Do the most professional illustrator CG portal-illustration of Chinese webmaster Xiao Yonggong Interview

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Illustrator China (www.chahua.org), the domestic focus on illustrations, pixels, cartoons, anime and other original art design of the professional website , is committed to the Chinese illustrator to establish the best exchange platform, to become a professional Chinese illustrator portal site.

Illustration in the state-owned registered members more than 30,000, original hand-painted CG works more than 100,000, is the largest original design organization, they mostly have a deep hand-drawn skills, respectively, for advertising, publishing, network, film and television, animation, games, wireless and other industries services.

Illustration China is currently one of the most popular sites in the domestic design of similar sites, set up less than two years, and has registered full-time illustrator up to 20,000, more than 1000 posts, more than 100,000 original illustration works.

Illustrator China website: Tai Lung, real name Xiao Yonggong, 2000 University graduated into the network industry, long engaged in large-scale web sites ( Internet and Mobile WAP site) planning, design, development and operation, the site involved in the construction of animation, government, search engines, entertainment, Enterprise, Life , wireless and other aspects of the Internet and mobile WAP operations have a profound understanding.

Illustrator China website leader Xiao Yonggong

Visual Alliance: Hello, Big dragon, can first and the broad masses of readers to introduce the illustration of China's early establishment of some basic situation?

Tai Lung: Illustrator China was established in early 2003, I have been engaged in graphic and website design work, the foreign site and poster design contact more, especially Korean website, and the domestic site in the creative aspect of the page there is a very obvious difference, that is the use of illustrations, Many of them have a large area of the use of illustrations, the site is quite exquisite, color matching is also unique personality, is because of this, but also let me from the Korean website design attention to change to the art of illustration attention. At that time, with Baidu \google query domestic illustrations related to the work and information, the online few, so the germination of the establishment of an illustration organization and professional website idea, in order to hope to the domestic illustration enthusiasts to provide a work show, creative exchange of places, a painter's own home, Through this organization and website to let more people understand and like the art of illustration, so that the illustration market can be more extensive and diversified.

All along, the understanding of the illustration is very limited, most people think that the illustration is inserted in the middle of the text to help explain the content of the picture is illustrations, in fact, the illustration developed to the current era of reading pictures, its own meaning and concept is far from this. Artistic drawings and illustrations that illustrate text can be called illustrations. In addition to the traditional hand-painting, also includes CG (computer creation), according to the different performance techniques can be divided into comics, cartoons, animation, comics, pixels; its application range is very wide, in addition to the publication illustrations, illustration in advertising, games, costumes, decoration, website, entertainment and other industries have a very broad application prospects. At present, in some domestic websites, posters, game design has been more and more beginning to use illustrations as a design element, I believe that in the future, the application of commercial illustrations will be more extensive, will be more people like.

Visual Alliance: Please introduce the Chinese Illustrator Association is what kind of organization? What is the main function of the Chinese Illustrator Association?

Tai Lung: China Illustrator Association is engaged in illustration creation, academic research, education and training, engaged in illustration of the surrounding product development, illustration industry applications, as well as the illustration industry to provide consulting, market research, investment and financing services and other intermediary services such as enterprises and individuals voluntarily combined with the national public welfare organizations.

The Chinese Illustrator Association absorbs individuals and groups who are engaged in illustration creation, editing, illustration education, illustration organization and other related illustrations industry.

Its main functions and purposes are:

To promote the dissemination of illustrations and related knowledge, through the Chinese website illustrator, to provide a variety of information and activities to match.

Promote the creation of Chinese illustrations and business illustration application market development!

Promote the development of business illustration.

To promote and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of practitioners in the design and related industries.

Introduction of new technologies to enhance the industry's trend in the new technology to adjust the technical needs in a timely manner.

To communicate with the Legislature, government departments, relevant organizations and academic organizations to reflect and express the views of members.

With other regions of the industry groups, academic institutions to exchange and visit, promote the domestic illustration business.

Illustration of China's management staff

Visual Alliance: Illustrator China Forum is currently very popular, in the Forum management and operation of what you experience?

