My Animation Era

 Chapter 1106 Martin is an infinite flow work?

 As time goes by, the animation "Martin's Morning" is coming to an end.

 52 episodes in total!

 Based on the broadcast schedule of two episodes a day, it will only take about a month. Excluding replays, one month is the standard life cycle of a domestic animation.

 There is no way, this is the biggest difference between daily animation and weekly animation.

If it is broadcast weekly, then these 52 episodes can be broadcast for a whole year, and the popularity can be maintained for a whole year, and it will not end in just one month.

For example, the Neon Division's "Inuyasha" and the North American division's "Superman" remake are still very popular right now...

 Some people may be curious.

  Why do current online animations, even if viewers open memberships, generally maintain an update schedule of "one episode per week" and cannot be broadcast daily like TV animations?

 The reason is that the popularity of daily broadcasts is too short-lasting.

 The same animation, if it is broadcast weekly, may still be discussed by people after a few months, and there will be no updates after paying attention to this animation.

 What about daily animation?

　　As soon as the premiere ended, the animation’s popularity plummeted, and it quickly faded out of the audience’s sight.

 The same goes for "Mornings with Martin".

 The last few episodes should be the last afterglow of this animation. By the time these episodes are finished, the attention will definitely not be as high as before.

 “Episode 50 is very interesting!”

"really…"

Gu Miao also watched "Martin's Morning" broadcast last night and knew which episode Lao Zhang was talking about.

This episode is really interesting, telling the story of Martin being turned into a puppet and unfortunately being discovered by the mischievous Romeo.

 In order to rescue the old toys that were thrown into the trash can, Martin worked with other toys and finally defeated Romeo's story...

 The original idea for this episode should have come from Pixar Studio’s “Toy Story” series.

But in this parallel world, there is no Pixar Studio, let alone the famous "Toy Story" series of animated films.

This has led to the fact that after the episode of Martin's Morning was aired, many people thought the setting of "toys coming to life" was cool, but they did not expect such a wonderful development.

 It’s actually interesting to say.

 The plot of the animation "Martin's Morning" has many prototypes for reference.

For example, the "007 Agent" series, "ET", "Harry Potter", "A Study in Scarlet", "Ancient Greek Mythology", "One Thousand and One Nights", "Superman" and "Gladiator" Movies, novels, animated legends and stories.

 Toy Story is one of them!

I can only say that when he was watching "Mornings with Martin" as a child, he just thought every story was so interesting and attractive.

 It wasn’t until I grew up that I discovered…

　　It turns out that the series of events that Martin experienced have prototypes to follow. Martin is actually almost the same as the male protagonist of "Infinite Flow Internet Literature".

 Yes, you heard it right!

 "Martin's Morning" or "Various Martin" is really an "infinite flow" animation in a sense, similar in nature to "Wandering the Animated World".

 It’s just that this infinite flow is not that infinite flow.



 But Martin is different.

 He has not traveled through time, but when he wakes up every morning, the world will be completely different.

This is actually no different from "traveling".

 Although the events he experienced are all derived from film, television, animation and novels, they are not pure original works, but original story backgrounds based on the original works.

 So this is why the animation "Martin's Morning" is so attractive that you can't stop watching it.

  After all, this is an “original copy” of unlimited streaming animation!

In Gu Miao's opinion, the screenwriter who created the animation "Martin's Morning" is simply a genius.

You must know that "infinite streaming" was discovered and became popular as a new Internet article theme after 2007.

 Martin's Morning was born in 2003, several years earlier than Infinite Streaming.

 It was really awesome to come up with such a cool idea at that time. In terms of creativity alone, it can definitely be regarded as one of the most awesome animation works in the 21st century.

This is not a boast...

To be honest, I came up with the concept of infinite flow so early. Although it is not perfect yet, it is just a prototype, and it is an original copy, which is already very powerful.

 At any rate, Gu Miao found out.

 In the animation industry, most of those works with mind-boggling imaginations, rough production, and mind-numbing creativity were born in the 20 years between 1990 and 10.

Before the 1990s, although those animations were good, looking at the creativity today, it can only be said to be quite satisfactory or even relatively conservative.

 It cannot be ruled out that there are some epoch-making works, but the overall number is still relatively small.

