After hanging up the phone, Wang Ming walked to the art studio and gently knocked on the door.
"Mom, Jiang Xia is coming over in a little while."
"Okay, I understand."
Li Weiya's calm voice came from the room. On her desk was a rather complex background artwork, which she was currently modifying.
She could roughly guess why Jiang Xia was looking for her. Li Weiya had previously seen Jiang Xia's proposal about Tom and Jerry, as well as his storyboards and original drawings. Both the expressive techniques and artistic forms were handled very well.
Moreover, it seems that his son has also joined Jiang Xia's team. According to the information he revealed, their animation has already reached the tenth episode. Although it has not yet been broadcast on television, the response online has been quite good.
In her view, Tom and Jerry, as a children's cartoon, is already above average. But the prerequisite is that it can maintain that quality and be adapted into an animated series.
However, there is still a long way to go between original drawings and animation, including many processes such as editing, post-production dubbing, etc. She does not believe that a small team of only two or three people can really independently produce an excellent animated work.
After all, many animations have a lot of pre-release publicity, but the animation style is terrible after they are broadcast on TV, resulting in a bad reputation.
Such examples are commonplace in the animation industry.
However, for the sake of her son, Li Weiya decided to see what kind of surprise her student would bring her.
With that thought in mind, she temporarily put down her paintbrush, turned on her computer, and searched for Tom and Jerry online with anticipation.
"Give the child directions: Where can you see the cat and mouse?"
"Shocking! The most anticipated animation of 2009 is actually a children's animation?"
"Is Tom and Jerry good? Why are so many people talking about this cartoon lately?"
Breaking News! A Roundup of the Latest Tom and Jerry News!
"..."
Looking at the pop-up webpage, Li Weiya was a little confused. She randomly clicked on one of them and found that it was just a few simple GIFs, all of which showed a silly cat being tricked by a mouse.
However, from her professional perspective, a few GIFs alone are not enough to demonstrate the level of completion of this animation.
It seems that to fully understand the situation, I need to have a good talk with her students.
Li Weiya walked out of her studio and into her son's room, where she saw him drawing original illustrations of Tom and Jerry, and he was doing a good job.
She nodded secretly, realizing that Wang Ming's painting skills had improved significantly recently. Regardless of whether these young people were just joking around, she had to thank Jiang Xia for giving her son a good project to practice on.
"Mom, you came into my room without knocking."
Wang Ming quickly protected his artwork. Since Tom and Jerry hadn't officially aired yet, all the footage was considered company secrets, and he couldn't even show it to his mother.
After all, to some extent, Qitian Animation and the animation outsourcing company where my mother works are competitors.
"Isn't Jiang Xia coming soon? Tell me, what's the current situation for you?"
"Why don't you just ask him yourself? I'm just a middleman; he's the boss."
"Boss?" Li Weiya raised an eyebrow. "You've even started a company?"
Wang Ming nodded: "Jiang Xia registered an animation company. I'm just a lowly employee now, but Mom, don't underestimate our makeshift team. The animations we make are really better than many companies."
When talking about the finished Tom and Jerry videos, Wang Ming's eyes were full of confidence.
"You talk a good game, but where's the video you made? Let me see it," Li Weiya said, holding out her hand to him.
"Of course the videos are with Jiang Xia, I don't have them. Besides, we all signed confidentiality agreements, so many things can't be leaked to outsiders."
Seeing how convincingly he spoke, Li Weiya was both amused and exasperated. This son was even wary of his own mother.
"Alright, then I'll wait for Jiang Xia to arrive and ask him myself."
Her expectations for Tom and Jerry are growing higher and higher; hopefully, they won't disappoint her.
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After hanging up the phone, Jiang Xia immediately went to Wang Ming's house with the relevant information about Tom and Jerry.
For him, business is the top priority; spending time with his wife can wait.
The person who opened the door was Li Weiya, who was wearing her usual home clothes and seemed to have come all the way home to wait for him.
"Hello, Teacher Li," Jiang Xia said politely.
"Hello." She smiled slightly. "Ah Ming has told me everything about you. Please come inside."
"Sorry to bother you."
Jiang Xia put on shoe covers and went inside, while Li Weiya poured two cups of iced tea.
Hearing the noise, Wang Ming came out of his room and glanced at it. Seeing that it was Jiang Xia, he winked at him and went back to his room.
He's just a lousy artist, and all he needs to do is paint. He has no interest in business matters.
"Jiang Xia, what do you want me to do for you?" Li Weiya asked calmly.
He sat up straight, his expression calm and composed: "Since that's the case, then I'll get straight to the point, Teacher Li."
Li Weiya nodded, signaling him to continue.
"As you know, Amin and I are working on an animation called Tom and Jerry. The first few episodes are almost finished, and we're now considering how to broadcast it on television."
"Why does it have to be broadcast on television? With the internet so developed now, it can be streamed online," Li Weiya countered.
“It’s very simple. We make children’s animation, and the personal computer penetration rate in our country is not high this year. There is also an even more important reason: video websites are still in the stage of working for love. Even if I put Tom and Jerry online, the profit I can make is very small. The first priority of my establishment of an animation company is, of course, to make a profit,” Jiang Xia replied.
Li Weiya took a small sip of her herbal tea. Her explanation was straightforward: in the current internet environment, only by selling to television stations could she make money, maximize profits, and allow her work to reach a genuine audience.
"But you should know that not just any work can be broadcast on television. Television stations have very high requirements for the quality of works, and they also pay attention to the timing. The same work will have completely different ratings when it is broadcast at different times."
"Of course I know that. I have great confidence in cats and mice."
Jiang Xia smiled and said, "However, I have no proof without evidence. I would appreciate it if Teacher Li could provide some suggestions after watching the video."
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(I'm so sorry, the second chapter is a bit late.)
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