ABOUT US

About

Introduction

Founded in 1999 by director Tian Xiaopeng, October Media is one of the earliest 3D animation production companies in China.

In 2002, October Media produced an animated short film named Lunch, which was successfully selected into Chinese 3D Yearbook. Through the examination of a series of works, October Media has finally grown into a leading 3D animation creative and production companies in China.

In 2015, the animation feature film Monkey King: Hero Is Back originally produced by October Media hit the summer and set a new record of Chinese animation with the box office of RMB 956 million, which aroused hot discussions in the field of animation and movie fans all over the world. October Media is therefore recognized as the leading force in Chinese animation industry.

Nowadays, the key businesses of October Media include animation film & television creation, derivative licensing operation and IP themed entertainment. October Media will successively develop various types of animation feature film, online drama and TV series, and devote itself to cross-over cooperation and operation of developing original IP derivatives.

Milestones
  • 1999

    October Media was founded in 1999.

  • 2001

    The CG film Reconstruction of The Old Summer Palace was selected into Chinese 3D Yearbook in 2001.

  • 2002

    The animated short film Lunch was selected into Chinese 3D Yearbook in 2002.

  • 2004.8

    The original CG film sample Turbo Boy won the award of Outstanding Animation from the Committee of China Visual Arts Association in August 2004.

  • 2005.12

    The commercial of web game Monopoly-Online won the award of Outstanding Animation from China Digital Art Professional Committee in December 2005.

  • 2006.8

    Tian Xiaopeng, the General Manger of October Media, was invited to be the judge member of Osaka Asian Arts Festival in August 2006.

  • 2006.12

    Jungle Master, an original film sample, won the award of Outstanding Animation in commercial category from China Digital Art Professional Committee in December 2006.

  • 2007.12

    Co-production with MARVEL on the commercial of Spiderman themed game in December 2007

  • 2008.5

    Production of the film The Light of Olympia in May 2008

  • 2009.10

    Overall planning and production for 2010 BTV Spring Festival Animation Gala in October 2009

  • 2010.10

    Overall planning and production for 2011 BTV Spring Festival Animation Gala in October 2010

  • 2015.7.10

    Monkey King: Hero Is Back released on July 10, 2015, earning the box office of RMB 956 million till September 9.

Awards

Awards for the original animation film Monkey King: Hero Is Back:

The Best Animation Works from the 3rd Animation Award of Government Awards for Chinese Culture and Art in 2018 The Animation Film Gold Award from the 13th China International Festival Golden Monkey Award in 2017 The Best Film Award and the Best Animation Award from 2017 BIMFFAWARDS The Best Animation Film Award, Best Script Writer Award, Best Motion Design Award and Best Voice-over Award of Tianma Award from 2015 – 2016 Chinese Animation Film Recommendation Fair The Best Animation Film Award from ACG Jinying Awards in 2016 The Outstanding Feature Film from the 16th China Huabiao Film Awards in 2016 The Outstanding Foreign Animation Feature Film Award in We2016 Tokyo Animation Awards competition unit The Best New Director of the year from 2015 iFilm Global Culture and Entertainment Ceremony The Best Animation Film of the year from Gold Petals Award by IQIYI ACG Carnival in 2015 The Best Art Film from the 30th China Golden Rooster Film Awards in 2015 Nominated as the Best Animation Feature Film by the 52nd Golden Horse Awards in 2015 The Best Animation Film Award of the Golden Sheep Awards from the 7th China International Animation Copyright Fair in 2015 The Best Animation Feature Film Award and Best Animation Director Award from the 12th China Animation & Comic Competition Golden Dragon Award in 2015 The Gold Panda Animation Award, the Best Domestic Animation Film Award, the Best Animation Film Director Award and the Best Visual Effects Award nomination from 2015 International Gold Panda Awards for Animation

Awards for other CG films:

