All-rounder Artist

Chapter 237: Chapter 221: Post-Production of the Movie Completedi

Not only was Chu Kuang’s alias account rising in popularity among the tribe, but Lin Yuan’s literary fame was also growing, currently reaching four hundred thousand. Literature had now become Lin Yuan’s highest category in prestige value…

The latecomers surpassed!

Previously, Lin Yuan had always been leading in music prestige, mainly because Xian Yu was Lin Yuan’s earliest alias, and his priority has always been music. However, the sustained popularity of novels could not be subdued.

Think about it.

Releasing a song might only be popular for a short time, but publishing a long fantasy novel could be serialized for half a year to a year or even longer!

This kind of popularity could persist until after the novel is fully published, which is why Chu Kuang’s tribe account has the most fans.

At this time.

Luo Wei, who was officially managing the Shadow account, saw the comments in the backend.

She excitedly said to Lin Yuan: “Did you see that a company wants to turn ‘King of the Net’ into an animation?”

“I saw.”

Lin Yuan said: “But I don’t know how strong this company is.”

“This company?”

Luo Wei was taken aback, then laughed: “It seems you didn’t read the backend information, there are already four production companies interested in buying the anime rights to our ‘King of the Net’, including the well-known Divine Wings Tech in the industry!”

“Divine Wings Tech?”

Lin Yuan was not very familiar with these.

Luo Wei explained: “Divine Wings is considered a top-notch animation production company in Qin Qi. The popular new anime ‘Alchemist’ at the beginning of the year was produced by their company. You may not be very familiar with it because you don’t follow anime shows, but I think if it is this company, it’s worth considering. Why don’t you contact Chu Kuang to hear his opinion?”

Luo Wei is an art student, basically a bit of a house-girl.

House-girls love anime, games, and things with a second-dimension attribute, so she also has a decent understanding of animation production companies.

“Can we collaborate?”

“Absolutely.”

Upon seeing the worried look on Lin Yuan’s face, Luo Wei chuckled and added: “You might want to look at the classic animations produced by this company, they are all of good quality, let me recommend a few for you. Apart from the new shows this year, earlier works such as the ‘Magical Girl’ series are also very classic…”

“I’ll take a look later.”

Lin Yuan needed to do some investigating.

Luo Wei nodded: “Then who holds the rights… you or Chu Kuang?”

Lin Yuan casually replied: “No difference.”

Luo Wei was surprised, then let out a peculiar smile.

Lin Yuan found Luo Wei’s smile strange, anyway.

He interrupted Luo Wei’s musing: “Go paint.”

“Okay.”

Luo Wei was full of enthusiasm.

Little did Lin Yuan know, Luo Wei’s passion was fueled by a small goal in her heart:

She hoped to make Shadow’s reputation surpass Xian Yu’s!

As for the reason…

Of course, it’s to make Chu Kuang realize the value of Shadow!

Although this is difficult, with the help of anime adaptations and the serialization of ‘King of the Net’, it’s not entirely impossible.

Since Lin Yuan and Luo Wei have been working together, the serialization of ‘King of the Net’ has been going at a fast pace.

Even the fans agreed that Shadow’s updates were the most conscientious bunch among the comic artists.

This is because Lin Yuan and Luo Wei truly formed a two-person team for the task…

The creation of comics is different from novels.

It’s challenging for two people to write a novel together, but it’s doable for comics.

All Lin Yuan needed to do was to provide the storyboard, and the rest would be taken care of by Lin Yuan and Luo Wei together.

After all, Lin Yuan and Luo Wei’s drawing styles are the same, which is a basic requisite for top-tier fan artists.

Thanks to this collaboration, the ‘King of the Net’ has been serialized for quite a bit now.

In the following days, the sales volume of ‘Ghost Blowing Lamp’ remained very satisfactory.

Many readers who had finished the first volume were already looking forward to the second volume!

This was because of the suspense ending of ‘Ghost Blowing Lamp’.

