As "Magi's Gift" came to an end, Shepherd quickly shifted his attention to the upcoming "Cardcaptor Sakura".
Different from "IS" and "My Hero Academia" types of animations, the core of "Cardcaptor Sakura" lies in its delicate emotional drama. There is no real villain in the comics. With its gentle side, it is a real healing work.
In the comics, apart from the male and female protagonists, which is fairly normal, other CPs, such as sex, teachers and students, often cause quite a bit of controversy when placed in a real context. With the strange eyes of quite a few people, today's Blue Star Although same-sex marriage laws have already been passed, same-sex love was also despised hundreds of years ago.
But in "Cardcaptor Sakura", these so-called controversies and anomalies do not exist from beginning to end.
This is a gentle world, but also a simple world. Their likes have nothing to do with gender, age and identity, they are truly gentle and suitable for the world of children.
Of course, this does not mean that "Cardcaptor Sakura" is an animation for children. At least in the eyes of Mu Suxing, the plots in the comics are not naive, and the positive energy and values conveyed in it are not only suitable for children. , for teenagers, and even adults who have entered the society, it is also applicable.
"How's the costume design going?" Shepherd Xing asked.
In Mujuxing’s plan, he intends to design different styles of clothing for the heroine Kinomoto Sakura in each episode, including everyday styles and combat styles. The person responsible for this part of the styling design is Dai Yuyan, who has finished the production of the second season of "IS". .
"At present, we have designed a total of 10 sets, 2 sets for daily use and 8 sets for combat use," Dai Yuyan said, while turning the notebook on the table, so that the notebook computer full of sketches appeared in front of his eyes, and said: "The rest I will We are still rushing to make it, and the results will come out in two days.”
Shepherd Xing flipped through the pictures on the computer.
I have to say that Dai Yuyan's ability in this area is still quite outstanding, but all women have some obsession with small skirts in their hearts. As a woman, Dai Yuyan obviously has a good grasp of this kind of psychology of women. Each of the ten styles of clothing has its own characteristics. While satisfying lovers of different styles, the girls also regain their long-lost girlish hearts.
"Director Mu," turning the laptop back to Dai Yuyan, Mu Suxing turned around, and standing in front of him was his assistant Du Yutang, who looked down at the schedule in his hand while making a routine report to him: "Yueqi, Yunsu, and Lanyun, several video sites have called, and want to talk to you about the playback authorization of the next animation."
"Push them all," Mu Suxing thought for a while, and said, "Just tell them directly that Huaying Animation's next animation is a TV animation, and the network broadcast authorization must wait at least after the first broadcast on the TV station. If they really have Sincerity, you will come to talk to me yourself when the time comes.”
"Okay." Du Yutang responded bluntly, and turned the form in his hand to the next page. He didn't know what he saw, and some subtle meaning flashed in his eyes, but he quickly recovered his composure. : "In addition, Mr. Bai Wenrui, the owner of Huanka Toys, wants to talk to us about cooperation."
Huaying Animation does have cooperative relations with many toy companies, but...
Mu Suxing frowned: "Didn't I say that all such matters are left to Mr. Mu to decide?"
"The composition of this toy company is a bit special," Du Yutang said: "According to Boss Bai of Huanka Toys, you own 10% of the shares of Huanka Toys and are one of the shareholders of Huanka Toys. Mr. Bai wants to know, Mu Is the director interested in acquiring Magic Card Toys?"
After he said this, the Shepherd Xing remembered that it seemed that there was such a thing.
When he took over Rose Animation, he was taken advantage of by Mu Xingxue in a disguised form. The loss was taken back by Qin Sheng in the form of shares the next day - the company that shares belonged to was called Huanka Toys. It was just that Huaying had just been established at that time, and Shepherd Xing was getting busier every day, so he forgot about it.
It was also his own negligence.
Mu Suxing had never heard of the Huanka Toys company in his previous life, and it was not a well-known company, but it was a good thing for him, because it meant that the purchase price would not be too high, and the painting Ying holds key IPs in his hands, so he doesn't worry about the toys he produces not being sold.
He didn't have time to spare before, so he didn't consider doing derivative product development by himself. Now it seems that directly acquiring a complete team seems to be a good choice?
"Yes," Mu Su Xing said bluntly, "I don't have any objections here, let him talk to President Mu about the specifics."
Speaking of toys, Shepherd Xing immediately thought of the full set of Clow cards in "Cardcaptor Sakura".
In Mu Su Xing's plan, the income from the first broadcast authorization fee is secondary. For animations that are biased towards sub-supply, various peripherals such as toys and stationery are the real big ones.
In "Cardcaptor Sakura", the relatively cheap and popular one is the Clow card that runs through the entire comic.
TV animation is no better than online animation. The latter often rely on the monthly subscription share of video sites, or a single subscription itself to obtain income. The profit of TV animation comes from TV advertisements. If an animation can maintain a stable ratings, the TV station will even take the trouble. Play back and forth.
Under such circumstances, as long as the quality of "Cardcaptor Sakura" itself is decent, and it gets a good ratings, plus the carousel of the TV station, the coverage area will not worry about the surrounding area not being able to sell, especially Kuro Cards are more beautiful than various figures, and children and parents will not feel distressed when buying them. When sales increase, profits will naturally increase.
——
Shepherd Star looked at the neatly arranged cards on the table.
After taking down the magic card toy, Huaying's first instruction was to make a complete set of Clow card peripherals in "Cardcaptor Sakura". At this moment, what was placed in front of Shepherd Xing was the magic card toy experiment. One of several approaches.
