Are You a Genius?

Chapter 7 Are You a Genius?

Ding Nian snapped out of her state of complete immersion in creation and used a speed-of-light Win+D to hide her computer desktop.

Then she pulled out a tissue and handed it over.

"Boss, you should wipe up first..."

Xu Meng took it and wiped the water stain on his chin.

During the wipe, Ding Nian had already adjusted her mindset and said with a straight face, "Boss, this is my creative habit."

"Creative habit?" A question mark slowly popped up above Xu Meng's head.

There was even this kind of creative habit?

"Yeah, draw the body first, then add clothes depending on the situation, very reasonable right?"

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Bullying me for not being an art major?

Shouldn't it be drawing line outlines and skeleton structures first, and then enriching the details?

What kind of heretical drawing method was it to draw naked first and then put on clothes? This was equivalent to drawing twice, right?

"Will it really not increase the workload?" Xu Meng was not quite sure.

He used to make games alone, and although he also did some art staff work, after all, he worked behind closed doors and didn't know how other art staff did it.

"There will be a little bit, but this is completely necessary!" Ding Nian was very certain.

"How so?" Xu Meng was curious.

"Boss, you should have heard a saying, right? If she is already completely naked, but you still feel the exposure is not high enough, then you can put on socks."

Xu Meng blinked. "It seems... I really have heard of it."

"So, draw the body first, then try adding different clothes to the body, adding them little by little, trying them one by one, and trying a few more times. You will definitely find clothes that are sexier than wearing nothing!"

Speaking of this, Ding Nian was already righteous and confident.

Xu Meng was speechless.

He even felt it made quite a bit of sense.

"Fine, you've convinced me." Xu Meng gave her a thumbs-up. "Genius!"

Ding Nian smiled smugly.

"Then do you have a mature train of thought?"

"I have one!" Ding Nian picked up the mouse and operated it for a while, showing Xu Meng a new character splash art.

This time it was the female character with the second most screen time--He Yin.

A green curly-haired girl, with some Chinese-style touches in the background setting.

However, the previous splash art was light sci-fi style--which meant it looked very sci-fi at first glance, but in fact wasn't scientific at all.

Except for the head, the whole body was wrapped in a white uniform, with only a green jade gourd hung at the waist barely cutting it close to the theme.

But now, in the concept art shown by Ding Nian, this character had undergone earth-shaking changes--

The white elements completely disappeared, replaced by a short qipao with an extremely high slit--going all the way up to the waist.

The texture of this qipao was very peculiar, having both the lightness and fluidity of silk and the tight gloss of leather.

The character's small, perky breasts, which could be spanned by a mere grasp, were outlined in a moving, raised manner by the super form-fitting clothes.

The smooth little belly and shallow navel were clearly visible under the thin, glowing silk.

Further down were a pair of straight, long legs.

--He Yin had a young-girl build, being a full two heads shorter than mature women and royal sisters like Tong Que. However, because the slit of this qipao was really too high, coupled with Ding Nian's exquisite pose design, it turned a part of the hips and even the waist into a visual extension of the thighs, resulting in an exaggerated visual effect.

The most wondrous thing of all was that you couldn't find a trace of underwear in this image.

Whether above or below, none could be found.

The original Chinese-style elements had turned into a thin red string around the girl's ankle.

"You really have ideas!" Xu Meng couldn't help admiring.

This image did indeed have similarities with the "creative concept" she mentioned--the upper body of this splash art looked as if a clothes-free body had been drawn first, and then a thin layer of color had been carefully painted on the body as clothes.

Having won the boss's approval, Ding Nian was very happy.

"Why didn't I realize you were so awesome before?" Xu Meng couldn't help asking.

Although this splash art was still concept art and not completely refined, it was enough for people to feel that overwhelming talent at a glance.

"I wasn't allowed to draw this style before." Ding Nian complained.

She glanced left and right, and whispered, "Sister Yang didn't let us expose our bodies at all before. Concept drafts with prominent styles were all rejected by me, and she even criticized me publicly several times."

"Later, I just drew according to her requirements."

Xu Meng was stunned.

Damn it, these pests!

