B.CMAY PICTURES, legally Beijing Shimei Jingdian Pictures, was incorporated in April 2017 around the 2D team that had just made season 1 of The King's Avatar. The Shimei name traces back to Chongqing studios that grew out of a Sichuan Fine Arts Institute training program in the mid 2000s, and the company still runs Beijing and Chongqing as twin bases with branches in Hangzhou, Xi'an, Chengdu, and Changsha. For Tencent it produced the three seasons of Mo Dao Zu Shi (2018-2021), winner of a Golden Dragon Award for best serial animation, and it maintains a staff of several hundred 2D specialists.
