Digital actors to feature prominently in future, producer says

Viewers of the web series My Chinese Chic Boutique could be forgiven for thinking that the tall, slender and beautiful "actress" Guo Guo is a real person. On a Chinese social media post about the show, only a few commented that she looks a little different from "normal" actors.

Guo is a virtual, computer-generated actress and an experiment of producer Chen Hongwei, who has worked in the showbiz industry for 20 years.

Once he obtained the rights to use Guo from another company, he looked for a series to produce so that he could use the digital actor alongside real actors.