The Digital era (1990-present)
While China's broadcast was catching up on Doraemon on CCTV, foreign animations like Pokémon have already been popularized worldwide spawning $15 billion in sales. The commercialization and innovation of Japanese and American animations pushed the traditional Chinese animations out of the market.
Complaints have been heard throughout the 90s about the problems facing Chinese animation. Numerous artists even ended up adopting into American and Japanese animation styles, with more noticeable changes in manhua work.
By the end of the millennium, the Internet opened up the Chinese animation industry a great deal. Software such as Adobe Flash and venues such as Youtube and clones there allowed independent animators to produce Webtoons by themselves as long as they have a computer and an Internet connection. More expensive animation products from Autodesk, Newtek and Adobe were on the horizon for animation schools to adopt.
When Xiao Xiao was released on the internet it draw many attention and became one of the many famous Chinese webtoons.CGI special effects increased to the point where many new Chinese animation movies and series had begin to adopted by mid-2000s with some example of DragonBlade: The Legend of Lang, Century Sonny, etc.
Source: citizendia.org
Editor: Xu Xinlei
