Among all the responsibilities Billy had to fulfill for Lux Animation, creativity was his forte. Billy's creative flight involved creating, anizing, and direg the creative processes. The current vision of the pany is based oing series that are viewed by some outside the animation group. From the goals and objectives they had to fulfill, the team leaders, and the hurdles in the creation process, many animators have a good hand, but the real test will be when Lux Animation's el goes on air.

  After the ued arrival, many people were eager to showcase their series, to the point that a long line of ten animators made certain requests throughout the day.

  -Billy, it's better if you solve that immediately. Many want to create their television series, and, well, my judgment is not as relevant as yours on these matters. - Anne said imperatively, Billy to ply.

  Interrupting Billy's drawing, which was in chapter 12 of the One Piece series, set to premiere on June 15, 1994.

  -All right, I 't refuse. - Billy said, getting up from his desk.

  Raimon was reviewing the ats. In a series of 15 days, they had ied 60 million dolrs in The Lion King campaign—advertising, marketing, and global distribution. The 20 million were distributed among the panies, going bad forth, paying off debts.

  The following 15 million, at Billy's request, bought AOL, Cisco, Oracle, and Apple shares. Raimon, in his sembalked to some people who managed iment funds and began building some retionships. The purchase of Oracle shares, priced at less than a dolr, earned Billy a seat on the pany's board with 12% ownership, and Apple, while not as signifit yet, with 7.65% ownership, was a notable asset in Billy's portfolio.

  Lastly, the 14.49% ownership of Microsoft represented Billy's most valuable asset to date.

  In Raimon's reading, he was awakened by Billy's presence. A blushing Rachel lowered her head before the shining gaze of Billy. -She's four years younger, - he thought.

  -She doesn't seem like it, - Rachel repeated over and over, seeing Billy smile. The girl envisioned a life with Billy, their wedding, a beach stroll, their children, and the house they would share.

  -Great, let me go get some Pepsi. Being part of the jury is a job I've been waiting for a long time.- Raimon said regarding Billy's proposal to be part of the jury to review the series and assess new proposals.

  -Bring me a . I'll go up to the third floor; I have to che the progress of Gargoyles, Cow and Chi, and Samurai Jack, which are still in produ. - Billy said, calming the atmosphere.

  For now, these are the three series the pany has in order. The Cow and Chi series, much simpler, has 34 episodes pleted and is one of Lux Animation's series, set to premiere on October 1, 1994. The pany mourned havi of its series that would run with the regur schedule, proposed for 24 hours a day. iations were scarce for now, but they would bear fruit for their toy panies, bames, fast food, and, of course, ics.

  The evident fruit was the X-Men and Spider-Man series produced by Saban in colboration with Lux Animation, which would be part of the series repertoire. With ten of its series, along with the lises for ic Cat, Dragon Ball, Ranma ?, Knights of the Zodiac, Super Shotguns, and Sailor Moon, the pending purchase of Woody Woodpecker had not yet beeiated but would be added to their repertoire on Saturdays and Sundays.

  Billy's entrao the third floor was like a furious hurrie of requests. People were on high alert because the boss had arrived, and many had work to deliver, other proposals, or were simply busy with future projects as animators.

  -Boss. - said Stephen Hillenburg, one of the studio's veterans.

  -o meet you, Stephe's go to the audiovisual room; I know we have some important things to discuss. - said Billy.

  -Well, they're not very important, but for my new series, I want to duct a deeper study of animation. Looking at the teiques and processes, I feel ie. - said Stephen.

  -What is the series about? - Billy asked.

  -Marine life, marine life, we're eager to foarine life in an animated and tender cartoon. – said Stephen.

  -Well, from the pany, we're always delighted to have people like you be part of the team. As long as you dedicate yourself to the pany, there won't be any issues. – said Billy.

  -That was said by Anne Hall, in different words. However, the point is that I want to participate iudy of biology and animation, much more focused on described ideas, through my iion with marine life. If you i ihat would be good. – said Stephen.

