The Utopia of the Wastewood Prince

Chapter 75

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Tong Yu ignored him, so Li Jiaoyang could only play with Shen Yi. Shen Yi played games by himself, but playing games with Li Jiaoyang would definitely say that he was not good here, and that he was not right there. In short, it was not good.Although Caiji affects other people's game experience, he will pursue his own game experience, so Li Jiaoyang was not happy playing, and after two more games, he threw his phone aside and said he didn't want to play.

Without playing games, a large part of the fun of contemporary youth's home life will be lost.Shen Yi asked Li Jiaoyang: "How is your research on domestic comics?"

Li Jiaoyang said: "It's okay. I've been in touch with the platform recently. How about distributing it in the cute circle? It's just a matter of interface. Bring comics from other platforms and distribute them. We have traffic."

"But you don't have a conversion rate." Shen Yi said, "Currently, paid comics in the comics market are doing okay. I don't think it's reliable or meaningful. I think that domestic comics can be compared with our painting characteristics. A relatively close item, as far as the current platform is concerned, how much traffic can they lack? If you can give it away, they can still do it on their own. What Guoman lacks is more peripheral exposure resources and derivative drives. It depends on the author, no, Most of the cartoon authors... um..." Shen Yi thought for a while, and used very personal sentences to describe some of the cartoon authors he knew. Yes. Even if we don’t talk about this, creators should be separated from market operations, otherwise it’s easy to drive yourself crazy. As for the current comic operations, they are all groping forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow, unless it is like a goose A platform of the size of a factory can form a very complete IP incubation chain, and the rest is just a matter of bragging. This matter, after all, is to rely on a big tree to enjoy the shade.”

"That's what I mean." Li Jiaoyang said, "From comics to animation, to the development of film and television dramas, and supporting games and novels... After such a set, it's really messed up without any capital. How do you do it?" What do you think? About the specific direction of cooperation?"

Shen Yi thought for a moment and said, "We can take on the derivative business. Being in the elementary school student market is our forte. It doesn't matter if we can't pry money out. The data is so busy, why don't we just find someone to buy it for us?"

Li Jiaoyang followed Shen Yi's words to think, he stood up and walked around the living room twice, as if he had thought of the answer, he ran to sit down in front of the sofa, and said to Shen Yi: "I think you can do it without money in the early stage. Funds are converted into copyright rights to allow the comics to transfer part of it. Also, if we can do C-side and guide UGC creation, then we can also do B-side, let colleagues feed back the original work, divert data, and use this achievement to talk about business Cooperation, let the brand pay the bill. I happened to be in contact with some brands before, and they also wanted to enter Two-dimensional, to see if there are any popular works for joint names, but no one understands them, and they are afraid of stepping into the pit, so they are very Just be cautious. And we have accumulated some experience from previous Two-dimensional marketing cases..."

"You are really an empty-handed white wolf." Shen Yi commented.

"Where is it? I can't play with the white wolf with empty gloves in the Internet circle, and I am too embarrassed to go out." Li Jiaoyang said, "I just make up my mind, and I will talk about the specifics when we have time. After all, there are too few successful cases. , lack of persuasiveness."

Shen Yi said: "This is also the dilemma faced by most domestic IPs. I think maybe we are in the midst of a changing era. The rapid development of the market has brought huge profits, and the industry will change from high dividends to chaos and explosion, and then tend to standardize. Calm down. Too many people want to make the first wave of money, but it's really hard."

Li Jiaoyang said: "After all, money is hard to make and shit is hard to eat."

Shen Yi patted Li Jiaoyang on the head: "You don't have any good words?"

"This is life after all." Li Jiaoyang said, "I will have a meeting with Brother Qiang on Monday to add up the sum, and then I will go out to do business."

"You? Business?"

"It's just to accompany people to drink, chat, eat and play disco." Li Jiaoyang said, "Is this what you guys are here for?"

Shen Yi always went out to socialize with people in style, commonly known as pretending to be aggressive, he really couldn't do things like disco, so he simply shook his head and asked Li Jiaoyang to make troubles by himself.

