Why does "face" fire?

In recent times, I also trend of a, with a call face Meng application. With the face Meng, in fact, I do not specifically to pay attention to him, just happened to sit down with friends to chat, he took out the phone open face Meng, said this application is quite fun, asked me if I have used this application, I said no. So he helped me to do a head, the final picture of the effect of people satisfaction, put on the avatar, but also a lot of friends said that the new avatar and I am very similar. A lot of people ask me what my avatar is made of.

Before there are similar software, like Uface and the domestic demon diffuse camera fire a hand, the demon diffuse camera even fire to board the mainland of the APP store list first, completely unexpected, even my Taiwanese friends have noticed. The face may not have the demon diffuse camera so fire, but it is also very popular, just on line one months download amount to break 200,000, from November 27 last year on line to now total download volume nearly 800,000, growth very fast. Not only my side has been more and more people put on the face of the production of facial images, face Meng also by the Hong Kong Stars welcome.

Compared with other head-making applications, facial images are more cartoon-like characters. After the user installs the application, can directly through the application provides the template for oneself design modelling. and similar to the demon diffuse camera, it is a self portrait, and then through the algorithm will become the face of animation. However, the style of the magic diffuse camera in Europe and the United States, face Meng style more in line with the Asian taste.

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Guo Lei is the co-founder of Face Meng, just over the 25 birthday. Face Meng is his second venture last year to develop a second product, previously he and the team to develop micro-letter expression products said, but not a success. Clearly, Guo Lei to think again about new products, find a breakthrough.

Just in time, when the demon diffuse camera is very hot, Guo Lei thinking about the field of avatar production there is no chance of differentiation. As a result, he inspected the market of head-making applications, found that the style is biased in Europe and America, Asian style has not yet. In addition, like to see "Pirates of the King", he felt that the comic can be personified in the "telephone worm" is very interesting. He believes that if there is a "telephone worm" such as the effect of the Avatar production application, should still be able to be popular with users.

Because very like "Pirates King" This cartoon, in thinking of new products, Guo Lei by the "Pirates of the Sea" in the "Telephone worm" inspiration, think if there is a personification of the head and expression, will be an interesting product. So, Guo Lei with the team, and a Hong Kong design company, developed face Meng this application.

Thanks to last year's uface, magic diffuse camera of the red, face Meng This style of Asian comic picture production application on the line, landed in the domestic major application stores, very smooth. Face Meng in 360 application stores, 91 mobile phone assistants, millet application store, pea pod and other application stores, are free to obtain the home page recommended location. Obviously, this has played an important role in improving the download volume of facial sprouting.

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Face Meng co-founder Guo Lei birthday at 25 years old

Like Avatar making this kind of entertainment strong application, easy to fire, but is there continuous explosive? In another question, will the face become a "day-throwing" application?

Guo Lei's next plan is to be able to capture Facebook's bitstrips learning and to increase the functionality of social comics for face-sprouting. In addition to being an avatar tool, Bitstrips is a comic-making tool that offers a number of different scenarios, allowing people to quickly create like comics and upload them to social networks such as Facebook and share them with friends.

Bitstrips let a person put his virtual head into the comics scene, with a variety of "broken" to express their emotions, in the display of their individuality, but also appear interesting, can let people "play" up.

Because Bitstrips's CEO Jacob Blackstock in 2007 on the online production of independent comics, so the comic material has been a considerable accumulation. The birth of Bitstrips because of the rich enough template for people to choose, reduce the cost of comic production, so popular.

Obviously, the expression space of comics is much larger than that of single head. Face Meng In addition to this function, or can also get such lasting influence-but the face Meng in the comic material accumulation, still insufficient, perhaps this is the face Meng has not yet been online comic production function reason.

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Guo Lei found that face Meng 80% of the user is "the". In addition to his face, he hopes to develop other applications in the future to meet their emotional needs.

With the gradual entry into the workplace, the new young group has become the focus of the company's attention. What are the characteristics of this group? Guo Lei feel that the difference can not be said too big. They are the student group, also see "Where Daddy Go", "Love Apartment" and other popular entertainment programs. Of course, student groups have characteristics of student groups.

Guo Lei that the biggest difference is that parents have a different way of educating--90 parents have a more diversified view of education, scores are not the only measure of the success of children's education standards. According to Guo Lei's words, "also fooling, what will, but the academic record is very good." "In addition, they have access to the Internet in the early days, basically have their own mobile phones." Therefore, Guo Lei hope that face Meng can be designed in line with the image of the personality, so that face Meng more popular.

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Now, face Meng a total of 5 members, some of them from Taiwan, Hong Kong, the age span from 20 to more than 30, development, design and so on, and members of each other is more complementary. Team members are very fond of comics, Guo Lei also often to "Pirate King" this cartoon to motivate themselves. He hopes to build a team that is as warm-blooded as the Pirate King.

The past year has been like a roller coaster for Guo Leelai. He wrote in the journal, "January from Tencent leaving business, entrepreneurial failure, to the United States to do 1 months of sales; Dad suddenly had a heart attack, almost life-threatening; my second venture, made a micro-letter expression said, not very successful, and did face Meng, began to become more smooth. Everything is so memorable, but it all happened in this year. ”

"This year has never felt so lonely. Get up, two steps can walk to the living room, a person, a computer for more than 10 hours of solitude, QQ hanging online, sometimes can not flash a day. Tired to go downstairs for a walk, thinking about life, talking to himself for a while, left warm right hand. Dream is destined to be lonely travel, thanks to loneliness, let me more independent, let me cherish the small partners, let me know that there is a team is how happy things. ”