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Chapter 1310: Chapter 1094: Robot Wally

The media reacted the fastest!

All sorts of news flooded in!

“Shadow to make an animated film?!”

“Shadow establishes an animation film company: Chase Shadow!”

“Shadow is striving to catch up with Xian Yu and Chu Kuang?!”

“Xian Yu in the south, Chu Kuang in the north, Shadow wants to stand right in the center!”

“Is this step too big to take?”

“Shadow skips comics to create animated films directly?”

“To be worthy of standing alongside his two friends, Shadow has finally given all he’s got!”

…

In Shadow’s comment section.

Countless fans were blown away!

“Is this still the same idle Shadow God I remember?”

“Looks like Shadow God is getting serious.”

“It seems he really does care about public opinion.”

“People say he’s not as good as Chu Kuang and Xian Yu, so he decides to transition to animated films?”

“However, isn’t Shadow being too impetuous?”

“Animated cartoons have just started, why not continue producing serialized animations?”

“In terms of both difficulty and investment, serialized animation and animated films are not on the same level.”

“Making animated films is indeed more promising than drawing comics.”

“But Shadow has never made an animated film before, it’s really not that related to how good one is at drawing comics!”

…

On the Tribe forum.

The topic of Shadow making an animated film soared to the hot search list within half an hour!

“Goodness gracious!”

“He’s really in a hurry now!”

“Questioned by Wei Continent, and he pulls out Doraemon.”

“Discovery that Doraemon is not enough, so he’s now considering animated films?”

“Is he seeing Chu Kuang and Xian Yu as his rivals?”

“Aren’t these two opponents a bit too abnormal?”

“Chase Shadow, Chase Shadow, we all underestimated Shadow’s pride.”

“He should have taken it step by step, continued with animation, Doraemon was a very successful experiment.”

“Directly acquiring an animation film company, what a grand move!”

…

On blogs.

The discussion here is even livelier, after all, Shadow doesn’t mingle with the Tribe.

“Is this learning from Xian Yu?”

“Didn’t Xian Yu, while doing music, also take up a side job in films?”

“Shadow can’t stand being below Xian Yu and Chu Kuang.”

“The name Chase Shadow says it all.”

“Skipping comics doesn’t surprise me, but jumping straight past serialized animation to do animated films was truly unexpected.”

“It’s almost like a career leap!”

“Different industries might as well be different worlds.”

“Even if he wanted to try making an animated film, he could have easily collaborated with an animation film company as a screenwriter, who goes straight to acquisition?”

…

Hot discussions ignited across the states of Qin, Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei!

Dream Factory?

With this move, Shadow is just short of outright telling everyone:

I will prove my ability, no less than Xian Yu and Chu Kuang!

Xian Yu in the south, Chu Kuang in the north, and Shadow in the center, there’s nothing wrong with that saying!

And as the news went viral.

Countless professionals from the animation film industry across all states also couldn’t help but turn their attentive gaze.

“Shadow is making an animated film?”

“Isn’t this person a comic artist?”

“He doesn’t think that animated movies and comics are the same thing, does he?”

“Have you ever heard of a comic artist who switched to making animated films and made a big success of it?”

“Does Old Pi count?”

“Old Pi doesn’t count, does he? Although he’s an animation director and can draw comics, his comics are made entirely to serve his animations.”

“Comic artists making animated films is like TV directors making movies, but obviously with a much higher difficulty level.”

“That’s not the point; the point is that the animated film industry has been in a slump these past few years.”

“With the improvement of special effects technology, audiences are increasingly less willing to go to the cinema to watch animated films, only those top animation companies can still attract audiences, after all, their animated films are truly good, even better than live-action films.”

“Does he think he can do better than those animation companies?”

“At times like these, he should just stick to being his own God of Comics. He’s not making any less money, why take the risk and wade into these troubled waters?”

…

Yes.

The animated film industry has indeed been increasingly gloomy these last few years, and many practitioners have started to switch to other jobs.

The main impact is that of the big-budget special effects films:

Given the choice, those visually stunning special effects blockbusters are far more appealing to audiences than animated films.

Even to the point that in many people’s minds:

Animated films seem to be just cartoons.

If they’re just cartoons, why not enjoy watching “Doraemon” at home, right?

Even if people do go to see them, it’s surely to make the children happy, as children naturally have a passion for cartoons.

And the driving force behind the industry’s development is mainly merchandising.

If the merchandise sells well, then even if the animation box office is a loss, it can be compensated by the profits from the merchandise.

Therefore.

In recent years, animated films have mostly been made with merchandise in mind.

In such a case, if Shadow just wants to make money, there’s really no need to bother with animated films.

…

As for the voices from the outside world, Lin Yuan didn’t pay too much attention.

What a joke.

The animated films he obtained through exchange with the System, those are all classic masterpieces that are well-known on Earth.

Who says animated films aren’t as good as live-action films?

Although the market pie is relatively smaller, a smaller pie means there are fewer people to share it.

In the end, it’s because:

Most animated film practitioners can’t make sufficiently exciting works.

In fact.

Even on Earth, the live-action film market crushes the animated market.

This Lin Yuan admits.

However, animated films have always existed, and every now and then, a blockbuster emerges and becomes extremely popular.

The West has Disney and others.

The East has Neon’s Hayao Miyazaki, Makoto Shinkai, and so on.

Even domestically, there are works like “The Return of the Great Saint”.

Moreover.

The difficulty and risk of producing animated films are high, but does that stop Blue Star from having several animation companies that crazily dominate this market?

Lin Yuan has already researched it.

Blue Star has a total of five incredibly powerful top animation companies, their status in the animation film circle is almost comparable to Disney on Earth!

The animation film market has always been divided among these five companies.

People in the animation circle would never imagine that apart from wanting Shadow to be as famous as Xian Yu and Chu Kuang, Lin Yuan’s biggest goal is these five companies!

Lin Yuan aims to steal a slice of the pie from these five animation film companies!

If these five companies can produce animated films that the whole world loves, then Lin Yuan is confident he can do the same!

Of course.

Before that.

First, Lin Yuan needs to think carefully about what Chase Shadow’s first animated film should be.

This one?

Or that one?

Maybe this one is good!

Lin Yuan looked over the works he had acquired in his System’s warehouse and finally selected the first target for Chase Shadow.

The robot, Wally!