CATDOLL: Aofei becomes a shareholder of the producer of "The Return of the Great Sage" and joins hands with "Da Qian Yangguang" to create a super Chinese comic IP

Following the huge success of "The Return of the Great Sage", another domestic animated feature film "War of the Nian Beast" was released on the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Monkey with its superb animation technology and excellent visual creativity, and received unanimous praise from all walks of life.

Both The Return of the Great Sage and The Battle of Nian Beast were co-produced by Daqian Sunshine Digital Technology Co., Ltd. Even the 3D animated film Dragon Nest: Dawn of the Dragons, which won the "Best Animation Visual Creativity Award" at the Canadian International Film Festival, was partly produced by Daqian Sunshine.

On March 3, Aofei Entertainment announced that it would strategically invest in China's top animation technology company "Da Qian Yangguang" in the form of cash investment, becoming a shareholder and board member of Da Qian Yangguang, and enjoying the priority cooperation rights in the latter's various business expansions. In the future, the two parties will rely on their respective advantages to conduct in-depth resource docking and work together to create a super animation IP with Chinese elements.

Who is Daqian Yangguang? The co-production company behind "The Return of the Great Sage"

From "Dragon Nest: Dawn of Legends" to "The Return of the Great Sage" and then to "The Battle of Nian Beast", Daqian Sunshine, as a co-producer behind the scenes, has been committed to promoting the technological progress of Chinese animated films.

Founded in late 2013, Daqian Sunshine Company has grown at an extraordinary pace in the past two years. It mainly engages in the development and production management of film, television and animation IPs, and has quickly become a leader in China's CG animation industry. It is currently preparing to be listed on the New Third Board.

"We hope to add some new ideas to the Chinese animation industry. One day, China's original animation will become a new name card for China's rise," said Zhang Runhua, CEO of Daqian Sunshine. The founder and core team of Daqian Sunshine have been deeply involved in the animation industry for 15 years.

In the past 15 years, the core technical team has participated in hundreds of well-known domestic and international projects, including "Warcraft", "Fantastic Four", "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven", "Fantasy Westward Journey", "How to Train Your Dragon TV", "Future Police" and so on.

However, "powerful CG animation technology was only one of our core competitive advantages in the past. For Daqian Sunshine, our greater value lies in the continuous and in-depth integration of outstanding creative talent resources at home and abroad, and then in-depth exploration of the industrial chain and value chain of Chinese animation." Zhang Runhua revealed.

At present, Daqian Sunshine has established very in-depth and stable cooperative relationships with many internationally renowned animation directors and experts.

Joining forces with Alpha Animation and Culture to create the "gold standard" for Chinese animated films

Statistics show that there are thousands of animation studios in China now, but only a handful of them are truly capable of creating high-quality projects.

Through this round of equity integration, Alpha Animation and Culture (formerly known as Alpha Animation) will become a shareholder and board member of Daqian. The two parties will rely on their respective advantages to conduct in-depth resource docking around the production of original animation boutique content, the development and operation of super IP, animation technology and talent support, and jointly explore and create a new model of "China's original animation big IP".

"This will provide a new 'gold standard' for the industrialized production of Chinese animated films." Industry insiders analyzed that the process of creating high-quality animation IP is not easy, and it includes two key points: one is the production capacity of high-quality animation, and the other is the industrial operation capacity of pan-entertainment. Indeed, Aofei is the earliest company in China to operate pan-entertainment IP. It holds the largest high-quality animation IP resource library in China and is good at breaking through the marketing barriers of pan-entertainment products such as animation, comics, games, film and television, and consumer products. Daqian Sunshine is at the leading level in the domestic CG industry.

"Including the latest marriage with Daqian Sunshine, there are currently about 10 high-quality animation studios under the Aofei umbrella and in strategic cooperation. Aofei also established the 451 Group in cooperation with "Transformers" director Michael Bay. It has already formed an animation film creation team in Hollywood, and has initially built a complete animation film industry system that can rival Hollywood." Wang Jing, vice president of Aofei Entertainment and secretary of the board of directors, said that in the future, the business expansion of the Aofei interactive entertainment kingdom will revolve around the main theme of 'full film and television adaptation of animation content', integrating high-quality resources from upstream and downstream of the industry from the perspective of the ecosystem, with the ultimate goal of creating very unique pan-entertainment products and experiences with Chinese elements.