From March 24 to 25, the 3rd Short Drama Ecosystem Conference, co-hosted by Short Drama Study Room and China International Cartoon & Animation Festival, was successfully held in Hangzhou, with QuVideo invited to attend.
Wu Wanxuan, Business Vice President of QuVideo, delivered a keynote speech at the conference, sharing the core logic and practical paths for short dramas going global in the AI era.
As we enter 2026, the comic-drama industry has witnessed frequent developments and accelerated transformation, bringing widespread anxiety among entrepreneurs. For QuVideo, which has deeply rooted itself in the overseas market for 14 years, its core thinking has always revolved around one point: returning to the essence of the industry amid the AI wave and delivering truly good stories through global expansion.
Is it difficult to find the direction for good stories? Although AI technology has replaced manual shooting with AI-generated scenes, Wu Wanxuan emphasized in her speech that AI is not the decisive factor in creating high-quality and hit content. The key to breaking through lies in returning to users’ core needs and delivering valuable emotional experiences.
As the cost structure of the film and television industry has completely shifted from labor-intensive (extras, site management, etc.) to computing power and computing labor-intensive (prompt engineers, post-production, etc.), the trial-and-error cost of short dramas has been greatly reduced. Through low-cost trial-and-error and precise capture of user emotions, once content proves to have hit potential, production resources can be rapidly invested to refine and optimize it.
Wu Wanxuan further added that in terms of genre selection, AI technology excels and is more likely to generate hits in "grand scene" themes that are difficult to restore with traditional live-action shooting, as well as distinctive categories such as science fiction and werewolf stories. Such content brings audiences extreme visual impact and experience.
**Is it challenging for good stories to go global? **Whether it is traditional live-action short dramas or the rapidly emerging AI comic-dramas and AI virtual human dramas, effective localization is the core prerequisite for achieving revenue breakthroughs in overseas markets. Language adaptation and emotional delivery through dubbing are the two key elements of localization.
To address this pain point, QuVideo has built the FireflyFusion One-Stop AI Technology Infrastructure based on its self-developed vertical short drama model, lip-sync technology and emotional TTS. It can stably process over 10,000 video pieces per day, enabling overseas audiences not only to understand the content but also to be moved by the plot emotions and achieve an immersive viewing experience.
In 2026, FireflyFusion has gained new momentum with the launch of an advanced AI video-to-video redrawing function. This feature can fully reconstruct the visuals of proven hit dramas, renewing visual styles, scene presentation, lighting effects and dubbing quality while retaining core plots and satisfying highlights, helping popular dramas extend their overseas lifecycle by more than three times.
**Is the threshold for producing good stories high? **Despite the rapid development of video models such as Seedance, generating high-quality scenes is no longer a challenge. However, long coherent storytelling remains a core pain point in the production of high-quality short dramas.
QuVideo officially launched its AI virtual human drama production service in 2026. Relying on its self-developed film and television Agent creation workflow, it provides full-chain high-quality AI virtual human drama production from script breakdown and storyboard generation to final video rendering, efficiently solving narrative challenges.
During the conference, QuVideo also set up an exclusive booth, showcasing its upcoming AI virtual human drama Mysteries of Longsha and demos of self-produced high-quality 2D and 3D comic-dramas. The team had in-depth exchanges with numerous guests, elaborating on how the FireflyFusion One-Stop AI Technology Infrastructure helps a large number of short drama enterprises break through bottlenecks in going global and achieve high-quality development.