Chapter 21: Retainers

The surreal engine didn't move after introducing me to the information, I guess I hung up the phone, and I was the only one left in the empty bedroom now.

I took out another cigarette and lit it, I have been smoking a lot lately, and my throat is starting to feel uncomfortable. But I can't help but smoke, and the broken things are one after another, which makes me a little overwhelmed.

It seems that the top priority now is to seize the time to make a model to be a retainer.,I want to do the same as I usually do projects.,Sit in front of the computer and click on a web page.,Ready to find a reference.。

After reading a few pages of League of Legends and DOTA's character settings, I don't think it's very useful, after all, the requirements of this model must be original. Finding inspiration from these existing models is really a bit of a fate.

So what should I do?

I pulled out my phone and called one of my buddies who had studied concept painting and asked if he could help me design a character.

I haven't been in touch for a long time, I looked for a long time, and I finally found it, after so many years, I don't know if he changed his number.

Fortunately, the phone rang three or four times, and a "beep" was answered, and a lazy female voice said on the phone, "Hey, who are you?"

"Uh... I didn't know how to answer, because I couldn't tell who this woman was, so I could only cough and ask, "Well, is this a call from Dasha?"

"Oh, wait a minute!" then his voice pulled away and shouted, "Husband, your phone! It's a man!"

Dasha, these guys are all married???

The phone was quickly picked up again, and a familiar voice said, "Hey, Brother Zheng?"

"It's me, it's me!" I quickly agreed twice, and then said with a smile, "It's okay, Dasha, when I met you back then, our brothers saved you the most." I didn't expect you to get married?"

"Hey, hey, hey," Dasha smirked twice on the other end of the phone, and suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Isn't there no way!"

I immediately understood what he meant, feeling that this guy put other people's girls - cough cough, "Okay, I'll just say you're bad." ”

"Don't bury me, what's the matter with me? You want to get married?"

"Get married, are you fighting for my brother and I'm still a single dog, who are you going to marry?" I laughed dryly twice, and then said, "Okay, I won't talk nonsense to you, I'm looking for you to have business." ”

Dasha listened to my seriousness, and put away his joking mentality and said, "Well, you say, I'll listen." ”

I smacked my lips and quizzed around the wording and said, "This, I want you to help me draw an original painting and ask for a character." ”

"It's simple, what do you want? ”

"Uh-huh—a character you've never seen before!"

"Huh?" I seemed to see the stupid black question mark expression on the other end of the phone, "a character that no one has ever seen?"

"Yes, let me tell you straight, I'm going to make a character model now, the requirement is that it can't be more than 20% similar to the existing model, preferably completely original, can you do it?"

"This-" Dasha seemed a little embarrassed, "It's a little difficult, and it's inevitable that you will learn from each other when you do roles." In the case of these games currently on the market, any character will find some similarities in other games. The similarity is no more than 20 percent, not to mention anything else, the hands, neck, feet, and necks under the clothes, plus the good-looking face, are basically more than 20 percent. Unless you want to make a particularly ugly model, you must know that beautiful people are all similar, and ugly people have their own ugly methods. Well.... No, ugly is also ugly. Brother Zheng, it's a bit difficult for you to ask for this, which fucking company gave you a job?"

After listening to Dasha, I couldn't help but pout, "Tsk, it's not from any company that gave it to me, it's for me to use it myself." In this way, you tell me if you have any ideas, I'll refer to it, and forget it if it doesn't work!"

The fool on the other end of the phone groaned a little, and said to me thoughtfully, "This, Brother Zheng, if you insist on being a character model, it will be really difficult." But you can't try to do something else. ”

As soon as I heard this, I couldn't help but be interested, "Do something else? You mean not to be a model of a human being, like the Minotaur in World of Warcraft, and design your own race?"

"No, that's not what I meant, wouldn't that be the same as the World of Warcraft model? Dasha rejects my claim and continues, "I mean, can you make something that isn't human, like a robot or a mecha?"

"yes!" I said excitedly, slapping my thigh hard.

Dasha is right, mecha! This thing is really freewheeling, you can design it however you want! And basically you don't have to worry about being similar to other models, as long as you change some commonly used structures, it's basically very compliant!

"Pretty Dasha! The people who did the original paintings really had different ideas, and to be honest, I was going to die of worry about this. Help me design a concept art of a mech, or a mechanical creature or something, as long as it doesn't match the existing premise, anything!"

Dasha laughed twice, "No problem, what do you still want?" ”

I pondered for a while, and I didn't feel like I had a clue, so I had to say to Dasha, "That's it, I want his appearance to be more powerful and domineering, and it's best to take into account both attack and defense and flexibility, um... And his equipment must be detachable and replaceable to adapt to different environments! That's all, you can design the rest for me, after all, you are a professional. ”

The big fool on the other end of the phone was stunned for more than ten seconds before he said with a wry smile, "Angkor, your requirements are too harsh, taking into account attack, defense and flexibility, that game will have this kind of character?"

