Chapter 133 Difficulties in the Comics Industry (Page 12)
In the previous cafe.
Lu Yiming received a call from Zheng Huacai.
Inform him that the final payment from Jiangcheng has been settled in full.
Regarding the Shenhao Card's consumption score, Lu Yiming always thought it was aimed at the overall consumption process.
Come to the parking lot.
After sitting in the car.
Lu Yiming opened the data panel again and murmured: "So every consumption will be independently scored after settlement, right?"
Can be seen at this time.
In the data panel, the system divides his consumption behavior three times.
消费评分:高奢招待粉丝评分A(四千一百四十七万)高奢腕表*2评分A(九十九万)顶奢婚服预付款评分S(两百万)(D%10、C%25、B%50、A%80、S%100)/五百五十四万
Spend three times to buy two high-luxury items and one top-level luxury item.
The corresponding score for high luxury is A.
The top luxury rating is S.
From this we can see what type of consumption the system wants him to do.
Lu Yiming did not expect that entertaining fans would only describe it as luxurious.
But consider that the average person spent more than 10,000 yuan for four days and three nights.
This does not seem to be considered the most luxurious consumption.
But this watch only received an A rating.
The thoughtful Lu Yiming murmured: "Is it because it is not valuable enough?"
It can be recognized that he pays for fans' consumption.
This meant that it was definitely not because he wanted to give one of the watches to Fu Xiaoli.
The only reason is that the value is not enough.
In the eyes of the system, a watch worth 600,000 yuan can only be regarded as a luxury. Lu Yiming couldn't help but sigh: "Are you forcing me to learn how to spend money? You really have it! System!"
299 million was consumed today.
This had a huge impact on Lu Yiming’s consumption outlook.
He needed to slow down a bit.
Then we bought milk tea and some pastries and snacks per person.
Lu Yiming rushed to his comic studio.
The studio Lu Yiming was completely responsible for Fu Xiaoli, so he only came once on the first day of official operation.
The venue is a rented commercial and residential room.
In fact, it is a house with three bedrooms and one living room converted into an office space.
It was Fu Xiaoli who opened the door to greet Lu Yiming.
Seeing what he was holding, he immediately turned around and called the people inside to come out and pick it up.
"Hey! It's milk tea! Thank you boss!"
"Wow! There are also pastries! Long live the boss!"
"thank you boss!"
There are only nine people in the entire comic studio including Fu Xiaoli, and they all work around the main writer Su Xiaoqing. The average age of the nine people together is less than 24 years old, which is considered a very young studio.
Several people took the things away from Lu Yiming one after another and thanked him.
In the end, Fu Xiaoli took over her job.
Seeing Lu Yiming smile sweetly: "Why do you want to come here!"
Fu Xiaoli's duties in the studio are deputy to the producer and line assistant.
Needless to say, the producer.
The completed work must pass her level to be considered passed.
The second-in-command of Hook Line Assistant got involved based on her hobbies.
Hearing this, Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Come and take a look! I happen to be planning to put the work online in the near future, so I came here to ask what you think."
Early last month.
Lu Yiming requires the studio to produce two updates per week.
Five weeks have passed so far.
Plus the first episode he saw at the beginning.
The Doupo manga already has eleven chapters.
It's time to start arranging to go online.
Hearing this, Fu Xiaoli called the main writer Su Xiaoqing. When Lu Yiming asked which platform was suitable for the current comics to be released.
Su Xiaoqing looked at Lu Yiming with a strange expression and said, "Boss, why don't you just turn it into a cartoon without preparing anything?"
Hearing this, Lu Yiming nodded.
Su Xiaoqing immediately raised her forehead and said: "Okay! I thought, boss, you had already reached a cooperation with some platform!"
Don't blame her for reacting this way.
The current investment in the studio is quite large, and the salary of just a few of them is more than 100,000 yuan a month. She thinks that it is impossible for the boss to do this if there is no way to monetize it.
Currently, domestically operating comics without IP support is a dead end.
Just like she also took a detour for two years.
Only then did he choose to give up his identity as a cartoonist and find a studio or join an animation or game company to make a living.
The domestic Internet has achieved overtaking in a corner, but it has also crushed the physical book industry. In addition, the overly optimistic introduction of color comics has greatly increased the cost, which makes the comics industry increasingly difficult to do.
At present, the biggest support for comics is the funds brought by novel adaptations.
She knew that Lu Yiming was the anchor.
I thought he had bought some great work and was preparing to jointly develop IP.
But now it seems.
This boss is also the same as her before.
I broke into the comic industry with some fantasies.
Lu Yiming was curious about how the main writer's expression changed.
At this time, he asked softly: "What's wrong?"
These words interrupted the lead writer Su Xiaoqing's endless derivative thoughts.
Then he began to introduce the current situation of the domestic comic circle to Lu Yiming.
Say something.
Lu Yiming never thought that the comics industry would be so miserable.
That's right!
It's miserable!
According to Su Xiaoqing, if an individual wants to make comics, he must meet at least two conditions.
The first is the Romans.
The so-called Romans refer to those who are born with wealth and semi-freedom, and have a family to provide a fixed financial support.
The second is not to care about things outside yourself.
The external thing here is the copyright of the work. Once you publish it on any platform, the copyright no longer belongs to you.
In fact, it can be summed up in one sentence.
Freedom is limited, diversity does not exist, and copyright cannot be preserved.
At this time, Lu Yiming said in surprise: "Is this an exaggeration?"
Hearing this, Su Xiaoqing smiled bitterly and said: "Let's put it this way! We independent comics authors don't even have the same human rights as delivery riders!"
Lu Yiming looked at her with a serious face.
In fact, he believed what she said.
It's just surprise.
But no matter what.
He still wanted to publish the Doupo comic. At first, he thought that not signing the contract would just mean that he would not get the so-called royalties, but as Su Xiaoqing revealed some shady stories about the industry.
Lu Yiming understood that his original idea would not work.
At this time, Su Xiaoqing continued: "As for the first platform, I personally suggest that Mr. Lu consider Penguin or Xiaopozhan. Currently, these two platforms are the only ones with traffic. Other platforms are either unfriendly platforms or cannot control piracy. Although these two cannot control piracy, this is the situation in the comics industry! You can only hope that the large traffic will attract more paying users and increase revenue!"
Hearing this, Lu Yiming shook his head and said, "No need! Since the platform is all about piss, I won't take the initiative to find the platform."