The popularity of the trailer of "Unnatural Death" did not affect the normal work of the phantom animation, Xu Rui is busy with the preliminary preparations for "Madoka Magical Girl", including the character design, including the final establishment of the script, the unification of the publicity method, and the contact with the media studio to organize the audition.

"People have a little headache ......"

Xu Rui rubbed his temples and looked at the current several personalities.

He didn't want to completely restore the small round face painting style on the earth, but because of the certain misleading nature of the beginning of this animation, coupled with the idea that Xu Rui wanted the innocent picture to contrast with the cruel and tragic story, the character design should be as popular as possible on the premise of keeping cute, at least it can't be a low-level animation at first glance.

The previous character design of "Soul Eater: Zero" was Isahara, and the character of "Unnatural Death" was Yasuhara, Isahara is good at animation-style characters, while Yasuhara's design is more realistic, and the styles of both of them are not very suitable for "Madoka Magical Girl".

Although Guo Weiren is strong in original painting, he is not good at character design, and other original artists do not have much experience in character design.

It's not impossible to find someone from the outside, but there's no way to know whose style is more suitable for a while.

Xu Rui also thought about finding some cartoonists to be the original characters, and then the original paintings of Phantom Electric made the characters on the basis of the original design, but after looking around, there are very few cartoonists who are good at drawing this kind of cute characters, and the only few are unwilling to take over because of the schedule.

Xu Rui was worried when he heard a familiar voice coming from the staircase.

"I'm here again and bought afternoon tea and snacks for everyone."

Li Ruoxuan climbed upstairs with two bags, she put them on the table in the pantry, and glanced at the second floor.

"Wow, Xu Rui, there are a lot of people on your side."

She took a cup of black tea macchiato with seven points of sugar and gave it to Xu Rui.

"yes, you came here once a year later, and it didn't start recruiting people at that time."

Xu Rui took the milk tea and didn't rush to drink it.

"Why do you have time to come over today?"

He knew that Li Ruoxuan was valued by the editorial department after the animation fire of "Soul Eater: Zero", and brought several authors, and his work became busy, so he only chatted with himself sometimes on QQ.

"That Da Ou teacher's work has been cut in half, I came to inform him to discuss the idea of a new work by the way, and then go to another author to discuss the storyboard."

Speaking of this, Li Ruoxuan's expression was a little gloomy.

"There's no way around it.,That comic was originally an anime adaptation.,Now it's been three months since the animation aired.,It's not popular."

"Speaking of which, do you know any cartoonists who are good at drawing cute girls?"

Xu Rui had a whim, and he didn't know if Li Ruoxuan had any author resources.

"Cute girl?"

Li Ruoxuan was stunned, and then thought of the new work announced by Phantom Animation.

"There will be a lot of cute girls in Phantom's new work? I thought you'd try the mecha theme. ”

"Please spare me, there are few people in the company who can do mechanical settings."

Xu Rui shook his head.

Li Ruoxuan thought for a moment, and then screamed "ah".

"How?"

Xu Rui looked over, summer was coming, Li Ruoxuan's clothes were a little thin, and Xu Rui's eyes were a little shaky, and he looked away.

"Speaking of cute girls, I've recently been in charge of a manga artist who is good at drawing this."

Li Ruoxuan said, tilting her head.

"It's just that she's been worrying about the theme of the new work and can't find any good ideas."

"Who is it?"

Yi Qianqian, who was on the side, ate a small half of the cake, and when he heard the discussion between the two, his ears moved and he poked his head out.

"It's Shukai-sensei."

Li Ruoxuan replied without thinking.

“！！！”

Yi Qianqian immediately stood up straight, she put down the cake leisurely, and then came to Li Ruoxuan with her small leather shoes on her feet, her eyes widened, and she asked word by word.

"Trees? Sea? Old? Division? ”

"Uh...... Yes, I know it's hard to believe, but Shukai does want to re-serialize a new work. ”

Li Ruoxuan was shocked by the usually calm Yi Qianqian's excited performance at the moment, and couldn't help but take half a step back.

"It's probably the first two weeks, and in addition to looking for Teacher Da Ou this time, I'm here to visit Teacher Shuhai."

"Shuhai-sensei lives around here? Can I visit her, wait, my comics are all at home...... Or can't you just come to the door so rashly......"

Yi Qianqian suddenly panicked, she was like a little girl who saw the object of her adoration, and she went around.

"Mr. Shuhai's work, I'll take a look."

Xu Rui probably can also understand Yi Qianqian's mood, when he helped clean the room a few times, he saw that Yi Qianqian's bookshelf was full of Shuhai teacher's works, and during the previous interview, she met the painter who caused the collapse of the animation of "Dawn of Glass", and she also accused the other party of the crime very harshly.

He had read some of Mr. Shuhai's cartoons before, and now that Li Ruoxuan brought it up, he searched for some and took a closer look.

Soon, Xu Rui saw the cover of Mr. Shuhai's previous comics.

"This style of painting seems to be really suitable for our works, Sister Qianqian, take a look?"

Hearing Xu Rui's words, Yi Qianqian also recovered a little from the excitement of looking forward to seeing the idol, she came behind Xu Rui and looked at the painting of Teacher Shuhai.

"Well,Teacher Shuhai is good at drawing cute girls.,The style is unique.,It's up to her to be the original character.,Well,It should be no problem.,I'm very familiar with Mr. Shuhai's painting style.,You can change this to a style that can be used in animation.。

Yi Qianqian nodded, calmed down a little and said.

"Then Ruoxuan, can you help communicate here?"

Xu Rui asked, after saying so much, in the end, the other party had to agree.

"In that case......

Li Ruoxuan looked at the two.

"Why don't you come with me to meet Teacher Shuhai later, and I'll give her a call first."

......

In the Suzhou-Hangzhou High-tech Industrial Park, on the third floor of a four-story building, a fierce quarrel came from an office.

"Holofe, I just said that your design can't work, now look at the results? Fortunately, I didn't let you produce all the products at the beginning, otherwise the company would have lost even more!! ”

A man in a suit was slapping the table with a report, and in front of him, a man with slightly curly and messy hair and a shabby suit had his head bowed, without any words of rebuttal.

"Now you're responsible, there was an agreement, and if this product line fails, it's all on you."

The man on the other side was flushed and extremely angry, he waved the report in his hand, and let go of his hand without paying attention, and a stack of papers hit the face of the man in the old suit, and then scattered all over the ground.

In this report is the sales data of the products in the last two months, and it can be seen that except for the beginning, the sales volume has been declining all the way, and there has been no improvement at all.

Other pieces of paper have photos of the products.

It was plastic models, monsters made of the bodies of various unspeakable animals with teeth and claws.

"Holofe, I'm telling you, you've been expelled, fire! Except! Finish! ”

The man's voice echoed in the office, and the man in the old suit silently picked up the scattered papers and walked out without saying a word.