It does seem a bit buggy to think about it.,But I'm not a game.,It's really about creating a weapon that can be used in battle.,So of course it's a three-in-one DPS! After all, after having a retainer.,I can't summon other character models.,You have to be omnipotent.。

Thinking of this, I firmly said to Dasha, "Don't worry about this, you just think I'm going to design a boss character." Is it difficult?"

Dasha said a little lazily, "Hey, what's so difficult about this, I'll do whatever you want for you anyway." It just so happens that I recently left my job to accompany my daughter-in-law and take care of the children at home, and I am also idle when I am idle, and it is good to earn some extra money. ”

As soon as I heard this, I immediately understood, "Don't worry, Dasha, you quote a price, I promise that I won't let you work in vain." ”

I know what Dasha is worried about.

In fact, a lot of designers have this distress - a friend asks you to help design a small logo or something, and when it's over, "We still need money for this relationship?"

Dude wouldn't do such a nasty thing. Although I am not a designer myself, I also know how troublesome and brain-draining it is to make such a thing.

So as soon as Dasha mentioned it, I knew what he meant, and immediately patted my chest to promise that I wouldn't let him do it in vain.

Dasha seemed a little embarrassed to hear me say this, "Brother Zheng, I didn't mean that. ”

"Don't don't, it's all about this, I know the rules. I smiled and soothed him, "You do it first, give it to me as soon as possible, and give me a quote when the time comes." ”

The baby's cry suddenly came from the other end of the phone, and Dasha hurriedly said to me: "No problem fighting brother, then I won't tell you first, I have to change the child's diaper pad!"

I frowned helplessly and put down my phone with a wry smile.

Time flies so fast, in a blink of an eye, my classmates are holding their children, I'm still an old single dog, it's really more popular than people.

Looking at the time, it was almost noon, and my stomach suddenly began to rumble, and it seemed that it was time for lunch. After eating takeout for many days, I felt a little tired, so I decided to go downstairs and take a stroll to see if there was anything new to eat. So I grabbed my cigarette and my phone, grabbed the keys and went downstairs.

The community I live in is called the wonderful community, although the location is not a city center, but the basic facilities next to it are not bad, roadside stalls, fast food restaurants, food stalls are readily available, there is a large comprehensive supermarket on the side, it is very convenient to buy things and go shopping.

But because I've been living here for almost three years, I've basically walked through all the restaurants around me, and even tried takeout from house to house, so now I have a meal every day, and my heart is very entangled - what to eat for this meal?

But God didn't seem to disappoint me today, and I don't know when a new shop opened on the snack street downstairs that I frequented.

The snack street is east-west, because the east side is close to the big supermarket and the entrance of the community, so it is particularly lively. The closer you get to the west, the less people there are, and the more business the shops are quieter, most notably because many of the shops in the west are not even rented.

I was amazed by the location of this new store – it was located at the westernmost end of the snack street, further west than the dilapidated tea shop that was usually unattended, and there were even a few dilapidated empty shops in between.

Will anyone really come to this place? I can't say that no one cares about it.,Didn't I just come here?。。。

I stood in the doorway with a cigarette in my mouth and looked up at the sign, "Fairy Hut", the name seemed to have something interesting. I peeked through the glass door, and the room was small, and the layout resembled that of a cafeteria, with a row of large display cases and stacks of side dishes. A group of young couples were sitting by the door eating, while several uniformed waitresses were cleaning up the tables, as if waiting for guests to come to the door.

"Fast food restaurant, it shouldn't be anything special, but since it's new, let's try it. Thinking to myself, I took two slow steps and reached out to open the door.

As soon as I opened the door, several waitresses in the shop suddenly stopped what they were doing at the same time, turned their heads to my side in unison, and then bowed to me at the same time, and said to me in a very neat voice:

"Welcome!"

I was taken aback by this welcome of all the brushes, and when I stabilized my mind, all the waiters looked at me with a smile on their faces, although everyone looked different, but the expression on their faces was like a millstone carved out, it was the kind of polite smile that made people feel like a spring breeze.

How did you train this to happen? Even the arc of the smile was exactly the same? And the "welcome" just now, if I hadn't been looking at them at the time, I might have thought it was a person who said it, the voice was too neat. How long did it take these people to train to achieve this effect?

I nodded at them awkwardly, and turned around to pick up a few side dishes. At this time, a waiter standing behind the display case came up to me very enthusiastically and asked, "What do you want to eat, sir?"

I looked at the meticulous smile on her face, and for some reason I felt a little hairy in my heart, and said a little reservedly: "Give me a random meat and a vegetarian meal, and I will have a piece of rice." ”

"Okay, please wait!"