Face Meng: Another face application

How many pictures have you tried to pick a picture from? Don't get out. Recently opened micro-trust friends Circle, it is not difficult to find a lot of friends to replace the comic picture, and the production of the application is face Meng. And before the Imadeface, magic diffuse camera similar, face Meng is a face application, through the features of the mosaic, users can quickly create their own personalized comic image, and then share the social platform. From last year on line, face Meng by virtue of personalized Meng painting and friends circle brush Screen, boarded the App Store entertainment category of the first place in the free list. Domestic face application is not only, but always difficult to escape the doom of a flash in the pan. Face Meng founder Guo Lei to Tencent Technology, face Meng is the avatar as the starting point, in the future through the product extension to increase user viscosity and active degree. Face Meng how to play with face Meng Create personalized avatar method is very simple. The user first chooses to make the portrait the sex, through the left and right sliding page can switch the category, for example hairstyle, hair color, face shape, skin color, eyebrow these basic production animation head need of material. In addition, face Meng also provides characteristics, hobbies, expressions, bubbles and other characteristics of the material category, users can design the exclusive animation head, and through the text bubbles to select or input text, express mood. Avatar production is completed, users can share it to QQ space, micro-trust friends Circle, or directly to the micro-letter friends, QQ Friends, you can also change the QQ avatar. Different from the previous face application, more cartoon face Meng, to Meng win. Personalized to face just need in many face application, face Meng is not the first. Earlier on, there was a Canadian-made comic application Bitstrips, who had topped the app store in 40 countries around the world in two months, creating nearly 30 million comic heads, and the domestic demon-camera took the top spot in China's app store for just four days. In addition to the fusion of pop art creative idea of the Imadeface, has been hilarious parody every face and so on. The rise of face-like applications such as the message that people are becoming accustomed to social media, the need for personalization and creativity is growing, and the new comic-picture representation fits that. In Guo Lei's view, personalization has become a new requirement for this generation of young people, and Avatar is one of the most important ways to embody this need in social media. In addition, emotional expression is the user's heavy demand for social media. Text, avatar, map is the three elements of social media, but some emotions difficult to express through the photo, and face Meng provides this way, you can use anime expression, bubble text to express their feelings. Guo Lei said. Face Meng Team and "Pirates of the King" source Tencent technology from the face Meng team learned that face Meng creative since a Hong Kong designer, the designer in 2007 has made a face Meng image, in Hong Kong has a Web site, and will be personalized portrait printed on the T-shirt to the stars, causing a burst of popularity. At the same time, inspired by the phone worms in "The Pirate King.", Guo Lei that if there is a personification of the head and expression, it will be an interesting product. So last year I and this designer hit, decided to use this avatar to create face Meng application. Guo Lei said. At present, the face Meng team consists of 1 product managers, 4 programmers and 4 painters, almost all of them, one of whom is the famous comic artist on Weibo. For this group, the animation and the surrounding love to make the face Meng team more understand the connotation of Meng. Guo Lei Frankly, the entire team for anime have persistent love, especially the "sea Thief King", young people have a lot of ideas and can play space, I hope to be able to create a like "sea Thief Wang" as the blood of the team, but also want to become the king of the Sea Thief Man. In fact, face Meng is not the first product of Guo Lei. Guo Lei to Tencent Technology, before he and the team to develop micro-letter expression said, the main function is to dynamic expression with voice, but not a success. Face Meng is his pioneering development of the Second product, apparently, face Meng is Guo Lei again think of new product breakthrough. According to previous data shows, May 30, face Meng ios/android end of the download volume is 9w/4.5w;5 month 31st for 12w/9w;6 month 1st for 19w/11w;6 month 2nd 34.8w/20w. Guo Lei to Tencent Technology disclosed a group of the latest data, June 3 face Meng Download volume is close to 1 million. The face-sprouting approach fits the pattern of mobile internet and social media, but it remains to be seen whether it can escape the fate of fast iterations. Guo Lei to Tencent Science and Technology said, the follow-up face Meng will do some product extension to increase user viscosity and active degree, but now still take the avatar as the cut-in point, to leave you with the definition of the original image.