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Nie Conglin Portfolio
kaguya
かぐや様は告らせたい？
DATE : 2020 May ~ 2020 Dec
TEAM : 2 members
ROLE : Research, Marketing, Proposal, Direction, Production Control
This project was participated by two members, sales for the publisher and planner for the merchandisers as well as designer involved. I took the role to do the research for previous series and alternative products for this projects. The biggest problem was we couldn't use 「告」logo as a main material coz there was another company took this chance. I rewatched the whole series and found out the lines of each character were funny and impressive. Fans could get attracted by products motivated from those lines. Eventually we choose to use some famous lines from each character and designed all products in a street fashioned way.
攻殻機動隊 SAC_2045
DATE : 2020 Jan ~ 2020 May
TEAM : 2 members
ROLE : Research, Marketing, Proposal, Direction, Production Control
This project started along with the coming new animation of Stand Alone Complex. This new series was made in 3D and the Russian illustrator Ilya designed the characters.
The main difficulty for me was the direction for newly drawn by the illustrator and the drawing was applied for most of the products. I did the research about his previous works and picked up one of the work closest to my image. This way of direction turned out works very well because it was intuitive.
Products applied with this newly drawing sold very well, especially the Art Board was all sold out for 300 pieces.
うずまき x R4G
DATE : 2019 Nov ~ 2020 Jul
TEAM : 2 members
ROLE : Research, Marketing, Proposal, Direction, Production Control
This project was kick started with my proposal. I was a big fan of Junji Ito, the writer of [Uzumaki] and he is extremely famous overseas. Then I came up with a proposal of combining apparel brand and Uzumaki to design some cool items for fashion lovers.
This project turned out made many trendy products for younger generation and stood out from other previous products. I see it as a success both for my first proposal and a new way to design products for horror works.
kago
駕籠真太郎
DATE : 2020 Feb ~ 2020 Aug
TEAM : 3 members
ROLE : Research, Translating, Marketing, Proposal, Direction, Production Control
By predicting the popularity of horror mangas in US, me and another colleague living in NYC started this project producing for Shintaro Kago, a horror manga artist. This artist was not very popular domestic but he has over 600,000 fans on Instagram. We chose some trendy items among American fans and it was a success overseas. We faced some difficulties on sizes but we finally decided to make 7 sizes from XS to XXXL. Knowing the differences between Japanese and American merchandises enhanced my skills producing for all kinds of target people. During this project, I also mastered some skills promoting our products on SNS.
CHOI-ITA
CHOI-ITAバッグ
DATE : 2019 Oct ~
RELEASE : 2020 Aug SS ver, 2020 Dec AW ver
TEAM : 2 members
ROLE : Research, Marketing, Proposal, Direction, Production Control
This project was original from my idea of making some fashionable ITA bags for both anime and fashion lovers. ITA bag is a kind of bag that decorated with people's favourite animation character products. The common impression of an ITA bag is with crazy amount of character products and colour. That is why ITA bag is an item not fashionable generally. At the begging of this project, many merchandisers refused our proposal because they thought ITA bag should be NOT fashionable as it is right now. But I still think making a trendy ITA bag is necessary and the stereotype for animation lovers should be changed. We finally succeed to find one merchandiser to make with bag for us. By co-working with designers we made 2 versions of ITA-bags. Most of the users of our bag commented that the variety of the colour and the security is very satisfying and they were looking forward to our new coming versions.
理系が恋に落ちたので証明してみた。
理系恋
DATE : 2020 Feb ~ 2020 Aug
TEAM : 2 members
ROLE : Research, Marketing, Proposal, Direction, Production Control
I was appointed to work on this project in a very short term. This project was extremely difficult for me because I did not have enough experience. But my colleague helped me a lot. I was taught to work one each product separately based on its producing spam. And set different schedule for each item to make sure they can be produced on time. After this project, I learned to set different schedule for each item in a project and got a better control skill for production.
TVドラマ極主夫道
DATE : 2020 Sep ~ 2020 Dec
TEAM : 2 members
ROLE : Research, Marketing, Proposal, Direction, Production Control
This project was done in a very short time. According to my experience of 理系恋 before, I mastered how to control each item's schedule and complete each of them in time. This project was my first work with a TV series. And there are many constrains for the characters. For example, the samples for a product using the design of the actors need to be reached over 15 pieces, which is a large amount. Then we choose only using the manga characters instead. By this decision, we finished the project on time and released all the products by Dec.
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