-Anne, when will the building be pleted? - Billy impatiently asked, frustrated by the deys in the stru. While it was notably rge, he had ied a substantial sum in its stru. It featured top-of-the-lihquake-resistant systems, facilities, parking, and a cafeteria, all brand new, fully decorated, and equipped for his future television els.

  -Well, I think it should be entirely ready by March. However, these builders always tend to take a bit longer. We do have a cuse, though, that states it must be pleted with all its facilities by June 1, 1994, or it would be a tract breach, - Anne responded while going over the ats. For the moment, the building designated for Lux el was on hold, a el dedicated to animation, and another one for dotaries simir to National Geographic, History, or Discovery el. Additionally, opening a game produ studio ohird floor would signifitly tribute to the goal of creating the best Pokémon franchise.

  -I tell you're somewhat dissatisfied with your current situation, - Anne remarked.

  -Well, I want to create another video game pany. Video games have brought us siderable revenue, and I have an idea worth not thousands, but millions of dolrs, - Billy expined, surprising Ahe first time he mentioned having a winning idea was with Pixar, and the results spoke for themselves. What could this new idea be? While the first-geion Pokémon game appealed to a small niche of fans, it never achieved the same level of success as his previous releases, like Doom and Wolfenstein.

  -Something like that could be iing. But remember, we don't have much money right now. We're a bit tight due to iments in Toy Story toys, stru, and renovation of all our busihis prevents us from spendira funds that act as cash for sary payments, debt, and other itments. We have just enough moo cover LuxToons and Dotary Series els until 1995 to help deal with financial difficulties. So, we o be mindful of our budget. The distribution pany might bring ira money, but I believe we request funds from ticket sales in February, and we'll see profits from toy sales in March, - Anne calcuted, fact in all their ret expenses.

  Long periods for colleg iment is one reason why panies like this often face bankruptcy, as they typically manage debt to cover the costs of a film and the business.

  -I see. My apologies for not sidering that. I have a few ideas, but could you send ten copies of this book to Kansas? The game I want the ID SOFTWARE team to develop is Tomb Raider. Furthermore, talk to the team leads; I want them to establish a tract with a eam to produce a new game I have in mind. This one isn't particurly challenging, and it only requires a team of three, - Billy expined.

  -We don't have the money, I just said that - Aated.

  -Three programmers are suffit. This game won't be in 3D, and I'll keep the models as simple as possible. I want to focus on something much simpler for now, - Billy expihinking about the Crash franchise. This game could be developed separately in a Mario World style, and when I have a better team, they work on the major franchise games.

  -Oh, that's doable. Even without doing a pany assessment, we could afford to hire ten new programmers. But a team of four is straightforward to assemble, - Anne replied.

  -Very well! If you'll excuse me, I'll be ohird floor discussing things with some of the animators. The new series we're creating is quite iing. We're making a Batman-style series, and it has taken up most of our teams, - Billy said.

  So far, the series they have produced is 1. Dexter's Laboratory, which had 21 episodes in its first season. 2. Recess, with 24 episodes in the first season. 3. Roodern Life, sisting of thirteen episodes, all directed, written, and animated by Joe Murray and Stephen Hillenburg. They have even proposed making an additional five-episode special. 4. The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, the fourth series with 23 episodes. Each of these series has excellent personnel implementations and has beeed in the best possible way.

  The fifth series, The Powerpuff Girls, created by Craig McCra, Paul Murray, Billy, and Paul German, is iing and has a near-identical likeness. However, it's difficult to pare without purchasing the series, which was created by six animators.

  -Good m, Billy, - Anna Szymańska said. Her European appearance brought pleasure, and she has been dedicated to produg The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy with two other editors. She has done fantastic work. Her main has been the movies, with a team of 35 people. They started with 11 for Hercules, but over time, new animators joined, and responsibilities were divided, f a solidated group of 15 people who directed the LuxNation movies.

  With the two movies almost pleted, the team of 35 began w on the Gargoyles special series, a very ambitious project that aims to be eveer. It's been a challenging endeavor with multiple animators w on the series.

  -How are the Gargoyles developments going? - Billy inquired.

