My Animation Era

  Chapter 376 Race against time (for subscription)

   Colleagues guessed right.

  The project of the movie "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Snake Comes Around" did go wrong, and it was a serious one.

  This directly led to the post-production of the film that was supposed to be completed in early December, and the progress is very likely to be delayed until March next year.

  What's wrong?

   Of course, the five major studios under Wanbao Animation, except for the "Puppet Studio", a large number of core employees have quit.

  The total number of people reached 207!

   This is a rather appalling number, equivalent to Wanbao Animation Company, which lost a full quarter of its employees in one fell swoop.

   It happened in mid-November.

  Gu Miao was "hair pulling" with Jiangchuan TV Station's new director Shen, and they were arguing about "Sailor Moon R".

   As a result, Ma Kui called and told him: The company is in danger, so hurry back!

   Okay!

  Gu Miao, who was on the road and wanted to eat a river crab to supplement his growth, looked back and saw that the crystals at home were almost gone, and he was scared out of his wits.

   It is normal for someone to leave a job.

  For a large company with thousands of employees like Wanbao Animation, the normal flow of personnel happens almost every week.

   But this time it was different.

   There are more than two hundred people, and they submitted their resignation reports one after another. And these two hundred people are all the core backbone of Wolf Castle Studio, Lightning Studio, Feiyang Studio and Dimension Studio.

   In other words, these people are the mainstay of Wanbao.

   It doesn't matter if one or two people go away, even a dozen or so are acceptable, but the loss of more than two hundred people in one fell swoop has an extremely exaggerated impact on Wanbao Animation.

  First problem encountered...

   There are multiple animation projects, which are facing the problem of shortage of manpower and doubling the construction period. For example, "Dragon Fighter 2" and "Light Messenger" which are currently in production will be pulled up.

   Followed by floating people.

   Gu Miao has already investigated the whereabouts of these resigned employees. They are all the targets of being poached, and the company that poached them is called "Plum Blossom Animation".

   This is a brand new company that was just established in Zhonghai.

  Although it may seem like a brand new company, this plum blossom animation is backed by one of the best Internet giants in China. According to rumors, its major shareholder is the son of a rich man.

  Okay, the background is a bit ugly!

  The major shareholder is the son of the top ten richest people in China, and the second shareholder is an Internet giant whose hard power is not inferior to Mr. Tan.

   It is estimated that there is no need to say more about the strong financial resources.

  For the establishment of a company of this magnitude, even if the treatment is very average, it is estimated that many people will rush to "seek refuge" and strive for a "success from the dragon".

   Not to mention, Plum Blossom Animation is aggressive, and in order to poach people, it even offers unprecedented high salaries and salaries in the industry.

This is just great.

   Originally, the salary level was mediocre, and the background alone could attract many talents to join him. In the end, he also offered high prices to poach people. It was reasonable for Wanbao to be unstoppable.

  After understanding the situation, Gu Miao immediately made two decisions.

  The first is to increase the salary!

  The other party came aggressively, and had taken advantage of his unpreparedness to poach so many people. If we continue to ignore it, Wanbao Animation may be hollowed out.

  The second is to find foreign aid!

  Wanbao Animation is an animation company that does not rely much on "outsourcing". Because Gu Miao felt that the level of domestic animation outsourcing was uneven, and it was difficult to control the quality of the works.

  Under normal circumstances, he would rather spend more money and hire more people than outsource the core part of the work to other companies.

   Of course, he was talking about the core part.

   Like some irrelevant content or repetitive processes, he often finds outsourcing, and there are more than N teams when he finds it.

   Now the situation is quite special.

  Wanbao, with a serious brain drain, has many projects facing “stoppage”. Under such circumstances, Gu Miao had to let go of the restrictions and hire more outsourcing teams to participate in the production of the core part of the animation.

   Make an analogy.

  In the past, Wanbao did 80% of the work, and the remaining 20% ​​of the dirty work was left to the outsourcing team to earn some "hard money".

   Now Wanbao is seriously short of manpower, and can only do 50% or less of the work, and the rest of the work can only be handed over to the outsourcing team, otherwise the construction period will be seriously delayed.

  Konjac Animation is one of the outsourcing teams contacted by Gu Miao.

   In fact, Konjac Animation is not an outsourced animation company. The reason why Gu Miao contacted them was because she felt that Konjac Animation's hard power was not bad.

  Although there is a shortage of people, he has not yet reached the point where he is "hungry".

   Not all outsourcing teams can get Gu Miao's approval and win the subcontracting tasks given by Wanbao Animation.

  Always screen again!

  Including Zhonghai Konjac Animation, Gu Miao contacted a total of seven outsourced animation companies, and finally filled the existing vacancies.

   But this is not a long-term solution.

   Gu Miao is not particularly worried about a reliable partner like Konjac Animation.

  The possible partners, the animation production ability is really average. The short-term cooperation is okay, but if it is a long-term cooperation, Gu Miao is really worried that there will be problems.

   Still have to absorb new blood.

  Because of this matter, Gu Miao recently let go of the promotional arrangements for the movie "Snake Comes Around", and made several trips to Jiangchuan University.

  Even Xiao Guo was brought here by him.

  He used Guo Hongwei as an example and told the students who are still in school: As long as you have the ability, you can be like Guo Hongwei, from an "intern" to a "big director" with an annual salary of millions in just one year.

   Good guy!

  Live examples are in front of you, and the students who have not yet left the school are very excited.

  Suddenly, the number of students signing up for internship at Wanbao Animation increased several times.

  Gu Miao smiled until her face was crooked.

   Smiling the whole time, Guo Hongwei, who served as a "human flesh poster" for his master, rubbed his face after returning to the company: "Isn't this a fool?"

   "Nonsense!"

  Gu Miao retorted: "How did I fool you? Didn't you become a great director from an intern?"

  Can the situation be the same?

  How many geniuses like him can there be? If everyone could be "promoted" like him, wouldn't it be a complete mess?

   It can only be said that the master is too good at drawing cakes.

   Taking a sip of water, Guo Hongwei asked with a long sigh of relief: "With these interns joining and the outsourcing team, the movie should be released as scheduled, right?"

"Can!"

  Gu Miao was also relieved.

  Why is he in a hurry? In addition to not wanting to skip tickets to delay the release of the Spring Festival and New Year, there is another very important reason.

   That is to fulfill the promise he made to Zhang Pfrui's kid.

  If it wasn't for this promise, why would Gu Miao be so anxious to find an outsourcing team, and why would she personally recruit interns?

  The reason for doing this is to ensure that the movie will be released as scheduled. Because if the movie ticket is skipped, the children of Zhang Pfrui may really have no chance to see it.

  Every time Gu Miao thinks about this matter, Gu Miao's heart is very heavy, and there is always an unspeakable pressure.

because…

  He's racing against time!

   People always ask me why I need to ask for leave for personal matters... I don’t even think about how old I am when I ask this question, why shouldn’t my family urge me to get married every day?

  (end of this chapter)