Ito Ayumi just went down to the restaurant next to the company's office building. It was still working hours, and there were not many customers in this fast food chain restaurant.
There were only three or four diners eating in the restaurant, a young couple wearing couple outfits, a bald middle-aged uncle wearing a suit, and a handsome young man with messy hair.
But they had all ordered fast food and were eating, so it shouldn't be Mr. Aoyama who asked Ito Ayumi to treat them to a meal.
It seems that Mr. Aoyama hasn't come yet.
But there are still a few minutes before the time they agreed in advance, so it's okay for her to wait.
Ito Ayumi was about to walk to an empty seat and wait for Lin Qingshan to arrive.
But at this moment, the handsome young man not far away from her waved at her, "Is it Ito-san?"
Ito Ayumi was stunned for a moment, "Um... I am..."
Since she came to the Magic City to work, this is the first time she has heard someone call her by the custom of her hometown.
Lin Qingshan smiled happily, "You are finally here... Oh, by the way, I am Lin Qingshan!"
"You are... Mr. Qingshan?!" Ito Ayumi blinked and said in surprise.
"Yes... I am..." Lin Qingshan touched the back of his head and said a little embarrassedly.
...
Ito Ayumi looked at the handsome young man with slightly long hair in front of him, still a little bit unbelievable.
After all, although age is not very important in the comics industry, most cartoonists actually rely on experience to survive. This is
even more so in Japan, because most cartoonists did not start creating directly at the beginning, but started as assistants to mature cartoonists.
Even if there are cartoonists who create their own works at the beginning, most of their debut works will be failures.
But no matter what, Lin Qingshan submitted his works to the Manjie Culture Company as a new cartoonist at the beginning.
So isn't it right to be younger?
But Ito Ayumi looked at the mature style of "Edgewalker" and the storyboards that can almost be compared with animation production, and subconsciously thought that Lin Qingshan should be an older new cartoonist.
But now it seems...
the young man in front of him has messy hair, but it is quite thick and black. Under his bangs are a pair of bright and slender eyes. His jawline is like a clear V. With such a young figure, he is almost a young man of the same age as Ito Ayumi!
"What's wrong?" Lin Qingshan picked up the noodles and stuffed them into his mouth, showing a happy smile and asked.
Ito Ayumi shook her head, "It's okay, but... Mr. Qingshan, do you want to order something else to eat... I still have some money, I can treat you to food other than green vegetable ramen."
Lin Qingshan had already ordered green vegetable noodles to eat here before she arrived at the restaurant, and waited for her to pay the bill.
This sounds a bit impolite, but he ordered the cheapest fast food like green vegetable noodles...
Ito Ayumi felt that Lin Qingshan was a bit unpredictable.
Lin Qingshan gulped down the last of the green vegetable noodle soup and smacked his lips.
Then he said casually, "It's okay. I'm satisfied with the vegetable noodles. But after all, this is your treat. I can't be too presumptuous, right? And I'm already full."
Lin Qingshan has always been very clear-headed. You can't just squander money just because someone else treats you.
And seeing that the Japanese girl in front of him is a member of the Magic Drifting Clan, it's not easy to live in the Magic City. It's not easy for her to come here from afar. She just needs to eat some vegetable noodles to fill her stomach.
But to be honest, he has been hungry for so long that the vegetable noodles taste like a delicious meal.
"Well... okay." Ito Ayumi said, "Then let's talk about the commercial cooperation of "Edge Walker" now?"
Lin Qingshan nodded, "No problem." "Teacher Aoyama, do you have your comic manuscript and ID card?" Ito Ayumi asked.
"Here." Lin Qingshan took out a file bag from the side, and then took out his ID card.
Ito Ayumi first subconsciously looked at the ID card.
Lin Qingshan, age 25 years old...
only two years older than her...
Then she took out the comic manuscript, but...
Unlike the usual sloppy manuscripts, Lin Qingshan's comic manuscripts are very complete, and people don't feel like they are manuscripts.
In general, the manuscript is a sketch drawn by the cartoonist when he is conceiving the plot of the comic and drawing the division.
And for this kind of sketch, the cartoonist basically doesn't put much effort, the characters will be drawn very sloppily, and they can even simply draw a blank puppet or even a stickman and put it there. The scenery will even be circled and then written with words on what scenery should be drawn here.
However, Lin Qingshan's comic manuscripts are almost highly completed character portraits and scenery. Ito Ayumi compared the final draft of "Edge Walker" in her mind, and only then did she see that there was still some gap between this manuscript and the final draft.
This is due to Lin Qingshan's master-level ability to draw kaleidoscopes, which allows him to make the entire picture extremely complete with just a casual drawing.
In addition, he himself is not a serious cartoonist, and actually does not know the original manuscript. In his opinion, comics are only good and bad, and they are redrawn.
These "original manuscripts" are the manuscripts that he drew poorly at the beginning.
After reading these manuscripts, Ito Ayumi immediately determined that "Edge Walker" was Lin Qingshan's manuscript.
But after she finished flipping through the first dozen pages of "original manuscripts", she was stunned when she turned to the next page.
"Is this... the content of the fourth episode of "Edge Walker"? "Ito Ayumi said.
"Well, yes, I also brought the content of the fourth, fifth, and sixth episodes." Lin Qingshan shrugged and said, "I didn't bring much original manuscripts." Ito Ayumi's
eyes lit up immediately, "Then may I ask Mr. Qingshan, how many episodes of your work have you completed?"
"I've drawn to the 23rd episode." Lin Qingshan said casually.
Ayumi Ito was shocked, "Our newcomer grand prix requires submissions of medium-length works... Mr. Aoyama, you won't..."
"I know this." Lin Qingshan said carelessly, "Don't worry, Edgewalker is expected to be completed after only 40 episodes."
Since the animation of Edgewalker has only 10 episodes, and one episode corresponds to 2 to 3 episodes of comics, the comic adaptation is only about 30 episodes at most.
However, because Edgewalker is actually a work adapted from a game, the audience is almost all players who have played the game Cyberpunk 2077, and its background setting basically does not need to be described too much in the animation.
But in this world, there is no game Cyberpunk 2077, so you have to describe the background of the story, the division of forces, and the setting of the story, right?
This is why Lin Qingshan drew more of the plot adapted from the trailer of Cyberpunk 2077 in the first episode, mainly to introduce the background of Cyberpunk 2077.
Lin Qingshan also introduced the definition and classification of Black Super Dream, prosthetic transformation, and the forces and regional divisions of Night City, so it can be completed in about 40 chapters.
"23 chapters!" Ito Ayumi was very surprised, "Then what is your subsequent plot arrangement, Mr. Aoyama?"
"This is the story of the protagonist implanting a powerful prosthetic, joining the gang, meeting the heroine, meeting friends, and starting to reach the peak of his life." Lin Qingshan said carelessly.
"Sure enough! The protagonist will meet a group of very good friends!" Ito Ayumi nodded with satisfaction.
"Then let's sign the contract. According to the company's procedures, Mr. Aoyama, you will debut through this Newcomer Grand Prix. Your work will be published in "Manga World Gogo". Ours is a bimonthly magazine, with one chapter published every two weeks. At the same time, based on the popularity of your next work and the votes of comic fans, we will simultaneously conduct a PK between the Newcomer Grand Prix and the works of the same period..."
"In terms of manuscript fees, the best treatment we can give to new teachers is 400 yuan per page of drawings submitted. If you publish two chapters per month, it will be about 30 to 40 pages..."