**A webtoon artist who can’t draw well… Korea’s production and distribution platform**
Anyone who can’t draw can create a webtoon as long as they have a story. Such a Korean webtoon production and distribution platform is attracting attention. South Korea’s TOONIT supports automated solutions that allow anyone to create webtoons easily and quickly.
“Toonit” has a three-dimensional (3D) virtual space like a set for filming movies and dramas. Place the character you want to use here and capture it by taking a picture at the desired angle and distance to create a scene of the webtoon. Toonit becomes a set of 3D webtoons.
With Tounit, even traditional webtoon writers can be significantly more efficient. Webtoons have a rigorous process, when a writer wants to finish a batch of 70-100 cuts of a webtoon, a team of 7-8 people draws it all week long. However, when I made 70 cuts of ‘Itaewon Class’ webtoon on Toonit, one person finished it in two days.
In particular, it is not easy to modify characters in conventional webtoon production, but with Tounit, it is possible to modify in real time.
The company was established in January 2021. After attracting seed investment from venture capital (VC) â??Spring Campâ? affiliated with Internet major Naver and VC â??Innobaseâ? affiliated with conglomerate â??Kolonâ? â??â??in seven months, Tounit Studio was launched in December last year.
Earlier last year, the Closed Beta service launched for testing, with more than 22,000 people in 97 countries participating for two months. More than 60% of “Generation Z” people under the age of 25 are accustomed to the metaverse. In fact, there were 870 participants from 27 countries who created webtoons.
CEO Kim Jung-dae said, “Through the closed beta service, we were able to confirm the general public’s demand for webtoon creation. By country, the United States and South Korea accounted for 45% and 20% respectively, with the largest number of participants, and Southeast Asian users such as the Philippines and Indonesia. There were many,â? he said.
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