With the success of the animation "Violet Garden", Emi Uehara became one of the most popular concept artists in the industry, and she could have taken this opportunity to soar, but she refused the olive branches extended by countless large companies and continued to succumb to Kyoni Animation.

Both Kunny Animation and the outside world are extremely puzzled by her choice, and they don't understand why she should give up this hard-won bright road. This is what Yu Kamiya knows is also equivalent to what the outside world knows, and Uehara Ezuki, who refused to be interviewed for any interviews, did not give a special explanation.

Yuu Kamiya's impression of her should perhaps continue to add a mysterious witch under Yamato Nadeshiko.

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When he got off work in the evening, Yu Kamiya came to Uehara's office on time. As soon as I entered the door, I saw Uehara Ezuki gently picking up a long-handled bamboo tube to add cold water to a bizarre Japanese tea set, and when Kamiya Yu came in, he picked up the tea broom and did not hurry to [order tea] in the strangely shaped tea set.

The Japanese tea ceremony originated in China, but it has evolved into a unique Japanese culture, and along with flower arrangement, Yamato Nadeshiko must master two basic skills. The Japanese tea ceremony emphasizes "harmony and tranquility", and not only has strict requirements for skills and tea ceremony etiquette, but also if the person who orders tea is not calm, he will be regarded as an unqualified tea master.

Uehara Ezuki rolled up the long sleeves of the kimono with an indifferent expression, and the jade hand picked up the good tea and put it in front of Kamiya Yu, and said softly: "Please use it." ”

"Thank you, teacher." Kamiya Yu is not in a hurry, he sat on the chair in front of the office desk and took a small sip after holding the simple Japanese-style tea bowl with both hands, the tea is cool, the tea is fragrant but bitter, and there is a sweet aftertaste soon after entering the tongue, and you can feel the essential difference between it and the cheap tea he usually brews.

"How's it taste?"

"Hmm~ I don't know much about the tea ceremony, it feels similar to the green tea in the vending machine, but the taste is very complicated, and after a while, I feel that the sweetness in my mouth is different from the sweetness of ordinary tea." Yu Kamiya replied honestly for a while, shrugged his shoulders and smiled, "Maybe I'm not suitable for drinking this kind of tea." ”

"It's just a little tea, there's nothing suitable and unsuitable, this bowl of tea is brewed for Kamiya-kun to taste. But Kamiya-kun's evaluation is really unpleasant, and I was looking forward to this tea having a more unique taste. Uehara smiled and moved the tea set on the desk to the side, and Kamiya saw that in addition to some simple tea sets, the porcelain bottle used to hold water looked very high-end, and the outside of the bottle was carved with an intricate and elegant dragon-shaped pattern, which was wrapped around the bottle until the slender mouth.

The Japanese dragon pattern is in the same vein as the Chinese one, and there is no difference between it at a glance, but the influence of the traditional ukiyo-e painting style makes the Japanese dragon look more or less indescribably strange, and Kamiya Yu has never liked the Japanese ukiyo-e style.

The porcelain vase was filled with the cold water that Uehara used to order tea just now, and just looking at the quaint and exquisite packaging of the porcelain vase, he knew that the price of a bottle of cold water might not be much lower than his monthly salary. As the second original painting, his salary is more than 100,000 yen a month, which is equivalent to more than 10,000 RMB in the current crazy depreciation of the yen, which is considered a white-collar class with a good income in his previous world. However, the place where he is located is Tokyo, Japan, where prices are equally high, can only ensure that he and Kamiya Dome live a less difficult life.

Uehara Eizuki put away the tea set on the table and took out a brown folder and put it in front of him, and said with a light smile: "This is the original painting of the character that Kamiya-kun asked for last week, I'm sorry it's a lot late because it's a busy time." ”

"Thank you so much, the timing was just right. Rather, I was satisfied that I had accepted Mr. Fujiwara's request and was able to complete these original paintings this month. Yu Kamiya thanked him solemnly, and his heart couldn't help but be filled with anticipation, and he was a little surprised when he took the document bag with both hands. Judging from the thick feel of the document bag, it seems that the number of original paintings contained in it is not too large, more than the number of original paintings he delivered to Uehara Eizuki at the beginning.

