Chapter 660: Ambitious Qingyao: Stock up on food and slowly become king
"This time, we're going big. Transformers is just the appetizer. AI rendering technology will not only reduce our production costs, but also greatly increase our production speed. So this time, we're launching multiple projects simultaneously. We'll accumulate resources and slowly become king. We won't release them yet. Once we have accumulated a certain number of episodes, we'll release them all at once. I don't believe they won't like such a beautiful, large-scale, and satisfying animation..."
Su Yang's words made everyone laugh.
Who wouldn't like a good-looking and filling animation if they were an animation fan? As long as the quality is guaranteed, for animation fans, the faster the update, the better.
Anime fans, in fact, feel the pain. Many long-running anime have slow updates. Often, two episodes a week is considered fast. Many serialized anime might only get one episode a week, or even less. Because animation production cycles are so long, some series can stretch over ten or twenty years.
Even more exaggerated, it may happen in my lifetime.
If the production speed can be accelerated, it will be beneficial for both the audience and the company.
"How fast can traditional 2D animation be produced if it is done with full effort?"
Su Yang asked directly. Although 3D animation technology is very advanced, it does not mean that traditional 2D animation has no market. On the contrary, traditional 2D animation has a very strong market share, especially Japanese works.
Japan's animation industry is a pillar industry. They can produce top-notch 3D animations, but their famous animations are all traditional 2D animations.
"If the preliminary work is done and the script and other things are set, with our technology, we can produce one episode a day or even two episodes a day..."
The person in charge said seriously, "Only those who have used AI rendering technology know how powerful it is." This technology is particularly capable of self-learning. Every manual modification is recorded. Then, through self-analysis and learning, it automatically modifies to a similar style the next time a similar situation occurs.
This technology is a great tool for feature-length animations, as the more data in the database, the easier it is to create.
For example, in the past, when creating an animated character's special moves, it was necessary to carefully draw them. But now, all you have to do is input the data for these moves into the database and mark them with a simple symbol. Then, when creating the animation, the system detects this symbol and automatically completes it.
It's like a 50-cent special effect where you hold a frosted note in your hand while filming. After the video is shot, the AI automatically replaces the note with a real frosted effect during post-production.
So this technology is really cool. With this technology, for traditional 2D animation, sometimes it is really no problem to produce two episodes a day.
"Okay, very good. While ensuring quality, try to speed up the process. This time I'm going to combine Disney and Japanese anime."
Su Yang's words made everyone in the conference room burst into laughter. This was a vivid and domineering statement.
It's like mixing Disney and Japanese anime together. Regardless of whether it will succeed, this goal alone is impressive. If someone else said this, everyone would think it was just bragging. But when Su Yang said it, it had a different flavor. Because Su Yang had created so many miracles.
"Boss Su, we're fighting on two fronts. Isn't that too much pressure?"
The head of the animation company couldn't help but say, "Competing with Disney and Japanese anime is incredibly stressful once a war breaks out. Both are giants, Disney is powerful, and Japanese anime is even stronger." Because animation is a pillar industry in Japan, Japan attaches great importance to it.
The cultural industry is extremely important to Japan. It employs a vast number of people and creates incredible value.
Strictly speaking, even the Japanese works on the hard drives of otakus are part of Japan's cultural industry, creating a large number of jobs and making a lot of money for Japan every year.
Therefore, competition in the cultural industry is more intense and sometimes even more cruel.
It is no exaggeration to say that if Qingyao Group really destroys Japan's cultural industry, Japan will lose half its life.
"We're not going to fight them head-on. Our strategy remains the same: integrate with them, use their culture, and defeat them. We'll build subsidiaries and use their people to make big money for us. For us, IP is the greatest value. Whoever controls the IP holds the initiative. Unless they turn the tables and stop playing, but do they dare to do that?"
Su Yang's words made everyone laugh. Do they dare to turn the table? They don't dare. After all, the rules have been established long ago. If they break the rules, the whole market will become a mess.
The loss of benefits is too great, and no one dares to take the risk. Unless Qingyao Group kills them all, they will not lose anything.
But Qingyao Group couldn't kill them either. In their territory, being able to snatch a piece of their meat was a very good achievement. Su Yang didn't have such big ambitions. He just wanted to get a piece of the cake, not take the whole cake away.
As long as there is food to eat, no one will turn the table over.
"Establish a Japanese branch. Buy a company directly and leave them some profit. We only want controlling stakes. Also, the works produced by our head office are only authorized to be broadcast by the subsidiary. The copyright still belongs to the subsidiary..."
The meeting continued, but everyone's eyes were full of fighting spirit.
A major operation, this is truly a major operation. A major operation in the animation industry. So many projects have been launched, and we must rely on our own advantages and accumulate enough resources to launch a full-scale attack.
It's conceivable that a large number of new works will be released by then. These new works are not only good-looking, but also updated at a relatively fast rate. With this strategy of large quantities and full satisfaction, it is definitely possible to bite off a lot of meat.
There are no technical barriers to the cultural industry. As long as you find the tricks and the routines, you'll be fine.
Compared to other high-tech industries, it's relatively easy for the cultural industry to break through. Of course, that's only if you're a company like Qingyao Group. If any other company tried to make money on their turf, they'd be utterly thrashed. Just look at how badly the domestic cultural industry was being beaten before Qingyao Group emerged.
Take the music industry for example, how many songs are covers of Japanese songs? To put it bluntly, in certain eras, a Japanese singer could make a group of Chinese singers famous. That's the gap! But now, there is a reversal.
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