Chapter 104: Blood Princess
Phoenix Company has a total of four animation departments, including Su Hua, Ninghai and Tokyo. Even if you add Qinglong Studio, which is responsible for adapting text adventure games, there are only five in total.
Three of these five studios are already fixed: text adventure games, "Chong Elf" and "Detective Conan". One of the remaining two departments is handed over to Bai Yan, who usually produces short stories and the last island studio is unwilling to produce long stories.
If the comic "Soul of Chess" is to be adapted into an animation, it will naturally be a long animation. According to the current situation, it will be difficult to see the possibility of animation within at least four or five years. Because of this, the Go Association has taken the initiative to present a Huiyue Studio, hoping to make Meng Huo agree to launch the animation version of "Soul of Chess" as soon as possible.
Meng Huo asked directly: "Do you want me to make the animation of "Chess Soul"?"
"Well, if you can, we hope that teacher, you can make the animation of "Chess Soul" before traveling," Muto said. "We don't ask for any share or profit, as long as it can be animated."
The comic series "Soul of Chess" has caused a huge sensation for two years. Assuming it can become an animation with stronger communication power, it does not require any compensation from Muto and others. It is a great blessing for the development of Go Association and China Go. The natural price of a Huiyue Studio is earned.
"Before the trip..." Meng Huo frowned. Although he was interested in Huiyue Studio, this time was too tight for him. It was not difficult to realize the animation of "Chess Soul" before the trip. The difficulty was how to continue the animation after he left.
This is a long animation. Without long time to get along and get along, how could he be assured to hand it over to an animation studio that he just accepted?
"This time is unlikely!" Meng Huo immediately refused.
Director Muto was a little regretful, but was not disappointed - he heard what Meng Huo said, at least this cartoonist was interested in Huiyue Studio. It doesn't work now, so it's OK after returning from the trip, right? He asked Meng Huo for his opinion.
"After the trip?" Meng Huo thought for a while. He also had a lot of work to do after the trip, and planned to launch the animation of "One Piece". He may not be able to produce "Chess Soul" immediately: "In a year, I will give you this deadline. I don't know if it can be produced immediately after the trip."
"One year?" Director Muto looked at each other with other chess players. Although they were not very satisfied, the expected goal had been achieved with this deadline, and the chess players agreed.
"That's it." Meng Huo smiled: "After that, where is Huiyue Studio?"
Although he had heard of this studio, he didn't know its specific location.
The president of Su Hua Chess Academy replied: "Yang Jiang, if you have the high-speed rail, it will be in half a day."
Meng Huo's smile suddenly became stiff. Qin Ya couldn't help but smile secretly when she saw his expression.
"Is there any problem with this address? Teacher He Xi?" the dean of the Chess Institute asked nervously.
"No, no problem." Meng Huo shook his head. So, it takes four hours to take the high-speed rail, which is even further away than Yanjing. Now he has another place to work. Perhaps he is born to be hard-working.
After dinner, Meng Huo returned to the apartment with the transfer documents from the studio.
He wanted to hand over the documents to the secretary tomorrow to Su Hua. The documents had not been finalized yet, and Meng got asked Alice to send someone to accept them. But when he wanted to hand them over to the secretary, he felt uneasy, so he called Chen Jie over.
"Please help me with a trip. No one is safer than you." Meng Huo handed the documents to her and said, "Take the documents to Alice. She knows what to do. Also, ask her to investigate whether she can transfer Huiyue Studio to Comic Island."
Although I felt it was unlikely, Meng Huo still asked Chen Jie to ask Alice to investigate the situation of the employees of Huiyue Studio. If the relocation would not have a great impact, Huiyue Studio would be transferred to Manhua Island first. Manhua Island is big enough, and this would also facilitate his work.
However, Meng Huo himself also felt that it was unlikely that moving away from a company was not so easy. When Phoenix Company was prepared for so long, only half of the people had been moved, not to mention Yang Jiang, who was even further away.
The next day, Chen Jie returned to Ninghai with her file bag. A week later, Alice informed Meng Huo that the transfer procedures were completed.
