater performance, and their positions will have the opportunity to be promoted.

Today's meeting lasted for several hours, took a break at noon, and continued in the afternoon.

In a one-day meeting, several high-level executives digested it for a few days after returning home, and then assigned new work tasks to their subordinates.

The work of the group is carried out in an orderly manner. Of course, some problems occasionally arise, which is really normal.

Every company advances and develops by constantly dealing with problems.

Time flies, since the last meeting, another month has passed, and it is the end of March.

Doupo's animation production has been in progress for two or three months. At present, this department has about 550 employees and is still recruiting people. According to the plan, the full staff will reach 1000 people.

I heard the report from Zhang Bo, the technical vice president of the animation department, that the animation production of Doupa's first episode has been completed.

Chen Shi was still a little curious, progressing so fast?He thought it would take half a year.

Yang Hanwen said some time ago that it was not that fast, and there are still many things that need to be revised.

After Zhang Bo left, Chen Shi still called Yang Hanwen over. After asking, Yang Hanwen's face was not very good, and he just smiled speechlessly.

"Mr. Yang, how is your relationship with Mr. Zhang?" Chen Shi still asked one more question, feeling that the relationship between the two of them is not very good.It is still necessary for Chen Shi to pay attention to the working status of several high-level officials.

"We get along pretty well. Mr. Zhang is a nice guy with strong working ability and a senior level in the industry." Yang Hanwen only thought for a moment before replying quickly.

To be honest, the relationship between him and Zhang Bo is really good on the surface.Yang Hanwen is Zhang Bo's boss, M7 level, and Zhang Bo is the technical vice president of the animation department, managing 600 people, M6 level.

But there is a problem. Yang Hanwen doesn't know much about animation production, so when communicating with Zhang Bo, the two sides had different opinions.

And in fact, Zhang Bo directly manages more employees than Yang Hanwen.But Yang Hanwen didn't know much about animation, so he let Zhang Bo manage it a bit.

"Well, let's go, let's go and see how we are doing." Chen Shi nodded, hearing Yang Hanwen's tone, he really couldn't tell what the relationship between the two was.

The group has over [-] employees, and he doesn't have that much thought to understand the relationship between his subordinates.

In fact, he also knows that there will be conflicts between various management levels. As long as the conflicts are not intensified, the company's operations are not affected, and the company's interests are not harmed, he doesn't care.

Because he knows that this phenomenon is normal, and this kind of internal fighting will exist in large companies, but it is rarely made public.

(End of this chapter)