I just want to draw cartoons quietly

Although the rhythm of the whole work is slow, there is a kind of magic power that has captured Li Xi's heart from the very beginning.

For Li Xi, to judge whether a work has potential, she only looks at one point, that is, after you finish reading a chapter, whether you want to read the next chapter.

When Li Xi finished reading the draft of the name of the three chapters, when she realized that the follow-up plot was gone, the anxiety that arose in Li Xi's heart at that moment clearly told her...

Very interesting.......this works!

Chapter 153 Li Xi's Opinion

The name of the third episode was broken on the second day after Takahashi Keisuke lost to Fujiwara Takumi, he came to the gas station where Fujiwara Takumi worked to ask about Akinayama's 86.

While admitting the loss to the AE86 in front of many people at the gas station, he also made a declaration to the seniors at the gas station that he would not lose to the same person twice, and said that he would not lose to the same person twice at the official meeting on Saturday. Defeat this 86 in the exchange battle......

To be honest, Li Xi doesn't know much about cars. Although he drives by himself, his understanding of cars only stops at the level of four tires, one steering wheel, accelerator and brake.

But even so... just looking at the name draft of the first three chapters of Initial D, Li Xi's anticipation for this comic rose in his heart.

Want to know, what will happen next?

Why does Takumi Fujiwara have such great racing skills?

Will he attend the official meeting on Saturday?Will Akagi REDSUNS sweep the riders if he does not participate in Akinayama?

Also, is the girl named Natsuki in the play the heroine?

Why did she feel so unfamiliar talking to her father in the name draft!It always feels weird.

Heaving a sigh of relief, Li Xi thought about it, and re-read the script of the three chapters again.

"This work of yours...compared with your previous works, the style has changed a lot!" After a long time, Li Xi looked at Chu Yu and said.

"Well, indeed!" Chu Yu said.

"Do you know cars and drivers very well?" Li Xi asked doubtfully.

"I understand!" Chu Yu lied without changing his face.

He doesn't know anything about cars, but this time he got this work, he just bit the bullet.

In the next period of time, he will take the initiative to supplement relevant knowledge, and he will also apply for a name, and then he will take the driver's license test, otherwise it will spread in the future that the author of the initial D does not even have a driver's license, then it will be true. embarrassing.

But now, Chu Yu must pretend to be a fan of it.

Otherwise, Li Xi would definitely worry about the subsequent creation of the plot of this work, which would definitely be detrimental to the double play that Chu Yu wanted.

"I didn't expect you to have such a hobby! I really can't tell it on weekdays!" Li Xi shook his head and said.

"But to be honest, this work called Initial D is really... beautiful!"

"Although it's a racing caricature, you don't start from the perspective of a professional driver in the usual way, but from the contest between amateur drivers as the starting point, which really makes me feel very exciting. And readers will compare it The setting is very substituting."

"After all, compared to professional drivers, most readers don't have the kind of setting that requires talent and money, but a son of a tofu shop owner with superb driving skills will undoubtedly make it easy for readers to substitute for the protagonist. go."

The sense of substitution of the green hat will also be very strong.

When Chu Yu heard this, he unconsciously complained in his heart.

"In three weeks, the Scarlet Abyss will end." Li Xi thought for a while.

"At that time, plus the three works that were cut in half according to the regulations, there will be vacancies for the serialization of four works on the water edge."

"Usually speaking, based on your past achievements, if you open a new work, and the quality is as high as the initial D, it is not difficult to get a serial seat."

"It's just....... After all, you are Natsume's account of friends. I can only say that I will try my best to help you get this opportunity to serialize. The main reason is to see how the editor-in-chief is. If he agrees with you in Shuiyuan If it’s double-released, basically based on the plot quality of this work, I don’t think there’s any problem with serialization.”

"I understand that!" Chu Yu nodded.

Sometimes it doesn't mean that if he has a good work submitted to Shuiyuan, his work will definitely be serialized. Otherwise, one day Chu Yu will come out with dozens of works, and he will still be able to occupy all [-] serialization seats of Shuiyuan?

How can this be?

In a journal like Shuiyuan, behind every serial seat there are editors in the comic book club fighting each other, how can it be possible for a single cartoonist to dominate.

So even though Li Xi thought that the work of Initial D was very good, he didn't dare to guarantee that he would win a serial seat for this work.

All she can say is do her best.

"By the way, Li Xi!" Chu Yu took this opportunity to ask by the way.

"what's up?"

"As far as I have the idea of ​​two short works, it may only be suitable for making two short animations of several 10 minutes long, and it is not suitable for drawing comics. Do you have any good solutions for such a situation?"

"Two... ideas?" Li Xi looked strange.

"You are really prolific!"

But after all, Li Xi can still understand Chu Yu.

It's like the popularity of unheard of flower names, although Li Xi regretted for a moment that he introduced this work to Jiuxing instead of letting Chu Yu draw it in the form of comics and serialize it in Xuangui.

