Before we knew it, another half month had passed.
Qitian Animation Company is still working hard on the fourth season of Tom and Jerry. The dialect version has already completed two seasons. Jiang Xia's plan is to wait until all three seasons are completed before selling them to TV stations in Sichuan and Chongqing to maximize profits.
In fact, the actual recording time for the dialect version was not long; the main time was spent on writing the lines. Even so, the speed was still quite fast, and the cost was extremely low.
In addition, the Slam Dunk project team was officially established recently. Upon hearing that Qitian Animation Company, which produced Tom and Jerry, had started recruiting a large number of key animators, animators, photographers and editors, many people from well-known art academies came to join.
After all, Qitian Animation is a company that has been established for less than a year, but its potential is amazing. It is currently in a stage of rapid growth and has a very good development prospect.
Jiang Xia was well aware of his company's strengths. In order to attract enough outstanding talent, he even thoughtfully equipped the new office with a milk tea shop and a small gym, adhering to the principle that "health is the foundation of everything" and providing employees with a spacious and comfortable working environment as much as possible.
When you're tired from work, you can rest in a massage chair; when you're lacking creative inspiration, you can pet cats and dogs; when you're feeling unwell, you can exercise; and when you're hungry, there's free afternoon tea.
Even newly graduated illustrators can work, live, and learn alongside a group of experienced artists, rapidly improving their skills and making significant progress in their careers.
It must be said that Qitian Animation, as a company that was only registered this year, has arranged very generous welfare benefits for its employees. This shows that Qitian Animation truly treats its employees as human beings, rather than being a heartless company that only knows how to exploit them.
Now, the project team for Slam Dunk has been basically assembled. Jiang Xia, as the chief director, chief producer, and chief screenwriter, has officially started the production of Slam Dunk after a series of meetings and discussions.
Jiang Xia had been looking forward to this day for a long time.
After more than half a year since Tom and Jerry, he finally has the confidence to challenge long-running shonen manga.
The entire project team consists of five production teams, meaning they are producing five episodes simultaneously. The progress difference between each episode is one week. With each team producing one episode per month, we can guarantee weekly output, and even have some to spare.
However, this is the ideal situation. In reality, the entire studio was still working overtime all night to produce the manuscript the day before the deadline.
However, for safety reasons, about five episodes are usually produced before the official broadcast. This is a risk control measure to deal with unexpected situations during production.
According to his expectations, the first episode of Slam Dunk should be officially broadcast around March, after the Chinese New Year. Excluding the initial adjustment period and the preliminary preparations, the time is currently very tight.
Therefore, Jiang Xia spends almost every day at the company drawing storyboards. He rarely has time to review his work and also has to squeeze in time for performance meetings and instruct Wang Ming on how to draw the storyboards for Tom and Jerry. Even the company's artists are afraid of how hard he works.
December 31st, the last day of 2009.
Lin Yanwan forced Jiang Xia to give her a day off to rest, as she was very worried that he might suddenly die one day.
"You're not allowed to go anywhere today, especially not to the company. You'd better stay home and rest!" she said fiercely, refusing to let Jiang Xia get out of bed.
Listening to the wind and snow outside the window, Jiang Xia said helplessly, "But I'm not tired."
"Even if you're not tired, you need to rest! Look at everyone else, working like crazy! Do you want to die young?" Lin Yanwan retorted.
His face twitched slightly. "To die young is too much, honey. I know what I'm doing."
"You have no sense of propriety whatsoever." Lin Yanwan pouted. All you do is work all day long, not getting off work until one or two o'clock every day, and then you fall asleep as soon as you get home. Now you don't even have time to hug her anymore.
He even said he wanted to beat her with a small umbrella. Given Jiang Xia's current state, even if he were to take the test for half an hour first, he would still win easily.
If I had known he would be this tired, I wouldn't have let him run two projects at once. It would have been better if he had just stayed and played the cat and mouse game.
"Anyway, you're just going to stay home and rest today. If you don't get back to your normal state by then, I'll keep calling in sick for you!" she said with a snort.
Jiang Xia sighed softly, "Alright, it's your decision."
He closed his eyes, temporarily putting aside his work, and turned to hug his wife's soft body.
"You haven't spent time with me in a long time," Lin Yanwan whispered, touching his hand.
Jiang Xia stiffened slightly. He had indeed been too busy preparing for the Slam Dunk project to spend time with his wife and had neglected her.
"I'm sorry, baby," he admitted.
"You didn't do anything wrong to me." Lin Yanwan pouted slightly, feeling inexplicably a little wronged.
Although she knew he was doing it for his career, she just disliked this way of not taking care of his health. It reminded her of how Jiang Xia would stay in the studio day and night after they had a fight before, instead of going home.
Jiang Xia hugged her tighter. "Okay, okay, I won't go anywhere today. I'll definitely spend more time with you."
"What's the use of today? Tomorrow it'll all be back to normal. Think about how you treated me before? I'm talking about your past life."
In my past life...
Dead memories suddenly began to attack him.
Jiang Xia took a deep breath. He couldn't bear the thought of them going back to their old ways. He would treat her well for the rest of his life.
"No, I promise you," he said softly.
"I don't believe it!"
"Starting tomorrow, I will go to get off work and rest as usual, and I will rest when I need to. You are the most important person in my heart."
"Really?" Lin Yanwan turned around to look at him.
“Every word you said is true,” Jiang Xia said earnestly.
Lin Yanwan took the initiative to kiss him. "Actually, it's not that I don't want you to work overtime, it's just that I hope you can do it in moderation. But if you can't control it, I'll have to cut it off completely."
"Okay, okay, honey, don't be angry. I won't stay up late to work overtime anymore." Jiang Xia gently nuzzled against her.
"Honey, I don't have to go to work today. I want to sleep in your arms for a while longer before getting up," Lin Yanwan pouted.
"Don't even mention a little while, you can sleep until the end of time."
Jiang Xia smiled slightly, hugged her soft body, closed his eyes, rested his head in the crook of her neck, and fell asleep, inhaling her scent.
A moment later, Lin Yanwan blushed and gently took his hand and placed it inside her clothes. Her voice trembled slightly, and her eyelashes twitched rapidly.
"Honey, I'll allow you to be a little unrestrained with me today, but only by touching..."
(End of this chapter)
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