The interview room of the Internal Affairs Department is not the interrogation room of Scotland Yard, so it certainly cannot have handcuffs, incandescent lights, or restraint chairs.
After the fat assistant walked in,
he found that except for the fact that the walls were painted whiter, there was no essential difference from common office spaces. There is a round table with a fruit plate in the conversation room, and there is even a potted potted plant in the corner.
The back office department does not just ask the fat assistant.
Deputy Director Schubert was already sitting at the table.
Seeing the fat assistant come in, Schubert just raised his head and glanced at him, and then continued to deal with a bunch of grapes in the fruit plate in silence.
"Director Charlie, Deputy Director Schubert and Assistant Cole, since both parties to the interview have arrived, if you all have no objections, let's get started."
< p>When Charlie, who was holding a cigar, entered the room and closed the door, an old man with a Chinese character sat at the table and looked at the three people opposite him.Because Osborne's rank is too high, unless authorized by the board of directors, the internal affairs department is not qualified to interview others.
"Director Charlie, regarding what you submitted, regarding the fact that the illustrator Detective Cat obtained the Little Prince contract from the Schostic Group and committed disciplinary violations, causing significant property losses to the group, do you have anything to explain?"
p>The person in charge with the Chinese character looked at Director Charlie.
"I request that this project be stopped and the relevant disciplinary personnel be held accountable. Those who should be fired should be fired, and those who should be called the police should be called."
Now that we have arrived at the Internal Affairs Department,
p>Charlie didn't want to leave any room for change. He expressed his demands as coldly and ferociously as a lion king dealing with wild dogs running loose in his territory.
"As for that detective cat, I request that the relevant contract be revoked and be added to the blacklist of painters within the group, never to cooperate."
The fat assistant shrank in fear after hearing this neck.
Blacklist
Director Charlie is obviously determined to punish anyone who dares to cause trouble in his territory.
He must hate this detective cat in his heart.
This is a ban
Generally, only painters who have plagiarized, seriously breached the contract, or have other intolerable stains on their resume will be added to the schostic blacklist.
Being added to the blacklist means that any future commercial activities related to the publishing house will be closed to Detective Cat, and even a piece of paper will not be handed over to the other party.
This is not the most serious part.
It is true that major publishing groups are in a competitive relationship, but the blacklist of bad artists within the industry is sometimes universal.
Just like if a Silicon Valley Internet company is on the HR Alliance's blacklist, it's easy to find no job.
If you are not a well-known illustrator, I heard that you are on the blacklist of schostic, basically otherThe company's manuscript assignments will also turn you down.
A career path is a direct death sentence.
"Mr. Charlie, do you have any evidence?"
Hearing Charlie's request, the person in charge of Guozixian neither agreed nor rejected it, but just asked expressionlessly.
"What more evidence is needed? Isn't it obvious? What kind of painter is the Wehrlein Studio? What kind of bullshit painter is Detective Cat? If there is no insider trading, why would the contract fall into the hands of Detective Cat? "
Charlie stamped her cigar-holding fingers on the round table and said mockingly, "She deserves such a big contract."
Weillein Studio is already at the forefront. Illustration studio.
I have designed posters for Hollywood A-level animated movies. Because of Charlie, I have a long-term cooperative relationship with the Schostic Group and have won a series of illustration and advertising design awards, including the publishing group’s own writing and artistic excellence. Contribution Master Award, considered a top illustration studio.
From the moment of its birth, the Schostic Group has operated the Schosticartandritgaards, the most prestigious art awards writing and art award in the United States.
The history of the publishing house is built around this award. Counting from the first award in 1923, it has a history of one hundred years.
This award was originally an art award specifically for young people.
On average, it receives more than 300,000 different submissions from students aged 13 to 18 every year. The probability of winning a gold medal is only one in 10,000. The award is presented by the head of state of the United States in person, making it the most valuable child in the world. There is no such thing as an art competition.
Later, the publishing group added a master category award for adult artists on the basis of the youth award.
This is somewhat similar to many international art exhibitions, but the difficulty of winning an award is much higher than that of ordinary art exhibitions, and the gold content is also higher.
