I just want to draw cartoons quietly

"What's the problem?" Chu Yu asked.

In the parallel world, Second Five can be successful. Apart from the excellent plot, the biggest highlight is the exquisite picture. The reason why the voice of the stars is not shown in Xin Haicheng's works is also because the picture is too sloppy.

In animation, the plot is as important as the picture. If Chu Yu really wants to make these two works popular in Longguo, he must control the picture well.

"The issue is."

"I have to pay more..." Liu Jian looked at Chu Yu.

"Animation, if quality is the pursuit, manpower is never the first priority, budget is..."

"If the two works as a whole want to meet the requirements of you, boss, even if we can make the remuneration of the excellent painters we find moderately lower, but according to the allocation of funds planned by Huang Ming, I think the investment in painting is still the same. Not enough..." Liu Jian spoke very directly, regardless of Huang Ming standing next to him.

"That's it!" Chu Yu frowned.

Chu Yu thought for a while, and then ran to another room with Huang Ming to discuss the matter.

"Brother Huang, how do you think about this matter?" Chu Yu asked directly.

"This kind of thing is unavoidable in animation production." Huang Ming sighed.

"Anyway, the quality of the work and the budget are two things that are in direct proportion. I also understand your request for this work before. Indeed, in terms of the market situation in Shanghai, you want to add up to nearly Maintaining that quality for an hour and a half of animation is really hard to achieve with our budget...."

"It's just that it's not a problem to make half of the pictures meet the requirements. We can only invest money in the fine production of some important pictures, and sacrifice some pictures to save some budget for some unimportant pictures." Huang Ming looked at Chu Yu and said.

Chu Yu nodded when he heard the words. Animation production is basically like this. Makoto Shinkai of the parallel world spent millions of dollars to produce [-] Centimeters per Second, but it doesn't mean that Chu Yu can also spend the same money to produce it.

Among other things, his ability to manage the team and his ability to take on multiple roles alone don't know how much money he saved for the project.

Although the animation production team formed by Huang Ming looks really good now, it is obviously not up to the level of Makoto Shinkai's team in the parallel world. Since Chu Yu still wants to achieve the same level of quality in this situation, There is no other way except to increase the budget.

It's just that since Chu Yu did it, he definitely wasn't going to do it casually.

"Then how much additional budget do I need to achieve the desired effect?" Chu Yu asked.

"At least 100 million!" Huang Ming thought for a while.

"If you really do that, the final investment may reach 500 million."

Huang Ming said slowly.

This is because the remuneration he asked for from these old friends in the past was not very high, and Huang Ming found a lot of paintings related to him through his relationship. The leadership of the later outsourcing company was familiar with him, and the asking price was also low. If you change someone else, they will definitely ask for a lot of money.

"Then let's do this!" Chu Yu looked at Huang Ming.

"Let's put all the publicity expenses we originally planned into the animation production!"

"What about Xuanfa?" Huang Ming frowned.

For a work, publicity is very important. Good publicity can turn a rubbish work into a popular work. On the contrary, it is common for excellent works to be ignored because of insufficient publicity.

Although it is estimated that the publicity fee for these two works will be less than 100 million, but it is better than nothing. If you are really naked, there is a high probability that you will hit the street.

"It's only the end of July now, and there are still five months before the scheduled airing date in December. Didn't I recently serialize the comic "Initial D"? Based on its remuneration, half a year's remuneration is tax-deducted. There is also about 100 million, so let's use this money to make up for it!" Chu Yu said.

"Besides, my Natsume's Book of Friends has been serialized for nearly nine months. According to the length, it is estimated that a single book or an animation adaptation will be soon. Then there may be unexpected income. No matter how bad it is, I still have a set in my hometown Los Angeles. Although the house is old, it can still be mortgaged for hundreds of thousands. If there is still money left, I will mortgage it first. I can save the comic manuscript fee for a few months and then redeem it. At most, I can pay some interest to the bank. .Counting our previous cost of 360 million, the budget is only within 500 million. I think it can still be squeezed out..."

Huang Ming, who was just listening to Chu Yu's settlement, had a strange expression on his face, and finally couldn't help it after hearing Chu Yu's sigh.

"You sigh, I have worked so hard in Shanghai for so many years and I still don't have 500 million assets. What do you want if you fill in the gap of millions of funds in a few months?"

After Huang Ming complained, he thought about it and added another sentence.

"At that time, the money will not be enough, and we will increase the additional budget in various proportions. Anyway, the agreed share ratio will remain unchanged."

"That's fine!" Chu Yu said there was no problem.

"It's just, Brother Chu, what you're doing means that you might invest all your assets in it now, aren't you afraid?" Huang Ming looked at Chu Yu.