"Teacher, can I take it apart and take a look?" Kamiya asked impatiently.

"It doesn't matter."

In addition to the sketches of Ruby Rose's character that Yu Kamiya originally gave to Uehara Eizuki, there are also three more than 20 original character drawings in total.

- Three copies? No wonder there is such a thickness.

Yu Kamiya flipped through them one by one, and at first glance he felt that the picture was no less amazing than "The Garden of Violets in Bloom", which was different from the simple original painting of Uehara Eizuki's "Mr. Onigiri Superman", and these several character drawings of Ruby Rose really reflected the level of Uehara Eizuki's original paintings.

The style of painting is delicate and delicate, and the complex lines make it difficult to imagine how much work would have been required to draw such an original painting. Obviously, there are such complex lines without giving people a sense of disorder, and the right amount of delicacy and softness perfectly depicts the gorgeous feeling that belongs to the Gothic style.

The most important thing about the original painting of the Gothic style girl is not the characters or the background, but the costumes, Gothic-style costumes! Painters who have experience in this field of painting will know how much the style of the Gothic dress tortures the artist's patience, and it is precisely this that truly reflects whether a painter is good at the field of Gothic. Some concept artists will appropriately keep the details of the clothes simple, which can also give the layman a sense of gothic refinement, but it will make it lack some of the core elements of the gothic style.

How complex is Gothic costume? The wrinkles of countless clothes, the transparency of the fabric, the specific patterns and hollows of the lace, the mastery of shadows, etc., etc., if it is said that in comics, it is a qualified line to express the metallic texture in black and white is a qualified line for a painter, then the difficulty of Gothic style clothing will only be dozens of times more difficult than this!

The striking feature of the Japanese Gothic style is its meticulousness, sophistication, and breathtaking beauty. These original drawings of Ruby Rose's characters are more elaborate than "The Violet Blooming Garden", and they don't look like they were used for animation at all.

"I've tried my best to draw the original character art according to Kamiya-kun's requirements, and I can indeed draw the detailed painting style that Kamiya-kun requested, but this kind of complex line may not be suitable for anime. Also considering the requirements on the sketch of Kamiya-kun's character, I drew a total of three original drawings of the character, hoping that there is a copy that can satisfy Kamiya-kun. Uehara said as she sat upright and thoughtful.

Yu Kamiya took a deep breath and put the original painting back in the folder, stood up and bowed to Uehara Eizuki and said solemnly: "No, I'm already very satisfied, and I'm really very grateful to the teacher." Three in a row is enough to see the excitement in his heart.

It is indeed inappropriate for these original paintings to be used to make ordinary animation, not to mention anything else, it may take a day or even several days for the average original artist to draw such an original picture, and there are 3,000 to 5,000 original paintings in an episode of general animation, and it may take more than 8,000 to 10,000 to reach "Violet Blooming Garden".

But Kamiya only used the original painting of Uehara Eizuki as a reference to manifest it on the 3D modeling software, and the shortcomings of general animation are not a problem at all in 3D animation, and the fine lines of the Gothic style can be depicted once with different materials when the model is carved.

Uehara Ezuki was slightly stunned, and said with a calm smile: "Yes, that's fine." ”

There are three copies of the original character design that Uehara Ezuki gave to Yuu Kamiya, each of which will be different based on Ruby Rose's character in terms of clothing temperament, different from the simplicity of Ruby Rose's character in the previous world "RWBY", Uehara Ezuki's original character design combined with Ruby Rose's heroic and sunny personality to further refine the gothic costumes.

After that, what Yuu Kamiya needs to consider is whether he can perfectly reproduce the details of this original painting with his ability.