Time waits for no one, and Meng Huo began to prepare for "Pokemon".

Although he did it once, Meng Yu was more prepared this time, he spent half of the day on it, and even the life of Tomato and Teacher Huameng was not good.

The two manga artists had to come to work in the afternoon and not be able to return home until midnight, and even in order to reduce the time, Meng Huo also overlapped the work of "Detective Conan" and "Inuyasha", and often the three of them rushed the manuscript together.

This kind of high-intensity work has caused a lot of burden on Tomato and Hanama-sensei, but strangely, these two people have no complaints, and even seem happy.

Meng Shu was very surprised by this phenomenon, and Li Qin heard his inquiry and made fun of him.

"You're still young, you'll understand when you grow up."

Her words made Meng Shu even more strange, what did he not understand? He observed for a few more days, and then understood that Li Qin had something to say, Tomato and Teacher Hua Meng always peeked at each other at work, and they looked at each other!

"What do you think of my job?"

Meng Huo couldn't laugh or cry, he always thought that Teacher Hua Meng had a husband, so he didn't think about it that way. After knowing the truth of the Dao, Meng Shu found that there was always a wonderful atmosphere in the study, Tomato and Hua Meng sat on both sides and looked around, and he was uncomfortable sitting in the middle.

However, this situation also brought a benefit, no matter how heavy the task was ordered by Meng Xu, these two people would willingly complete it, and even in order to stay a little longer, they even offered to work overtime several times.

Meng was happy to do so.

Time flickered to January, and during this period, Shen Jie called to see him. Meng Shu refused several times and suddenly woke up, and the child was homesick again.

He felt that Shen Jie was quite pitiful, but he really couldn't spare time, so he asked Li Qin to bring some fruit to see Shen Jie.

As a result, that night, Shen Jie sent a text message and scolded: "Who is homesick, you are homesick!" ”

She ignored Meng for several days.

Meng Shu didn't care if she was hard-mouthed, he concentrated on painting, and the original drawing of "Pokemon" came to an end.

In his memory, there were many people who questioned that the animation of "Pokemon" was not good enough, but Meng Shu didn't think that the animation of "Pokemon" in the early stage was quite good and the story was interesting. This anime was launched one after another, and the change in style in the later period made people feel bored.

Of course, what Meng Huo is preparing to produce this time is the first part, and the overall plot is not much different from the original work. It is worth mentioning that he has repaired some of the characters.

The original "Pokemon" was launched in the 90s, and the character painting style of the first part was inseparable from the times. But that style of painting is obviously not suitable for Meng Shu's current style, and he didn't make much changes, just beautified it a little.

For example, the protagonist Xiaozhi, Meng Shu removed the extra lines on his face, changed some outlines, and the image is closer to the special edition of the comics, which doesn't look very handsome, but the more people look at it, the more they like it.

As for the elves, Meng Shu didn't make any changes, he felt that they were already cute.

After completing the original manuscript setting, Meng Shu began the next step.

The production of an animation takes a long time, but the proportion of formal production is not large, and the big one is a variety of preparation stages, including but not limited to planning review, cost calculation, script production, character and background drawing settings, personnel arrangements, etc., any process can make the animation production company waste several months of time, and it is normal for an animation to be from the proposal to the official production, with an interval of more than half a year.

Phoenix's approach is more crisp and violent.

Xu Jing handed over the decision-making power of animation production to Meng Shu, the plan was passed, the script was completed, Meng Shu was both the boss and the original case, and gave the green light to cheat all the way, and after his original manuscript was handed over to Li Hua and Zhong Yue to see, these two people who are familiar with animation production also praised one after another.

"What a pity, teacher, the characters and elves don't need to be changed, they can be used directly."

"The story is not bad, when the company allocates funds, we will be able to start work!"

There is a controversy over the issue of funding, funding is the cost, the cost of animation production is very high, and Meng Huo does not need to pay additional copyright buyout fees for launching animation, so Lin Mingzhe, the financial director, generously gave a budget of 200,000 yuan per episode.

Now in the Chinese animation industry, the cost of each episode is basically between 5 and 150,000, and special themes or popular animations can have more than 200,000 yuan.

"I want 300,000."

His request made Lin Mingzhe frown, and based on his previous good impression, Lin Mingzhe asked Meng Huo why.

"I want to do a good job in this animation, and I can't lag too far behind Zhongxia Company in terms of funding."

Meng Shu replied that the Phoenix Company has been forced to a certain point by the Zhongxia Company recently, which can be illustrated by a phenomenon that in the entire Ninghai, all kinds of newspapers, posters, and TV media, there is basically no news of Phoenix.

As soon as the mid-summer comics came out, the phoenix seemed to be forgotten by the world, Ninghai was the base camp of the phoenix, and other places were even more miserable.

And after investigation, Meng Shu found that Zhongxia Company and Tianhui Animation started to produce new animations half a month ago, and Zhongxia took a two-pronged approach, occupying a leading position in the comic and animation industry at the same time.

They have a lot of money, and the animation budget is very high, which cannot be measured by market standards.

If it weren't for the 300,000 yuan animated version of "Pokemon", it would have done well, and Meng Huo might have asked for more.

"Tianhui ......" Lin Mingzhe's attitude changed when he heard this word: "Okay, 300,000 is 300,000!" ”

"What a pity, teacher, you must make animations that surpass them!"

Phoenix Company has made a lot of money in the past six months, and if Li Tianhui can be seen deflated, Lin Mingzhe is willing to increase funds.

The funding problem was solved, and the animation production began to enter the preparatory implementation stage, Meng Huo did not involve specific work, and the personnel allocation and arrangement were all decided by Li Hua and Zhong Yue, and Meng Huo was responsible for guiding the content of the animation according to the plan.

This is a complicated work, he basically has to stare at every place, and after several weeks of running-in, the other painters have achieved the setting of characters, elves and other settings to the point that Meng is satisfied.

"Pokemon" can officially start work, and at the request of Xu Jing, the Flower Moon Company completed the title change and changed to the "Phoenix Company Flower Moon Animation Department", inheriting the company's logo, a phoenix reborn from the ashes.

They first have to make a trailer for "Pokemon", and at the same time, they can also officially announce Phoenix's entry into the animation industry, although it is a trailer, it needs a lot of things, and Meng Shu has new troubles.

He wanted to choose a voice actor, but there were relatively few voice actors in Huaxia, and after the invitation was issued, most of the voice actors refused.

"Radiant is also doing animation, and I'm going to be a voice actor for you at this time, isn't this touching their mold?"

A voice actor replied.

(Thanks to TCBB Outlander for the tip!) ）