There are a lot of things happening throughout October.
First, the filming location for the promotional video was temporarily seized, making it impossible for the filming to proceed smoothly. Ji Yingzi and Li Youqing had to find a way to communicate with Weilan Film and Television Base.
But since the other party dares to lend your venue to others, then of course they have made all preparations. There is no reason to give the venue back easily. It just means that they can wait until there is a vacant shooting location before renting it to them.
Ji Yingzi and Li Youqing had no choice but to try their best to find connections to solve this problem.
On the other side, things about the Doraemon anime characters were also involved. To Jiangbei's surprise, just as he was writing the Doraemon story, Zhang Jiuliang brought good news.
"Brother, Coriander has resigned from Kyoto Animation. She will help us take care of some matters of the animation company in the future." In a cafe outside the community, Liang Liang pointed at Nozawa Coriander and said.
Seeing Liangliang mentioning herself, Nozawa Kana also stood up and bowed to Jiangbei: "Please give me more advice in the future."
Jiang Bei, who was opposite, had a face full of astonishment and asked hesitantly: "What's going on?"
Kyoto Animation is a world-renowned animation company, and Kana Nozawa is the head of a studio owned by Kyoto Animation. Judging from her position, she is already a senior executive in the company. How can she resign and come to work for the gambling king?
Seeing her brother's appearance, Liangliang waved her hands and replied casually: "Actually, it's nothing, it's just that Xiangcai thinks our Doraemon has unlimited potential, and she wants to add some challenges to her life, so she chose us.
Start from scratch.”
"That's it..." Jiangbei didn't believe Liangliang's words and turned to look at Nozawa Coriander.
Nozawa Kana pursed her lips and smiled when she heard this, and replied: "Kuriang-chan is only half right. What's more important is that I feel happiness in her. This is something I have never experienced in my previous company. I like it."
A feeling.”
In fact, what Nozawa Kana said is really not nonsense. Although Kyoto Animation is a world-renowned animation company, the internal competitive pressure is unimaginable. Even as the head of the studio, she has to complete the tasks given by the company.
In addition to her tasks, she also has to work hard not to be surpassed by the vice presidents below. The work pressure can be said to be extremely strong.
There is naturally no happiness in this kind of working environment.
Of course, the most important thing is that she is optimistic about Doraemon, an original animated character, and believes that Doraemon has the potential to amaze the world.
Jiangbei himself knew this, so he only believed half of Nozawa Kana's answer, and that was because the gambling king had the buff of natural affinity.
However, since Nozawa Kana is willing to join the animation company that has not yet been established, he has no reason to refuse. He stretched out his hand and said: "Then Miss Nozawa is welcome to join."
"I will work hard, Jiangbei-kun."
"..."
The addition of Nozawa Kana further improved Doraemon's plan.
Two days later, an animation company was formally established in Weilan City with a registered capital of 2 million (sourced from a special fund to support the gambling king's entrepreneurship from his family).
Company name: Westbound Animation.
Company legal person, general manager: Nozawa Kana.
Shareholders: Jiang Bei (20), Zhang Jiuliang (70) and Nozawa Coriander (10).
After the creation of Saigon Animation, the first thing within the company was to prepare for the production of Doraemon comics.
According to Jiangbei's plan, he felt that it would be safer to copy the previous model of comics first and animation second.
Because serialized comics can bring many stable and loyal readers, and at the same time, you can also get everyone's feedback on Doraemon from the comics.
So at the beginning of the plan, Jiangbei began to create Doraemon comics.
However, he is only responsible for writing stories, and things like painting have to be left to professionals.
People in this profession are naturally cool.
But Liangliang was obviously not happy either, and after two more days of retreat, she began to think of ways to free herself.
"But brother, I can't complete such a large workload alone. I ask the company to recruit illustrators and painters."
There are too many Doraemon comics. The number of comics drawn by the original author alone is as high as 1,345. There are also long novels and so on. It is indeed a bit unrealistic for Liangliang to draw it by himself.
"Then I will temporarily recruit two painters to assist you." After thinking about it, Jiang Bei agreed to this request.
Liangliang's actions are still very fast. He just agreed today that tomorrow the two painters will have entered the office of Xixi Animation and start working.
The reason why it can be so fast and efficient is that these two painters are from Merrill Lynch University. After all, they are senior students who just graduated this year.
"Yao Yao, Yao Yao have just graduated and haven't found a job yet. Their painting skills are very high, so I simply asked them to come over and help."
This was the explanation given by Jiangbei Liangliang after learning about the incident. He could only secretly lament that there seemed to be nothing in the world that Ancheng Gambling King could not accomplish.
After successfully recruiting painters, the operation of Westbound Animation entered a high-speed promotion stage.
