Chapter 18: Finished Drawing Cards, It's a Wrap!

Lao Huang looked at Lao Zhou and asked, "What do you think?"

Lao Zhou pondered for a moment, "I think it's worth a shot."

The others nodded in agreement.

Lao Huang thought for a moment, "Alright, let's take this project! After all, the client is footing the bill, so we can consider this a test run."

"If this style isn't well received, then it's the client's loss, and it might help you give up on this style sooner."

"But if it becomes popular, then we might actually be able to set up our own studio after graduation. As long as we build up our reputation, everything else will fall into place!"

Ruan Guangjian nodded, "That's exactly what I was thinking!"

"Right now, we're essentially using the client's requirements to build our own reputation. Plus, the client is paying us a generous amount. Let's work hard together for the next three weeks and give it our all. We'll complete this project beautifully!"

"If this set of original drawings becomes popular, then we can use this opportunity to build our reputation and have a bright future ahead of us!"

Finally, everyone reached a consensus and started getting busy.

Ruan Guangjian worked on the character concept drafts one by one, Lao Huang worked on the line drawings, and the others with slightly lower skill levels or less familiarity with the style were responsible for refinement and coloring.

According to the normal process, Ruan Guangjian should have shown the original line drawings to Pei Qian for approval, to make sure they met the client's requirements before proceeding with refinement.

However, Pei Qian didn't bother with this step, so they skipped it.

The entire dormitory started bustling with activity.

...

...

Two weeks flew by at Handong University's dormitory.

Pei Qian checked the system.

[Wealth Conversion System]

[Host: Pei Qian]

[Profit Conversion Ratio 100:1, Loss Conversion Ratio 1:1]

[Next Settlement Time: 16 days later]

[Note: One week before the settlement, if there are still unreleased products, the settlement date will be postponed, and the extension time will be decided by the system.]

[System Funds: 8792 (↓291208)]

[Personal Assets: 1607.6]

Pei Qian had spent 290,000 of the system funds, leaving less than 10,000.

In addition to purchasing art resources, buying music and sound effects, and renting cloud servers, Pei Qian also spent money on a skill template for a card game.

He originally didn't plan to buy it, but when he saw that there were remaining system funds, he felt there was no need to save them.

Unspent system funds cannot be converted into personal property, which means a loss for Pei Qian, and that's unacceptable.

Pei Qian had already implemented this skill system into the game.

For example, Guan Yu's skill was a continuous slash with his Green Dragon Crescent Blade, Zhou Yu's skill was Fire Attack at Q-version, dealing damage to all enemies on screen, and Xiahou Dun's Unyielding skill could grant brief immunity to control and damage reduction effects, etc.

In any case, card game skills are mostly the same, with most card games copying "Q Meng Three Kingdoms." The skill mechanisms are similar, so the template skills are also similar.

Pei Qian distributed these skills among the game characters and made the most of them.

Of course, during this process, Pei Qian dumped all the troublesome work onto Ma Yang.

Pei Qian didn't even expect him to be able to match up all the skills perfectly. It would be better if he could mess up some of the values or create some bugs.

As a result, this person named Ma Yang was quite meticulous. After completing the entire skill system configuration, Pei Qian checked it once and surprisingly didn't find any issues.

But after thinking about it, the key point of losing money wasn't here, so Pei Qian didn't really care.

In the end, out of the more than 8,000 yuan, 3,000 yuan was reserved as Ma Yang's salary, which could only be paid at the end of the month.

The remaining 5,000 yuan or so, Pei Qian considered spending it in a sudden attack before the settlement, buying something on the resource website randomly. Anyway, all the system funds must be completely spent, without leaving a single penny.

As for why the personal assets increased...

Because his family sent him living expenses, a thousand yuan.

Pei Qian couldn't help but lament, as someone with a system, he still needed financial support from his family, how humiliating!

It's simply a disgrace in the host world!

He originally intended to lose all 50,000 yuan, but he accidentally made 70,000 yuan instead.

He only converted 700 yuan, which was even less than his original living expenses.

Too shameful!

But this time it's different.

With 300,000 yuan, as long as the game fails, it can all be converted into personal assets, which in one word, is refreshing!

Thinking about the 300,000 yuan that would soon be credited to his account, Pei Qian felt a surge of happiness, and he was even willing to attend classes.

Now everything is ready, just waiting for the art resources to be in place, put them into the game, then the game will be launched and flop at light speed, and the mission will be accomplished!

...

A week later.

Magic City, a dormitory in the art department of a certain finance university.

Ruan Guangjian, with huge dark circles under his eyes, threw the pressure-sensitive pen on the table: "OK! Mission accomplished!"

He turned his head to see the others, some were asleep in front of the computer, some were asleep on the bed, and only he was still awake.

There were many instant noodle boxes and snack bags piled up under the table, and many empty cans of energy drinks on the table. The whole dormitory looked messy.

"Phew, finished on time."

Ruan Guangjian felt a little regretful that no one was here to share this historic moment with him.

There was no way, the others didn't have his vigorous energy, and they couldn't stand the high-intensity work state of day and night inversion.

Fortunately, the work was completed on schedule.

In fact, it could have been faster, but Ruan Guangjian had high requirements for this set of original paintings. Many unsatisfactory parts had been revised several times, so under the circumstances where everyone was working hard together, they just managed to finish on the deadline.

He quickly browsed through the batch of original paintings.

Ruan Guangjian felt very proud.

Artwork!

Perfect masterpiece!

Each character was carefully designed by him, with unique characteristics and vivid personalities, perfectly combining the original historical image, the magical changes, and traditional elements.

Each piece was guaranteed to leave a deep impression!

However, whether these original paintings could become popular or not, Ruan Guangjian was unsure.

Aesthetics is a very subjective matter.

Even world-famous paintings may not appeal to many people.

Game original paintings are even more so. Sometimes, no matter how superb your skills are or how outstanding your design is, players may not necessarily buy it. Instead, they may instinctively dislike it simply because the picture is a bit dark.

Why do many low-quality games like flashy, golden wings? Is it because their main art designer likes it? Not necessarily.

It's because the wealthy players like those flashy, golden wings and are willing to pay for them!

So, if it were any other company, they would probably dislike this set of original paintings.

But after all, Pei, the president of Tenda Network Technology Co., Ltd., had already said that they could create and design freely. Drawing like this should be fine, right?

Ruan Guangjian mustered up his energy, logged into ESRO's resource site, and sent this batch of original paintings to Pei Qian.

A total of 50 sets and 200 original paintings, please check.

After sending the message, there was no reply from the other side, probably because they were not online.

Ruan Guangjian looked at the time and saw that the sky outside was gradually getting brighter. It was now a little past 7 a.m.

He reached over and took a ham sausage from the side, ate a little to fill his stomach, and then climbed onto his bed to rest.

Finally, he was done with the busy work. He would definitely call his brothers for a big meal at noon!

Feeling relieved, Ruan Guangjian lay down on his bed and fell into a deep sleep.