Just yesterday, the Spring Festival Gala released the mascot image of the 2024 Year of the Dragon Spring Festival Gala——"Long Chenchen". The Spring Festival Gala also released the design inspiration for the mascot: the dragon face is derived from the turquoise dragon-shaped vessel of the China Archaeological Museum, the dragon's spine and belly are derived from He Zun of the Baoji Bronze Museum, the dragon's eyebrows and shoulders are derived from the cloud-patterned copper banquet of the Henan Museum, the dragon's fins are inspired by the gilt dragons of the Xi'an Museum, and the dragon's claws are taken from the Nine Dragon Wall of the Palace Museum.
However, after the image of "Long Chenchen" was released, it aroused doubts and complaints from netizens.Many people said that this is clearly an AI composite picture, and it is too perfunctory..
Someone else released evidence: five fingers on the front paws, four fingers on the back paws, an AI drawing at a glance; it looks familiar. Isn't this a drawing that China Construction Bank has used before?
Up to now, the mascot image released by the Spring Festival Gala has been reposted nearly 10,000 times on Weibo, with more than 2,700 comments, but the vast majority are left by netizens questioning the aesthetics and lax review.
Public opinion was fierce, and the Spring Festival Gala official subsequently released a new Weibo to respond to the doubts (click on the link to jump), saying:
The editor saw everyone's comments. I was "rummaging through" the design teacher's computer late at night and didn't have time to sort it out, so I recorded the screen immediately and shared it with everyone.
"Long Chenchen" definitely has imperfections,But it was really drawn by the design teacher one stroke at a time., from the early days of creation to the present, every "transformation" of "Long Chenchen" is still vivid in my mind.
The editor still remembers that in the first draft, the design teacher drew several different forms. It was also late at night that everyone voted collectively in the conference room to select the current version from various forms.
The design plan for every detail, such as patterns, colors, dragon faces, etc., was changed one version after another. The design teacher's head became bald one after another, and finally he had the "Long Chenchen" that everyone sees today.
Chenchen is not perfect, but I really didn’t fool everyone. This time I didn’t satisfy everyone. We will work harder in the future.