Chapter 9 Who killed the dragon

At the company's monthly meeting, Rosie and Sami, as team representatives, handed over the results of months of hard work.

Since the company didn't have any big plans recently and it was just a short animation of less than ten minutes, they were 'lucky' to get a precious opportunity to preview it in front of the management.

This test screening was not that formal.

Although short animations produced by ordinary employees alone are commendable, they may not necessarily have any commercial value.

Therefore, for most people in the management, this can only be regarded as a little relaxation after busy work.

On that day, the ‘audiences’ who attended the short test screening included:

Norris, the manager of the film and television entertainment department, is a rare middle-aged man with a good figure among management. He loves fitness in his spare time. He just returned from a vacation in Hawaii not long ago. His skin is tanned and he always has a hearty smile.

Popularity in the company is good.

He should be regarded as Sami's immediate boss. Although the company has always been severely exploiting and oppressing the lower-level employees, he is a person who takes better care of the employees in his department. And the reason why Sami and the others were able to form a team to produce animations is still

Being able to show the finished animation is all due to his discerning eye and people's full support;

There is also Fabian, the representative of the Ministry of Justice, a man with a stern face.

This person has great abilities but a cold personality. If he is your teammate, then be lucky! Because he can help you solve some legal problems. Even if you are on the edge of the law, he can give you the most reliable support.

.But once he becomes an enemy, he will definitely make it difficult for people to sleep and eat well;

Ed, the marketing manager, is a snob on the outside.

If the film you make is a hit, he may even kneel down and lick your shoes, but if your film is not well received, he will quickly turn into an extremely mean villain;

Helena, the beauty of the International Affairs Department, is the dream girl of all the male employees in the company. She is smart, capable, gentle and amiable;

Experience, Wesley from the consumer products department is a handsome man in the fat world, but his definition of love is very different. If the definition of marriage in the law could be relaxed a little more, he would be more willing to marry Mickey Mouse.

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In addition, there are some emerging new online media, as well as important employees responsible for theme park business, etc.

But generally speaking, the work of each department has overlapping and overlapping parts, and the main decision-makers in the company are currently the above people.

At this time, a very boring meeting that lasted more than two hours had just ended, and everyone was a little tired.

They sat expressionlessly in the screening room. Because they had no expectations for this short animation, they did not pay attention to the animation. Instead, they took the time to continue discussing in low voices some work issues in the second half of the year.

This atmosphere of indifference is a bit embarrassing for many animators.

But Sami was not surprised by this, because since joining the company, his creativity has not been recognized, and he is used to sitting on the bench for a long time.

At this time, Norris, the boss of his department and the head of the film and television entertainment department, may have noticed a few of them, so he came over and deliberately jokingly said: "Although I have confidence in you, if I wait for the screening to start, I will wait for three minutes."

If you want to go out to the bathroom without holding on, then it must be a bad work."

Sammy couldn't help rolling his eyes silently, wanting him to go to the toilet in advance, or telling him a relatively scientific reason: 'If you can't bear it for the remaining few minutes, then it's not that it's bad, it's that you

Your urinary system is in bad condition, please seek medical advice as soon as possible.'

However, he didn't say anything in the end.

Well, Sammy actually doesn't have much confidence in what he can do.

No one (except some super narcissists) can be sure from the beginning that "my stuff is the best".

From the beginning, all Sammy wanted was to express himself, because he just liked to tell stories, he just liked to draw some weird cartoon villains, he just liked to scare people, and he really liked warriors slaying dragons.

Therefore, his animation production process has always been a natural process.

If the audience likes it, that's great, it kills two birds with one stone; but if the audience doesn't like it, although it's disappointing, that's normal.

There are no two identical leaves in the world, and naturally there will be no two people with exactly the same ideas and preferences.

Only when there are differences and differences is the excitement.

Different opinions will make different voices, and different voices will make the otherwise desolate world lively. Think about it, if everyone in the world one day looks exactly the same and speaks the same words

, that is the most terrifying end of the world.

Sammy hated everything that was fixed and institutionalized.

