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Hu Qing brought basic information and works of 6 affordable and cheap painters.

Jiang Qi handed over the selection of the artist for the Toy Spirit series to Hu Qing after New Year's Day, and Hu Qing in turn assigned it to his subordinates. Due to too many other things recently, including hiring Kua Kua and Feng Guihua's promotion to star, Jiang Qi had forgotten about this matter.

"What were the standards for painters I originally asked for?" Jiang Qi asked while watching Hu Qing open the document.

Hu Qing calmly operated the computer and said: "Cheap, affordable, no opinion."

To sum up, he is a tool man.

"Internet celebrity painters on Weibo command higher premiums, but we have no contact here. People in the planning department mainly select painters from students at the Academy of Fine Arts and students who have graduated in the past few years."

"Mr. Wenbo drew two promotional posters for us. Here are the samples. Take a look." With that, Hu Qing opened the posters.

Two posters, one of a train and one of a flying horse.

As a relatively accomplished painter, Wenbo's painting skills are naturally not bad. The compositions of the two paintings are quite good, and they are good as posters alone.

The only pity is that the drawing is too anime-like. These toy spirits originally came out of anime. If the artist can be more realistic when drawing them, Jiang Qi feels that they will be more like the original toy spirits. Any free play and changes will make people feel uninteresting.

"Actually, it would be great if Wenbo could be the main comic writer, but unfortunately his price is too high." Jiang Qi said with regret.

Although it was almost meaningless, Jiang Qi also knew that things in the world cannot go as people wish. The comics of the Train Dada series were drawn by Carter. Unless Carter was still alive, it would be really difficult to find an artist who could draw the same style as the original comics.

Wenbo's painting style is actually quite suitable, but his price is too high.

As a professional painter who can be completely self-sufficient and does not need to look at the boss's face, Wenbo himself has no interest in being the main writer of the Toy Spirit series.

The amusement park does not require the artist to design the characters themselves, nor does it require the artist to design the plot themselves. They only need a cheap, skilled puppet to act like the Toy Spirits, and turn the drama into a comic.

This kind of pure hard work is obviously not what Wenbo can like.

Unless the price is enough to impress him.

The amusement park was unwilling to offer a price that would impress him, so there was no possibility of an agreement between the two parties.

"The first artist's pen name is Feng Liang, and he has been a cartoonist's assistant for two years. He has no experience as a main artist. These are works he has painted before, and they should be suitable in style." Hu Qing opened the first artist's information.

Jiang Qi looked at Feng Liang's paintings and shook his head: "It's indeed very warm, but it doesn't feel very matching. Didn't the people in the planning department send him some photos of mechanical toys and ask him to draw some sample pictures of the toys? "

"Here's the sample picture." Hu Qing turned to the next page.

Jiang Qi stared at the sample pictures for a few minutes, then turned to the Wenbo poster and frowned: "Let's look at the next one first."

"The second person's name is Ma Qingqing. She is a college student. These are her previous works." Hu Qing glanced at Jiang Qi's expression and quickly pressed the page turn button. The picture on the computer switched to the sample picture.

"This one is not as good as the last one. This personal style is too strong."

"The third one is Ji Yue. She is a fresh graduate. The fee is very low and she is also very interested in being the main writer."

Jiang Qi looked at Ji Yue's work and shook his head: "This painting is not as good as my sister's."

Hu Qing hurriedly cut to the next person.

After reading the six painters, Jiang Qi felt that each of the next five was inferior to the other. Only Feng Liang's work was slightly more reliable, but Feng Liang was not as good as Wenbo.

This is natural. After all, Wenbo is a painter who has held art exhibitions, and Feng Liang has only been a cartoonist's assistant for two years. It would be crazy if the two of them were equally powerful.

Jiang Qi began to wonder if he was too stingy.

I want an excellent painter, but I don’t want to pay too high a price.

Isn’t my idea a bit Party A, too capitalist?

Seeing that Jiang Qi seemed to be deep in thought, Hu Qing waited quietly for five or six minutes. He waited until Jiang Qi's brows relaxed before tentatively asking: "Boss, are you not even satisfied?"

"Not very satisfied." Jiang Qi said truthfully, "It's not what I want. Is the budget I gave too low? How about we add more budget and choose something better?"

"I think it's impossible to draw the essence and charm of these toys just by looking at pictures and videos. I need to allocate some funds to the planning department and ask them to increase their budget and select carefully. Invite all the selected suitable painters to the amusement park. Come on, watch the official toy drama before making a production."

"Isn't that what Wenbo is? Although the Pegasus he posted on Weibo doesn't look much like a toy Pegasus, I think it's very charming."

Hu Qing nodded to indicate that he had taken note of it and cut to the next PPT.

