How does cartoon app tap the comic economy?

How big is the Chinese love of comics? The rapid rise of comic application in the second half of 2013 may be able to reflect some of the market's strong interest in and demand for comic-strip applications. After the demon diffuse camera, last November, a cartoon application on the line once again caught our eyes, that is face Meng. Face Meng "is a colorful image of cute cartoon portrait production applications." The user can choose the male or female, then carries on the independent cartoon portrait production. The user can slide through the fingers to choose their own facial features, hairstyles and clothing accessories, and eventually made the avatar. Face Meng "One of the founders of Guo Lei said, see the days before the president of the time to go where" a group of comics caused a strong response from netizens, making us more believe that people like comics, the demand for comics is relatively high. "2013, the domestic picture application appears to revive, there are crazy guess," "Magic Diffuse Camera" and Baidu Magic Map, and so on, a short period of time to obtain a large number of downloads, domestic users of the application of pictures and cartoons of the needs of the self-evident, however, It remains to be seen whether these picture-class applications will ultimately solve the short-lived problem. How to tap the comic economy Disney has shaped one of the most successful cartoons sucked into the empire, Disney's tens of thousands of popular cartoon characters for Disney's continuing interest has long been far more than the cartoon itself, dolls, souvenirs or Disney amusement park is the Disney culture brought about by the huge cartoon economic chain. In the Internet world, such examples are not a few, such as Angry Birds "and Japanese and Korean Instant Messaging tool line, are the use of cute cartoon characters, popular in the world." For the newly established face Meng Company ", also have their own ideas for the future." Guo Lei said, now face Meng "mainly provide users to make cartoon avatar, since the end of November last year, has more than more than 1 million of the download volume." Our user activity is not very high, but the spread is very wide, users of the demand for comics there are many can be mined and satisfied with the space. Guo Lei told Tencent Technology. In addition to helping users make avatars, face Meng "also imagined Bitstrip (Facebook on a comic application), helping users use comics to send status. The future we hope that based on the user's own cartoon image, the development of hand tour. "Guo Lei revealed. Face Meng "also plans to access social accounts, so that users can freely splicing each other's photos, play games and so on." 5 Good partners with the amateur entrepreneurial project Guo Lei said that the team has only 5 founders, after the Spring festival in 2014, the other four founders all quit, and Guo Lei together wholeheartedly into the entrepreneurial process. Guo Lei met with 4 other founders at a competition called Entrepreneurship weekend. The 2 founders, including Guo Lei, came from Tencent, one from Hong Kong, a designer with his own studio, another from Taiwan, and 5 young people from different places because of their common interest in comics, especially the King of pirates. Watch the moving end of the cartoon demand, inJuly 2013 began to learn while doing development face Meng. Several of us used to be web-side, and the development of Android and iOS started from scratch. "Guo Lei said. Guo Lei admits that domestic picture applications generally have short life-cycle problems, but Guo Lei believes that comic applications that can capture several key roles will have a longer appeal to users. In fact, Line's success has proven a pattern of grabbing several major cartoon characters to make a fortune and keep the user sticky. Only for the face Meng ", the most important cartoon characters are users themselves." How to resist competition and risk although there are currently only 5 people, but Guo Lei that face Meng "such an application is more difficult to be replicated by other companies." Cartoon painting style and material accumulation is the two most important barrier, for other companies, to choose a better cartoon style, or accumulate more good material is not an easy thing. "Face Meng" on-line less than 4 months time, a day received many users feedback, such as, face Meng "can not choose hair color, can not do a photo, the background is not complex and so on." Guo Lei thinks, these user experience all needs the cartoon application every bit the user exchange and accumulates, only then can guarantee a good user experience. Although we have a lot of ideas about the future version, but we want to be able to do better when the new version, to ensure that the function is more perfect, the user experience is also more fluent. "Guo Lei said. Now face Meng "has got the first angel investment, although the amount is small, but for Guo Lei and his team, is enough."