Big Dragon: Illustration China Forum can have so many people's love, all belong to everybody's support and help.

A website to want to be popular, there are several important factors, one is original, second is professional, three is atmosphere.

Illustrator China is known as the original professional illustrator website, this is our foothold, basically, our site is all original things, with a large number of original illustration works and original illustration design tutorials , followed by the Forum's exchange atmosphere.

A design site to be popular, another point is to respect and attach importance to each member, respect for each person's work, pay attention to everyone's opinion. To create a good atmosphere of communication, even delete a I think it is meaningless posts, but worry about their deletion of the wrong, before the deletion of our owner will discuss with others, this should not be deleted! Our members are also, every discovery Forum Malicious people to publish attacks, pornographic type of bad posts, will immediately reflect to the forum, remove these undesirable stickers. I believe this is the most important reason for the forum to maintain high popularity.

We have a forum "illustrator family" most representative of the atmosphere of our forum, I believe this is also a lot of people came to our forum, like our forum, to friends recommend our forum reasons. Whether it is our moderators, our members, we can take here as a home, carefully maintain the atmosphere here.

Hope to have more hobby illustrator friends can join us this illustration big home, create a more beautiful illustration home.

Visual Alliance: China illustrator Works Copyright Protection Center This section is very special, can you give a detailed description of this situation?

Tai Lung: Illustrator as an individual, the work of copyright infringement is often the case, and can not protect their deserved benefits, you said to go to court, they can not afford to toss, not that energy and time, do not hit it, their works are used in vain. It is for this reason, in order to better protect the illustrator of copyright rights, the Chinese illustration Copyright Protection Center was formally established on July 1, 2005, is currently the only Chinese mainland illustration copyright collective Management organization, is specialized in the maintenance of illustrators, painting the author and other illustrations of copyright owners of the legitimate rights and interests of non-profit organizations.

Visual Alliance: What is the biggest difficulty in the illustration of China in the beginning of its creation?

Tai Lung: When the website was founded, because of the financial and human aspects are very insufficient, also encountered a lot of difficulties. The first time the site's servers are shared with a friend of a server, later the site to more people, especially the illustration works more and more, seriously affect the friend server on their own site services, no way, the site had to stop, the site stopped running, did not expect a lot of friends are very concerned about, During the period when the operation was stopped, Eamil almost every day to receive a lot of advice is not the server was attacked, or encountered any difficulties, it is because there are so many people's support and concern, but also confirmed my website to reopen and adhere to the confidence and motivation, now the illustration network has used its own dedicated server, We will be better and more careful to develop, and try to contribute to the development of China's illustration career

Visual Alliance: What are the development plans for future illustrations in China? How to implement these plans?

Tai Lung: Near-stage illustration China's main development plan has several aspects: the first is to strengthen the construction of the website, may immediately in the recent release of new sites, to draw friends to provide more advisory and services, to strengthen the publication of illustrator skills class materials.

We are currently planning to publish a "China Illustration Yearbook", which will be China's first comprehensive record of the development of Chinese illustrations, display the achievements of Chinese illustrations Annals of the book. This book is for domestic illustration practitioners, illustrations publishing agencies/magazine, animation companies, illustration industry training institutions, game creation company, original painting creative design company, illustration industry surrounding enterprises, in Hong Kong, overseas and the mainland simultaneous distribution (books and Works CD-ROM). The collection time for the works is held once a year, during which the major news media and websites have related news or columns to introduce. And will be selected the annual China's top ten works and the top ten illustrators illustrator, and held the China Illustration Summit Forum and expert Forum.

Visual Alliance: What do you think about the commercialization of a website? How do you think about the commercialization of Chinese illustrations?

Tai Lung: Website Commercialization, is a website can continue to develop the foundation, in particular, such as our professional Web site, only with sufficient sources of funds and market base, in order to really have the vitality to survive, to the site users to bring more services and content, of course, not to say a few ads, to customers to do several programs and projects, It's commercial, right? But there is a business model, now the Illustrator China is also developing towards commercialization, in fact, from the beginning of the site, there are commercial ideas, in the business model, we may mainly from book publishing, Illustration CG training education, business illustration design services, illustration works economy, wireless value-added services, Illustration of the surrounding product development in these several directions to develop. It should be said that the road is very wide, can do a good job in one of the prospects are very brilliant.