 After entering 10 years, the animation industry has no particularly amazing ideas or creativity. Most of them are resting on their laurels, or simply adapting online articles, comics, novels...

On the contrary, in the 20 years at the turn of the century, a large number of animated works such as "Mornings with Martin" emerged, and to this day, their creativity is still amazing.

 For example, "Q Version of the Three Kingdoms"!

A lot of the "memes" and "jokes" in it will still be funny ten or twenty years later, and they will not be outdated at all?

For example, "Puella Magi Madoka Magica"!

 Isn't the creativity and creativity used in this animation, including the setting system, still outstanding to this day, and does it not make people feel outdated?

Why is this so?

 Although the development history of animation is not long, it is still nearly a hundred years old. Except for the initial "barbaric period", storytelling has been seriously used as a carrier for more than 60 years.

So during these 60 years, why did the period from 1990 to 2010 coincide with the explosion of creativity? If you put aside the production of animations from other periods, the creativity really doesn’t impress people?

Gu Miao believes that there must be a "cross-century" reason for this.

Animators in the 1990s and animators at the beginning of this century are basically thinking about the same question: entering the new century, what kind of animation should we produce?

At that time, everyone still had a strong sense of mission.

Especially the animations produced in 1998 and 1999, whether domestic or foreign, have a strong sense of mission.

With the advent of the new century, everyone is working hard, full of fighting spirit and endless reverie about the future.

 Looking back now...

Gu Miao is embarrassed to say, how can animators nowadays still have that kind of sense of mission and responsibility?

 Including himself.

If he were not a copywriter, he would probably be rotten and oozing pus, how could he have come up with the animation idea of ​​"Martin's Morning"?

 …

Gu Miao can’t stand the current industry trend, especially the evil style that is constantly adapted.

 Will you die if you don’t adapt it?

 Ten new works and nine have been adapted. Without adaptations, we wouldn’t be able to make animations.

 He ​​sometimes suspected that if one day they were suddenly banned from adapting novels, comics and games, at least 80% of animation companies at home and abroad would close down.

 This is no exaggeration at all!

Wanbao is already considered a special existence. Except for some sequels, at least the ratio of adaptations to original works has always remained within the reasonable range of 3:7.

 As for friendly companies like Penguin, almost 90% of their works are adaptations, and there are almost no truly original animations...

 Other business partners are not much better.     In the entire domestic animation market, whether it is TV or major movies, adaptations basically account for the majority, and original works only account for a small part.

 The situation is similar abroad.

If Seto is not lying, the neon animation industry has also been rotten in recent years, with light comic book modifications and game modifications accounting for more than 90%.

 Everyone is pretty bad, so there’s no need to distinguish between winners and losers.

“The reason why adapted works are so popular is that we are at the end of the IP industry chain.”

Lao Zhang analyzed: "The creativity of novels and comics is continuously supplied to the animation film and television industry. Haven't you noticed that there are fewer original live-action film and television dramas?"

 “Indeed, the TV series **** too.”

Gu Miao shook her head.

　Today’s online dramas and TV series, just like animation, can only rely on adaptation to make a living. Most popular web dramas and TV series are adaptations.

 Lao Zhang described it as: clear division of labor!

 As for providing creative work, leave it to novel authors, and the remaining people in the comics, animation, film and television dramas, games and other industries can just wait and use the creative ideas for "secondary processing".

 In the past, when you opened a restaurant, you had to grow your own vegetables, cook them yourself, and serve them to your customers.

 It’s different now.

Now open a restaurant, buy ready-made ingredients from the market, ask the chef to prepare the ingredients, and then ask the waiter to serve them to the customers.

 What are you responsible for?

 Just be responsible for collecting the money and that’s it!

This kind of detailed industrial division of labor is the core reason why more and more animation companies have lost the soul of originality and only become superstitious about adaptation.

 “To be fair, we should do the same.”

Lao Zhang said helplessly: “Growing vegetables by yourself, frying them yourself, and serving them to customers yourself is such a waste of time and energy.”

And the risk is uncontrollable!

If the division of labor can be refined and the proportion of the number of adapted works can be increased, a lot of things can definitely be saved and risks can be minimized.

 “You are right, but...”

 Gu Miao shook her head and said: "I disagree. No matter what, Wanbao Animation must always maintain a 50% ratio of original works."

