After all of them were reborn, who would still be an actor?

Chapter 755 One Person, One Punch: A Critical Strike Against the Japanese Mainland
"Boss, this mountain is great! It's big enough, not too remote, not too bustling, just right!" Xiao Ye said.

Ah Huo and Xiao Ye went to the remote mountains and forests of Ah Huo's hometown to open an animation studio.

Then a real estate developer took a liking to the area and wanted to build a resort there.

We need to move to a different location.

Li Mingyang specifically chose this mountain as the new base for his animation studio.

Li Mingyang had no intention of developing the wasteland around the mountain. Wasteland has its advantages; sometimes finding a wasteland can be quite troublesome.

"When will the animation for 'Your Name' be released?" Li Mingyang asked, turning around.

The smiles on Ah Huo and Xiao Ye's faces vanished instantly.

If the animation for "Your Name" were hand-drawn, it would have been completed long ago, but Li Mingyang insisted on using CG effects.

There are so many technical challenges!
They were working on the simple tasks while simultaneously working on the CG effects. They even finished the subtitles and voice-over for the simple tasks, but the CG effects were stuck for a month or so, and the results were getting worse and worse.

Top-tier special effects production requires a combination of research and development and aesthetics; it demands both programming skills and an ability to grasp aesthetics.

Not only is the technical skill lacking, but the team's aesthetic sense is also a major problem...

Lack of imagination...

Every time I sent a message to Li Mingyang, it either disappeared without a trace or I was scolded mercilessly by him.

Ah Huo and Xiao Ye honestly said that their version of "Your Name" was good enough, absolutely superior to anything made in China.

However, Li Mingyang did not accept this view. He wanted them to strive for excellence, be courageous in making breakthroughs, especially in technology, and pursue ultimate perfection.

An extreme event terrified the two of them, making them feel like the sky was falling.

"If we don't have anyone, we'll recruit. We can recruit from within or from outside. I only have one requirement: we must make the meteor effect even more dazzling and spectacular than the original version of Your Name, full of the power of disaster."

"Boss... the meteor effect for your name was done by Industrial Light & Magic, the world's number one."

"But that was three years ago. Times have changed!"

"..."*2
"You all need to feel the pressure. The special effects production level of Pangu is approaching assembly line standards. It won't have any impact in the short term, but problems will definitely arise in the future. Only by constantly improving and overcoming difficulties can we carve out a niche for ourselves in the field of special effects. You need to understand your responsibilities. You are not technicians, special effects artists, or cartoonists. You are the executors of the technological revolution. What you need to do is to motivate your subordinates, encourage their initiative, and get them to work their hardest!"

Li Mingyang, frustrated and disappointed, gave the two a lecture.

Don't see yourself as an animation creator, but rather as an executor of a technological revolution, whose main job is to promise your employees a bright future.

Upon hearing this, the two suddenly understood; anyone can make empty promises!
"Alright, you two hurry up and choose a location. Get your plans in place as soon as possible. By the way, you two stop looking so gloomy all the time, and stop looking like such shut-ins. You're the image of the company. You've looked so pathetic these past few months."

Ah Huo and Xiao Ye exchanged a glance. They were used to it and didn't think much of it... but the two of them were indeed a bit unkempt.

He had a stubble beard, greasy hair, and wrinkled clothes.

Like a programmer.

The two were once admired young masters by thousands...

"It's inconvenient in the mountains..." Xiao Ye said.

"No matter where you are, you must pay attention to your image. You represent the company! You are the ones making promises, not the ones doing the work. You need to project an elite image! That's how you make those promises more convincing. How can someone who can't even support themselves convince their subordinates that following them will lead to a bright future?"

"Yes, yes, what the boss says is absolutely right," Ah Huo quickly flattered.

"Boss, how about we change the name of the animation studio and add a touch of mysticism?" Xiao Ye suggested.

