Chapter 639 The Machine Is Smoking (Please Subscribe)

As an audience and a fan, I am really happy to meet a team like Puppet Studio. At least I can see such a well-made clay animation film without buying a ticket.

But as a boss and an investor, Gu Miao wanted to drag Liang Xiaodong out and kill him...

If you don’t become a householder, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are!

With such a huge investment and such a long production period, clay animation will be broadcast for free if it is said to be free?

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Whether he was angry or depressed, now that the matter had been announced, Gu Miao could only break her teeth and swallow it, and accept the reality calmly.

Fortunately...

Although "Chicken Run" was broadcast for free on the Wanbao Video website, it directly reduced a large amount of expected box office revenue, but being free does not mean that you can't make money.

There are still advertising fees.

If this clay animation movie has a decent number of views after it is aired, it should be able to get a considerable amount of advertising revenue.

Of course, it's not much money either.

Don't even think about recovering the production costs. It can only be said that it is better than nothing, and it is better than not making a penny at all.

Gu Miao has also watched the feature film.

I have to say that this is his first time watching so-called "clay" animation, and it feels quite novel and surprising.

What was surprising was that he did not expect that animated characters hand-made with clay could appear so vivid and lifelike, with no so-called "look of confusion" at all.

This is really good!

In addition, Gu Miao is also very interested in the hand-painted technology used in the production process of clay animation.

The charm of pure handcrafting...

If clay animation was not so time-consuming and labor-intensive, he would have wanted to take action himself and try making a stop-motion animation using clay as a carrier.

“We need strong support!”

After watching the feature film, Gu Miao immediately said that whether it is clay animation or puppet animation, these are projects worthy of support, and they can be pursued even if they do not make money.

For no other reason than to inherit and carry forward this ancient animation production method.

It’s not just claymation.

The traditional Chinese ink style, paper cutting, shadow puppets, origami, and even cloth art and paper art can all be used as carriers of stop-motion animation!

If Gu Miao remembers correctly, China Overseas Film Studio has done a lot of stop-motion animation attempts before, and the results have been quite good.

"Be more imaginative and don't be too rigid in form. In my opinion, the constraints on your creation are still too great and have not been completely relaxed."

Gu Miao suggested: "Have you ever seen the paper-cut window grilles posted on the windows during the New Year? Do you think this kind of paper-cut can be animated?"

"You can shoot!"

"That's it, isn't it? Clay animation and puppet animation are pretty good. Try as many other subjects as possible."

Speaking of this, Gu Miao seemed to have thought of something. He bent down, rummaged in the drawer for a moment, took out a model of "Fruit God of War" and said, "I think this model toy can also be used for animation."

Of course, the workmanship of the models used for shooting must be more refined and delicate.

But the principles are the same.

Model airplanes, car models, toy models... Lego can do animation, and block people like "Minecraft" can do animation. There is no reason why they can't do other things.

Ultimately, stop-motion animation offers a high level of creative freedom.

As long as your thoughts don't slip, and as long as the script is well written, you can take photos of everything around you and turn it into a good stop-motion animation work.

"I see."

Liang Xiaodong originally had a lot of sexy ideas, but after Mr. Gu inspired him, his imagination became even bigger.

Gu Miao is quite looking forward to what he and the core creative team of the Puppet Studio he leads can come up with, driven by various imaginative ideas.

…

After a period of broadcast, the animation "Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Castle" is finally coming to an end.

It’s still early for the second season of Pokémon. After all, there are many episodes. Even two episodes a day will take a long time...

The plot of Duel City follows the previous work "Duel Kingdom", which is not only an extension of the previous work, but also a milestone in the "Yu-Gi-Oh!" series breaking the "village rules" and achieving standardization.

The importance is quite high.

In terms of plot and duel classics, Duel City is no worse than Duel Kingdom. It can even be said that Duel City is the soul of "Yu-Gi-Oh! DM".

Of course, that's not the point.

The point is that starting from this season, the dueling rules of "Yu-Gi-Oh!" have finally matured, eliminating the biggest obstacle to promoting the gameplay, and giving "Yu-Gi-Oh" cards a foundation to become popular all over the world.

Although it is quite popular now...

Since the broadcast of the Manpower version of the "Yu-Gi-Oh!" animation, the unique card gameplay of "Duel Monsters" created by it has become popular all over the world.

After the sequel "Duel City" was broadcast, it further spread the gameplay of this card game to the level of a "national duel".

In terms of popularity and discussion, animation is not even as good as its peripheral derivatives.

That's right!

"Yu-Gi-Oh!" is such a magical anime IP. The popularity and discussion of its peripheral derivatives have always overtaken animation, even when the animation is being broadcast.

This is so true.

Card players only like to play cards, and their attitude towards animation is very simple. I watch it when I have time, and I don’t watch it when I don’t.

Therefore.

Even though the animation "Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duel Castle" is already one of the most popular works of the same period, its ratings are not as good as "Pokémon II".

"no way."

Lao Zhang smiled and joked: "Watching others play cards on TV is not as satisfying as playing cards yourself."

"Besides, if the ratings are not high, we have to compare it with who else? Apart from "Pokémon II", which animation can compete with Yu-Gi-Oh?"

This is true.

Wanbao Animation internally compared "Pokémon" and "Yu-Gi-Oh!" all day long, which made Gu Miao's horizons widen.

In fact, take it out and take a look.

Is the second season of "Yu-Gi-Oh!" still pretty good? For such an animated work with world-class influence, it is quite difficult to find a rival.

What's more, although the animation ratings have been suppressed, isn't "Yu-Gi-Oh!" the biggest winner in terms of peripheral derivatives sales?

Lao He has already won!

He didn't know where he got the eighteen-hand printing production line. It was said that in order to meet the demand for new cards from foreign players some time ago, even the machine was smoking.

Ouch!

Isn’t this good for smoking?

If you print more cards, you can earn more money. Especially under the premise that most "Yu-Gi-Oh!" cards can be exported abroad to earn foreign exchange, the management departments at all levels in Jiangchuan are even more anxious than Wanbao.

Good guy!

The urgent need to purchase new machines due to smoke coming out of factory machines has alarmed the tax department and the import and export management department to come forward to solve the problem of animation IP. "Yu-Gi-Oh!" is also considered the only one that Scorpion has done.