Lao Cao made a request to Gu Weijing, hoping that he could win an award at the Lion City Art Exhibition. It was a bit harsh, but it was not completely impossible.
Compared with the promise of "becoming a disciple of Cao Xuan, the master of painting", it was actually a very loose condition unless Gu Weijing was too young.
There are more than ten or twenty large-scale international art exhibitions in Asia including the Lion City Art Exhibition, the Magic City Art Exhibition, the Beijing Art Exhibition, the Osaka Art Exhibition, and the Seoul Art Exhibition. There are only a few painters who have won prizes in solo art exhibitions, and there are quite a few in the whole of Asia, let alone the whole world.
For those who truly have the ambition to become a great artist, winning this kind of award is only career-long.
How many Asian painters who have won awards in the master category have no chance even if they just want to ask Mr. Cao some questions in person.
But the Schostic Writing and Art Master Award is not a concept.
This is the sanctuary of the Illustration Palace.
On the top of the mountains, the King of Kings.
The awards will be announced in June every year, and the best writers and illustrators will be selected and awarded.
There are only five places worldwide, four Master Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Writing and Art and only one Master Award for Outstanding Contribution to Writing and Art each year.
The Master Award for Outstanding Contribution is one of the most important awards in the illustration industry. It is only slightly inferior to the old Andersen Award, but it is not far behind.
If we really want to compare, the former may not be as serious as the latter.
To give a more popular example, in the literary world, France’s Prix Goncourt is the oldest and grandest literary award, and the Commonwealth’s Booker Prize is the highest honor in English literature and the Nobel Prize. A small gap between literary awards.
For 99 illustrators, there is just a difference between being incredible and being incredible.
Winners over the years include Andy Warhol, J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, Jane Arnold, George R.R. Martin and other well-known masters in the literary and art circles.
The Outstanding Contribution Award, which has four places, is slightly inferior, but it is also an extremely valuable art award.
You must know that in addition to senior painters, there are also many famous writers competing for these four places.
Schostic Group is a publishing group. Compared with illustrators, it is actually more inclined to award awards to best-selling authors.
For more than half a century, only five painting artists including Jane Arnold and Andy Warhol have received the Outstanding Contribution Award.
Only Jane Arnold received the Andersen Award and the Master of Writing and Art Award for Outstanding Contribution at the same time.
Two people have even won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Master Award for Outstanding Contribution to Writing and Art. Patrick Modiano, the 2014 Nobel Prize winner, and Heinrich Bohr, the 1972 Nobel Prize winner winner.
This shows how rare it is.
On the basis of more than ten years of cooperation with the publishing house, Wehrlein Studio has won the Outstanding Contribution Award in the past few years.
"Oh, it was the Wehrlein Studio that was originally going to take over this project."
The person in charge of the Chinese-character face had a slight ups and downs in his tone, and he lowered his head and flipped through the folder in his hand.
Sure enough, he found a copy of the preliminary communication email between the art department and Wehrlein Studio regarding the content of the Little Prince project submitted by Charlie.
These letters of intent have no legal effect until a formal contract is signed, but they are enough to prove that what Director Charlie said is true.
The person in charge was originally a police detective in the Commercial Investigation Division of Scotland Yard, and was later hired by the publishing house to take charge of the group's back office department.
Even if he is not a professional artist, he still has a clear understanding of the value of the group's prestigious "Writing and Art Master Award".
It is no exaggeration to say that
This one is only slightly famous on the Internet.And not all of them are female painters with good reputations. There is absolutely no comparison between the resume and experience of Detective Cat and the Wehrlein Studio.
It is not on the same level as a child or a strong man.
The behavior of the senior management of the group in handing over the contract to Detective Cat is really unreasonable.
Only in terms of artistic attainments,
With the endorsement of the Master Award, Wehrlein Studio is not even much worse than top illustrators like Van Dorn. All it lacks is Van Dorn. This is just an opportunity to break out of the fashion circle and make money every day.
"This is indeed suspicious. Why would the project team agree to give this opportunity to a web artist who IMHO has no evidence to prove that she is qualified to take on such a large project?"