But thinking about it carefully, Chu Yu's script is indeed very important for the popularity of Huaming, but Jiuxing's animation production level, selection of songs and voice actors also played a big role.

It is really unheard of that Huaming is serialized in the manga on Xuangui. Maybe the readers will be moved by the work before the ending comes out, and maybe it will be cut in half in the early stage.

Therefore, Li Xi can understand Chu Yu's two short stories that want to bypass Xuan Gui.

"Since you already know Huang Ming, if you want to make a new work in the form of animation, do you still need to ask me?"

"Look for Huang Ming directly!" Li Xi said indifferently.

"But the last time I cooperated with Jiuxing, it was because they had such a plan, and the unnamed script met their requirements, that's why I had that chance to cooperate!"

"The two works I have now are both short stories. I don't think Huang Ming would want to animate such two works." Chu Yu frowned.

"Well, indeed." Li Xi said.

"The last cooperation was a bit of luck."

"However, Jiuxing's animation production is not necessarily a project initiated by them. In the animation industry, there are many examples of other companies entrusting them to customize animations! It's like some light novels and games. The publishers agree that they have potential, but due to various reasons The popularity is not good, and it is common to find an animation production company to make that work into an animation to improve the popularity of the work and drive the sales of the original work.”

"Since they don't necessarily have a new plan that matches your two works, but you pay for it yourself, it's okay to ask them to make your work into an animation!"

"What do you mean? I'll pay Jiuxing to make it for me?" Chu Yu pointed to himself.

"That's right!"

"Can this work? Let's not talk about whether I have the money on me, but I really entrust them to help me make the work, then what?"

"How does the work make money, and what are the dissemination channels? How to find professional talents to promote the work? I don't have a good way to solve these problems." Chu Yu asked.

"Then you can also cooperate with Nine Stars! You pay the money, they provide the resources and animation production staff, when the time comes to publicize, and the broadcasting channel will be handed over to them, wouldn't it be enough for both of you to agree on the share ratio? Of course, such a premise It's because they like your work, think your work has commercial value, and maybe cooperate with you in this way!" Li Xi said slowly.

"It feels so troublesome!" Chu Yu's head grew big.

What Li Xi said was not without reason.

In Chu Yu’s opinion, even if [-] Centimeters per Second and Voice of the Stars were drawn as comics, they would not be able to be serialized on Shuiyuan.

In this case, it is better to make it into an animation directly to restore its original appearance.

I just didn't expect it to be so troublesome?

If Jiuxing has no intention, then Chu Yu can only ask Jiuxing to produce it at his own expense, and find a channel to broadcast it by himself.

As for the production cost of the animation...

Chu Yu has the final say, it is not impossible for him to make these two works at his own expense.

Today, Chu Yu’s one-page manga manuscript is two thousand Longguo currency, and the comic manuscript of four chapters a month is nearly 10,000 or [-] pages, and the monthly remuneration is nearly [-]+ Longguo currency.

Natsume's Account of Friends has been serialized for more than half a year, and the manuscript fee received by Chu Yu minus daily expenses, assistant fees and tax deductions, there is still 90 million Longguo coins left.

Coupled with the millions of unheard of Huaming's animation adaptation rights, and the subsequent unheard of Huaming's peripheral sales dividends, it is estimated that Chu Yu will also bring millions of dragons in the future.

Therefore, in the next few months, Chu Yu can raise nearly 300 million Dragon National Coins at most.

Do you think this amount of money is enough to produce the animations of [-] Centimeters per Second and Voice of the Stars?

On the surface, it seems that a few million is not a fart in the animation film and television industry...

But actually.... is totally enough.

After all, in the parallel world, Makoto Shinkai only spent 500 million yen to make 100 Centimeters per Second, which is equivalent to more than RMB [-] million, and it is still a country with high consumption like Japan in the parallel world.

As for the Voice of the Stars, it was the product of Makoto Xin Hai's monopoly, and the cost was definitely lower.

Although animation production is a costly thing, after all, it does not involve too many 3D scenes, and the price of the Dragon Kingdom in this world is definitely lower than that of Japan in parallel time and space. The two works are only a few 10 minutes of animation, plus Chu Yu has ready-made music and other things, and it can save a lot of money......

Thinking about it this way, Chu Yu felt... It seemed that he paid for the production of these two works, and they really had a lot of fun!

As long as they can find a group of highly professional teams through Huang Ming's relationship, it would be best if they can reach the level of Makoto Shinkai's Wallpaper Maniac.

Thinking a little bit more, if Jiuxing can be brought on board, and its technology can be invested in, and the two parties will share dividends, then Jiuxing will definitely be willing to help these two works to promote and solve the problem of communication channels... ..

Maybe, the work can explode and make a lot of money......

Chu Yu shook his head vigorously, and told himself that it's fine to fantasize about here, and if he thinks about it too much, he won't be able to wake up.

He certainly wasn't so naive as to think things were that simple.

A big company like him may not be interested in Chu Yu's small business of several million. If Chu Yu wants to cooperate with him, he may not be willing.

