Hollywood starts with animation

the next day.

After Zhuke got up, his face didn't look good, and he was really disgusted!

The overseas box office of hundreds of millions of dollars!

Gone!

As soon as he entered the door of Wald Pictures, Zhuke rushed to CEO Victor's office.

"Victor, how is the formation of our distribution network now?" Zhu Ke said straight to the point.

Hearing this, Victor took out a stack of materials from the cabinet behind his desk and said: "Boss, recently, we acquired a small film distribution company in Utah, and added manpower to improve the distribution network in California. Now we can do general-scale distribution in these two states."

Zhuke nodded.

Victor's ability to develop a distribution network in two states with only $3 million in such a short period of time is already the ultimate.

It is too costly to set up a distribution network.

Zhuke continued: "Victor, you took 10 million dollars from the company's books and continued to build a distribution network. Be sure to establish a distribution network in three states before the release of "Fruit Candies". Is there any problem?"

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

Without its own distribution network, it is too frustrated!

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

"Also, you inform the Personnel Department to recruit more than a dozen people in the near future, oh no, it's still 20 people, um, mainly computer painting talents."

After Zhuke finished speaking, he added: "If you can, you can dig people directly from Pixar. Anyway, they have many talents."

That's right, Zhu Ke wants to set up his own animation studio.

Zhuke has a good relationship with John Lasseter, but can't he dig someone?It's not that Zhuke doesn't want to hire people from other companies. It's that Pixar's internal pressure is too much and it is too greedy.As long as one or two talents can be dug up, the animation studio of his own will be able to develop rapidly.

Two more days passed.

Zhu Ke and the company's sister Martha took a flight to New York.

This time Zhu Ke came to New York not to invest in stocks, but to come here specifically for a talent, he is the "father of SpongeBob SquarePants".

——Steven Heilenberg!

Stephen Heilenberg, 35, is a marine biologist and part-time teacher, but just last week, he just left the institute because he plans 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 Zhuke and Martha.

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

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

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

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

"After all, I have not officially worked in the animation industry."

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

Zhuke's visit really surprised him.

What's more, as the head of an animation department!

Zhu Ke immediately smiled and said: "Steven, oh, please allow me to call you. A few years ago, I was fortunate enough to watch your animated short film of marine life created for the Oceanographic Museum. It was really great, not only easy to understand, but also It is full of fun, and makes people laugh while learning about marine life. I thought at the beginning that I must find the creator of this animated short film and create a great animation series with him. So, I am here today~!"

Little sponge?!

Stephen took over the planning plan for "SpongeBob SquarePants" from Sister Martha.

As he watched, he kept exclaiming.

"Oh~!"

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

"My God, wearing a white shirt, a small sponge with a red tie, and a pink star, a bald octopus, a crab boss who treats money as life, a one-eyed villain boss... .."

"It's great, it's simply great!"

"This is the animation I want~!"

.......

There is no doubt that Stephen Heilenberg has been conquered by SpongeBob!

"Mr. Wald, I'm sorry that I was a little gaffe." Stephen blushed.

"It's okay. I was just as excited when I saw your animated short film." Zhu Ke lied without blinking.

Stephen continued: "I feel great today, "SpongeBob SquarePants" undoubtedly gave me a huge surprise, I am very willing to create it. Sorry, I can't wait!"

For a whole day today, Zhu Ke and the three were chatting about "SpongeBob SquarePants", and finally Zhu Ke got his wish for the company's animation department!

For this reason, Zhu Ke decided to allocate a fee of 2 million US dollars to the animation department in the early stage, and then make additional follow-ups as appropriate.

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

After all, "SpongeBob SquarePants" is not "Toy Story", it does not require much animation technology and picture effects.It mainly looks at the plot, but it looks at the laughter.

With the addition of Stephen, Zhuke has reason to believe that "SpongeBob SquarePants" will be successful.

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

........

Within 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, Zhu Ke arranged them in Silicon Valley.This is for the independent animation studio in the future, after all, Zhu Ke wants more than just a "SpongeBob SquarePants".With "SpongeBob SquarePants", Zhu Ke can fully launch "Finding Nemo". In addition to the image quality and animation technology, the two have a lot in common in terms of fun.

When creating "Finding Nemo", the Pixar gang said that they borrowed some of the settings and creativity of "SpongeBob SquarePants" and got inspiration because of it.

Man, that's "Finding Nemo"!

Not to mention its second "Where is Dolly", just the first "Looking for Nemo", with a production cost of more than 63 million U.S. dollars, has harvested nearly 900 million U.S. dollars in box office worldwide. Its DVD Sales are the highest in the Pixar animation field.

"what?"

"David Messer, talent dug from Pixar?"

"Fuck, it might not be him."

Zhuke looked at the list of people in the animation studio, saw the name David Messer, and immediately moved in his heart.

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

He was not only one of the screenwriters of "Toy Story", but later also served as the producer of "Angry Birds".

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

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