Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 284

As it turns out, hard work and dedication at Qingfengyi truly pay off and bring pleasant surprises. The resulting work receives recognition and the full respect commensurate with the value of the work and the effort.

The people around them looked at the three with envy. They belatedly realized what was happening, sat down somewhat awkwardly, but still couldn't help laughing.

One person whispered, "They would have made a fortune if they had sent it to auction! It's a bit of a shame."

My friend next to me said, "I think selling them would be more cost-effective. Do you know how many works the Qingfengyi Museum has waiting to be auctioned? Hundreds of thousands of pieces, but too few people are bidding, and many fail to sell. Didn't I analyze the situation with you guys?"

The three of them had a brief analysis of the situation before deciding to send their work.

The first person said, "With sales going so well right now, the auction won't be bad, will it?"

Although the museum auction featured a large number of works, the bidding was done via sealed bids, unlike the highly competitive sale following the Qingfengyi game event, where many wealthy buyers were eager to purchase items. This sale and auction event was the main point of sale for Qingfengyi's works, and the bidding was incredibly fierce.

I don't know how bad it went at the museum auction; I'll never know. But selling it for this price, that butterfly and flower dress is a huge profit!

The cost of the two sets of clothes is around two million, with the most expensive part being the various gems. The supply of gems is restricted, and only a small amount is released each time. The rest are energy stones that adventurers collect from other planets that haven't had their energy absorbed, and these are extremely valuable.

But making over a million is really a lot of money.

After this outfit, the next piece will be Qilin tiger head shoes.

A chubby little boy wearing a white shirt with kumquat patterns and shorts skipped and hopped along the way. He had a smile on his face.

He was a little timid when he first appeared, staring blankly at the dark space in front of him, a bit scared. The staff who were adjusting the background quickly transformed the black scene into a grassy area with a small stone path in the middle, and a small Chinese rural dog playing in the foreground. The child is very young, only five years old. We had created this scene as a backup in case he was scared, but we never expected it to come in handy.

The child indeed followed the dog all the way forward.

The audience couldn't see the background; they only saw the adorable child walking the entire runway. While her clothes were incredibly cute and beautiful, the most eye-catching item was her pair of Qilin tiger-head shoes.

The Qilin element is featured in the scale embroidery around the shoe, using five colors: orange, gold, yellow, red, and blue, creating a vibrant effect. Because of the predominance of yellow, the colors don't appear cluttered; instead, they harmonize beautifully.

After the young models walked the runway, close-up shots of the tiger-head shoes were zoomed in and displayed, accompanied by a poem:

The rosy clouds stretch for ten thousand miles, and the young child takes his first steps in all directions.

The tiger's gait and dragon's bearing bring endless blessings; every thread weaves together the loving heart of a mother.

Lin Shuying wrote it rather hastily, after all, she's not a poet and doesn't understand the rules of tonal patterns, rhyme, and sentence structure. But the feelings in her heart are very real, full of emotion.

When designing these shoes, I was reminded of the tiger-head shoes my mother, who couldn't embroider or make clothes and shoes, made for me, along with a cute little outfit with orange motifs. She kept those shoes even after she grew up; her mother said she learned to make them herself while bored during her pregnancy, though her skills were terrible.

It's really ugly. The embroidery is crooked and twisted. The color scheme was based on a tutorial, and I bought a material kit, but the finished product looks completely different.

But Lin Shuying thinks they are the best-looking tiger-head shoes she has ever seen!

They were endearing and adorable. Every stitch was filled with a mother's love, a love that has stayed with her for decades. Later, she developed a fondness for making tiger-head shoes. Whenever she had free time, she would make a pair, not to sell, but to give to relatives in the neighborhood who had young children.

We've hardly ever made tiger-head shoes for adults or children; it's our competitors who do. There are many styles: traditional, knitted, new, and even simple embroidered tiger heads.

The kind of tiger head directly made for children is more endearing, especially the traditional patterns. The front features a large tiger head with ears, eyes, eyebrows, and a mouth, all very lifelike. The bright red base is incredibly festive, as if all the good fortune, expectations, and blessings for the future are placed on these shoes.

The new designs lack the traditional festive colors, but offer a wider variety of colors and styles, such as blue, green, white, and gray. These aren't unattractive, but they simply aren't festive enough.

Regardless, the fact that this traditional tiger-head shoe is liked is something to be happy about. A colleague even gave her a pair, a new style of tiger-head shoe. Hearing that she prefers traditional color schemes, this pair was made with those colors.

Red base with embroidered tiger heads in gold, blue, orange, green, and black. They're embroidered shoes, but the tiger heads are simply part of the design. It's a traditional pattern combined with a modern twist, and not bad at all.

Lin Shuying's poem was inspired by the imagery of long silk threads, pieces of cloth, and soft, layered soles, all released stitch by stitch from her mother's hands, eventually becoming a pair of tiger-head shoes. She wrote this down on a design draft, never expecting that the studio would specifically display it on a screen.

The audience's eyes lit up when they saw it; the shoes were so cute!

My hands were numb from all the pounding, but there was only one pair of shoes. Waaah!

These shoes only cost three thousand?

The audience was stunned when they saw the price!

"My mecha grand marshal, are you kidding me? Three thousand? These shoes are so cute, three thousand! Ahhh!"

"He's gone mad, he must be mad! What is Qingfeng Yi trying to do? Doesn't he want to make money anymore?"

"Has the studio been threatened? I'm a lawyer, come to me if you have any problems."

.......

All sorts of wild speculations flooded the internet, but thankfully the studio later issued a statement, directly posting it on the screen under the studio's name.

It turns out that Qingfengyi offered 50,000 yuan. After all, it's just a small pair of shoes, so the material cost is there, and the workmanship isn't very exquisite either.

She did a little better than Lin Shuying's mother.

However, the studio that makes tiger-head shoes boldly set the price at three thousand.

At the time, the person in charge of statistics and overall planning at Qingfengyi was also surprised and repeatedly asked if it was confirmed that there were 3,000.

The studio made a firm decision of three thousand.

Following the sale, a studio called Hu Qilin quickly became popular, specializing in Chinese-style shoes, with Qilin and tiger-head shoes being a key product. Within half a minute of being featured on a trending account, product links appeared, showcasing a wide variety of styles. The Qilin and tiger-head shoes were priced between 800 and 5000 yuan, with the 800 yuan shoes for children under three. These smaller shoes, due to the use of fewer materials and less elaborate craftsmanship, were very affordable.

Adults' sizes are more expensive, ranging from two to three thousand to eight thousand.

There's another style—the exquisite one. This one is meticulously embroidered, and the workmanship and materials used are natural materials, such as cotton, linen, and silk, rather than chemical fibers.