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December is approaching the end of the year.

The teaching work of Wucheng University of Arts and Sciences is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Xu Bin led the three-person team of Chen Jun and Ouyang Chen to actively prepare for the ACM International College Student Programming Competition.

The ACM International College Student Programming Competition was held in Zurich, the largest city in Switzerland in Europe.

By then, Ding Yue will personally lead the team to participate in the competition in Zurich, Switzerland.

While preparing for ACM, Xu Bin also took the time to complete his graduation thesis and successfully completed the thesis defense.

The first batch of nine students who are about to graduate early are already working on their graduation thesis and defense one after another.

Ding Yue hopes that before New Year's Day, that is, after returning from participating in the ACM competition in Europe, he can hold a small graduation ceremony and issue graduation certificates for the first batch of students who graduated early.

however.

Before Ding Yue went to Europe for the ACM competition, the thing that Ding Yue wanted to explain most was the animation profession.

Because with the deepening of the exchanges and cooperation between the School of Architecture of Wucheng University of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine, East China University of Architecture and Engineering, and Wucheng Medical University, the professional strength of the two faculties has been greatly improved, and there are several more East China Honorary professor of the University of Civil Engineering.

The medical school has purchased a batch of advanced equipment and cooperated more closely with Wucheng Medical University. Therefore, the professional task progress of the two faculties as assessed by the system has also successfully reached 100%.

The current [key professional level] task progress has been achieved 45, just short of the last major.

That's right.

This last major is animation design and production.

One day before leaving for Europe, Ding Yue once again came to Feiyue Animation Studio.

The dozens of members of Feiyue Animation Studio were all refreshed after a long period of rest and each of them received generous bonuses.

Even if there is no project now, everyone is working hard to make their animation design and production skills more skilled.

"Principal Ding, why are you here?"

When Xu Jiuge saw that President Ding had come to Feiyue Animation Studio, he got up from her desk and greeted him.

"I'll come and have a look."

Ding Yue said casually, and then took a look at everyone's state, and they all seemed pretty good.

Among them, the partners who came to Wucheng University of Arts and Sciences with Xu Jiuge are now basically teachers of animation design and production at Wucheng University of Arts and Sciences. Some of them should be taught to students in the animation professional class in the teaching building.

At present, the number of students majoring in animation design and production has expanded a lot with the enrollment in 2021. In addition to the last year, there are four classes in total.

The "Super Power Team" only began to be released in October and it exploded. It is estimated that at this time next year, the number of animation majors is likely to skyrocket.

Because there are definitely not a few students who love animation in the country, coupled with the Feiyue Animation Studio of Wucheng University of Arts and Sciences and the animation major, they have created an excellent hot style such as "Big Hero 6". Presumably when enrolling students next year, countless people will Rushed.

This is a good thing for animation majors. For Ding Yue, naturally, the more students who come to sign up, the better.

Anyway, the comprehensive infrastructure of Wucheng University of Arts and Sciences has begun. After the expansion of the 5,000-mu campus is completed, the capacity will exceed 100,000, and even accommodate more than 100,000 students.

Is it possible to be afraid that there will be hundreds of thousands of students majoring in animation?

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to collect tens of thousands of tuition and other fees in one more year?

Xu Jiuge glanced at Principal Ding. Although Principal Ding said he was coming over to take a look, the clever Xu Jiuge naturally knew what happened to Principal Ding when he came to his side.

"Principal Ding, you told me last time that if you want to improve the hard power of our animation profession, I thought for a moment. It's the easiest thing to start from improving the strength of teacher education."

Xu Jiuge followed Principal Ding and said seriously.

"Ok."

Ding Yue nodded and asked: "Then have you made any progress?"

"I contacted my former professors at Guangcheng University of Communication and asked them to come to our Wucheng University of Arts and Sciences, but they are still talking about it," Xu Jiuge replied.

At present, there is not a serious professor in the animation design and production major. Ding Yue is thinking about systematically assessing the task progress of this major, and he must attach great importance to the strength of teachers.

So Ding Yue asked Xu Jiuge to come to Wucheng University of Arts and Sciences as a breakthrough point from looking for a professor-level character in animation.

Xu Jiuge's personal connections are naturally good, because she herself is an animation major at Guangcheng Communication University, and her teachers are many professors in the field of animation.

but.

Ding Yue knew that it was not so easy to invite professors from Guangcheng Communication University.

At the beginning, Ding Yue invited Professor Luo Xiang from Xia Guo Politics and Law University to spend so much time. To invite animation professors from Guangcheng Communication University, the difficulty is basically not less than this.

Of course, sometimes, as long as the money is in place, and the animation major of Wucheng University of Arts and Sciences has "Big Hero 6" as the basis for the popular box office work, for the animation professors of Guangcheng Communication University or other universities From our perspective, it is not unattractive.

"Are your teachers reluctant to leave Guangcheng Communication University? Or do you think they gave too little money?"

Ding Yue's question was rather direct.

