Chapter 376 Race Against Time (Please Subscribe)

My colleagues guessed correctly.

Something did go wrong in the movie "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Snake Comes Around" project, and it was a serious one.

This directly leads to the post-production progress of the film that was supposed to be completed in early December and is very likely to be postponed to March next year.

What's wrong?

Of course, it is the five major studios under Wanbao Animation. Except for "Puppet Studio", a large number of core employees have changed jobs.

The total number of people reached 207!

This is a quite shocking number, equivalent to Wanbao Animation Company, which suddenly lost a quarter of its employees.

It happened in mid-November.

Gu Miao was "pulling hair" with the new director Shen from Jiangchuan TV station, and they had a heated argument over "Sailor Moon R".

As a result, Ma Kui called and told him: The company is in danger, please come back quickly!

Okay!

Gu Miao was originally on the road solo and was about to eat river crabs to replenish her growth. When she looked back, she saw that almost all the crystals in her house had been clicked, and she was frightened out of her wits.

It's normal for someone to leave their job.

For a large company like Wanbao Animation with a thousand employees, normal personnel turnover happens almost every week.

But this time it was different.

More than 200 people submitted resignation reports one after another. Moreover, these two hundred people are all the core members of Wolfsburg Studio, Lightning Studio, Feiyang Studio and Dimension Studio.

In other words, these people are the mainstay of Wanbao.

It doesn't matter if one or two people leave, or even a dozen or so people can be accepted, but the loss of more than 200 people at once will have an extremely exaggerated impact on Wanbao Animation.

The first problem encountered...

Many animation projects are facing the problem of insufficient manpower and doubled construction period. For example, "Dragon Fighter 2" and "Lightbringer", which are currently in production, have been shut down.

Secondly, people's hearts are floating.

Gu Miao has also investigated the whereabouts of these resigned employees. They are all the targets of poaching, and the company that poached them is called "Plum Blossom Animation".

This is a brand new company that has just been established in China Shipping.

Even though it is a brand new company, Meihua Animation is backed by one of the top Internet giants in the country. According to rumors, its major shareholder is the son of a rich man.

Okay, the background is a bit confusing!

The major shareholder is the son of the top ten richest people in the country, and the second shareholder is an Internet giant whose hard power is not inferior to Mr. Tan.

It probably goes without saying that this is a huge financial resource.

When a company of this magnitude is established, even if the treatment provided is mediocre, it is estimated that many people will rush to "defect" and strive to "conquer the dragon."

Not to mention, Plum Blossom Animation is coming hard, and in order to poach people, it has offered extremely high benefits and salaries unprecedented in the industry.

This is just great.

Originally, the salary level was average, but just because of their background, they were able to attract many talents to join. However, they ended up offering high prices to poach people. It was reasonable that Wanbao couldn't stop them.

After Gu Miao understood the situation, he immediately made two decisions.

The first is to increase wages and benefits!

The other party was coming aggressively and had already poached so many people while he was not prepared. If we continue to sit idly by, Wanbao Animation may be hollowed out.

The second is to find foreign aid!

Wanbao Animation is an animation company that does not rely much on "outsourcing". Because Gu Miao feels that the level of domestic animation outsourcing is uneven, making it difficult to control the quality of the work.

Under normal circumstances, he would rather spend more money and hire more people than outsource the core part of the work to other companies.

Of course, he was talking about the core part.

For some irrelevant content or repetitive processes, he often looks for outsourcing, and there are N multiple teams at once.

The situation now is rather special.

Wanbao has a serious brain drain, and many projects are facing "suspension". Under this situation, Gu Miao had to relax restrictions and hire more outsourcing teams to participate in the core production of animation.

To use an analogy.

In the past, Wanbao did 80% of the work, leaving the remaining 20% ​​of the dirty work to the outsourcing team, allowing them to earn some "hard-earned money."

Now Wanbao is severely short of manpower, and can only do 50% or even less of the work. The remaining work can only be handed over to the outsourcing team, otherwise the construction period will be seriously delayed.

Konjac Animation is one of the outsourcing teams that Gu Miao contacted.

In fact, Konjac Animation is not an outsourced animation company. The reason why Gu Miao contacted them was mainly because he felt that Konjac Animation's hard power was not bad.

Although there is a shortage of people, he has not yet reached the point of "hungry".

Not all outsourcing teams can gain Gu Miao's approval and win the subcontracting tasks given by Wanbao Animation.

You have to sift through it all!

Including Zhonghai Konjac Animation, Gu Miao contacted a total of seven outsourcing animation companies and finally filled the existing vacancies.

But this is not a long-term solution.

With a strong and trustworthy partner like Konjac Animation, Gu Miao is not particularly worried.

But some partners have really average animation production capabilities. Short-term cooperation is okay, but if it is a long-term cooperation, Gu Miao is really worried that something will go wrong.

Still need to attract new blood.

For this matter, Gu Miao recently put aside the promotion arrangements for the movie "Snake Comes Around" and went to Jiangchuan University several times.

Even Xiao Guo was attracted by him.

He used Guo Hongwei as an example to tell the students who are still in school: As long as you have the ability, you can be like Guo Hongwei and go from "intern" to "big director" with an annual salary of millions in just one year.

Good guy!

With this living example in front of them, the students who had not yet left school were extremely excited.

Suddenly, the number of students signing up for internships at Wanbao Animation increased severalfold.

Gu Miao smiled so hard that her face twisted.

Guo Hongwei, who smiled the whole time and acted as a "human flesh propaganda poster" for his master, rubbed his face after returning to the company and said, "Isn't this deceiving people?"

"Nonsense!"

Gu Miao retorted: "Did I fool people? Didn't you become a great director from an intern?"

Can the situation be the same?

How many geniuses like him can there be? If everyone could be "promoted" like him, wouldn't it be a complete mess?

All I can say is that the chef is very good at drawing cakes.

After taking a sip of water, Guo Hongwei breathed a long sigh of relief and asked, "With these interns joining us and the outsourcing team, the movie should be released as scheduled, right?"

"Can!"

Gu Miao was also relieved.

Why is he in a hurry? In addition to not wanting to delay the release of the film during the Spring Festival, there is another very important reason.

That is to fulfill the promise he made to Zhang Feifei's child.

If it weren't for this promise, how could Gu Miao be so anxious to find an outsourcing team, or recruit interns herself?

The reason for doing this is to ensure that the movie is released as scheduled. If the movie is delayed, the children of Zhang Feifei may not have a chance to see it.

Every time he thought about this matter, Gu Miao felt very heavy and there was always an unspeakable pressure.

because……

He is racing against time!

People keep asking me why I need to take leave for personal matters... When I ask this question, I don't even think about how old I am, and my family can't force me to get married every day?