The conclusion of the first volume was that Hu Bayi contracted a strange disease and his body had strange red spots.

It was rumored to be a curse that could be deadly.

In order to solve this curse, Hu Bayi and his companions needed to find the legendary Phoenix Dust Pearl…

Clearly, the search for the Phoenix Dust Pearl would be the plot of the second volume.

They still needed to rob graves.

This was the absolute mainline of ‘Ghost Blowing Lamp’.

After reading the first volume, readers were already somewhat addicted. However, there were a few suspense elements left in the first volume, so the readers were naturally very excited about the second volume and wanted to see the continuation of the story.

At this point, no one was cursing Chu Kuang as the old rascal for cutting chapters anymore.

Because everyone clearly saw that the first volume of ‘Ghost Blowing Lamp’ was a complete story!

The part about the Ancient City of Jingjue was well constructed.

About three hundred and forty thousand words of content had left the readers ecstatic.

Naturally, Lin Yuan also began the second volume of ‘Ghost Blowing Lamp’.

Under normal circumstances, there was no way Lin Yuan had this much energy.

Having to draw comics and write novels…

Luckily, Lin Yuan now had energy potions, after using them, Lin Yuan felt limitless vitality.

As for the price of the energy potion…

Although it was expensive, Lin Yuan is also doing all of this to make money.

Investment would lead to returns.

Then in mid-June, when Lin Yuan was busy, director Yi Chenggong suddenly contacted Lin Yuan and brought him good news:

The post-production of the movie ‘Flirting Scholar’ was completed!

Upon hearing this, Lin Yuan immediately felt upbeat and rushed to the company the next day to meet Yi Chenggong and review the finished product.

Well, what can you do…

Although the actors had changed, ‘Flirting Scholar’ still had that familiar flavor.

Anyway, from Lin Yuan’s perspective, this movie was reasonably faithful to the original, and the comedic points were basically all represented.

However, Lin Yuan’s viewing process did not have too many emotional fluctuations.

He was too familiar with the script.

Executive Yi Chenggong, on the other hand, as the film director who was also familiar with the script, watched with great delight and laughed throughout the entire film.

After the film.

Yi Chenggong calmed his emotions before turning back to Lin Yuan and said: “The film has been submitted for review, I don’t think there should be any problems with the content, next we need to consider the premiere. Would Mr. Lin go and discuss it with the film department?”

“Sure.”

Lin Yuan nodded.

He had read countless film books and understood the market, so he knew that to premiere a film, one had to obtain the permission of the theatre chain first. It would be difficult for Lin Yuan to do this alone, it required Blue Star’s intervention.

This wasn’t difficult.

Since Blue Star agreed to invest in the production of ‘Flirting Scholar’, it would definitely not ignore the movie’s screenings. They were certainly going to help secure it. Lin Yuan himself did not have Blue Star’s widespread connection with major theatres.

What belonged to the theatre belonged to the theatre.

What belonged to the company belonged to the company.

For Blue Star’s films to premiere, it must negotiate with the theatres. It might need to schedule a viewing for theatres to evaluate the film’s quality, which is what the theatres’ scheduling consideration is based on, certainly Blue Star’s own weight would be also considered.

Imagine…

If Lin Yuan were to fight alone without the backing of a large company, how difficult would it be to discuss the film scheduling issue with the theatre based on just one film with an investment of less than ten million?

It would be as difficult as ascending to the heavens!

Let’s not even talk about whether they would favor ‘Flirting Scholar’, even if they genuinely love this film, the theatre would surely make excessive demands for outright purchase or similar plans. An insignificant individual just wouldn’t be able to negotiate on equal terms in front of the theatre.

Thinking of this.

Lin Yuan called 01′ Zhou, and securing the theatre would mostly rely on 01′ Zhou’s help.

Lin Yuan remembers that 01′ Zhou was highly appreciative of the ‘Flirting Scholar’ script!