 This is his bottom line.

 Exceeding this bottom line is absolutely impossible to accept.

Gu Miao doesn’t want Wanbao to become like its friends, especially Penguin, who can’t find any originals except adaptations.

 Originality is the foundation of Wanbao.

If one day, Wanbao Animation really loses its original ability, then there is no need to do anything else, just make a sequel to rest on its laurels.

Anyway, with so many IPs left by Gu Miao, even if we really can't create something original, we can rest on our laurels for decades without going bankrupt.

 Since there are no worries, why compromise?

Original animation involves risks, but the higher the risk, the greater the reward. How can you not be willing to pay anything and still want to make a lot of money?

 “Then what you mean is that your next new work will still be original…”

 “That’s right!”

They are all his own, and Gu Miao did not deliberately hide or avoid it, and proactively admitted: "My new work must be original. As for the specific subject matter, I haven't decided yet."

 In fact, during the Spring Festival, he had thought about what to shoot for his next film.

 "Martin's Morning" is only used as a transition, and it is an unplanned change.

After the production of "Yangcun Guardian" and "Go Boy" was completed, he had the idea of ​​"cutting down the vassal" and planned to launch a work to check and balance the Neon Division.

 I went to Konjac Studio on the way, and then talked about a movie "Martin's Morning", which has delayed me until now...

As the premiere of "Martin's Morning" is coming to an end, the plan to reduce the feudal lordship is once again on the agenda.

 Gundam is one of the plans to reduce the feudal lordship!

 But it is difficult for a Gundam alone to suppress the popular works such as "Dragon Ball", "Pretty Cure" and "Sailor Moon".

 So he decided to produce an animation work this year that would have far-reaching influence, let alone abroad, at least it could suppress "Dragon Ball" domestically.

 The goal is actually already there.

 But the reason why Gu Miao said “the theme hasn’t been decided yet” is mainly because this target work covers several themes.

 Blue cat!

 When mentioning this term, many people may be subconsciously stunned and don’t understand what it is.

But if you mention specific work titles, such as "Three Thousand Questions of Naughty Blue Cat" and "Blue Cat Dragoons", do you think of them immediately?

 That’s right!

Blue Cat is one of the few animated characters in China that can be said to be far-reaching and enduring.

 Although in the new era, blue cats are not as well-known as Pleasant Goats and Bears, but this is mainly because times have changed.

In the early years, before Pleasant Goat even rose to prominence, "Blue Cat Naughty Questions" was said to be the most popular animated series in China, and no one would doubt it.

  This work can be said to be a common childhood memory for the post-90s generation, and its influence is comparable to "the windmill is turning smoothly".

However, the Blue Cat series does not refer to a single work, but a series of works with Blue Cat as the protagonist.

Among them, the two more famous sub-series are "Blue Cat Naughty Questions" and "Blue Cat Dragoons".

 In "Blue Cat's Three Thousand Questions", it also includes "Star Wars" series, "Dinosaur Age" series, "Sea World" series and other series, with a total length of nearly 3,000 episodes.

 To put it bluntly, this series is too exaggerated!

 It’s so exaggerated that even if Gu Miao plans to make a blue cat series, he doesn’t know where to start. After all, there were so many series and sub-series that it was hard to wrap his head around it.

 The best choice is definitely to start with "Blue Cat Dragoons".

 After all, Three Thousand Questions is too old, and in terms of interest alone, Three Thousand Questions is indeed not as interesting as the Dragon Riders.

 But Three Thousand Questions is Gu Miao’s childhood. As for the Dragon Riders, I’m sorry! He has only watched the first two...

 When it comes to blue cats, we have to ask three thousand questions.

This series is so classic.

 It’s so classic that whenever Gu Miao thinks of blue cats and naughty figures, the voice of “Uncle Ge” will come to mind.

“Hello, kids, do you still remember who I am? Yes, I am the actor who voices the blue cat, Ge Ping…”

 This **** visual sense!

Perhaps he has watched too many videos of ghosts and animals, so when Gu Miao thinks about Uncle Ge now, it is difficult for her to keep her expression straight.

But this is not the point. The point is that it can be remembered for so long and netizens can remember it for so long, which is enough to prove how good "Blue Cat Naughty Questions" is.

 (End of this chapter)