My Animation Era

Come mid-October.

The national competition chapter of the animated "Prince of Tennis II" has been aired for nearly 20 episodes, and the ratings remain high.

In the plot, Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School, led by its minister Zhong Guoguang, defeated Maotanchang Middle School, created the best results in history, and entered the national finals.

The final is equal to the guaranteed runner-up!

This is definitely great news for the tennis club of Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School, which has never had very good results.

At the same time, this result also tied the real Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School. After all, in the last "Wanbao Cup" national competition, Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School was the runner-up.

Everyone is looking forward to it.

On the one hand, we are looking forward to the epic battle of "Mars hitting the earth" between Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School VS Wang Zheqiuzhong, and the wonderful performances of many players such as Zhong Guoguang, Long Ma, Zhou Zhu and Xing Cun.

On the other hand, everyone is also looking forward to whether Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School can end the "three consecutive championships in the national competition".

In the East China Competition, Wang Zhe Qiuzhong has been defeated by Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School, proving that even the powerful Wang Zhe Qiuzhong has weaknesses.

In this national competition, Longma has become stronger. Minister Zhong Guoguang has returned from injury. The combat effectiveness of Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School has increased to unprecedented heights. Can they successfully win the championship?

The suspense is about to be revealed.

In addition to "Prince of Tennis II", this weekend, the animation "The Adventures of Uncle Long" also concluded in many countries and regions, starting a second round of replays.

[The cartoon version of me is really awesome! I am very grateful to Wanbao Animation and my good friend @Gu Shuishui for helping me realize my childhood dream of a cartoon hero...]

Uncle Long expressed his gratitude to Gu Miao and Wanbao on Weibo.

In addition to Uncle Long himself, many of his friends in the industry, as well as some celebrities who love to enjoy the popularity, also shared their thoughts on the animation "The Adventures of Uncle Long" through social platforms.

It's all just human nature.

Gu Miao didn't think that she was so famous that so many celebrities would support the animation, not to mention that some of them were Hollywood celebrities.

It is for Uncle Long's sake that people are willing to support the animation, and even give fans "The Adventures of Uncle Long".

certainly!

Although the success of the animation "The Adventures of Uncle Long" is largely due to Uncle Long's fame, Gu Miao did not contribute much.

But through this animation, he has successfully created a strong sense of presence among overseas audiences, especially among overseas children aged 2-12 years old.

Especially Wanbao!

After being baptized by the two popular animations "The Adventures of Uncle Long" and "The Lion King", many overseas audiences have remembered the weird "WB" logo at the beginning of the animation.

It's like watching Tom and Jerry when you were a child. You may not know which company the "roaring lion" logo represents, but if you look at it a few times, you will definitely remember the lion.

The same goes for Wanbao.

Originally, it was not very famous overseas, and it relied entirely on animations such as "Detective Conan" and "Sailor Moon" to make its presence felt.

As a result, with the popularity of animated works such as "Tom and Jerry", "The Adventures of Uncle Long" and "The Lion King", covering both film and TV animation fields, Wanbao's iconic "WB" trademark suddenly became deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. .

This made Gu Miao very excited.

As an animation company, there’s nothing more worthy of celebration than when your audience remembers your logo.

You can say that……

If Wanbao's "WB" icon could be recognized and remembered by half of the people in the world, then Gu Miao would immediately dare to announce: We are the world's number one animation company. If you don't accept it, come and do it!

But this is a bit exaggerated.

There are more than seven billion people in the world, including a large number of people who live in war-torn, poor, and underdeveloped areas. They cannot even guarantee food and clothing. Watching animation is even more of a luxury.

Under this premise, it is not that difficult to make half of the people in the world remember your company's LOGO.

Anyway, Wanbao is still early!

At least within China, there are still many people who don’t know or don’t remember Wanbao Animation’s LOGO, let alone abroad.

…

Gu Miao, who was working on "The Adventures of Luoluo", received a call from President Kobayashi of Wanbao Games.

On the phone, Xiaolin told Gu Miao that Wanbao Games' latest masterpiece "Pokémon: Ruby and Sapphire" this year will be released soon.

As a more sincere new game in the Pokémon series, this time it introduces 135 new Pokémon, a new doubles battle mechanism, and more.

The goal is to hit sales records!

In order to achieve this goal, Xiaolin said that he needs all-round support from the group, including Mr. Gu, who also needs to personally come forward to "bring goods" to increase the popularity of the game when it is released.

"OK! No questions!"

Gu Miao naturally agreed to this small request.

After all, Kobayashi also said that this new work is very important and is expected to hit sales records of "30 million" or even higher. It doesn't matter if he comes to lead the sales.

However, when communicating with Xiao Lin, Gu Miao suddenly thought of the real-time strategy 3D computer game mentioned in "The Adventures of Luo Luo" - King of Machine War!

So he asked Xiao Lin whether it was difficult to make a game like this?

"Uh! It shouldn't be high..."

Wanbao Games has also gone through multiple rounds of expansion, and is no longer the small workshop it once was.

Making a real-time strategy "online battle" game is not a difficult challenge for today's Wanbao Games.

After all, he has money and people. When President Xiaolin said this, he was very confident.

"Then make one and try it!"

After learning that the difficulty was not high, Gu Miao immediately said that Wanbao Games would immediately start forming a technical team to produce a "real-time strategy" computer game based on the animated plot of "The Adventures of Lolo".

Restore, must restore!

This is Gu Miao's only request. He said that the greatest fun of the game, or the most attractive part, is definitely the degree of restoration of animation.

The animation is what it is, and the game is what it is...

Just right!

For scenes like Energy City, Snow City, City of Time, Paladin Forest and Fire Dragon Valley, the animation production team has ready-made "templates" for reference.

Character modeling is also readily available.

The game production team can completely copy the modeling and scenes from the animation production team, and even the "trick animation" can be copied.

However, games and animation are two different things after all, and there are always differences.

Perhaps the biggest difference is that the game needs a "balancing mechanism" to ensure that the confrontation between the motorcycle clan and the beast clan is back-and-forth, rather than being dominated by one family.

"For this kind of real-time strategy game, if you have less krypton points, you can just get a few exclusive skins or battle passes for King of Fighters."

When Gu Miao said this, an idea suddenly popped into his mind, which almost stopped him.

Get a shock wave for the first charge of 6 yuan?

A full life Tyrannosaurus God?

Oh my god! Maybe he was crazy, otherwise how could he have such crazy thoughts?

The games in "The Adventures of Lolo" really made me want to play them when I was a kid...