The lines are delicate and exquisite, and the light golden lines go around in a circle, and finally converge into the shape of words directly above the card. Pleiades nodded in satisfaction: "Yes, let's make another 10,000 copies according to this quality, and try to use better materials for the packaging box, don't be stingy."
Sometimes, a good-looking packaging box can be a reason for people to buy something—what’s more, this set of Clow cards is also very beautiful, paired with a stylish box, it’s no wonder that audience fans are not excited !
"That's all for today. If you have any questions about derivatives in the future, you can go directly to Ruan Wei on the third floor. He is the person in charge of this area. You just need to contact him."
The meaning of chasing customers in his words is too obvious, and his words and deeds also mean to deliberately distance the two of them. The reason why the company is a company is precisely because of the division of labor among the employees. Everyone has a different department in charge of. It is against the rules for Bai Wenrui to bypass Ruan Wei and come directly to him.
Bai Wenrui obviously understood what he meant.
He nodded tactfully, didn't say much nonsense, and left honestly with his own sample.
Shepherd Xing sat back in his seat, ready to start designing animation shots. However, at this time, the mobile phone that he put on the table also lit up because he received the message.
Shepherd Xing casually glanced at the phone screen, but his eyes froze instantly——
Mu Xingxue: Have you opened your vest?
Shepherd star was a little confused.
He thinks he has successfully concealed it, at least Fang Lian and Wen Feihang, who are more familiar with his style, have never been able to see that the video with "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" as a mixed edit is actually his Handwriting, but since Fang Lian and Wen Feihang couldn't see something, how did Mu Xing, a layman, know?
Not sure if Mu Xingxue really knew something, or if he was deliberately defrauding him, Mu Suxing thought for a while and replied with a "?".
Mu Xingxue didn't talk nonsense, and directly dumped two addresses: You can see for yourself.
No way?
Could it be that his vest was picked up by all-powerful netizens?
Mu Suxing was extremely surprised, he rubbed his temples, clicked on the address Mu Xingxue sent, and read nervously.
In Blue Star's largest animation forum, there is a certain unpopular section.
Title: I seem to have picked up the vest of the stars.
Content: As in the title, the host has been bored at home these days, and is too lazy to follow up, so he simply found some animated short films to watch and play, and then the host found out that there is an overall style of animated short films, which is very different from the style of "The Little Prince" It's similar, it feels like Xingxing's handwriting, is there anyone who can prove it?
Floor 1: Curious about this animated short film that is said to be similar to "The Little Prince", so do you have an address?
2nd floor: [address]
3rd Floor: After reading it, it’s pretty good-looking. I agree with what the main building said. There are obvious shadows of stars in the style. I feel that it’s probably the vest number of stars.
Floor 4: I like this "Bird", it has a healing feeling similar to "The Little Prince", and the picture is also too dreamy, which can arouse my girlish heart very much. No wonder I felt that this animation producer was very unusual when I watched it. It turned out to be Xing Xing's trumpet.
Floor 5: After waiting for so long, I finally got the short art animation of Xing Xing! happy!
Floor 6: It’s so strange, why does Xingxing open a vest for artistic animation? It doesn't make sense...
Floor 7: It doesn’t make any sense. Who doesn’t specialize in opening two vest accounts to focus on commercial art? Xingxing probably wants to use this brand new vest to concentrate on making artistic animations, right?
...
Shepherd Xing didn't read the rest of the content.
He closed the post and redirected the page to the chat page.
Shepherd Star: That's not my vest.
Mu Xingxue:? ? ?
Shepherd Xing was about to type to explain, when there was a bang in the office, he was pushed away roughly. Mu Xingxue hurriedly stepped in front of Shepherd Xing from the outside in three steps and two steps, his expression darkened: "You mean, this "Flying Bird" is not made by you at all?"
"Is it necessary for me to hide my identity, and open a vest account to do art animation?" Mu Suxing asked: "Now everyone says that I have fallen into the eyes of money. Do you think it is meaningful for me to open a vest to do art animation industry?" , or use my own identity to make artistic animations and directly prove myself more meaningful?"
Mu Xingxue frowned, and then his face became ugly: "It's really not you?"
Mu Suxing nodded affirmatively: "It should be just a coincidence. I've been working on my graduation project for a month, and I don't have time to make another animation short film, let alone open my vest."
But Mu Xingxue's mood did not return to normal because of his explanation, on the contrary, he looked quite annoyed at the moment, his face became even uglier, he stared at Shepherd Xing: "Do you really think this is just a coincidence? "
Shepherd Xing was slightly taken aback.
"If I hadn't used the heart of a villain to measure the heart of a gentleman, this short animated film—" Mu Xingxue pointed to the "Bird" video on the screen of his mobile phone with his chin, and said calmly: "Tomorrow there will be news about your new vest. It will be on the headlines of animation magazines, and most of the fans who are fans of "The Little Prince" you made will come to watch this video."
"When the popularity of "Flying Bird" rises and the overwhelming praise is received, the producer will stand up and clarify that "Flying Bird" is his work and not yours. What do you think will happen?"
"They will praise this animator as outstanding and talented. They say that you have been immersed in commercial animation for so long, and you have wasted your talent in vain. Maybe you have forgotten how to do artistic animation. It is impossible to make "Asuka" "Such an excellent work"
Mu Suxing frowned, as if he had realized something.
"It's not a coincidence." Mu Xingxue shook his head, with a trace of coldness in his eyes: "Some people have made up their minds to take heat from you and step on you to climb up."