Chapter 123 Dimension Platform
"Taiwu Painting Scroll" sold 10,000 sets in a short period of time on the "Dimension Platform", which sold almost 300,000 yuan.
The money earned from selling this game belongs to Luozhou Studio. If it weren't for this condition, it would be impossible for Weidu Entertainment to buy "Luzhou" with 10 million yuan - just selling games, they can sell 10 million yuan for every 200,000 sets sold, so why accept the acquisition?
The company has also established a "platform business department". This department is specifically responsible for the operation of the "dimensional platform".
The current "dimensional platform" can only be regarded as the game launcher of the 10,000 players who have purchased the game "Taiwu Painting Scroll".
But this is just the beginning.
In the future, all games and even all interactive entertainment products of Dimension Entertainment should be placed on the "Dimension Platform".
In addition to "Dimension Entertainment"'s own games, the operation colleagues of the newly established "Platform Business Department" have now actively contacted many game companies and tried to introduce more games.
At present, on the PC game promotion and distribution platform, in the entire international market, there is a monster like Steam Platform; in the domestic market, there is also Penguin's WG platform, which is promoting and distributing stand-alone games.
The 'dimensional platform' started too late. In normal ways, not to mention the steam platform, even WG can't compete with WG. They are a national-level game starter like LOL. Not to mention the conversion rate, at least, a group with large traffic.
However, Fan Zhe was not in a hurry. Creating an "interactive entertainment platform" is a long-term task, so let's do it slowly.
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Time is coming to December.
The crew of "Fantasy Three Kingdoms" has already rushed to the Tangcheng Film and Television Base in Xiangyang, Hubei Province, and the green screen part has basically been completed.
There are many scenes in the Tangcheng Film and Television Base. As long as this part is finished, although there are still two or three scenes left, there are not many scenes left and the filming is about to be completed.
At the same time, in order to advance the progress, many green screen shots of many of the TV series and some completed fine illustrations have been stuffed into the 'dimensional' system for calculations.
This calculation project is very large, and all the computing power of the server worth 2 million that Fan Zhe bought has been invested in.
Judging from the calculation speed, it is estimated that the calculation work of the entire film of "Fantasy Three Kingdoms" will last about half a year, and it will not be completed until June next year.
This is much faster than the initial one year expected.
Moreover, since shooting, illustration drawing, and calculation engineering are carried out independently, the entire completion time is saved a lot.
In addition to a long-term and huge investment TV series project like "Fantasy Three Kingdoms", Weidu Entertainment has two projects in progress and are on the verge of ending: "The Three of the All-Time Master" Season 3 and "Special Event Task Force" Season 4.
"Full Time" season 3 took three months, and all the work had been completed and was handed over to Lewen Group for acceptance.
When the acceptance is completed, the subsequent final payment will be paid to the Weidu Entertainment Company’s account.
At the same time, as a representative of Lewen Group's copyright development, Kappa traveled several times to Weidu Entertainment in this month.
He is trying to talk to Weidu Entertainment about the production of season 4.
Obviously, Dimension Entertainment is the best animation producer they can find, no one.
The results of the first season of "Full Time" are so popular; the special episode changed the production company and the reputation collapsed, and then changed to Weidu Entertainment. The results of the second season's main film were far better than the first season.
After having such an experience, how could they not know the value of Dimension Entertainment?
After getting the main film of the third season, Lewen Group also watched it.
The level is as outstanding as ever, from the character design, to the picture, to the beauty of the fight, the smoothness of the level of 2D special effects production...
All of these aspects show the strong strength of Dimension Entertainment.
However, Dimension Entertainment's asking price for Season 4 is too high.
The price of 2.6 million episodes per episode is more than doubled compared to the third season. If Lewen Group chooses to accept it, then the total production fee for this season will reach 26 million. Including the promotion and distribution costs, the total cost may be close to 40 million.
The "Full Time" series is really popular, but the profits of pure animation cannot be made back so much - it is definitely no problem to consider other copyright developments, but for "Full Time", other copyright developments also require considerable investment.
Is this price really acceptable?
Lewen Group thinks it is impossible.
Kappa's boss set the final bottom line for him is 2 million per episode - this price is already twice the production fee of the second season.
Lewen Group even needs to try its best to reduce its publicity investment in order to make so much money.
However, this is far from meeting the psychological expectations of dimensional entertainment.
For Weidu Entertainment, today is different from the past, and they do not lack the production fee for "Full Time". On the contrary, if you have the time to do the fourth season of "Full Time" for Lewen Group, why not start a project by yourself?
The development of "The Evolutionary Four Sixty-Billion Extraordinary" can bring a total of 60 million target revenue to Weidu Entertainment, and even out of these 60 million, almost 40 million have been obtained.
Of course, "The Evolutionary Forty-Six Billion Extraordinary" is a pure 3D project and has twenty episodes; but in comparison, 2D can do well and it takes no less effort than 3D.
In terms of overall income, no matter what, doing your own project is always more profitable than being a producer for others.
The project "Task Team" has the same idea at present. The first three seasons were sold directly for animation copyrights, and only made short-term money. This fourth season will definitely not be like this.
According to Ye Jiayi's estimate, if the fourth season of "Task Team" is operated independently, it will probably make more than 20 million profits for Weidu Entertainment. There is no doubt that no video website will bid for the copyright of small-scale and niche animations like "Task Team" to a level of 2 million per episode.
Speaking of the project "Task Team", the current potential has ended here.
Since the copyrights of the animations in the first three seasons are in the hands of others, and due to their own themes and animation style issues, the profits that Weidu Entertainment can make from them are no longer high, and there is no potential to continue to explore.
So, when the fourth season of "Task Team" was launched, the screenwriter team received instructions - this will be the final season of "Task Team".
Chapter completed!