You said you were going to make games, how did you become the richest man without doing anything?

Chapter 108 The cat lady is the point (please order)
"Oh my god, congratulations to Mr. Cao."

"Congratulations to Boss Cao for escaping the sea of ​​suffering, hahaha..."

"Boss Cao can finally sleep peacefully."

In fact, an animation company worth 600 million is just a drop in the bucket for these bigwigs in the investment world, and everyone is just making fun of it.

The main reason is that the dark horse animation acquired by Mr. Cao is really good at making trouble.

This company wins many awards in the industry every year.

Over time, Mr. Cao's dark horse animation, which he couldn't get rid of, has become a joke among the investment group.

Mr. Li from Shunwei Investment:
“Before, this animation studio was in the hands of Mr. Cao, and I was embarrassed to say it directly, but now that Mr. Cao has sold it, I will speak frankly.

Mr. Cao, you... are selling well!
We also have an animation studio under our umbrella, and I learned from them that Dark Horse Animation has long had a bad reputation among clients, and its peers in the industry also look down on Dark Horse, and they have been hailed as the waste of the industry.

So, I sincerely congratulate Mr. Cao for finally getting rid of this hot potato."

Other investors also spoke out to offer their congratulations.

In fact, the animation and game industry, as a high value-added tertiary industry, has a much higher profit margin than traditional industries. Therefore, many investment giants in the group also want to join in.

However, it is extremely difficult for this group of Bole to find a real thousand-mile horse.

Mr. Cao sighed:
"When I acquired Dark Horse Animation, I had no special requirements. I just wanted them to make popular animations and help me connect the upstream and downstream of the industry chain, such as upstream comics and novel websites, as well as downstream film and television companies, toy companies, clothing companies, etc.

Unexpectedly, they turned out to be even more useless than I thought. Not only did their animations flop, but they were also stubborn and insisted on going for some two-dimensional style.

The 2D world is now monopolized by the island nation. If you launch a project with this style, aren't you courting death?"

Mr. Cao sighed with regret.

After that, he had to continue looking for opportunities to invest in animation. There was no other way. He started his career by investing in the cultural and creative industry. As long as he invested in a company, the profit margin would be really good.

Mr. Zhao from Tianyou Capital: "I don't know which idiot took over Dark Horse Animation. Mr. Cao, did you fool them?"

Mr. Cao rolled his eyes. "Don't be so mean to me. I've done my duty, but Mr. Lu from Taoyuan Township seems very interested. I can't help it. If he gets caught, he can't blame me."

Everyone chimed in, "This is what happens when you're a nouveau riche who doesn't invest or do profit analysis. I doubt Dark Horse Animation will last more than a month under Mr. Lu's leadership before going bankrupt and liquidating."

……

Thursday morning.

Gong Qijun thought about it all night but couldn't figure out the deeper meaning of Lu Yu's unusual work arrangement.

So he simply tested the waters and held a video conference with Liu Mengyuan and other company executives.

"Boss Liu, regarding the development of the animation, Boss Lu hasn't given us any specific instructions. No targets, no deadlines. He's just told us to do whatever we want. This... we really don't dare to start work rashly. Boss Liu, please clarify."

After hearing Gong Qijun's question, Liu Mengyuan smiled slightly.

"You're new here, so you don't know Mr. Lu's style yet. That's understandable. Once I explain it to you, you'll understand."

Then, she talked about the process of developing the Cat Girl Paradise and the process of developing the life of the island owners with two other executives.

Afterwards, Gong Qijun heard from Chuxiong and Zhang Qiqi some things about Lu Yu's love of hinting at things through jokes about life.

Chu Xiong concluded with a smile, "Even though I've told you so much, no matter how hard we try, we still feel that Mr. Lu is still full of mystery and incomprehensible!"

Gong Qijun was amazed when he heard it.

After the video conference, he pondered for another hour, and suddenly he slapped his head and suddenly realized it.

really!

I understand, I understand everything!
Our President Lu likes to keep a low profile and doesn't like to talk.

But if you think of him as a loser who only knows how to throw money around, you would be totally wrong.

After all, in the last round of competition, could an ordinary person be able to defeat Tenghui’s masterpiece?
Therefore, every word Mr. Lu says is not said casually, and there are deep meanings and suggestions behind it.

He did not dare to delay and quickly called his subordinate, animation director Xin Haicheng, to his side and began to explain everything in detail.

"We need to carefully study how to spend the one million yuan budget allocated to us by President Lu, and prevent anyone from wasting money!"

Xin Haicheng said in confusion: "But, didn't Mr. Lu say before that we can spend the money freely?"

