[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-all-rounder-artist":3,"chapter-all-rounder-artist-all-rounder-artist-chapter-1326":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","All-rounder Artist",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1270714,1699,"Chapter 1326: 1102: The Animation Circle is Stirring_Up_2","all-rounder-artist-chapter-1326",1326,"\u003Cp>Chapter 1326: Chapter 1102: The Animation Circle is Stirring_Up_2\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“These directions are not comprehensive, the actual standard is just one, excellent and suitable for children.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Continent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yuan received a call from the chairman: “The Literature and Art Association has contacted me, wanting to buy the broadcast rights of ‘Doraemon’ for the children’s channel. Shadow is going to make a huge impact now; this anime is likely to be shown for a long time, having a profound effect on children, almost equivalent to being one of their mentors in their youth!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aren’t you excited?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Busy with other things.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What things?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Writing a script.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What script?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course, it’s an animation script. Just having ‘Doraemon’ selected isn’t enough.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re planning to make another one!?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The more, the better.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Songhua couldn’t help but fall into deep thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More, the better?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But how much is more?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let Shadow handle it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given such a rare opportunity, animators from all over Blue Star will go crazy, even the Big Five will bare their fangs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if Shadow produces another hit?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then even the Big Five might become envious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It doesn’t matter if it’s not successful; having ‘Doraemon’ air on the children’s channel is already great for Starlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s an opportunity countless companies dream of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Lin Yuan has no idea about Li Songhua’s thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is seriously reviewing the criteria, studying the standards of the Literature and Art Association.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The animations needed for the children’s channel are naturally\u002Fmainly oriented towards younger audiences, which rules out the vast majority of comic works.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hot-blooded series like ‘Dead Sea of Fire’?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such youth-oriented comics don’t match the style of the children’s channel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, for animations suitable for children, there are too many options to choose from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yuan instinctively thought of ‘Tom and Jerry.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But soon, Lin Yuan dismissed this idea himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s not that ‘Tom and Jerry’ isn’t good, but the music of this animation is tricky to handle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless world-class works, including those from big names like Beethoven, have been used as background music for ‘Tom and Jerry.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Better put that aside for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Blue Star is a world dominated by Eastern culture; he could totally consider works from Celestial Dynasty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Like ‘Journey to the West’!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Literature and Art Association wants an animated film with a mythological theme, and ‘Journey to the West’ is just perfect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Keep in mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Journey to the West TV series is very popular, but the anime has never been broadcast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The company has already started working on it, just a bit slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yuan plans to hurry them up later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For mythological animations, ‘Journey to the West’ is obviously very appropriate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for educational animations?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yuan thought of ‘3000 Whys of Blue Cat.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a typical educational and science popularization animation, very classic, a memory for a certain generation of kids from Celestial Dynasty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s also educational animation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This concept is a bit broad, as many animations have educational attributes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, the martial arts style ‘Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit Legend.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or the one where righteousness always defeats evil, ‘Black Cat Detective.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or maybe…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How about ‘Calabash Brothers’?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seems the Literature and Art Association also mentioned artistic style animations?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How can that be defined?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What does an artistic style animation even mean?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yuan vaguely had some guesses, but wasn’t quite certain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The overall requirement of the Literature and Art Association is to be exciting, interesting, and educational, which is perhaps why they would even consider tokusatsu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just do it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Go by the criteria of being exciting, interesting, and educational.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yuan immediately called over Jin Mu: “We’re going to make a few animations!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A few?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Five as a start.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But you can’t just let us do it, the animation department at Starlight should also be involved.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Okay, you go ahead and divide them into teams.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll make four teams, that’s the limit. Each team can take on one project.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yuan is full of drive!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the following days, he wrote several scripts and drew a stack of pictures, all for the animations he’s planning to make!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two days later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yuan arrived at Dream Factory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Team one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This animation, I call it paper-cutting animation, it’s made differently from traditional animation, you need to cut out these character images and incorporate them into the animation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Paper-cutting?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s simple, I’ll teach you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why not just use special effects for animation?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t you think paper-cutting is interesting?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well okay, it is quite innovative. Actually, I have another question, about why the Calabash Brothers don’t team up to fight together but instead go after the demons one by one?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can you do it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You sure talk a lot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yuan adjusted his mask: “Next!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The leader of the second group came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yuan asked, “Have you read the script?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The leader of the second group hurriedly nodded: “I have!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Work on it quickly!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What kind of animation is this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Educational cartoon.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Haha, what an educational cartoon, it’s just that the main character, Blue Cat, is too naive and honest.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s fine, educational content needs a reliable and steady protagonist.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Okay.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Team Three.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The team leader said with a bitter face:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sorry, Teacher Shadow, we really can’t do this!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ink wash animation!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How are we supposed to do this!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We only know how to do technical stuff.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For ink wash, we need to bring in a master of the craft.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I suggest contacting the traditional art community, although I doubt anyone there would understand what ink wash animation is.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No need.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll do the drawing!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yuan was already prepared to take matters into his own hands!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yuan arrived at Starlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Starlight’s animation department didn’t need to be split into temporary teams; many teams were responsible for different works.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yuan went directly to each team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My friend, Shadow, created an animation film, and we need your help to produce it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Journey to the West animation isn’t finished yet?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s too slow, so let’s work on this instead.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This one features a character from the Journey to the West series too.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nezha!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yuan asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Any difficulties?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Funding is not enough, I’ll take care of it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I need you to guarantee speed and quality.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, this is my good friend Shadow’s work, I can’t let my friend down.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kids might not be interested in soccer.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t worry.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hard to say for girls.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“At least the boys should love it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet another department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you sure?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A carp as the protagonist?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The ocean as the story’s backdrop?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then the visuals have to be more exquisite.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, arrangements were made one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yuan went to each department, assigning different teams to different animation projects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many animation companies in the industry, as well as entertainment companies involved in animation, were all busy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Work work work.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t be stingy with money!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If it can get on the children’s channel, any amount of money can be made back!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The company will take off with this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Defeat the Big Five!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We might not beat them at animated movies, but we won’t cower with animated series!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There are quite a few slots.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We can at least grab one!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as there’s a story, producing children’s animation is fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially in Blue Star, those wealthy companies are willing to spend a lot of money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Big Five too, are churning out multiple works in rote fashion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This isn’t like animated films, which require especially high special effects technology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The production of many animated series is very simplistic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Targeted at younger audiences, simplicity is key.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least for children:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if you max out the special effects in animation, it wouldn’t be as charming as the simply portrayed Happy Sheep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And while major companies across the continents are ramping up production,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Netizens are eagerly anticipating new developments:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Which works will be chosen in the first batch of animations?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did the Big Five entertainment companies participate too?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Haven’t you seen the news? Journalists have interviewed many companies; they’re all busy preparing now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Right.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve also heard some news.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After Shadow’s ‘Doraemon’ was selected, he’s now working on a new animation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Does he plan to take up two slots all by himself?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Impossible, animation is not like comics after all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Indeed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If it were a collection of youth comics, then Shadow would absolutely dominate.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Online.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Various rumors are spreading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Lin Yuan is already busier than ever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every day, he has to deal with problems encountered during the production of different animations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the price of greed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, even Lin Yuan himself does not know how many of these animated series the Literature and Art Association will eventually fancy.\u003C\u002Fp>",1481,"2026-06-05T16:38:54.385Z",1,"novelbin.me","a081855a500df7930313b99dd2af3ae9ddd2fd60f354a249c6feab5d44f9c403","all-rounder-artist-chapter-1327","all-rounder-artist-chapter-1325",1668,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fall-rounder-artist-cover.jpg"]