radiothebook Chapter 143
Chapter 143
As a gourmet animation, "Showa Cafeteria" seems to be taking another route that is completely different from "Spirit of the Halberd".
Unlike "Spirit of the Halberd", which had millions of pre-subscriptions long before the broadcast, when "Showa Cafeteria" started broadcasting, the overall number of subscriptions and plays could not be said to be bad—after all, the audience base that Huaying has built over the years is real.But compared to Huaying's recent animation works, subscriptions to "Showa Canteen" are obviously not enough to watch.
The Shepherd Star is not surprised by this.
Strictly speaking, "Showa Cafeteria" is not a purely commercial animation. Whether it's painting style, character design or plot, this animation follows a niche line of literature and art, and its rhythm is relatively slow. The market and "Spirit of Halberd Eater" itself are staggered.
Most of these animations have a good reputation, but whether they can be popular depends on whether this kind of reputation can be effectively converted into subscriptions.
Soon, with the launch of "Showa Canteen", many viewers who pre-subscribed in advance also followed Luo Gaofeng's progress.From being careless to getting serious, and finally crying out of nowhere, this is not only Luo Gaofeng's personal viewing process, but also the inner thoughts of nearly [-]% of the audience.
"Crying, I knew I shouldn't have hoped for the kindness of a dog thief..."
"Actually, what Xing Xing said is right. This animation is indeed gentle, but this kind of gentleness is not good enough. The ending is actually not a tragedy. Strictly speaking, it is still HE. The traffic police and father-in-law also untied their knots. I have started a new life, but it’s really hard to get over my good intentions.”
"It's hard to get over it +1. It makes me sad to think that my father didn't get to eat the hamburger made by my daughter in the end. Although the ending is good, but the ending is true, it's really hard to get over..."
"Actually, I almost guessed the routine when I watched the beginning. I wanted to be picky at first, but I didn't expect the plot to be so touching. The BGM and performance are very flavorful. The viewing experience is excellent. I look forward to the follow-up!"
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"Showa Cafeteria" has been online for a week, and the relevant review websites are all well-received, with a score as high as 9.5
Although according to the usual practice, when "Showa Cafeteria" is over, the rating of the animation will inevitably drop appropriately, but in the case of tens of thousands of people rating the first episode, it can still get a high score of 10, which is enough to prove the potential of this animation .
Shepherd Star does not have any profit goals or requirements for this animation, and the works produced by Huaying now will not be at a loss no matter what-that is to say, but as far as Shepherd Star himself is concerned , he actually didn't have much hope for the sales of this animation.
Relying on word of mouth, the final subscription should be in the range of 50 to 80. After all, there is a certain degree of cultural barriers in animations like this kind of literature and art, and the audience is not as good as animations like "Spirit of the Halberd". Guangzhou, 80 is probably its ceiling.
No one expected that when the third episode of "Showa Cafeteria" was broadcast, the subscriptions would exceed the 80 that Shepherd Star thought was the ceiling.
When receiving the subscription data aggregated by major websites, not to mention other companies, even Shepherd Xing himself was a little surprised.
With the growth of Huaying animation, the company's internal animation itself is no longer limited to the scope of production. At this moment, "Showa Cafeteria" is performing at a super standard. In less than three days, the relevant departments below have submitted a report , surveyed and analyzed the subscription groups of "Showa Canteen" and the reasons for its success.
In addition to the quality of the animation itself, the success of "Showa Canteen" is also related to the fact that Huaying has no competitors in this period.
It is now January, and the winter vacation has not yet started. There are not many animations that will be launched during this period, especially after Huaying announced the launch time before, in order to avoid subscribing blood puff under the backdrop of Huaying, many animations are Active avoidance was chosen.
Not only animations, in fact, even in TV dramas, online dramas and movies, not many will choose to play at this relatively deserted time, and the remaining few are of poor quality. Ordinary works of crashing.
If it is a traditional animation work, those viewers who follow live-action dramas every day, even if there is a shortage of dramas, may not come to follow animations. However, even if the plot of "Showa Cafeteria" is adapted into a live-action TV series, there is no sense of disobedience, plus The popularity accumulated by Shanghai Huaying from the Sherlock Holmes series has led to many people who don't like animation, and are willing to try Huaying's works with the idea of giving it a try in the face of a shortage of dramas.
Under such circumstances, the audience of "Showa Cafeteria" will naturally expand further.
Shepherd Star is very satisfied with this result.
On the one hand, the performance of the animation itself has exceeded expectations. On the other hand, Huaying has gradually established and perfected other departments besides animation production. Although it is only the beginning, at least the other employees of Huaying have also begun to raise It has become a habit of summarizing and thinking after success.
For Huaying, this habit of thinking is more important than the success or failure of a certain animation.
Time came to early February.
Needless to say, "Showa Cafeteria", this animation was originally a whim and a self-adjusting work for Mu Suxing. Now that the goal has been achieved, of course it is time to start thinking about Huaying Animation's first animated film.
