……

After several days of wandering, Qin Sulan finally returned to her glorious Beichen company.

Her itinerary this time was more intense than the war, and it was not at all the kind of travel that everyone imagined for a leisurely holiday.

For seven consecutive days, I took pictures, drove cars, wrote, and painted at high intensity, and slept an average of less than 4 hours every night.

On the day she got off the plane, she still had 10,000 words left unwritten, and rushed home to make up for it as soon as she got off the plane.

When her mother and best friend called her, she cried as soon as the phone was connected.

The trip was so tiring, too tired to speak.

Crying and crying, it should be hard or hard. These are all "homework" personally stipulated by Mr. Chen of the company, and if they are not completed, she is very worried about her impression in Mr. Chen's mind.

Last time, after finishing the two small games of "Sheep a Sheep" and "Synthesizing a Big Watermelon", she easily shared a dividend of more than 100,000 yuan, and was envied by her best friend.

She also realized a problem through the last dividend: maybe I can also become a high-income group.

This time I worked so hard, and when the project came out, it wouldn't be too much to get a bonus of hundreds of thousands, right?

And this time when she went out to study, she really felt that her strength had skyrocketed.

She didn't quite understand Mr. Chen's decision at first:

If you want to play the style of Western-style architecture and natural geography, you can draw according to the photos, so why go to the site?

Now there are aerial photography and street scenes, why can't you draw them?

Why spend money to toss yourself? (And there are quite a few flowers.) ）

It wasn't until she returned home at the end of the trip that she realized the correctness of Mr. Chen's decision.

There is definitely a difference between painting according to a photo and painting according to a real thing.

The difference lies in that little bit of "realism".

The game currently developed by the company is a two-dimensional fantasy style game, and the first map is a European-style background.

There are many Western-style fantasy games on the market, but the two-dimensional mobile games cannot be said to be rare, they can only be said to be unique.

The games in Europe and the United States are more inclined to cold and hard winds. For example, "Dark" and "World of Monsters" are already cold and hard to the point of being almost realistic.

Sheep's head, devil's horn, tentacles...... This art style has its own shocks.

But the problem is that it doesn't quite fit the aesthetics of most East Asians.

Qin Sulan is also an otaku herself, she has never liked that kind of cold and hard art style,

If she could, she would prefer beautiful girls and gentle boys.

If you put a two-dimensional beautiful girl in the background of that kind of cold and hard art style, it will definitely be nondescript.

If you want to create a two-dimensional open world, there are almost no styles on the market that can be used as a reference, and you must be original.

Before Qin Sulan left, Chen Ya assigned her several tasks, including a close look at and comparison of the cathedral and castle prototypes.

The design of towns and churches in the game should be based on reality.

There will definitely be a little more "realism" in the design in reality than in the design of other people's drawings or photos.

Just for this "sense of realism", Mr. Chen fully reimbursed Qin Sulan for all the expenses of her trip abroad.

As for this courage, Qin Sulan still admires him quite a lot.

……

The next day, Qin Sulan came to the company with dark circles under her eyes, and she found that the company was different from when she left.

By the time she left, the company had completed its evolution from "door-to-door" to "door-to-door".

When she returned, she felt that the company had evolved into a "full of loyalty".

When I was working before, my colleagues were more or less relaxed and had time to chat.

And now no one even takes the snacks in the rest area, and everyone seems to owe 30 million foreign debts, and they can't wait for their feet to touch the ground.

"How did you fill out the request form? Who can understand this? Isn't it basic that you have to describe it in a language that others can understand? ”

"In the words of the mythology of Nottis, is it still used here in Liyue? ……”

"It's a lump of code...... Who wrote it? Oh, Brother Dong wrote it, that's fine. Very well written. ”

…… Qin Sulan walked between the workstations, listening to these conversations, and felt a little like a world away for a while.

"Sister Lan, you're finally back!"

A young girl desperately waved at her to say hello.

This girl's name is Xu Lirong, and she is in the same batch of employees as her, and she is the same "old seniority" as her, but she has less painting experience, and she used to revolve around her.

"Sister Lan, I miss you so much!" The girl looked at Qin Sulan's eyes and almost burst into tears.

"What's wrong?" Qin Sulan was a little surprised, and sat down with her bag, "I've only been gone for seven days." ”

"Do you know how I've spent these seven days!"

The girl pulled Qin Sulan and clicked on a folder on her computer.

A large pile of drafts appeared before her eyes.

"In the past few days, you have been in the company, and everyone is as busy as the sea! I've been drawing for the past few days, and my family thinks I'm missing......"

Qin Sulan frowned slightly, and said, "Isn't that all the work messed up?" ”

"Not really." The girl said, "It's busy, but it's actually quite smooth." ”

Qin Sulan slid the mouse, and a personal character setting, line drawing, and model jumped in front of her eyes, and she was dizzying.

"So much!" Qin Sulan couldn't help but whisper.

