Chapter 269: 《Fog Mountain Five Elements》

A folk-leaning musical style is, generally speaking, certainly not as popular as mainstream love songs.

But this world is just like Earth; every year, a few folk or folk-leaning songs become hits.

Among the male Singers currently at Luo Mo Studio, there is absolutely no shortage of people who sing pop.

Whether it is Sun Yi or Tong Shu, both can perform pop love songs very well.

On the contrary, folk music has become a scarcity.

But Luo Mo has far too many good folk songs on hand.

To just leave them there would be a bit of a pity.

Luo Mo sent all ten songs in the folder to Li Junyi via WeChat, then said to him, "The program Director Ke Ming is making next year is quite thoughtful; you must cherish this opportunity well."

Regarding that new type of music variety show next year, Ke Ming initially had a general concept, which he then discussed with Luo Mo during a meal.

As Luo Mo listened to his train of thought, the more he heard, the more it felt like... "King of Masked Singers" from Earth!

Then, he casually said a few words, suggesting that they could add the element of masks, create all kinds of masks, and also let the Singers try to hide their own characteristics.

Once Ke Ming heard this, he was amazed!

"It can not only create suspense and anticipation, but also trigger interaction and heated discussion among the audience!"

"At the same time, this kind of design can also crazily ride the wave of popularity."

"For example, if you, Luo Mo, haven't arrived at the scene, and I arrange someone of similar height who is good at imitating you, there will be audience members guessing that you have come!"

Ke Ming's imagination ran wild right there at the meal.

Luo Mo thought to himself, "As expected of Ke Ming, who is nicknamed 'Dog Director' by people; his brain is just sharp. I just mentioned it casually, and he already started thinking in detail about various aspects like hype, creating suspense, and whetting appetites."

In Luo Mo's view, this program no longer holds much significance for him personally.

Instead, it will have an excellent effect on a Newcomer like Li Junyi who has yet to debut.

No matter how everyone guesses, they will never guess this person.

When the time comes for the glorious reveal, seeing a face that is both unfamiliar and yet slightly familiar, they will definitely be incredibly shocked!

The effect that can be created at that moment will definitely be top-tier!

Luo Mo even thought it through: in order to hide Li Junyi's identity, when he goes on the show to sing, he himself will create an alias to write songs for him.

Otherwise, if everyone sees that the lyricist and composer is Luo Mo, and then considers the height and some personal characteristics, they would be able to guess Li Junyi immediately.

How boring that would be!

But as long as he is not linked to Luo Mo, given his level of transparency in the industry, he is completely a marginal figure.

No matter how much the audience racks their brains, they will absolutely never think of this person.

Actually, back in the day, when Zhou Dong was wooing women, in order to avoid some trouble, he also used an alias to write songs for women and said that this songwriter was someone from his own company; that counts as having quite a few tricks up his sleeve.

Li Junyi listened to Luo Mo's words and nodded vigorously.

An album of ten songs, plus a top-tier large-scale variety show—these are resources that even First-line Singers in the industry would be incredibly eager for, and incredibly envious and jealous of.

If he cannot grasp even this, he might as well get lost early and stop hanging around in the industry.

"I must live up to Brother Mo," Li Junyi said in his heart.

Luo Mo glanced at the other few Newcomers, waved his hand, and said, "You all go out first, take a good New Year's holiday, and after you come back, I will give you one more month of training. If the final result is still not ideal..."

Luo Mo stopped here and did not continue, just waving his hand again to signal that they could leave.

The four Newcomers were instantly startled, their bodies tensed up immediately, and as they left the room, some even broke out in cold sweat.

To them, it was equivalent to witnessing heaven and seeing hell in a short period of time.

Li Junyi's treatment was heaven-level treatment.

After these few Newcomers left, Luo Mo pointed to the chair across the table and said, "Don't just stand there like a fool, sit down."

Li Junyi responded and sat down obediently.

"In the past six months, have you felt wronged?" Luo Mo said.

He had also watched some of the variety shows that Li Junyi and Tong Shu participated in.

Good things never fell to Li Junyi, but once the team had to receive game penalties, Li Junyi was mostly on the penalty list.

For example, being knocked into water, having mud slapped on his face, or being covered in flour.

This young man had not a single word of complaint and just giggled on the show.

Many variety shows also have scripts, and the scripts Li Junyi received were mostly the kind that involved taking the blame or causing trouble.

In short, in this circle, if a person is not popular, they will be met with cold treatment everywhere.

Li Junyi listened to Brother Mo's words and for a moment did not know how to answer.

There was definitely a sense of disparity in his heart, but he also knew very clearly that this was entirely because he was not yet excellent enough.

So he practiced, practiced, practiced... practiced crazily!

In his heart, there was more guilt toward Brother Mo instead.

After all, he had let down Luo Mo's expectations time and time again.

Luo Mo chatted with Li Junyi for a few more sentences, then let him go familiarize himself with the songs first.

