It's winter vacation, but more than 40 teachers and students from Tianyang Normal Academy of Fine Arts have not gone home. In particular, more than 30 students from poor families have stayed here on purpose, just to earn hundreds or thousands of yuan during this holiday.
They have deep confidence in this.
After the 'Goddess Painting', Tianyang's top tycoon Zhou Qingfeng and President Zhou have a new project. Everyone who joined the project is gearing up, excited, and ready to do something big - the arrogance of the overbearing president is well known to everyone.
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As long as everyone works with President Zhou, all of them have become rich. Those who can be put to good use are even equipped with a "big brother" worth more than 20,000 yuan. Who is not jealous? Who is not envious?
When Ouyang Jun took out the "twenty-three thousand" allotted to him and put it on the table, without saying any unnecessary words, naturally there were people who wanted to work for President Zhou - it was just painting anyway, and it was still illegal.
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It's just that this confidence didn't last long. After seeing the new project that Uncle Zhou was going to work on, everyone really had to murmur in their hearts - this thing that the President is going to do seems a bit unhealthy and affects the minds of young people!
But..., just give me money, why do you think so much?
After everyone learned about the content of the project, they all kept silent in a tacit understanding. Ouyang Jun, who was in charge of the project, knew the importance of confidentiality. He didn't want to be arrested in the detention room of the police station again - not to mention the small area inside, it was urinary.
The smell is still strong.
The school is on holiday and there are many free classrooms. The place of work is chosen there.
The first work I adapted was "The Widow Next Door", a Korean comic. The painting style is quite exaggerated, extremely exaggerated, extremely exaggerated.
After the teachers and students who participated in the project took turns to read and criticize, they all expressed their anger with red faces.
However, in order to re-create this work, it is not enough to rely on the brushes of teachers and students. Some technological products are also needed to improve efficiency - the key equipment is a flatbed scanner, which can scan all paper images with full color.
With this tool, the time-consuming of the entire project can be reduced to one-tenth that of manual painting. Ouyang Jun was stunned when he saw it and exclaimed that it was magical.
To have a flatbed scanner, Zhou Qingfeng also needs to purchase computers accumulated from used electronic waste. These include several of the most advanced 486s and more than two dozen equally advanced 386s.
Windows 3.0 is an epoch-making personal operating system. On this software and hardware platform, teachers and students must first learn to use some "ancient" image processing software and adapt to drawing on the computer screen.
Zhou Qingfeng racked his brains to get this entire set of software and hardware platforms. All the equipment was too "old" for him and he couldn't use it at all. In order to learn to operate this "antique", he complained every day.
But to these teachers and students at the Academy of Fine Arts, President Zhou is simply a god. Computer painting is far more convenient than physical paintings. You can erase, change, copy and paste, and the efficiency is increased by more than ten times? Maybe a hundred times.
This group of teachers and students should be the first people in China to use computers to draw, which can be said to have made history. The 16-bit color display is completely sufficient for current comics.
"The Widow Next Door" has twelve volumes, each containing about 150 pages.
The scan didn't take much time. More than 40 teachers and students discussed the plot with each other and then revised it in groups, removing some pictures that were incomprehensible and unsuitable for the current society, and adding more "depth" content - the original paintings were all processed by Zhou Qingfeng.
The first volume took a long time, only a week. The second volume only took five days, and the follow-up is getting faster and faster. There is no problem at all in finishing five or six volumes in one winter vacation, it is easy.
When the first volume was adapted, Gong Wei also secured Tianyang Printing Factory.
The factory has just installed a set of color printing equipment, specially used for printing illustrated magazines. This high-end equipment has not even been used by the municipal government a few times, but was used by Zhou Qingfeng to print comics.
The leaders of the printing factory looked at the sample manuscript sent by Gong Wei and shook their heads, "No, no, no. Our factory can never print this thing, no matter how much money we pay. This is going to make a mistake."
"Tell those guys that I will settle the settlement in Hong Kong dollars for them." Zhou Qingfeng directed Gong Wei on the phone and directly gave him his trump card. "Either I go to printing plants in other cities, or they make money from me in foreign exchange."
The four words "Hong Kong dollar settlement" are like a curse, they are too lethal.
Foreign exchange is too precious these days, and the country is eager for it.
In order to earn foreign exchange, even the national treasure ‘Dongfeng-3’ was sold. This was a transaction that was just completed three or four years ago. The domestic military industry is very proud of this.
After confirming that it can be 'settled in Hong Kong dollars', the leader of the printing factory immediately greeted him with a smile - print, why not print? Earning foreign exchange is a national need and brings glory to the country. Anyway, the printed products will not be sold in the mainland, and the harm will not be to their own family.
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Just to print this crappy comic, Zhou Qingfeng mobilized the best resources in Tianyang City. Dozens of college students and teachers served him. The best personal computers were turned on 24 hours a day, the latest printing equipment, the best
of workers.
There is also the strictest confidentiality. Everyone knows that it is not easy to tell the outside world.
In the 1990s, street stall literature was all over the place. Randomly made-up novels were sold at bookstalls. The newsstands at train stations were absolutely indispensable for 'environmental protection' content, and the level of it was limitless, which would make people thirty years later
Jaw-dropping.
It just so happens that these days people have a strong demand for "environmentally friendly" works.
In 1993, the first issue of "Popular Cinema" featured actor Ma Ling on the cover and Sharon Stone on the back cover. No one knows these two stars now. In the eyes of future generations, the photos were ordinary, but after the magazine was launched
Was robbed.
The above were extremely angry about the cover and back cover of this issue. They thought it was vulgar and obscene and demanded its retraction. As a result, the second issue of "Popular Cinema" that year was even bolder, with Shi Lan on the cover and Ye Yuqing on the back cover.
Hahaha..., everyone knows who Ye Yuqing is, right? If you still don't understand, please stay pure.
However, these are all too general.
There is no hero at that time, so Zhuzi became famous.
When it comes to 'environmental protection', who can compare to President Zhou? Once this pioneer in the industry takes action, others can only step aside.
The full-color version of 'The Widow' had just come off the printing press, and even before it was bound, the workers on the production line kept exclaiming. Everyone seemed to have suffered a 'psychic shock', their brains shut down, and they fell into some kind of death.
cycle.
Fortunately, the leaders of the printing factory had anticipated this and personally monitored the production line and did not allow anyone to hide or take it privately.
"This is an export mission. It is forbidden to circulate it internally, let alone spread it out. Anyone who violates the order will be subject to disciplinary action, including serious dismissal."
The production line was full of old workers, mainly those in their forties and fifties. Everyone had a family and a job, and they were no more impulsive than the young ones. They remained calm after being amazed. The first batch of fifteen thousand copies took a week to print, and they worked overtime to print it.
Others advised Zhou Qingfeng to print less copies in the first batch and try out two to three thousand copies. But if the printing plant had not run out of stock of color inks, he could have printed one hundred thousand copies.
The delivery was done at night, making it look like an underground party joint. The director of the printing factory took Zhou Qingfeng's hand and said earnestly: "Mr. Zhou, our factory is going to die this time. Please don't let anything happen to you."