Zhong Ming said: "You take a good look at the rules of the competition, the first stage is the preliminary round, the preliminary stage does not need to be so complicated, only a clear image, a simple action is enough, and there is no need for any dynamic capture, voice and the like for the time being." Most of the participants in this competition are small groups or small studios, how can they be so perfect at the beginning? In the preliminary stage, the image will be screened first, and the excellent image after screening will enter the next stage of the competition. ”

"Uh-oh." Zhou Sen understood, "Then I feel that we should be able to try, focusing on participation." ”

Jiang Wanna also said: "Yes, the emphasis is on participation. What if I win the lottery? ”

The three of them hit it off and planned to use their free time to participate in this virtual idol contest.

For Jiang Wanna and Zhou Sen, on the one hand, it is to practice, and on the other hand, it is to earn some extra money for themselves, after all, they are not like Zhong Ming, they get a bonus of 100,000 yuan a month, and these two people are still relatively poor in life.

As for Zhong Ming, he is eyeing the 2 million prize money for the first place, and if he has this money, he can consider tossing an independent game to play by himself.

Of course, if the virtual idol is sold, it will make more money, and the bonus will be doubled to 4 million, not to mention, Xinghua Mutual Entertainment will spare no effort to promote, and the income from the promotion will also be shared by the author, but Zhong Ming doesn't want to do this, because the value of a virtual idol is even more precious than a song or a book, such as Su Bai, the profits brought to Xinghua Mutual Entertainment are hundreds of millions.

If Zhong Ming can win the first prize, the value of this virtual idol can be continuously dug into by himself, and even related games can be developed around him/her in the future, and it is more useful to keep it in his own hands.

Therefore, what Zhong Ming wants is the 2 million bonus, a virtual idol that can be called a treasure trove, and the prestige and points that this matter will improve for himself.

……

In the new week, the popularity of "Endless Learning" continues to rise slowly, but it can be seen that this is already the middle and late stages of the game's expansion.

With around 1.3 million active players, it's hard to grow any longer, and it's likely to start slowly declining in a week or two.

Click-answer games are new to players, but they are hard to last. Most of the games that can make players stick to playing for half a year are either strongly driven by values or have gameplay that can be mined infinitely repeatedly, while answering games obviously do not have these elements, and for most players, they will get tired of playing for a month or two at most.

Fortunately, the number of users is large enough, the popularity is high enough, and the influence is wide enough, so the decline period of "Learning the Sea" will also be extended to a relatively long time.

The more seriously affected is the "million coins" sector, hot news, Wutong Information and other large companies have followed up, and have opened a special session of two million, clearly to compete with "Learning the Sea" to grab traffic.

The size of this kind of large company, in Zhong Ming's understanding, is basically the same as today's headlines and NetEase in the previous life, they are all important information platforms in the Chinese cultural circle, and they are all rich and rich.

However, fortunately, these large companies did not fight with the million-dollar coin scattering activities so targeted, but chose to stagger the time.

This is also understandable, the million big coin is the earliest answering activity, the number of active people has already exceeded one million, and the influence on the network is also the largest, these large companies also want to engage in coin scattering activities, but in the early stage they were still afraid of the popularity of the million big coins, and felt that they couldn't make a positive and tough face.

According to Zhong Ming's idea, the millions of coins are now to take advantage of the popularity as much as possible to accept sponsorship, earn the money in their hands, and talk about it later if it is cool or not.

Cool, that is an irreversible process, it is difficult to change it by manpower alone.

The entire "Endless Learning" project team is still carrying out daily updates, maintenance and upgrades to new versions, and is constantly optimizing the functions of the game "Endless Learning", but it can be clearly felt that the work intensity has been greatly reduced, and no one is working overtime.

Everyone walks by point, clocks in after work, and takes leave very leniently.

After all, it's not the development period anymore, so there's no need to work so hard.

Lao Xie himself is too, he slips away every day after work and becomes more Buddhist.

Zhong Ming usually has nothing to do, just holding a hand-drawn tablet at his workstation and conceiving a virtual idol.

Zhong Ming has never designed a virtual idol before, but after all, he has watched the concert of a virtual idol in this world, and it can be said that he has never eaten pork, but he has seen a pig run.

But what kind of virtual idol can be designed to be popular? This bell ringing is really a bit bottomless.

There are many images that Zhong Ming can call a virtual idol in his previous life, such as Hatsune, Ai-chan, etc., or something like DVA, which can also be called a virtual idol.

But many virtual idols are supported by similar cultural products, such as Hatsune Miku's onion song, and the popularity of DVA is inseparable from "Overwatch".

And if you want to stand out from the many virtual idols in this world, the most important thing is to make a difference, and you have to make players like it.

"What kind of image is missing from this virtual idol in this world?"

Zhong Ming did not rush to put down the pen, but first searched out all the world's more famous virtual idol images, lined up on the screen, and observed their characteristics.

There are also many virtual idols in this world, and their personalities are also different, but on the whole, they are still dominated by positive images.

Su Bai is an elegant, polite, and meticulous warm man.

Dina is a queen character with an unknown personality orientation and a bit of a cold style.

Alice is a well-behaved and cute little princess.

Other virtual idols are basically similar, basically some more positive and positive characters, even if there are personality differences, they are also based on positive characters.

As for the reason? Zhong Ming is also not clear.

But he speculated that it might be because of some attributes of the existence of virtual idols themselves.

"Idols" are not allowed to be stained.

Every "idol" has a persona, and he/she exists to meet certain expectations of fans. Many idols in reality often can't have any love life, can't have a boyfriend/girlfriend publicly, and can't have a big scandal, because these will destroy the character and destroy fans' expectations of him/her.

Once fans lose their expectations of an idol, then this idol will basically be swept into the trash.

Just like some pure actresses, once they break out on a large scale, even if it is not her fault, it will still cause a very fatal blow to her career.

The advantage of virtual idols over real idols is also this, and virtual idols will not break out into scandals.

Probably because of this, companies in this world are more inclined to make the perfect virtual idol.

Idols in reality are people one by one, and people inevitably have character flaws, and these character deficiencies are like buried explosives, which will explode when they don't know when, so that all the efforts will be wasted.

But this problem does not exist with virtual idols, they have no stain, and they will always be able to meet the expectations of their fans.

However, in Zhong Ming's view, all of them are cookie-cutter and flawless virtual idols, which is already a bit aesthetically tiring.