After Li Junyi left, Luo Mo leaned back, resting his back against the chair, and muttered to himself, "What name should I use for the alias?"

Time passed day by day, and with three days left until New Year's Eve, all the employees of Luo Mo Studio went on holiday.

As the big boss, Luo Mo gave everyone a big red envelope, and it was given in the form of cash.

At the same time, they played some team-building games, and finally held an employee lucky draw, where even the worst prize was a new model mobile phone.

Honestly, being the team behind a Top Traffic star, the work pressure is quite high, and they are quite busy.

Because for those obscure celebrities, there is almost nothing related to them on the internet.

But as a Top Traffic, there are too many trivial matters, and sometimes it is simply impossible to handle them all.

As for Luo Mo himself, it is not yet time for him to go on holiday.

He still has to attend the final rehearsal for the Spring Festival Gala tomorrow.

He also has to go on stage on New Year's Eve to sing a song.

Only after finishing this work can he properly rest for a few days.

The post-production of *Sword Fairy* is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Luo Mo is very satisfied with the several special effects teams he hired.

"Other people's special effects are 'fifty-cent effects', but my special effects are filled with the scent of real gold and silver; they look expensive just by watching them," Luo Mo thinks.

Now, when he watches the footage of himself as Li Xiaoyao performing the Sword Control Technique, he feels that this is not the Sword Control Technique.

This is throwing money away!

Every time a sword is unsheathed, a sum of money disappears from the money bag.

"This speed of spending money is truly faster than throwing money into a furnace to burn," Luo Mo compares, feeling that a small furnace really burns slowly.

But the final presented effect is still very impressive.

*Sword Fairy* can definitely be considered a work with conscientious special effects for its time.

But now that the era is progressing, Luo Mo feels he must live up to the rapidly developing technology.

At the same time, seeing his own cool-as-hell appearance when the special effects are applied, he can still derive a sense of satisfaction.

As for Tongguang Studio, He Yuanguang and his subordinates have also started their New Year holidays.

The production speed of *Spirit Cage* is very slow; although it started production earlier than *Sword Fairy*, it is estimated that it will be released later than *Sword Fairy*.

At the same time, the entire Animation studio is constantly expanding, and now it is already three times its original scale!

Before the New Year holiday, He Yuanguang met with Luo Mo to chat about some things that have been troubling him recently.

Originally, a group of "veterans" in his studio were already starting to fall behind the times.

They were accustomed to making animation geared towards children, and 3D animation was another field for them; they were not skilled in 3D animation production.

Now that the third season of *That Rabbit* has not yet started, they have almost no projects to work on in the studio.

Upon hearing this, Luo Mo feels this is not difficult, so they should just come up with a few new projects.

"How is the capability of this group of people?" Luo Mo asks.

"It varies," He Yuanguang says very honestly.

"There are a few people inside whose capabilities are top-tier in the industry, they just don't know how to do 3D at all."

"But most are at a medium-to-high level, belonging to the backbone force," He Yuanguang says.

Luo Mo ponders for a moment and says: "Our studio has always made animation that doesn't have long serialization periods."

"How about this, let's start two new projects after the New Year," Luo Mo says.

"One will follow the route of long-term serialization, and the art style will be simpler."

"The other project, *cough cough*, will definitely still be very short."

The label of 【short and small】 is really a bit hard to shake off.

"But—" Luo Mo continues: "The production difficulty will be very, very high. Can those top-tier people in the industry you mentioned handle the elements of ink wash painting?"

"No problem," He Yuanguang seems very confident.

Upon hearing this, Luo Mo nods and says: "Then that's worth a try."

He thinks to himself: "You all scold *That Rabbit* for being too short, with only a dozen episodes a season and only a few minutes per episode."

"Heh! It's time to let you know what is truly short, small, and refined!"

"Only three episodes a season, didn't expect that, right?"

"You think it's the main feature, the first season, but actually... we are just the prologue!"

Just to let you experience what it's like to have it end before it has even begun.

This is a work where the drama is slightly lackluster because the production time was too poor and it was slightly out of step with the times.

But its action scenes will ignite anyone who has seen them and leave them greatly shocked.

That unique ink wash art style filled with the aura of Huaxia, along with the fight choreography comparable to top-tier martial arts films—once the fighting starts, the sense of imagery, the impact, and the flowing, smooth movements will make you feel incredibly thrilled.

Some animation truly doesn't need to be forced into 3D.

We in Huaxia also have our own unique art style—ink wash painting!

The artistic conception and elegance within it are hard to put into words.

Luo Mo feels that next year it is time to make a work with a high enough 【Contentment with Mo】.

This is a work made by 6 penniless young people who spent several years on it, which received crazy high scores from netizens and eventually even shocked CCTV.

It is called *Fog Hill Five Elements*!

(PS: First update, asking for monthly tickets!)

(End of this chapter)