Chapter 279 Shen'en Animation Contest!

Dark Duel is on fire!

At the beginning, when discussions about Dark Duel circulated in the community and on the Internet, most netizens had a feeling that "dead memories suddenly attacked me."

Dark Duel? Isn't that the setting of the classic "Yu-Gi-Oh! DM"? Hey, I know this!

The so-called dark duel is...wait a minute! You said this dark duel is not that dark duel, it has nothing to do with Yu-Gi-Oh, and it has nothing to do with Pharaoh? Then what does your dark duel mean? It's just a fight with "Star Emperor 2", how can it be related to darkness? After understanding it, netizens opened their eyes wide and said that your duel is indeed dark.

In the world view of Yu-Gi-Oh, the person who loses the Dark Duel will have his soul devoured, which is equivalent to a battle for life. For this reason, this kind of duel is called the Dark Duel.

The dark duel in "Star Emperor 2" obviously did not reach the height of "betting souls and lives", but...

Think about it from another angle. Although I won't lose my life, and my soul won't be locked up in a dark room, the price of burning my motherboard, destroying my graphics card, and blowing up my host is also unforgivable!

"Please! If it's just a heavy price to pay, can it still be called a dark duel? The real meaning of a dark duel is that once a duel is initiated, it cannot be refused!"

"Sad! I didn't expect that playing a game would make me so nervous, afraid that the bad guys in the dark would target me and start a dark duel..."

"It's so funny! You're so scared because you're not strong enough. If you use the ROG full set like me, do you still need to be afraid of the Dark Duel?"

"That makes sense, but forget about the Prodigal Country. The cost-effectiveness is too low..."

"But what does this have to do with me? Even without the Dark Duel, can I fight my way to becoming an immortal?"

"Young man, I observed the celestial phenomena at night and found that you have the potential to become an Immortal Emperor. Why don't you become my disciple? You will surely shine for eternity in the future!"

"Oh! Senior is from..."

"I come from the Jubao Holy Land, and I am the Demon Eagle Great Saint, one of the protectors of the Great Eagle Saint!"

“How dare the mere Demon Eagle Great Sage mislead our disciples? Your Saint Son’s face has been swollen after being beaten by the Shrinking Saint Super Dragon. You’d better join my Seven-Colored Holy Land. My Saint Son has a rare Fire God Body in ancient and modern times…”

This was a good popular science post, but somewhere along the way it became a stage for a brawl among fans of various manufacturers.

This made Chen Ba's mouth twitch in front of the screen.

He turned his head to look at Yang Dong and couldn't help but complain: "When did the community become like this?"

"If you mean their style of chatting, then it's been a while."

Yang Dong thought about it, and then explained: "It was probably when the Tianba community was revamped and the "Star Emperor" discussion section was renamed "Digital Technology" that these people became like this."

As we all know, the story of "Star Emperor" takes place on Tianshu Star.

Tianshu Star is a dazzling ancient star for cultivation in the starry sky. Because it has produced many great emperors and supreme beings, there are many holy places and immortal gates, and the spirit of cultivation is prevalent.

Since there are so many sects and holy places on Tianshu Star, players will naturally choose one of them to join and cheer for the proud son of their own camp.

Among them, the sons of the holy land, such as the Raptor, Super Dragon, Eagle, and Vulcan, are of noble birth and outstanding qualifications. Naturally, they are the most dazzling stars in this golden age. It is reasonable that some players cheer for them.

"Of course, the prosperity of a sect cannot be determined solely by the strength of the Saint Son. The Saint Daughter is also the focus of attention of the majority of cultivators."

"Take the Shrinking Holy Land as an example. Their Saint Demon Dragon is very popular, even more popular than the Saint Son Super Dragon. Her goddess-like deity is admired by many monks."

Chen Ba: “…”

Good, good! You can still play like this, right? A few broken graphics cards, so many tricks, and the Holy Son and Holy Daughter are here. And who came up with the names of the Shrinking Holy Land and the Refusing to Protect Holy Land? According to the background setting, the so-called Holy Land-level Immortal Daoism must have at least one or two Great Emperors and Supremes to be worthy of such a big name, right?

So… in this system of memes, are there still so-called "The Emperor of Refusal to Protect" and "The Emperor of Shrinkage"? "Yes, yes!"

