On September 28, the opening ceremony of the 14th China International Comics Festival and the 18th China Animation Golden Dragon Awards Awards Ceremony, the annual event of Chinese animation, was held in Guangzhou. More than 100 backbones in the Chinese animation field gathered together to participate in the grand event with many industry guests and animation fans.

The 14th China International Comics Festival officially opened
Gold Award hangs in the air, "international style" sci-fi comics lead again
At the awards ceremony, the Chinese animation Golden Dragon Award flower, known as the "Chinese animation Oscar" Fall home. Surprisingly, the gold award for the "Best Story Comic Award", the most watched award at previous awards conferences, was vacant this year. "Liu Cixin Science Fiction Comics Series: Devourer" and "Wandering Wuhan 2020" won the silver award side by side. This is the first time that Golden Dragon Award has been vacant since was founded 18 years ago.

Best Drama Comic Award Silver Award - "Liu Cixin Science Fiction Comics Series: Devourer"

Best Drama Comic Award Silver Award - "Wandering Wuhan 2020"
The Organizing Committee stated that there is no gold award for this award , is the result of seeking truth from facts after comprehensive evaluation by the judges. This is also the full reflection of the Golden Dragon Award as a recognized industry award and leading benchmark in the industry, adhering to high standards and ensuring the gold content.
Last year, Liu Cixin 's sci-fi comic series "Country Teacher" won the "Best Story Comic Award" Gold Award, the Best Comic Drawing Skill Award, and the Best Comic Screenwriting Award 3 awards. This year, the series "The Devourer" won the Silver Award and once again took the lead. Li Yun, the producer of Liu Cixin's Science Fiction Comics Series and CEO of Manchuan, told reporters that the 28 creators of this year's series of comics come from 13 countries around the world, all of whom are professional comics writers who have worked for many years.
"Although cultural differences have brought many small episodes to the creation, more of them have brought international thinking, perspectives and aesthetic standards to the works." Li Yun said.
Compared with previous years, the Golden Dragon Awards this year,The "international style" is more adequate. It is understood that this year's awards received excellent animation works from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Ireland , Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and other countries, which promoted the exchange of animation culture between China and foreign countries. In the end, " Wolf Walker ", which was shortlisted for many international awards such as Oscar, won the Overseas Animation Award, and the romantic and touching Spanish comic "Love Like First Seen" won the Overseas Comic Award.

Overseas Award, Applied Animation Award winners group photo.
"Newly told" Chinese stories, traditional culture has become the top
As "China's animation wind vane", the winners of the previous Golden Dragon Awards all represent the trend of the industry. The organizing committee told Xiaonan that many excellent animation works in this competition that incorporate the pulse of the times and deeply cultivate traditional culture have become "top-notch", and this will also become the mainstream trend of animation content creation.

Traditional culture has become the "top stream" of animation creation (left "Guangling San" right "Seeing the Dragon in the Field")
"I have seen many works that dare to break through tradition and reinterpret ancient times with modern aesthetics and dialectical thinking. This is a quality that I have rarely seen among creators from other countries.” said Shawn Tilling, a famous animator and director of the 3D animation and visual department at Shanghai Vancouver Film Academy, who participated in this year’s Golden Dragon Awards He was amazed by the innovative narrative of the "Chinese story".
won the " Jiang Ziya ", which won the "Best Animated Feature Film Award" Gold Award, the Best Animated Director Award, and the Best Animated Music Award, creating a special Chinese aesthetic style. According to the main creative team, a minimalist style is used to present the dramatic conflict, and the action lines full of the rhythm of Chinese classic animation express a unique "Chinese artistic conception".

Traditional culture has become the "top stream" of animation creation (left "Jiang Ziya" right " Wushan Five Elements "
Among the works that won the comic award,There are also many people who dig deep and recreate traditional culture. "Seeing the Dragon in the Field", which pays tribute to Chinese farming culture, "Su Mang Zhi", which tells the adventure story of the descendants of Mo Xie, a famous swordsmith, and "The Night Travel of the Royal Cat in the Forbidden City" from the perspective of "royal cat". Dragon's Toys" and other works have won awards in the comics category.
Xiao Nan noticed that among the award-winning works of this year's Golden Dragon Awards, there are many works of positive themes that have attracted much attention. The "Centennial Pictorial Book" depicting the 100-year history of the founding of the Party, the "Xuanweifang Travel Notes", which presents the ever-changing Chinese agriculture and animal husbandry with the Q-version images of Yuan Longping, Li Yu and other academicians as an introduction, and Bingdun, the mascot of the Winter Olympics The animated short film "Bing Dun Dun Celebrating the New Year" with Dun as the protagonist... The organizing committee said that animation has become an important carrier for composing the Chinese spirit and Chinese stories in the new era.

The main theme and positive energy works have attracted much attention (left "Heroes of the Sea" right "Xianweifang Travel Notes")
"Man" says ancient prose, Guangzhou knowledge comics lead the market
In recent years, a group of "knowledge + The book sales in the form of comics are a win-win situation. According to the data of online and offline animation book sales rankings, knowledge comics and popular science animation have become the mainstream of domestic animation publishing. Comic books produced in Guangzhou account for nearly 70% of the national market share, and are firmly in the leading position in the country. Other works have long occupied the top ten positions in the comics list.

