It all started with an email they sent me in November 2017 to ask me to promote their apps and saying they like my works ! I thought it was fake cause i couldn’t believe it ! Then finally i began to make themes for them. And at the begining of january, they invited me as VIP designer for the meetup of CM designers in Beijing. I was too excited as i have always been fascinated by China and it was also an opportunity for me to visit Beijing !
So they make us visit the headquarter. From what i saw this company is really cool from the outside ! People are very kind. there are a lot of indoor entertainment like a gym, karaoke, or water slide ! I never saw that in any firm ! But for sure a company with a US$483.7 Million turnover has to work a lot ! and I think that’s why there’s all this entertainment, gym, karaoke, ballet to allow employees to relax !
And a slide ??? Can you imagine ?? It was fun though, you can watch the full video on youtube to see how i enjoyed it !
I’m with Chip, the Cheetah Mobile Mascot !
There were awards for the best designers and the best teams. It was interesting to see what kind of themes are the most popular and who did them ! They also gave us so many goodies ! I super liked !
And there I met some pro designers from 10 different countries around the world ! They were so inspiring ! And for the first time i knew it’s possible to make a living as themer ! But it won’t be easy as their level is very high and I am very far from reaching them ! You also need a very good strategy to survive as themer as most of them are very good, you must have other skills they haven’t or must be very creative and original ! So i have still a lot to learn and improve ! But i won’t give up ! Fighting !
I don’t consider myself as a pro designer so I was very flattered and very grateful by the invitation ! Especially because I know many Hello Kitty themers in the game longer than me who haven t this opportunity.
Finally visiting Cheetah Mobile was a great experience and people from there are all talented and work very hard ! I felt very small but I learned a lot from this meetup ! And i will obviously apply what they teached me !
I was not going to miss this opportunity to visit very popular chineese monuments and have fun ! You can watch my full trip here :
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