NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Garbage Animation Company
Tokyo, DOS Animation Company.
The atmosphere inside is very solemn, with people sighing from time to time.
“I finally had the opportunity to make my own animation, but I didn’t expect the sales to be so bad.”
“The president now has the thought of killing the supervisor, right?”
“Sure, this animation was funded by the president himself.”
“In the future, our company will only accept outsourcing.”
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President’s Office.
Takagi Makoto is also sighing, but the reason for his sigh is different from the people outside.
“It’s fine to pass through inexplicably, I didn’t expect to owe a debt when I first came.”
This is Tokyo in a parallel world. The time is January 10, 2006. His current identity is the president of DOS Animation Company.
Five years ago, the original owner of the body graduated from high school and joined an animation company as a production manager. Because of his outstanding ability, he became the production management of that company after two years.
However, not long after becoming a production manager, that company went bankrupt.
Later, although other companies threw an olive branch to the original owner, the original owner did not agree. Instead, he asked someone to borrow a sum of money, pulled a bunch of people, and started his own company, which is now the DOS animation company.
In the beginning, the company could only accept outsourcing. After two years of work, the ambitious original owner was ready to start his own animation.
A few days ago, the animation “Heartbeat Cabin” produced by DOS Animation Company was released. However, the sales volume of this animation was only more than 600.
Generally speaking, sales of around 3,000 will not lose money, and sales of more than 600 can be said to have lost to grandma’s. After all, it is 2006 and the disc market has not begun to shrink.
The main reason for the loss is the supervision, but now the supervision of the animation has gone, and even if it has not gone, it is impossible to pass the loss to the supervision.
In addition, the original owner cannot say that there is no responsibility at all, but the responsibility is relatively small.
“Trash Animation Company!”
“Trash Takagi Makoto!”
“It’s good, why do you want to fund your own animation?”
“A dead end for animation!”
Takagi murmured secretly.
Of course, to say so, it is estimated that he will only be able to do animation in the future.
Not to mention that he is now the president of the DOS animation company. Before crossing, he was an original artist and amateur singer in the celestial dynasty. He can paint and know a little music. Apart from that, he can hardly know anything. Let him Leaving the animation industry, I really don’t know what to do.
Moreover, this is a parallel world, the time is still 2006, and there is a lot to do.
“DOS is precarious, we must first find a way to stabilize it.”
“It’s best to pick up a new job right away.”
“There is a small broken company, and it is estimated that it will not be able to receive the yuan request, so it has to do its own planning and investment.”
Yuan please, the meaning of general contracting.
Generally speaking, the producer of animation is not necessarily the funder of the animation, and very few people even fully fund the animation by themselves. Because a 24-minute animation, the funding is generally between 10 million and 12 million yen. In 2006, an animation often has more than 20 episodes, and few companies have such strength.
“Heartbeat House” is an exception. This animation only sells discs and is not on TV. The duration is relatively free. One episode is only about 10 minutes, and this animation only has six episodes.
Six episodes, each with only about ten minutes of animation, don’t require a lot of money. Even if Makoto Takagi can’t get it out, he can borrow it.
Of course, because of the loan, after the failure of “Heartbeat House”, “Takagi Makoto”‘s debt deepened.
The animations that I fully funded are generally unsuccessful. Even if they succeed, it is basically a trifle. This time Takagi Makoto didn’t plan to do that.
Besides, he himself is already in debt and can’t afford to make animation money.
You must find someone to invest, and if you want someone to invest, aside from other things, at least you must first do a good job of planning.
An animation plan generally includes the name of the animation, the type of the subject, a brief introduction, a budget table, and so on.
Because it is for investment purposes, what Takagi Makoto has to do is just a preliminary plan. It doesn’t need to be too detailed, but at least he has to explain clearly what kind of animation he is going to do.
“I have to think about copying first…Bah, which animation to do first.”
Before crossing, he was just an original artist and amateur singer, not a producer, nor an animation screenwriter. He couldn’t do it at all to make him original a plan that guarantees that the current DOS can attract investment.
It’s more practical to be a porter.
However, Takagi Makoto found a very serious problem.
I don’t know if it was what happened during the journey. The thousands of animations he had watched before the journey, but now in retrospect, only those tear-jerking animations are memorable.
Tear-gas animation is easy to be classic, and classic animations can often be used ten or eight times, but Takagi Makoto’s current situation is that he can remember every frame and every detail of all tear-gas animations clearly. As for other types of animation, even if there are classic works, even if some of the sales explode, he can only remember a general idea.
“It seems that I can only do tear gas animation.”
“Don’t blame Cheng for being improper, he was also forced.”
Makoto Takagi sighed, and soon opened the Word document on the computer and typed out a few English letters: CLANNAD with the keyboard.
“CLANNAD”, produced by Jing Ani, is adapted from the galgame game of the same name by the key agency. There are two seasons, excluding extra words, each season has 22 episodes.
With the current situation of DOS to drive investment, the kind of large-scale production that burns money is definitely not good, and daily animation is better.
There are also many daily types of animation, but the current year is 2006.
The style of animation in the past few years is not the same as the animation after ten years. Moving the animation after ten years to 2006 is too advanced. Who knows if the audience can accept it?
It is better to choose from the tear-gas animations with daily themes and sales in the past few years.
After locking the range, basically nothing needs to be considered, the most suitable is CL.
Moreover, this animation is a daily work in the minds of many people. Even in 21 years, it will still be the pinnacle of tear gas animation. Once DOS can make this animation, its reputation will be established, and other animations should be done in the future. Don’t worry about no one to invest.
After selecting the animation to be done, Makoto Takagi started the plan with rapid efficiency.
“Boom boom~”
The office door was knocked suddenly.
Takagi Makoto said without looking up, “Come in.”
The door was opened and a woman entered.
Makoto Takagi glanced up and found that Esaka Noe was being produced.
Her figure is relatively petite, and her appearance is very immature, like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, but the actual age is already twenty-one, only two years younger than Takagi Makoto.
After entering the president’s office, she said: “President, the Sun Club called over and asked if we had any intention to accept outsourcing.”
“No answer.”
Takagi Makoto refused without thinking, “What is the difference between an animation production company that only accepts outsourcing and the salted fish who has lost his dream?”
“Huh?” Esaka Noe suddenly felt a little confused.
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