Chapter 409 Unprofitable Model
After hearing his son's words, Xu Ming nodded.
In fact, in this era, the cultural industry has become an indispensable and important industry in the service industry.
It can even be said to be one of the economic pillars.
Developed countries have industries that account for more than 2% of GDP each year, which is considered a cultural industry.
For example, movies, TV series, animation, 2D peripherals, literature, etc. consumption accounts for 2% of all expenses of an ordinary person.
If the cultural industry is focused on supporting the entertainment industry, and the entertainment industry will provide strong support, and even a cultural promotion strategy to increase the country's influence is formulated, its proportion of GDP may increase to 10%.
For example, Bangguo has extremely prosperous and developed entertainment industry and fierce competition.
However, the cultural industry has a big weakness, that is, investment risks are high, and crazy profits are happening, but losses are even more common.
Especially some big productions, such as the six major film companies in Lighthouse Country, will certainly make a fortune from several blockbusters, but they will still appear. Once a movie with a big production, once the box office is Waterloo, the film companies will fall into huge difficulties and it is entirely possible to go bankrupt and go bankrupt.
Unless there is a large capital behind it.
That is, it is easy to enjoy the cool air with a big tree on your back. As long as there are big capital and big chaebols behind you, even if you are going to end up in bankruptcy, you can get a few injections to recover your blood, so you won’t lose everything.
Also, because the cultural industry is still a semi-handied industry, it is not all purely assembled gunman writing. It has a certain artistic nature and is greatly influenced by the author. Routine works are prone to cause aesthetic fatigue.
Therefore, if it is a single cultural company, it may be difficult to maintain long-term competitiveness, and after glory, it will become lonely.
Moreover, because the number of people recruited is a man-intensive industry, such as a wonderful animation, it requires at least fifty or sixty people. In some major projects, it is no problem to recruit more than two hundred people.
In any industry that recruits a lot of people, it is generally difficult to make a profit. Once the internal system collapses, it is very easy to lose money.
Therefore, the cost-effectiveness of human resources is very important.
And if the employees of the animation production studio were asked to create and work in the world according to their son Xu Man.
Take half the cost to come up with better works to ensure that every anime is a well-made product.
In this case, it is difficult to lose money.
In addition, with the development of technology, using some high-tech intelligent production technologies, a cartoon work, can save more than 60% of the workload of the artist's manual work. For example, if the characters in the anime are generated using AI technology, the characters can only draw some character expressions and new costumes, and automatically generate the lazy environment, which can also save huge workload.
Twenty years ago, an anime work that took three to six months to complete could only take one or two months.
Those outsourcing companies with fast efficiency can even update two episodes and 24-minute episodes a week. The most exaggerated one can be updated on three weeks, which is so horrible.
However, only these advanced technologies are widely used by Xiaguo's animation companies, but the island countries are not very popular and have almost no application. Most companies are still in pure manual working mode.
The first reason is that the works of purely hand-painted paintings are of better quality and more soulfulness.
Secondly, there are as many as 100,000 people in the island country engaged in the animation industry. Once new technologies are adopted, more than half of them will be unemployed, causing the society to fall into instability.
In the end, even if new technologies are introduced, the painters will not be much easier. They still have to work overtime and still have to make a fuss every day. They originally produced a drama in half a year, but now they have to produce two and three, working like an assembly line, producing industrialized cultural works, and no longer have the soul of art.
That's a terrible hell.
It is better to retain the artists' superb handicraft skills and give them twice as much time. They can not only complete the works efficiently, but also retain the soul of the works. It can be said that they can kill multiple goals in one fell swoop.
It can even be regarded as the characteristics of the works of the island country and is one of its core competitiveness.
Instead of some domestic companies, they first shoot some live-action green screen movies, then render them with special effects, and finally make anime with one-click 2D. Not only does live-action movies make money, but also anime series derived from one-click 2D technology can make another money. There is no need to ask a painter, and there is no soul at all, which is also an insult to the 2D.
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The following months.
Xu Ming's energy is mainly focused on helping his youngest son Xu Man starts a business.
