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Chapter 1326 - 1102: The Animation Circle is Stirring_Up_2

"Of course."

"These directions are not comprehensive, the actual standard is just one, excellent and suitable for children."

...

Qin Continent.

Lin Yuan received a call from the chairman: "The Literature and Art Association has contacted me, wanting to buy the broadcast rights of 'Doraemon' for the children's channel. Shadow is going to make a huge impact now; this anime is likely to be shown for a long time, having a profound effect on children, almost equivalent to being one of their mentors in their youth!"

"Hmm."

"Aren't you excited?"

"Busy with other things."

"What things?"

"Writing a script."

"What script?"

"Of course, it's an animation script. Just having 'Doraemon' selected isn't enough."

"You're planning to make another one!?"

"The more, the better."

Li Songhua couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

More, the better?

But how much is more?

Forget it.

Let Shadow handle it.

Given such a rare opportunity, animators from all over Blue Star will go crazy, even the Big Five will bare their fangs.

What if Shadow produces another hit?

Then even the Big Five might become envious.

It doesn't matter if it's not successful; having 'Doraemon' air on the children's channel is already great for Starlight.

It's an opportunity countless companies dream of.

...

Of course, Lin Yuan has no idea about Li Songhua's thoughts.

He is seriously reviewing the criteria, studying the standards of the Literature and Art Association.

The animations needed for the children's channel are naturally/mainly oriented towards younger audiences, which rules out the vast majority of comic works.

Hot-blooded series like 'Dead Sea of Fire'?

Such youth-oriented comics don't match the style of the children's channel.

So, for animations suitable for children, there are too many options to choose from.

Lin Yuan instinctively thought of 'Tom and Jerry.'

But soon, Lin Yuan dismissed this idea himself.

It's not that 'Tom and Jerry' isn't good, but the music of this animation is tricky to handle.

Countless world-class works, including those from big names like Beethoven, have been used as background music for 'Tom and Jerry.'

Better put that aside for now.

After all, Blue Star is a world dominated by Eastern culture; he could totally consider works from Celestial Dynasty.

"Like 'Journey to the West'!"

The Literature and Art Association wants an animated film with a mythological theme, and 'Journey to the West' is just perfect.

Keep in mind.

Journey to the West TV series is very popular, but the anime has never been broadcast.

The company has already started working on it, just a bit slow.

Lin Yuan plans to hurry them up later.

For mythological animations, 'Journey to the West' is obviously very appropriate.

As for educational animations?

Lin Yuan thought of '3000 Whys of Blue Cat.'

This is a typical educational and science popularization animation, very classic, a memory for a certain generation of kids from Celestial Dynasty.

There's also educational animation.

This concept is a bit broad, as many animations have educational attributes.

For example, the martial arts style 'Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit Legend.'

Or the one where righteousness always defeats evil, 'Black Cat Detective.'

Or maybe...

How about 'Calabash Brothers'?

It seems the Literature and Art Association also mentioned artistic style animations?

How can that be defined?

What does an artistic style animation even mean?

Lin Yuan vaguely had some guesses, but wasn't quite certain.

The overall requirement of the Literature and Art Association is to be exciting, interesting, and educational, which is perhaps why they would even consider tokusatsu.

Forget it!

Just do it!

Go by the criteria of being exciting, interesting, and educational.

Lin Yuan immediately called over Jin Mu: "We're going to make a few animations!"

"A few?"

"Five as a start."

"But you can't just let us do it, the animation department at Starlight should also be involved."

"Okay, you go ahead and divide them into teams."

"I'll make four teams, that's the limit. Each team can take on one project."

"Good!"

Lin Yuan is full of drive!

In the following days, he wrote several scripts and drew a stack of pictures, all for the animations he's planning to make!

...

Two days later.

Lin Yuan arrived at Dream Factory.

Team one.

"This animation, I call it paper-cutting animation, it's made differently from traditional animation, you need to cut out these character images and incorporate them into the animation."

"Paper-cutting?"