After hearing this, Xu Jiuge thought for a while, and then replied: "The conditions offered by the school are already very generous. I think the reason why teachers and them are still hesitating is that they are under pressure."

After all, not every professor can go to other colleges and universities at will. First of all, it is still a problem to allow him or her own school.

Otherwise, you can only resign and re-enter Wucheng University of Arts and Sciences.

But Wucheng University of Arts and Science is a private university after all. For those professors, Guangcheng University of Communication has not only social status and stability, but also a sense of formality.

Once you leave Guangcheng Communication University and go to Wucheng University of Arts and Sciences, it is equivalent to changing from a regular army to a miscellaneous army.

"Well, there are indeed many influencing factors in this regard, but it is better to confirm it quickly." Ding Yue can't wait to make the animation major to reach the task progress, so as to complete the [key professional level] this big task, and then get rich Rewarded.

I don't know if this generous reward will be available a year ago.

If you get it, it is equivalent to the new year's gift in 2022. What other gift is more generous than the reward for this task?

There is obviously no more.

"Principal Ding, I will try my best to negotiate with teachers and them." Xu Jiuge said seriously.

Ding Yue naturally believed in Xu Jiuge's ability to do things. However, Ding Yue pondered that in addition to recruiting professor-level characters, there might be another way to increase the percentage progress of the animation major.

That is the new project!

The creation of a new project is equivalent to the animation major and Feiyue Animation Studio will invest funds and personnel to create new works for the animation major of Wucheng University of Arts and Sciences. Perhaps this can also increase the percentage of task progress.

Moreover, Feiyue Animation Studio has been resting for so long, and new projects should be on the agenda.

After all, a new project is possible from incubation, to the beginning of production, and then to completion. It can be as short as a few months or as long as a year or a half.

It is now the end of 2021, and a new project is being discussed, which can be regarded as the start of planning for the Feiyue Animation Studio in 2022.

There is also the opportunity to increase the percentage progress of the task, killing two birds with one stone.

"Juge, the matter of inviting professors, we must hurry up, but there is one more thing, we should also think about Feiyue Animation Studio."

Ding Yue walked to a chair and said to Xu Jiuge after sitting down.

"Principal Ding, you mean..."

Xu Jiuge probably understood what Principal Ding meant.

She is a smart, youthful and energetic girl. From the tone of Headmaster Ding and the few words just now, she can hear that Headmaster Ding probably wants to plan for the follow-up of Feiyue Animation Studio.

Since the acquisition of Feiyue Animation Studios a year ago, it has produced its first work "Big Hero 6", which is very successful.

But Feiyue Animation Studio obviously can't just sit on the bottom line.

At least one high-quality work in one or two years, or one a year, this is the basic guarantee for an excellent animation studio.

Several overseas animation studios in Haolaiwu are like this. Basically, they can produce a high-quality animation work every year.

"Yes, it's the end of the year. It's time for our Feiyue Animation Studio to consider a new project."

Ding Yue smiled and nodded and said.

"Principal Ding is right. A high-quality animation studio needs to have demonstrable works every year to be able to gain a foothold in the industry. What's more, our domestic animation market has huge potential. There is no such thing as Haolaiwu. Such giants dominate, so if we maintain good development, the future domestic animation market must be ours, and we can also go international!"

Xu Jiuge agreed with President Ding from a very rational point of view.

Upon hearing this, Ding Yue felt that Xu Jiuge's vision was quite long-term. Instead of being confined to the current success, Ding Yue knew that to maintain a good development, first occupy the domestic animation market, and then go international.

It is indeed the person I found Ding Yue!

"But...Principal Ding, for the new project..."

Xu Jiuge just said impassionedly, and then his tone faded.

The words are so rational.

But what about the new project?

"Big Marine Corps" has a medical and health robot Big Bai Zhuyu in front, and then an animated film adapted from the medical and health robot Big White.

First of all, the medical and health robot Dabai itself was already very popular before the animation movie came out, and it was loved by the majority of people.

For a new project, it is obviously impossible to do "Big Hero 6" directly, right?

In fact, the most taboo thing in the industry is to make a sequel, because the sequel is often unable to surpass the previous work to a large extent, and may even break the word of mouth, and if you immediately follow the "Big Hero 6", it is not clear. "Make money".

"Don't know what to do?" Ding Yue asked with a calm smile.

Xu Jiuge was also sincere, nodded and replied: "Well, it is really difficult to choose the subject matter and the source of creation at the moment..."

An animation work must have a source of creation, right?

Many domestic animation companies often produce animation works based on the Monkey King, Three Kingdoms and other themes of Journey to the West. Of course, there are also original works, but the first thing to do is to set a tone.

The keynote is-what to do?

However, before Ding Yue actually came, he had already thought about it. This time, Feiyue Animation Studio set up a new project and made something unique.

In the case of an animated film, a "Big Hero 6" has been successfully completed, and another animated film will be released in 2023 after a year. Maybe it is not bad.

As for 2022, Ding Yue has a new idea.

"This time, let's not make an animated film, but an animated short film collection."