Low Key Star - Chapter 323

  Chapter 323【323】Pig Bajie

Zhang Yang only started paying attention to domestic animated films from “The Return of the Great Sage”. Since then, “Big Fish and Begonia”, “The Curse of the Wind”, “The Origin of the White Snake”, “Nezha Devil Child Comes into the World”, “Jiang Ziya” and so on have a relatively deep impression, each with its own Surprises, but also shortcomings.

In terms of personal feelings, he himself loves “The Return of the Great Sage”, “The Origin of the White Snake” and “Nezha Devil Boy Comes into the World”. Compared with each other, each has its own advantages and disadvantages. He saw hope, and at the same time was shocked by the progress of domestic animation films when he didn’t know it.

  I love the painting style of White Snake the most, but just like the great sage, the plot is serious.

   “Nezha” created the box office myth of domestic animated films. Zhang Yang thinks it is very important because of the plot-finally it will tell a complete story well!

Of course, the so-called plot pulling hips is actually not the original intention of the main creative team in many cases, because the style of painting is too professional, investors will not interfere too much, and the plot… is something that individuals think they understand, and those who pay the money feel that they are better than others. Anyone understands.

   So all kinds of finger-pointing, the main creative team did not have enough voice, so they could only hide in the corner and cry silently, and then silently be scolded.

  Zhang Yang had already considered it before, and decided to shoot “The Return of the Great Sage” first, and the plot would naturally have to be changed.

  It is very difficult for him to create an original movie script, but it can still be done by making some changes.

   But this is not in a hurry right now. You have to meet with Wei Xiang first before you can decide on your next move. Moreover, animation films are expensive and risky. If you accidentally lose tens of millions or hundreds of millions, you have to be cautious.

In addition, he really has the ambition to build a mythical universe, and he must lay it out from the beginning. Otherwise, he will swear to build a gods universe like “Jiang Ziya” and “Nezha”, and the image and personality of the same character will be the same. The settings are very different in different works, but they are just slapping themselves in the face.

  Wei Xiang sent the address via WeChat, Zhang Yang then drove his claw Huang Feidian, and led Lin Yiran to drive there at a fast speed. In order not to waste such an expensive car, he buzzed and accelerated almost after passing the traffic light, thinking that his average speed along the way should be nearly 50 yards per hour, a new high.

Wei Xiang’s workplace is in a relatively old office building. Zhang Yang and Lin Yiran went to have a look around. It was time for a lunch break, and many people were coming and going, so they slipped away decisively, wandered around, and found a coffee shop nearby. The restaurant sat and rested for a while, and waited until the working hours passed.

   Before leaving, I bought coffee by the head, and Lin Yiran couldn’t carry it, so I had to order on the spot through the takeaway platform.

  The two of them followed the delivery guy back there. After getting off the car, they each wore big sunglasses. They were still recognized when they were waiting for the elevator. Fortunately, during working hours, they didn’t have to worry about causing too many people to surround them.

   Wei Xiang received the news, and went to the elevator to pick him up with a man who was about 30 years old, so as not to be caught by more people if he couldn’t find the door.

   After a few pleasantries, Wei Xiang introduced the colleague next to him, named Xu Yashan, who was considered an assistant director.

Along the corridor, he came to Wei Xiang’s office soon. There was a sign of “Rainbow Animation Studio” on the door. After entering, he saw that the office was spacious. A team of less than 20 people were all sitting in front of the computer. They have already received the news that Zhang Yang and Lin Yiran are here, and the coffee has already been delivered first. At this moment, few people are working seriously.

  Zhang Yang and Lin still greeted these people, looked curiously at the other equipment except the computer, and were quite curious, and then went to the small conference room with Wei Xiang and Xu Yashan to talk in detail.

  After sitting down, Wei Xiang briefly introduced the situation.

  This “Rainbow Animation Studio” has just been established for more than two years, and the boss is a rich second generation. According to my own opinion, the establishment of this work was purely “passionate”, and it was necessary to contribute part of the rise of Guoman.