Jungle Master, an original film sample, won the award of Outstanding Animation in commercial category from China Digital Art Professional Committee in December 2006. The documentary 1405 Zheng He’s Voyages won the Best Visual Effect Award from China Digital Art Professional Committee in December 2006. The commercial of web game Monopoly-Online won the award of Outstanding Animation from China Digital Art Professional Committee in December 2005. The original CG film sample Turbo Boy won the Best 3D Animation Award in the professional group of China Digital Art Professional Committee in October 2004. The original CG film sample Turbo Boy won the award of Outstanding Animation from the committee of China Visual Arts Association in August 2004.
Team

Tian Xiaopeng

Founder of October Media

Director of Monkey King: Hero Is Back

Director of Deep Sea

October Media brings together a group of young, professional and enthusiastic animation talents. It is a team full of vitality, innovation spirit and courage to take challenges. Adhering to the concept of “Chinese animation needs its own heroes”, director Tian Xiaopeng and the team are fully committed to building October Media an international animation brand.
Join Us

Executive Producer

Responsibilities:

  1. Responsible for the overall management of the planning, project approval and production of the company's animation projects;
  2. Have complete experience in producing and managing animated films or animated series, and can be fully responsible for creative planning and production management of specific animation projects;
  3. Lead the planning and concept team to complete the incubation and development of the company's projects;
  4. Have excellent comprehensive quality of animation film production management, able to interpret scripts and prepare project budgets from the perspective of production, make production plans and implementation plans;
  5. Manage and guide the production team, assist in managing the production team, and ensure the efficient work of the project team;
  6. Able to strictly execute production plan and budget, track the animation production process, ensure the progress and the quality of films;
  7. Rich animation industry resources, able to objectively evaluate and select domestic and foreign suppliers, supervise the quality of outsourcing materials;
  8. Review the project team's expenses, strictly implement the financial system, responsible for cost accounting and final project settlement;
  9. Participate in the development of animation project publicity strategy and plan;
  10. Assist the company to build a team together according to project requirements.

Requirements:

  1. Good communication skills, diligent, dedicated and team-oriented;
  2. Active and responsible, with strong sense of responsibility and ability to work under pressure;
  3. Love animation industry, wide knowledge of animation, film and television, quick thinking;
  4. At least 5 years of animation filmmaking or production experience;
  5. Familiar with the whole process and cost of animation preparation in the early stage, production in the middle and later stage;
  6. Have professional art foundation and theoretical basis, strong grasp of the whole animation, good visual sense and aesthetic sense, and good ability to use lens language;
  7. Have high artistic accomplishment and creative ability, have a good grasp of the lens, can fully understand the script and design requirements;
  8. Have good sense of responsibility, dedication and executive ability, and can adapt to high intensity work under pressure;
  9. High sense of confidentiality.

Senior CG Riger

Responsibilities:

  1. Complete the binding of roles (body and expression), props and scenes in the project process according to the project requirements;
  2. Optimize the binding system and carry out program research and development for special effects;
  3. Set the relevant requirements for the role's special effects;
  4. Cooperate with related links and constantly improve the joint process.

Requirements:

  1. Rich experience in movie-level binding, able to complete the animation setting of characters independently;
  2. Have full understanding of the performances and expressions of animated films, and can understand and grasp the structural characteristics of characters;
  3. Have full understanding of animation production, able to adjust animation control according to the needs of animators, and improve production efficiency;
  4. Have certain understanding of structural analysis, work carefully and well organized;
  5. Strong communication and understanding ability, able to improve quality through self-requirement;
  6. Have certain programming ability and can independently develop relevant tools;
  7. Have strong ability to work under pressure, love animated films and enthusiastic about the original works development;
  8. Original project experience is preferred.

Scene Artist

Responsibilities:

  1. Create film and television concept design drawing according to the description of film and television scripts;
  2. Listen to the director's ideas on the artistic style pursued by the film, discuss the means of expression to achieve the artistic style, and determine the direction of scene design;
  3. Ensure the smooth progress of the upper and lower links, and submit the review in strict accordance with the fixed time.