On Monday, during a routine meeting, Zhang Chunqiang didn't think much about this idea, but it didn't seem like a simple matter of holding a small event, so it still had to be considered in the long run.

The three came down from upstairs, Li Jiaoyang looked at Tong Yu's vacant seat and asked Zhang Chunqiang, "Where is he?"

"I'm asking for leave today." Zhang Chunqiang said, "I said I have something to do."

Li Jiaoyang asked: "Did he say something?"

"It's a personal matter." Zhang Chunqiang said, "Do you have something to do?"

"I don't have one. What can I do with him? I just think it's weird." Li Jiaoyang frowned and said, "Damn, it's not like they're really in a relationship!"

"Ah?" Zhang Chunqiang was surprised.

Shen Yi said, "Don't listen to his nonsense."

Li Jiaoyang muttered "strange" and returned to his seat.Almost everyone on the first floor had just arrived, and the door opened. It was Jing Yun, who didn't know what she was doing out in the morning.She pushed open the door cautiously, greeted everyone with eye contact, and tiptoed to the basement.

"Are you back?" Becca greeted her first.

"Yeah." Jing Yun nodded.Yang Shuo and Wang Yiran just looked at her without speaking to her.

"How?" Becca continued to ask, "What does the editor mean?"

Jing Yun said: "The editor thinks it's okay, but..."

"What?" Becca was a little impatient with Jing Yun's panting.

"It's just that she feels that the current plot is not compact enough, and the blindly funny plot makes readers boring." Jing Yun said, "So...the data began to drop." After finishing speaking, she sighed and said to herself She said, "I don't know what to do. Although she spoke tactfully today, I can tell that if things don't improve, she might be cut in half."

Becca patted Jing Yun on the shoulder, and said symbolically, "It's okay."

"I just said that drawing colorful comics to cater to the market is not good." Yang Shuo joined the topic. He habitually pushed his glasses first and said, "What's so good about colorful comics? It's too childish. I don't want to draw the domineering president Mary Su." There is no way to stand out. My previous editor told me that there are few people who draw black and white comics like this. No matter how good the drawing is, it is useless if no one sees it and there is no market. But I just insist, my drawing is awesome , isn’t someone watching? It’s not what I said, if I were to draw manga, I’d be popular! I’m still drawing black and white manga because it’s my dream. Look at you, drawing manga makes me look completely different Right?" There was a little sarcasm in his words, Jing Yun was in a bad mood and didn't want to talk to Yang Shuo, so she just lowered her head.

Yang Shuo and Wang Yiran collaborated on an otaku manga called "Everything Can Be a Mother", which is basically a melee story of many things in life after being mothered.There are all kinds of royal sister loli for you to choose, and they are serialized on a certain comic platform. At the beginning of the serialization, the popularity was not bad, which gave Yang Shuo a bit of confidence to be called "big", but with the growth of other comic works , and now this work is hovering in the middle echelon.

It doesn't feel good to be caught up from behind, especially when the entire comic circle has suddenly become a world of colorful comic strips. Those popular promotions and the upper reaches of the revenue rankings are all occupied by these comics, and Yang Shuo is very upset.One of the words he said most often is: If he draws color comics by himself, he would be popular long ago.But he has never done it by himself. Apart from the necessary work every day, he spends his spare time wandering around the leaderboards, criticizing this is not good, ridiculing that is ugly, and going to one of his author groups to chat and talk nonsense .

This author group is composed of some older cartoon authors, and the rest of Zhaowen Studio are also in it, but they speak differently.In this group, there are cartoonists who can be called by name, and there are also little transparent people who have just joined the circle. There are not many people, but they hug each other tightly.

Everyone has been in contact for a long time, and each of them is not good at high and low, and their tempers and temperaments tend to converge.There is also a cartoonist in the group, who debuted really early, who belonged to that chaotic era, but he didn't follow up later, and his popularity is not as good as before.He played well with Yang Shuo and others, always chatting in the group, and when they appeared, the other little transparents could only watch "Da Da" and listen to Da Da's teachings.

