Classification and characteristics of Animation toys:
With the fierce animation industry, people are becoming more and more interested in animation peripheral products. In fact, in Japan, Europe and the United States, animation peripheral products have long been popular, and many people regard them as artworks for collection. In the past two years, the peripheral products of animation have also been developed in China.
The main categories are: mainly include cartoon gashapons, cartoon dolls, Japanese cartoon figures, animal plush toys, which are called dolls in Hong Kong dialect.
Gacha can be divided into regular version, Q version, scene version, statue version, building block man and other types.
Gacha generally refers to a product with a height of no more than 12 cm, a relatively simple structure, a relatively general craftsmanship, and a relatively general mobility. Generally, it is launched in a set of several pieces, and the method of random extraction is mostly adopted: some are placed in the ball-shaped egg box of the gashapon machine, and the coin is transferred; some are placed in a sealed carton and drawn by the customer . Each individually packaged egg generally contains the product's loose parts, and the exquisite finished product can be obtained by simple installation. Because it is randomly obtained by luck, and a set of products not only has a large number, but also often includes rare versions such as hidden editions, special hidden editions, and heterochromatic editions, which increases the difficulty and fun of collecting. Gacha is the most abundant and lowest-priced category of peripheral products, and it is particularly close to animation and game works, so it is relatively easy to start in China.
The name of the figure (also called the first version or the hand version) is often confused with all character models. In fact, the hands in the true sense are GARAGE KIT (GK for short) that expresses the personality of the prototype, which refers to a model kit that is not mass-produced.Because the output is small and the complexity of mold opening is very difficult, the price is generally very expensive. Because of the characteristics of the resin material, it is very suitable for expressing very detailed details and characters.Most of the figures are semi-finished white molds provided by the factory, which require a series of complex processes such as polishing, assembling, and coloring, and the difficulty is far greater than that of general model making. In terms of coloring alone, a certain degree of art skills and expensive painting tools such as airbrushes are required. Therefore, it is not something that ordinary people can easily try. Since the processing process of the hand-made is all manual, the price of the finished hand-made is relatively high.
Several important features of the figure:
1. The hand-made mold is not mass-produced. A set of hand-made molds can generally only produce about 20-25 products.
2. The raw materials of the hand-made, which is also the most important factor in distinguishing whether it is a hand-made. Most of the raw materials of the hand-made use high-grade pu non-foaming resin, the best such as Japanese cast resin (300 yuan per kilogram transparent More expensive), the white mold made from this raw material has a very good feel, and the product basically has no bubbles. The color of the white mold is not yellow or dark, nor too bright, very smooth (different from the smooth plastic of pvc), it feels like jade or ivory, and it feels very good in the hand, unlike pvc or plastic So light. It will not emit an unpleasant smell when polishing.
3. The hand-made is very expressive, such as subtle facial expressions, wrinkles of stockings, etc. are all lifelike.
4. Since the processing of the finished product requires a lot of manpower, the figure is generally not a finished product. Even if the finished product is sold, it will cost more in price and time!
5. Models/dolls made of other plastic materials (PVC PS ABS ABC) can’t be called figurines (many businesses will say they are figurines in order to promote their products, but they should be called figurines/dolls in English. model or figure.)