Hollywood Starts with Animation

the next day.

After Zuke got up, his face was not very good-looking, and he was really disgusted!

Hundreds of millions of dollars at the overseas box office!

Gone!

As soon as he entered the doors of Wald Pictures, Zucker headed straight for CEO Victor's office.

"Victor, how is our distribution network now?" Zucker said straight to the point.

Hearing this, Victor took out a stack of documents from the cabinet behind his desk and said, "Boss, recently, we acquired a small film distribution company in Utah, and we have sent additional manpower to improve the distribution network in California. Now that we are in these two states, we can do general volume distribution.”

Zucker nodded.

Victor was able to develop a distribution network in two states with only $3 million in such a short period of time, which is already the ultimate.

It is too expensive to set up a distribution network.

Zucker continued: "Victor, you take out 10 million US dollars from the company's account and continue to build a distribution network. You must build a distribution network in three states before the release of Hard Candy. Is there any problem?"

"No problem, I can do it." Victor affirmed.

Without our own distribution network, it's too embarrassing!

For the overseas distribution network, Zhu Ke does not have so much funds for the time being, and he will not consider it at the current time. However, in North America, Zhu Ke has set a goal for himself. Within three years, he must complete the establishment of the distribution network in North America.

"Also, you inform the personnel department that more than a dozen people will be recruited in the near future, oh no, it's still 20 people, um, mainly in the field of computer painting."

After Zucker finished speaking, he added: "If you can, you can poach people directly from Pixar, anyway, they have a lot of talent."

That's right, Zucker is going to form his own animation studio.

Zucker has a good relationship with John Lasseter, but can't he poach someone? It's not that Zucker doesn't want to poach people from other companies, but it's just that there are too many gangsters within Pixar, which is too eye-catching. As long as it can dig one or two talents, its own animation studio will be able to develop rapidly.

Two more days passed.

Zucker and the company's eldest sister, Martha, take a flight to New York.

This time, when I went to New York, Zucker came not to invest in stocks, but for a talent, he was the "father of SpongeBob SquarePants".

- Stephen Hillenburg!

Stephen Hillenburg, 35, a marine biologist and teacher, left the institute just last week because he planned to pursue a career in animation. To this end, he also spent several years studying experimental animation at the California Institute of the Arts, and obtained a master's degree.

This time, he was full of doubts about the visit of Zucker and Martha.

Even a few days ago, Sister Martha had contacted him first.

It's really the reason, it's too incredible!

"Mr. Wald, Miss Hopkins, do you want me to be the head of your company's animation department?"

"Sorry, I was a little too excited and surprised."

"After all, I haven't officially worked in the animation industry yet."

For a while, Stephen Hillenburg was incoherent. You must know that although he graduated with a master's degree in experimental animation, he did not officially start work after all.

Zucker's arrival really surprised him.

What's more, he is still the head of an animation department!

Zucker laughed immediately: "Stephen, oh, please allow me to call you. A few years ago, I had the privilege to watch the short animation of marine life you created for the Oceanographic Museum, it was really great, not only easy to understand, but also It's fun and makes people laugh while learning about marine life. I thought at first that I have to find the creator of this animated short and create a great animated series with him. So, I'm here today~!"

little sponge? !

Stephen from the hands of Miss Martha,

Take over the planning scheme of "SpongeBob SquarePants".

As he watched, he kept exclaiming.

"oh~!"

"That's it, this is what I want!"

"My God, the little sponge in a white shirt and a red tie, and the pink pie star, the bald octopus, the crab boss who sees money as his life, the one-eyed villain boss... .."

"Awesome, this is simply amazing!"

"This is the animation I want~!"

......

There is no doubt that Stephen Hillenburg has been conquered by "SpongeBob SquarePants"!

"Mr. Wald, I'm sorry I lost my way." Stephen blushed.

"It's okay, I was just as excited when I saw the short animation you created." Zucker lied without blinking.

Stephen continued: "I feel amazing today, and SpongeBob SquarePants definitely gave me a huge surprise, and I'd love to create it. Sorry, I can't wait!"

For the whole day today, the three of Zucker talked about "SpongeBob SquarePants", and finally Zucker got a general for the company's animation department as he wished!

To this end, Zucker decided to allocate a fee of 2 million US dollars to the animation department in the early stage, and then add it according to the situation.

Don't look at the money a little bit, but definitely enough.

After all, "SpongeBob SquarePants" is not "Toy Story", and it doesn't require much animation technology and visual effects. It mainly looks at the plot and sees the laughter in it.

With the addition of Stephen, Zucker has reason to believe that "SpongeBob SquarePants" will be a success.

Zhu Ke has the relevant information provided by the system, but he does not understand animation creation, especially in terms of details, Stephen's role is absolutely indispensable, after all, he is the real father of "SpongeBob SquarePants".

........

in a few days.

The animation department of Wald Pictures was officially established.

The 20 animation creators recruited have all been in place.

To this end, Zucker arranged them in Silicon Valley. This is to make the animation studio independent in the future. After all, Zhu Ke wants more than just a "SpongeBob SquarePants". With "SpongeBob SquarePants", Zucker can completely launch "Finding Nemo". Apart from the picture quality and animation technology, the two have a lot in common in terms of fun.

Pixar's gang, when they created "Finding Nemo", once said that they borrowed some of the settings and ideas of "SpongeBob SquarePants", and they were also inspired by it.

Man, that's Finding Nemo!

Not to mention its second "Where Are We Going Dolly", just the first "Finding Nemo", with a production cost of more than 63 million US dollars, reaped nearly 900 million US dollars at the global box office in one fell swoop, and its DVD It is the highest-selling film in the Pixar animation field.

"what?"

"David Messer, talent poached from Pixar?"

"Damn it, shouldn't it be him?"

Zucker looked at the animation studio's personnel list and saw the name David Messer, and his heart moved immediately.

There is no doubt that David Messer is indeed a talent!

Not only was he one of the screenwriters on Toy Story, but he also later served as a producer on Angry Birds.

At the same time, the idea of ​​the Marvel Universe also came from him.

To be precise, without David Messer, there would be no series of crazy late Marvel performances at all.