  -I in you. – replied Billy. – e with me, take notes, anything you need. I'll set the ditions; we'll treat this like a tract. – said Billy, leading Stephen to the audiovisual room, just as Raimoered with a rge bag of junk food, including sodas, gummies, chips, marshmallows, and chocotes.

  -What are you doing here? – Mark McCorkle asked, a part of Billy and Mandy's team, and a friend of Raimon. Mark was simir in style to Raimon, both big and chubby, with a simple and geeky appearaheir culture was enjoying animated shows.

  -We're going to review the series with Billy, and then I'll review the new projects. I have to be ready to give my best judgment. – said Raimon, opening the gummy jar and taking out a handful. Mark followed Raimon, both eating gummies until Raimon ended up sharing all the information Billy had told him about the approval requirements.

  -See you. – said Raimon walking to the audiovisual room. The evident disorder arose the moment Raimon closed the door; people were moving bad forth.

  On one side, Jozz Stokman and his newly acquired trio ducted some analyses. Andréi Guerrero, the produanager for sarios, had a metallid strong style, simir to what would be Goliath's videos, but more lively for a series that was going to throw the house out the window like Gargoyles.

  Anna Szymanska, oher hand, with her series "Train Souls," was uhe guidance McCra and Paul Ruddish, great scriptwriters and creators of Lux Animation.

  Sara Kino, on another front, with "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle," a quick 20-episode series she had made entirely on her own, was the ohat already had more approval from the pany due to its short episodes of 14 minutes, mu the style of the series already uhe auspices of Lux ics.

  -We'll have many iing things to do, but this series is undoubtedly rewarding for people's eyes. – said Billy, watg the videos of Samurai Jack. The magnifit series didn't disappoint, everything as he had requested. Eveeness was a great aspe the produ of Samurai Jack's first season, just as he had envisioned.

  -The guys have used all kinds of knowledge and innovations, from improving transitions, the use of 2D animated produ, acetate copies, and other skills that are the result of what you're seeing now. – said Stephen.

  -There's no doubt it's a great series. – said Billy, responding to Raimoraephen jotted down on a piece of paper the list of requests he wanted for the animated series. Meanwhile, Raimahe table with food and fizzy products.

  Hillenburg noted down the marine course from the California reserve for 12,000, the animation master's degree from CalArts for 73,000, as well as the downtime for the first four months and his subsequent work t since college.

  Passing the paper to Billy, who read the terms along with the main reasons, such as improving his script process, character creation process, and teological innovation.

  Billy took the pen and rouhe total to 95,000, highlighted in a bck circle. He wrote down the first dition: a job for three inal series with the pany and two animated movies as an animator and team leader for the three inal series. The Lux ics schorship would cover all education costs and provide a 5,000 fund for three months, but the grantee would be obliged to plete the courses.

  The piece of paper was hao Raimon, who reviewed it and he ructure that Lux Animation would see in the reanization, sary increases, and occasional bonuses for work after three years of employment. After signing the tract for the three series, each with a duration of 15 years and a non-pliance cuse, he hahe paper to Stephen, who read it and nodded seriously.

  His signature was ly folded at the bottom.

  -Take it to Anne. – said Billy.

  Stephehe room as the tract was sealed, a long period of work, but it's not like the pany didn't pay well. Uher pahat paid bo the end of the series and not a stable sary with pertage-based bonuses, Lux Animation avoided risks for animators. While the money earned might not be as high as in other panies, job security ositive point for those in the animation world who didn't have a good job.

  -Is it an advisable tactic? – asked Raimon.

  -Doesn't matter. – said Billy downpying it.

  -We have tight budgets. – responded Raimon.

  -It's an iment when the el starts running, and when the series of the people we've ied in take off, that's when we'll capitalize. But tell me, what do you think of the shows? We o do some ratings and critiques in the hree hours. It has to be enjoyable. – said Billy.

  -Yes, sure. – said Raimon, fog on episode 3 of Gargoyles.

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