On November 16, the “Third Quick Watch Original Comic Contest Award Ceremony and AI Innovation Technology Release” event was held in Beijing. As the most influential competition for newcomers in comics in China, more than 1,400 works have been collected for this year’s comics competition, and 18 authors have come to the fore in this competition.
At the meeting, Kuaikanjima announced the “Maliang” project, and announced that it has reached strategic cooperation with Harbin Institute of Technology and Southern University of Science and Technology to empower the creation of Guoman with AI technology. The integration of technology and content is accelerating. As an Internet technology company, Kuaikan is actively exploring new technologies in the entertainment content industry. Anni Chen, founder and CEO of Kuaikan World, believes: “Faced with the impact of animation in Japan, the United States, and South Korea, technological innovation may create opportunities for Guoman to overtake.”
“Use technology to empower creation”
“What can technology bring to creation?” At the event, Li Runchao, the co-founder of the world, raised this question. Driven by this problem, the quick-seeing “Ma Liang” project was born.
In fact, in the era of mobile Internet, technological development has brought about tremendous changes in the content industry. Take a quick look at the AI turning comic technology, which can automatically typeset comics suitable for mobile phone reading, and store comic books on the user’s mobile phone. The automatic reading technology of comics frees the readers’ hands, and the smart barrage, animation face recognition, etc. have greatly improved the user experience. Li Runchao revealed that Kuaikan has invested 500 million yuan in technology research and development.
However, for creators, technology has not made the creative process easier. “The creative process has been passed down for thousands of years. From the agricultural era, to the industrialization era, to today’s Internet era, the improvement of creative efficiency has almost stagnated.” Li Runchao said.
So in 2019, Kuaikan launched the “Maliang” project internally, hoping to empower creation through technology, so that technology can better achieve content. The project seeks technological breakthroughs on the creative side, improves the creative efficiency of professional creators, and lowers the creative threshold for creative enthusiasts.
As the first stage of the “Maliang” project, in 2019, Kuaikan Technology Research Institute and Harbin Institute of Technology reached a strategic cooperation to jointly research AI automatic coloring technology. After 2 years, the project has made some progress, and a demonstration of AI automatic coloring was carried out at the event site.
At the same time, the second phase of the “Maliang” project was officially launched on the day of the event. Quick Watch World announced that it has reached a strategic cooperation with Southern University of Science and Technology. The two parties will jointly establish an AI laboratory in the future to study the technology of converting static comics to video to make comics move.
At the event site, Li Runchao also announced the “Quick Look” incentive plan for “China’s Students Millions of Innovations”. This program is aimed at school students and rewards them for technological innovation in the creative field. If the technology is adopted quickly, it will receive a reward of 1 million yuan.
“I hope that through quick-watch technical exploration and innovation, the number of fans of national comics can reach one million.” Li Runchao said.
Technology + labor to build a complete ecosystem of creators of national comics
“Creation enthusiasts are an important part of Kuaikan’s continuous creation of the national comic creator ecology. Kuaikan hopes to establish a talent training system covering professional cartoonists, newcomers of national comics and fans of national comics.” Kuaikan domestic content And Liu Zhipeng, the person in charge of copyright, introduced.
On the one hand, technology has expanded the crowd base of creative enthusiasts. On the other hand, the discovery and cultivation of professional authors rely on technology is not enough. Look at the original comic contest held every year, which bears the mission of digging for professional comic authors, and has been successfully held three times so far.
The third fast-watch original comic contest has a huge lineup of judges. In addition to 8 well-known Chinese cartoonists, screenwriters and directors, there are also 5 Japanese and 3 Korean industry cartoonists and editors in charge.
With the successful conclusion of the competition, more than 1,400 submissions have been solicited for this competition, and the number of works has reached a new high again. Among them, 50 finalist works have a popularity value of 720 million, and the number of followers of the works exceeds 928,000.
The perfection of the talent training mechanism of Guoman has greatly improved the competitiveness of Guoman, and Guoman has begun to enter the world stage. Currently, Kuaikan’s works have been posted on more than 70 platforms overseas, covering nearly 200 countries. Lee Jae-hwan, CEO of One Store, said: “One Store is the largest local app store in South Korea. We look forward to introducing rich, high-quality comic content to South Korea, and the two parties will work together to develop the global market.”
Chen Anni believes that the cultural industry is a soft pillar of a country. “It is difficult to make a chip, but it is correct and important; to be a Chinese comic is to make a cultural chip.”
At the same time, KuaikanTiao Man Competition has reached a cooperation with the NHN Group. The two parties will jointly create an overseas competition area for the Kuaikantai Manga, covering Japan, South Korea, North America and other regions.
As the influence of Kokuman on the world stage is getting bigger and bigger, the editor of Hara Kodansha, the founder and chairman of CORK Co., Ltd., and the judge of the 3rd Kuan Tiao Man Contest, Sado Shima, said: “I have the honor to be in contact with China. All kinds of comics, I think in the future, comics created by Chinese cartoonists, Korean cartoonists, and Japanese cartoonists will sweep the world by storm.”Return to Sohu to see more
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