Xu Lirong nodded proudly: "Yes, right?" It's all painted in the past few days, but everyone is busy. ”

Qin Sulan suddenly had a sense of crisis: in the past few days since she went abroad, her colleagues at home have not been idle, and she feels that the work they do seems to be more valuable than herself.

Qin Sulan swiped the mouse and asked carefully, "Are all these designed by you in the past few days?" From the setting to the line drawing, you drew everything on the spot? ”

She asks this because the characters on the screen are very detailed.

Generally speaking, the more elaborate the setting, the clearer and more perfect the idea, and the closer it is to the final draft.

Because of the character design, it's not as simple as just drawing a good-looking young lady and then modeling.

Character design starts from the character setting to the main body color, hair color, clothing, and ornamentation, which is linked one by one, which can be called a whole body.

For example, before Qin Sulan went abroad, her art team was designing a character called "Hu Tao".

This character was born in the copywriting team, and it was a request from their side.

According to the needs of the plot, they need a role of "funeral home hostess" (I don't know which ghost came up with it).

At the same time, this role must have a national style, but not too much national style.

It should look serious, but at the same time it should be lively and out-of-the-box.

The most important thing is to design it to be very erotic and cute.

These needs are as incomprehensible as the multicolored black.

But it's not impossible to design.

Because of the seriousness of the profession, the overall color of the character is black.

Pure black is definitely not good, in order to look better, use the classic red collocation to dilute the overall rigidity of the character.

The character's pupil color can be designed as black with peach eyes, which can generally highlight the character's liveliness.

At the same time, it is designed to be flat-chested, which can strengthen the attribute of "lively optimism".

When designing, also consider modeling.

Due to the two-dimensional style of the game and the development of the engine, if there is a large blank space on the character's clothes, it will be rendered as a smooth iron plate, which will look very ugly.

Therefore, when designing the character, there can be no blank space on the clothes, and a bunch of ornaments must be placed to increase the three-dimensional effect.

The ornamentation of the clothes on the "walnut" was decided to use the four gentlemen in the "plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum" flowers as the prototype to design.

On the one hand, this can increase the sense of national style, and on the other hand, it is also in line with her setting of "funeral home owner".

It's easy to say, but in fact, when designing a character, every detail has to be carefully polished and hammered out repeatedly.

Designing a character, from the first draft to the final draft, often takes an extremely long time, repeated see-saw.

And now the few drafts in front of Qin Sulan are already very fine, so fine that they can be taken out and used on the spot.

So Qin Sulan was very surprised.

"I don't believe it," Qin Sulan shook her head, "I've only been gone for 7 days, so many characters, how did you design them all in just a few days?" The company is hiring again, right? ”

Xu Lirong smiled "hehe" and said, "No, in fact, the character designs of these characters were finalized by Mr. Chen with us." ”

"Mr. Chen?" Qin Sulan tilted her head and asked, "He still understands character design?" ”

"Hmm." Xu Lirong nodded solemnly, "He also startled me at the time." ”

She said slowly: "At that time, Mr. Chen called us together, he gave on-site guidance, he said how to design, we were responsible for the implementation of the line draft, which was extremely efficient, and we did seven or eight roles at once, and we only need to be responsible for refinement now." ”

As mentioned above, character design is a very professional section.

It's definitely not something that a layman can design with a pat on his head.

If you are a layman who has no art background to design, it is easy to evolve into the situation of "design me a colorful black".

Being able to command, make decisions on the spot, and guide employees on how to design is either an unborn genius in terms of aesthetics, or a good hand at character design.

Qin Sulan thought that Mr. Chen was just good at entrepreneurship, but she didn't expect that he was still deeply hidden.

"Yo, Qin Sulan, are you back?"

A boy passed by her, with a pen pinned to his ear, and greeted her.

Qin Sulan turned around and found that it was the new colleague from the copywriting team before, whose name was Xu Zheqing.

Because the two are relatively young and live in close proximity, they quickly get acquainted.

Xu Zheqing was quite shy last time, but now that he sees it, he has completely lost the youthfulness of fresh graduates.

He dragged a stool from the side, sat down and said:

"I just happened to interview you, did you encounter anything interesting when you went abroad this time?"

Qin Sulan suddenly said with a sad face:

"What's going on? I couldn't catch up with the whole process, except for painting and taking pictures and writing travelogues, I felt more tired than going to school. ”

Xu Zheqing looked regretful: "That's a foreign story, isn't there any interesting anecdote?" ”

"No," Qin Sulan said simply, "Why are you asking this?" ”

Xu Zheqing lowered his head and sighed: "I've been writing the plot recently, and I feel like my hair is going to fall out, and I urgently need inspiration." ”

"Is it that hard?"

"Difficult!" Xu Zheqing finally found an opportunity to pour bitter water, he was bitter that no one complained for a long time, "There are hundreds of books in the game, hundreds of items are introduced, each of which must be guaranteed in quality and quantity, and these alone are a headache." ”

"Books? What book? Qin Sulan didn't understand.