Upon hearing this, Li Mingyang chuckled, "Indeed, sometimes a touch of metaphysics might just lead to a breakthrough! What name do you think is good?"

“Our studio is in the mountains, so let’s call it Volcano Studio! It’s sure to explode!” Xiao Ye said excitedly.

"Holy crap, what a terrible name!"

"What if it's an extinct volcano?" Li Mingyang said with a smile.

Xiao Ye scratched his chin, looked around, and an idea came to him. "Let's name this forest 'Happy Forest.' Happy Forest plus volcano, that's an active volcano! It's bound to erupt! It's all or nothing!"

Ah Huo Sparta!

Li Mingyang laughed twice, "What a fine 'do or die' attitude! This place is yours to manage from now on. Money is no problem. If you don't have any, just write a note and I'll sign it."

"Don't worry, boss! We'll definitely get your name out before the end of the year!"

Ah Huo has vanished!
How could you possibly say that before the end of the year?! There are so many technical challenges, none of which we've ever faced before!

"Good! Ah Huo should learn from Xiao Ye. People must push themselves. You won't know how great you are until you push yourself to the brink."

Ah Huo touched his nose, looked at Xiao Ye, then at Li Mingyang, and strongly suspected that he had been set up...

This is to make him issue a pledge.

Xiao Ye is the kind of person who can go anywhere and do well anywhere.

All he knows is anime... He can't do anything without anime!

"Boss, don't worry, if we can't get it done by the end of January, I...I..." Ah Huo lacked confidence and stammered, not knowing what to say next.

"Forget about quitting, we're brothers, I can't bear to part with you... How about this, if you can't make it work, you compensate me with 50 million."

"Damn it! I might as well quit!"

……

9 month 25 day.

New One-Punch Man is now available on FBTV!

Contrary to all viewers' expectations, the new One-Punch Man episode lasted only half an hour, not a second longer.

The plot is fast-paced and concise!
The action and special effects are exhilarating!
It also has some humorous elements.

A very exciting action blockbuster, it's just as good as theatrical releases!

Especially in the fight scenes, the 360-degree rotating perspective amazed countless viewers!
Lee Myung-yang makes movies in South Korea, most of which are rated 19+, except for Goodbye.

Many of his younger fans are unable to go to the cinema to watch his movies.

The fan base in the Korean entertainment industry is quite peculiar; they feel ashamed if they can't do anything for their idols.

In addition, some viewers from Dongda University, because they "owed Lee Myung-yang a movie ticket," went to the cinema to pay for a ticket even though they had already seen the pirated version of Miss Ko, which made it into the Korean news.

The new One-Punch Man has been released on FBTV.

Lee Myung-yang's Korean fans finally found an opportunity to support their idol, so they watched it like crazy, and the viewing time exploded.

Playback duration is always the most important metric for long-form video platforms.

It is a concrete manifestation of traffic.

This is similar to fans boosting the music charts of girl groups and boy groups, playing music all day long, increasing the duration and number of plays.

Within 24 hours of the release of the new One-Punch Man, at noon on the second day, it had been viewed more than five million times.

The average viewing time is over one hour...

The most outrageous thing about this data is that it exceeds the length of One-Punch Man and is more than twice as long.

Within 48 hours of the release of the new One-Punch Man, the number of views exceeded seven million!
The average viewing time remains stable at around one hour.

The most impressive statistics don't come from South Korea.

With Lee Myung-yang's enormous market appeal in South Korea, he achieved over a hundred exaggerated historical and milestone accomplishments.

Lee Myung-yang proved how popular and influential he was in South Korea with four films: New World, Goodbye My Soulmate, Seoul Spring, and The Lady.

The Korean market is Li Mingyang's backyard.

There's absolutely no need to worry. In addition, a host of Korean celebrities have been posting about the new One-Punch Man, expressing their loyalty to the production of the new One-Punch Man on social media.

The new One-Punch Man is practically guaranteed to be a hit in South Korea! You can tell from the number of pre-registrations.

