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Maoming home to one of Bing Dwen Dwen's creators

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2022-02-09
 

With the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics ongoing, the popularity of Olympic panda mascot Bing Dwen Dwen continues to grow. Ye Ziqi, one of the designers of the team from the Guangzhou Academy of Fines Arts, is from Gaozhou, a county-level city in Maoming, Guangdong province. 

From February to September in 2021, the design team made 21 major revisions and countless minor revisions to the design draft, experimenting with various potential animals for the mascot, including tigers, elks, rabbits, and pandas, before deciding to make the mascot a panda.

As a teacher at the School of Visual Art and Design of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Ye devoted himself to the mascot's design in his spare time, while also taking care of his newborn child. Despite his heavy workload, Ye found time to visit a panda base regularly to get closer contact with pandas in order to inspire his design ideas.

In addition to Bing Dwen Dwen's success, the Together for a Shared Future cartoon made by Ye and his team to celebrate the Winter Olympic Games was launched recently. To get it online in time, team members stayed up late to edit it. As he was mainly responsible for its visual presentation, Ye would work overnight when he received a design draft to ensure that the three-dimensional effect could be presented efficiently.

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Ye Ziqi is pictured with a human-sized Bing Dwen Dwen. [Photo/WeChat account: maofabu]