The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

Chapter 3 Outsourcing

“Outsourcing of CG short films?”

Lu Yuxiang listened to Fan Zhe on the phone, his face turned a little weird. He asked, “How did you switch to this job?”

“Recently, I made a special effects studio with a few friends… Not to mention this, do you have any suitable outsourcing work there?”

“No.” Lu Yuxiang denied at first, but then added: “But I know that there is a big studio, which happens to have this demand. The budget is about 400,000 yuan. If you want to get it, I can help you with the next step.”

“That would be nice.”

“But…” Lu Yuxiang hesitated for a while, or said, “Their demands are higher…Fan boss, I don’t believe you, but I can’t smash my own sign, right?”

Lu Yuxiang actually regretted telling Fan Zhe about this. He didn’t think that Fan Zhe, or the new studio he set up, was capable of meeting the requirements of the project.

The CG short film demand he mentioned is an independent game project being undertaken by a relatively large studio in the industry. Although this studio is not a big factory, its past works have good reputation and sales. They made some money in the previous projects, and the new work is more ambitious. They want to make a better beginning CG animation, but they lack the energy to directly create such a short film, so they plan to outsource this work.

“I know your concerns.” Fan Zhe said over the phone, “Well, I now have a small product to test the waters. Although the film is short, you can see our strength. I think it should be able to satisfy it. The other party’s request.”

“All right, you send my email, I will give you an answer after reading it.”

After hanging up, after a while, Lu Yuxiang saw Fan Zhe’s email.

Downloaded the short video, opened it, and the 13-second short video ended soon, leaving only the shocked Lu Yuxiang.

It took a long time before he was relieved. He couldn’t wait to click the replay and watched it the second time. It was not too satisfying, the third time, the fourth time…

The short video of only thirteen seconds, what it showed, has already shocked Lu Yuxiang.

The more he watched, the more excited he got. He immediately picked up the phone and redialed Fan Zhe back.

“Watching so fast? I thought you still have to evaluate it.”

“What’s the evaluation!” Lu Yuxiang said, “With samples of this level, what else can be evaluated? Your technical level is quite good.”

“Okay.”

What comes out of black technology, can it work?

“Their needs are about a one-and-a-half to two-minute short film, which is basically a battle scene. There are three very detailed protagonists. The original characters are available, but you have to design your own concept drawings for the short film. The scenes are required to be done. It needs to be hotter. The overall working hours are a bit more rushed and need to be completed within three months… That’s the general demand, the budget is 450,000, but I think there should be room for discussion. Can you give us a price?”

“Three fine characters, a short film of about two minutes…eh…five to five hundred thousand?”

“Five hundred thousand?”

“Will it be too much?”

“No… it only costs half a million for two minutes to do this kind of quality? US dollars?”

“RMB…”

“…”

There was silence on the phone for a while, and Lu Yuxiang adjusted his mind and said solemnly, “Are you sure?”

“Of course higher prices are better.”

“The price problem is not big, I will talk to them.” Lu Yuxiang said, “But you can really guarantee that you can produce two minutes of this quality short film within three months?”

“Three months is too rush.” ​​Fan Zhe said, “I don’t have enough manpower on my side, and the quality will definitely decline.”

“I think even if it is down two grades, it is enough to make a difference, and they still make a profit. Okay, so be it. I will use this short video of you to talk to others. If you have this level of seriousness, let it live. It’s not a big problem. This time the list is relatively large, and we are old friends again. I’ll give you some discounts and draw five points. Are you okay?”

“No.”

“Wait for my news.”

Hanging up, Lu Yuxiang’s mood also calmed down a lot. Playing with the phone, his mind flew away from the matter itself.

His old Lu has been an illustration agency for many years, and he has a good reputation in this circle. There are always many homes looking for him. He also holds a lot of very good painter resources in his hand, relying on As a broker, he can live a rather moist life.

However, people always have something else to look forward to, and he is the same, looking forward to a bigger and better future.

For a long time, he has been trying to find a new road, but the new road is difficult to find and difficult to follow. Anyway, since he had this idea, he has not found any good opportunities so far.

But right now, it seems to be a good opportunity.

…

On the other side, after finishing the call, Fan Zhe rubbed his face.

He found that doing visual effects is more profitable than he thought.

The premise is that he did it himself. Otherwise, to a normal special effects company, half a million yuan? I’m afraid it’s just enough for the electricity bill.

Of course, UU reading www.uukanshu. com is joking, a bit exaggerated. However, things like full CG special effects short films are indeed big money-burners. For some blockbuster movies, the special effects burned out are calculated by the second. It requires hundreds of artists and technicians to work together for a long time to make the final result.

The annual salary of these people is astronomical, not to mention a large number of high-precision equipment and a large amount of time cost.

In the hands of Fan Zhe, he single-handedly, relying on the ‘dimensional system’, he can do it himself.

Of course, if he really does it by himself, the time consumption will be very long.

Before 　　, the 13-second short film sent to Lu Yuxiang took him two months of production. It takes a lot of time to draw the original light concept painting, not to mention the subsequent import of drawings and modeling projects. Although ‘dimension’ solves most of the problems, there are still many places that require manual operation.

The two-minute opening animation should be based on the quality of the short film that Fan Zhe made before. Fan Zhe is afraid that he will have to do it for a year by himself, and he will definitely not be able to wait for that long.

But this list, Fan Zhe must be the next. The temptation to solve most of his debt problems in one breath is quite huge.

As for the existing problems, there are two solutions before him:

One is to find someone to work together; the other is to reduce the quality of the finished product.

I originally budgeted 450,000 yuan, so I definitely didn’t expect to directly make it into a super first-class CG animation. Therefore, in terms of quality, Fan Zhe’s room for change is huge, as Lu Yuxiang said, even if the quality of the sample short film is not available, it is no problem to lower the two grades.

As for the manpower…he thought of someone.