The most amazing thing is that the new One-Punch Man is showing signs of exploding in doujinshi after 48 hours!
On the first day, the number of views for the book was not high, less than 100,000, with many members having reserved the book but not watching it.

The next day, the number of times the script was viewed suddenly surged in the evening, increasing tenfold in just a few hours to reach the million level. The growth of new paid members was even more exaggerated, increasing by 400,000 during that period.

The explosive data left the co-CEOs bewildered, and the Japanese television station was also completely baffled.

On the third day, the truth came to light.

It turns out that One-Punch Man is actually a Japanese manga! The original author, ONE, sold all the rights to Li Mingyang back in 09.

Many people thought Li Mingyang wouldn't buy the copyright, but he turned out to be a game-changer!
Whether it's fame or a bouquet of flowers, the One-Punch Man IP has always been heavily developed by Li Mingyang!

The tokusatsu version of One-Punch Man has become a hit in the country and successfully expanded its reach beyond its original audience.

Years later, the new One-Punch Man, with its high-quality theatrical production standards, top-notch special effects, and the appearance of Li Mingyang, a prominent figure in Asian cinema, catalyzed the "battle of the century" and opened up the market for fan-made comics...

Finally, it blossomed in its home country! Radiating its most dazzling brilliance!
The number of FBTV users in Japan has exploded at an incredibly rapid pace, and live-action adaptations of anime and manga have become a distinctive feature of Japanese culture.

Even with its shabby, abstract art style, One-Punch Man became a hit.

Permanently ceased publication.

Countless fans of Japanese manga felt sorry for this.

The tokusatsu version of One-Punch Man circulated in doujinshi, which One-Punch Man fans enjoyed reading.

The well-made new One-Punch Man immediately fulfilled the fantasies of countless One-Punch Man fans!

Just as iQiyi, Youku, and Tencent Video launched the new One-Punch Man series in the country.

In the doujinshi, the new One-Punch Man has been materialized!
Li Mingyang shattered the barriers of Japanese comics with a single punch, breaking into the Japanese comics market, which was difficult for outsiders to enter and was monopolized by Japanese television stations!

FBTV has gained a million new paid subscribers in Japan!
It mainly comes from a new group of people from the anime and manga community!

This terrifying growth was something no one except Li Mingyang had anticipated.

Everyone else was hoping for a new One-Punch Man that would give FBTV a surge in users at Tokyo University, but after five days, the growth was less than 3…

The University of Tokyo has a firewall, FBTV requires overseas mobile phone numbers for registration, and online payment is another problem.

In addition, iQiyi, Youku, and Tencent Video will also broadcast it.

After a while, it became too troublesome, so no one wanted to do it anymore.

However, the sudden appearance of the notebook was too unexpected! It was a stroke of good luck!

The investors in FBTV are all waiting for the Your Name anime to be adapted into doujinshi. The influence of Your Name in doujinshi should not be underestimated; it even surpassed the box office success of a live-action movie back then!

It will definitely explode as long as no one causes trouble.

Unexpectedly, Li Mingyang didn't use your name; instead, he delivered a devastating blow to the Japanese mainland with a single punch each!

It has brought FBTV substantial profits and a bright future!
This is a legitimate, paid product; it's the most complete and largest entertainment market in Asia!
With tens of millions of paid members, each paying around $10, the company earns $100 million a month just from membership fees! That's $1.2 billion a year.

YouTube has reached 10 billion users.

Last year, advertising revenue barely surpassed the $10 billion mark.

FBTV has 10 million paid members, which amounts to 1.2 billion US dollars a year!

One hundred million paying users would amount to 12 billion US dollars.

If streaming media develops hundreds of millions of paying subscribers, the advertising revenue will be staggering!

Even a conservative estimate would be at least 10%!
The development of oil pipelines has entered a slow phase, with growth becoming sluggish.

FBTV is just getting started.

