The Creator of the Second Dimension

The popularity of the "Unnatural Death" trailer did not affect the normal work of the fantasy animation. Xu Rui is busy with the preliminary preparations for "Magic Girl Madoka", including the character design, the finalization of the script, and the way of publicity The unification also includes contacting the media studio to organize an audition.

"People have headaches"

Xu Rui rubbed his temples, and looked at the current designs.

He didn't want to completely restore the painting style of the little round face on the earth, but because the beginning of this animation is somewhat misleading, and Xu Rui's idea of ​​contrasting the innocent picture with the cruel and tragic story, so people The design should be as popular as possible while maintaining cuteness, at least it should not be a low-level animation at first glance.

The character design of "Soul Eater: Zero" was Yi Qianqian, and the character design of "Unnatural Death" was An Yuan. Yi Qianqian was good at animation-style characters, and An Yuan's design was more realistic. Both of them have similar styles. Not very suitable for "Magic Girl Madoka Magica".

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

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

Xu Rui also thought about finding some cartoonists to be the original design of the characters, and then let Huandian's own original paintings be the basis of the original design, but after looking around, there are very few cartoonists who are good at drawing such cute characters. Some of them were also unwilling to take over due to schedule reasons.

Xu Rui was worrying when he heard a familiar voice from the stairs.

"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 tea room and glanced at the second floor.

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

She handed Xu Rui a cup of black tea macchiato with 70% sugar.

"Yeah, you came here once in the next year, and you haven't started 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 here today?"

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

"That Mr. Daou's work has been cut in half. I'll inform him to discuss the idea of ​​the new work, 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 manga was originally an animation adaptation. Now that the animation has been aired for three months, it's not very popular anymore."

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

Xu Rui suddenly wondered if Li Ruoxuan had any author resources.

"Cute girl?"

Li Ruoxuan was stunned for a moment, and then thought of the new work announced by Fantastic Animation.

"There will be a lot of cute girls in Phantom's new work? I thought you guys would try the theme of machine warfare."

"Please spare me the machine war, there are not many in the company who can make mechanical settings."

Xu Rui shook his head.

Li Ruoxuan thought about it, and then yelled "ah".

"how?"

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

"Speaking of cute girls, I recently took charge of a manga artist who is good at drawing them."

As Li Ruoxuan said, she tilted her head.

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

"who is it?"

Yi Qianqian, who was on the side, ate half of the cake. Hearing the discussion between the two, she moved her ears and poked her head.

"It's Teacher Shuhai."

Li Ruoxuan replied without thinking.

"!!!"

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

"Tree? Sea? Old? Teacher?"

"Um, yes, I know it's unbelievable, but Mr. Shuhai is indeed going to re-serialize a new work."

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

"It happened about two weeks ago. Apart from looking for Teacher Daou this time, I came to visit Teacher Shuhai."

"Teacher Shuhai lives nearby? Can I visit her? Wait, my comics are all at home. Or can't I just come to the door rashly?"

Yi Qianqian panicked all of a sudden, she was like a little girl who saw the object of her admiration, and she was on the verge of turning around.

"Teacher Shuhai's work, let me take a look."

Xu Rui probably also understands Yi Qianqian's mood. When he helped clean the room a few times, he saw that Yi Qianqian's bookshelf was full of works by Mr. Shuhai. Dawn" animation collapsed animation staff, she also very severely accused the crime of the other party.

He had read some of Mr. Shuhai's comics before, and now that Li Ruoxuan mentioned it, 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, do you have a look?"

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

"Well, Mr. Shuhai is good at drawing cute girls with a unique style. Let her be the original design of the character. Well, it should be no problem. I am very familiar with Mr. Shuhai's painting style. I can change this to a style that can be used in animation. "

Yi Qianqian nodded and said calmly.

"Then Ruoxuan, can you help me communicate?"

Xu Rui asked, after talking so much, the other party still needs to agree.

"In this case."

Li Ruoxuan looked at the two of them.

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

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

"Holofey, I told you that your design is not good, let's see the result now? It's a good thing I didn't let your product go into full production, otherwise the company would definitely lose even more!!!"

A man in a suit was slapping the table vigorously with a report. In front of him, a man with slightly curly and messy hair and a worn-out suit hung his head down without any rebuttal words.

"Now you have to take responsibility. There was an agreement at the beginning. If this product line fails, all the responsibility will be on you."

The man on the opposite side was flushed and extremely angry. He waved the report in his hand, and accidentally let go of his hand. A stack of papers hit the man in the old suit on the face, and then scattered all over the ground.

This report contains the sales data of the products in the last two months. It can be seen that, except for the beginning, the sales have been falling all the way since then, and there has been no improvement at all.

On other sheets are photos of the product.

Those were some plastic models, monsters spliced ​​together from the bodies of various indescribable animals were showing their teeth and claws.

"Holofey, I tell you, you've been fired, fired! fired!"

The man's voice echoed in the office, but the man in the old suit silently picked up the scattered papers and walked out.