Xu Yashan has been working in the animation industry since he graduated, and has been to many companies. Later, he got a notebook and wanted to make him a reality. He met the owner of this studio in a bar and was fooled. .

After I joined, I could only do some fragmentary outsourcing projects. Xu Yashan kept urging, but the boss, although passionate, couldn’t afford that much money. It was not until the beginning of last year that I finally found a company to cooperate with and started this project. .

  Rainbow Animation is responsible for the production, but most of the money is paid by the other party, so it is more effective to talk to others.

   This is a story that Xu Yashan has conceived since he was in college, but the other party doesn’t trust domestic directors, so Wei Xiang, who has overseas work experience, is hired to take charge directly, and Xu Yashan can only assist.

  Xu Yashan originally wanted to make a movie, but the other party felt that the movie was too risky, and the domestic animation movie is no different from making a fuss. He planned to turn this love story of the fox demon into a large-scale domestic animation series with 50 episodes

  —The country has subsidies, so even if the results are not satisfactory, at least they will not lose money.

   What Wei Xiang wanted to do was also a movie, but he was aware of the risks involved, and also liked the story about the white fox conceived by Xu Yashan, so he finalized the direction and started working.

   Various contradictions and compromises over the past year are mainly the compromises and adjustments made by the two-person production team under the guidance of the investor. After finally persisting until now, the work has gradually entered the right track.

As a result, there was an unexpected situation—animation policy subsidy adjustment, the investor did some calculations, and felt that the subsidy was too small, so he would lose money, so he responded quickly, and reached a consensus with the boss of Rainbow Animation: reduce investment, quickly cast!

   Wei Xiang and Xu Yashan didn’t want to turn their hard work into **** that was shoddy and subsidized, so they had to think of other ways out. In fact, there was only one way out, which was to find new capital injections to maintain normal production.

   “That’s probably how it goes.”

  When Wei Xiang was talking, Xu Yashan hung his head beside her. He raised his head after hearing her finish speaking. Many red eyes glanced at Zhang Yang, then quickly moved away to pay attention from the corner of his eye.

   Zhang Yang thought for a while and asked, “How much have you made?”

“thirty minutes.”

   “Can I take a look?”

“certainly!”

  Hearing what he said, both Wei Xiang and Xu Yashan showed joy. There was a computer in the meeting room, and a animation was played for Zhang Yang and Lin Yiran, and the picture was quite exquisite.

In the wild mountain forest, a snow-white little fox was running away, and someone was chasing after him, and then it turned into a human form. A beautiful girl with a pure face and a charming figure in a white gauze skirt fought with those people. The fighting scenes were not bad, especially the little fox. The fox demon always shows off her beautiful figure from time to time, which is pleasing to the eye.

  The little fox demon was wounded and escaped, dying, turned into the real body, and was rescued by a passing scholar… Thirty minutes ended.

  Conscientiously speaking, the production is very good, but the plot is too procrastinated. Zhang Yang didn’t speak immediately after watching it, but turned to the script and the storyboard to look at it, mainly focusing on the script.

The little fox demon is a member of the fox clan, and the snake clan was chasing her. The snake clan colluded with the national teacher, and the head of the fox clan also colluded with the national teacher. Title, but because the little fox demon liked him, he was targeted by the fox clan, and he was excluded and suppressed…

  After reading it hastily, Zhang Yang rubbed his temples and asked Xu Yashan, “You wrote this?”

  Xu Yashan hesitated for a while, then nodded, and said bitterly: “It was approved after more than 20 revisions.”

   “What was the story you originally wanted to shoot?”

   “A love story between a human and a fox, pure and plain…”

  Xu Yashan hesitated for a while, and then explained: “I liked a girl in college, but I was ugly and dared not confess… Later, I extended the difference in appearance to race…”

Lin still lowered his head, as if he wanted to laugh, but felt impolite, held back, and Zhang Yang twitched the corners of his mouth. He understood her hard work, coughed, and said to Wei Xiang: “Sister Xiang, to be honest, do you really think this is a good idea?” Is it necessary to continue this animation?”