"Thank you for your hard work, what about the migration?" Meng Huo asked.
"This probably won't work." And as he had guessed before, Alice gave an answer that was not working on the phone: "The artists in Huiyue Studio are generally Yang Jiang and people from the city around it. I investigated their wishes, and few of them were willing to move."
Although Manga Island is a workplace that many artists yearn for, family factors are more realistic factors. If they are relocated with force, Huiyue Studio will inevitably suffer a lot of energy and will not be worth the loss. Meng Huo is a little sorry, but he can only accept this reality.
"Huiyue's manager will go to Manga Island to introduce them to you in the past few days, and then discuss the follow-up matters." Alice also gave Meng Huo another notice, and Huiyue's person in charge would come to him, saving him from the trouble of running to Yang Jiang to understand the situation himself.
Meng Huo was a little happy: "I will have someone to receive him. What is his name?"
"Qin Ming, Qin Dynasty is Qin, tomorrow's Ming, you don't have to worry about this. I will pass the information to your secretary, just let him pay attention." Alice said, and then ended the call with Meng Huo.
Chen Jie has not come back after going back to Ninghai this time. Meng Huo guessed that these two women should be catching up on the time to discuss his affairs.
There were three weeks left before a month, and Meng Huo was not anxious. It would be enough to bother them during this period. He focused on saving manuscripts for the travel in a few months, and continued to produce "Gate of the Stone of Destiny".
"The Gate of the Stone of Destiny" has been aired for several episodes, with mediocre responses and many people who cannot understand it. However, the number of viewers has increased significantly compared to last year's "Wine of Immortality" - after experiencing the past year, Meng Huo's audience has become much more patient.
Not only the audience, but the media has a much higher patience. Although most of them are not optimistic about the voices, many newspapers have expectations for "Gate of Destiny" and occasionally conduct in-depth analysis and prediction of the plot. Unfortunately, under the rare information, no one has really guessed the future development of animation.
But despite this, the 'world line conversion' was captured by the hot fans, who gradually discovered the most important theme of the animation, and this theme also gave them great motivation, which proves that "Gate of Stone Destiny" is indeed not as simple as people think.
Of course, in addition to this incident, Meng Huo was also attracted by Qin Ya's movement.
"You want to launch a short comic?" When the new issue of "Weekly Girl" was released, Meng Huo saw the trailer in the magazine saying that Qin Ya was about to launch a short comic, but he had never heard of it before, and couldn't help but be a little curious: "Why don't you tell me?"
"Teacher, you are not my father, I don't need to tell you everything." Qin Ya said with a smile, and then explained that this short comic was her experimental work, not her own work, but a work that she collaborated with another person.
"I want to try cooperating with her to create short comics first to see if it can succeed." Qin Ya's collaborator was naturally Ye Feimeng. The two decided to cooperate to launch the work. However, at the beginning, Qin Ya naturally didn't dare to play too much, so it would be best to try short comics first.
Meng Huo looked at the names of the two writers on the trailer and suddenly remembered something and said, "The paintings you asked me for last time are for this woman, right?"
"Yes." Qin Ya nodded: "The teacher already knows?"
"Alice told me that because Ye Feimeng's new novel wrote the name of the illustrator..." Meng Huo remembered that when she heard about this from Alice's mouth, her voice was full of doubts - Alice doesn't remember when Meng Huo met such a woman.
In fact, Meng Huo did not know him. He had never met Ye Fei Dreamed yet, but seeing that Qin Ya was not only giving away paintings, but now she also wanted to cooperate with the other party to draw comics, he couldn't help but become interested in Ye Fei Meng: "Speaking of this, the comic style of "The Legend of the Galaxy Song" has also changed a bit recently... Is this also her credit?"
Qin Ya opened her eyes wide in surprise: "Can the teacher even see this?"
This is a secret, but the recent episodes of "The Legend of the Galaxy Song" have indeed added some new elements. At Ye Feimeng's suggestion, Qin Ya discovered what she lacked and fine-tuned it.