Requirements:

  1. Have rich imagination and creative ability, ideas are not superficial, not routine;
  2. Able to communicate without barriers and clearly understand the ideas conveyed by the director;
  3. Able to work together in a friendly manner;
  4. Willing to continuously improve and update for better picture effect;
  5. Mature project participation experience or individual independent works are preferred;
  6. Solid painting skills and excellent creativity;
  7. Art or related major, with talent, individuality and passion.

English Line Producer

Responsibilities:

  1. Mainly responsible for the management and communication of external resources, expanding the resource base for the team;
  2. Preliminarily review the outsourcing submissions and sort out the asset files;
  3. Responsible for the progress, quality and cost control of outsourcing projects;
  4. Responsible for the backup of each project, timely sort out all relevant materials of the project according to the project process, and file project materials;
  5. Assist to complete other work arranged by the producer.

Requirements:

  1. Optimistic and outgoing, good at communicating with others;
  2. Have certain foundation of fine art painting, and have their own unique views on art;
  3. Strong writing skills, able to independently write some creative plans;
  4. English can be used as working language.

Storyboard Artist

Responsibilities:

  1. Have their own creative ability, ideas are not superficial, not routine;
  2. Good narrative skills, excellent camera skills, smooth editing, concise connection;
  3. With certain painting skills, storyboard sketches can express their own meaning clearly;
  4. Can communicate effectively and clearly understand the ideas conveyed by the director, and work together in a friendly manner;
  5. Willing to continuously improve and update for better story effect;
  6. Mature project participation experience or individual independent works are preferred;
  7. Art or related major.

Requirements:

  1. Give full play to imagination and provide more creative ideas to directors and other department staffs;
  2. According to the director, scriptwriter, art department and existing ideas and concepts, design plots and episodes that are ultimately expressed through lens;
  3. According to the film structure and basic ideas provided by the director and the script, enrich and expand the film into specific plots and pictures, and finally draw into storyboards and edit into dynamic storyboards;
  4. Constantly improve the works and actively modify the deficiencies in the design;
  5. Ensure the smooth progress of the upper and lower links and submit the documents for review in strict accordance with the prescribed time.

Python Front-end Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

  1. Responsible for the development and improvement of project process management system;
  2. Experience in project scheduling and workload data analysis.

Requirements:

  1. More than 3 years of development experience, familiar with Python development;
  2. Familiar with PyQT, Pyside, Pyside2 and other GUI tools;
  3. Experience in ERP, CRM or PM projects of large enterprises is preferred;
  4. Familiar with Python ORM and database operations;
  5. Good communication and teamwork skills;
  6. Strong self-learning ability, able to acquire new knowledge quickly, having own technical blog address and github is a plus;
  7. Familiar with server url and Jason interface, and experience in Linux development is preferred.

3D Modeler

Responsibilities:

  1. Make environmental production according to project requirements, conceptual design and real shooting materials, and formulate production plans;
  2. Perfect the demand for the scene of preview;
  3. Responsible for the production of part of scene mapping;
  4. Provide clear production requirements and modification opinions to relevant departments, and optimize the technical scheme reasonably;
  5. Assist the supervisor to improve the production process.

Requirements:

  1. Art or related major, with good art foundation;
  2. Can plan the layout of the scene according to the relationship between the shooting lens and the preview lens;
  3. Have strong appreciation of art, able to build 3D scenes according to art concepts or designs;
  4. Have strong ability to work under pressure, love animated films, and have great enthusiasm for original works;
  5. Have rich experience in movie-level scene production and planning, and rigorous awareness of process specification;
  6. Conscientiously and responsibly complete tasks in terms of quality and quantity;
  7. Strong communication and understanding ability, able to improve quality through self-requirement;
  8. Proficient in mainstream model making software;
  9. Original projects experience is preferred.

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