Chapter 296 Chiba Love Story

Jiang Ning, Shen'en Animation Association.

Chen Ba drove to the association's headquarters early in the morning. After all, today was the important day of the Shen'en Animation Competition's gold and silver award list announcement and award ceremony, and he, as the "mascot" president, had to come.

A total of 30 Shen’en animations were shortlisted, including 20 audition works and 10 recommended works.

Chen Ba is also a member of the jury, but because he was too busy with work, he did not finish watching the 30 shortlisted works.

So he decisively abstained from voting. After all, he had not seen any of the films, so he had no right to comment on or rank them.

but……

When he told the reason for his abstention, the jury almost disbanded on the spot, because not all the other judges participating in this competition had watched all 30 works.

I am so embarrassed! Don't say they are unprofessional. In fact, this has nothing to do with professionalism. It is just that the time cost of "watching" a Shen'en animation is too high.

That’s right!

This is Shen’en Animation, not traditional animation! There are only 30 traditional animations shortlisted, and they were easily finished in half a year.

But for Shen’en animation, let alone 30 works, even if there are only 3 works, do you know how many episodes there are in total and how exaggerated the total length is? The volume of a Shen’en animation is equivalent to 10 traditional animations. The reality is so cruel.

There is no way! Shen'en Animation has always been known for its high production, and it does not require so many people, so the production threshold is relatively low, so the average number of episodes is very exaggerated.

This is a bit like the difference between traditionally published novels and online novels.

Traditionally published novels, even long ones, will not easily exceed 500,000 words. In fact, there are very few that exceed 300,000 words.

But online novels are at another extreme. 300,000 words? I just got through the difficult public period and started writing VIP chapters. You tell me it’s time to finish it? Finished! It’s impossible to finish it without writing 2 million or 3 million words. If this book is very popular and profitable, I can even write 10 million words.

Traditionally published novels are compared to traditional animation, while online novels are the current state of Shen’en animation.

Because of this, when Brother Ba said that "I can't make an accurate comment without watching the whole show", many judges were embarrassed and chose to follow Brother Ba and abstain.

“Don’t!”

Seeing that so many people followed him in abstaining and the jury was about to disband, Chen Ba changed the rules.

No need to finish reading...

For a Shenen animation, the judges only need to watch part of it to participate in the voting. It is unrealistic to watch the entire work because many of the entries are too long and are still being "serialized".

In this way, the jury can finally work normally and Chen Ba does not have to abstain.

Although he has not watched all the 30 shortlisted works, he has watched some of them to a certain extent and has his own opinions on this.

After a week of discussion, debate and voting, the final list of one gold award, five silver awards and ten excellent awards was announced!

Let’s not talk about the Excellence Awards for now. As for the silver award works, two of the five silver award works are from abroad, and the remaining three are domestic animations.

This year's gold award was also won by a foreign animation producer named Shen'en.

Speaking of this, Chen Ba felt helpless.

After all, domestic animation still has obvious shortcomings, especially the domestic animation producers, who are simply incomparable in quality with others.

Even if he wanted to do something shady and help a certain excellent domestic work to get votes, he had no chance. Because the gap was too obvious, the script, story, creative ideas, and completeness of the dubbing and music of the gold award-winning work were far better than those of the silver award-winning work.

How shady is this?

Anyone with eyes can see the difference in quality. Unless Chen Ba has lost all his dignity, he would suppress this gold medal work and support another silver medal work that is "unworthy of its position" to take the top spot.

Obviously, this is impossible!

Chen Ba would not do such a thing. The prerequisite for him to engage in shady dealings must be that there is not too obvious a gap between the two works, and they must be "on par with each other".

If you are not as good as others in terms of hard power, then there is really no need to engage in shady dealings. Just go home with a silver medal!

"…The winner of this year's Shen'en Animation Contest is…"Chiba Love Story" by Daisuke Kosaka. Congratulations!"

What's the name?

When Chen Ba opened the envelope and announced the winner of the gold prize in the live broadcast, it was obvious that many people put question marks in the barrage, expressing their doubts and confusion.

Of course, this is normal.

After all, this animation was not broadcast on domestic platforms, so many people have never heard of it, let alone watched it.

But there is no problem with this gold award.

