Hong Kong Island Comic Master

Chapter 441 Animation Outsourcing

"Ding……"

With a crisp sound, the elevator door opened, and DreamWorks Animation Department Director Lu Ziying and Deputy Director Lu Yuying appeared at the front desk of Li Wannian's office.

"Secretary Chen, is the boss looking for me?"

Lu Ziying came to Chen Farong and said politely.

Although he is much more senior than Chen Farong, Lu Ziying, a seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister, still has to be polite to others. After all, it is no easier to meet Li Wannian than to meet the emperor these days!

Chen Farong was sitting at the front desk at this time, and stood up quickly after seeing the two people.

She understands why others are polite to her, but she cannot take these things for granted. If she really doesn't have a clear mind and attributes these things to herself, then there will be an abyss waiting for her.

"The boss is waiting for you! Please come in!"

With that said, Chen Farong led the two of them in through the door behind him.

Of course, before entering, she knocked on the door.

"Boss? Are you looking for us?"

Walking into the office, Lu Ziying saw Li Wannian sitting on the sofa and looking at the report in his hand.

After hearing Lu Ziying's voice, he raised his head and waved to the two of them, "Sit down! What do you want to drink?"

"coffee!"

When the two of them sat on the sofa, Li Wannian said to Chen Farong who had not yet left: "Go and prepare!"

"Yes!"

After Chen Farong left, Li Wannian put the report in his hand on the coffee table and said, "I read your report. Let me tell you, why should we split the animation department?"

Li Wannian read the reports all morning, but was unsure about this one, so he decided to call the department head to the office to ask.

In fact, when Lu Ziying heard Li Wannian calling her, her first reaction was that Li Wannian was actually in the office?

Nowadays, several famous animation companies under DreamWorks have moved to the Second Dimension Building, so Lu Ziying can rush to Li Wannian's office as soon as she is notified.

Lu Ziying was obviously prepared for Li Wannian's question. He opened the folder he had been carrying for a long time, took out a piece of information inside, opened it and handed it to Li Wannian.

"Boss, please look!"

"This is?"

Li Wannian took the document in his hand, opened it, and found that it contained some staffing information for the animation department.

"Boom boom boom!"

At exactly this time, Chen Farong knocked on the door with coffee, placed the coffee in front of the two of them, and left again.

"There are currently 282 people in the animation department of DreamWorks, responsible for four animations: "Zhuangzi Shuo", "Pokémon", "Oolong Yuan" and "Top Tennis World Youth Championship". On average, each animation has more than 50 producers. Man, this kind of staff team and organization is already very bloated!”

Lu Ziying picked up the coffee and felt it was a little hot, so she put it down again. Seeing that Li Wannian had finished reading, she continued to explain to Li Wannian.

"Are there many people here?" Li Wannian had done animation before. Even with the help of computers in later generations, 50 people were not many people for the birth of a cartoon. What's more, computers are not yet popular today, and the original drafts have to be drawn by the original painters. One stroke!

"It's already a lot. Now our company only needs more than 20 people to produce a cartoon. We don't need so many people at all!"

"What? More than 20 people? How did you do it?"

Li Wannian was surprised when he heard Lu Ziying's answer. Is this guy a genius? How did he do that?

You must know that when making a cartoon, the most expensive part is the personnel expenditure. How much can you spend on paper and pen?

Now Lu Ziying actually said that he can reduce the cost by half. This advantage is really obvious!

"Uh...outsource!"

"Huh? Outsourcing?"

Originally, Li Wannian was looking forward to Lu Ziying giving him a surprising answer, but he didn't expect this?

This made Li Wannian suddenly disappointed.

Lu Ziying also saw Li Wannian's disappointment and couldn't help but look at her sister.

Lu Yuying saw her brother's gaze and answered: "Boss, it is actually normal to outsource part of the business to Suzaku Company. Not only our company, but also almost all animation companies in Hong Kong Island." That’s what they do!”

Nowadays, the animation industry in Hong Kong Island has become very developed. In such a small place, there are actually more than dozens of animation companies, although most of them are small and micro companies like small workshops.

The reason why these companies are able to survive under the mountain-like pressure of DreamWorks and Shenlong Animation relies on Hong Kong Island's current reputation as a "two-dimensional city" and the explosively cheap outsourcing animation companies in Shekou.

After Lu Yuying's explanation, Li Wannian understood that although these small and micro animation companies had animation production departments, there were only a few people in the departments.

Their main job is to design and produce scripts. As for the original painting, the most time-consuming and laborious aspect of animation production, they will hand it over to animation outsourcing companies in the north.

With the emergence of Zhuque animation, more and more mainlanders have realized that there is a way out if they can draw.

So some smart people came to Shekou and set up animation outsourcing companies. Suddenly, an animation industrial park appeared in Shekou's industrial park, with dozens of animation companies, large and small.

These animation companies recruit art students from universities, colleges or technical secondary schools in mainland China. They generally have a solid foundation in painting and are better than the original animators in Hong Kong!

With strong ability and low price, this is the original animator that animation companies dream of.

As a result, not only Hong Kong Island, but also many animation companies in Neon began to bring some of their own animations to Shekou for them to produce.

Among them, the leader in Shekou is naturally Suzaku Animation Company.

The business volume they undertake can reach 40% of all animation companies in Shekou combined. This is already a very astonishing figure!

After figuring out Lu Ziying's approach, Li Wannian felt a little bored.

Originally, he thought Lu Ziying had found some new method, but unexpectedly it was outsourcing. This method had already been thought of when he founded Suzaku Company!

However, he didn't expect that it would develop so fast now?

After pondering for a moment, Li Wannian asked Lu Ziying again: "Have you ever thought about a question, that is, what should we do with these people who have been eliminated?"

"Of course, boss, don't worry about this. After the integration, I will process these original animators in batches, part of which will be given to Shenlong Company, and the other part will establish the animation film department of the animation department. In short, there will be no large-scale layoffs!"

"Hmm, eh? Are you going to make an animated movie too?"

(End of this chapter)