Chapter 38 Hand-painted Hand-painted Hand-painted

Chapter 38 Hand-painted Hand-painted Hand-painted

Chapter 38 Hand-painted Hand-painted Hand-painted

Her idol said she was looking forward to meeting her.

She said she was looking forward to...

Hey Hey……

what! ! !
Looking forward to it, looking forward to it, looking forward to it——

Xu Yichi hung up his phone and screamed silently, then hugged the pillow and rolled around on the bed uncontrollably.

The consequence of being overexcited was that she really couldn't sleep that night. When the alarm clock rang the next day, she forced herself to get up despite a headache and feeling very sleepy. She already had two fist-sized dark circles under her eyes.

"Good morning, Xiaoyi, come down for dinner. And stop by to take a look at the first draft of the character design that we just finished last night." Bai Miaomiao, who was fiddling with two bowls of hot soy milk, greeted her with a smile, and pointed at the coffee table with her chin.

Hearing the voice, Xu Yichi looked in the direction she pointed, and sure enough, he saw the still-lit screen of the laptop on the coffee table, and several hand-drawn colored drafts lying peacefully on a pile of waste paper next to the computer.

"Wow, Xiaobai, you two are so efficient this time!" The little girl looked up in surprise, with a hint of disbelief between her brows - they were not so enthusiastic when they took the order to do the preliminary design drafts of the two skin-changing small games before. Every time they had to wait for the client to urge them hard before they would reluctantly go to the table to work.

No, that's not right. Not to mention the money-making orders from the client - even when they were working on the two independent games they developed themselves, the efficiency of these two bastards was not so terrifying! !
"Oh, isn't it because we got some investment this time?" The girl in Hanfu said casually while tearing the dough sticks. "One hundred and fifty - our studio has never had such a rich battle since its establishment!"

"We are supposed to meet with Researcher Yang with our proposal next week. Should we hurry up and make some final products? Otherwise, we will be sorry for Researcher Yang's trust in us!"

"Hiss~ That makes sense." Xu Yichi gritted his teeth and gasped, wandering towards the toilet while speaking, "By the way, where's Qingqing? Why didn't I see her so early in the morning?"

"She knows you don't like fried dough sticks, so she went downstairs to buy you some buns, and also gave herself a cup of black coffee to keep her going." Bai Miaomiao responded casually. While speaking, she inadvertently caught a glimpse of the two huge dark circles under Xu Yichi's eyes, and she was immediately frightened.

"Oh my goodness, Xiaoyi, are you so excited about meeting your idol that you didn't sleep all night?" The Hanfu girl frowned in disdain, "Your dark circles are so big that you could almost cosplay as a national treasure!"

——She couldn’t see clearly because she was far away. She thought that their Mr. Xu was in a rare mood to put on smoky makeup, but she didn’t expect that it was 24k of pure blood stasis caused by staying up late.

Tsk... She immediately sent a message to Qingqing, asking her to bring up an extra cup of American coffee to help this kid wake up.

Bai Miaomiao thought so, and her subordinates actually did so.

Xu Yichi, who had washed his face, felt his head become a little clearer and hurriedly gave a slightly embarrassed smile to his beautiful mother.

"Hehe...Xiaobai, don't expose me so directly~"

——She wants to pretend to be a big shot for a while longer!

"Okay, come over for dinner after you've cleaned up. Qingqing is on her way back and will be home soon." Bai Miaomiao snorted coldly and pushed the prepared tea eggs and side dishes in front of the little girl.

The latter stared at the breakfast on the table eagerly, but he didn't feel like leaving An Qing to work alone, so he wandered back to the sofa. "Then I'd better take a look at your drafts first and wait for her a little longer, Xiaobai." Xu Yichi said, picking his fingers, "otherwise it would be embarrassing to eat alone."

"Okay, then I'll just take out her share of the tea egg as well—Qingqing doesn't like egg yolks." Bai Miaomiao nodded happily, and her movements were very efficient.

Xu Yichi shrank his neck and carefully picked up the manuscripts on the coffee table. The character designs that caught his eye were bright and eye-catching, with flowing and agile lines and the unrestrained charm of traditional Chinese painting. This was the painting style that Bai Miaomiao was best at, combined with freehand brushwork techniques.

"Honestly, Xiaobai, I always think that the things you draw with pen and paper are much more beautiful than those with computers and drawing tablets--" After simply flipping through the manuscripts, Xu Yichi couldn't help but smacking his lips and sighing.

——The drawings that were carefully processed using computers and digital tablets were indeed perfect, but when placed next to these handwritten drawings, she always felt that the electronic drawings seemed to lack a bit of the ancient flavor.

This is true even when using specially blended, as realistic-looking ink strokes as possible.

Maybe it’s because electronic drawings don’t have that kind of “uncertainty” where each stroke has the probability of presenting a different effect.

"Of course hand-drawing and board drawing can't be exactly the same." Bai Miaomiao smiled and responded without raising her head, "But for the sake of animation and game production effect and efficiency, you can't let me draw everything by hand, right?"

“——It’s okay to just draw those few scenes and character portraits, but if you have to include all the action and transition shots and close-ups, and draw them frame by frame… I’m afraid my arm will be broken!”

"That certainly can't be done frame by frame." Xu Yichi shook her head - she just felt that Bai Miaomiao's manuscript was better looking and more soulful than the electronic manuscript, but she didn't intend to be a black-hearted boss and exploit her good sister.

"But... maybe you can draw a few more pictures, and then we can use technology to build an animation path, or directly build a model to complete the movements in the middle?" The little girl rubbed her chin thoughtfully, "Based on the current animation technology, the effect should not be too bad?"

——Anyway, they have sufficient funds this time, so at worst they can just ask two technical experts to help them temporarily.

"Draw a few more pictures and use technology to complete them..." Bai Miaomiao repeated subconsciously after hearing this, and after a while, she pondered for a while, "That's fine."

"This way, it's actually faster to draw a manuscript than an electronic one! It's just that scanning, uploading and cutting out images are slower. However, as long as you draw the background and characters separately except for the key shots, and do the lighting and other things, and use software to process them uniformly in the later stage, it shouldn't take much effort."

"Wuhu~Great!" Xu Yichi clapped and cheered. The noise scared An Qing who had just entered the room, and he almost spilled the two cups of coffee due to his shaking hands.

Fortunately, the "battle-hardened" chief planner of Anda had already prepared a complete and mature response plan for the various crazy behaviors of her own producers from time to time. She was only slightly confused for a moment and then immediately returned to normal.

"Okay, Xiaoyi, let's wait and see. Come over to eat first, so you don't get hypoglycemia again." An Qing waved calmly, put down his things and went to the bathroom to wash the coffee that was accidentally splashed on his arm when she just entered the room.

That day, apart from opening the door to pick up the takeout, the three of them did not step out of the house again for the entire day.

By nightfall, when the moon was high in the sky, they had finally finished the first draft of the character design and the plot outline for the first two chapters of the game, which everyone thought was perfect.

Then they cheered and collapsed to the ground.

　Xiaobai, the studio's mother
　　
　
(End of this chapter)