CATDOLL: Extreme Comics 8-Hour Debut COCOMIX Creates a New Star in Chinese Comics

The challenge of unprecedented Chinese comic creation, the tense atmosphere and inspiration of the 8-hour countdown, the personalities and ideas of the team members... The first season of the "Extreme Comics 8 Hours" comic creation competition hosted by COCOMIX 2D Studio Platform has come to a successful conclusion on April 24, 2016. Looking back on the grand occasion of the competition, it is still exciting!

COCOMIX Extreme Comics 8 Hours Season 1 Finals

The "Extreme Comics 8 Hours" comic creation competition provides a platform for individual comics creators to get to know each other. Most of the participating teams in the first season of the competition got to know each other through the COCOMIX two-dimensional studio platform and formed teams to participate in the competition. What they face is the "8-hour extreme challenge": within 8 hours, not only do they have to quickly complete a comic creation plan including character design, plot outline, and storyboard on the spot according to the proposition given by the organizer of the competition, but they also have to formulate market positioning, IP expansion, etc. according to the content of their works...

For cartoonists, winning the competition is not the end of their careers, but on the contrary, it is the beginning of everything. These people who can create recognized and expected comics are also full of energy and creativity as their works, and they are the people who live around us, who have dreams and persist in them.

Champion team "Noah's Ark Studio": science fiction and passion, accompanying dreams

First Prize Award: Noah's Ark Studio

In this competition, "Noah's Ark Studio" was highly praised for their sci-fi + passionate works and won the championship! Science fiction and passion are already common themes in comics. There are many classic works in both American comics represented by Marvel and Japanese sci-fi works of various genres. But because of the gold and jade in front, how to play new ideas in sci-fi + passionate themes is a big challenge for comic creators. The winning work of "Noah's Ark Studio" describes an imaginary world with fighting as the main theme, where people can use their wish points to materialize the life they want. However, people's wishes are different, some are strong and some are weak, so there is a gladiatorial mechanism in this world, where you can get wish points through gladiatorial PK, and exchange and realize your wishes with wish points through the "wishing tree" in the center of the world. But this world is not a simple "game" nor a safe utopia: one day, the arena's system was infected with a virus that began to devour the gladiators' wish points. In order to protect his beloved girl, the male protagonist was determined to find out the reason why the wish points disappeared, but he discovered the shocking truth... "Noah's Ark Studio" screenwriter Xiaoshan said that the inspiration for this story came from the impact of various social hierarchies on people and various unfair treatments, and the planning of this work is also their reflection on society from their own perspective. In the story, people need to rely on their own efforts to obtain more wish points and stand above others in order to avoid bullying in society. This setting is somewhat "similar" to real life.

Noah's Ark Studio-Final Live Creation

Although the theme of the story is relatively calm and cruel, unlike the somewhat tragic "striving to become stronger" of the male protagonist in the story, "Noah's Ark Studio" is also working hard after winning the award and continues to become stronger. However, this motivation is not to gain "wish points", but to make their works resonate with society in the future, hoping that people will be touched and moved after seeing them... Thinking of this goal, they are full of energy: "The biggest change before and after winning the award is that I realized that there are still many people who are good at drawing comics. We all have the same goal, so my goal has become bigger, and the drive to achieve the goal has become stronger."

As for the future of this project, the members of "Noah's Ark Studio" also have their own blueprint in mind: "In the future, we want the work to be animated and filmed, and we want more people to see our work, not only in China, but also to promote it overseas. Of course, all ideas are good, haha ​​~ the specifics still depend on our own efforts to realize this wish."

Noah's Ark Studio has not released any works

Although the members of "Noah's Ark Studio" are all college students, the quality of their works and their ideas are very outstanding. It is reported that "Noah's Ark Studio" has signed a contract with an entertainment film and television company through the COCOMIX platform and is developing a science fiction IP. The online drama of the same name has begun preparations for filming. Noah's Ark's first science fiction and hot-blooded comic work will also meet you this summer.

The runner-up team "Gugao Xianyu Studio": Xianyu has no ambitions, and the fans it attracts will also be Xianyu

Second Prize Award - Gugao Xianyu Studio

As mentioned before, people have different dreams, and when faced with the proposition of "dream", the members of "Gugao Xianyu Studio" think of equivalent exchange and "other people's talents" - in the world they have constructed, there is a profession called puppeteer, and people can exchange any talent they want from him, but this exchange is very expensive, because people need to pay with their own talents, or even their souls... The fantasy world constructed by screenwriter Sikong Banxia, ​​after kiyoic did the character setting, and then the group did the storyboarding. As a result, a story with beautiful style and fascinating plot was presented through the hands of these three girls like a scroll. This is their unique world.

