As "The Gift of the Magi" came to an end, Mu Suxing quickly shifted his attention to the upcoming "Cardcaptor Sakura".
Different from animations like "IS" and "My Hero Academia", the core of "Cardcaptor Sakura" lies in its delicate emotional drama. There are no real villains in the comics, and everyone has their gentle side. It is a truly healing work.
In the comics, apart from the male and female protagonists, other couples, such as same-sex couples and teachers and students, when placed in a real context often cause considerable controversy and receive strange looks from quite a few people. Although the Blue Star has already passed the same-sex marriage law, hundreds of years ago, love between same-sex people was also despised.
But in "Cardcaptor Sakura", these so-called controversies and anomalies do not exist from beginning to end.
This is a gentle world, and also a simple world. Their likes have nothing to do with gender, age, or identity. It is a truly gentle world that is suitable for children.
Of course, this does not mean that "Cardcaptor Sakura" is an animation for children. At least in Makusukoshi's opinion, the plot in the comics is not childish, and the positive energy and values it conveys are not only suitable for children, but also for teenagers and even adults entering society.
"How is the costume design going?" asked Mu Xuxing.
In Mu Xiuxing's plan, he intends to design different styles of clothing for the heroine Sakura Kinomoto in each episode, including daily and combat styles. The person responsible for this part of the styling design is Dai Yuyan, who completed the production of the second season of "IS".
"Currently, I have designed a total of 10 sets, 2 daily sets and 8 combat sets," Dai Yuyan said, turning the notebook on the table so that the laptop full of sketches appeared in front of him, and said, "I am still working on the rest, and the results will be out in the next two days."
Mu Suxing was looking through the pictures on the computer.
I have to say that Dai Yuyan's ability in this regard is quite outstanding. All women have more or less an obsession with small skirts. As a woman, Dai Yuyan obviously has a good grasp of this psychology of women. Each of these ten costumes has its own characteristics, which happens to satisfy lovers of different styles while allowing girls to regain their long-lost girlish hearts.
"Director Mu," Mu Suxing turned the laptop back to Dai Yuyan and turned around. It was his assistant Du Yutang who was standing in front of him. Du Yutang looked down at the schedule in his hand and gave him a routine report: "Yueqi, Yunsu and Lanyun, several video websites have called and want to discuss the broadcast authorization of the next animation with you."
"Just reject them all," Mu Suxing thought for a moment and said, "Just tell them directly that Huaying Animation's next animation will be a TV animation, and the online broadcast authorization must wait until the TV station premieres. If they are really sincere, they will come to me to negotiate by then."
"Okay." Du Yutang responded straightforwardly, and turned the form in his hand to the next page. I don't know what he saw, but there was a subtle meaning in his eyes, but he quickly regained his composure: "In addition, Mr. Bai Wenrui, the owner of Huanka Toys, wants to discuss cooperation with us."
Huaying Animation does have partnerships with many toy companies, but...
Mu Suxing frowned: "Didn't I say that all matters of this nature should be left to President Mu to decide?"
"The structure of this toy company is somewhat special," Du Yutang said. "According to Mr. Bai, the boss of Huanka Toys, you own 10% of Huanka Toys' shares and are one of Huanka Toys' shareholders. Mr. Bai wants to know whether Director Mu is interested in acquiring Huanka Toys."
After he said this, Mu Suxing remembered that this seemed to be true.
When he took over Rose Animation, Mu Xingxue took advantage of him in disguise, and the next day Qin Sheng took back the loss in the form of shares - the company that the shares belonged to was called Huanka Toys. However, Huaying had just been established at that time, and Mu Suxing was getting busier and busier, so he put the matter behind him.
It was his own negligence.
Mu Suxing had never heard of the Huanka Toys company in his previous life, and he thought it was not a well-known company. This was actually a good thing for him, because it meant that the acquisition price would not be too high, and Huaying held the key IP, so he would not have to worry about not being able to sell the toys he produced.
Previously, he didn't have the time, so he didn't consider developing derivatives himself. Now it seems that directly acquiring a complete team is also a good choice
"Okay," Mu Suxing said simply, "I don't have any objections. You can ask him to talk to President Mu about the details."
Speaking of toys, Mu Xiuxing immediately thought of the full set of Clow Cards in "Cardcaptor Sakura".
In Muxuxing's plan, the income from the first broadcast licensing fee is secondary. For animations that are more oriented towards children, peripheral products such as various toys and stationery are the real big money.
In "Cardcaptor Sakura", the Clow Cards that appear throughout the entire comic are relatively inexpensive and popular.
TV animation is different from online animation. The latter often relies on the monthly share of video websites or the single subscription itself to make profits. The profits of TV animation come from TV advertisements. If an animation can maintain stable ratings, TV stations will even broadcast it over and over again without getting tired of it.
In this case, as long as the quality of "Cardcaptor Sakura" itself is acceptable and gets a good viewership rating, plus the TV station's rotation broadcast, there will be a large coverage area, and there will be no worries about the peripheral products not being able to sell. In particular, the Clow Cards are more beautiful than various figures, and children and parents will not feel bad about buying them. Once sales start to open up, profits will naturally go up.
—
Mu Xuxing looked at the neatly arranged cards on the table.
After getting the phantom card toy, Huaying's first instruction was to make a complete set of Clow Card peripherals from "Cardcaptor Sakura". What was now in front of Mu Suxing was one of the several methods that the phantom card toy tried.