"Haha..." Gong Qijun smiled and shook his head.

"Old Xin, I thought you had been with me for so many years that you would understand some of the ways of the world.

Do you really think that Mr. Lu was able to create such a successful game by just lying down and playing it down? His laziness and indifference are just superficial. If we really believed him, we would be completely deceived. I'm afraid we won't be able to pass this test that Mr. Lu has put on us!"

Xin Haicheng suddenly realized.

Gong Qijun continued:

"So, we need to compile a detailed animation production schedule. The more Mr. Lu says there's no deadline, the more we need to focus on efficiency. Ensure the animation is delivered on time.

Furthermore, to support the EASTJOY exhibition, we need to produce a 5-minute preview PV."

……

Afterwards, Gong Qijun called everyone to the conference room and began to discuss the production method of this trailer PV.

Xin Haicheng analyzed:

"Mr. Lu previously told us not to consider the audience's tastes, and even said he wouldn't care if it turned out to be a stick figure. Now after listening to what Old Gong said, I feel that Mr. Lu's words are not simple."

Yu Keyang sighed:
"Could it be that Mr. Lu wants us to rediscover our original desires? Think about it, our team initially created a two-dimensional cartoon-rendered, edgy style of painting to satisfy our own XP.

Later, in order to compromise with the market, we made the fantasy martial arts style and the greasy senior sister style, but deep down we were unwilling to follow the crowd, so we added white stockings to various outsourcing requirements.

Mr. Lu must want us to return to our original aspirations and follow our deepest desires!"

Gong Qijun agrees:
“So, we not only have to use the 2D painting style that we are best at, but we also have to go one step further and subvert tradition by combining hand-painting with 3D rendering to bring the roughness of the stockings to the extreme!

Perhaps our overall strength may not rank high internationally, but we must let the world see our dedication to stockings!"

These words made everyone's blood boil, and everyone raised their arms and shouted:
"Long live stockings!"

Gong Qijun smiled and nodded: "Then, let's start our ambition with this 5-minute trailer."

An Xiuming said: "But, we have to make it clear that our animation is called "Cat Girl Paradise Adventure",
So what's the point? Catgirl? Paradise? Or the Great Adventure?

Ya Jingshou suggested: "Let's vote according to the old rules for project establishment."

After the voting ended, 20 votes were unanimous in favor, and the focus was on the cat girl!
Gong Qijun summarized:

"So, our animation is a bright, lovable, and healing two-dimensional style, and the core selling point is the various unique cat girls.

We will use professional rendering technology to polish the cat girls' stockings, and incorporate Xiong Ge's new research technology.

Not only do we want the cat girl's bear to shake more naturally, but her thighs and buttocks must also be flexible!"

"We second the motion!" The LSPs' eyes became more fanatical.

At this moment, Gong Qijun recalled what Liu Mengyuan had said during the video conference:
"I've carefully studied your previous projects. You failed because you were too casual. You must have a standardized process this time."

If you think about it carefully, it is true!
After all, when they set up a project in the past, they would hold a meeting and vote, pick out their favorite XP elements and put them together, and then start working on it.

Therefore, they must produce this PV strictly in accordance with the game workflow experience provided by Liu Mengyuan and Chuxiong.

"Come on, everybody!"

When Taoyuan Huimeng started to work hard, system screens kept popping up in front of Liu Mengyuan:
[Employee Gong Qijun's repeated practice triggers the guaranteed minimum, and "Production in Progress" is upgraded to Lv3]

[Employee Xin Haicheng's repeated practice triggers the guaranteed bonus, and the "Character Original Painting" is upgraded to Lv3]

[Employee An Xiuming's repeated practice triggers the guarantee, and the "Scene Original Painting" is upgraded to Lv2]

[Employee Yu Keyang's repeated practice triggers the guarantee, and "Production in Progress" is upgraded to Lv2]

[Employee Aoi Mamoru's repeated practice triggers a guaranteed bonus, and "Storyboard Design" is upgraded to Lv2]

Very good, make great progress and earn a lot of points.

Finally, Taoyuan Huimeng completed the production of the preview PV one day before the CJ exhibition.

……

On Wednesday, August 8, EASTJOY officially opened.

The exhibition hall is located in the New International Exhibition Center of Jianghai City.

The exterior of the exhibition center is made of towering glass curtain walls, resembling a spaceship. Inside, the exhibition hall is spacious and bright, with huge banners hanging to promote various new games from sponsoring manufacturers.

The square outside the exhibition center was already crowded with people.

(End of this chapter)