Qin Sulan suddenly felt a sense of crisis: during the few days she had been abroad, her colleagues at home had also been busy. It seemed that the work they were doing was more valuable than hers.
Qin Sulan slid the mouse and asked carefully, "Did you design all of this in the past few days? From the settings to the line drawings, did you draw them all on the spot?"
She asked this because the characters on the screen were very detailed.
Generally speaking, the more detailed the setting, the clearer the idea, the more perfect it is, and the closer it is to the final draft.
Because character design is not as simple as just drawing a pretty girl and then modeling according to her.
Character design, from character setting to main color, hair color, clothing, and patterns, is a chain reaction that can affect the entire body.
For example, before Qin Sulan went abroad, her art team was designing a character called "Walnut".
This character was created by the copywriting team, based on the requirements from their side.
According to the plot, they needed a "funeral home owner" character (I don't know who came up with this).
At the same time, this character needs to have a Chinese style, but not be too Chinese.
It should look serious and formal, but also lively and cheerful at the same time.
The most important thing is to design it in a sexy and cute way.
These demands are as incomprehensible as colorful 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 definitely won’t work, so in order to make it look better, we use the classic red combination to dilute the overall rigidity of the character.
The character's eye color can be designed to be black with peach blossom eyes. This design can generally highlight the character's liveliness.
At the same time, the flat-chested design can enhance the attribute of being "lively and optimistic".
When designing, modeling must also be taken into consideration.
Due to the two-dimensional style of the game and the engine development, if there are large blank areas on the character's clothes, they will be rendered as a smooth iron plate, which looks very ugly.
Therefore, when designing a character, there cannot be any blank spaces on the clothes, and a lot of patterns must be placed to increase the three-dimensional effect.
The patterns on Walnut's clothes were designed based on the four gentlemen of flowers: plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum.
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 as a "funeral home owner".
It sounds simple, but in fact, when designing a character, every detail must be carefully polished and finalized repeatedly.
Often, designing a character takes an extremely long time and involves repeated back-and-forth from the first draft to the final version.
The several drafts now in front of Qin Sulan are already very detailed, so detailed that they can be 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 seven days. How did you manage to design so many characters in just a few days? Are you hiring again?"
Xu Lirong chuckled and said, "No, actually, the character designs of these characters were finalized by Mr. Chen and us."
"Mr. Chen?" Qin Sulan asked with her head tilted, "Does he also understand character design?"
"Yeah." Xu Lirong nodded seriously, "He scared me too."
She said slowly, "Mr. Chen called us together at the time and gave us on-site guidance. He told us how to design, and we were responsible for implementing it into line drawings. We were very efficient and created seven or eight characters in no time. Now we just need to be responsible for the details."
As mentioned above, character design is a highly professional field.
It is definitely not something that can be designed by an outsider just by thinking about it.
If a layman without any artistic background is in charge of the design, it can easily turn into a situation like "design me a colorful black".
Someone who can take command, make decisions on the spot, and guide employees step by step on how to design must be either a rare genius in aesthetics or an expert in character design.
Qin Sulan thought that Mr. Chen was only good at starting a business, but she didn't expect that he had many other talents hidden.
"Hey, Qin Sulan, you're back?"
A boy passed by her with a pen in his ear and greeted her.
Qin Sulan turned around and found that it was the new colleague from the copywriting team, whose name was Xu Zheqing.
Because they were both young and lived close to each other, they quickly became friends.
Xu Zheqing was quite shy when I saw him last time, but now it seems that he has completely shed the immaturity of a recent graduate.
He dragged a stool over from the side, sat down and said:
"I just happened to be interviewing you. Did you encounter anything interesting during your trip abroad?"
Qin Sulan immediately frowned and said miserably:
"How could I encounter anything interesting? I was out of breath the whole time. Apart from drawing, taking photos and writing travelogues, I felt more exhausted than going to school."
Xu Zheqing looked regretful: "That's overseas, isn't there anything interesting?"
"No," Qin Sulan said simply, "Why are you asking this?"
Xu Zheqing hung his head and sighed, "I've been writing a storyline lately, and I feel like my hair is falling out. I'm in desperate need of inspiration."
"Is it that difficult?"
"It's hard!" Xu Zheqing finally found an opportunity to pour out his frustrations. He'd been frustrated by the lack of people complaining. "There are hundreds of books in the game, hundreds of item descriptions, and every one of them has to be of guaranteed quality. That alone is a headache."
"Book? What book?" Qin Sulan didn't understand.
Xu Zheqing explained, "Isn't our game an open world? The readable items scattered throughout the open world are all required to be readable. Do you remember the probationary exam for new employees? Didn't our writing team require everyone to write a few fairy tales?"
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