Chapter 44: Assistant
After returning home, Meng Huo began to prepare for the next comic.
In fact, he does not understand the specific difference between girl comics and boy comics. However, he understands that the characters in girl comics are mostly handsome men and beautiful women, and the content of the story is mainly luxurious and gorgeous love. This kind of comic is more inclined to be perfect in style and must be painted beautifully.
Meng Huo chose "Inuyasha", a boy cartoon drawn by a female author.
The story of "Inuyasha" is set in the Warring States Period. It tells the story of a mixed race between people and monsters - Half-demon Inuyasha, and a fantasy adventure story of Kagome, a girl from the third year of junior high school who travels through the bone-eating well of his own shrine, who travels through time and space 500 years ago, looking for fragments of "Four Souls Jade".
The main characters in this comic are all beautiful. Although the content is mostly about battles, the love scenes in it are also prominent, and you can completely see it as a girl's comic.
However, choosing "Inuyasha" is an unprecedented challenge for Meng Huo. The animation ratings of this manga are very high, but its manga is much worse, and its sales are not very high, which is a huge gap with "Detective Conan".
The commercial tendency of this comic has been criticized by many people. Meng Huo chose it and it would be fine to make millions in half a year, but if you want to become more popular, you have to bear the risk.
He had to make some modifications, but he moved his whole body with one move. Even the details were modified, which meant that Meng Huo denied the inherent memory in his mind, and the comic storyboard and other things had to be pushed back and forth. Of course, Meng Huo didn't want to step too much at once. He carefully studied "Inuyasha" and found that there were three places that could be modified.
The first is to streamline the content. This comic has too many tedious and boring content that is not related to the main line. These contents are of little significance and are also the most annoying thing in the previous life. Meng Huo does not intend to change the main line plot, but removing unnecessary content can enhance its charm.
The second is the historical background and environment. Since China has witches, the background of the story can be completely placed in China. Moreover, China is vast and has countless secret realms of Lingshan. Meng Huo wants to make the world presented by "Inuyasha" more magnificent.
The third is the image of monsters. The characters in the story of Inuyasha are basically monsters, and the important monsters are all very beautiful. However, other passers-by monsters A, B, C and D are obviously treated differently, and they are ugly and cannot be looked at directly, and there are many bugs.
Every time Meng Huo sees monsters flying in the sky like insects, it feels uncomfortable. Do you dare to be a little creative? He wants to change these passersby A, B, C and D to increase the types of monsters, and this is what China does not lack the least.
The three major modifications are actually beautified in the end, except for the simplified content. Meng Huo thought that it was a girl’s comic anyway, so he would beautify it, and paint the main characters more beautifully, making the passers-by and monsters more distinctive, and making the environment more beautiful and broad.
"Simply handsome!"
When Alice saw the first few originals, she couldn't help but scream.
"Beautiful, so beautiful!" Stars rose in her eyes. This new work was completely in line with her beauty: "Meng Huo, believe me, even if there is no story, this new work will not worry about sales by selling paintings!"
Alice thinks Meng Huo is simply a natural girl killer. His paintings are really beautiful. The pictures in this new work are much better than "Detective Conan".
But this is a natural result. "Detective Conan" describes crimes and reasoning in the city. The pictures are limited to rooms and crime scenes. No matter how good the painting skills are, it is difficult to draw the background well, so the characters are beautiful every time.
However, "Inuyasha" is different. The background of this comic is a natural environment such as mountains, forests, villages, clouds, seas, rains and fog. These things can show the painting skills and give readers the highest beauty.
Of course, another reason is that Meng Huo's painting skills have improved a lot during this period.
"The name of the comic "Inuyasha", no problem, I'll ask them to send a preview when I go back." Alice recorded the comic information. She did not belong to the weekly girl editorial department, but Meng Huo's comic was still held accountable.
The comic trailer will be released in a few days. The people from the weekly girl editorial department have been urging them for a long time. As long as Meng Huo agrees, the serial will be released next week. Alice is not worried about this, but Meng Huo is about to open a second comic, which means he needs an assistant.
"What are your requirements for a few assistants?"
Alice asked Meng Huo, and Meng Huo thought for a while: "I don't know what the situation is with the assistant. As long as I can help me double the painting speed of "Detective Conan" and "Inuyasha" and meet this condition."
He was very vague and Alice was a little embarrassed.
However, when she returned to the editorial department to talk about this, something unexpected happened. Several editors excitedly told her that her professional cartoonists could be assistants at a cheap price. It was obvious that the original cartoonists of the weekly boy wanted to meet He Xi, or wanted to go to him to study further.
Many cartoonists start their careers as assistants, and they understand that this is a good way to learn technology.
After choosing for two days, Alice took a fancy to a man and a woman, and asked them to sign a confidentiality contract and then took them to Meng Huo's house.
"This is the tomato teacher of "Weekly Boys". "Alice introduced the two to Meng Huo: "There is also the Hua Meng teacher of "Weekly Girl". Both of them are professional cartoonists with superb painting skills and rich experience. Just pay them 5,000 Huaxia coins per month."
Both cartoonists are in their early thirties and have a moderate appearance. They are actually professional cartoonists, and the cheap employment fees make Meng Huo very happy.
"Hello, Mr. Hua Meng, Mr.
He greeted the two assistants, and they woke up from the sluggishness.
"He, Teacher He Xi!"
"Are you really Teacher He Xi?"
Both professional cartoonists can't believe their eyes. Legend has it that Teacher He Xi is a genius boy, but this is too young!
Tomato and Hua Meng are both top cartoonists in "Weekly Boy" and "Weekly Girl". Their visit to be He Xi's assistant this time made other colleagues envious, but when they really saw Teacher He Xi's moment, neither of them could calm down.
This child is too young! Why can he be better than them at such a young age?
Meng Huo knew that their expressions were not good at seeing them. Age was his biggest flaw. If he didn't deal with this problem, it would be difficult for these two assistants to be willing to paint for him.
"I'm a cartoonist, and comics have nothing to do with age."
Just one sentence immediately made the two teachers blush, and Meng Huo obviously saw through their thoughts.
But he is right, comics have nothing to do with age, whoever has the best comics will be able to be the current generation.
"Teacher He Xi, please give me some advice."
Teacher Hua Meng and Tomato put their complex thoughts aside and said to Meng Huo as an assistant: "I'll bother you in the future!"
(Thanks to me丨����� and \(未)/~ for the reward!)
Chapter completed!