The author of this animation is obviously a loyal fan of Makoto Shinkai, and took this as an opportunity to create the divine animation "Chiba Love Story".

In the animation, you can see many shadows of Makoto Shinkai's works and tribute clips and lines.

But this does not mean that "Chiba Love Story" is simply imitating or borrowing from Makoto Shinkai's works.

Quite the opposite!

"Chiba Love Story" is just a tribute. The core is still to use animation as a medium to depict the immature and fruitless love stories of young boys and girls.

Yes, this is a tragedy.

Chen Ba didn't finish reading it, mainly because he felt too uncomfortable halfway through, so he was a little afraid to continue reading.

But judging from the parts he has seen, Mr. Kosaka from Chiba is indeed talented and deserves the gold medal.

After all, the jury did not find too many faults in terms of picture composition, character creation, storyline, dubbing and music, and received extremely high scores.

It would be strange if this didn't win an award!

Although Chen Ba was a little unhappy that the gold prize was won by a Japanese, he soon got over it.

The animation industry in Japan is really great, and this is only the first session, why rush? He just doesn't believe it. Does the gold medal work of the Shen'en Animation Competition come from abroad every year? Impossible, as long as you wait patiently, sooner or later a domestic work will win the gold medal.

The gold prize is 5 million yuan in prize money!

The bonus was paid out in the form of a check. The etiquette lady walked up to Chen Ba with a large "check board". Chen Ba took a look at it and was speechless.

When he was a kid, he was very curious about why the checks given at various award ceremonies or reward conferences were so big that no one could lift it. It felt fake!

Later he understood.

This "oversized" check used for award ceremonies is just a "prop" for the winners and award presenters to take photos together.

That’s right, it’s just a prop. It’s made so big so that the audience can see the “amount” on it clearly.

The real check is actually the one that the finance department will contact the winner individually after the event is over, instructing him on tax and cashing matters before distributing it.

hateful!

When he was a child, he thought that the real check was the "oversized" cardboard held by the leaders.

At that time, when I was watching a TV drama, the mother of the rich male protagonist handed a check to the female protagonist and shouted "I'll give you five million, leave my son", Chen Ba was still complaining about the director's carelessness, why was the check so small? There was no momentum at all...

He took out a real check for five million and knocked the heroine unconscious (physics). That's what a real rich man is!

Just as Chen Ba was thinking about it, the winner, Mr. Kosaka, finally came on stage to receive the award.

But why is it a woman who came? "Sorry, my brother couldn't come to the scene because of something urgent, so he had to entrust me to accept the award on his behalf, Red Bean Mud Private Marseille..."

All right, my sister is pretty! After presenting the awards, they took a group photo holding up the oversized check, and Chen Ba's mission was considered complete.

He is only responsible for awarding the gold medal works. As for the remaining silver medals and excellent prizes, they are not his responsibility.

There are more important things waiting for him!

Domestic first-, second- and third-tier game companies such as Tencent, NetEase, Xiaomi and Perfect World jointly formed a plan and invited him to join in the conspiracy.

"Hongmen Banquet?"

"That's not the case..."

Chen Ba felt that although the banquet was not a good one, it was not as bad as the Hongmen Banquet. It was just that these friendly merchants had something to say to him.

The banquet will be held in Jiangning.

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

After Chen Ba left the headquarters of the Shen'en Animation Association, he brought Huang Qing to the agreed location, an old private restaurant that had been open for nearly thirty years.

Really, the more important the business banquet is, the more people prefer private restaurants, and the more they go to small alleys.

Chen Ba also had no idea who would come to consume at this private restaurant located in a remote corner, apart from business banquets.

The location is remote, the food is expensive, and most of them require so-called "reservations"...

Who would eat here anyway?

"Maybe they only accept business banquets and not individual guests?"

Huang Qing smiled and said, "Okay, we don't have to pay for the meal anyway, why do you think so much?"

“That’s true…”

Chen Ba thought it made sense. It didn't matter if someone else treated him, as long as the food was delicious. If he treated himself, he probably wouldn't come to such a place.

After arriving at the agreed box, Chen Ba realized that there were quite a lot of people attending the dinner.

Almost all the well-known domestic game companies sent representatives, with two full tables of people, led by the heads of the game departments of the two major companies, Pig and Goose.

