My Animation Era

  Chapter 661 Year of the Sheep Movie (for subscription)

   It turns out.

  Wanbao’s reward standard for the national competition champion is full of attraction, both for the students and for the school.

  The school wants a teaching building.

  Students want to engrave their names on the monument of merit and virtue in the teaching building, so that the younger students can admire their "great achievements" at any time.

  So...

  After the announcement of the schedule and reward standards of the Wanbao Cup National Tennis Competition for Middle School Students, it soon received strong support from various schools, and students actively signed up for the competition.

   It's just too enthusiastic!

  In just two days, more than 400 schools and teams from all over the country have signed up for the competition, which is frightening to death.

   This is the result of Gu Miao controlling the number of places as much as possible to avoid the competition from becoming stinky and long.

  If the threshold is lowered, it is estimated that the number of schools that sign up for the competition can easily exceed a thousand. Even if it is assigned to each province, there will be more than a dozen or even dozens of schools participating.

   Never doubt...

   After all, it is a weekend event, which does not take up normal teaching time. Wanbao covers the round-trip travel expenses, as well as generous rewards and quotas for entering the "East China/South China/North China/West China Competition". It is strange not to be active.

   But then again.

  Although there are many teams and players who signed up for the competition, Gu Miao doesn't think that there are a large number of teenagers with outstanding tennis talents among them.

   Most of them are "tennis lovers".

  What is a fan?

  Knows the rules and loves to play tennis, but if you say how good he is, that's bullshit.

  Genius is always a minority.

  Like the animation "The Prince of Tennis", a large number of talented teenagers emerged at the same time, which can be called the golden generation. The probability of this happening in reality is too low.

  Maybe this is also the reason why "The Prince of Tennis" is dubbed a "bizarre fantasy" animation!

  …

  The Prince of Tennis has been questioned. There are a lot of unreasonable and even "surreal" parts in the plot and even the setting background.

   Regarding this matter, netizens are talking about it.

  At first, it was just snake ball and outspin serve. The name sounds scary, but the actual effect is just that ordinary ball skills. Although it cannot be imitated, the audience can also accept it.

  Zhou Zhu's triple counterattack stunts, such as flying swallows back to the nest, etc., at most make everyone frown...

  But with the gradual appearance of "unscientific" ball skills such as field and the limit of hard work, more and more viewers have complained about the animation "The Prince of Tennis".

  The point of complaints is naturally that as the plot progresses, the skills in the animation "The Prince of Tennis" become more and more wrong.

  A part of the audience often went to Gu Miao and even Wanbao’s official Weibo, calling on the production team to stop this "exaggerated rendering" practice and let the tennis ball return to its most authentic appearance.

   Their suggestions are not unreasonable.

   "The Prince of Tennis" is a very passionate and youthful sports show. It has been very popular among young audiences since it was broadcast.

   Tennis is played more and more outrageously, and even evolved into "fantasy tennis", which will definitely cause dissatisfaction among some viewers...

   But go!

  Gu Miao's opinion is different from this part of the audience.

  He admitted that killer tennis and fantasy tennis are really ridiculous, and the change from sports to fantasy has also broken the hearts of many people.

   But this is also to make the animation more passionate!

   Completely realistic, that is unrealistic. What's the point of animating a real tennis match? Will passer-by viewers be interested?

   This is a question of trade-offs.

  The emergence of skills such as field, seamless, hard-working, and killing the five senses is essentially to please "passer-by fans" rather than "tennis fans".

  The number of passerby fans is definitely more than that of tennis fans.

  So this change, as well as the dissatisfaction and complaints of some viewers, are completely acceptable from the perspective of Gu Miao, the director and producer.

   Let him change back?

terribly sorry!

  Gu Miao can clearly distinguish which is more important, who is the audience he should keep, and who is the audience he can give up and ignore.

   "But word of mouth has declined."

   Ma Kui said distressedly: "When "The Prince of Tennis" first aired, the word-of-mouth ratings were quite high. But when it came to the East China Competition, the ratings dropped instantly."

   "It's okay, it will still fall."

   Gu Miao said calmly.

   What is the score for? It can neither be eaten nor exchanged for money, if it falls, it will fall!

not to mention.

   Judging from the word-of-mouth trend of the original "Prince of Tennis" animation, it is normal for the score to drop.

  Originally, the best part of The Prince of Tennis was before the Kanto tournament. After the Kanto Competition, the National Competition, and even the Invitational Tournament and the U17 World Cup, the word-of-mouth has clearly declined.

   "Forget it, don't talk about this."

  Gu Miao doesn't want to talk about these bad things, after all, it's useless to talk about it, and the word-of-mouth score can't be increased from nothing.

  Instead of letting go of this self-pity, why not think about it, how should this year's "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" Chinese New Year movie be shot?

  It's already October!

   This year’s Lunar New Year, unsurprisingly, should be in mid-February next year. Counting the days, there are only five months left.

   Since Gu Miao's daughter-in-law's due date is approaching and he doesn't have time to worry about it, the Chinese New Year movie was moved from the Spring Festival to the next summer vacation.

  Movies for the year of the sheep must not be done like this.

   Still have to go to the Spring Festival stalls!

  Based on this premise, Gu Miao called Du Hao, Ma Kui, Lao Zhang and others in advance to discuss the year of the sheep movie, who should be filmed for it? How to shoot?

   "Mr. Gu, do it yourself!"

  Lao Zhang joked: "Last year, my wife gave birth to a child. Don't tell me that this year my son will be one year old, so you don't have time?"

"I have time."

   "But I have a good plan here, and I plan to take this time to think about it."

   "You have a new plan?"

   Ma Kuina wondered: "Isn't there a national competition in the animation "The Prince of Tennis"? You don't want to continue filming?"

   "National competition chapter, I can do it next year. Besides, you should all know that I don't like making TV sequels..."

   This is true.

  Wanbao Animation has been established for so many years, Mr. Gu seems to have never made any TV sequels. Usually it is thrown to other people, and they make original creations by themselves.

   Regarding this point, everyone is still quite speechless.

  No one knows what Mr. Gu is thinking, anyway, his attitude towards sequels is very repulsive, no matter how successful or popular the works are, he will treat them equally.

   If you can’t figure it out, don’t think about it.

  Since Mr. Gu has his arrangement, the director of the Year of the Goat movie has to find another candidate.

  Aside from Huang Kun and Guo Hongwei, Wanbao Animation's free directors include Director Wang, Du Hao, Ma Kui and others.

  Among them, Gu Miao likes Ma Kui.

  (end of this chapter)