Illustrations in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan: As we all know, Japanese commercial animation has a huge market and operation team. Animation is an important branch of illustration industry.
Before CG technology (computer graphics, using computer technology for visual design and production) entered the field of illustration, hand-drawn animation had become a sunrise industry in Japan. The younger generation is increasingly inclined to use computer digital technology.
In South Korea, with the game industry climbing to the second pillar industry of the national economy in recent years, illustrations, especially digital illustrations, have sprung up everywhere, and the game characters designed with digital illustrations have also won more market space with the popularity of Korean games in China.
At the same time, Hong Kong and Taiwan illustrators are still looking for their own way of industry, although their works have obvious traces of learning from Japan.
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Illustrator is a general term: there are illustrators for the media publishing industry, children's illustrators and realistic illustrators for the advertising industry; Then there is the animation mascot designer; There is a great demand for game and film illustrators. Similar to the game industry, each film and television work will also have a lot of mirror drawing and scene design work, which undoubtedly has a great demand for illustrators in the game and film industry.
Electronic illustrator, with high creativity and strong expressive ability, can perfectly express the needs of enterprises. Hand-painted illustrator, with high hand-painted skills, can perfectly express illustration content and personal artistic feelings.