Chapter 222 Anime Club

From the perspective of Liu Tianci, the president of DreamWorks, it is a correct idea for the company to enter the animation market.

After all, animated features have also been shown to draw audiences into theaters.

Moreover, many Hollywood film companies have animation studios, not to mention Disney, which started out as an animation company.

But from Fang Hexuan's perspective, although comics and animation can be integrated, the coverage of the comics industry is far wider than that of the film and television industry.

So, even if he wanted to enter the comics industry, he wouldn't let DreamWorks do it.

Although he founded this company and is still a major shareholder, there is still a parent company above it, DreamWorks Entertainment.

Fang Hexuan is not willing to give away the benefits to those shareholders who are just sitting back and reaping the benefits.

Therefore, he planned from the very beginning to set up a separate company to specifically enter the comics industry, which is a lucrative industry.

However, he could not discourage the enthusiasm of his subordinates, so Fang Hexuan still made a work call to Liu Tianci, told him that he already had an idea, and thanked him for his long-term consideration for the company.

If we talk about the country that leads the comics industry today, it is naturally Japan. Even the United States, which has two comics giants, cannot be compared with it.

The Japanese government has made the development of comics its national policy. In addition to boosting many industries, it also plays an important role in cultural output.

It can be said that comics have a greater impact on many teenagers than the education they receive in school.

Fang Hexuan, the time traveler, understands the strategic significance of this too well.

When he was in school, whether in junior high school, high school or college, the common topics among male classmates, apart from ball sports and games, were almost all neon animations made from comics.

Many of the later generations of pro-Japanese people in mainland China started out by reading Japanese comics and gradually became addicted to it.

It has to be admitted that Japanese comics do have a huge appeal to otakus and teenagers.

Therefore, even without considering economic interests, he has to make arrangements in advance just to defend the high ground of the war of public opinion for China.

Hong Kong is not without cartoonists. For example, Ma Rongcheng and Wong Yuk-long are both industry insiders with good abilities and vision.

However, the local market size in Hong Kong is too small to support the development of the comics industry.

Secondly, Hong Kong comics are too deeply influenced by local gangs and martial arts novels. Apart from promoting violence, there are almost no creative ideas that can penetrate people's hearts.

Neither of these can compete with Neon comics.

If Hong Kong has a far-sighted strategist willing to support the local comics industry, perhaps in a dozen years it will be able to compete with Japanese comics.

Now, Fang Hexuan naturally has to be the one to take charge of this big water pipe.

He did what he said. On April 4, he asked his lawyers and financial officers to help him register an animation company in Hong Kong - DreamWorks Animation.

Although the name contains the three words "DreamWorks", it has nothing to do with DreamWorks movies. It's simply because Fang Hexuan was too lazy to think of a name.

This company will set up a subsidiary in Neon, specifically to recruit the awesome comic writers that Fang Hexuan remembers.

Of course, some classic comic works must come from his own outline ideas, so the copyright will also be shared by him and the writer.

It’s not that he can’t just find someone to draw his ideas.

However, classic works often require great writers to inject more emotions and energy into them, so Fang Hexuan can accept sharing certain copyrights with these great people.

For example, giving them 10% of the copyright income would probably make these people satisfied.

Fang Hexuan now likes to seek help from multinational consulting and headhunting companies for many of his current business operations.

There is no other reason, it just saves worry, effort and time.

Therefore, before Neon established a subsidiary of DreamWorks Animation, Fang Hexuan used headhunters to help him recruit people.

He remembered the great cartoonists such as Akira Toriyama, the author of Dragon Ball, Masami Kurumada, the author of Saint Seiya, Tetsuo Hara, the author of Fist of the North Star, and Gosho Aoyama, the author of Detective Conan. These were the top candidates that headhunters preferred to recruit. In addition to these big names, animation clubs can also recruit some young authors with creative potential in the local area.

Once this subsidiary is officially on track, Fang Hexuan will fly to Neon for an inspection and give them some operational suggestions.

On the day DreamWorks Animation was established, Fang Hexuan placed recruitment advertisements in several newspapers.

The reason why Hong Kong does not use headhunters is simply because there are really no great comic book writers locally.

Wong Yuk-lang already has his own Yuk-lang International, so there is no need for Fang Hexuan to spend money to acquire such a company.

If someone really loves comics, as long as he reads in the newspaper and knows that the richest man has also entered this industry, he will naturally pack his bags and join his company.

It’s no wonder that Fang Hexuan’s expectations did not come true.

One of the talents mentioned above took the initiative to come to DreamWorks Animation to submit his resume.

That’s right, this person is Ma Rongcheng.

Fang Hexuan met him in person, which made Xiao Ma quite nervous and excited.

I have to say that this apprentice of Shangguan Xiaobao does look good, and his face shape and temperament are somewhat similar to the later Penguin Horse.

Looking at the young man in front of him who was less than a year younger than him, Fang Hexuan felt a growing sense of familiarity.

"Please sit down, Xiao Ma."

"Thank you Mr. Fang!"

"You don't mind if I call you that?"

"Don't mind, don't mind. I'm more than happy to do so!"

"Haha, I'm just kidding. Our ages are less than five months apart, so we are of the same generation. I'll call you 'Acheng' from now on."

"Yeah, yeah, it doesn't matter what you call me, Mr. Fang."

"The reason I want to meet you in person is because I saw the photo on your resume and it looks like a friend of mine, so we are destined to meet."

"hehe."

"Of course, besides that, I also want to talk to you about the future development of the animation club."

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"Are you confused? Why would I tell you this, a new employee?"

"Fang Sheng."

"In fact, the reason why I entered the animation industry is for long-term planning. Simply put, I hope to develop our own animation industry."

"But Hong Kong is too small and the market size is limited. My future focus is definitely on the whole of Asia."

"Therefore, I also set up an animation branch in Japan, using Japan's talents and technology to develop our own animation business."

"I asked you to come here because I recognized you at first sight. You are the future hope of our animation club. I want to give you a heads-up in advance."

"I hope you can consider the overall situation and not limit your vision to the small place of Hong Kong. Our opponent is not Yulang International, they are not worthy of it. Our real opponent is Neon."

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