  -Slowly, it's a very demanding series. We currently have three teams w on pleting all the teical designs, but progress has been slow. I don't think the produ will st a year, but at least ten months, - Anna Szymańska replied, with a pencil in her lips.

  -I'll help out a bit. I have plenty of free time since I put the winter series on hold, and my problems have reduced quite a bit, - Billy said.

  An enced; after all, Billy draw anything, which remains an unheard-of talent for Anna.

  -If we work all day, we might finish the sed episode of the series. We have some key points we haven't tackled yet, some things that are challenging and require a lot of work. With your skills, you focus on the finer parts, - Anna Szymańska said.

  -Let's go; I'll help in any way I , - Billy replied.

  The story of Gargoyles is magnifit, with many imaginative elements and a story that be called iing and innovative, very different from the series. If the same quality series scheme is applied in the ing years, all the effort would be worthwhile. However, even with these abilities, the cost of the Lux Animation team is 1.2 million per month, plus additional expenses for equipment, animation, repairs, and tingencies.

  -Where are the others? - Billy asked.

  -Well, they are w on Roodern Life and The Powerpuff Girls series, - Anna Szymańska replied thoughtfully. - What you see here are the ones who aren't on vacation. These people are perfeg the backgrounds for episodes 3 and 4. There, we have the storyboards and sketches of isodes 3 and 4 will look like. Sihe series is po have 25 episodes, it's likely to take us half a year to plete the entire series. In the uanding that you still have the pn to start w on The Iron Giant movie, - Anna Szymańska said.

  -Yes, that's the pn, to begin w on The Iron Giant movie, although I pn to wait until May for its release, - Billy said.

  -On my part, I'd like to know if you're still going to hire Ambliertaio help us with the film, - Anna Szymańska inquired.

  -They will, but I'm afraid it won't be as good as st time. They'll only help us with animation and a bit with the cast for the dubbing. However, I'll personally focus on refining some fiails of The Iron Giant movie, - Billy said.

  The Lion King is in its final stages, followed by The Iron Giant. Billy made some ges to the script and assessed ways to improve the movie's quality. Specific details that were not covered during the ic book's publication were missing, but the intensive work put in for over two years has been worth it. Even though he had to hire a third-party pany to help mahe pany's workload, it's been a very ambitious endeavor. In just over two years, he has had two animated movies and five series for his el, Luxtoons.

  -It's better than nothing. Everyone is excited about the Samurai Jack series, and some are fans of the series from the ics. Well, everyone has proposals for their series, - Anna Szymańska said.

  -Do you know something? - Billy asked.

  -Yes, of course. Butch Hartman proposed an idea with Iturbe from "Cow and Chi," and Bob Schooley has the idea for a series iyle of Robin Hood set in a 20th-tury-like enviro. It's quite iing, and I sider it very good, - Anna Szymańska said.

  -Any others? - Billy inquired.

  -Well, I wouldn't finish listing all the series they have in mind, but there are quite a few. I even have one or two ideas myself, - Anna Szymańska replied, cheg some papers on her desk.

  She was reading a story about a train jourhe drawings were sketches, unfinished and somewhat blurry, but the design leasing.

  -What's it about? - Billy asked.

  -Well, it's about the life of a girl who lives on a train. Due to external reasons, she ends up being a Russian ter-spy and passes on information. The important thing is that I'll express all my distent about my childhood and adoles these pages, - Anna Szymańska said.

  -Send it to me when you finish. Don't fet, the script, design, and tinuity, - Billy said. When the el unches, you'll recover the money one way or another, and you'll be able to alloeople to create their series in the best ways.

  The pany was bubbling with the creation of a series, with twe teams divided in two. One for making a movie and the sed for creating a series. For the simple series, three to four animators were needed, and for the more challenging oen to fifteen.

  ...

  it's two chapters because the first one is a rant about the Pokemon franchise. holy, it's ridiculous this franchise, which has an impressive number of followers (I include myself) pokemon is among the most valuable franchises in the world and is a social phenomenon, its sales numbers are absurd. Just w this franchise alone already be sidered as multimillionaires.