And this point was also shown in the animation without any concealment...

When no one was paying attention, the screening of "Who Killed the Dragon" began quietly.

That's right.

Sammy changed the name of the animation from "Slay the Dragon" to the current "Who Killed the Dragon".

Although Mai Qilong thought in confusion, there was actually no difference between the two names. They were both about killing dragons.

But Sami believes that the latter is more tolerant in terms of emotional tone than the former, less aggressive, and will be easier for people to accept.

Because this group is decided by the director.

In the end, the name became like this.

Now, the audience sitting in the front row of the screening room inadvertently raised their eyes and saw the title of the animation clearly.

A few apparently simple words like "Who killed the dragon" appeared calmly and abruptly on the big screen.

It was a crooked line that looked like a childish font scribbled by a child, but the color was as dark as blood. As soon as it appeared on the black background, it gave off an indescribable feeling of depression and weirdness.

"It's a bit interesting."

Norris, the head of the film and television entertainment department, touched the unshaved stubble on his chin and said to himself: "But it's really different from the company's style."

Sitting next to him, Ed, the head of the marketing department, obviously doesn't think so eclectically.

He immediately frowned in displeasure and said with disapproval, "The children won't like it."

But the next moment, lively music sounded, and every syllable seemed to be dancing in circles, putting on wings and flying into the air...

This made the viewers laugh and feel relieved, thinking that the slightly weird beginning might just be a gimmick to impress people, and the essence of the animation should still be very relaxed.

But the background on the screen suddenly changed, and a super simple cemetery with a black and white background appeared again. It looked like it was cut out of some scrap cardboard.

Here, there are many small grave bags with crosses on them. They may have been specially processed to be cartoon-like, and each of them looks round and cute, but it still cannot hide that they are grave bags in a cemetery, and the graves are

There will be dead people buried in the bag.

"What are these? Can I show them to my children?" Ed from the marketing department muttered even more angrily.

He complained to Norris: "I told you before, that Sammy in your creative department is not at all normal. The Dragon Slayer submitted last year was very bloody and violent. It was very bad. Yet you are still willing to do it?"

Give him a chance to experiment."

Norris smiled as brightly as ever and patiently reassured: "After reading it, we'll talk about it after reading it."

In just two sentences, a white tomb on the black background cracked open on the screen, as if some monster opened its mouth, and a small skeleton jumped out of the tomb.

At the same time, the narration of the animation also sounded:

[Moxley is a warrior, he said that he has killed evil dragons.]

Accompanied by the soft narration, the little skeleton vividly waved a tattered knife, and its two angular bone legs bounced along with the music, making a subtle sound of bone collision.

Two red flames burned in its empty eye sockets.

The camera slowly moved, and not far from the cemetery, a small house inhabited by humans appeared strangely.

A clay doll boy appeared on the screen. He sat quietly in the yard. He had a strange appearance, with a triangular head, round and bulging eyes, a rectangular body and two rectangular legs. He was weird, but cute.

[Eight-year-old Mosley is also named Mosley and has an older brother named Matt.]

[Matt is disobedient, but Mosley is a good boy.]

The clay doll on the screen sat upright, showing an obedient side.

In the corner of the screen, a black figure representing the mother was fiercely grabbing the ear of another little doll.

[The adults will lock Matt in the house if he disobeys.]

A huge "bang" sound of the door closing immediately came from the speakers!

The black figure representing an adult shut the little doll named Matt into the room. The little doll only showed a small head through the window, with a dull expression.

[Then, the adults said to the obedient Mosley...]

Eight-year-old Mosley remained motionless and sat upright.

The black figure that symbolizes adulthood becomes very large on the screen, almost completely covering the little doll Mosley.

Waving his arms as fiercely as a praying mantis, his body swayed amidst the weird music and narration.

[Moseley, Mosley.]

[No matter what you hear, don’t go out.]

[The evil dragon is wandering outside the house.]

[Its howl will make you cry and bleed.]

A bigger black shadow then appeared, like a giant dragon.

Then, the shadow symbolizing the adult disappeared.
To be continued...