My Animation Era

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 Jade of Four Souls.

As the most important item in the planning of "Inuyasha" 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 of 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, had a puzzled look on his face. 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. He thought this was something to consider. Isn't it just business cooperation? If you have money, you're a bastard!

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

"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 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, Three Kingdoms Animation is not a work for making money. If commercial cooperation is not possible, it will not be done. It does not matter if there are some peripherals.

The reason why I asked Ma Kui was to respect his opinion as a director.

Since Ma Kui agrees with him and does not engage in commercial cooperation or authorization, then this matter can be finalized.

If there is a similar cooperation plan in the future, the copyright operation department will directly reject it.

"So be it!"

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

"Who to pick up?"

"Remember the die-hard Nuan Yangyang fan I mentioned before? She will arrive in Jiangchuan in the afternoon. You go pick her up and arrange a hotel for her."

Gu Miao said with a smile: "In addition to her, we have also invited about 50 loyal fans to form a group to visit Wanbao Animation tomorrow morning. There will be media interviews then, so remember to shave and dress decently."

Fans visiting in groups?

Upon hearing this, Ma Kui suddenly showed an expectant expression.

This is the first time Wanbao Animation has been opened 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 was thinking, in order to leave a good impression on the upcoming fans, why not get a haircut?

…

Children's Day is approaching.

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 Wolfsburg Studio, Feiyang Studio, Dimension Studio and Puppet Studio that everyone has been looking forward to, the areas open for exhibition this time also include the company's internal gym, canteen, president's office, etc.

This should be considered a tour of the Holy Land!

As the leader of domestic animation and one of the world's animation companies, it is definitely the ultimate wish of countless fans to be able to visit the inner workings of Wanbao Animation.

Unfortunately……

In order to minimize the disruption to employees and take into account the company's reception capacity, there were only 98 fans and media bloggers in total for this "Wanbao Open Day" event.

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

But Wanbao's workplace is only so large, and its reception capacity is very limited. If too many people come in at once, it is really beyond Wanbao's ability to bear.

In fact, Wanbao was already exhausted from arranging accommodation, food, drink and entertainment for these 100 people.

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

Originally, he didn't want to come. After all, he was a fan of Wanbao. It would be weird if he didn't get kicked out when he came to visit Wanbao!

But I couldn’t stand the persistent persuasion from Wanbao Video: As the anime blogger with the highest number of fans on Wanbao Video, if you don’t go, who is qualified to go?

What's more, if you go to visit Wanbao Animation and make it into a video, the number of views will not explode?

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

The hotel was arranged by Wanbao.

After all, it was 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 action camera, and under the guidance of the staff, boarded the bus to Jiangchuan Animation Industrial Park.

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

“The area is quite large...”

It was Liu Zida's first time to come to Wanbao Animation Headquarters. After getting off the car and looking at the building, his first impression was that it was big.

Being able to own such a large piece of land in the Jiangchuan Animation Industrial Park, where every inch of land is precious, shows the transcendent status of Wanbao Animation.

"I heard that Wanbao Animation has thousands of employees?"

"It seems so, but a group of people were laid off some time ago. I don't know exactly 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's really similar!"

The discussion among the people around him made Liu Zida couldn't help but turn his head and look at the gate that he hadn't noticed when he came.

Don't even say it...

This gate is indeed designed to look like the Yangcun iron gate in the animation "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf". It is a perfect one-to-one replica, and the security booth is the observation tower.

Too abstract?

Liu Zida's forehead was filled with black lines. He really couldn't figure out who had the idea to design the door of his company like this? What about guarding against wolves?

"Everyone, welcome to Wanbao!"

Just as Liu Zida picked up his action camera to take pictures of the Yangcun Iron Gate, a very familiar voice came to his ears.

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

Is this real Gu Miao?

Liu Zida looked at it carefully and finally determined that this guy looked pretty good in reality. He was not as handsome as he boasted, but his facial features were still pretty good.

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

You might not feel it just by looking at the photos, but seeing Gu Miao in person for the first time, many people at the scene exclaimed. Unexpectedly, Uncle Gu was over 1.8 meters tall.

That's pretty high.

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

Standing together, Gu Miao looks very tall, standing out from the crowd!

While leading everyone inside, Gu Miao answered the curious fans' long-standing doubts.

For example, will there be a second season of "Guardians of Yangcun"? What projects has Wanbao been working on recently? When will Superman be aired?

Everyone has a lot of questions.

However, this was not a good time to communicate. After Gu Miao calmed down the excited people, he arranged for Ma Kui to take everyone to visit Wolfsburg Studio.

At Wolfsburg Studio, fans saw some behind-the-scenes materials and behind-the-scenes footage of "Guardians of Sheep Village" and also had conversations with members of the production team.

Later at 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 where everyone has the most profound experience during the visit.

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

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

And Du Hao also used this open day event to show everyone a sample of the material of "The Treasure Bear Soldier".

There were quite a few media and video bloggers here today. Du Hao showed it to them mainly because he wanted to further expand the influence of "Treasure Bear Soldier" through these media and video bloggers.

There is one thing to say, the effect is great!

After watching a sample of the footage, these anime bloggers and media reporters couldn't wait to see the full-length film, saying that they would definitely give fans and audiences this film when they return home.

Probably the most boring part of the open day was visiting the president's office of Wanbao Animation.

before coming.

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

Only after I arrived did I realize that the secret of the bullshit was that in addition to various hand-made dolls, there were game consoles and light novels... a proper Fat House e-sports room.

Unwilling fans even opened Gu Miao's computer.

Well, now it’s confirmed!

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

"Ahem, stop looking!"

Seeing the strange expressions on everyone's faces, the president's secretary quickly coughed, and under the watchful eyes of everyone, she bravely defended Mr. Gu: "Mr. Gu doesn't usually work here, and he is very busy and has no time to play..."

"You're lying, the game time shown here is 1069 hours!" A child noticed the anomaly and shouted.

When everyone heard this, they immediately showed speechless expressions.

The total duration of any game is more than a thousand hours. Do you call this busy? Are you busy completing levels and getting all the achievements?

The Jade fragments of the Four Souls don't seem to be the same size, but that's not important, just mentioning it...