First, I made a net profit of more than 15 billion yuan by selling graphene chips.
Then the father and son booked a private plane and went to the island country. They stayed in the island country for more than three months, invested tens of billions, and established the "Weiman Animation Company".
I bought an office building, bought more than 100 apartment properties, and recruited more than 1,000 employees.
Xu Ming also spent some time building the "studio" on the side of the world, which can accommodate up to 800 employees and be responsible for up to 10 animation projects at the same time.
As for his 13-year-old son Xu Man, he also wore a suit and studied island language for several months. He brought several secretary to his busy work every day.
As for his studies, he was completely put aside and entered society in advance.
Of course, Xu Ming knew the importance of knowledge. No matter what kind of person he was, the most basic nine-year compulsory education would still be completed. However, Xu Man was very smart. At about ten years old, he mastered the basic knowledge of high school and had the ability to remember everything he could.
And because he has been in the world of his own for quite some time, his actual age is about 16 years old, and he looks like an 18-year-old sunny boy.
In addition, although the flower world of the island country has not shaken his mind, in the past few months, he has had huge amounts of funds and bought a large number of real estate and properties under his name, spending hundreds of billions of dollars.
In addition, in the process of recruiting employees, as the main interviewer, he broke the unspoken rules of the island society, not looking at diplomas or work experience, and recruited as long as those with outstanding talents.
If you don’t have any talent, you have to be good-looking and enrich yourself in some secondary vase positions.
For example, the female secretary who brought tea and water around him and sorted out documents hired as many as six, each of whom was a pleasing beauty with a score of 80 or a gentle temperament like a big caress.
After getting to know each other every day, the 13-year-old Xu Man couldn't control himself and was stolen by a scheming female secretary. The beautiful voice actor was not found, but was taken down by these female secretary first.
Three months later, Xu Ming came to the company for inspection and found that Xu Man had lost five or six pounds and his face turned pale. However, the female secretary around him was watery and rosy, and he immediately understood what was going on.
What annoyed Xu Ming even more was that Xu Man actually said that he had a relationship with these female secretary and wanted to marry them all into the house, and bought real estate for them. He spent a lot of money on them, and even the company's environment was in chaos.
Xu Ming was extremely angry and immediately dismissed him as the president and locked him in the happiness castle in his world for three months. Then he personally rectified the company and brought all aspects to the right track.
In reality, one month later
Seeing that Xu Man had a more sincere attitude towards admitting his mistakes, Xu Ming let him go and handed over the company to him again.
Those beautiful secretaries left behind three of them with strong abilities, outstanding overall view and scheming, and the rest were sent to other departments. Until they were not expelled, Xu Man would not have trouble trying to comfort and take care of her.
But there are no more than three female secretary in the office.
Seeing the result of this treatment, Xu Man breathed a sigh of relief. His father still gave him face and did not do harsh and cruel things.
In fact, Xu Ming is also a person who cherishes the beauty. The women who have something to do with him have received good arrangements and no one is treated unfairly. His son has just inherited the excellent tradition in this regard.
In addition, that is, his son Xu Man's eyes are so good that even Xu Ming can't find any problems. Those female secretary are all outstanding people with outstanding temperament and outstanding aesthetic vision. They have similar aesthetic vision to him and they can't find any problems.
However, Xu Ming himself, for the so-called "winning glory for the country", many of the Mao girls who have been infected are only 50 or 60 years old, tall, short, fat and thin, and they feel a little cold and cold. However, his son only has high quality and no inferior quality.
"Good boy, you are still young. Even if you have very strong capital, you still have to control yourself and not overly sink. That will indeed hurt your body. Moreover, the girls in the island country are full of mind and have rich routines. If they don't care about their ways, they will even forget their business. Unless you can find talents to help you withstand, the time spent on these women should not exceed 3 hours a day."
Xu Ming bit the word "3 hours" more seriously. I believe Xu Man, who has been locked in the castle for three months, knows what it means.
"I know Dad, I'll be on there for at most two hours every day and I won't sink anymore."
