Chapter 1043 Wanbao Open Day

InuYasha is one of the more classic neon animations that Gu Miao watched when he was a child, and it left a deep impression on him.

without any exaggeration.

The red-clothed and white-haired Inuyasha was the male god he admired and worshiped the most as a child, and Kagome, who was lively, kind and never held back, was his favorite anime goddess when he was a boy.

Because of this, Gu Miao is still very concerned about the project of "Inuyasha" animation, even though he is thousands of miles apart.

Shortly after the "InuYasha Production Committee" was established, Gu Miao joined it as a special consultant.

He wasn't just there to make up the numbers.

On the contrary, as a special consultant, Gu Miao stood on the shoulders of his predecessors and provided many useful suggestions to the animation production team with his perspective from two worlds.

For example, the Four Souls Jade.

As the most important item in the "Inuyasha" planning and a key prop that promotes the progress of the entire story, the Shikon Tama is used throughout the entire work.

But when designing this psychic gem, many people don't know where to start.

It was Gu Miao's suggestion to simply design it in the shape of a bead, so that after being shot to pieces by Kagome with the magic-breaking arrow, it would be basically guaranteed that each piece would be of the same size.

This is not just nonsense!

The design of the Shikon Jade into a round bead shape is supported by scientific principles and cannot be changed casually.

"Change the shape, such as a rectangular cube or a cylinder. After being shot to pieces by Kagome with the magic-breaking arrow, what do you think the fragments will look like?"

"Uh... different sizes?"

"That's right!"

Gu Miao snapped her fingers and nodded: "Although we can make the other shapes of the Four Souls Jade break evenly, that would be too fake. The round bead shape is more suitable."

"By the way, jade means small balls or beads in neon language. The original meaning of Shihun no Jade is the orb formed by the crystallization of four souls."

"Huh? Is there still such a thing?"

Ma Kui clicked his tongue and said in surprise: "This is different from what I thought. The jade in my impression is more irregular-shaped jade articles such as jade pendants and jade seals."

"Oh yes, and Yuzu!"

Gu Miao: "..."

While we were talking about the Four Souls Jade, Ma Kui suddenly said "Jade Foot" in his mouth, and he couldn't even stop it.

"Ahem, look at this."

After clearing her throat, Gu Miao, who was almost thrown into the ditch with just one sentence, turned around and took out a fax document.

"What's this?"

Ma Kui, who took the document, looked puzzled. He flipped through the document and glanced at it. His expression became even more puzzled.

This is a plan for cooperation in licensing characters from the animated "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", proposed by the world-renowned fast food brand Golden Arch.

What's so surprising about this?

Wanbao Animation owns a large number of popular animation characters and receives thousands of animation character licensing cooperation applications from all walks of life every day.

Ma Kui is not the person in charge of copyright operations, and this aspect has nothing to do with him, so he can't understand the purpose of Mr. Gu showing him this cooperation plan.

Is it possible...

Mr. Gu feels that he is not suitable for professional and technical positions, and plans to transfer him to an administrative position, so that he can be responsible for copyright operations in the future?

"Don't think so much."

"I just want to ask you, do you think animation works like "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are suitable for these commercial cooperations?"

What are the problems with business cooperation?

Ma Kui's mind didn't wrap his head around it at first, thinking that there was nothing to consider. Isn't it just a business cooperation? If you have money, you won't be a bastard!

But before he could say anything, he suddenly realized what Mr. Gu was worried about.

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is different from other animations. Most of the other animations are fictional characters, but the characters in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are all ancient celebrities whose names have been recorded in history books.

Using these people to make profits and engage in business cooperation under the banner of ancient celebrities is really not a good thing to say.

Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei...

Which of these names is not a household name in history?

Although the character image was designed by Wanbao and has independent copyright, there is no problem in authorizing it to be used by anyone. But this name is indeed a bit taboo to use in the field of business cooperation.

This requires the introduction of a concept.

Take the animation "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as an example. Wanbao owns the absolute copyright to the characters and images in it. After all, they are all original works drawn by themselves.

But what about the person’s name?

The characters’ anime images are original, but these names can’t be original, right?

If it is licensed to a cooperative enterprise, they will also use the character image + the person's name, rather than a separate character image.

"I don't feel very good..."

