Analysis of Major Problems Existing in Chinese Animation Industry Ran LI
[email protected] Master, Department of Design Strategy, Graduate School of Design. Kyushu University, Japan Kiyoshi TOMIMATSU
[email protected] Professor, Department of Design Strategy, Kyushu University, Japan Toru KODAMA
[email protected] Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, Japan Keyword : Digital Contents Design, Chinese Animation, Contents Business Design Abstract In recent years, China had put into effect many policies to promoting its native animation industry; however there still are some serious problems impeding the promotion of Chinese animation industry. In this paper, we try to identify the existing problems that retarding the development of Chinese animation and analyzed the underlying reasons. Furthermore, we adopted case study to testify the problems we identified. Bearing this in mind, case of The Moebius Strip is investigated as a failure representative and case of The Super Adventure is investigated as a successful case. Both cases are carefully scrutinized to illustrate and demonstrate the impacts of the problems. It shows that originality, marketing, audience incubation, and division of labor are significantly responsible for the success of animation products. Based on the research findings of this paper, a promoting proposal could be study in the future researches. 1. Introduction and Background industry chain. (d) Prefer making animation movies. According to the survey on Chinese animation market in Specifically, recent years, see figure 1, the market share of Chinese native animation was significantly less than Japan, Europe and North 2.1. Lack of originalities America. Outsourcing is one of the major works of Chinese animation industry in the past years.