"If you, boss, are willing to increase the budget, we actually have a seventh painter candidate."

Jiang Qi:?

Can you predict this in advance?

When you click on the PPT, page 1 is the artist’s detailed information, along with a photo.

Xue Shaoheng, male, 31 years old, currently lives in Peiping and works as a librarian.

The photo looks very young, with a baby face, as if he is in his early 20s.

Librarian?

Is there such a wide range of employment opportunities for people who study art these days?

"Mr. Xue was recommended to us by Mr. Wenbo. His situation is somewhat special and there is no way to give samples through videos and photos. These are his works."

Hu Qing put the PPT on the next page, and the works displayed on the computer made Jiang Qi take a breath.

It's not bad, it's great.

Jiang Qi doesn't understand art. He doesn't understand abstraction, realism, or impressionism. For Jiang Qi, a good-looking painting means that it looks good at first glance and looks good at second glance.

Xue Shaoheng's works are obviously not good-looking.

It's depressing, even a little weird.

The flowers are lifelike, but in black, and the butterflies are so vivid that they seem to fly out of the painting, but are gray.

The sky is gray, the road is gray, and the lake is black. His paintings are only black and white and the gray between black and white.

But these paintings are very realistic, as if they were restored 1:1 according to the original scenery, as realistic as flowers were originally black, butterflies were originally gray, and the world originally only had these colors, all the bright colors and colorfulness are non-existent.

It’s him!

Although the colors of Xue Shaoheng's paintings are weird, maybe this is the style of that artist. For comics, just draw them with charm. Even if Xue Shaoheng doesn't want to draw color comics, Jiang Qi can find someone else to color them. It's not like Jiang Qi never read comics when he was studying. Many comics are black and white comics.

"What's his price?" Jiang Qi carefully browsed Xue Shaoheng's resume and found that this painter Xue's resume is quite impressive. He is a serious painter.

Although I have never held an art exhibition, the prices of paintings are quite high, higher than those in cultural museums.

Jiang Qi was afraid that he couldn't afford it.

There are quite a few comics in the Toy Spirit series.

"The price is actually not expensive. If we can negotiate, it will probably double your previous budget, but we may not be able to negotiate."

Jiang Qi nodded, thinking this was reasonable: "You just said that Painter Xue's situation is a bit special. What is it? Does he have any special requirements?"

“Mr.

Savant syndrome means that people with cognitive impairment have abilities beyond ordinary people in some aspects. To put it bluntly, they are fools and geniuses.

People with savant syndrome see the world differently from normal people. Take reading as an example. When a normal person reads a novel, he or she will see normal characters and punctuation marks, but in the eyes of a patient with savant syndrome, he or she may see a string of garbled characters or even strange patterns.

It is difficult for such people to live a normal life and communicate with others normally. They can neither say what they want to say nor write it down. Maybe what they wanted to write was a poem, but what they ended up writing was a string of incomprehensible ghost symbols. What they wanted to say was a greeting, but what they ended up with was the words stammering.

"Mr. Xue's savant syndrome has improved greatly under his sister's careful care for many years. As long as his sister is around as a translator, he can communicate in most cases."

"However, due to his illness, Mr. Xue has to see the toys in person before he can give a sample. Mr. Xue himself is very interested in mechanical toys that can perform dramas, but no one can guarantee the actual drawing effect before giving a sample. .”

"And Mr. Xue can only provide black and white drafts, and he needs many experienced assistants to assist him. These assistants must communicate with him through his sister Xue Hua, which may be difficult. The assistant needs us to provide candidates for him Selection, Mr. Xue does not have the ability to select assistants, and his sister has no experience in this area."

"They can accept the other terms we offered."

Jiang Qi looked at Xue Shaoheng's paintings several times and felt that the above conditions were not a problem at all.

He believes that Xue Shaoheng is the person who can draw the soul of the toy spirit.

"I think it's okay." Jiang Qi nodded, "Then please, Director Hu, please contact Painter Xue's sister personally. We will be responsible for their air tickets and accommodation. If Mr. Xue cannot accept watching the toy drama with other people, we will You can arrange a few shows for him alone in the evening."

"We accept all his demands."

"Okay." Hu Qing closed the PPT and closed the computer, "Then I'll contact them right now."

"Thanks for your hard work."

After Hu Qing left, Jiang Qi couldn't help it and searched the Internet for other paintings by Xue Shaoheng.

They are all dark and dark.

Everything in the painting is very realistic, and every color is weird. The colors are bold and independent, not abrupt or unreasonable, but they seem to be a little bit reasonable.

At first glance, it makes people wonder how it could be like this. After watching it again, it seems that it must be like this. At the end, it makes people feel that maybe this world is like this.