However, Li Xi's proposal is a development direction.

After all, Chu Yu and Huang Ming have been in touch for a few times, this person is still easy to talk to. If he can really help Chu Yu solve the animation production team's problems, then Chu Yu really doesn't care about investing money to produce animation.

Anyway, it’s a loss if it’s great!It doesn't matter if you lose some money, as long as the comic system exists, the money will be earned back sooner or later.

But Chu Yu really felt heartbroken if he could find a way to bring back [-] Centimeters per Second and Voice of the Stars, which were drawn out in an A-level lottery.

Otherwise, after drawing the name drafts of the two works in the past two days, I really want to find a chance to ask Huang Mingyue out to test his tone and see if he has any intention to animate these two works?

Chapter 154 Preparation

"Anyway, the situation is like this. I don't know what your two new short stories are like, but if Nine Stars doesn't have a strong intention to animate your new work..." Li Xi thought thought.

"At that time, I can also introduce you to find people from other animation production companies, but relatively speaking, those companies are relatively small and not strong enough, and the finished animation effects may be relatively poor."

"But to be honest, I think you can focus more on Natsume's account of friends than these new works."

"After all, after the popular work Crimson Abyss on Water Edge ends, Zhou Qin will probably prepare new works for a long time. During this period, the truly powerful works on Water Edge Journal are Tang Xin's Dream World, Lin Xi The two works of Dragon Soul rank higher than other works, and your Natsume Book of Friends will also be a strong contender for the third popularity ranking. If such achievements are covered in journals like Shuiyuan, it will also be a great bright spot for your future career as a cartoonist."

"Although it is inappropriate for me to say such words as the editor of Xuangui, with such achievements, even if you are no longer in Xuangui, with this kind of resume, you will go to any comic company in Longguo, and no one will dare to belittle you. You half."

Chu Yu's heart trembled when he heard this.

third?

To be honest, after all, Natsume’s Book of Friends still has a relatively small audience and the serialization time is not long. Because of Chu Yu’s own lack of popularity and appeal, most fans of Dragon Kingdom like bloody battle animations. Many people are not used to comics, otherwise, there would not be such a big gap in popularity with Shuiyuan's three old comics Dream World, Dragon Soul, and Crimson Abyss.

It is precisely because of this that Chu Yu can't wait to double-open comics. After all, if Natsume's Book of Friends wants to slowly accumulate popularity and reach the top of the water edge, it may really require Chu Yu to draw two or three slowly. It takes years to accumulate popularity.

How many years are two or three years in a person's life?Chu Yu must not have the patience to wait so slowly.

Fortunately, this lottery drew the work of Initial D.

Li Xi felt that his colleague Chu Yu's drawing two comics would take up a lot of his mental energy, which would lead to a decline in the quality of Natsume's account of friends and make this stable third pick fly away.

It's just that Chu Yu and her thoughts are not on the same line. What he wants is to rely on Initial D, a passionate work that has huge popularity in parallel time and space. Try to see if he can use this work to make his own influence go one step further.

However, Li Xi would probably persuade him not to be so ambitious when he said such things now, so Chu Yu just nodded in agreement with Li Xi.

After chatting with Li Xi for a few more words, Li Xi also left with the manuscript of Chu Yu's initial D name.

She promised Chu Yu that she would do her best to help Chu Yu win the serialization qualification of the initial D in three weeks. As for Chu Yu, although the serialization meeting only needs to provide the name draft, if possible, there can be two or three episodes. Submitting high-quality manuscripts at the conference will undoubtedly increase the probability of serialization.

So Chu Yu is also planning to draw the original manuscripts of the initial D comics for at least the first three episodes in the next few weeks, so that Li Xi can have more bargaining chips in the serial meeting!

"Oh, it feels like there are too many things!" Chu Yu also felt some pressure.

It is necessary to take into account the serialization of Natsume’s Friends Book and the original manga manuscript of Initial D. In order to better complete the work of Initial D, he also needs to take time to understand things such as cars, racing cars, and driver’s driving skills. At least , he needs to take a driver's license test first, people who are racing cartoons can't even drive a car, can they!

While dealing with these matters, there are two works of [-] Centimeters Per Second and Voice of the Stars waiting for him to arrange, and Chu Yu also has to take care of school.

Although, those courses in the school sound really boring, but I have come to study anyway, and I must get my diploma!

Chu Yu's grades in the final exam last semester were horrible. Fortunately, the teacher let go of various meanings during the make-up exam. Just like that, Chu Yu hugged the thick thighs of a few classmates who took the make-up exam together to barely pass the exam.

In the second semester, Chu Yu has learned to be good. At least skipping classes is a regular skipping. After finding out the rules of the teacher's roll call, he basically managed to do the teacher's roll call when he went to class, and he was safe when he skipped class. The teacher should not target him too much when he hangs up for the final exam.

What a sin!

In any case, Chu Yu also felt that he was considered a well-known cartoonist in Shanghai, so how could his life be so hard when he thought about it?