"Just say it if you have anything to say. I'm busy."

Chen Ba was too lazy to exchange pleasantries with them, and asked immediately, "You all gathered in Jiangning, aren't you here to cause trouble for me?"

"Nothing..."

The person in charge of Tencent smiled, waved his hand and said, "I just happened to pass by Jiangning and wanted to visit Mr. Chen."

Do you think I believe it?

Chen Ba rolled his eyes and said frankly, "Tell me, what do you want from me? For the sake of today's meal, I will help if I can, but there is nothing I can do if I can't."

"It's like this..."

The person who spoke at this moment was the head of the overseas department of the pig factory. He introduced the origin of this dinner to Chen Ba.

Two years ago, Tianba Studio established its own game platform, Nobug.

Originally, this thing was just a product for self-entertainment, and it was not worth everyone's attention. After all, who doesn't have their own gaming platform these days? What's more...

What is the situation with the Nobug platform? The "Star Emperor" launcher, "Cultivation Fantasy" launcher, "God's Grace Continent" launcher, and "Speed ​​Racer" launcher that netizens have ridiculed, are they just for nothing? To put it bluntly, the Nobug platform is not much different from Penguin's Wegame.

Wegame is jokingly called LOL Launcher, Genting Launcher and CF Launcher, which is in a similar situation to the Nobug platform.

Therefore, no one took this platform seriously at the beginning, until a foreign gaming media recently disclosed that the market share and total number of active players of the Nobug platform had surpassed Esbao, Rotten Orange and Uplay, and everyone suddenly woke up.

No, what's going on? Ba Chong... No, isn't this platform just a big Wegame? How did it catch up with the UK and the US and become the second largest PC gaming platform in the world? Strange!

Out of curiosity, everyone quickly found the original text of this overseas report and studied it word by word.

This study surprised them even more.

Because data shows that the Nobug gaming platform has hundreds of millions of users overseas, with tens of millions of active online players.

Again…

The Nobug platform is jokingly called the launcher of XXX games. There is nothing wrong with this statement itself, because it is the fact. Many people play games under Tianba Studio through this platform.

However, many people, including domestic competitors, subconsciously ignore one fact.

Those are the games produced by Tianba Studio, which are not only popular in China but also abroad, especially games like "Need for Speed" and "Divine Grace". The number of overseas players is no less than that of domestic players.

What happened to the XXX launcher? When your game is popular enough and has a certain influence, even if it is a launcher, this platform will have great value.

This is the same as Wegame.

Although it is jokingly called the LOL launcher, the platform cannot resist the fact that the fixed traffic generated by games such as LOL and CF is too high.

With this traffic, with a little guidance, we can attract players' attention to other games. This is the strategy that Wegame has been implementing, constantly recommending other games to players.

In comparison, the Nobug platform may not be able to compete with Wegame in China, after all, Tencent’s social base is too strong.

But overseas, it is the second largest PC gaming platform, second only to the Steam platform.

Ah, yes, yes, yes…

You can say that Nobug is not even worthy of being a supporter of the Steam platform. After all, the players on the Steam platform have huge consumption potential, while the players on the Nobug platform only play games under Tianba.

But no matter what, there are so many active players on the Nobug platform!

This news is really exciting for a number of domestic game companies eager to go overseas.

If their games can be launched on the Nobug platform and faced by tens of millions of overseas players, and Brother Ba gives a little bit of resources to strongly recommend them, wouldn’t that be... wow, it’s wonderful just to think about it!

"Stop, stop, stop, stop now!"

Seeing that everyone was drooling, Chen Ba couldn't help but complain, "What on earth made you think that all Nobug players would buy the game?"

Please!

On the Nobug platform, Chen Ba can't even sell his own games. Players only use this platform as a launcher, what can he do? "Forza" players only play "Forza", and even if the platform recommends "Star Emperor 2" or other games to them every day, they are not very interested. This is the most embarrassing part of the Nobug platform.

The promotion of their own games is not very good, but they are promoting other people's games. Are you crazy? What I mean is, is it possible that Nobug, the second largest PC game platform in the world, is actually a piece of shit?

Let alone Steam, even if it is Ebao, I feel that the spending potential and desire of players are much stronger than those stingy people on Nobug platform! (End of this chapter)