Yes, animated movies.
In fact, as early as a year ago, Mu Suxing had the idea of making animated films, but at that time there was an accident that Yunsu Group intervened. In order to expand the company, he devoted part of his energy to Huaying comics. Naturally, there is no time to think about animation movies.
Compared with serial animation, the plot of "Harry Potter" itself is more suitable to be adapted into an animated film. Now that he has the time and plans to develop into an animated film, he just started the "Harry Potter" series of animated films , if successful, it can also become an important source of profit for Huaying in the next seven years.
The idea is beautiful, but the reality is skinny.
With the goal in mind, the first thing to do is to write an animation plan.
It stands to reason that there are not too many animation projects written by Mu Su Xing. This time, in order to do a good job in the preliminary preparations for "Harry Potter", considering that it is a long time before the first viewing, he also specially set aside half a month to I re-watched all the original novels and the series of live-action movies in the parallel world.
The commercial value of this series is unquestionable. The original novels and live-action movies can also bring him some inspiration in character design. What annoys Shepherd Star is that the concept he drew based on "Harry Potter" The pictures and part of the prop design are good-looking, and they also refer to the movie prop design, but in the overall feeling, there seems to be something wrong.
If you want to say exactly where it feels wrong, Shepherd Xing can't tell why.
After thinking hard for a while, there was no result. Shepherd simply put down the prop design for the time being, and started to draw the concept drawings of Hogwarts Castle, Diagon Alley, Knockturn Alley and Hogsmeade.
His current creation speed is almost five times that of ordinary people, but even so, when it is close to the time when he gets off work every day, he can barely draw half of the conceptual drawing of Hogwarts castle, the public rest of the four colleges The room has not yet begun to write.
Mu Suxing took a sip of coffee, and was hesitating whether to finish the painting in one go before going back, when the mobile phone placed by the table suddenly sounded a WeChat notification——
"I shouldn't be back tonight, don't wait for me for dinner." The sender was Qin Sheng.
As a working dog who had to take the initiative to work overtime, Shepherd Xing also had a rare sense of pressure and urgency at the moment, and he replied casually: "Is the company busy?"
"Well, the new game will be tested in public next month, and the CG visual effects are still not satisfactory. I'm going to work on it with the animation department later."
Both of them are very busy people now, and they just chatted casually for a while, and quickly devoted themselves to their respective jobs.
Shepherd Xing rubbed his forehead.
Given his special status in Huaying, animation planning is just a process, even if he writes casually, given the trust others have in him, most people will not refute it.
What troubles him is not the animation project itself, but from the time he confirmed "Harry Potter" to the present, although the general plot and core selling points do not need to worry him, but the concept map is wrong, which often means that the style of the animation movie itself is wrong, so As a result, the progress of "Harry Potter" naturally slowed down.
He was worrying, his eyes swept around aimlessly, and when he passed the mobile phone that had just finished chatting, he paused inadvertently.
Mu Suxing's heart skipped a beat, and by the time he realized it, he had unlocked the screen lock of his phone, and his eyes fell on the chat window that hadn't had time to close.
...Game CG?
and many more!
Due to the inertia brought by past experience, for the animated films of the "Harry Potter" series, Shepherd subconsciously decided to make them into traditional animations, but the problem is that the "Harry Potter" series is really suitable for 2D ?
As a typical and classic magic school novel, the most fascinating thing about "Harry Potter" is undoubtedly the magical and interesting magical world depicted in the original work. It is said that details determine success or failure, while "Harry Potter" All kinds of wonderful settings in the world view of "Special" are undoubtedly the reason why countless audiences linger in their dreams and firmly believe that Hogwarts really exists.
In other words, if it is to be made into an animated film, scene design and prop design will be a very important part.
This is also the reason why the Shepherd star is not very satisfied with his prop design.
Although there is no distinction between traditional animation and CG animation in the concept map, Mu Suxing instinctively positioned it as traditional animation. When drawing the concept map, he also brought in traditional animation to draw it. In this way, the prop design is naturally how See what's wrong.
And if the "Harry Potter" series is made into a CG animation film...
If he remembers correctly, there is no real CG animation film in Blue Star yet. Although there are many ordinary 3D animations, the CG technology is top-notch, with extremely full details, and the visual effect of the rendered screen is close to that of real-world CG animations. , currently only exists in the promotional animations of some games.
As for the Blue Star's first CG animation film that came out later——
Just as this thought flashed through Mu Su Xing's mind, the next second, there was a knock on the door outside the office, and he answered casually, and Fang Lian said excitedly, "Ah Mu, did you see Is there a preview of Qianye Entertainment's CG animation movie?"
Shepherd Xing was slightly taken aback.
Fang Lian said enthusiastically: "I saw it, the picture is really awesome, especially the hair effect of the heroine, just looking at it makes the technicians bald. No wonder it is said that Bluestar's top CG technology is in the hands of the game company , this effect is really amazing!"