Tokyo life starting with painting.

Chapter 259 The Horseshoe Is Going to Trample Your Face (4000 words)
The next day, Saturday, was supposed to be a rest day, but because the promotional video had just been released, many people came to take the initiative to make up the shift—mainly to see the evaluation of the 3-minute film on the Internet.

Except for a few original artists who couldn't get away and had an appointment outside, basically everyone came.

This scene stunned Shan Shangqianxia who came early with her bag, she had never seen such a scene before.

It's not working hours, so many people come to work on their own initiative.
Shan Shang Qianxia was a little stunned, but quickly greeted these seniors one by one.

Just when she was about to walk to her workbench, someone stopped her actively: "Miss Shanshang, Director Yano went to get the projector, and said that everyone will watch the promotional video together later."

"I see."

No wonder everyone is sitting and chatting here, waiting for the projector.

Qian Xia on the mountain suddenly realized.

She also put down her bag and chatted with several original painters around her and the two former apprentices of original painters.

Qianxia Yamagami is considered to be a professional woman who is good at dealing with interpersonal relationships. Even if she alone received preferential treatment from Higashino Division in advance, she was able to coax the other two original artist apprentices to have no objection to this.

Soon Yano Ryuichi came out with a projector in his arms and connected the output port. After the image appeared on the white screen, he clicked on the Dongye studio page on the computer.

The logo of Dongye Studio is a simple black and white paintbrush. The LOGO of the paintbrush is hung on the empty and humble studio webpage. Scrolling down is the 3-minute promotional video posted yesterday and a small comment area below.

Other than that there is nothing else.

Yes.

This is crude to a point.

But no one cares.

No matter how glamorous the webpage is, it is useless. The most important thing is grades. Without grades, everything is useless.

Everyone turned to the real-time click statistics.

Then--

There was a burst of cheers inside Dongye Studio. Although it was not as exciting as in TV and movies, the happy expression on everyone's face was visible—"The Winner Is Justice" directly won over a million hits.
You must know that this is just a promotional video. The promotional videos produced by several other animation production companies only have tens of thousands of clicks at most. This result really surprised them all.

Even Qianxia Yamagami's mood was driven by the atmosphere of the group, she became happy without realizing it, and started discussing with a few people around her.

And Higashinoji, who was watching the result on the other side, nodded with satisfaction. The results of "The Winner Is Justice" are not particularly ugly after all.

As for the unity and unity of his team, this also made Higashino Si think about it a little bit, and felt that this was actually normal.

What makes a team more solid?
This question can be answered without even thinking about it-it is a common difficulty encountered by the team.

And "Victor is Justice" plays such a difficult role.

A four-month construction period, a lot of problems, and a shortage of manpower. These months are extremely difficult for the entire Dongye studio.

Now that the haze has finally been cleared, the members of the studio will of course be very happy.

Even Yano Ryuichi next to Higashino Division expressed emotion. He has been a well-deserved contributor to Higashino Studio in the past few months. Little, but only at this moment, he felt that the loss of his hair was worthwhile.

The members of the studio kept making noise like this for quite a while, then Yano Ryuichi turned to look at Higashinoji beside him, and after noticing that his expression hadn't changed much, he asked curiously: "Teacher Higashino, what's the matter? Don't you Are you too satisfied with this result?"

Hearing Yano Ryuichi's words, the Higashino studio fell silent for some reason, and the members in it, including Yamagami Chinaka, all looked at Higashinoji.

After getting along for two months, many people have positively understood the power of Mr. Dongye who likes to smile with squinted eyes, especially when he squints and the corners of his eyes are bent. Someone will always suffer and be scolded.

The key point is that he is not insulting directly, but talking in a roundabout way, which makes you feel guilty instead, sorry.
In addition, Higashino Division already has the ability, and the work intensity is no less than theirs, which makes them unable to refute sometimes.

If you are capable, you will swear at people, and if you don’t take credit, you will also work with them. Similarly, you will not treat them badly, and you are willing to pay overtime wages. Many Japanese companies or animation production companies do not pay overtime wages. Naturally, people are like Chinatsu Yamagami In that way, it became the form of respecting Higashinoji.

Higashino Division was thinking about something at first, when he heard Yano Ryuichi talking, and felt that everyone was looking at him, he subconsciously smiled, with the corners of his eyes curled up—this smile was very hearty, but it made a group of Higashino studio employees feel a little bit of a thud .

Oops!Mr. Higashino is going to eat people!

They took a step back, for fear that Dong Yesi would find them.

"The results achieved this time are very good. You have worked hard for the past few months. As a celebration, Mr. Yano will take you to dinner tonight, and the accounts will be recorded in the studio's finances." Higashino announced with a smile.

This made the studio members below breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time began to discuss with soft smiles again.

Seeing this scene, Higashino didn't say much. But to be honest, just a few clicks on the promotional video doesn't mean anything. Even if the viewers applaud at the bottom of the comment area, it's useless not to get good results by then.

So Higashino Tsukasa wasn't particularly excited. Even if he really wanted to be excited, it wouldn't be too late to wait until the sales of Blu-ray discs came out.

After calming them down, Higashino Division did not stand still, but called four supervisors, one of whom was Hosokawa Koharu who asked for help at the expense of favors.

Although they have achieved good results, they must not be complacent like ordinary painters and special effects artists in the studio. Instead, they need to hold a meeting to discuss and discuss.

This discussion is not complicated. It is mainly a discussion about where the high hits of "The Winner Is Justice" come from.

Soon, Higashino and the others came to a conclusion.