  Xu Yashan suddenly raised his head, glanced at Zhang Yang, and then lowered his head again.

   Wei Xiang smiled and said: “If we don’t finish our hard work for more than a year, it will be in vain.”

   Zhang Yang said: “Are you finished? Isn’t it in vain?”

  Wei Xianghe remained silent and did not speak. Xu Yashan seemed to want to refute, but his lips moved. I don’t know if it was because he thought so, or because he was frightened by the pressure of money, so he didn’t make a sound.

   Zhang Yang hesitated for a moment, and said: “I’m an outsider, and I don’t have much say in many professional matters, but as an audience, it should be fine, right?”

   “What do you think is the greatest significance of animation, or the most important thing about whether an animation is good or bad? What is the standard for good or bad?”

   “It is definitely good to have a beautiful picture, but as long as the picture is beautiful, is it good?”

“Frankly speaking, I like the style of painting just now. The characters and pictures are very beautiful. It can be said that it is far beyond my expectations… But if this animation is played, I should say that the picture is very good. I am very happy. Like it, then don’t watch it.”

   “As a viewer, what I watch is animation, not wallpaper… Shouldn’t moving pictures be animation?”

  Xu Yashan finally couldn’t help it, and said with a bit of suppressed anger: “I also know that the plot is bad, but people think that such a plot is interesting… Otherwise, I will have no money. What can I do?”

Wei Xiang opened his mouth, as if he wanted to persuade him, but fell silent again. After Xu Yashan finished speaking, he said: “I’m sorry Zhang Yang, Yashan has been under a lot of pressure recently, and he doesn’t tell anyone, and he has accumulated too much negative emotion. It was his painstaking effort and dream, and he was more distressed than anyone else when it was changed into this.”

   “The original plot was not very good.”

   Zhang Yang secretly slandered, naturally he would not say it out, first smiled at Wei Xiang, indicating that he was not angry, and then looked at Xu Yashan.

Xu Yashan, who had been silent all the time and didn’t even dare to look at him even when praying, raised his head and looked at Zhang Yang with a bit of stubbornness and arrogance. A feeling of standing in the dirt.

   “Actually, there are other ways.”

  Zhang Yang smiled, “Change the project, change the company, I have money.”

   Wei Xiang was slightly startled, Xu Yashan was also stunned, staring at him with his eyes open, as if trying to make sure that he was playing tricks on him, seeing Zhang Yang always smiling gently, he sighed again: “The project is no longer mine.”

   “Then change it.”

   Both Xu Yashan and Wei Xiang were silent.

  Zhang Yang continued: “Even if you continue to stay here, you still don’t have the right to speak. If you shoot like this, no matter how much effort you spend, what can you shoot? What will the audience think when they see it?”

   Xu Yashan raised his head after a while and looked directly at Zhang Yang: “If you pay, do we have the right to speak?”

   “It can be discussed, whoever has reason to listen to.”

   Zhang Yang smiled brightly, “At least I won’t command indiscriminately, and I have a brain.”

   Both Wei Xiang and Lin Yiran couldn’t help showing a little smile on their faces, and the corners of Xu Yashan’s mouth moved, as if he wanted to laugh, but couldn’t.

Zhang Yang looked at him, then at Wei Xiang, and then exchanged glances with Lin Yiran. After making tacit eye contact, he got up one after another and said to Wei Xiang: “Sister Xiang, please think about it. If you still want to borrow money, I will immediately borrow money.” Pass it on to you.”

Although Wei Xiang is not willing to give up more than a year of hard work like this, she does not have such a big obsession like Xu Yashan. She just wants to make a good animation. Obviously, she is already a little moved by Zhang Yang’s proposal. However, he was still hesitating, and it was not good to change course at this time, so he nodded and prepared to send them away.

  Xu Yashan also stood up, staring at Zhang Yang with obviously bloodshot eyes and asked, “You don’t seem to have a sudden idea… Are you ready to do animation?”

