The Cai Zhizhong Comic Award is permanently settled in Huangpu, Guangzhou

"Best Animated Feature Film Award" gold medal winner "Jiang Ziya", digging deep into traditional culture.

On September 28th, the opening ceremony of the 14th China International Comics Festival and the 18th China Animation Golden Dragon Awards Ceremony, an annual event of Chinese animation, were held in Guangzhou. On the day of the event, more than 100 backbones of China's animation field gathered together to join many industry guests and animation fans.

The main theme of positive energy works has attracted much attention

At the award ceremony, the Chinese Animation Golden Dragon Awards, known as the "Oscar of Chinese Animation", have their own awards. To the surprise of anime fans, the most talked about award at the previous awards conference, the "Best Drama Comic Award" Gold Award, was vacant this year, and "Liu Cixin Science Fiction Comic Series: Devourer" and "Wandering Wuhan 2020" won the silver award. In this regard, the organizing committee said that the vacancy of the gold award of the award is the result of seeking truth from facts after comprehensively scoring the judges, which is also the full embodiment of the Golden Dragon Award, as a recognized industry award and leading benchmark in the industry, adhering to high standards and ensuring gold content.

According to the organizing committee, among the award-winning works of this year's Golden Dragon Award, many positive energy works with the main theme of wide attention have emerged, and "animation" has become an important carrier for composing the Chinese spirit and Chinese story in the new era. For example, "Heroes of the Canghai Sea", which praises the birth of China's first aircraft carrier, "A Hundred Years of Illustration" depicting the centenary of the founding of the party, "Journey to the Taste Room", which presents the ever-changing changes in China's agriculture and animal husbandry industry, "Journey to the Taste Room", which presents the ever-changing changes in China's agriculture and animal husbandry industry, with the winter Olympic mascot Ice Pier as the protagonist, "Ice Pier Greeting the New Year", and so on.

"After the wave" surging and the original anime "breaking the circle"

According to reports, the eight awards jointly launched by this year's Golden Dragon Award and the only strategic partner Bilibili have yielded fruitful results, among which the "< Chuge > Second Part", "PARTICLE", "Persimmon Tree", "Taoyuan", "Wanhua Mirror", etc., which won the "Best Academy Comic Award" and the "Best Academy Animation Award", have a wide range of topics, exquisite pictures, and profound intentions, and the surging "back wave" creators have attracted widespread attention in the industry and represent the rise of the "academic school".

The "Overseas Influence Award", "IP Adaptation Award" and "National Style Inheritance Award" jointly launched by the Golden Dragon Award and Bilibili were respectively won by "Blessing of Heavenly Officials", "Yuanlong" and "Tianbao Fu Demon Record". The organizing committee said that these awards mainly praise excellent works with a fan base and have been widely disseminated, encourage works that are adapted and empowered on the basis of the original IP and give play to the value of IP, while adhering to the two-dimensional position, continuing the cultural roots, and boosting Chinese animation to break the monopoly of Europe, America and Japan and enter the temple of world culture.

In addition, the "Most Influential Award", "Most Commercial Value Award" and "Most Circle Breaking Potential Award" were won by "Villain Initialization", "Whale Swallowing the World", and "Accidentally Saving the Public Enemy of jianghu". Industry insiders attending the awards ceremony said that the integration and dissemination of original animation "breaking the circle" has been fully demonstrated at these awards.

The combination of tradition and trend has become the mainstream of creation

Many judges of this competition said that as a "Chinese animation vane", the winners of previous Golden Dragon Awards represent the direction of the industry. One of the most prominent highlights of this competition is that excellent animation works that integrate the pulse of the times and deeply cultivate traditional culture have become the "top stream" and have won many awards. It is foreseeable that excavating and utilizing the essence of traditional culture, integrating into the spirit of the new era, and letting traditional culture land in the collision with modern young trend culture will become the mainstream trend of animation content creation.

Among the works that won the animation awards, the traditional culture was dug deep and recreated everywhere, such as "Jiang Ziya", which won the gold medal of the "Best Animated Feature Film Award", the Best Animation Director Award, and the Best Animation Music Award, "New God List: Nezha Rebirth", which reinterpreted the classic myth in the steampunk style, "Five Elements of the Misty Mountains" based on "Shan Hai Jing" and "Search for God", and "Dali Temple Journal", an adventure detective story based on the Dali Temple of the Tang Dynasty.

Yesterday, the Organizing Committee of the China International Comics Festival announced that with the approval of the relevant government departments, the "Cai Zhizhong Comic Award" was 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 Fair.

Written by: Nandu reporter Xu Xiaolei