First of all, "Winner Is Justice" is different from other animation production companies. They did not disclose the details of the animation at all, but Dongye Studio directly released the finished film, and the quality is amazing, so it attracted many people. There were few discussions from the audience, and they expressed their appreciation for Dongye Studio's undisguised behavior of directly producing the film.

After all, it is a mule or a horse, and you can only tell if you pull it out for a walk.

And the second point may be that Dongyesi deliberately asked them to add the small share and copy link button under the video before the promotional video was launched. They made a copy button by the way.

The result was unexpectedly amazing.

"Winner Is Justice" has many people sharing links outside, and the fact that Dongye Studio directly released a 3-minute film has also spread outside.

Dong Yesi didn't expect that the effect of sharing casually would be so good, which can be regarded as an unintentional insertion.

Although Yano Ryuichi and the others were happy, they were not overwhelmed by this moment of joy. After figuring out the reason, they began to prepare the next publicity plan.

The "Winner is Justice" promotional video is just a means of publicity.

In addition, there are methods such as posting posters. However, in Japan in 2004, animation promotion was at most on the tram or subway. In this era, Akihabara, known as the holy land of manga and animation, is just a relatively ordinary road. It’s just the Electric Town, but recently Akihabara seems to have introduced some things related to manga and animation. Maybe it will become a holy place like the manga tour in the previous life.

But no matter what, Dongye Studio won the first battle, and the next step is to see how the competitors in the same period will accept the move.

Higashino Studio was rejoicing, while on the other side, MIC Animation Production Company, whose headquarter was also rooted in Tokyo, was beaten dizzy by the combination of Higashino Studio, who had been silent for a long time.

MIC is also the company that produced the October animation this time. Their production of "Takagi-kun next door" received a lot of production funds, and they are a strong contender for this October hegemony animation.

In other words, they are also an animation production company that wants to compete with Higashino Studio.

At this time, a group of members of the animation production team of MIC Animation Production Company were sitting next to the projector, looking up at the 3-minute production of the promotional video released by Dongye Studio.

Dai Machiko's lifelike portrayal, Gu Meimen Kensuke's indifference to the truth and justice, Ping Cang's eyes like a murderer
This made them feel goosebumps all over their bodies.

"The quality of this film is really excellent."

In the production team, someone whispered something.

There's no way. Although Dongye Studio is about to fight with them, they can't just say 'no, just no' out of conscience, and then turn off the video as if they were running away, right?

"Is there such a scene in our new work "Takagi-kun next door"?"

Looking at the detailed painting that frame after frame of screenshots can be used as the background of the computer desktop, an original artist whispered a question to the colleagues around him.

The original artist who was questioned didn't speak, but he was a little speechless and said: "No. It might be too much to say that Dongye Studio is too much, right?"

Yes, Higashino Studio, this is too much.

Even the brilliance and dynamism of the heroine Dai Machiko's face in the setting sun is not made by the special effects artist or the rough coloring in the later stage, but it really feels like there are floating shadows
They could tell at a glance that the effect was hand-painted by Dongye Studio. Because the computer special effects in 2004 were very rigid, it was impossible to really create that floating feeling of light.

This is simply a malicious show off!

Indeed too much!

But at most they are just talking here. Dongye Studio is willing to make such painstaking efforts to produce such a delicate picture, and they are unlikely to criticize each other no matter what.

After all, the industry is so big, and the bad things they say now may spread to Dongye Studio and the others.

It's easy to make enemies, so you can't just talk about it casually.

and most importantly
Didn't you say that there are few people in Dongye Studio?How did you come up with such a great work?

Didn’t all the original drafts of PW Animation Production Company be burned in a fire?What is the situation?How can you come up with such an outstanding work in such a predicament?
It's no wonder that Dongye Studio dared to release the feature film directly. After all, the 3-minute feature film can already explain many things.

In the same way, no one said naive words like "Did Dongye Studio specially select the most well-produced 3 minutes to make this promotional film?"

After all, this kind of 'nuclear bomb' is produced by most animation production companies at the bottom of the box. Dongye Studio has the confidence to directly produce this kind of 'nuclear bomb'. The 'nuke' of this snippet.

With Kensuke Gumeimen's cold and mocking tone, the animation supervisor who was in charge of the production of "The Next Door Takagi-kun" turned off the promotional video of "The Winner Is Justice": "Okay, I specially called everyone to come over and show this video. This promotional video doesn't mean to offend you, it's just to let you know how strong our opponent is this time."

He cheered up: "Although the production of Higashino Studio is very good, it does not mean that our "Takagi-kun next door" will lose. After all, we have two months longer production period than them, and this is an advantage that cannot be ignored! Even if these 3 minutes are excellent, so what? At that time, it will still be tested by the audience, so please don’t worry and burden unnecessarily.”

The animation director of "Takagi-kun next door" made many people nod.

It does make sense.

I have two months more production time than Dongye Studio, which is their advantage.

There is no need to be afraid or fearful because of a mere 3-minute film.

Whether it's a mule or a horse, we won't know until we have fought each other.

They regained their spirits and began to discuss in low tones.

Only the animation supervisor who spoke just now exhaled lightly, with a somewhat melancholy look on his face, even though that was what he said just now
But that's just plain talk.

The 3-minute film directly thrown out by Dongye Studio is indeed like a nuclear bomb, which poses a great threat to them and has to be guarded against.

"At first I thought that Mr. Higashino was going to stumble on his work this time, but I didn't expect it." The supervisor of "The Takagi-kun next door" let out a sigh of relief. He didn't expect that when he was fighting for the hegemony of the animation in October, he would suddenly appear. Such a dark horse.

And it's still the kind that a horse's hoof will trample your face to pieces.

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