Yang Dong nodded and said, "You're right, there really are the so-called Emperor Refusal to Protect and Emperor Shrinkage. Moreover, these emperors have their own exclusive fan art. For example, the Emperor Shrinkage is a red dragon, and the Emperor Refusal to Protect is an eagle..."

Chen Ba was silent.

Although he had overestimated the extent of netizens' stupidity, he never expected that netizens would be so stupid.

Have all the fanarts been completed?

He searched the community and found that Yang Dong was not exaggerating. Fanart really existed. Not only fanart, but also fanfiction and fan-related peripherals...

This is not the most abstract thing! The most abstract thing is that these background settings that are meant to be played with memes are actually taken seriously by many newbies, who really believe that there are so-called "holy places for beating people" and "holy places for refusing to protect" in the game.

It can only be said that apart from the unreliable names of the various holy places, the settings of those holy sons and holy daughters made by the players seem too realistic.

For example, the Holy Son of the Seven-Colored Holy Land, the Fire God, got his name because of his unique "Fire God Body". He is comparable to the Raptors, Super Dragons and other geniuses. Many senior masters praised him for his potential to be a great emperor...

Look at this, how impressive is it? If a newbie who has never been involved in the digital world and doesn’t know what these terms mean, they might actually believe it and think that this is the background setting of the game.

If you don't believe it just by the verbal description, then we will use fan art and fan fiction to slowly convince you that this is true and that these characters really exist in the game "Star Emperor".

“Too abstract!”

Chen Ba shook his head and could only attribute it to the popularity of the GAL League, which led to such chaos in the community.

"There is indeed a reason for this. Every team in the GAL League has a large number of fans. It is not surprising that they would quarrel."

Yang Dong said this, as if he had thought of something, and suddenly said: "By the way, speaking of the GAL League, I suddenly remembered something..."

It has been more than three years since the release of the game "Shennonglu".

During this period, Shen'en Animation developed rapidly and became a rising star in the animation market in the past two years, occupying a large market share and leveraging a huge market scale of tens of billions.

Shen'en animators have also emerged one after another like mushrooms after rain, and batch after batch of high-quality Shen'en animations have also been meeting the audience one after another.

Based on this premise, the Shen'en Animation Association, which is the industry association of which Chen Ba is nominally the president, widely invited Shen'en animation producers from home and abroad to jointly organize the so-called "First Shen'en Animation Production Competition."

"I know this..."

Although Chen Ba does not take charge of matters, he is still the nominal president of the Shen'en Animation Association, and the secretary-general has already sent the proposal to his email.

This matter was promoted and organized only after his signature and approval.

"Then you also know that the organizing committee of the competition invited our company to send someone to serve as a judge?"

"Judges?"

Chen Ba was stunned when he heard this, because he was not aware of this matter. After all, he was only responsible for signing, and the specific execution was done by the vice president, secretary general and others.

But he changed his mind and realized that it was almost inevitable that representatives from Tianba Studio would be invited to serve as judges for this competition.

This is the Shen'en Animation Competition, not some other competition! Since it is the Shen'en Animation Competition, it would be reasonable to invite a representative from Tianba Studio to serve as a judge. Otherwise, without the participation of Tianba Studio, the fairness and authority of the competition would be questionable.

To put it bluntly...

This is just like inviting Liu Cixin to be a judge for the "Three-Body" Fan Creation Competition. If you don't invite Liu Cixin, what's the point of your competition? Without Liu Cixin, is it really authoritative? The same is true for the first Shen'en Animation Production Competition. The organizing committee must invite Tianba Studio. If Tianba Studio is not present, the other judges, no matter how big and professional they are, will seem to be of a low level.

"Just go if they invite you!"

"But... who should we send?"

Yang Dong was very troubled. Apart from Brother Ba, there was no more suitable candidate for Tianba Studio.

But as the president of the Shen'en Animation Association, Brother Ba is also the award presenter and organizer of this competition. He definitely cannot go, so he has to choose another candidate.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

"Zhong Shengwei is quite suitable."

Chen Ba gave his choice and said, "He helped perfect many details of "Divine Grace Continent" in the beginning, so there is no problem in sending him to be a judge."

“That’s true now!”

Yang Dong nodded when he heard this. Excluding Brother Ba, Zhong Shengwei was the only one in the entire studio who was most suitable to be a judge.