After Ma Kui hesitated for a moment, he gave his opinion: "If the names of Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei, and Guan Yu are misused by us, some fans may be disgusted."

"I think so too."

Gu Miao nodded.

The copyright operation department had already accumulated a thick pile of cooperation plans for character authorization from the animated "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but he never gave his approval.

The main thing I want to think about is that Wanbao is not short of money now, so there is no need to overspend the fame of these historical figures.

Be cautious in business cooperation!

After all, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is not an ordinary animation. Every character in it is an ancient person whose name has been left in the history books.

Let Zhuge Liang endorse some milk tea, and the prime minister will agree to it after drinking it! Asking Liu Bei to endorse some sports shoes...isn't this just crazy about money?

Gu Miao still has a bottom line.

In his opinion, the Three Kingdoms animation is not a work for making money. If commercial cooperation can be avoided, then don't do it. It's okay to produce some peripheral products.

The reason why he asked Ma Kui was to respect the opinion of the director.

Since Ma Kui also agreed with his opinion, not to engage in commercial cooperation and not to authorize to the outside, then this matter can be finalized.

If there are similar cooperation plans in the future, the copyright operation department will directly reject them.

"That's it!"

"By the way, go to the high-speed rail station later and pick someone up for me."

"Who to pick up?"

"Remember the hardcore fan of Nuan Yangyang I mentioned before? She will arrive in Jiangchuan in the afternoon. Go pick her up and arrange a hotel for her."

Gu Miao smiled and said, "In addition to her, we have also invited about 50 loyal fans to visit Wanbao Animation in a group tomorrow morning. When there is a media interview, remember to shave and dress decently."

A group visit by fans?

Upon hearing this, Ma Kui immediately showed an expression of great expectation.

This is the first time that Wanbao Animation is open to the public, welcoming fans from all over the country to visit. It is definitely a big event!

How can just shaving be enough?

Ma Kui thought, in order to leave a good impression on the fans who are coming, should he get a haircut?

…

Children's Day is coming.

In order to let children know more about Wanbao and enhance close communication with fans, the mysterious Wanbao Animation opened its exhibition to the public for the first time and held the "Wanbao Open Day" event.

51 fans from all over the country, as well as many TV media and self-media animation bloggers, went to Jiangchuan for an appointment at the invitation of Wanbao.

In addition to the long-awaited Wolfburg Studio, Feiyang Studio, Dimension Studio and Puppet Studio, the areas open for exhibition this time also include the company's internal gym, cafeteria and president's office, etc.

This should be considered a pilgrimage!

As the leader of domestic animation and a pole of world animation, being able to visit the internal work of Wanbao Animation in person is definitely the ultimate wish of countless fans.

It's a pity...

In order to minimize the interference to employees as much as possible, and considering the company's reception capacity, this "Wanbao Open Day" event, fans + media bloggers totaled only 98 people.

It's not that Gu Miao is stingy and reluctant to invite more fans to visit.

It's just that Wanbao's workplace is so small and the reception capacity is also very limited. If too many people come, it will really exceed Wanbao's tolerance.

In fact, in order to arrange the accommodation, food, drink and entertainment for these 100 people, Wanbao is already exhausted.

Liu Zida is one of the media representatives invited to visit as an animation blogger recommended by Wanbao Video.

He didn't want to come at first, after all, he is a Wanbao black fan, and it would be strange if he didn't get kicked out if he came to visit Wanbao!

But Wanbao Video kept persuading him: As the animation blogger with the highest number of fans on Wanbao Video, who else is qualified to go?

What's more, if he goes to visit Wanbao Animation, if this is made into a video, the number of views will explode?

Considering these, Liu Zida accepted the company's arrangement calmly and arrived at Jiangchuan Jinma Hotel last night with the invitation letter.

The hotel was arranged by Wanbao.

After all, it is a five-star hotel with good environment and service. At least Liu Zida slept comfortably.

After getting up, washing and having breakfast, he took the gimbal and sports camera and boarded the bus to Jiangchuan Animation Industrial Park under the guidance of the staff.

The bus drove in the park for about ten minutes and finally stopped at the parking lot of Zone B of Wanbao Animation.

"The area is quite large..."

It was Liu Zida's first time to visit Wanbao Animation Headquarters. After getting off the bus, he looked at the building and his first impression was that it was large.