Its potential is so great that it could shake YouTube, the world's streaming giant.

In terms of prospects.

Given the popularity of New One-Punch Man in doujinshi, it is a hero IP with the potential for continued development!

Anyone who dares to oppose FBTV is opposing the world's largest capital alliance!

And then...and then it abruptly ended...

The new One-Punch Man has been taken offline from FBTV.

Fox and Universal have sued FBTV in the US, Tokyo, South Korea, and Japan, and also sued Lee Ming-yang!

New One-Punch Man is infringing on copyright!
This issue stems from a project that was co-produced by China and the US years ago.

The two Sino-US co-productions, "New World" and "One-Punch Man," were jointly produced by China Film Group, 20th Century Fox, and Universal Pictures.

New world.

China Film Group, Fox, and Universal Pictures did not pursue the matter.

Li Mingyang even suspected that the project was just a hollow project.

However, Fox and Universal are taking the One-Punch Man project seriously, because Marvel's superhero cinematic universe is too profitable!

The superhero cinematic universe is an incredibly awesome concept!

Earn money steadily with an extremely low chance of failure! Occasionally, you might make a huge profit!

Hollywood's film industry has found a new direction once again!
A new direction with stable output and huge potential for explosive growth!

Fox and Universal couldn't wait to snatch the finished film of the new One-Punch Man after seeing it.

The final result is.

FBTV is in an uproar; Hollywood and Wall Street are at each other's throats!

Li Mingyang never dreamed that the internal strife would start so quickly.

The greed of capital is like a piranha that pounces on the smell of blood!

When they get ruthless, they'll even bite their own people.

Then, Li Mingyang was furious. The fire had spread to him. One side demanded that the film be released in theaters, while the other side demanded that it be streamed online.

Everyone is thinking about maximizing their own interests.

Seeing that things were not going well, Li Mingyang immediately shut down his phone and returned to the domestic battlefield.

Domestically, iQiyi, Youku, and Tencent Video didn't even lag behind Universal and Fox, launching their shows on time!

All the pressure is on China Film Group.

Because China Film Group, which is associated with the bandit leader Shan Diao, has the right to overturn the contract and can terminate it for any reason.

But this termination can only stop domestically.

It can't be stopped abroad!
Facebook removed the new One-Punch Man series because it was forced upon them; Wall Street had no choice...

On September 30, the day the new One-Punch Man was released, Li Mingyang posted a Weibo post.

"I once promised that if your name could break 1 billion at the box office, I would bring One-Punch Man to the big screen. I have always remembered it and never forgotten it."

"However, due to the length limitations of movies, I think it would be more appropriate to make it into a web movie of about 30 minutes."

"Here, I want to apologize to all the netizens who were looking forward to One-Punch Man being released in theaters. The new One-Punch Man will not be released in theaters. From now on, a new movie will be released on the 30th of each month. Thank you."

The news of a new One-Punch Man series being released monthly on Weibo shocked the entire internet.

Countless netizens are celebrating!

At first, some people complained that the new One-Punch Man was so short, and that it was over before they got enough of it!

That's great! Monthly updates, so there'll be something to read every month!
Compared to the jubilation of netizens, the news of One-Punch Man being updated monthly has shaken the mainland film industry, leaving countless people depressed as if they had lost a close relative.

It's so high quality, just like One-Punch Man, that no domestic company can keep up!
In the past, everyone was involved in money laundering; it was a win-win situation where everyone made money together.

Now there's more capital and more funds, but even if you throw money at it, you can't make a superhero action special effects movie of the quality of One-Punch Man!
Too few people understand this!

Domestically, steelmaking is still done using outdated methods, while the film industry is being disguised as industrialization.

Nine out of ten special effects companies are bookkeepers.

Li Mingyang went straight into producing a truly industrialized film and even cut off the supply of special effects companies in South Korea.

Li Mingyang refused to have the Pangu special effects done in China, and he also joined forces with other special effects companies to refuse to have them done in China either.