"Afraid of what?" Chu Yu asked back.

"Aren't you afraid that you will lose everything when the time comes?"

"What I'm afraid of is that these two works are not popular. As for the loss of money caused by it, then I don't think it matters. If the money is gone, I can make more money. This work is not popular..." Chu Yu stopped talking at the right time. Down.

"What will happen?" Huang Ming looked at Chu Yu strangely.

So where do I go to earn rewards?

It's just that Chu Yu definitely couldn't explain it to Huang Ming, otherwise Chu Yu wouldn't have invested all his money in animation production.

Even a slight improvement in quality may be the key to whether these two works will give him system rewards at that time.

......

However, when Chu Yu was busy with various things of his own, this week, the major comics clubs in Shanghai almost released more than a dozen comics about racing cars. , the whole black turtle became nervous.

Xuangui had anticipated this situation. After all, before the initial D, there were no decent car racing comics in the entire Longguo comics market, so the degree of exploration for this theme was not high.

But for more than a month, the popularity of Initial D is obvious to all. From the popularity of the first and second chapters, to the great potential of this theme, the comics created new works of racing car comics, submitted them, and arranged serialization in each comic agency And printing, basically this is the time flow.

It’s just that more than a dozen works of the same heart are published at once, which is indeed a bit unexpected...Although the other seven companies in Shanghai did not make the same choice hastily, if these small and medium-sized manga clubs Racing car comics have also achieved good results, so it is obvious that the other six of the Shanghai Seven will not let go of this theme.

And some of the promotional posters of the comics directly use words like Beyond the Initial D, and the plot is similar to the Sandoz plot, which attracted many comic fans of the Initial D for a while.

At least judging from the results of the first phase of these works, the response is not bad.

Because of this, Li Xi has been a little upset these days.

Chu Yu saw her frown when she came to pick up the manga manuscript, and from the fact that Lin Fan and He Sheng were talking about and worrying about the same things these days, he could guess what Li Xi was worrying about.

So he took the initiative to bring up the topic.

"Li Xi, you don't have to worry about the influence those follow-up works will have on the initial D."

"How could you not be worried!" Li Xi sighed.

"I understand that with the strength of the cartoonists of those small and medium-sized comic studios, the quality of their works will definitely not be able to reach the height of the initial D, but what I am worried about is that when the other big comic companies in Shanghai see the potential of this theme, Come in together to disrupt the situation, if that's the case, no matter how exciting the plot of Initial D is, I'm afraid it will attract a lot of popularity."

Chapter 187

"Then let them come in to disrupt the situation!" Chu Yu said calmly.

"It won't be popular, those comics that follow suit, even if the famous cartoonists of the Seventh Big Magic come to follow suit, I also think this way!"

Chu Yu's self-confidence is not blind self-confidence, but has a certain basis.

In the parallel world, there are also many car racing cartoons, but how many are popular?

In the end, when it comes to car racing comics, the comic that people think of is the initial D.

Racing car comics are so easy to follow suit, and before Longguo, there wasn't even an influential work on this subject.

"I hope so!" Li Xi nodded.

"By the way, I want to ask you, Tang Xin went to the driving school with you to practice driving a few days ago and didn't cause any problems!"

"Question?" Chu Yu suddenly recalled Tang Xin's assistance that made his stomach hurt.

"No problem!"

"That's good!" Li Xi nodded.

"Anyway, you are similar in age, she is only one year younger than you, and you can communicate with each other easily. Since she doesn't make mistakes, if you want to go to driving school in the future, you should contact her in advance, and I won't get involved! " Li Xi looked at Chu Yu and said.

"Anyway, this is something you provoked, and it is reasonable for you to solve it."

"What did I provoke?" Chu Yu asked suspiciously.

"What does this have to do with me?"

"If it wasn't for the obsessive initial D, would she have learned to get a driver's license?" Li Xi made a proper point.

As soon as Chu Yu heard it, Tang Xin's personality immediately understood, and his expression suddenly became unnatural.

Is this considered cheating yourself?

"By the way, there is one more thing to tell you about the release of Natsume's book of friends and the adaptation of the animation. In the past two days, Xuangui is negotiating with related companies. Maybe there will be news soon."

"Really?"

Chu Yu just guessed that his Natsume Book of Friends might be about to take action based on the adaptation of Xuangui's past comics, but he really didn't expect that Xuangui had already taken action.

"It's a pity that Natsume's Book of Friends, you originally expected it to be serialized for about a year, otherwise, you could take advantage of this wave of animation adaptations to increase its popularity!" Li Xidao looked at Chu Yu.

"Of course, I respect your opinion, but my personal opinion is, Chu Yu, try not to rush to finish Natsume's friend account, otherwise it may affect your future income!"