Jiangbei was at the top and wrote the plot of each short film in Doraemon, and then handed it over to Liangliang and the artist to draw the illustrations, while Nozawa Kana was responsible for looking for external serialization platforms and setting up the company's internal publishing channels.
The steps were in order and progress was very smooth.
In particular, Nozawa Kana, who is responsible for external affairs, showed her strong business capabilities and everything was handled effectively without any accidents.
Apart from the Westward Animation side, the promotional shooting of Qingjiang Hotpot is also officially on track.
After being temporarily snatched away from the filming location by the crew of "Daqing Beauty", Li Youqing and others finally managed to successfully shoot at another film and television base through various negotiations and help.
After a week of shooting, the entire shooting came to an end under the green screen.
It can't be said to be fast. After all, it's just a promotional film and doesn't require too many acting skills or details.
Secondly, this promotional film has a science fiction theme, so shooting can only account for half of it, and the other half needs to be handed over to the production company for post-production.
However, in post-production, Ji Yingzi and Li Youqing had some differences.
The reason is that Ji Yingzi was too obsessed with perfect special effects, which greatly increased the budget, from 20 million to 40 million.
Li Youqing was naturally unwilling to do this. He shook his head and refused: "Teacher Ji, it is impossible for me to spend 40 million to shoot a promotional video. Jiangbei will not agree if he knows about it, so I hope you can take a step back and not pursue it too much."
Perfect special effects.”
Ji Yingzi earnestly advised: "Youyou, this is not just a promotional film, it is also a perfect micro-movie. If we make it better, it will not only be good for the film itself, but also for the Qingjiang Hotpot brand.
It’s all beneficial and harmless!”
"If you think about it, we put so much effort into making a promotional video and did it to the extreme. Do we need to talk about making hot pot? It will definitely make everyone feel that our hot pot brand is as rigorous, serious and perfect as this promotional video.
"
After all, she was a teacher, and Ji Yingzi's eloquence was far ahead of Li Youqing's, which made her hesitate.
But Xiao Nizi still did not agree directly. In addition to the fact that she thought the investment was too high, she also had to discuss the matter of 20 million with Jiangbei.
…
In the evening, after Li Youqing got home, he hesitated for a while to tell the story.
In fact, she had no confidence that Jiangbei would agree to this proposal, so she had already prepared for the worst.
"Increase the special effects budget by 20 million? Even 40 million can make a movie." Jiang Bei chewed rice and couldn't help but frowned and replied after hearing his wife's words.
What conditions!
It costs 40 million to shoot a promotional video.
"That's right, my total investment in the Westbound animation is only two million, and it's only worth a fraction of you." Liangliang also complained at the side.
This time Westward Animation was founded publicly, so the source of funds must be clean and clear, and funds earned from secretly hacking Li Youqing cannot be used.
What makes Liangliang dissatisfied is that her brother only promised to give 2 million, but Li Youqing's promotional video directly gave 20 million.
The little girl's heart was unbalanced, so her words were naturally full of complaints.
"You're right, 20 million is actually a lot, and additional investment will cost us too much." Li Youqing was silent for a while, then nodded lightly in response.
Jiang Bei also didn't expect that Xiao Nizi would be persuaded so quickly. He stared at her and asked, "So what do you mean..."
Li Youqing hesitated for a while, bit her red lips, stirred her hands irregularly under the dining table, and whispered: "I still have some savings, so can I... pay for the remaining 20 million myself."
The investment amount of Qingjiang Hotpot comes from the 200 million demolition money. Strictly speaking, this is Jiangbei's property.
This is true even for Qingjiang Hotpot, a brand chain established because he wanted to engage in the catering industry.
So for Li Youqing, even though she was busy working on Qingjiang Hotpot during this period, in fact she was only supporting her husband's business start-up, not even a partner.
"Tsk tsk, you are indeed a rich woman. How about your sister-in-law also sponsor my animation company?" The gambling king took advantage of the opportunity and said with a smile.
Originally it was just a joke, and no one paid attention to it, but after listening to it, Li Youqing nodded seriously: "Okay, is five million enough?"
"ah?"
Liangliang looked at Li Youqing with surprise, feeling that something was wrong with her sister-in-law today.
"Forty million yuan to shoot a promotional video is indeed too much, but since you have decided to invest more, I can only support it. But we don't have to spend 40 million yuan to shoot a promotional video." Jiang Bei rubbed his chin and thought.
Think and say.
"What do you mean?" Li Youqing was overjoyed to receive support from her husband and asked with squinted eyes.
"Remember that digital special effects company we invested in together before? You can put the post-production of the promotional video to the digital special effects company, which can save a lot of money."