A few days later.
He Dajun suddenly received an official notice from Tribe Comics: "Funds are limited, so the company has temporarily decided to cut some of the animation production costs of "Basketball Heart" by half from the original investment..."
"Why!"
He Dajun was so angry that he wanted to find Lingkong to confront him face to face, because Lingkong had promised him before that he would use the highest standards in the industry to produce the animation of "Basketball Heart", but now the funding was suddenly cut in half
This has a huge impact!
The most direct impact is that the graphics of "Basketball Heart" will be far less refined than in the previous episodes. Many people who follow the series should have similar feelings, that is, the characters in the animation collapsed while being drawn. In fact, it is a funding issue. Animation works with poor responses will generally not be directly abandoned, but it is inevitable that the post-production will become more and more perfunctory.
One obvious point:
The higher the investment, the more sophisticated the animation will be. "Basketball Heart" was already inferior to Shadow's work. If the budget is halved and the picture quality is not as good as the previous episodes, then there will be no way to compete with its opponents!
…
Lingkong ignored He Dajun.
He Dajun has lost his usefulness.
This time, Tribal Comics was once again defeated by Shadow's hands.
If He Dajun had the same temper as Shadow, he would have considered terminating his contract with Tribe Comics by now. However, the embarrassing situation is that even if He Dajun terminated his contract with Tribe, he would have nowhere to go.
In the entire industry, the only two comic websites that can afford a cartoonist of his caliber are the Alliance and the Horde!
Other websites are just trash and not worth mentioning.
Going to the Alliance
The league won't want him!
He Dajun also gradually figured out the reason why the investment budget was cut. The situation of "Basketball Heart" was originally very good. If it weren't for Shadow, this animation should have been a huge hit.
But everything is afraid of comparison!
People who have watched "Slam Dunk" will have higher standards, and the works of He Dajun will be somewhat disappointing. Add to that the conflict between He Dajun and Shadow, and the gains and losses of the two works become even more obvious.
"It's over..."
He Dajun was so discouraged that he didn't even want to continue painting.
This kind of blow is hard to bear.
If he could do it again, he would never believe Lingkong's lies and compete with Yingzi for the title of the number one in sports comics.
Now he has been completely nailed to the pillar of shame.
The only impression he left on everyone was a sentence that caused a lot of ridicule:
“No one knows basketball better than me.”
The popularity of this meme is almost catching up with the line in "Slam Dunk" "Coach, I want to play basketball."
The difference is:
The former was ridiculed by the public, but the latter is regarded as a classic by countless people.
Not only did he lose the battle, but he also lost the man.
He Dajun's entire career would take a sharp turn for the worse because of this.
Unless he can significantly improve his level in the future and create a work that is comparable to or even surpasses "Slam Dunk".
But He Dajun knew he had no chance.
It was a work that made He Dajun feel despair after watching it.
After watching the latest update of "Slam Dunk", He Dajun has begun to doubt his life and even had the idea of stopping writing.
He Dajun is already gone.
And on the other side.
Compared to He Dajun's frustration, the popularity of "Slam Dunk" is getting higher and higher.
The popularity of this animation has even affected every aspect of reality!
…
A stadium.
A group of young people made an appointment to play basketball, but when they arrived at the court, they found that the entire basketball court was full.
For a moment, everyone looked at each other.
They had no choice but to look for another golf course, but they found the same result after searching several courses.
All the major basketball courts are packed!
Or they could be basketball fans who are itching to play basketball after watching "Slam Dunk".
Or they may be new people who became interested in basketball after watching this animation.
"Depend on!"
“There’s absolutely no room left!”
"Shadow God's Slam Dunk is so popular, if you want to play basketball in the next few days, you must grab a basketball court in advance!"
“The basketball court used to be very empty!”
“It feels like the number of basketball fans is almost catching up with football fans!”
"It's definitely not comparable to football, but after Slam Dunk came out, the number of basketball fans did increase a lot."
“I didn’t expect this animation to affect reality.”
"Forget it, let's make an appointment another day."
"I went back to read the comics. Slam Dunk was updated a little bit last night."
…
A store.
Sales of basketball-related apparel and shoes also skyrocketed.
"I want number 10!"
"I want number 10 too!"
"Number 10 is Sakuragi Hanamichi's number, I like number 11!"
"Number 11? Do you think you are Rukawa Kaede?"
"As a center, I choose the gorilla's number four jersey!"
"I want number fourteen."
"Why number fourteen?"
"Mitsui wears the No. 14 jersey. Mitsui is my favorite!"
"Ah, Mitsui, then I'm number fourteen too!"
…
A basketball training class.
The staff in charge of waving at the students were stunned. It seemed that there were suddenly a lot more people signing up for the basketball interest class!
“I want to sign up!”
"Me too!"
“I want to learn basketball!”
"The big guys are really good at playing basketball, newbies please help me!"
“Can I learn to dunk?”
"If you learn basketball, can you dunk?"
"I want to learn too. I am not afraid of hardship. Xiaomei likes Slam Dunk. I must let Xiaomei see my heroic figure on the court!"
…
Not just basketball interest classes.
During the training of basketball teams from various universities, there are obviously more people watching around.
Most of them are male voices.
But what excites the school basketball players the most is that there are more girls watching!
When one of their players scored a goal, there were cheers all around!
Some people even shouted "Ryukawa Kaede" or something like that.
This has increased the efficiency of the basketball team's training countless times, and everyone is full of energy!
Basketball suddenly became popular!
It’s all the influence of “Slam Dunk”!
…
When the influence of "Slam Dunk" permeated reality, Lin Yuan also felt this change. He could hear employees in the company making plans to play basketball together after get off work.
Not to mention, there are so many discussions online.
"Almost."
Lin Yuan called Sun Zhixiang over and said, "You can draw the following content. I will provide the plot and storyboard."
Sun Zhixiang is excited!
Even though he had already guessed the result, he still jumped for joy!
In this way.
In the entire Shadow Studio, everyone has their own comics to be responsible for, and Lin Yuan has once again become his own hands-off boss.
That's right.
Everyone has almost finished recruiting assistants. Most of them are people found by Luo Wei, and they all have very solid skills.
Kaneki rented branch studios for everyone around.
From now on, Lin Yuan only needs to communicate with the major editors and does not need to meet these people’s new assistants to prevent Shadow’s identity from being exposed.
certainly.
Lin Yuan is not a completely hands-off boss. He pays attention to the content updated by the main writers every day. If there is anything wrong, he will ask everyone to make adjustments. If someone's level cannot keep up, he will pull them over for special training. The efficiency of teaching apprentices under the aura of a teacher is still very high.
Comics in five versions!
Lin Yuan felt that this was almost the limit.
Even if there are new comics in the future, we have to wait until later. One reason is that there are not enough cartoonists to write them, and the other is that we don’t want to be more shocking. Shadow has already been evil enough!
It's time to let the shadow go.
Yingzi and Xianyu have been in the spotlight recently, and Lin Yuan feels that classmate Chu Kuang is already eager to try.
What to write next
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ps: A transition chapter. I haven’t decided what plot to write next. Can you help me with crowdfunding