"You can give full play to your abilities from now on. Come on, I'm optimistic about you!"

"Mm!" Ding Nian was full of drive.

Originally, some time ago, she even started secretly submitting resumes to find her next employer.

Not because she was worried the company would go out of business, but because her supervisor Yang Hui was making her more and more unbearable.

After being constantly nitpicked, picked apart, and criticized, even drawing had become painful.

She had already started to feel that she would get depressed if she didn't resign.

But yesterday, without warning, Yang Hui was fired.

Without that middle-aged resentful woman pressing down and nitpicking, she felt relieved all over.

Coupled with the boss setting a new splash art style, which completely hit her fetish, it instantly ignited her soul of painting.

The pain vanished into thin air, and the inspiration that had been suppressed in the past kept bubbling up.

She drew more and more excitedly, and worked overtime with real vigor!

Looking at the "fired up" Ding Nian, Xu Meng nodded, took a sip of wolfberry tea, and left her workstation.

--He came to the other vice director, Xu Fang's side.

"Pfft--cough, cough, cough!!!"

Another mouthful of wolfberry tea was spat out.

"What is this! What is this! What on earth is this?!" Xu Meng asked, pointing in shock at the character on Xu Fang's screen.

"A gender-swapped version of City Guard Captain Yun Fei--Fei Yun." Xu Fang replied.

"What is this! What is this..."

Xu Meng's language system was somewhat chaotic.

Because the character Xu Fang was drawing was truly a bit off.

Yun Fei's original character design was a man with a scholarly temperament, and his brows were somewhat delicate to begin with.

After Xu Fang stripped away his cloak and armor, replacing them with light and comfortable sleeveless short shirts and lace-trimmed lantern shorts, it became even harder to tell male from female.

If one added the majestic mountain peaks under the short shirt, and the slender waist between the short shirt and the lantern shorts, the character's female identity was unquestionable.

If you didn't look at her crotch, that is.

Xu Meng pointed at the bulging lump in the middle of the lantern shorts and asked with a slightly trembling voice, "What the hell is this?"

"Gender-swapped incompletely, surgery only half done??"

"Is this special character a female character or a futanari!?"

"Uh... well..." Xu Fang said with a somewhat guilty conscience. "Aren't traps very popular on the internet recently? I was thinking, should we take this opportunity to make one to test the waters?"

Without waiting for Xu Meng to speak after finishing, he quickly added, "I have a hunch, it's going to hit the trending searches!"

Up your horse!

It really would hit the trending searches, but it would be me getting cursed onto the trending searches!

When the time came, except for the players, the entire world of the "Frost Snow Project" would be female characters, and then, there happened to be a trap hidden inside...

"What's the difference between this and hiding an uncastrated fake eunuch in the emperor's harem?"

"Won't this get cursed to death by the players!"

"A big truck will drive to the company's door that very day!"

"Not just the company!"

"When the players take a look at that time, oh, the concept artist is called Xu Fang, and then track down your Weiguang account, you can just wait to be doxed!"

Xu Meng's series of predictions turned Xu Fang's face pale.

Obviously, he hadn't expected the consequences to be so serious, and without a second word admitted his mistake: "Sorry! I was wrong!"

Then he picked up his mouse and keyboard, clattered through a flurry of operations, and deleted several layers.

The suspicious big lump instantly vanished.

Now the "surgery" was complete, and Fei Yun had turned into a complete girl.

Obviously, Xu Fang also knew it was unlikely to pass, and had already prepared a normal version.

Xu Meng breathed a sigh of relief.

But the previous image still lingered in his mind, practically like mental pollution, making it truly impossible for him to rationally appreciate this gender-swapped character.

"If you like traps, go find them in real life; don't mess with our games."

Xu Fang, still lingering with fear, subconsciously nodded in agreement.

The surrounding employees, who had been focusing on their work due to the boss's appearance, raised their heads one after another, casting sideways glances.

Xu Fang reacted and quickly shook his head. "No! I don't like traps, not at all."

"Good, I believe you." Xu Meng unscrewed his thermos and took a sip of tea.

This time it finally went down steadily into his stomach.