Xu Zheqing explained: "Isn't our game an open world? The readable items scattered in the open world are required to be readable. Do you remember the probationary exam for newcomers? Didn't our copywriting team ask everyone to write a few fairy tales? ”

Qin Sulan nodded: "Remember." ”

"That's where those fairy tales are used." Xu Zheqing cried and laughed, "The pass rate is surprisingly low, and many people have written it more than a dozen times before passing." I'm lucky, all at once. ”

After speaking, he was still a little proud, and unconsciously puffed up his chest.

"It does sound a bit perverted. However, has your plot been designed? We've designed a bunch of characters, so you can't lag behind in your progress! ”

Qin Sulan pointed to a pile of drafts on the screen and said.

Xu Zheqing straightened his chest and said: "Of course the plot has been designed, the entire game, the entire plot structure of the 5-year update, we have all finalized." ”

Qin Sulan glared and said, "So fast? Before I went abroad, I didn't have a word, right? ”

Xu Zheqing smiled and said, "Of course it's so fast...... Well, I confess, it was actually finalized by Mr. Chen. ”

"Mr. Chen again?"

Hearing this, Qin Sulan and Xu Lirong on the side looked at each other.

Why, Mr. Chen also has achievements in plot copywriting?

Xu Zheqing said: "In the past few days, it was Mr. Chen who took us to talk about the design ideas of the game plot, and we felt that we benefited a lot from listening to it. I feel like he must have written it before, otherwise he wouldn't have understood it that way. ”

Qin Sulan blinked: "Then these are all done by Mr. Chen, what are you responsible for?" ”

The outline structure has been finalized by the boss, what are the people below doing? Responsible for waving the flag and shouting to strengthen the momentum?

"Refine the plot! Our work is also important! Xu Zheqing held grievances for himself, "Mr. Chen gave an outline, which is equivalent to stipulating the starting point and the end point, and we need to fill it in to enrich the story." ”

Although Qin Sulan doesn't know much about story creation, looking at Xu Zheqing's appearance, it seems that this is indeed a very hard job.

At least the demands he said about "every book should be readable" sounded perverted.

Qin Sulan patted him on the shoulder: "Then you have to work hard." ”

Xu Zheqing resolutely said: "Of course, even if it is to live up to Mr. Chen's outline, I have to take this down!" ”

Qin Sulan always felt that he was a bit of a "believer in Mr. Chen".

"By the way, let me ask you a question," Xu Zheqing suddenly turned his head and asked, "Can you accept the villain's whitewashing?" ”

Qin Sulan shrugged: "I don't like it, but if that villain has a hard time, it's still acceptable." ”

Xu Zheqing frowned: "What should I do?" The villain at the beginning is so hard to whitewash......"

"If you can't wash it, can't you just cut it?" Qin Sulan said.

Xu Zheqing suddenly looked up at her: "It makes sense!" ”

"yes."

Xu Zheqing's eyes became complicated: "However, can you really accept it?" ”

"What's unacceptable about that?"

After getting her affirmative answer, Xu Zheqing left satisfied, and Xu Lirong next to him asked cautiously:

"Sister Lan, can you really accept them writing the villain to death?"

"yes, what's wrong?" Qin Sulan said, "I have no feelings for villains. ”

Xu Lirong said: "But, Sister Lan, the villain they want to cut is the character you submitted the line draft last time." ”

“？？”

At this moment, the company's automatic door opened, and Qin Sulan raised her eyes to see that Chen Ya walked past the door, and was about to be excited, when she saw the tall beauty beside him, she shrank her head again.

Xu Lirong next to her whispered: "Wow, I saw Mr. Gu again, I like her so much." ”

Qin Sulan knew that the tall beauty was the angel investor of the company, but through the grapevine, she seemed to have a lot to do with Mr. Chen.

"In the past few days, has Mr. Gu often come to the company?" Qin Sulan asked.

"Occasionally." Xu Lirong nodded, "She came to be in and out of the right place with Mr. Chen, and she never had a chance to talk to her." ”

"Do you want to talk to her?" Qin Sulan asked.

She felt that Mr. Gu was very unattainable, and she would feel ashamed of herself in front of her.

If she was asked to talk to Mr. Gu directly, she would feel out of breath.

Xu Lirong held her face and said, "I want to!" I feel that she is so elegant, her skin is white and smooth, her legs are super long, and her people are super beautiful, I really want to stick to her! ”

"You're kind of weird."

While the two were chatting, Chen Ya seemed to notice this, and his radiant eyes swept across Qin Sulan's face.

When Qin Sulan made eye contact with him, she secretly said that it was not good, and sure enough, he strode over.

That Mr. Gu followed closely behind him.

"Qin Sulan, you're back." Chen Ya smiled heartily, "You come to my office and take your homework with you." ”

Qin Sulan suddenly sweated, holding her handbag in her arms, and followed behind Chen Ya in Xu Lirong's envious eyes.

(End of chapter)