Jiang Qi even began to think about what would happen if Xue Shaoheng was asked to draw a trash can next to the haunted house.

That must be...

Don't dare to think, don't dare to think.

Jiang Qi looked through all Xue Shaoheng's works that could be found on the Internet and found that this painter never seemed to paint figures. There are all kinds of animals, all kinds of buildings, mountains and rivers in his paintings, but there are no people.

I hope Xue Shaoheng won't mind drawing the toy villains, cavalry, princesses, farmers, flower fairies and playwrights in human form.

Hu Qing quickly contacted Xue Hua. Xue Hua said that although Xue Shaoheng was really interested in toy dramas, as the New Year was approaching, the siblings could not leave Peiping for Xuncheng, so they and Hu Qing Make an appointment and set a time later in the year depending on the situation.

Jiang Qi naturally has no objection. Xue Shaoheng's paintings are quite expensive and he is a serious painter who never draws comics. Now he is willing to accept comic orders at a price far lower than that of Wenqing. If this deal is concluded, it will obviously be an advantage for the amusement park, and it doesn't matter if it is delayed.

And Xue Hua was right. As the New Year approaches, everyone is busy, and the amusement park is also very busy.

Due to the increase in passenger traffic as the Chinese New Year approaches, Taiping Town activities will be open for an additional two hours every day, and the number of visitors per event will be relaxed from the original 300 to 500.

Correspondingly, the number of coupons Feng Guihua distributes every day has also increased.

In order to make it easier for Feng Guihua to issue coupons, and not to suddenly become a star during the process of issuing coupons, the person stood still in place, and the tourists noticed something strange. Jiang Qi specially arranged a small room for her to issue coupons, just like the ticket window. Feng Guihua sat inside while tourists queued up outside to receive coupons.

Of course, there is a reason for Feng Guihua to issue coupons during this period.

The reason is that as the New Year is approaching, Taiping Town is giving out welfare. Grandma Feng Guihua, the oldest in the town, regularly distributes New Year coupons in the town, all in order to let tourists have good luck in the new year.

If you find a good reason, reputation is indispensable.

Many tourists do not spend the coupons after receiving them, instead keeping them as treasures.

This is a New Year limited coupon, a limited coupon!

Gotta keep it.

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February 11th, the 27th day of the New Year.

The atmosphere of the New Year in the amusement park is already very strong. As the New Year approaches, the number of tourists in the park increases instead of decreasing. The tourists are basically young people who did not need to work or prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner before and had nothing to do.

These young people not only came in groups of three or five, but also brought their younger cousins, nephews and nieces who were seven or eight years old and three or four years old at home.

Anyway, free admission for those under 1.2 meters tall and half-price for those under 1.5 meters tall.

The legend that all noisy children will become extremely well-behaved after entering the amusement park has spread to the ears of parents in Xuncheng. Nowadays, if families around the amusement park have any parent-child activities, the first choice must be the amusement park.

Not for anything else, just to take care of the children.

It doesn't matter whether you are happy or not having fun, the most important thing is that your children don't make noises.

Because the day after tomorrow will be two days off on the 29th of the Lunar New Year, and they will go to work again on the New Year's Day, the staff in the amusement park are also beaming, as if they have a holiday tomorrow.

Hu Qing and Shen Lirong both bought tickets to go home on the morning of the 29th. It has been many years since they went home at the same time to have New Year's Eve dinner with their families.

Although they only had two days off this year, the two still chose to go home because according to the tradition of Hu Qing's hometown, their family had New Year's dinner at noon and did not watch the New Year's Eve in the evening.

Hu Qing and Shen Lirong can have a reunion dinner at noon on New Year's Eve, fly back in the evening, and go to work as normal on the first day of the new year.

This is this year. When the villa next to the amusement park is renovated next year, the two of them can bring their family to the amusement park to celebrate the New Year, and they can also spend a few more days in the amusement park.

Jiang Qi is reading the leave request form handed in by the personnel department.

Some employees in the amusement park, like Hu Qing and Shen Lirong, are from other places and want to take two more days off during the Chinese New Year to spend more time with their families at home. The HR department will approve leave based on feedback from leaders, employees' personal circumstances and the busyness of the department. Generally speaking, not many people ask for leave.

The employees in the amusement park are still mainly locals. It is easy to visit family members when they get home from get off work.

Just when Jiang Qi took out his pen to sign, the game prompt suddenly sounded in his mind.

"Congratulations to player Jiang Qi for upgrading the character card [Feng Guihua] to three stars. This card has been upgraded to full stars and will not occupy the card slot."

"The card [Feng Guihua] is undergoing three-star selection, please wait patiently."

Jiang Qi:!

Feng Guihua has three stars!