The award-winning work "Lingyan Box" by Gugao Xianyu Studio

Speaking of the name of this studio, the real origin of "Gugao Salted Fish" is the joke between the three of them when they first met - there was a book called "Gugao Zhi Ren" on the table at that time, and with the word "salted fish", the name "Gugao Salted Fish" came out of their mouths. It was just a joke at first, but after the girls laughed, it was inexplicably decided. Thinking about it later, they felt that the birth of this name may be largely due to a salted fish complex. I believe that many people remember the classic line in Stephen Chow's "Shaolin Soccer": "If a person has no dreams, what is the difference between him and a salted fish!", but most of them ignore the latter sentence, the eldest brother pointed at his open-toed shoes and said: "Look, you don't even have shoes, aren't you just a salted fish! Learn from others to talk about ideals."

The creation scene of the 8-hour final of Extreme Comics

The three lonely and salted fish are full of dreams. But if the COCOMIX platform held this competition, they might not have this intersection of fate. Although the girls self-deprecatingly called themselves "salted fish", after winning the "Extreme Comics 8 Hours" award, this "salted fish" attracted the attention of angels: "Winning the award is like salted fish in water for us. The goal has changed from turning over to swimming alive." Some of them are familiar with advertising planning and have worked in e-commerce operations, and some are college students. Although their life experiences may be slightly different, although they initially held such a whim of "I heard that there is a crazy competition where you can eat and drink for free, let's go!" Now that they have received support from the incubation fund, they have the power to start their dreams, and this dream does not require their own talents to exchange, because what they want is already in their hands! Regarding the future of the work, screenwriter Sikong Banxia said, "I hope the work is delicious and nutritious. I don't ask everyone to love it, but I want to be the favorite of some people."

The third place team "Hongzhang Studio": The swan is elegant, but it is paddling hard

Anthurium Studio Finals Roadshow

"Hongzhang Studio", with the connotation of ancient poetry, gives people a sense of leisure with a little happiness, fresh and not like a powerful team - in fact, the members of this studio have experience in making animated short films, and have dabbled in script and comic creation. However, the name "Hongzhang" actually came from the self-deprecating words of the team members at that time: "Compared with other highly professional teams, we are just here to slack off", but it is not a good name to call it a "slacking studio". After thinking about it, the poem "Hongzhang paddles the clear waves" always makes the behavior of "slacking off" more elegant, so we named it "Hongzhang". "

Live creation of the finals of the Anthurium Studio

The two founders, Liu Kaidi, who is responsible for editing and drawing, and Xie Lin, who is responsible for art, graduated in 2015 and worked in the special film and television industry for about a year. Their job was to bring happiness to all the children who came to the amusement park. Because of their work and personal experience, Liu Kaidi and Xie Lin decided to "transfer" the animation storyboard technology to comics when they founded Hongzhang, which also gave their works a sense of "animation" - in their words, they took advantage of their work and whimsically wanted to use animation storyboards to make comics, hoping to bring some innovation to the form of comics.

In the work brought by "Hongzhang Studio" that won the third place in this competition, the studio members built a world that combines artificial intelligence and VR concepts - "C World". This is a technology developed in the future that replicates consciousness through artificial dreams. With the support of this technology, everyone can do whatever they want in their own C world and realize their wishes without restrictions. But the seemingly beautiful C world is actually shrouded in the shadow of destruction all the time... The crisis is coming, the building is about to collapse, and the mission of the hero and heroine of this story is to travel through different dream worlds and rescue the trapped people in them. What will they find in each rescue mission...

Currently, "Hongzhang Studio" is developing a VR-themed story and is also negotiating cooperation with a well-known domestic VR brand. Winning the "Extreme Comics 8 Hours" competition made them feel "like entering a creator's world, life began to revolve around creation, goals were clear and passionate." "Hongzhang Studio" hopes that their work will become a masterpiece that exudes a mature atmosphere.

Now the winning comics project of the first season of "Extreme Comics 8 Hours" has started. I believe that we will see the wonderful works of the three winning teams soon! COCOMIX Two-Dimensional Studio Platform will continue to support the original power of Chinese animation and support Chinese comics! Students who missed the first season of "Extreme Comics 8 Hours" don't have to be sad. The second season of "Extreme Comics OL" launched simultaneously by the COCOMIX platform is currently in progress. There is no regional team to participate, waiting for you!