In China, if you want to get special effects done, you have to go to Hollywood special effects companies that are ridiculously expensive.

After the major reshuffle of Hollywood special effects companies in the past two years, not only have special effects costs skyrocketed, but the level of special effects has also been greatly hampered.

It was supposed to be 100% gold, but what I bought was only 60-70% of its quality.

Without developing our own film industry, we will only be held hostage.

Despite various bottlenecks, the film special effects industry at Tokyo University ultimately broke through in game and animation technology and then applied the technology to live-action films.

Live-action films have gone down a crooked path... Special effects are just a fig leaf, and even then, they still owe money or demand kickbacks.

The most classic example is the "Blue Giant" from Fengshen 2.

The outsourcing price is 5000 yuan, plus a 500 yuan rebate.

This is what netizens said, and there is no substantial evidence to support it.

However... this statement was so accurate and detailed that it quickly spread.

Finally, the authorities were forced to issue a statement saying, "The portrait of Yin Jiao was not made for 4500 yuan."

Indeed... 4500 is too much. Find a decent modeler, and plenty of people will be eager to do it for 2000. Go to 3dliuliu.com, find some similar models, piece them together, and then copy and paste the head, change the expression, and you're done!

Li Mingyang could do this himself, and he'd do it even better than the Blue Giant!

Finally, why does it glow like a firefly? Because it's cheap!

Skin and hair details are so expensive!
Despite public relations efforts, the public remained unconvinced. Some even argued that Yin Jiao's special effects perfectly illustrated what Jiaozi and Guo Fan had said: "Top-tier international teams might use third-rate people to do projects in China."

Actually, they're not exactly third-rate; they're just newbies, or they're just subcontracting the work to the lackeys of the University of Tokyo.

Global special effects are basically all outsourced; the number of outsourced personnel for Pangu Special Effects far exceeds the number of our own staff.

The strategy is to have 'one central focus, with multiple points of development'.

The center is responsible for technological breakthroughs, while multiple points are responsible for modifying sample images.

Li Mingyang started working hard on CG special effects as early as Your Name. Later, he poached people from South Korea with high salaries and poured the film's budget into special effects, developing plugins, scripts, and tools, thereby overcoming many technical difficulties and creating a mature special effects industrial system.

Whether it's the "Your Name" filter, feng shui effects, or the ray tracing engine, using them on One-Punch Man is like adding wings to a tiger.

Then another problem arose: homogenization...

With the Pangu special effects becoming highly efficient, people became complacent and indulged in assembly-line work.

It has remained stagnant.

Maybe they were tired... or maybe they were satisfied.

This is very dangerous.

But there's no good way to do it; we can only wait for the right opportunity.

For example, The Three-Body Problem!

Use higher goals, lofty ideals, and national pride to inspire fighting spirit.

Now let's take a break... a rest before climbing the mountain.

After all, he was resting too.

After posting on Weibo, Li Mingyang put on a Terry baseball cap and sunglasses, left his office, and went to the seventh floor of the Peak Building.

As soon as the elevator door opens.

A group of people gathered at the elevator entrance.

Li Mingyang spotted Zhang Daniu immediately; his tall, bald head was too conspicuous in the crowd.

Then there's Li Xiucheng.

And a girl who looks very young and ordinary!

Chosen Witch! Kim Da-mi!
I just got accepted into the Department of Performing Arts at Incheon University in South Korea this year, and I'm a freshman there.

Li Mingyang had been looking for her for so long, but she was still in high school.

In fact... she didn't even go to the Witch 2 audition on her own initiative. She went with a classmate and accidentally ended up participating in the audition.

Then Li Mingyang picked him out from the vast sea of ​​people!

Out of more than 4,000 auditionees, Li Mingyang watched the audition videos of more than 2,000 people before finding Kim Da-mi.

"Hello, Director Li!"

"Hello, Director Li!"

"loyalty!"

(End of this chapter)