Zhong Ming said: "You have a good look at the rules of the competition. The first stage is the preliminary competition. The preliminary stage does not need to be so complicated. It only requires a clear image and a simple action. No dynamic capture, voice, etc. are needed for the time being. Most of the competition are small groups or small studios. How can they be so perfect as soon as they come up? The preliminary stage is first filtered based on the image, and the excellent image after the screening is selected and then enters the next stage of the competition."

"Oh." Zhou Sen understood, "then we should be able to try it out, it's important to participate."

Jiang Wanna also said: "Yes, the key is to participate. What if I win the prize?"

The three of them hit it off and planned to use their free time to participate in this virtual idol competition.

For Jiang Wanna and Zhou Sen, on the one hand, they are practicing, and on the other hand, they are making some extra money for themselves. After all, they are not like Zhong Ming, who gets a bonus of 100,000 in a month. These two people are still relatively struggling in their lives.

For Zhong Ming, he was focusing on the 2 million bonus for the first place. If he had this money, he could consider making a play on an independent game by himself.

Of course, if you sell the virtual idol, you will make more money and not only doubling the bonus to 4 million, Xinghua Interactive Entertainment will spare no effort to promote it, and the various promotion revenue will be shared by the author. But Zhong Ming doesn't want this, because the value of a virtual idol is even more precious than a song or a book. For example, Su Bai, the profits it brings to Xinghua Interactive Entertainment are hundreds of millions.

If Zhong Ming can win the first prize, the value of this virtual idol can be digged deeper by himself, and even in the future, he or she can develop related games, which is more useful to keep in his or her hands.

So, what Zhong Ming wants is the 2 million bonus, a virtual idol who can be called a treasure house, and this thing has increased his reputation and points.

...

In the new week, the popularity of "The Sea of ​​Learning" continues and is slowly rising, but it can be seen that this is already the middle and late stages of the expansion of this game.

The number of active players remains at around 1.3 million, which is difficult to grow any further. It is likely that it will start to fall slowly in another week or two.

Although answering games are new to players, they are difficult to last. Most of the games that can make players persist in playing the first half of the year are either strongly driven by numericals or have gameplay that can be continuously dug through infinitely. However, answering games obviously do not have these elements. For most players, they will be tired of playing for one or two months at most.

Fortunately, the user base is large enough, the popularity is high enough, and the influence is wide enough, so the decline period of "The Sea of ​​Learning" will be extended to a relatively long time.

The most severe impact was the "Million-spreading Coins" sector, with several major companies including hot news, Wutong Information, and all of them held a special show of 2 million, which was obviously to compete for traffic with "The Sea of ​​Learning".

In Zhong Ming's understanding, the size of this large company is basically the same as that of today's Toutiao and NetEase in his previous life. They are all important information platforms in the Chinese cultural circle. They are all wealthy and powerful. If they are talking about scattering coins, then there will be ten more "The Sea of ​​Learning" project teams, and it will be difficult for Guangyi Interactive Entertainment to be.

Fortunately, these big companies did not fight the million-dollar currency spreading activities so targetedly, but chose to stagger the time.

This is understandable. The million-dollar coin scattering is the earliest answering activity. The number of active people has already exceeded one million, and it has the greatest influence on the Internet. These large companies also want to engage in coin scattering activities, but in the early stages, they were still afraid of the popularity of the million-dollar coin scattering and felt that they could not make a head-on fight.

According to Zhong Ming's idea, the million-dollar coin is now just taking advantage of the popularity to receive sponsorships and earn money into your hands. Let's talk about whether it will be cold in the future.

Liang, that is an irreversible process, and it is difficult to change with human resources alone.

The entire "Search Sea Wuya" project team is still undergoing daily updates, maintenance and upgrades to the new version, and is constantly optimizing the game "Search Sea Wuya" in some functional optimizations, but it can be clearly felt that the work intensity has dropped significantly and no one has worked overtime.

Everyone goes by point by point, check in after get off work, and taking leave becomes very relaxed.

After all, it is no longer the development period, so there is no need to work so hard anymore.

So is Lao Xie himself. He leaves after work every day and becomes more Buddhist.

Zhong Ming usually has nothing to do, so he holds a hand-painted board at the work station and conceives a virtual idol.

Zhong Ming had never designed a virtual idol before, but after all, he had watched a virtual idol concert in this world. It can be said that he had never eaten pork, but had seen a pig run.

But what kind of virtual idol can be used to be popular in specific design? This Zhong Ming is really a bit unsure.

There are many images of Zhong Ming who can be called a virtual idol in his previous life, such as Hatsune, Ai Jiang, etc., or DVA, which can also be called a virtual idol.

But many virtual idols have similar cultural products as support, such as Hatsune Miku's song, and DVA's popularity is inseparable from "Overwatch".

The most important thing to stand out among the many virtual idols in this world is to make differentiation, and it also needs to be liked by players.

"What kind of image do virtual idols in this world lack?"

Zhong Ming did not rush to write, but searched out all the images of virtual idols in the world, lined up them up on the screen, and observed their characteristics.

There are many virtual idols in this world and their personalities are different, but overall, they are still dominated by positive images.

Su Bai is an elegant, polite and meticulous warm man.

Dina has an unknown personality and a bit cool and cold-hearted queen.

Alice is a well-behaved and cute little princess.

Other virtual idols are basically similar, basically they have some more positive and positive personalities. Even if there are differences in personality, they are based on positive personalities.

As for the reason? Zhong Ming didn't know.

But he speculated that it might be because of some attributes of the existence of virtual idols.

"Idols" are not allowed to have stains.

Every "idol" has a character, and his/her existence is to satisfy some expectations of fans. Many idols in reality often cannot have any emotional life, cannot have public dates for boyfriends/girlfriends, and there must be no major scandals, because these will destroy the character and fans' expectations of him/her.

Once fans lose expectations for their idol, the idol will basically be swept into the trash can.

Just like some innocent actresses who have a large scale of their own, even if it is not her fault, it will still cause a very fatal blow to her career.

This is the advantage of virtual idols over real idols. Virtual idols will not cause scandals.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that companies in this world tend to make perfect virtual idols.

Idols in reality are people, and they inevitably have personality defects when they are humans. These personality defects are like buried explosives. They will explode when they don’t know what time they will make all their efforts waste.

But virtual idols do not have this problem. They have no stains and they can always satisfy the expectations of fans.
Chapter completed!