Star Comic Animation, after being acquired by Li Yi, launched the popular "Those Things About That Rabbit That Year"!
After that, Li Yi became less involved.
Of course, Star Comic Animation cannot just produce one animation. Subsequently, Star Comic Animation has obtained the rights to adapt anime from many popular networks.
At present, Xingman Animation's business is roughly divided into three aspects.
One is an original anime like "That Year of the Rabbit".
One is an adaptation of an online anime series.
There is also an anime series targeted at younger ages.
What's interesting is that among the three, the most profitable one is not "That Year of the Rabbit" or the online anime adaptation, but rather the younger-age anime series.
Because this type of anime series is very stable and low-cost. The key is that as long as there are no accidents, it can be continued almost forever.
At present, Xingman Animation has already come out of the predicament, and it has popular IPs such as "That Year of the Rabbit", as well as the launch of a series of animation series for younger audiences, which has made Xingman begin to make money day by day. .
And we have been developing copyrighted derivatives, such as games and peripherals. These are the most profitable areas of Star Comics.
But Zhang Haiyang was not so happy.
Because, his dream has always been to make animated movies!
However, the failure of the earlier "Childlike Ocean" put an end to Zhang Haiyang's ambitions.
But he still hopes that one day he can set sail again and make a real animation movie.
Because in China at this moment, despite the luxuriant movie market, blockbuster movies are coming one after another, and the box office of the movie market is growing explosively every year.
But embarrassingly, the proportion of animated films in the box office of the Chinese film market is still pitifully low.
Not only domestic animated films, but also foreign animated films rarely achieve good results.
In fact, this is not to say that domestic animated films are not popular, but those films are almost all juvenile films.
It relies on the accumulated popularity to become a hit. In fact, Xingman is also doing this, because this type of animated film has low investment costs, but it is often due to the accumulated popularity, so generally speaking, it is not a sure profit. A losing trade.
But in Zhang Haiyang's opinion, such a movie is not an animated movie at all.
In this regard, the gap between China and Hollywood is still very large, even wider than the gap between movies themselves.
It’s not that Chinese people can’t make animated movies, but the shortcomings of real animated movies are very obvious, that is, the investment is large, but the cycle is very long. When other movies can make money, who would be willing to do so? Spend a lot of money to invest in animated movies?
Li Yi hasn't come to Star Comic Animation for a long time. Today's Star Comic Animation is completely different from when he first acquired it.
Not to mention anything else, the scale alone has expanded several times.
Zhang Haiyang is looking forward to Li Yi's arrival.
Because Li Yi usually doesn't go to the Three Treasures Palace for anything, and basically doesn't come if nothing happens!
Under the leadership of Zhang Haiyang, Li Yi finished visiting Star Comics Animation and came to Zhang Haiyang's office.
"Mr. Zhang, I want to know how long it would take if Star Comics were to produce an animated movie like "Ocean of Childhood" now?" Li Yi asked straight to the point.
Zhang Haiyang was a little excited when he heard this, but he still suppressed his excitement, thought for a while and said: "Director Li, animated movies, especially 3D animated movies, let me put it this way, 3D animated movies like "Ocean of Childhood", If we are making a sequel and have a complete script, then we should be able to produce it in two years, because many things can be reused and there is no need to spend a lot of time re-modeling, but if it is an original 3D animated movie If so, it’s hard to say.”
Li Yi became a little silent when he heard this, because to be honest, he knew nothing about the production of animated movies. The content about animated movies triggered by watching the short film gave Li Yi the idea of making that animated movie.
However, for an animated film like "Ocean of Childhood", it will take two years to make a sequel. As for his own film, Li Yi estimates that he may have at least twice the time to see if it can be produced.
"Can the production time be shortened?" Li Yi asked again.
In fact, he can cooperate with the top animation studios in North America to produce it, but in that case, even if it is produced, it will be a Hollywood movie.
"Yes!" Zhang Haiyang was not discouraged, but said excitedly.
Because Li Yi asked this, he obviously had the idea of making a big animated movie.
And it’s not the kind of animated movie currently on the market, but a real animated movie!
"Let's talk about it! If I want to make a brand new 3D animated movie, even if the quality cannot be compared with the animated movies produced by the top animation studios in Hollywood, it can't be too different. How long will it take? Can it be done? ?" Li Yi asked.
Zhang Haiyang pondered for a moment and said: "Actually, our biggest problem is that there are too few relevant animation production technical talents. And if a 3D animation movie wants to shorten the production cycle and maintain quality and quantity, it must require a huge number of people." Our technical team will complete it!”
"So, if you want to shorten the production cycle of animated movies, you first need talents, a lot of talents! Although we currently have a lot of people in our company, we absolutely cannot support the production of a big 3D animated movie!"
"If we want to produce high-quality animated films, we need to gather a large number of animation production technicians, and this requires a lot of funds and equipment... And even so, to be honest, if we want to do it The quality of the works of Hollywood’s top animation studios is still impossible! At least not at this stage!”
Zhang Haiyang also explained to Li Yi the process of making 3D animated films.
Anyway, Li Yi was confused after hearing this.
To put it bluntly, Li Yi actually heard one thing, that is, it is unrealistic to produce works comparable to those of top Hollywood animation studios at this stage, but if there are enough funds, it can still be produced. A lower grade work comes.
"Director Li, please give us a chance!" Zhang Haiyang didn't want to miss this opportunity, so he looked at Li Yi with hope.
"Let's not talk about the movie. Take a look at this and see how long it will take to make it! It's a... well, it's a test!" Li Yi took out a piece of paper with a short film on it. script.
Zhang Haiyang took it.
Looked up.
Soon Zhang Haiyang raised his head, looked at Li Yi and said, "Does Director Li want to make a 3D short film?"
Li Yi nodded. Recently, Li Yi found that he could often remember some works about robots.
This short film is one of them!
