Every Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone begins to look forward to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and feel the strong New Year atmosphere. Generally speaking, the large-scale discussion of the Spring Festival Gala is in the days before and after the performance of the program, but this year's discussion seems to have come earlier, not about the program, but about the Spring Festival Gala mascots and related designers.
"Long Chenchen" is the mascot of the 2024 Spring Festival Gala. Since Long Chenchen's appearance on December 6, there have been waves of related discussions.
Next year is the Year of the Dragon, so let's take a look at this baby dragon first.
The colors are mainly golden and red, supplemented by green and pink, and the colors are bright and festive, which is very beautiful. The eyes are bright, the expression is cute, the body is steep, and it looks full of vitality, showing the high-spirited spirit of the new era.
From a layman's point of view, I just think it's good-looking, playful and cute, auspicious and festive, and the color is pleasing to the eye, which is very in line with the three words "mascot".
However, many netizens who may be knowledgeable say that this is done through AI drawing, which looks "auraless".
One glance at AI, which used to be a mascot designed by an art master, is now lazy like this?”
The rough collage of materials + AI, I don't know how much price difference I ate in the middle, and finally threw it to a college student who didn't graduate. ”
Taking the lead in using AI is too unfriendly to art creators!”
Netizens expressed doubts.
Not only that, but some people have questioned the details. The three dragon claws can be clearly seen in the picture, but the number of dragon fingers on the three claws is different, like a five, a four, and a three. Judging by the one on the front, one claw should have five dragon fingers.
The Spring Festival Gala refuted the rumors in time.
The official blog of the Spring Festival Gala said that "Long Chenchen" was really drawn by the design teacher with one stroke, and it was selected from several forms, and it was finalized after repeated revisions.
The Spring Festival Gala also deliberately displayed the creativity of each part, such as the dragon fin** in the gilded dragon now in the Xi'an Museum, the dragon's belly and the dragon's spine** in the He Zun now in the Baoji Bronze Museum, and so on.
Also, the dragon on the China CCB Dragon Card is the same as "Long Chenchen", which is nothing to say, because CCB and the Spring Festival Gala are co-branded, but the CCB said that this is the world's first AI-designed mascot, and the Spring Festival Gala is still hard-mouthed.
Here's the highlight.
In order to dispel everyone's doubts, the official blog of the Spring Festival Gala also released the screen recording of the designer's computer. This screen-taped blog post has attracted a lot of attention, with more than 17,000 comments. But it was this screen recording that made the Spring Festival Gala slap himself in the face.
There is a "Wishing you prosperity coloring" pattern in the designer's computer, and its background is almost exactly the same as that of a painting blogger "Virtue and Art Shuangxin".
The original drawing by the painting blogger was made in January 2022, 2022 is the Year of the Tiger, and the main picture of this work is two small tigers, while the background is a goldfish and countless large and small lanterns, the colors are mainly red and yellow.
If you zoom in on the picture of the designer of the Spring Festival Gala and look at it with the naked eye, you can find that the background of the two pictures is exactly the same, and even the position of the goldfish and the lantern has not changed. It seems that this designer really likes to save trouble.
Then, the official blog of the Spring Festival Gala said that all the pictures were drawn by the designer one by one, which is not convincing, and it is really a slap in the face.
The question arises, why do designers do this?It must have cost money to invite someone to paint at the Spring Festival Gala, why should the designer be perfunctory?Netizens, you say a word to me, I think there are probably two situations.
One is that the designer is very good, but he has no work ethic, and he just wants to scrape together to get things done. Also, it may be that the Spring Festival Gala is reluctant to spend money, so the designer casually found a student, and the student worked without pay, and he was also perfunctory.
In fact, it's nothing to be really AI, and it's not a big deal for the Spring Festival Gala to admit that it's AI. Although the mascot works in previous years were painted by the master himself, everyone couldn't accept AI works at once, but everyone couldn't accept the Spring Festival Gala and AI and lying, everyone still hopes that the Spring Festival Gala will be honest and calm.
It is estimated that the mascot of the Spring Festival Gala will not change, then we hope that the Spring Festival Gala program team can seriously produce programs, less fake and embarrassing, and more really interesting.
What do you think about this?Do you have any expectations for the Spring Festival Gala?
*From the Internet, invaded and deleted, thank you. ）