Chapter 275: Huge Funds
After returning to the east for a week, Sakura Animation and Phoenix's remote mechanism were built.
The production of "Gundam Seed" is quickly unfolding. The initial thing is to determine the character design and body design. These two are dominated by Meng Huo, but he did not copy the original design.
Although the original "Gundam Seed" was popular, the times have been a bit long, so this time Meng Huo boldly beautified the details. Since it is an idol film, the more beautiful it is, the more attractive it is.
On the basis of retaining the original work, basically every character was beautified by three points. After handing over the original design, all the painters were about to faint.
"President, these settings are too amazing!"
"No, the difficulty is too high. It's so detailed that it's hard for us to cooperate with the body and figures!"
Originally, Gundam in Gundam animation was something very difficult to draw, requiring very detailed details and computer assistance. Now that the requirements for characters and pictures are so high, Meng Huo's original design made many painters feel difficult.
"What do you think I have prepared for half a year?"
Meng Huo snorted coldly, and ordinary animations came out in a few months, but the expectation of "Gundam Seed" was a long time, which is because he had high requirements.
Meng Huo didn't want to do it casually. Since he wanted to do it, he had to turn the animation into a fine product.
"I'll give you two weeks to get familiar with the style of painting." He said to all the painters: "You must cooperate well during this period and meet my requirements, otherwise you will be prepared to be fired by me!"
This sentence made the painters pale, but after hitting the stick, Meng Huo also gave carrots.
"You just have to do your best, as long as you can draw well. It's okay to be slower in the future. I will recruit more painters to win by quantity."
"And the production of this animation is a lot of money..." He stretched out a finger and said, "One hundred million Chinese coins can allow you to fully utilize your talents."
After 100 million Chinese coins, all painters were stunned when they heard this number.
There has never been such a large production fund in the history of Chinese animation. This number represents the production fund of "Gundam Seed" for each episode as many as millions.
Millions of funding episode...
“Oh oh oh oh oh oh ~~”
"It's so amazing!"
The news came out. Whether in Ninghai or Jidong's animation department, the painters who learned about the funding were very excited. The production funding of "Pokemon" was 400,000 yuan per episode, and "Gundam Seed" increased several times.
"What is the president's identity? He is so big!"
Many people at Sakura Animation Company were curious. Meng Huo’s identity has not been announced internally. However, the cooperation with Phoenix Company has made some people suspicious.
But Meng Huo dressed up as a mature person to work every day. His image changed drastically and his information was clear, so his suspicion did not increase.
"But it's great, with so much money, it seems that the president wants to make this animation into a movie-level quality!"
"You guys say, is this going to lose money?"
Some people are excited and some are nervous, but no matter what, this funding has greatly increased the morale of Sakura Animation Company.
The company's total assets are not half the funding for an animation. Takako Takashima was so excited that she wanted to faint after hearing this.
But at the same time, this decision also shocked Phoenix for a long time.
Xu Jing personally called Meng Huo to ask why he made this decision. The higher the cost, the greater the pressure. Isn’t Meng Huo’s approach very risky?
"Don't worry. It will make money."
Meng Huo comforted Xu Jing like this. He believed that "Gundam Seed" would not lose much, but in fact it doesn't matter. The money made by "Gundam Seed" is not played.
Now that the Chinese animation industry is gradually maturing, the surrounding areas can be sold. Meng Huo plans to use this animation to establish the kingly status of Gundam. In this way, the value of those models, peripheral areas and other models will definitely bring more than 100 million yuan in the future.
If he is seized by others, he will definitely regret it to death in the future.
"Oh well……"
Xu Jing can only accept that this is the benefit of the major shareholder. Meng Huo takes the initiative, and Xu Jing just suggests that if it were the case before, Meng Huo wanted to give 100 million to animation, but Xu Jing would definitely not agree.
After a huge production funding was decided, the rest was to start the formal construction.
The painters started to work on Meng Huo’s original design, and the animation departments of the two places also began to practice remote cooperation in production, and made an orderly progress.
During this stage, Meng Huo did not interfere in specific matters.
He wrote plot scripts at home and made music scores. In order not to be suspicious, all the songs were anonymous. The characters and body designers did not announce to the people below that ordinary employees did not know that he made these things.
This is also an act of no choice. Once someone knows that all these come from Meng Huo, as long as they are not fools, they will think of him and He Xi together.
Moreover, the news that was passed to ordinary employees would definitely not be hidden from Mantian. This time, the funds for "Gundam Seed" were leaked quickly, but it did not arouse suspicion.
"The animation production fund of 100 million Chinese coins, tsk...that rich man is so generous..."
After hearing the news, Suzuki Aki looked down on Meng Huo even more. Nowadays, which animation company does not save costs and makes money, it is impossible to use 100 million yuan in funds, so it is simply impossible to get profits.
"It turns out that it's just a prodigal son, he actually treats animation as a movie."
Aki Suzuki was disdainful. Movies were expensive, but animations did not have the revenue from movies.
At this time, Mantian's Gundam animation started construction earlier than "Gundam Seed". It was called "The Strongest Mobile Suit", and promotion was started in various parts of the East.
Eiji Takashima was a little nervous. He asked Meng Huo if he wanted to do publicity, but Meng Huo refused.
"No need, let's talk about it later."
The animation has not yet been published, so what does he want to promote it? Mantiantang’s animation will definitely be broadcast first, so how good is it to let it explore the market and open up the way for "Gundam Seed".
Moreover, Meng Huo has another important thing - the choice of voice actors. As an idol drama, "Gundam seed" has high requirements for all kinds of voice actors, and the same is true for the quality of voice actors.
There are so many high-quality voice actors in the Far East?
Meng Huo remembered the voice actors he was familiar with in his previous life, but after searching for a few days, he found nothing: perhaps because of the difference in history in the extreme east, he did not find those people.
However, the teaching of some regions and ethnic groups in China is bilingual, and the same is true in the Far East District. The TV programs here are in the Far East dialect and in the pure Chinese language, which will not affect anyone's viewing.
"Should I let those voice actors in Ninghai do animation?"
Meng Huo was in trouble and finally made an animation in Jidong. He wanted to try to make "Gundam seed" into a bilingual version, and perhaps he could find different effects - Jidong dialect has strong expressiveness for anime songs and is inferior in Chinese.
After all, there are very few freaks like Chen Jie...
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