Xu Rui returned to work in early August.

On the one hand, Yi Qianqian has almost recovered. Her father was very happy to have a granddaughter. With a wave of his hand, he bought a four-story single-family villa in the most expensive river view villa area in Ningjiang for Yi Qianqian. He came here to visit his little granddaughter in person. Yi Qianqian is now handed over to her family to take care of her, and Xu Rui was able to free up time to deal with the company's affairs.

On the other hand, whether it is "Your Name" or "Breath of the Wild", Xu Rui needs to control the overall situation.

Back at the familiar seat, Xu Rui felt a little moved.

"Boss, the animation painting meeting is in the first conference room at 10 o'clock. We should determine the last questions this time, and then we will officially start the original painting."

"The meeting on the third round of temple puzzle screening in "Breath of the Wild" was at one o'clock in the afternoon, mainly a discussion of the more controversial twenty levels."

"This year's annual animation was nominated for "Music Girl", and three magazines sent interviews. By the way, Ningjiang TV Station wanted to do a forward-looking interview."

"Mr. Xu, please confirm the overall plan for the booth layout of this year's Ningjiang Comic Exhibition."

"The Last Survivor nominated Game of the Year, and the media are also concerned about the new works that Hatsune Games is developing."

Various things followed one after another. Xu Rui was almost busy all day, with various meetings of all sizes one after another. He suddenly felt like he was just changing his workplace to the conference room by himself.

It was not until after 11 o'clock in the evening that Xu Rui returned home.

Yi Qianqian is still in the villa in the city. During this period, she probably will live with her father and mother. Xu Rui looked at her slightly cold home and didn't feel lonely.

He took a shower, lay on the bed, and browsed his phone casually.

Only then did Xu Rui realize that during this period, other websites were not idle.

For example, Tomato Video Network issued an announcement on August 1st to conduct an animation selection on the website.

This is different from the popular vote for animation. It is called the "Animation Art Award", which aims to select the artistic nature of animation.

This has to remind people of the annual animation selection in mid-August. What do you want to do when Tomato Video Network holds an animation art award at this time?

Xu Rui sat up and clicked on the page of the animation art awards to take a look.

The awards were selected into several awards including Best Serial Animation, Best Male Character, Best Female Character, Best Drama, Best Production, Best Animated Film, Best Single Episode, Best Entrepreneurship and Ending Song. To be honest, Xu Rui felt it was a bit strange.

The best serialized animation is barely reasonable, the best male and female characters are really confusing.

What kind of character can be considered the best? Is it based on popularity or the expressiveness of the character? If it is the former, then it is essentially a popularity selection. If it is the latter, is it better to have a full image outlined in just a few strokes, or is it better to have the protagonist portrayed in a thick and heavy color?

In the annual animation selection, there is no so-called best role. Only the best voice actor is to judge the acting skills of the voice actor behind the scenes. For Seo Rui, there is probably only the best actor and best actress in film and television works, but it is essentially a recognition of the actor's acting skills.

Putting aside the characters, the best plot and the best production are also a bit weird. The judgment of the plot is very subjective, with different personal tastes, and there are no recognized standards in the industry. The best production can be judged from the technical point of view, but the production itself has many influences, including painting, storyboard, rhythm, dubbing, and even background music. These are the overall production. I don’t know how Tomato Video Network is preparing to evaluate it.

The best animated movie, the best single episode is similar to the annual animation selection, but the best single episode in the annual animation selection refers to the best single episode painting, which is more directed.

As for the best opening and ending song, there is nothing to discuss.

In general, Xu Rui thought that this was probably an attempt to impact the animation industry's discourse power. After all, in the annual animation selection, Tomato Video Network, which has lost its martial arts skills, has almost no ability to compete with Fantasy electric animation. In fact, let alone Fantasy electric animation, even its former rivals Mushroom Film and Ai Craftsy Animation may not be able to compete with Fantasy electric animation.

If everything develops as expected by Tomato Video Network, then the works of this award will have a wide impact among the animation audience, and some of them must be the animation produced by Tomato Video Network. If this continues year by year, this award may become an industry award that is comparable to the annual animation selection. The difference is that the controller behind it is Tomato Video Network.

Of course, Xu Rui felt that this was completely whimsical.

He stopped paying attention to this anymore. It was already very late. Xu Rui checked the alarm clock, put down his phone, and then fell asleep.

But in the a2 forum, discussions about the Animation Art Award of Tomato Video Network are in full swing.

[Egg fried rice without eggs]: What is the Tomato Video Network trying to do, abandon the annual animation selection and play by yourself?

[Brother Heilong]: Is he good at it? I won’t talk about the garbage animations that Tomato Video has made in recent years. The setting of those awards feels like an amateur flavor.

[Death Strike]: I think he might as well imitate Hatsune Video Network to conduct a popular vote, and he insists on getting an art award. I don’t know who his judges are going to invite.

[Spicy Crayfish]: I saw the list of judges, it’s so funny.

[Fried Scarecrow]: I went, I thought it was a big guy in the industry who was found like the annual animation selection to be a judge. Why is the list full of questions about Big V, video maker, Weibo self-media, too amateur.

Another post on the forum is the list of judges for the Animation Art Awards of Tomato Video.

You can see that such as [Menmenmen] [Erlang] [Political Commissar] [Blue Aspiration] [Remiremi] and other big vs in the anime area are listed. In addition, there are animation information institutions under Tomato Video Network such as Anime Soul, as well as some authors who make animation commentary and make animation editing videos.

In addition, there are also industry insiders such as Rainbow Media and Tomato Manufacturing, original artists, etc., but they are only limited to the internal Tomato Video Network.

Such a lineup of judges does indeed give people a joking feeling. You should know that even the annual game selection, which is often called the "Phizi Award", was at least a grouped by multiple media outlets, and the animation art award of Tomato Video Network looks like an amateur.

Among them, in addition to industry insiders such as directors and original paintings, the most convincing thing should be the Anime Soul. This animation information organization has taken a high-end approach since its inception. When others are boasting about the impressions and plots, the Anime Soul has begun to analyze the original paintings and think about the storyline. Each manuscript is like an animation paper, full of sleekness, and it is all professional explanations that ordinary audiences cannot understand.

Anime Soul was acquired by Tomato Video Network five years ago and became a subsidiary. However, in most cases, Tomato Video Network does not interfere with the creation of Anime Soul. Anime Soul repeatedly praised the works of Fantasy electric animation, but did not cause suppression of Tomato Video Network. In general, Tomato Video Network adopted a free-range strategy for Anime Soul, an information agency.

However, just when everyone was discussing whether the judges of the Animation Art Award were qualified, the person in charge of the Anime Soul, [Awesome Ham], posted a Weibo.

"Anime Soul said that he was completely unaware of everything about the judges of the Tomato Video Network Animation Art Awards and would not participate in the review work."
Chapter completed!