Chapter 15: Finding a Modeler

While Xu Shuai was busy converting the ideas he had just thought into words and writing them on the art resource table, Xue Kui was not idle.

Once you have design indicators, it's natural to look for a company that can design prototypes and corresponding dress models based on these indicators.

At this time, I had to open the ELSP website again.

This website is definitely one of the best websites that Xue Kui has ever used, and all kinds of resources used to make games can be found on this website.

Not only that, but ELSP also provides a platform for developers to cooperate, and in short, the website acts as a middleman.

Developers in need can search for companies that can provide services on the website, and conversely, other companies or individuals can also list their services on the website.

There are also all kinds of services, including: customized game templates according to customer requirements, various character models in the game, scene models, original art stickers, music and sound design, etc.

Most of these customized types of services charge more than the finished products that are already sold in the marketplace.

The key is that customization maximizes the functionality that customers want, and for game developers who are just starting out, it is much more reliable to find a mature art resource team from ELSP than to mess around with it themselves when they don't have their own design team.

After deciding to make a dress-up game, Xue Kui had already planned to find an art resource team to take care of it.

After opening the ELSP website, Xue Kui followed the guide to the merchant page.

Most of the merchants who provide customized art resource services have their own styles, some are good at realism, some are good at ancient style, some are good at two-dimensional school, there are various painting styles and modeling styles, and the price of each original painting or model ranges from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.

Some models that require detailed modeling can even reach millions.

Of course, in order to lose money, Xue Kui has been determined to find the most rubbish painting studio.

Xue Kui set the 'lowest sales' sort under the filter function.

At a glance, most of the page is an art resource studio with single-digit sales.

Xue Kui clicked in one by one to check, most of these studios with single-digit sales will introduce in the introduction what original paintings or model design achievements the studio has had before, so as to attract new users.

At the same time, customers who need service can also see the time of studio registration on the studio's page, which is used as a side judgment criterion.

Looking around, Xue Kui finally locked a small store that had just opened, and there were only 2 game works he had worked with, mainly responsible for character and item modeling, and they were all realistic male characters and some very conventional daily necessities modeling.

After Xue Kui checked, he found that these 2 games had not been updated for a long time, and the scores and comments in the comment area were quite low.

Moreover, the costume game that Xue Kui wants to make is for female characters, and the studio has not been too prominent in the modeling of female characters so far.

That's you!

Xue Kui immediately made a decision.

Of course, considering that the core of dress-up games is the modeling of models and the modeling of clothes and hats, and there are many types of clothes and hats, it is a little difficult to rely on a modeler to complete it, but Xue Kui also does not know how many people there are in this studio.

Many of these dress-up games on the market are more exquisite in costume and character design, and the original drawings and models are quite fine, according to this standard, a senior modeler also needs to be busy for a week or so to make a good one.

But Xue Kui doesn't have such high requirements, he only needs to be able to show the model's shape in such a large space on the mobile phone screen, and after the model wears various clothes and decorations, the player can recognize the corresponding things, and there is no need to ask for how exquisite and exquisite the model is, even if this is the case, the modeler has to spend about 2 days to complete.

According to this criterion, a modeler of a normal caliber can produce a maximum of 15 models a month without considering high quality.

A simple estimate is that in the dress-up game that Xue Kui needs, the model must prepare at least 4 different types of styles, and each style of character needs to include basic action modes such as standing, sitting, and jumping, so that there are as many as 12 kinds of calculations.

There are more hairstyles and coats, and the types of matching are basically divided into: hairstyles, expressions, coats, tops, bottoms, socks, shoes, accessories, and at least 10 to 30 styles in each category.

In this way, the modeling alone would be close to 200.

Of course, these models don't mean that each of them is starting from scratch.

For example, in the case of socks, 5 different socks can be obtained by changing the basic sock style and color slightly.

To be on the safe side, Xue Kui had to find at least 7 to 8 modelers to get the model a week before the system settled, and then set aside a few days to import the model into the game template and release the game a week before the system settled.

Xue Kui is going to take a look at the situation of this studio first, if this job can be contracted all this work, then it is best, and if it is really not good, he can find other studios to cooperate.

"Hello, our company is currently planning a 'dress-up mobile game', we need to customize a batch of model models in the game and the corresponding clothing models, I want to consult the pricing and construction period, please reply if you are interested."

Xue Kui sent a message to the only customer service named 'Jack', waited for 10 minutes and didn't see a reply, and closed the window after knowing that the other party was not online.

"Sure enough, it's a small studio, and no one has replied for so long." Xue Kui thought about it for a while, and his heart settled down a lot.

For example, in studios that often receive customers, customer service is basically three shifts and does not give up on any potential customers, which is not to say how dedicated they are, but because it has become the norm for the modeling industry to often work overtime all night, especially when the deadline is very tight, and the modelers have little time to rest. Even some customers will suddenly make new requests at night before the end of the construction period, and this is when the customer service is in charge.

Xue Kui is not too anxious, anyway, Xu Shuai is in a hurry at this moment, and he has to get it done tomorrow at the earliest.

Approaching noon, Xue Kui took out his mobile phone and began to order lunch for two people, although there were only a few hundred yuan left in hand, but for Xu Shuai's sake today, Xue Kui ordered a few hard dishes for the first time, ready to treat his brother.

After a while, Xue Kui retrieved the takeaway from downstairs in the dormitory.

Xu Shuai smelled the fragrance of takeaway and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

"Xiaoshuai, you worked hard today, you let go of eating at noon today, I invited!" Xue Kui cleaned up the table, arranged the roast chicken, garlic pork ribs and roasted eggplant neatly, and then prepared the large vat of Sprite he bought.

"Brother Kui, you are too polite." Xu Shuai was a little embarrassed when he looked at these hard dishes, but his mouth had already unconsciously smashed it a few times.

"When Brother Kui makes money, I'll invite you to a big dinner!"