The Creator of the Second Dimension

Xu Rui has been very busy these two days. "Your Name" needs a lot of supervision from himself in the early stage of production. He will relax a little when everything is on the right track.

Yi Qianqian was raising her body at her mother's house, and Xu Rui had lunch at noon to see which team he would meet with for the last time in the morning, so he went to the cafeteria with the people in charge.

This morning was a painting meeting, and Xu Rui was surrounded by Lin Shuyi and others.

He ate relatively simple, stir-fried beef with celery, shredded potatoes, fried cabbage, and a bowl of kelp pork rib soup. At first glance, he didn't look like the boss of a company at all, but looked like an ordinary low-level employee.

".Have you heard that the boss of Anime Soul seems to have been fired directly by Tomato?"

The original artists on the side chatted while eating, without the slightest sense of urgency that the boss was sitting next to him.

"I also saw the Weibo, probably because the embarrassing Weibo made the people above me unhappy, so I opened it directly."

"Tsk tsk, I have watched two episodes of Anime Soul before. To be honest, I can see that the author is quite serious, but the book bag is too serious, and many places are too theoretical. The actual on-site operation is not like that at all. It looks like a layman. written by people."

"However, the candidates for the animation art award are quite funny. Our animations are basically excluded. In the end, they are all Tomato Video Network's own works. Why not just change the name to the Tomato Animation Art Award."

"Speaking of which, the annual animation of "Music Girl" should be stable this year."

Xu Rui listened to a few sentences of their chat casually, did not intervene casually, and just ate in silence.

Lin Shuyi, as the character design and executive painting director of "Your Name", naturally also participated in the painting meeting, and is now sitting opposite Xu Rui.

This was supposed to be Miss Qianqian's position, but Lin Shuyi had no idea.

".The recent animation art award seems to be quite lively."

Lin Shuyi didn't have Wu Hongyan and Han Qingwen by her side, so getting along with Xu Rui was still a little awkward. She also ate her lunch in silence, but when she heard the discussion from the people next to her, she also tried to find a topic.

"Well, there are too many loopholes in the organization of Tomato Video Network."

Xu Rui swallowed what was in his mouth before speaking.

"And the positioning of this award is not very clear. Judging from the name and introduction, Tomato Video Network wants to take a high-end path and make it a selection similar to the annual animation, but it does not have such a strong appeal and wants to hide it. In the end, I can only find a group of relatively amateur self-media as judges."

"Then how will this grand prize end?"

Lin Shuyi couldn't help asking.

"The best result is probably to select a few of my own works, and the curtain ends hastily. The worst result, I think the judges may fight among themselves, and finally make the whole selection a mess."

Xu Rui thought for a while and answered.

"To organize such a selection, what is needed is to be fair and objective, and to win awards based on one's own ability. If there is a purpose in the beginning, then the foundation is crooked, and naturally it is impossible to gain anything."

His current attitude towards Tomato Video Network is to despise strategically and attach importance to it tactically.

Although in terms of volume, Tomato Video Network is much larger than Hatsune Video Network. If Hatsune Video Network occupies the market of young people, then Tomato Video Network occupies the market of all ages, such as elementary school students, the elderly, and middle-aged users. , rely more on tomato video network.

However, the overall trend of Hatsune Video Network is rising, and its expansion speed is far faster than that of Tomato Video Network. It is even more successful in overseas markets. Given time, it will definitely surpass Tomato Video Network.

But even so, Xu Rui will not ignore some small actions of Tomato Video Network, just like this animation art award, if Tomato Video Network can really rely on this award to grab part of the benefits, then Xu Rui will naturally not sit idly by , but after considering the logic in it, he knew that this project was nothing to fear, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

Lin Shuyi nodded ignorantly. She probably thought about what Xu Rui said, but she was still very angry. Why her own animation was belittled by those self-media, but those mass-produced animations produced by Tomato Video Network were touted by the judges.

Xu Rui had lunch, took a fifteen-minute lunch break, and then started working again.

This meeting has nothing to do with animation, but Zheng Weijie, who has been collecting materials from barbecue stalls all over the country for more than half a year.

When I saw the director in the conference room, he was already quite tanned, and his body was very smokey, like those grill masters who have been standing in front of the oven for a long time.

Unexpectedly, Zheng Weijie didn't gain too much weight, but he lost a lot of weight after running around for more than half a year, and he became a lot more capable.

"You have worked hard for the past six months."

Xu Rui said that Zheng Weijie's filming work is not over yet, he just came back to Ningjiang to report this time, and he will leave by plane soon, he is busier than Xu Rui.

"It's not hard at all. On the contrary, through these shootings, I feel that I have gradually grasped some tricks."

Zheng Weijie will send the content he shot back to the company in the past six months. Xu Rui has read every copy. At the beginning, Zheng Weijie was still in the way of shooting movies and TV shows, but with the increase of shooting, Zheng Weijie also used the lens. Gradually transformed into a documentary mode, getting better and better.

"According to the current progress, all the filming work will be completed in October, and I will definitely be able to start next summer vacation."

Zheng Weijie chatted some more about his work, and then continued.

"By the way, Mr. Xu, when I was filming this time, I went to a place, and I think it has a lot of stories."

He then showed Xu Rui the photos on his phone.

This place is located in the province next door to Ningjiang, called Songhai City. It used to be an industrial base decades ago, but with the closure of large factories, it gradually declined. Now it is basically a small city in decline.

Zheng Weijie accidentally heard that there was a barbecue restaurant in Songhai City that was famous for its grilled chicken, so he took his team there and found that the barbecue restaurant had lost its business, just like a declining city.

But the roast chicken tastes very good. Even though Zheng Weijie has eaten so many barbecues in the past six months, the roast chicken still left a deep impression on him. It won't be long.

In fact, Zheng Weijie has encountered many such shops along the way, some of which could not continue to operate due to physical reasons of the shop owner, some of which were caused by the transformation of the city and led to the extinction of roadside stalls, and some of them are like this roast chicken shop, which is The decline of the whole environment.

For example, in Ningjiang, except for some communities with less strict management around the school, it is difficult for people to eat barbecue from roadside stalls. Most of them are all kinds of barbecue that occupy the market.

"I'll pay attention when the time comes, you go to rest for a while before going to the airport."

Xu Rui looked at the photos of Zheng Weijie thoughtfully.