The Strongest Animator [Rebirth]

Huaying’s acquisition of Thorn Interactive Entertainment went smoothly.

Except that at the very beginning, when Mu Su Xing expressed his intention to Jiang Yucheng and others, several senior executives of Thorn Interactive Entertainment hesitated for a while, the whole process basically did not encounter any obstacles.

The two sides opened up the skylight to speak frankly. On behalf of Huaying, Musuxing gave up the independent development rights of Thorn Interactive Entertainment, and Thorn Interactive Entertainment did not bargain greedily. Everyone is still very clear about the current situation of their company. The conditions are not too harsh. Even if the acquisition is accepted, the game development of Thorn Interactive Entertainment will not be affected in any way, instead, there will be more investment from Huaying. Why not do it?

"Boss, what is this called Thorn Interactive Entertainment, does it really have the potential to be worth buying?"

Seeing that Mu Su Xing easily finalized an acquisition in less than two hours, Du Yutang couldn't help lowering his voice and asked curiously while the people from Thorn Interactive Entertainment were still accepting the notarization of the contract.

Shepherd Xing smiled slightly, but said: "You will know in the future."

Du Yutang was dubious.

It's not that he doesn't believe in Shepherd Star, but that Thorn Interactive Entertainment's current strength has proved their unreliability-considering that this company is composed of young people who have graduated less than two years ago, this kind of unreliable Spectrum and risk have to be multiplied by two.

Can these young people in front of them really match the superior conditions offered by their boss?

He didn't say this, but it didn't affect Mu Su Xing's ability to see clearly.

Regarding this, Shepherd Xing could only smile and shook his head.

He couldn't tell the other party that it was these young people who were still crushed by any game of Yunsu, and the Thorn Huyu who could only live in a dilapidated and small office building. Years later, he became the overlord of Bluestar's electronic game industry, repeatedly putting Yunsu Games under his feet, right?

After the notarization of the contract was over, Jiang Yucheng took the initiative to invite Ying, and took the new boss around the workplace of Thorn Huyu, and introduced the basic situation of Thorn Huyu by the way.

"...This is the main beauty of our studio. Recently, we are mainly responsible for drawing the card face of a mobile game for women to love. Originally, according to the plan, we planned to test it at the end of this year, but the company is currently struggling with funds, so it has been delayed. ..." Jiang Yucheng said with a slight embarrassment on his face.

He also knew that what he said was short of "asking the funder's father to invest", but right now, he really had no choice. The cost of love mobile games is lower and it is easier to pay back.Thorn Entertainment now has a financial backer, but they still owe a whole lot of debt!

but……

His eyes fell on the new boss who seemed to be listening to him with his downcast eyes, but in fact he was fascinated. Jiang Yucheng was disappointed to find that his new boss seemed... not interested in this game?

He was very disappointed in his heart, but on the surface he was trying to change the subject with wit, but at this moment, the clear voice of Shepherd Xing came into his ears: "I see."

After recovering from the memory of the previous life, Shepherd star lowered his head and looked at the game plan that every female player would be familiar with in this previous life.

In fact, in his memory, it was this love mobile game that Thorn Interactive Entertainment started to explode into popularity, and it was this mobile game that brought Thorn Interactive Entertainment back from the brink of bankruptcy, and has skyrocketed ever since.But before that, no one thought that such a love mobile game with simple production and low cost could become a hit game with a monthly turnover of over [-] million.

Having said that, Shepherd Star did not immediately make an investment decision.

He believes in the quality of this game, but after all, Huaying is not just his own, and the process still needs to be followed. For a company with great ambitions, there is no reason to break the rules and regulations casually.

So he thought about it, and just said: "Later, you send the game plan to my assistant, and I will arrange for professionals to do investment risk assessment."

"No problem! Thank you, Mr. Mu, for giving us this opportunity!" Jiang Yucheng said hastily.

He didn't expect Star Shepherd to treat Thorn Interactive Entertainment specially. For them, even if it was just a chance, it was enough. As a game producer, he was still very confident in his game.

Mu Suxing nodded invisibly and continued walking.

Like the exterior of the office building rented by Thorn Interactive Entertainment, the internal facilities as a workplace are also relatively simple-more precisely, except for the equipment for game production, everything in the entire office hall is extremely simple, even The walls are showing the phenomenon that the wall skin is peeling off, revealing a line of white marks.

He stopped at a desk where the computer was turned on but no one was there.

Mu Suxing glanced at the brightly lit computer screen, and found that it displayed a neatly arranged table, which counted the daily turnover since the public beta of "Expedition Girl".

"This is……"

Talking about "The Expeditionary Girl", Jiang Yucheng also felt a little sad, he shook his head: "It's a failure, the public beta has been open for more than half a month now, and the daily flow is not as good as it is every day, maybe it won't last for a few days and it will be closed. Take it."

He said it was a failure, but he still felt a little regretful in his heart. Anyway, this is the first mobile game launched by Thorn Interactive Entertainment. Seeing his hard work gradually decline and destroy, Jiang Yucheng's heart ached. It's not easy, unfortunately, facts are facts, and now Thorn Interactive Entertainment has become a part of Huaying. Although Musu Xingming said that he will not deprive Thorn Interactive Entertainment of independent development rights, he can't really do whatever he wants, let Musu Star Losing money?