The fact that Wanbao Animation has such a large piece of land in the Jiangchuan Animation Industrial Park, where every inch of land is valuable, shows its superior status.

"I heard that Wanbao Animation has several thousand employees?"

"It seems so, but a group of people were laid off some time ago, and it is not clear how many people there are now!"

"Look, their gate looks like the iron gate of Yangcun. The security booth is the observation tower of Yangcun, right?"

"It really looks like it!"

The discussion of the people around him made Liu Zida turn his head to look at the gate that he had not noticed when he came.

You really have to say...

This gate is designed to look like the iron gate of the Sheep Village in the animation "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf". It is a perfect one-to-one reproduction. The security booth is the observation tower.

Too abstract, right?

Liu Zida's forehead was full of black lines. He really couldn't figure out who came up with the idea to design his company's gate like this? Are you here to prevent wolves?

"Everyone, welcome to Wanbao!"

Just as Liu Zida picked up the sports camera to shoot the iron gate of the Sheep Village, a very familiar voice came to his ears.

He turned his head and saw that it was Gu Sanshui who came out with a group of Wanbao Animation executives to greet everyone.

Is this the real Gu Miao?

Liu Zida looked at him carefully and finally determined that this guy looked okay in real life. He was not as handsome as he boasted, but his facial features were still regular.

The most important thing is, Gu Sanshui is so tall?

You may not feel it just by looking at the photo. The first time you saw Gu Miao in real life, many people at the scene exclaimed. They didn't expect Uncle Gu to be over 1.8 meters tall.

That's pretty high.

After all, most of the fans invited today are minors, and those self-media bloggers are generally only 1.7 meters tall.

When they stand together, Gu Miao looks very tall, standing out from the crowd!

While leading everyone in, Gu Miao answered the long-standing doubts of curious fans.

For example, will there be a second season of "Guardians of Sheep Village"? What projects is Wanbao working on recently? When will Superman be broadcast, etc.

Everyone has a lot of questions.

However, this is not a good time to communicate. Gu Miao first calmed down the excited people, and then arranged for Ma Kui to take everyone to visit the Wolf Castle Studio.

In the Wolf Castle Studio, fans saw some materials and tidbits behind the scenes of "Guardians of Sheep Village" and also communicated with the production team members.

Later in Feiyang Studio, everyone received a limited edition Pikachu plush doll and listened to the animator talk about the production process before and after Xiaozhi won the championship...

Puppet Studio and Dimension Studio should be the two studios that everyone experienced the most during the visit.

Because in the puppet studio, everyone experienced the entire production process of "paper-cut animation" and watched a shadow play of "Calabash Brothers".

In the Dimension Studio, everyone put on motion capture suits and experienced the magic of motion capture technology under the guidance of professionals.

And Du Hao also took advantage of this open day event to show everyone a sample of the material of "Treasure Bear Soldiers".

There are quite a few media and video bloggers here today. Du Hao showed them mainly to further expand the influence of "Treasure Bear Soldiers" through these media and video bloggers.

To be honest, the effect is great!

After watching a sample of the material, these animation bloggers and media reporters can't wait to see the feature film of the movie, and said that they will definitely recommend this movie to fans and audiences after returning.

The most boring part of the open day is probably to visit the president's office of Wanbao Animation.

Before coming.

Whether it is ordinary fans or media bloggers, everyone thinks that there must be many secrets hidden in Uncle Gu's office.

After coming here, I found out that the secret is bullshit. In addition to various figures, there are game consoles and light novels... a fat otaku e-sports room.

The unwilling fans even opened Gu Miao's computer.

Well, it's confirmed now!

Uncle Gu really doesn't do anything serious. His computer desktop is full of game icons. Do you call him an animation producer?

"Ahem, stop looking!"

Seeing that everyone's expressions were a little strange, the president's secretary coughed quickly, and under the gaze of everyone, he bit the bullet to defend Mr. Gu: "Mr. Gu doesn't usually work here, and he is very busy. He has no time to play..."

"You are lying, the game time shown here is 1069 hours!" A child found the abnormality and shouted loudly.

When everyone heard it, they immediately showed a speechless expression.

The total time of any game is more than a thousand hours. Do you call this busy? Busy to clear the level and brush all achievements, right?

The fragments of the Four Souls Jade don't seem to be of uniform size, but this is not important, just mentioning it...