With more and more art directors at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, the speed of drawing also increased.
Weekly dramas are the obvious goal, and as long as we have enough staff, it shouldn't be a problem.
Of course, to ensure quality, at least a dozen episodes need to be prepared in advance. If the production team encounters a bottleneck and cannot update, they can only resort to various tricks to delay the release, such as flashback-style delays. Naruto is a prime example, where characters in the story suddenly fall into flashbacks, and the animation team replays previously shown scenes.
Or it could be like One Piece's drawn-out, protracted episodes, where a single shot is stretched out over time, with multiple close-ups lasting more than 3 seconds, and extra dialogue added to background characters. An episode could actually be shortened to under 13 minutes, but it's stretched to a whopping 24 minutes.
In his previous life, online literature flourished, and Zhao Ye couldn't resist his curiosity to read a few online novels. When online novels became popular, they were practically an ocean.
If you want water, it's a piece of cake.
This shows that weekly drama series are no problem for the Shanghai Animation Film Studio at all.
The first season of Pokémon is called the Johto League Saga. Zhao Ye explained the general direction of the series, which is that the protagonist leaves the starting village, grows step by step, participates in the Johto League competition, and finally wins the championship.
The first season is planned to have 275 episodes, so the content needs to be filled with a lot of rich storylines.
Directors Wan Laiming and Tang Cheng dedicate a significant amount of time each morning to discussing and creating scripts and stories with the screenwriters.
Fortunately, this type of animation follows a fairly formulaic pattern: leveling up, fighting monsters, then changing maps, continuing to level up, fight monsters, and then changing maps again...
Once a small section of the script is completed, you can start writing the main script, including dialogue, scene transitions, time divisions, and so on.
Zhao Ye would also discuss the plot with Wan Laiming and Tang Cheng every day, and at the same time, he had to supervise the drawing style, background drawing, and so on...
This version of Pokémon is not drastically different from the previous version, but there are slight differences. In terms of art style, the 1985 Chinese version of Pokémon has at least a faint characteristic of Chinese ink painting animation.
If the art style were to be exactly like Japanese animation, the Shanghai Animation Film Studio might not be able to pull it off. In that case, it would be a hodgepodge, neither fish nor fowl.
Besides, Chinese ink-wash animation is just as good. Even now, if you look at the 1961 animated film "Havoc in Heaven," you'll still find it enjoyable in 2024.
The Shanghai Animation Film Studio had to forge its own style and even encourage Japanese animation to learn from Chinese animation.
China has a long history and a brilliant culture; many things simply haven't been fully developed and promoted.
With strong support in this lifetime, the Shanghai Animation Film Studio is sure to rebuild its former glory.
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After lunch, Liu Yinyin strode into Zhao Ye's office with her long, sexy legs.
"Boss, this is a list of production equipment prepared by the purchasing department. It includes both domestic and foreign equipment, and we've compared them in terms of price, performance, and many other aspects. Please take a look!"
Zhao Ye took the document from Liu Yinyin and began to study it carefully.
The location for the Shanghai Wujiang factory has been basically finalized.
It's worth mentioning that Wujiang Factory has also added a toy factory. If the Pokémon anime becomes popular, the toys will also sell very well.
The Shanghai Wujiang factory mainly produces products such as game consoles, game cartridges, game controllers, and toys. The group's purchasing department quickly collected information on the production equipment of related products from both domestic and international sources for Zhao Ye to review and make a decision.
However, most of the domestic production equipment is of poor quality and inefficient, so Zhao Ye found it very difficult to choose domestic products.
After much deliberation, he ultimately prioritized his own interests and opted for foreign brands for some key production equipment. For example, most of the automated equipment, such as automatic chip mounters, reflow soldering machines, wave soldering machines, and automatic assembly lines, were purchased from Japan, since Japanese products were synonymous with high quality and low price in the 1980s and 90s.
American and European products will only be more expensive, and although their performance may be slightly better, it won't be by much.
Zhao Ye is keen to support domestic development, but now they also need to prove themselves.
After selecting the production equipment, Zhao Ye put the documents aside and asked his secretary, Liu Yinyin, to take them to the purchasing department later.
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Shanghai Pudong.
In 1985, there were only a few buildings in Lujiazui.
The municipal government currently has no plans to develop Pudong, but there is a ferry terminal in Lujiazui, which facilitates sea transport.
Zhao Ye successfully negotiated with the Shanghai municipal government and spent 80 million RMB to buy Lujiazui to build the Shanghai Wujiang factory, which covers an area of approximately 310,000 square meters.
Wujiang Company invested in the Japanese foreign exchange market, using only $50 million of its own capital, with the rest being loans.
$50 million is only 150 million RMB.
Wujiang Company's annual revenue is expected to exceed 4 billion RMB this year. As of the end of October, its revenue had reached 3.6 billion RMB, of which the revenue from typewriters alone exceeded 1.58 billion RMB, which is much better than that of its predecessor, Sitong Company.
After inventing the Chinese electronic typewriter in its previous life, Sitong Company quickly generated an annual revenue of 1 billion RMB in the second year. However, Sitong Company only grew wildly in China, and the internal power struggles within the company were very serious. But even so, it was still able to generate 1 billion RMB in revenue, which was entirely due to the Chinese typewriter.
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