Star Shepherd looked at the "Expedition Girl" poster on the wall.

He has a little impression of this game.

In his previous life, he would occasionally visit various forums. Apart from animations, the game section was the one he watched the most.

"Expeditionary Girl" itself is not well-known, but whenever someone asks "you know which games are played high and low, and you can beat it with a good hand", "Expeditionary Girl" is on the list. The ability of mutual entertainment, in fact, may not be unable to save the game in the new version. Unfortunately, the economic conditions at that time made it destined to be forgotten as a failed experiment of Thorn Interactive Entertainment.

On the wall, the girl in the poster smiles crookedly, her long white curly hair is scattered behind her shoulders like seaweed, and the slim black combat uniform perfectly outlines her exquisite figure. Upon closer inspection, it is exactly in line with the hearts of nerds. The good one.

Shepherd star asked: "This is... a two-dimensional strategy card mobile game?"

Although he didn't quite understand why Star Musu asked this question, Jiang Yucheng replied honestly: "Yes."

Shepherd star pondered: "If it's this type of game, maybe it's not completely irreversible."

Jiang Yucheng's heart skipped a beat, and then as if realizing the reality, he shook his head quickly: "If there were no competitors, we might still be able to struggle a little bit, but it just so happens that Yunsu has a game of the same type and the same gameplay as ours. And their game voice actors are more luxurious than ours..."

He didn't go on, but the meaning of the words was already very obvious.

Although he was reluctant to give up, Jiang Yucheng was actually somewhat disapproving of the so-called "rescue" idea of ​​Mu Su Xing. In his opinion, even if Mu Su Xing proved his ability, it was in animation production.

Does he really know how to make games?

Jiang Yucheng muttered in his heart, he didn't really say it, but the suspicion in his expression was obvious.

The shepherd star doesn't care either.

He understood Jiang Yucheng's suspicion. In fact, the other party's suspicion itself was not wrong.Shepherd star really doesn't understand game production.

—but he knows art.

Mu Suxing thought for a while, and said, "How about starting with art?"

Jiang Yucheng was slightly taken aback: "What do you mean?"

"If we start from the art side and increase the sophistication of the card surface and the character's skin, it may have some unexpected effects." Shepherd Xing said.

If it is another type of game, Shepherd Star may not be sure and confident. After all, no matter how good the game art is, if the gameplay is not up to standard, players will not buy it.But "Expedition Girl" is a strategy card mobile game after all.

In this type of game, the appearance of the character on the card face occupies a considerable proportion.

It is also because of this that later players tend to make jokes when they encounter a plan that keeps testing back and forth on the edge of the player's patience for this kind of game where the art is more important: when the wise plan starts to create a sense of presence again I knew when I was here that the awesome artists were coming out to save the world again ╮(╯▽╰)╭

Although this statement is exaggerated, in a sense, it does verify that players value the art in this type of game.

What's more, in terms of gameplay, compared with the same type of Yunsu games, there are actually not many defects in the gameplay of "Expedition Girl". In this case, the excellent art is very likely to have unexpected effects.

Jiang Yucheng disagreed.

In his view, the core of the game is the gameplay. No matter how well the artist optimizes the card surface effect, it is difficult to bring back the lost players.If you have this time and energy, it would be more meaningful to focus on the art on the new game.

What you think in your heart is the same thing, the cooperation between the two parties has just begun, and Jiang Yucheng has no intention of refuting his boss on such details, so he responded with a smile: "It makes sense, who makes everyone look at the face these days."

Knowing that the other party did not believe the meaning of this statement in his heart, Mu Su Xing smiled and did not explain further.

There are indeed many similar things in the previous life, but whether this will be effective for "The Expeditionary Girl" is not guaranteed. He plans to wait until he returns to Huaying to continue directing "Magic Girl Madoka". Take the time to fish, and try to see if you can optimize and improve the art of "Expedition Girl".

The acquisition of Thorn Interactive Entertainment ended here, and the direction and content of the recent work were determined. Xing Mu quickly reinvested his energy in the production of the magic circle. When he finally found time, he came to check the various items of "The Expeditionary Girl" It was already a week later when the information was collected.

He opened the art file sent by Jiang Yucheng on the computer.

Shepherd Star has never worked as a game artist, but he still has the basic aesthetics as an artist.Taking advantage of the lunch break, he scanned all the card portraits of "The Expeditionary Girl", and soon found some inconsistencies.

Strictly speaking, it's not a unique violation of "The Expeditionary Girl", but...

Mu Su Xing observed Li Hui on the computer, and soon understood the source of this violation.

For this type of game, most manufacturers will choose to outsource the character painting. In other words, the dozens of painting in the game are often the works of different artists. There is no art director in the studio. When it is used to grasp the overall art style and temperament of the game, it is easy to have a situation where a single vertical painting looks pleasing to the eye, but a series of it will make people feel inconsistent.