Xu Man made a guarantee.
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The next ten years.
It was a decade of rapid development of "Vieman Animation Company".
In the first year of its establishment, the company launched four animation works, all of which were well-made, explosive and highly qualified.
And they all achieved great success, one of which created a sensational effect.
It achieved a net profit of 50 million islands that year, which was a small fuss and began to gain a reputation.
The next year, he got on track and released ten excellent works, achieving a net profit of 1.8 billion islands, and all of them were invested in the company's expansion.
From the third to the eighth years, it is a period of rapid development, with an average annual growth of more than 50%. It was not until the ninth year that the growth momentum slowed down and the growth curve became smooth.
By the tenth year, the growth rate dropped to 5%, and net profit hit a new high of 35 billion island dollars.
By this time, the company had a total of one parent company and nine subsidiaries, with a total of more than 20,000 employees.
More than 50 animation works can be produced every year.
Moreover, each of them is extremely well-made, with beautiful and exquisite pictures, outstanding characters, almost no damage, and the quality is as stable as an old dog.
Have an unparalleled reputation among the fan base.
In ten years, the total number of dramas produced is as many as 398, which is the sum of the number of studios ranked second to tenth.
In addition, 162 works that are not good for children to be under 18 years old cannot be watched. They have plots and connotations, full of tricks, and the voice actors are powerful, and they all sell well.
Moreover, the total revenue brought by these 162 special works is equivalent to that of the 398 normal dramas, or it is even more popular.
It is even said that many classic dubbings are voice actors and company president Xu Man, who sacrificed himself to fulfill his lifelike performances to thank the fans who supported him. I don’t know how many otaku turned red, and five fought hard to one, and finally guided his desires like a big river.
The existence of these excellent works has made the entire society much more harmonious.
Not to mention the amazing profits it brings.
besides.
Even though "Vieman Animation Company" has a lot of profit surplus every year, the company has become the industry overlord, and it seems that it is time to reap dividends and results.
However, in order to develop the second-dimensional industry better and healthier, a good positive cycle is achieved.
At the company's annual meeting for the tenth anniversary of its establishment.
Xu Man announced a sensational decision:
"In order to make the beauty of the second-dimensional world develop in a healthy manner and not fall into a cycle of weakness and prosperity, I decided that the net profit saved by the company every year will no longer be used for investment and expansion, but will use this money as incentive funds to be distributed to those excellent and hard-working painters to create better life guarantees for them."
"This year the company's net profit is 35 billion, with about 22,000 employees. Then first take out 22 billion to each employee and give 1 million island-yuan living allowance."
"This money can be used to buy pension insurance, to buy medical insurance, to buy cars, to repay mortgages, or to store it in an account. Try to encourage it to buy a guarantee. This is called having a permanent property and not being disturbed by trivial matters in life."
"The additional 13 billion yuan will be rewarded to nearly 8,000 painters in the company. Top painters can get 5 million, excellent painters can get 3 million, ordinary painters can get 1 million, and painters can get 500,000, and they will be trained professionally."
"Painters are the core asset of the company and the greatest competitiveness. Their treatment and life are always ranked first."
"In addition, there are voice actors, dubbing, and their treatment will be greatly improved, and more concerts will be arranged..."
"In short, the purpose of the establishment of Weiman Animation Company is not to make money, but to better develop the cultural industry and promote the second-dimensional culture. Only by making every artist, voice actor, and soundtrack become billionaires and making them the most profitable people, the second-dimensional industry will be brilliant and achieve great development, rather than ups and downs with the amount of capital."
On the podium, Xu Man talked with a smile on his face, while the employees below gave out bursts of cheers and shouted the slogan "Long live the company, long live the boss."
This set of "unprofitable" theory was also discussed with Xu Ming and made an unanimous decision.
Because the copyright of those animation works is more than fifty years old, even if the company is not profitable, the dozens of animation works accumulated every year are a wealth that cannot be underestimated.
Over time, the huge amount of wealth is by no means comparable to the annual operating profit.
Chapter completed!