  Zhang Yang held Lin Yiran’s hand, looked back at him, and said with a smile, “It’s been prepared a long time ago, but the company hasn’t registered yet. If you agree, I’ll send someone to do it right away.”

  Xu Yashan was stunned again, and then asked: “What do you want to shoot?”

   Zhang Yang said: “Let’s talk about it after you make a decision.”

  Xu Yashan seemed to want to say something, but he didn’t say it, so Zhang Yang smiled and left with Lin Yiran. Wei Xiang sent it out, and explained softly: “If he cares a little bit, it will cause chaos. You don’t want to be as knowledgeable as him.”

   Zhang Yang said with a smile: “Sister Xiang, don’t worry, I’ll wait for your good news.”

   Wei Xiang nodded with a smile, but did not answer directly, but did not mention the loan again.

   “You just met him for the first time, so you made up your mind?” Lin Yiran asked after returning to the car.

   “The animation is really good, and it can be seen that I love it. Give it a chance to try it.”

   Zhang Yang explained while starting the car, “Anyway, I’m in control of the direction, as long as there are no major mistakes.”

  Lin still nodded. Although she is the only member of the company’s board of directors, she rarely manages these matters, and more often plays the role of a proprietress. “Do you want to register another company?”

   “Let’s just put it under the name of the company, it will save trouble, and we don’t have to worry about the two of us getting into fights in the future.”

   “You are really thoughtful!”

  Lin still rolled his eyes, and asked again: “What’s that called?”

   “Think about it, I can’t think of it.”

“Um…”

  Lin was still thinking hard, thinking about something related to the two of them for a while, and wanting something more romantic for a while. She proposed several times, and was immediately rejected by herself.

  The name of the company has not yet been decided. In the evening, Zhang Yang first received a call from Wei Xiang, saying that she and Xu Yashan had decided to resign, and asked him if he was willing to accept if other people in the studio wanted to follow.

   There was a class the next day, and they agreed to meet in the evening. Lin still went with Zhang Yang. On the way, she mentioned the two and a half names that she had thought about—two complete and one half-finished.

  The two complete names are “Dream Weaver” and “Dream Factory”, and half of them are “Light” or “Xian”.

  Because of studying design, she attaches great importance to inspiration, and she is still quite annoyed when talking about it with Zhang Yang, and entangled in choosing which of the two complete names is better.

Zhang Yang was also struggling. In order not to be entangled, he felt that as the head of the family, he had to be more decisive, and said: “Forget it, don’t get entangled, and use “Yiyang”. Anyway, as long as the work is good, everyone likes Zhu Bajie. . “

Lin Yiran listened to him, suddenly his eyes lit up, the red light ahead, Zhang Yang stepped on the brakes and stopped, turned around and saw her eyes glowing, looking at him flickeringly, startled for a moment, then widened her eyes: “I’m confused!” Said!”

   “Zhu Bajie is so cute!”

Lin still had bright eyes, grabbed his arm, and jumped up from the seat excitedly, “It sounds cute, and I drew a picture of Zhu Bajie a while ago, haven’t you seen it? Also, we can also make an animation of Zhu Bajie… kill two birds with one stone!”

   “No! I object!”

“why?”

   “Hard to hear.”

   “Where is it ugly?”

   “Everywhere is ugly.”

   “Oh, it’s Zhu Bajie, Zhu Bajie sounds good, brother, brother Zhang Yang~~ Is this okay?”

   “Not good! Why don’t you call it Yiyi Animation Studio? One, two, three, one, homonymous to your name, and it means a pair of people for a lifetime.”

   “No, it sounds awful! Only Zhu Bajie is cute.”

   “It’s better to be called Drifting Monk.”

   “Drifling has a big beard and is not cute.”

   “Zhu Bajie is lazy and perverted, how cute is he?”

   “Aren’t you also lazy and perverted?”

   “Bullshit, when did I become lazy and perverted? I want real sex, but you can still be here… Uh, if it weren’t for being called Dream Weaver.”

   “No, I will be called Zhu Bajie.”

   “Pfft! Hahahaha…”

  (end of this chapter)