Visual Alliance: Illustration What is China's main source of funding now? How do you think illustrator China will enter the benign capital cycle? What are the specific measures?

Tai Lung: The current illustration of China basically no source of funds, all rely on their own investment, taking into account the professional nature of the site, the general advertising we basically did not pick up, is now a pure green design site, ha, money is indeed a major obstacle to the development of the website. Future sources of funding may be first from the illustration design Services and book publishing (like textbooks, picture book, comic book, etc.) these two pieces, commercial illustration is a big market, in advertising and network, book illustrations, the demand is very large, I believe that these will enable us to have a relatively sufficient source of funds, in addition, In the commercial illustrator training This is also a more important piece, which is also from the user needs of our site to consider, can give us a certain amount of income, but also to the lower training fees to teach you some of the skills of illustration, to cultivate more excellent professional illustrator.

Visual Alliance: There is a message that there are venture capital enterprises on some domestic design-related sites have investment intentions, how do you think of this problem?

Tai Lung: Generally speaking, professional design of the user groups of the site is relatively single, the size of the general relatively small, it seems difficult to have venture capital to see. But from a different point of view, it is precisely because of the user segmentation, high degree of professionalism in addition to your site in this industry is one of the broad market development prospects, such as architectural Abbs, animation, such as the Semitic Empire, they in addition to the design of the professional degree of art is impressive, Abbs in real estate, architectural decoration, the Semitic empire in digital entertainment, especially in the coming 3g streaming media, it can be said that the future is very good, with great industrial value and market potential, naturally attract venture capitalists concern.

Relative to the illustration of China, first of all I personally do not object to venture capital, after all, there is capital injection, can accelerate the development of the site and some projects to implement as soon as possible. The key is to choose a good investor at a good time, some investors just want to buy the past, and then hype, and then sell on the backhand, so the significance is not big, if we contact with investors, first of all to see what the other company, whether it is really suitable for their own website or even the entire illustration industry development, This is the main factor that we consider. We are not worried about no investors, this time, sometimes people want to invest in us, of course, small scale, they are more interested in our business illustrations and book publishing, Education and training development, in addition to these traditional projects, the actual illustration of China's market potential is not only these, we will be more value in the future of a project, is the development of Flash painting, our slogan is to flash the illustration. That is, flash illustrations, illustrations China has a very good foundation of fine Arts professional illustrator, their painting basis is very good, if you can increase the development of animation in the illustration, I believe that in the 3G era, mobile streaming Media Animation Entertainment will have greater opportunities for development. Illustration of this market is very large, as long as the good, do not worry about no funds.

Visual Alliance: What do you think about the current status of design websites in China?

Tai Lung: There are a lot of design sites, a bit messy, a lot of design site original things very little, set the columns are the same, like some information, tutorials category, is every day from the major stations to pick the past, I hope we can more original, avoid duplication of construction, but also to increase the attractiveness of their own website.

Visual Alliance: How to look at the future development of the domestic design website? What web site development model is worth learning?

Tai Lung: It seems that a lot of stations have their own characteristics and advantages. A good site, must be both content and business, from the rich content of their own construction, strengthen the website construction, in the business also not to open up, only these two aspects of development, can promote a better development of a website. A website can produce products, and the largest commercialization of products, that is the best mode of development. I personally prefer the development of Abbs and construction website.

Visual Alliance: You use a sentence to summarize the history of China's development and expectations of the future bar

Tai Lung: Do our best to promote the development of business illustration, to do the most professional illustrator CG portal site.

Visual Alliance: How about users who have been supporting illustrator for many years in China?

Tai Lung: I believe that we will always be a family, so that everyone for the development of Chinese illustrations and strive together! Thank you all the time for our website's concern and support. Finally, thank you for the Visual League.

Thank you for your acceptance of the Visual Alliance website interview, and finally wish the illustration of China's smooth development!

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