"It's simple, I'll teach you."

"Why not just use special effects for animation?"

"Don't you think paper-cutting is interesting?"

"Well okay, it is quite innovative. Actually, I have another question, about why the Calabash Brothers don't team up to fight together but instead go after the demons one by one?"

"Can you do it!"

"Yes!"

You sure talk a lot.

Lin Yuan adjusted his mask: "Next!"

...

The leader of the second group came.

Lin Yuan asked, "Have you read the script?"

The leader of the second group hurriedly nodded: "I have!"

"Work on it quickly!"

"What kind of animation is this?"

"Educational cartoon."

"Haha, what an educational cartoon, it's just that the main character, Blue Cat, is too naive and honest."

"It's fine, educational content needs a reliable and steady protagonist."

"Okay."

...

Team Three.

The team leader said with a bitter face:

"Sorry, Teacher Shadow, we really can't do this!"

"Ink wash animation!"

"How are we supposed to do this!"

"We only know how to do technical stuff."

"For ink wash, we need to bring in a master of the craft."

"I suggest contacting the traditional art community, although I doubt anyone there would understand what ink wash animation is."

"No need."

"Huh?"

"I'll do the drawing!"

Lin Yuan was already prepared to take matters into his own hands!

...

Another day.

Lin Yuan arrived at Starlight.

Starlight's animation department didn't need to be split into temporary teams; many teams were responsible for different works.

Lin Yuan went directly to each team.

"My friend, Shadow, created an animation film, and we need your help to produce it."

"Journey to the West animation isn't finished yet?"

"It's too slow, so let's work on this instead."

"This one features a character from the Journey to the West series too."

"Who?"

"Nezha!"

...

Another department.

Lin Yuan asked:

"Any difficulties?"

"Funding is not enough, I'll take care of it."

"I need you to guarantee speed and quality."

"Yes, this is my good friend Shadow's work, I can't let my friend down."

"Kids might not be interested in soccer."

"Don't worry."

"Hard to say for girls."

"At least the boys should love it."

...

Yet another department.

"Are you sure?"

"A carp as the protagonist?"

"The ocean as the story's backdrop?"

"Then the visuals have to be more exquisite."

"Understood."

With that, arrangements were made one after another.

Lin Yuan went to each department, assigning different teams to different animation projects.

...

Meanwhile.

Many animation companies in the industry, as well as entertainment companies involved in animation, were all busy.

"Work work work."

"Don't be stingy with money!"

"If it can get on the children's channel, any amount of money can be made back!"

"The company will take off with this."

"Defeat the Big Five!"

"We might not beat them at animated movies, but we won't cower with animated series!"

"There are quite a few slots."

"We can at least grab one!"

...

As long as there's a story, producing children's animation is fast.

Especially in Blue Star, those wealthy companies are willing to spend a lot of money.

The Big Five too, are churning out multiple works in rote fashion.

This isn't like animated films, which require especially high special effects technology.

In fact.

The production of many animated series is very simplistic.

Targeted at younger audiences, simplicity is key.

At least for children:

Even if you max out the special effects in animation, it wouldn't be as charming as the simply portrayed Happy Sheep.

And while major companies across the continents are ramping up production,

Netizens are eagerly anticipating new developments:

"Which works will be chosen in the first batch of animations?"

"Did the Big Five entertainment companies participate too?"

"Haven't you seen the news? Journalists have interviewed many companies; they're all busy preparing now."

"Right."

"I've also heard some news."

"After Shadow's 'Doraemon' was selected, he's now working on a new animation."

"Ah?"

"Does he plan to take up two slots all by himself?"

"Impossible, animation is not like comics after all."

"Indeed."

"If it were a collection of youth comics, then Shadow would absolutely dominate."

Online.

Various rumors are spreading.

And Lin Yuan is already busier than ever.

Every day, he has to deal with problems encountered during the production of different animations.

This is the price of greed.

In fact, even Lin Yuan himself does not know how many of these animated series the Literature and Art Association will eventually fancy.

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