However, although it is just a fine tuning, Meng Huo is so familiar with her. As an old comic, "The Legend of the Galaxy Song" has its style and style, and the subtle changes can also be seen by Meng Huo.
"Why does the teacher think the style changes are good or bad?" Qin Ya continued to ask. In fact, she could not confirm Ye Feimeng's adjustment effect yet.
Meng Huo nodded: "It's not bad. The comic style was a bit heavy, but after adjustment, it became active... I think this is a good thing."
"Your new partner is still very good." Meng Huo laughed: "Maybe your short comic can kill the "Blood Princess" of Zhongxia Company."
"The Vampire Princess" is the most popular comic recently by Zhongxia Company. It is the second comic released by the new comic artist "Jingyue" after "Fate". The quality is no worse than the debut work, and it has caused a big trend.
However, although there is a long comic name, "The Vampire Princess" is also a short and medium-length comic. Its expected serialization time is only a few months, no more than half a year. Phoenix Company seems to be using short and medium-length comics to create a way that can quickly make Mirror Moon famous.
The effect of this method is very outstanding. Compared with a long comic, after a series of high-quality comics, the strength of the comic artist can quickly read and gain deep recognition from fans and cultivate loyalty. In addition, when the "Blood Princess" was serialized, the animation and movies of "Fate" were also broadcast one after another, and the wave of Mirror Moon would not stop at all.
Meng Huo believes that after the completion of "The Vampire Princess", Jingyue will soon launch a new comic book, and the animation and movies of "The Vampire Princess" will also be on the road during the period. At that time, Jingyue's popularity will not be lower than that of the angels - because the quality of her works is indeed very high.
Whether it is "Fate" or "The Vampire Princess", Jingyue's comics are full of thrilling and exciting, with suspense, which makes people love them after reading them at once. They are extremely eager for the plot below. He is indeed a genius cartoonist.
The continuous launch of short and medium-sized comics to create popularity is extremely effective, but the risks are also very high. Once the quality of the middle work declines, the entire star-making process may be wasted. However, such a large risk does not seem to be a risk.
"I don't plan to compare myself with that erotic state." Qin Ya smiled when she heard "The Vampire Princess": "There are different types, they are boy comics."
The name of "The Vampire Princess" is a girl's comic, but it is actually a boy's comic. Qin Ya was relieved more than once. She was really worried that such a high-yield and high-quality monster would appear in the girl's comics industry to challenge herself.
"I think Jingyue may be a woman recently." Meng Huo suddenly said: "You should regard her as an opponent."
"Woman?" Qin Ya was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "Impossible, impossible... How could a woman draw such an evil work?"
In her eyes, Jingyue's works are all evil works, with their styles mainly sharp and nervous. No matter how you look at them, they are all things that boys are good at. The tenderness and warmth that girls are good at can't be seen at all under Jingyue.
However, Meng Huo was not joking. After reading several comics by Jingyue in a row, he felt that she was very likely to be a woman.
"If she is a woman, then she will be much more successful than you..." Meng Huo looked at Qin Ya and said. If Jingyue was a woman and a woman with a good appearance, when her identity was revealed, she would definitely be the most advanced cartoonist in China - even angels could surpass it.
This is not surprising. Originally, the audience of Chinese youth comics is far superior to that of girls comics. If a female cartoonist achieves success in the youth comics industry, it will be more attractive than ordinary male cartoonists. Once Jingyue is proven to be a woman, her fans will have to go crazy.
Those readers of the boy comics naturally now believe that Jingyue is a man like them. If their guess is wrong, the effect of Jingyue's exposure is far greater than that of Meng Huo back then. In fact, female cartoonists are extremely attractive to readers of the boy comics.
Meng Huo once wanted Qin Ya to become the number one female cartoonist in China, but now it seems that she still cannot, or is unwilling to transform into a young manga that can maximize readers. Although "The Legend of the Galaxy Song" is a man-and-woman, it is just a comic in a girl comic that can make male readers like - without the limitations of being separated from the category.
Chapter completed!