There is no other way! After all, he is one of the few core production staff in the entire studio who knows the game "Shennong Continent" besides Brother Ba? Speaking of the Shennong Animation Competition, the organizer's request to Tianba Studio is not just as simple as assigning a judge, but also about the issue of prize sponsorship.

“Sponsorship is available!”

Chen Ba explained: "Although this competition has little to do with us, the Shen'en Animation Association has a close relationship with us, and most importantly, it will also be beneficial to us if we can hold this competition well."

The benefits are not small!

Little-known fact: to date, the bulk of Tianba Studio's revenue has never changed, and the tolls collected from "Shennong Continent" have always firmly occupied the top spot.

For every commercial Shen'en animation work, Tianba Studio will collect a certain percentage of the revenue.

At first glance, this doesn’t seem like much money!

But the value of this thing is similar to that of Apple's app store. If you look at one or two softwares alone, it is indeed not worth mentioning. But if the platform has tens of thousands of softwares, the accumulation of small amounts will not be a simple number.

The same is true for "Divine Grace Continent" produced by Tianba Studio.

The revenue share of a single Shennong animation is indeed not much, unless it is a big hit, otherwise the money you get is just for fun.

However, there are so many Shen’en animations! And regardless of the number, the output is also amazing! According to statistics from authoritative organizations, thousands of Shen’en animations are produced every day on average, which means hundreds of thousands of works a year...

With such a huge base, even if Chen Ba could only get one dollar for each work, it would be enough for him to buy a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment in a more remote third- or fourth-tier city.

Not to mention, the actual amount of money received was far more than just one or two dollars...

Little-known fact! The biggest advantage of Shen’en Animation compared to traditional animation is that it is “low-cost”. How low is it? It is so low that as long as your animation can be broadcast on a platform, it is difficult to make a loss.

The costs are shockingly low, so loss-making works are naturally few and far between, and Tianba Studio sets the "toll" standard very low, so naturally they make a lot of money.

But having said that.

After operating for so long, and even establishing the so-called Divine Grace Animation Association, Chen Ba finally understood everything.

Relying on ordinary Shen'en Animation revenue share can only provide a guaranteed minimum wage. If you want to really make big money, or get higher returns in this regard, you still have to rely on those popular works.

"Indeed!"

Yang Dong agreed very much: "One hundred mediocre Shen'en animations, in terms of value alone, are not as good as one popular Shen'en animation."

We have long passed that stage! In the beginning, when Shen’en animation was just born, the audience was happy to watch anything as long as it was Shen’en animation. After all, at that time, they were not picky about quality, and fast updates were king.

But that’s not the way it works now.

The current animation market is very competitive. Cartoons with slightly lower quality that could have been broadcast on satellite TV five or six years ago are now being rejected by online platforms in the past two years, as they think your works are too rubbish and will only pollute their copyright library.

The cause of the internal circulation is naturally the rise and popularity of Shen’en animation.

Shen'en Animation is simply a disaster for the animation industry. If you can't beat it, then join it, or work hard to polish out better works and defeat the "large quantity and full supply" Shen'en Animation with absolute quality.

Obviously, the traditional animation industry is under too much pressure and has to concentrate on polishing the quality of its works. It is becoming increasingly difficult for junk animations to survive.

Even traditional animations are seeking change, and Shen’en Animation is no exception.

The pursuit of higher quality, better plots, and better production is also the common pursuit of all Shen'en animation people. They are very ambitious, wanting to maintain the characteristics of large quantity and full supply, and also wanting to pursue the high quality of traditional animation.

This is just like writing an online novel that is as good as the Four Great Classics.

Does it sound unrealistic? Yes! But this does not stop us from working hard in this direction and creating more popular animations. With the development of the times, it is not impossible for Shen'en Animation to create classics like Tom and Jerry in the future.

This is also the main reason why Chen Ba supports the holding of the "Shen'en Animation Competition".

Shen'en Animation can't keep taking the low-quality route. There's no future for it. They have to try hard. Even if they don't want to reach the heights of Tom and Jerry, they should at least have their own Calabash Brothers and Black Cat Sheriff, right? In other words, classic masterpieces!

The current Shen'en animation is good in every aspect and has an almost overwhelming advantage over traditional animation, except when it comes to "classic masterpieces", everyone remains silent.

Or the foundation is too shallow, lacking a certain level of background and accumulation, and there are no outstanding producers and works to show off...

(End of this chapter)