It just so happened that he also planned to do something else to adjust the mood of making the magic circle. After thinking about it, Mu Suxing simply pulled out the vertical paintings one by one, looked at them carefully, and made an overall review of all the vertical paintings. fine-tuning.

In the next period of time, apart from focusing on the work of directing the magic circle, Mu Suxing began to try to draw standing pictures for the new characters of "The Expeditionary Girl".

Although he has never worked as a game artist, as an artist, he is very familiar with the style and development trend of the original game paintings of later generations. Now he draws vertical paintings, using typical future popular painting methods.

Mu Su Xing didn't mean to hide or be sneaky about his private fishing. Because of this, within two days, Fang Lian saw the unfinished beauty on Mu Su Xing's computer screen. Girl standing painting.

The girl in the picture has a smile in her eyes, and her slightly curly long chestnut hair hangs down naturally, rubbing against the hilt of the sword resting on her shoulder in a messy manner. The softness of the girl and the coldness of the weapon form a visually strong In contrast, the most amazing thing is that the girl in the painting is obviously wrapped tightly by the clothes, but she looks even more unbearably sexy.

Fang Lian had just casually glanced at it.

But it was such a casual glance that made his eyes freeze when he cast his eyes on Li Hui who fell on the screen, and his originally absent-minded demeanor also brightened the moment he saw Li Hui.

To say that this picture reflects the artist's level is not necessarily the case. What must be said is that the artist has a visual effect that is completely different from the current general style in terms of details such as painting techniques and composition, just like... It's like using a more novel way of expression.

Fang Lian stared closely at the character picture in front of him, and for a moment, he felt reluctant to let go, unwilling to look away.

It's not that the beautiful girl in the picture is so attractive - well, it does take up a very important part, but the most important thing is that this painting method gave him a very strange feeling...

In the animation, it is purely an appreciation of the delicacy of the characters. In the game, it is a style... fashion sense?

The more Fang Lian watched, the more interested he became, he turned his head and found Mu Suxing, and said with great interest: "Amu, the girl you drew on your computer is the character design for the next animation, right?" Thinking of this, Fang Lian only felt that his body, which was exhausted by work, had been healed, and his whole body suddenly regained his fighting spirit: "What's her name? What is the specific personality like?"

"The game company newly acquired by the company, doesn't it have a Two-dimensional mobile game under its umbrella?" Mu Suxing said, "I'm still idle, so I took advantage of the fish to draw a few new characters."

He sent them away in a few words and said on the spot that he would definitely support Fang Lian in his mobile game. Mu Suxing modified the last character drawing and sent it to Jiang Yucheng together.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Yucheng received an art file modification package from his boss, and Jiang Yucheng was actually a little confused.

At the same time as the document arrived, there was also the issue of the new boss not playing cards according to common sense. Just as Jiang Yucheng got on the phone here, Mu Su star asked straight to the point: "Is there no art director in Thorn Interactive Entertainment?"

"Art Director?"

Jiang Yucheng was stunned for a while, and then realized the meaning of Mu Su Xing's words.

Generally speaking, in the production of PC games and console games, a special art director will be set up to ensure the harmony and unity of the overall art style of the game. This is not the case for mobile games.

"It shouldn't matter, right?" Jiang Yucheng said, "I haven't heard of many mobile game studios setting up this position in the mobile game market."

That's because these mobile game studios are small workshops, have no money, and don't feel the need to set up this position.

Mu Suxing thought to himself, and instead of explaining nonsense to him, he directly sent his fine-tuned art files to the computer to show the effect: "In the future, it is best to set up an art director for this type of game. Otherwise, the style and temperament of Lihui are not uniform, and it is easy for players to feel that the scene is skipping. I have fine-tuned the Lihui you sent me, and you can take a look at it for details.”

Jiang Yucheng: "...Huh?"

He was stunned to receive the file sent by Musuxing. Before he could react, he heard Musuxing continue: "In addition, the light and shadow dynamics of the battle screen should be further optimized and adjusted. I just use level 2 The map of -9 has been modified. Don't forget to ask the artist to fix it accordingly. A map that is too monotonous can easily cause players to feel bored. Players may not realize it, but it is best for the artist to consider it in advance. at this point."

This is not finished.

Over there, Mu Su Xing simply picked up a few more important places discovered so far and mentioned them one by one, and finally added: "I took a rough look at the copywriting of "The Expeditionary Girl", and the plot is quite interesting. I drew a few portraits of new characters, which are separate from other portraits, you can see if it fits, and if it fits, update it in the next version."

Looking at the numerous new files displayed on his computer, Jiang Yucheng suddenly felt complicated.

He is also a game maker himself. Of course he can understand what Shepherd Star said. It is undeniable that at least in terms of art, his new boss is not as ignorant of games as they imagined.

but……

His eyes fell on the collection of documents in front of him.

In the game industry staged art to save the world?is it possible?

Jiang Yucheng shook his head secretly in his heart. He was not optimistic about Mu Suxing's so-called idea of ​​attracting players by optimizing art, but the boss is the boss after all. Since the other party has sent a new character Lihui and Yiying changes, of course he still has to look at it. at a glance.

With such a dispensable mentality, Jiang Yucheng casually opened the art file of "The Expeditionary Girl".