My Animation Era

  Chapter 18 Comic-Con

  Jiangchuan.

International Exhibition Center.

   It coincides with the 7th Huaguo Animation and Game Exhibition being held here, and animation practitioners from various countries and regions gather together.

   Gu Miao, who originally planned to promote "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" overseas, naturally would not miss this rare opportunity, and rented an exhibition area in the name of "Wolf Castle Animation Company".

   Almost missed it.

  When Director Wang reminded him, there was less than one day left before the deadline for registration and participation.

  What is this time enough for?

  Arranging the exhibition area, determining the theme of the exhibition, arranging some peripheral derivatives, urgently printing a batch of low-value brochures and posters...

  When Gu Miao finished all these preliminary preparations and was about to exhibit to the public and media, she suddenly remembered one thing.

   There should be foreigners visiting, right?

  If you don’t hire a translator, prepare an English version of the brochure, can foreigners understand it?

   But here comes the problem!

  He is going to participate in the exhibition tomorrow, where can he find a high-quality translator? I can only temporarily ask students for help from the foreign language departments of several universities near Jiangchuan.

  What about translation quality...

   "What the **** is PleasantGoatandBigBigWolf?" Gu Miao asked suspiciously.

  Sweet sheep, big wolf?

   The promised Xindaya!

   Gu Miao, who only missed saying 'RNM refund money', rubbed her brows and said, "Although I'm not well-educated, I also know that goat means goat."

   Pleasant Goat is not a goat!

   No matter how you look at it, this is a translation error. It should be more appropriate to use sheep here.

  Confusing goats with sheep is just a small problem. Gu Miao's dissatisfaction is mainly due to the fact that Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf seem too casual compared to the translation of other character names.

   Red Wolf is called Wolnie!

  The beautiful sheep is called Tibbie, which is a nickname for the Christian name Isabella, and Isabella comes from Spanish and Hebrew, meaning "God's oath", pronounced Isabella.

  Lazy sheep is called Paddi, pronounced as Padi, a pure new word.

  Slow sheep is called Mr.Slowy, literally translated as "Mr. Slow"...

   After reading these names, look at the translations of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, that is, PleasantGoatandBigBigWolf, and the gap immediately appears.

   "Make do with it!"

   Ma Kui shook his head and said, "It's not only too late for the translator to think of another name temporarily, but it might not be better than the current one."

   "No, this can't be sloppy."

  Gu Miao shook her head to express her refusal.

  The title of an animation is very important. Forget about other characters, the names of the two protagonists, Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, must be well-sounding.

   If the translation is not good, then he will do it himself!

  If he remembers correctly, Pleasant Goat in the original world is more fluent, and the popular translation name seems to be Weslie.

   Not that Wesley...

  To be precise, this should be a variant word with the suffix ie added to Wesley, which can be understood as Little Wesley.

  The more popular translation of Big Big Wolf is Wolffy, which adds the fy suffix after the English word "wolf", which is a bit like Luffy.

  Weslie and Wolffy!

   Isn't this much more concise and fluent?

   "What kind of nonsense translation, tell him to get out of here quickly, and next time there is such a thing about naming, just call me."

  Gu Miao patted Ma Kui on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "The water here is too deep, you can't handle it, so let me come!"

   Ma Kui: "..."

   Is this really Mr. Gu's name?

  He still has this ability? Ma Kui didn't believe it.

   It must have been translated by someone in advance, and I took this opportunity to show it off.

  Do you want to expose him?

  …

  Early the next morning, Gu Miao arrived at the exhibition center with two employees from the company.

  Pile peripheral derivatives into a pile, put up a big "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" poster, connect it to the monitor provided by the organizer, and everything is ready.

   Only waiting for visitors to visit!

  In order to better reflect the production level of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf and attract more passers-by to watch, the animation that Gu Miao played in the exhibition area this time included a promotional video in addition to some episodes that have already been broadcast on the TV station.

   "Battle in the Weird World"!

  Yes, in order to attract attention, Gu Miao did not hesitate to show a special chapter on the battle in the weird world that is still in the "preparation and production" stage.

  Although this is just a trailer, the quality of the painting has been significantly improved several levels, coupled with the "Fantasy Underground World Adventure" gimmick, it will not worry about not attracting passers-by.

as expected.

  With the opening of the exhibition, a large number of tourists flocked in. Outside the exhibition area where Wolf Castle Animation belonged, a group of big friends and children soon gathered around.

   "Is this the next work?"

   "The production level has improved by leaps and bounds! I can't believe it, this is an animation of Pleasant Goat."

   "The underground world is interesting."

   "Mr. Gu, when can we see this special episode?"

   "Soon! Soon!"

  Gu Miao broke free from the shackles of the brats, and explained with a smile: "It is expected that by the end of this year or early next year, you will be able to see the big battle in the weird world."

   That's pretty fast.

  Everyone thought about it, it's already September, and there are only a few months before the end of the year, so it's really fast.

"Not only that!"

   "We have also prepared a special sequel project for the upcoming 2012 London Olympics. The lambs will put aside their conflicts with Big Big Wolf and hold a grand sheep games..."

ah? !

  At the entrance of the exhibition area, the two employees who were distributing brochures looked at each other with puzzled expressions.

  Is there still such a thing?

  As a member of the Pleasant Goat animation production team, how could they not know about this project? Besides, it's only 2010, so it's still early before the London Olympics, right?

  Just as they were looking for an opportunity to ask Mr. Gu what was going on with this "Special Olympics Project", a special visitor came to the exhibition area.

  Mr. Ikeda!

  As the representative of Neon TBS TV Station, after revealing his identity, he was immediately warmly received by Gu Miao.

   "Gu Sang, your animation is very good!"

  Ikeda gave a thumbs up and praised: "I have learned that Pleasant Goat has been very popular recently, and the collection rate of corpses has broken the record..."

   "Ahem, it's the ratings!"

  After correcting the pronunciation problem of this neon friend, Gu Miao immediately asked: "So, you represent TBS TV station, do you want to introduce "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf"?"

   "Introduction?"

   Ikeda said with a confused face: "I didn't say I want to introduce it? I just want to ask you how to sell the plush dolls in the exhibition area. I want to buy one for my son."

  What the hell...I just want to buy a doll!

no!

   It's rare to catch a big fish, if you don't get some benefits from him, Gu Miao is not willing to let him go like this.

  How much does it cost to sell a doll?

   If you can pry open the door of TBS TV station through Mr. Ikeda, so that Pleasant Goat can introduce neon, it will be called making money.

  (end of this chapter)