Chu Yu is silent, although the original book of Natsume's Book of Friends is long enough for him to serialize it for several years, but Chu Yu has a system in him, so naturally he will not put all his energy on Natsume, and now it is Chu Yu who has not drawn What better work, otherwise he will end the serialization of Natsume's Friends Book soon and devote his energy to the new manga.

In this regard, Chu Yu had also talked to Li Xi before, so Li Xi always thought that Chu Yu might finish Natsume's Book of Friends within half a year.

"Anyway, let's talk about it later!" Chu Yu said.

Now that the serialization of Initial D has just started, the matter is not too busy. Anyway, Natsume’s original work is long enough. The reason is to continue to serialize the second part of Natsume, and the third part is not impossible.

But now, maintaining Natsume's serialization has also had a positive impact on the sales of single volumes and the popularity of animation broadcasts.

Especially the sales of booklets, that is the bulk of the cartoonist's income, definitely much more than the remuneration given by Xuan Gui!

For example, based on the three-year serialization of Tang Xin's Dream World, the sales volume of the booklet is about 3000 million copies, and the royalty rate is 11.00%. For every book sold for a booklet priced at 25 yuan, Tang Xin can earn [-] cents. five cents gain.

The sales volume of 3000 million copies, although it is the cumulative sales volume of the serialization for three years, but if you calculate it less than 3000 to 8000 million in one year, the total income in three years is [-] million, which is much more than the pitiful millions of manuscript fees of Xuan Gui I don't know how much.

As for the benefits of animation adaptations, it is mainly to increase the popularity of the original comics and drive the sales of peripherals and booklets.

If Chu Yu's booklet is released, judging from the popularity of Natsume's account of friends, he might become a millionaire in a few months. Why should he worry about the millions of production costs for Miao Wu and Voice of Stars?

"Anyway, that's all. If there are no doubts, I'll leave first. I'm going to supervise Tang Xin. Anyway, if her comic creation progress is too slow, I will notify you. You don't need it when you go to practice." Call her!"

After Li Xi finished speaking, he left quickly.

Chu Yu also started to create the comics he will submit next week.

But in the evening, Li Xi sent a text message telling Chu Yu that it was impossible for Tang Xin to go out this week!

This made Chu Yu feel a little embarrassed.

It's just that Chu Yu still doesn't understand why Tang Xin delayed the progress of comic creation this week...

.......

At Tang Xin's house, she drew comics with a sad face, and kept meowing at Li Xi who was sitting in front of her computer.

"So you are obsessed with this game this week, which caused the delay in the creation of comics?" Li Xi said coldly.

"Moreover, I spent nearly [-] yuan to buy all the skins of the heroes in this game, and I have already drawn tens of thousands of yuan just to get a skin called Feng Xia?"

Li Xi looked at Tang Xin, really angry and speechless!How can such a big person still be like this...

Finally, she sighed.

"Forget it. After all, you are an adult. I don't want to interfere too much with how to use your money. It's not impossible to play games, but...you remember our agreement! Old rules, you If I haven’t finished drawing the manga, I will stay here to accompany you.”

"What about Saturday's practice?" Tang Xin heard Chu Yu and Gu Yan first.

In the past few days, although it is fun for her to play this game by herself, she still doesn't have the feeling of cheating on Chu Yu and Gu Yan before. Play black with two people, and then show off in front of them......

"If you finish drawing the manga by then, you can go, otherwise, we won't talk about it!" Li Xi thought that Tang Xin was still obsessed with learning to drift, so he paid so much attention to the car training.

"Li Xi, it's wrong for you to do this..." Tang Xin panicked all of a sudden.

It's already Wednesday, and she didn't draw a single page of comics, how could she finish drawing on Saturday?

In other words, the time she was looking forward to for the three people to continue to play black this week has disappeared?

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Li Xi looked over.

Tang Xin held back what she wanted to refute for a long time, but in the end she still didn't have the courage to say it.

"Oh!" Tang Xin lowered her head and responded aggrievedly.

"By the way, it's the same if you want to learn about drifting next week and in the future. If you haven't finished creating a certain number of comics, then stay here on Saturday!" Li Xi said more at the end. One sentence.

.......

In Gu Yan's school not far from Chu Yu, she stayed alone in the dormitory and had nothing to do. She was taking notes on the video played on the computer with a serious face. You will feel that she is a serious and studious student.

only.....

When you get closer, you can see that the video she is watching is a teaching video about the jungle position of the game League of Legends.

In her notes, she transcribed a series of skills such as the learned route to open the wild, the experience of various wild monsters, catching people, squatting back, invading, rhythm...etc.

"So there's so much knowledge in this game!" Gu Yanchang sighed.

After resting for a while, she continued to devote herself to her studies.