Almighty Game Designer - Chapter 54

Everyone’s current evaluation of these characters are: very cute, clear characteristics, but they don’t know what this bunch of monsters are about…

This is within Chen Mo’s expectation, looking at these characters out of their story, can see that they are monsters.

Chen Mo asked, “Goldfish, how long it would take you to finish the concept arts of these characters, including detailing and coloring? It doesn’t need to be too exquisite, and the size should be made according to my sketch draft.”

Su Jinyu thought for a moment, “Ehm…these cards are not too complicated, and should be done in 4~5 days.”

Chen Mo shook his head, “3 days.”

“Ah?” Su Jinyu slightly hesitated, “3 days is not impossible, but the quality will definitely be worse.”

Chen Mo said, “No problem, such large card are all the same on the phone, and it doesn’t matter if the details is slightly worse. It’s okay if the quality is slightly lower, since we can slowly optimize it later. We currently need to first pave the way with quantity.”

Su Jinyu nodded with some difficulty, “Okay, I’ll try as much as I can.”

Wen Lingwei said, “If it’s detailing and coloring, then I can also do it.”

Chen Mo said, “Are you sure? These are official game resources, at least to make sure that the players won’t pick out problems.”

Jia Peng reminded, “Manager, sister is also a decent art student, and she usually does some original painting.”

Chen Mo was amazed, right, Wen Lingwei and Jia Peng are all from Advertising Department of their school. The Advertising Department usually need to draw posters, making exhibition boards and so on. Can they become the Head and deputy head without being capable of hand-painting and image processing?

“Alright, you can help draw together and it will save a lot of time.” Said Chen Mo.

Wen Lingwei showed a meaningful smile, “Manager, how much are you going to pay me? One of my concept art will cost 5,000, which is still a friendship price.”

Chen Mo, “…How did I not realize that you are a great artist?”

Such card concept art, artist of different levels also charge differently, there is 8,900 for a card and there are also 89,000 for a card, and there are even more expensive one.

Of course, the higher the price, the better the quality. A good artist and a common artist when they paint will have differences in their structure, lighting, shadow, color, and so on.

Like Wen Lingwei, charging a card for 5,000 yuan, or a friendship price, which is already the standard of a slightly famous artist.

Chen Mo said, “However, your 5,000 friendship price doesn’t need to design, compose, and communicate with the demander, do you? I already have the sketch draft, and the size is several times smaller than what you usually draw, and you only need to refine and color it. Giving you 2,000 yuan should be enough, right?”

Wen Lingwei, “Stingy.”

Chen Mo, “…”

Wen Lingwei said, “I’ll do it for your poor sake, one for 2,000, 1 piece per 3 days. But goldfish and I are only 2 people, so won’t it be too slow.”

Chen Mo looked at Jia Peng and Chang Xiuya, “If you want to paint, then you can also…”

Jia Peng quickly waved his hand, “We aren’t as good as sister. At most, we can paint some ordinary monster cards for you, the main character cards should not be given to us.”

Chen Mo nodded, “That’s fine. There will be monster cards for you to paint later, and you can do it together, and I’ll pay you according to the market price.”

Jia Peng waved his hand, “It’s fine, money isn’t important, manager can just pay me any amount.”

Wen Lingwei’s eyebrow raise, “How is that possible! Manager is rich now, isn’t he earning 2 million a month from 《Plants vs Zombies》? Not to mention few thousand yuan.”

Jia Peng nodded, “Right. Then, doing it according to market price is okay.”

Chen Mo, “…”

Wen Lingwei said, “Also, how will you calculate goldfish’s payment? Don’t say that because she is your assistant, you won’t give her any money.”

Chen Mo said, “Just like you, 2,000 per card!”

Wen Lingwei nodded satisfactorily, “Well, that’s just right. “

Su Jinyu wanted to say that she didn’t want money at first, but she thought about, what’s wrong with getting money? Therefore, she happily accepted it.

Chen Mo was speechless, these people intentionally planned it in order to get money from him!

Chen Mo roughly divided the cards.

Su Jinyu and Wen Lingwei’s art level is higher, and they are fully qualified to do the main character cards. What’s more, communicating between them is more convenient, so Chen Mo intends to give both of them the most important main character cards.

Chen Mo also reserved some of the monster cards for the other students to do.

According to the speed of 1 card per 3 days, Wen Lingwei and Su Jinyu will need 54 days to finish all 36 main character cards. It is obviously too slow and what’s more, it’s only a fraction of the cards, the total number of card is more than 300!

This is different from 《Plants vs Zombies》 back then. Many zombies can be reused, while the plants are simple to draw. But in card games, the cards are almost equal to the soul of the game. Players won’t pay for an ugly art, and Chen Mo doesn’t dare compromise.

Therefore, if he wants to once more reduce the time, he can only go find someone to outsource.

Chen Mo said to Wen Lingwei and Su Jinyu, “Do you know any art outsourcing companies? A reliable one.”

Wen Lingwei thought about it, “I am familiar with one and several of my friends are painters in it, and their skill is quite decent.”

Chen Mo nodded, “Okay, give me the contact information. By the way, do you also know any anime production company?”

Wen Lingwei and Su Jinyu shook their heads, “I know some, but I don’t have any acquaintances.”

Chen Mo said, “Okay, that’s all. You can first do the main character cards that I just picked out.”

Chen Mo turned upstairs.

Su Jinyu said, “Wait, Manager, what kind of game are we gonna do next? Why do you need so many concept art cards?”

Chen Mo said, “Don’t worry, you will know it within a few days.”

. . . . . . . . . . . . .

Back on the 2nd floor, Chen Mo was already slightly sleepy, and it seemed to be the side effect of the super-accelerator.

Chen Mo found the person in charge of the art outsourcing company according to the contact information given by Wen Lingwei, and talk about his requirements.

Chen Mo will provide the sketch draft, which will save the cost of processing the design and drawing the sketch drafts, and also shorten the time.

In the end, the price Chen Mo negotiated was 2,200 a card, for the main character card, and 600 a card, for the monster card.

Monster cards can be done more casually, so the price was sharply reduced.

In this way, Chen Mo estimated that he spent about 36 × 3 × 2200 + 200 × 600 = 357600, and 350,000 for the full set of cards.

Of course, some of the monsters can be easily change and reuse, but no matter how much he negotiated, it is impossible to reduce it to less than 300,000.

This is quite a lot of money, but Chen Mo doesn’t feel pained since he gave it all in negotiating, and Chen Mo was quite satisfied that he can buy the whole set of card resources for 350,000 yuan.

Among them, Chen Mo gave Wen Lingwei and Su Jinyu the 7 main character cards, MT, Shaman, Rogue, Hunter, Lady, President, Elder Sister to complete, and it will take a month for them to complete all the cards at the rate of 3 days a card.

Su Jinyu is also responsible for game designing, so Chen Mo can’t let her draw cards all the time.

Besides, Chen Mo evenly gave some of the monster cards to Jia Peng and others, and are paid according to the market price.

While all the other cards will be handed to the outsourcing company. Anyway, all the cards will surely be done within 2 months.