October, Zhonghai.

The 8th China Animation and Game Exhibition has arrived as scheduled. Animation, comics, and game practitioners from all over the country have gathered together to promote their works to domestic and overseas markets.

Wanbao Group also participated in the exhibition.

Unlike the 7th Animation and Game Exhibition, although the previous one was held in Jiangchuan, Wanbao had a natural "home field" advantage, but Wanbao was too weak at that time.

The organizers did not invite Wanbao.

Director Wang felt that he could use this platform to introduce the animation "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" to overseas media practitioners, so Gu Miao rushed to participate in the exhibition.

But this time it’s different…

As the saying goes, thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, don’t bully Wanbaoqiong!

It has not been thirty years yet, but only one year has passed. Wanbao has gradually transformed from a start-up company into a major player in the industry, with many well-known masterpieces under its umbrella.

In this case, even if no one reminds Gu Miao and she forgets about it, the organizer will make a special call and warmly invite Wanbao to participate in the exhibition.

What?

You say this is differential treatment?

The organizer said, we just hate the poor and love the rich, we are just shameless, if you don’t accept it, just hold it in!

Not everyone can receive an invitation!

Being invited by the organizer to participate in the exhibition shows that the hard power of Wanbao Animation has reached the level of domestic first-tier manufacturers.

simply put……

In the past, when Wanbao was still very young, it was Wanbao's honor to participate in the exhibition. Now, it is the organizer's honor for Wanbao to participate in the exhibition.

Gu Miao didn't want to participate in the exhibition at first.

But the organizer was too enthusiastic and nice to talk about. He was too embarrassed to refuse, so he could only send a team of elite soldiers, led by Huang Kun, to participate in the exhibition.

He stopped going on his own.

The production of the animation "Happy Baby" is coming to an end, and he is very busy. How can he have time to go to Zhonghai to attend some animation exhibition?

It just so happened that Huang Kun had nothing to do recently, so I simply asked him to take the "Happy Baby" PV trailer and the draft plan of "Pokémon" to the exhibition.

Feiyang Animation also attended the exhibition.

Led by Mr. Bear himself, the team not only produced the yet-to-be-announced movie trailer of "Kuiba", but also prepared more than a thousand copies of "The Book of Quiba".

Looks good?

However, according to the news sent back to Gu Miao by Huang Kun, the trailer of "Kuiba" exhibited by Feiyang Animation did not have a very good publicity and promotion effect.

One thousand copies of "The Book of Kuiba" have not been sold out. Huang Kun visually estimated that only about half of them have been sold.

"The director's face turned dark."

After Huang Kun came back, he couldn't help but laugh: "Mr. Gu, you didn't go to the scene. You don't even know how deserted the exhibition area was at that time..."

Come to think of it!

Compared to being light, "The Book of Kuiba" is more of a "historical" work. The content is boring and boring. If you are not particularly interested, you will probably feel sleepy after reading two pages.

Do you still want to sell a book like this?

You are not fools, so instead of buying this kind of book, you might as well go to the Wanbao Comics exhibition area next door and buy two comics, or go to other exhibition areas to buy two light ones.

Gu Miao had already expected this.

Although "The Book of Quiba" was something he suggested, to be honest, he didn't even like reading it because it was too boring.

Selling half of it is amazing!

If it were him...

Gu Miao scratched his head and thought for a moment. If he were in this situation, he would probably choose "free books" for tourists.

Who doesn’t like free?

As long as they are free, these books should be given out soon. Those who receive the books, whether they like it or not, will have to open it and read it a few times when they get home, right?

OK!

Just watch it a few times and get a little understanding of the world view of "Kuiba". When the movie comes out, you have to take a look no matter what, right?

This creates a cycle!

It's a pity that Mr. Bear, or Director Hou of Feiyang Animation, doesn't have the courage and is reluctant to part with that small amount of money.

"Quiba" was met with a cold reception, which was expected.

But in this exhibition, another work that shined greatly shocked Gu Miao.

Do not misunderstand!

He was not surprised that someone had stolen the limelight from Wanbao Animation, nor was he surprised that this animation turned out to be a very rare "sports competition" theme.

What really surprised him was that this was a story about an "artificial intelligence robot" playing football under the command of its owner.

"Super Intelligent Football"?

Gu Miao thought of this name immediately and thought it was a change in the world line that led to the birth of this animation.

Later, after asking Huang Kun, I found out that the animated work that made a splash at this exhibition was not called Super Intelligent Football, but "AI Football".

To be honest, the difference between the two is quite big.

"AI Football" is an animation produced by a technology Internet company. In order to promote its own AI assistant, it spent huge sums of money to commission an animation company to produce it.

The plot and characters are also far from what Gu Miao had in "Super Intelligent Football".

The only thing they have in common is...

Probably the protagonists are all AI robots, the themes are football, and thanks to the massive investment from Internet giants, the animation is of high quality.

“This animation is awesome!”

Huang Kun marveled and said: "After looking at it on site, the completion quality should have reached the top level in the industry. I estimate that the average production cost per minute will not be less than 200,000."

This is scary!

200,000 per minute. If one episode is 20 minutes long, that’s 4 million! 40 episodes is 160 million. It’s a super big production in every sense.

All I can say is that, worthy of being an Internet giant, he is generous in his actions.

The production cost made Gu Miao next door cry. Even though Wanbao made so much money, he was really reluctant to let him make such an expensive animation.

"This is the first TV animation produced in China with 16:9 high-definition technology, which is of great significance..."

Huang Kun shook his head and said: "Almost everyone was shocked. The exhibition area was so popular! Many media reporters said that this is the most technically powerful domestic animation they have ever seen!"

"fart!"

Gu Miao looked disdainfully and said: "Expensive means good? What kind of bullshit conclusion is this! In the era of pure hand-drawing, the few animations produced by China Overseas Film Studio were the embodiment of technical strength!"

"I'm just a layman..."

Huang Kun said with a smile: "In the eyes of these laymen, "AI Football" spent so much money to produce such an exquisite and high-quality animated feature film, and its technology is indeed very good."

Of course, this is a layman's view.

In fact, as long as the money is enough, Wanbao can also produce an animation of the same quality, and even make it more exquisite and gorgeous than "AI Football".

But the problem is...

Where does the money come from? Wanbao is not an Internet giant, so how could it spend so much money on such "flashy" animations?

Therefore, these layman’s conclusions are outrageous.

In their eyes, other domestic animation companies are all bad guys, and only the company "AI Football" is the real god.

They are backed by wealthy investors and are not short of money. If other companies are self-reliant, can it be the same?
Chapter completed!