< p>The person in charge with the Chinese character face leaned forward slightly, and his tone was hard and cold.According to criminal psychology, such an offensive psychological posture can increase the psychological burden on suspects and make many white-collar criminals with weak psychological endurance avoid repercussions.
He stared closely at Deputy Director Schubert and the fat assistant at the round table,
mainly the fat assistant.
The back office department chose the fat assistant as the conversation partner instead of the supervisor, not only because he is the first person in charge of communicating with the illustrator Detective Cat, but also because these low-level employees who have just joined the job have little social experience. , it is easier to break through the psychological defense line.
"I, I don't know."
As expected by the person in charge, the fat assistant was very nervous at this time. There was a circle of sweat on his round face and his chin twitched. Shake.
He is not stupid.
I would not believe it if the supervisor and vice president could operate in such illegal manner without some inside information.
"Fat boy, the group's marketing department expects the sales volume of The Little Prince in the first year to be 300,000 copies. Each hardcover volume is priced at about 20 euros. This is 6 million euros. This is only the first year. The expected sales in 2019."
Charlie stared at the fat assistant fiercely, "One million copies in two years, three years, or ten years is 20 million euros, and three million copies is six fucking years. Ten million euros"
"sixtyiioneuros"
The director spoke every word and spat on the fat assistant's face. < /p>
The person in charge glanced at Director Charlie. He knew that the amount of commercial crimes was not calculated in this way, but the person in charge did not mind scaring the young assistant.
The fat assistant was obviously panicked. He lowered his head and said, "I didn't commit a crime. I just did what my boss told me to do."
"Oh, you did what your boss told you to do." What?" the person in charge immediately asked.
The fat assistant was silent again, fighting between heaven and man in his mind.
"Okay, he is just an assistant, don't scare this young man."
Deputy Director Schubert, who had always been silent, suddenly spoke up to come to the rescue.
"Why did you invite Detective Cat? You should ask President Osborne. As for the rest, we are just doing things in accordance with company rules."
Charlie turned his head sharply , glaring at Deputy Director Schubert.
Schubert responded by spitting out a few grape seeds in his mouth towards Charlie expressionlessly.
Let's go to the back office department, otherwise the contract will continue and I will have a firm foothold in the art department, or they will get out together, there will be no way out.
The deputy director who was willing to go all out became tougher.
"The sample manuscript stayed in the public backend for less than ten seconds from uploading to file submission, which is considered compliant. Drawing knife and drawing shit can pass the review of the art department. This is Do things according to the rules."
Charlie smiled conspiratorially.
He originally promised to get stuck on Detective Cat's test draft.
As a result, as soon as the Little Prince project team sent the sample to the backend of the art department, Schubert, a young man with authority, took the file away.
He didn’t even see the fur of the Detective Cat sample.
Charlie almost exploded.
I only found the file external annotation of the sample manuscript in the history record of the system background. The subject category above said "drawing knife painting".
“The drawing method of fooling ghosts.”
How long has it been since Schostic Group has done illustrations of drawing knives?
Charlie felt that even if he didn’t deliberately block her, According to the standard, Detective Cat could not pass the review of the art department.
Seeing this classification label, Charlie even equated the level of Detective Cat’s oil painting with some half-baked liars.
As long as she is drawing with knives, her works will never be any better.
This is also the reason why he dares to make things worse.
It is not news at all in the illustration world that an artist with mediocre skills gets some high-quality contracts that do not match his abilities.
The premise is, don’t put it on the table.
"I have been working hard every day. At that time, I happened to see the reminder of the background message."
Schubert said slowly, "As for drawing knife painting, when will the company It is stipulated that drawing with a knife is not within the scope of the illustration contract, so I think she is very good at it."
"Is it your job to play darts if you work hard every day?" Charlie said angrily, "With a knife. The painting is very good, don’t be ridiculous. How many people can draw a knife well?”
If this sample was made by a professional knife artist like Professor Boggs from the Brooklyn Academy of Art.
Charlie turned around and left now.
But he is an Internet painter
"Detective Cat is very good at drawing. Are your words worthy of your conscience?" he sneered. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft