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What do Two-dimensional nerds fear most?

It’s not that my favorite manga works have not been able to be animated, but that after my favorite manga works are animated, because the producer’s funds are insufficient, they are crazy, not only the number of screen frames is insufficient, but also the characters are seriously deformed with various settings OOC (off-character design).

If your favorite work is seriously OOC after animation, it is better not to animate it!

Many Two-dimensional fans have mixed feelings of anticipation and worry about the animation of their works.

This time, the large-scale animation of the comic works of the "Super Evolutionary Age" series has aroused the tension of these comic fans.

After someone first raised a question, more people followed up and started discussions soon.

No matter which series of manga fans they are, their concerns are the same - which company is the animation producer?Is the production team reliable for character design, painting supervision, action supervision, etc.?Even if it's Instant Noodles, how much does it cost to animate a single episode?Can battery life be guaranteed?Will the animation quality be compressed due to insufficient funds?

A series of questions were thrown out one by one, and every fan of the "Age of Super Evolution" series of comics seemed very nervous.

It wasn't until a game geek who straddled the game circle and the Two-dimensional circle jumped out and dropped a set of data, that the people who were nervous and worried about not losing the studio's failure finally put their hearts back in peace. inside.

——["One Thought Immortal Demon" single-day running water.jpg, "One Thought Immortal Demon" seven-day running water.jpg, this is the entirety of the current pillar project "One Thought Immortal Demon" developed by the game developer of "Super Evolution Era" The single-day and 7-day turnover data of the platform, after deducting the share of the platform, taxes, and production and operation costs, it is estimated that the single-day net income of the studio will be around 7 million RMB.In Instant Noodles, the production cost of a single episode does not exceed 350, provided that the paintings are as delicate as possible.According to the current preview, the first season of each series of Instant Noodles has 10 episodes.

The single-day turnover of "Yi Nian Xian Mo" is enough to cover the cost of at least 35 episodes of Instant Noodles. The cost of 10 series of 120 episodes of animation is about 1.5 days of all-platform turnover and 3.5 days of net income for "Yi Nian Xian Mo". 】

All Two-dimensional nerds: ...

Sorry, they were rude.

OK, let's go.

The overlord is rich.

Who is the happy person when Baba is rich?

It's them!

At the same time as the message that the studio is rich, there are also messages from the producer that the comic authors have released one after another - silhouette animation, dream as a horse, dream animation, magic brush era...

The announcement of the name of each producer made the Two-dimensional fans burst into cheers.

These Gonghua companies are domestic veteran animation companies, each of which owns three or five well-known animation IPs in China. Behind them are the capital injection backgrounds of top investors such as Su's Consortium and Li's Group, with strong strength , The animations produced by them often have outstanding quality.

After learning that the Instant Noodles are produced by these companies, for fans of the "Super Evolution Era" series, the upcoming Instant Noodles is nothing less than a gluttonous feast!

Two-dimensional nerds are about to shed tears—what kind of fairy company is this?Such a large amount of spiritual rations was delivered to them at one time, woo woo woo, they stopped picking, they wanted to send wallets to the gold master Baba.

***

The game circle has never seen such a big posture in game IP.

In Polar Star Studio, when Li Sheng, Chen Shan and others got together to chat recently, it was difficult to avoid the big hand of the studio.

Chen Shan: […… The studio spent a lot of money this time. It seems that the 2 million yuan to build an IP is not a lie. 】

Li Sheng: [That's right!I have been following their actions for a long time! The investment of 2 million yuan should not be too bad. According to the volume of derivative content and the list of producers given by them so far, the cost of instant noodle series of 10 series and 120 episodes this time is around 1200 million. According to these series For the content of the original author's work, it is impossible for a single series to have only one season of content, at least three seasons of content output, here is 1 million.

At the same time, on the Internet only on Weibo platform, there are more than 50 works related to "Super Evolutionary Era" and fan chats, and there are already 10 bots of various types that have contributed works related to "Super Evolutionary Era". Content is produced every day.

The mid-to-early period of these outputs should be works that do not lose to the studio. Although these costs are not obvious, this is a continuous output. Regardless of the quality of the drawings, at least it is necessary to ensure that each bot has fan works and To maintain popularity and attention, to maintain such popularity, the remuneration expenditure for monthly refills is about 100 million, and the price of high-quality derivative works is not included, as well as the monthly remuneration expenses of the authors of each article. The total cost of this part should be in Around 500 million.

This is just the production cost of Tiaoman and Instant Noodles of "Super Evolution Era". At present, they should still have animation series in production. This cost is much higher than that of Instant Noodles. It is estimated that it should be tens of millions end. 】

Li Sheng is the person in charge of numerical values ​​in the "Super God" project, and he is also very sensitive to numbers. He listed the possible production costs of the studio one by one, and the content of each item seemed to be flickering. The light of money.

Li Sheng: [This is just the production cost, and the cost of promotion and marketing has not been calculated, but their action this time is really too big, and the natural heat generated on the Internet is very amazing. Those painters and Two-dimensional hobbies Fans will also spontaneously create heat, and the cost of promotion and marketing is probably equivalent to the production cost. 】

Speaking of this, Li Sheng sighed with seriousness: [It's really a good plan! 】

Chen Shan also fully agrees with Li Sheng's statement: [This cost is even more astonishing than the original IP investment of "Super God". 】

Li Sheng nodded in agreement, isn't that right?

The "Super God" project is really rich. At the beginning, it was very serious to create an IP. The overall cost budget was 1 million, which included the production and promotion of comics, animations, novels, stage plays, etc. cost.

It must be said that the money spent on "Super God" was really not small. Li Sheng and Chen Shan, as the executives of the "Super God" project, of course also followed up the overall work of the original "Super God" IP development , That's why Li Sheng was able to do the same calculations just now when calculating how much the studio spent.

It's a pity that the original IP development of "Super God" was not as smooth as it did not lose to the studio.

Li Sheng also couldn't tell where the problem was. They invited painters to draw the surrounding characters for the popular characters in "Super God", and they also spent a lot of money to make movie-level 3D single story short films for the popular characters. A lot of promotional resources have been spent, but still only gamers will pay attention to their content, and it has not been able to produce a circle-breaking effect like "The Era of Super Evolution".

A game that is still in beta testing, and there are not many game fans at all, but it has first become famous in the two-dimensional circle...

This is outrageous!

Chen Shan thought for a while, and said: [Maybe the strategic direction of "The Era of Super Evolution" is right. We made top-notch movie-level single story short films for the characters. Following the development idea of ​​the game CG, it is necessary to tell a character's life story or key turning point within two to three minutes, so of course it will inevitably appear that the story is a bit thin. 】

Not only that, the storytelling method of this short film is thin, but because the production is indeed top-notch, the cost remains high. The cost of a single short film of about 5 minutes is about 500 million.

Their entire budget is only enough to make 20 short films of this level.

Moreover, for this kind of movie-level 3D animation, the native models and scenes in their games are basically unusable. The animation producers need to re-design and model the characters, and also need to re-build the scene according to the plot.

For an animated short film of about 5 minutes, the production cycle takes 3 months to lay the groundwork-this is the result of the production team's full-speed work.

Because the "Super God" project is a top-level game project in China, when they develop IP and create IP characters, of course they think that no matter animation or anything, they must have the best quality.

The best quality corresponds to the longest production cycle and the highest production budget, and after two or three months of creation, the IP character animation short film is only enough for players to watch for 2 minutes, leaving a rough memory impression about this character.

Li Sheng thought about what Chen Shan said, and he was speechless for a while: [... Fuck, Dashan, you are right, why didn't we think of it at the beginning? !Fuck, we have a 5-minute animation, and that cost is enough to make it a 50-episode instant noodle show!There are stories and content, and the production cycle is short. Players can still watch it to their satisfaction. 】

Not only that, 50 episodes of Instant Noodles compared to a 5-minute character animation short film, which one can allow players to understand the stories and lives of game characters better?

Moreover, 50 episodes!

This is completely enough for them to mainly promote IP characters, add a bunch of characters from the game, and use instant noodles to easily shape their characters and pull CP or something.

Thinking of this, even a carefree guy like Li Sheng has a distressed expression on his face.

Wipe, wipe, this is really a big loss!

It also cost a lot of money. The original 1 million yuan of "Super God" was dropped quietly, as if it was a waste of time. Even because they pushed a lot of marketing news when they decided to create an IP, it turned out that although There has been output all the time, but players feel that the "Super God" project has not made any effort to create IP at all.

How about not losing the studio's "Super Evolutionary Age"?

According to Li Sheng's calculations, not to mention the future expenses, so far, the production cost of the "Super Evolutionary Age" series of No Loser Studio should not exceed 3000 million for the time being.

See what momentum they have? !

The game has not yet been launched, and there are already various Lalang CPs on Weibo. Each hand is in charge of drawing, and the two of them will be placed together, purely because one day a fan who was chasing two series at the same time sighed: [Xiaocao is really coquettish, why is there such a promiscuous person who likes to tease people? Grass?Hehehe, I suddenly want to see Xiaocao harass Xiaoah——Faceful Xiaocao X cleanliness little zombie, I want to see the little zombie being entangled by Xiaocao, and then molesting the little zombie like this (#^.^#)! 】

It was such a sentence, which was seen by a fan artist, so he drew a fan picture of Xiao Cao and the little zombie entwined. In the picture, the little zombie was entangled by the grass, but his face was ignorant and confused, he didn't know Xiao Cao What are you doing, just trying to break free - because he is a little zombie with a cleanliness, he doesn't want to be with other people... oh, he doesn't want to get too close to other grass.

Good guy.

It was just such a paragraph and a fanart, and then someone wrote the fanfiction of "Cao Ah", and then more comics of Xiaocao Chasing His Wife series with plots were released.

This CP, which no one had expected from the beginning, suddenly exploded. With the popularity of CP, the reading volume of the comics of Zombie Xiaoah series and Xiaocao series increased by 10 times compared with the past. It ranks as the double TOP of the "Super Evolutionary Age" series.

After that, the series of "The Era of Super Evolution" continued to explode a lot of CPs, but these later CPs had a little taste of artificial CPs forcibly sending out sugar, and the popularity could not catch up with 'grass. 'CP.

Li Sheng chatted with Chen Shan and the others for a while, and finally smiled and said with emotion: [Not to mention anything else, Lao Wang made a lot of money by resigning! 】

They are now in the "Super God" studio, and of course they earn a lot, such as project dividends at the end of the year or something. These main creators, each of them can have 500 million.

And what about Wang Fei?

Li Sheng and the others have a sense of propriety. Of course, they would not directly ask Wang Fei how much the dividend will be at the end of the year. The project members all came after the project exploded. Just by looking at it, one can tell that the bulk of the dividends must be paid by Wang Fei and the others.

It is estimated that at least 20% of the 15% of the net profit dividend is divided among the old people of these projects.

Wang Fei, as a founding member of No Loser Studio, got at least 1000 million yuan.

Not only is it a leap in personal income, but now the name Wang Fei has already become popular again with the start of the No Loser studio, and it is even more popular than before.

After all, Lao Wang straddled the two successful projects of "Super God" and "One Thought Immortal Demon".

Speaking of which, who would not be envious?

Looking at the studio’s efforts to promote new games and develop IP, I wonder how much space Wang Fei can play in the studio—this is another sense of accomplishment in his career.

It’s not just Polestar Studios who are discussing various things in the Bulo Studio, but all companies that have engaged in IP are now staring at the operation of the Bulo Studio, hoping to learn something from it.

At the same time, they are also waiting for the debut of the "Super Evolution Era" series of instant noodles next weekend.

They wanted to see if the series "The Era of Super Evolution" only had a false popularity on Weibo, or was it a real hit on the Internet?

The author has something to say:

Wang·Life Winner·Fei: Hehe. (hold glasses)