Chatting and chatting, it is easy to get excited, and it is easy to get on the line.Sometimes I criticize the readers for not knowing how to appreciate and not having aesthetics, and to see shit like stuff all day long, so and so, what kind of things are painted, it is really unreasonable to be so popular.Sometimes they criticize the market trend, saying that it is the younger age that leads to the rampant color bars, and this generation is over.Sometimes the copyright cancer will suddenly go online, saying that I have been stolen pictures, reproduced without authorization, why don’t black heart pirated picture websites die sooner, and my art works are shamelessly tarnished like this... There are some good things to talk about For example, a certain Da Da said that his comics have already contacted the film and television parties, and everyone came out to look up to Da Da, but after that, they never heard any news of landing.

They think they are the great authors of an era, but in fact, they are just a group of old and transparent people whose hearts are higher than the sky and their lives are thinner than paper, and they can only hug each other to keep warm.To say that it is popular, at most it can be regarded as the level of "Oh, I have heard it", and it is far less loud than those popular IPs.To say it is low-key, it is not as humble as some newcomers who have just started.They are stuck in this embarrassing position, habitually using their senior status to overwhelm the younger generation, teaching them to be good people, and then looking at those popular works and saying coolly, "I just don't cater to the market..."

A person who radiates such energy can still be saved.A group of people huddling together to radiate such energy is almost equivalent to a quagmire.

Jing Yun also drew black-and-white comics at the beginning, but the market was sluggish. After finishing that short work, she began to try to create color comics.It was a funny everyday comic called "The Eighth," which was lighthearted and fun to read, and the editor had high hopes.However, things backfired. This work has been serialized until now, and the data has not been lukewarm. It has gradually lost many recommended places, and it has become a vicious circle.

Until today, her editor interviewed her, and the atmosphere of the chat was relaxed and pleasant, but Jing Yun understood the reason behind it.She needs to make a choice, whether to change the work or stick to her original idea.This made her very entangled. She began to suspect that she deviated from the public's aesthetics. Every day, only a few poor readers were willing to leave her messages. These names have only remained from the early days of the comic series until now, and there are very few new blood to join.

Creation is a long and arduous process. Jing Yun doesn't remember how many nights she stayed up late to catch up on drafts. A thin girl worked at her desk, watching those hilarious and funny plots, but she always cried easily.She came to Beijing from her hometown alone, and lived in a dormitory for multiple people in the basement. When it was the most difficult time, she even had to go out to work during the day to earn money to support herself. In fact, until now, life has not been good. The rented basement is Li Jiaoyang finally didn't charge them any money, the manga made some money, but it was very little, at most it was to maintain her normal life, so that she could only eat instant noodles instead of having three meals a day reduced to one meal.

People like to dream when they are young. At that time, they would say that when they grow up, they will buy a big house and a big car for their parents. However, when they grow up, they will realize how difficult this sentence is. Work hard slowly, but parents will age, are they waiting for such a hard work?

When Jing Yun realized that it was difficult to support herself, and she didn't even have any spare money to subsidize her family, she felt panic and felt that life was depressing, and she didn't even want to open her eyes the next day when she slept.Because after opening your eyes, there are endless updates, those silent updates like dust falling into the sea.

A dream is light, but life is heavy.

"Let me think about this matter again." Jing Yun said, "The workload for next week has not been completed yet."

She silently turned on her computer, opened the painting software, and saw the flashing in the lower right corner, it was the group that started talking.

At noon of the day, this group of authors started to get up.Someone was bubbling, asking everyone if they painted today, and then a certain elder lazily came out and said not yet.This man has a manga that has been quite popular recently, and the person who asked the question jokingly urged him to update it, saying that he was still waiting in the pit, asking for an update.

Unexpectedly, this big man suddenly changed his tone, he was not the lazy look just getting up just now, but said a little unhappy, every time I update, I need to think carefully about the plot, and I have to be responsible for my own works , can you stop urging me, is it because I delayed the update on purpose?You also draw comics, don’t you know that we draw comics to update by sacrificing our health and life?If only I could be more sure!

He sent it out sentence by sentence like a war of words, no one in the group spoke, and he started to sing high-profile alone.

Jing Yun looked at it twice and felt a headache, and felt a little wronged and dissatisfied in her heart.