The pattern was delicate and exquisite, with light golden lines circling around and finally converging into words right above the card. His fingertips gently stroked the card surface, feeling the unique texture brought by the material workmanship. Mu Suxing nodded with satisfaction: "Not bad, make another 10,000 copies according to this quality, and try to use better materials for the packaging box, don't be stingy."
Sometimes, a good-looking packaging box can be a reason for people to buy something - what's more, this set of Clow Cards itself is extremely beautiful, and paired with a stylish box, it would be strange if the audience fans are not tempted!
"That's all for today. If you have any questions about derivatives in the future, just go to the third floor to find Ruan Wei. He is the person in charge of this area. Just contact him."
The implication of his words to expel the guests was too obvious, and his words and actions also meant to deliberately distance the two of them. The reason why a company is a company is because the employees work together and everyone is responsible for different sections. Bai Wenrui bypassed Ruan Wei and came directly to him, which was against the rules.
Bai Wenrui obviously understood what he meant.
He nodded tactfully, without saying any more nonsense, and left obediently with his sample.
Muxuxing sat back in his seat, ready to start designing the animation storyboard. However, at this moment, his phone, which was placed on the table, lit up because of a message.
Muxuxing glanced at the phone screen casually, but his eyes froze instantly—
Mu Xingxue: Do you have a pseudonym
Mu Xuxing was a little confused.
He thought he had concealed it successfully. At least Fang Lian and Wen Feihang, who were more familiar with his style, could not tell that the video with "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" as a mashup was actually his work. But if Fang Lian and Wen Feihang couldn't see it, how could Mu Xingxue, a layman, know it
Not sure whether Mu Xingxue really knew something or was deliberately trying to deceive him, Mu Suxing thought about it and replied with a "?".
Mu Xingxue didn't waste any words and just threw over two addresses: Take a look for yourself.
No way
Could it really be his alias that was exposed by the omnipotent netizens
Mu Suxing was extremely surprised. He rubbed his temple, clicked on the address sent by Mu Xingxue, and read it nervously.
In a niche section of the largest anime forum on Blue Planet.
Title: I seem to have uncovered Xingxing’s true identity.
Content: As the title says, the OP has been bored at home these days and too lazy to follow anime, so I just looked for some animated shorts to watch for fun. Then I found that the overall style of an animated short is very similar to that of "The Little Prince", and it feels like the work of Xing Xing. Is there any big shot who can prove it
1st floor: I’m curious about this animated short film which is said to be very similar to “The Little Prince”, so is there an address
2nd Floor: [Address]
Floor 3: I've finished watching it, it's quite nice, and I agree with what the main poster said, the style is obviously influenced by Xingxing, and I feel like it's most likely Xingxing's alias.
4th floor: I like this movie "Flying Birds". It has a healing feeling similar to "The Little Prince". The pictures are also too dreamy, which can really arouse my girlish heart. No wonder I thought this animation producer was very extraordinary when I watched it. It turned out to be Xingxing's trumpet.
5th floor: After waiting for so long, I finally got to see Xingxing’s art animation short film! So happy!
6th floor: So strange, why would Xingxing open a separate account to do art animation? It doesn’t make sense…
Floor 7: What's so unreasonable about this? Which big shot doesn't open two pseudonyms to focus on both commercial and artistic endeavors? Xingxing probably wants to use this new pseudonym to concentrate on making art animations, right
…
Mu Xuxing did not read the rest of the content.
He closed the post and switched back to the chat page.
Muxiuxing: That’s not my vest.
Mu Xingxue:
Mu Suxing was about to type out an explanation when there was a bang in the office and someone roughly pushed the door open. Mu Xingxue hurriedly stepped in front of Mu Suxing, his expression slightly gloomy: "Are you saying that this "Flying Bird" was not made by you at all?"
"Do I need to hide my identity and create an art animation account?" Mu Suxing asked back: "Now everyone says that I am obsessed with money. Do you think it is more meaningful for me to create an art animation account or to use my own identity to create art animation and directly prove myself?"
Mu Xingxue frowned, and then his expression turned ugly: "It's really not you?"
Mu Suxing nodded affirmatively: "It should be just a coincidence. I have been busy with my graduation project for the past month and have no time to make another animated short film, let alone open a vest."
Mu Xingxue's mood did not return to normal after his explanation. On the contrary, he looked quite annoyed and his face became even uglier. He stared at Mu Suxing and said, "Do you really think this is just a coincidence?"
Mu Suxing was slightly stunned.
"If I hadn't been judging you by my own standards, this animated short film—" Mu Xingxue pointed at the "Flying Bird" video on the phone screen with his chin and said calmly, "Tomorrow the news about you opening a new account will be on the headlines of animation magazines. By then, most of the fans who were attracted by your "The Little Prince" will come to watch this video."
"When the popularity of "Flying Birds" rises and it receives overwhelming praise, the producer comes out to clarify and says that "Flying Birds" is his work, not yours, what do you think will happen?"
"They will praise this animation producer for being outstanding and promising. They will say that you have been immersed in commercial animation for so long that you have wasted your talent. You may have forgotten how to make artistic animation and it is impossible for you to create such an excellent work as Asuka."
Mu Suxing frowned, as if he realized something.
"This is not a coincidence," Mu Xingxue shook his head, a hint of coldness flashed across his eyes, "Some people have made up their minds to take advantage of you and step on you to climb up."
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