Morning Star Awards Chinese Original Science Fiction Art Contests

Since its launch in 2016, it has been held six times and has received over 2980 participants and 2475 entries (including individual and team works) from across the country. These entries include illustrations/comics, picture books, animated videos, and more, covering millions of people. The total prize money awarded is over 700000 yuan. Through the competition, multiple science fiction related visual effects, film and television companies, studios, and more than 30 science fiction visual art talents have been incubated, represented by Mancas Visual Effects, which focuses on the top fluid and disaster special effects research. Among them, the works have been selected for the world's top fantasy art annual review "Spectrum" Zhang Luye, a leading concept designer for Chinese mecha in the gaming industry, Shark Dan, an illustrator for "Science Fiction World," and Ni Zhenjie, a producer and director of the science fiction anime "Star Skeleton Knight," have held large-scale science fiction art exhibitions and international exchange events in Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Nantes, Dunhuang, Shangqiu, and other places, attracting over 1600 mainstream media reports nationwide.