Group photo of the winners of the comic awards
At the award ceremony, the China Cartoonists Conference was held with the theme of "Knowledge comics become the golden track of the industry?" The development status of comics is analyzed in an all-round way, and suggestions for the innovation and integration of the industry are offered.
Dai Jianye, the editor-in-chief of "Comic History Line, Easy to Learn Ancient Prose" and "National Professor", pointed out in his keynote speech,Interpreting famous ancient texts in the form of comics is a coup for making ancient texts interesting and easy to understand, and enables traditional culture to be inherited in innovation. "With the style of comics, the style of the article can be conveyed." Dai Jianye said.
In the roundtable discussion session arranged by the organizing committee, Li Yun, Chen Lei, who created the popular book "Half-Hour Comics" series, Hoe Jian, the main creator of "Cold Knowledge More Interesting Than Knowledge", and Li He, a senior media person, together focused on "knowledge". Many insights have been raised on the topic of "Manga Creation Methodology". The guests agreed that with the advancement of the national "double reduction" policy and the comprehensive development of quality education, comics practitioners have expanded new ideas for topic selection, material selection and industrial development. The form of cartoons that are popular among young people and children is helpful for the wide dissemination of knowledge content.
At the end of the awards ceremony, the Organizing Committee of the China International Comics Festival announced that the only international professional award in the field of comic creation in China - " Cai Zhizhong Comic Award" will be officially settled in Huangpu District, Guangzhou. The first award ceremony is scheduled to be held on December 24 at the same venue as the closing ceremony of the Guangzhou Cultural and Cultural Fair.

Cai Zhizhong Comic Award settled in Huangpu, Guangzhou
With the winning works of the 18th China Animation Golden Dragon Award↓
★Best Drama Comic Award
Gold Award (vacant)
Silver Award
"Liu Cixin's Science Fiction Comics Series: Devourer"
"Wandering Wuhan 2020"

"The Devourer" and "Wandering Wuhan 2020" tied for silver
Bronze Award "Heroes of the Sea"

Bronze Award for Best Story Comic Award - "Heroes of the Sea"
★ Best Picture Book Award
Gold Award "Guangling San"

Best Picture Book Comic Gold Award - "Guangling San"
Silver Award "Centennial Picture Book"
Bronze Award "Porcelain" Road"
★ Best Illustration Award
Gold Award "Seeing a Dragon in the Field"

Best Illustration Gold Award - "Seeing a Dragon in the Field"
Silver Award "Old Man"
Bronze Award "Big Ship" 》
★ Best Animated Feature Film Award
Gold Award "Jiang Ziya"

Best Animated Feature Film Award - "Jiang Ziya"
Silver Award "New God List: The Rebirth of Nezha"
Bronze Award " The City of Figurines"
★ Best Series Animation Award
Gold Award "Five Elements in the Foggy Mountain"

Best Series Animation Gold Award - "Five Elements in the Foggy Mountain"
Silver Award " Time Agency" People
Bronze Award "Dali Temple Diary"
★ Best Short Film Award
Gold Award "Under the Roof"
Silver Award "The Beginning of Autumn"
Bronze Award "Xunweifang Travels"

Best Short Film Award Bronze Award - "Xianweifang Travels"
★ Golden Dragon Award x Bilibili Best Academy Comic Award
Gold Award "Chu Ge" Part 2
Silver Award "PARTICLE"
Bronze Award "Heavy Snow"
★ Golden Dragon Award x Bilibili Best Academy Animation Award
Gold Award "Persimmon" Tree"
Silver Award "Taoyuan"
Bronze Award "Wanhua Mirror"

Golden Dragon Award x Bilibili Winner Group Photo
★ Overseas Comic Award
"Love Like First Seen"
★ Overseas Animation Award
"Wolf Walker"
★ Best Comic Drawing Technique Award
THE BEST COMIC TECHNIQUE AWARD
"Su Mang Zhi"
★ Best Comic Screenwriting Award
"The Night Journey of the Royal Cat in the Forbidden City"
"Next Spring"
★ Best Animation Director Award
"Jiang Ziya"
★ Best Animation Screenwriter Award
" New Gods List: The Rebirth of Nezha
★ Best Animation Dubbing Award
Time Agent
★ Best Animation Music Award
Jiang Ziya
★ _strong8stron g Best Applied Animation Award
"Bing Dun Dun Celebrates the New Year"
"The Song of Thumb"
"How Should China Ensure Food Security? 》
★ Golden Dragon Award × Bilibili Joint Award
Overseas Influence Award "Blessings of Heaven Officials"
IP Adaptation Award "Yuanlong"
Guofeng Inheritance Award "Tianbao Fu Yao" Record"
Golden Dragon Award × Bilibili Comics Joint Award
Most Influential Award "Villain Initialization"
Most Commercial Value Award "Kun Swallowing the World"
Most Breaking Potential Award "Accidentally Saved" Public Enemy of Jianghu"
★ Guangzhou Award (Industry Award)
Best Anime IP Award "Flying Dog MOCO"
Best Anime Character Award Ivan the Bear
Best Anime Brand Award China Literature Group_ span2span
Best Anime and Game Platform Award Bilibili
Best Anime Publishing Award (published) "If History is a Group of Mews"
Best Anime Publishing Award (Publishing Organization or Publisher) Chen Lei
Best Anime and Game Manager Award Huang Yuezhong
Best Game Award "Light Yu"

Group photo of Guangzhou Award winners
[Reporter] Sun Yujia
[Picture] Photo courtesy of the organizer_ p3p
[Author] Sun Yujia
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