OOPI · One-Person Brand Services · Tan Xiaozheng
One-Person Brand 22 Years 2004 – 2026

OOPI
Brand & IP
Services.

The commercial surface of one person’s 22-year practice — Tan Xiaozheng delivers brand, content, and IP services through the OOPI / Black Rabbit & Pink Pig identity.

Operated by Tan Xiaozheng (single founder)
Trademarked 2004 – 2026 across 22 years of consistent practice
— 01 / What OOPI Is

One person.
One brand.
Four ways in.

OOPI is not an agency, not a studio, not an IP licensing house. OOPI is the commercial surface of a single founder — Tan Xiaozheng — who has spent 22 years building a personal trust network in animation, art, and brand work.

— The Mechanism

You don’t hire a company.
You hire certainty.

Because Tan Xiaozheng is the brand manager, the executor, and the contact — every engagement you book is delivered by the same person who pitched it. There is no agency layer, no account manager, no junior team.

This means three things: zero information loss, faster iteration, and direct accountability. The Black Rabbit & Pink Pig characters you see on this site are the visual identity for that promise.

Founder = Brand Manager

The boss is the brand manager. No outsourced brand strategy, no PR team — the person you contact is the person who decides and delivers.

Trust as Currency

22 years of consistent practice, public quarterly reviews, and refusal of off-strategy work — trust is what you buy.

Visual is Brand

The four-color system (black + warm white + orange + plush pink) is unified across every product and surface. Visual coherence is the receipt.

22
Years Practice
2004 CAFA first animation cohort — today
247
OOPI Episodes
Black Rabbit & Pink Pig animation series
50+
Partner Artists
Cross-discipline collaborators since 2005
— 02 / Services

Four ways
to work together.

Each mode has a clear deliverable, a clear boundary, and a clear price band. Pick the one that fits — if none fit, we’ll tell you so in the first call.

— 03 / Selected Engagements

Real projects,
delivered in person.

2025 Strategy · Naming
OOPI 主业确立 · 黑兔粉猪 IP 商业化启动

Restructured 22 years of accumulated trust into a single commercial surface — OOPI. Trademark registration (Class 35, Heiti/Songti), brand-trilogy implementation, and B2B positioning reset.

Outcome Brand-trilogy L01/L02/L03 fully documented; OOPI now anchors all future partnerships.
2024 Event · IP Activation
Finding Direction 2 · Dongkoh 20 周年

Co-organised industry-wide animation collaboration event at Chengdu Gazelle Valley Cultural & Creative Park. Multi-party coordination, content pipeline, and live event documentation.

Outcome Cross-studio network re-activation; 20-year legacy reframed as ongoing practice.
2023 Content · New-Media
Backwall 复出 · 小红书 + 视频号

Re-launched the 2005 Backwall identity on RED and WeChat Video Channel after 18-year dormancy. Established a 2-platform metronome cadence and tone unification across both.

Outcome Backwall active in 12 months; consistent weekly cadence held across quarters.
2023 – 2024 Judge · Industry Authority
Asia IP Contest · Tokyo Juror

Three-year appointment (2023–2025) as juror for the Asia IP Contest in Tokyo. Evaluated new-generation IP across categories and contributed methodology commentary.

Outcome Industry-level visibility; positioning Tan Xiaozheng as a cross-border IP authority.
— 04 / The Method

The Brand Trilogy.
20 years, 3 layers.

Every OOPI engagement runs on the same operating system. Skipping any layer is where one-person businesses fail.

L01
Foundation · Legal
Trademark

Class 35 mandatory, Heiti/Songti, evidence notarised every 2 years. Without this, your brand legally doesn’t exist.

L02
Path · Communication
New-Media

B2B vs B2C platform choice. Tone unification. Boss = brand manager. Without this, nobody knows you exist.

L03
Top · Strategy
Direction

Four strategic questions: who is the client, what is irreplaceable, what is the model, what is the growth engine.

— 05 / Boundaries

Edges matter more than
promises. What I won’t do.

× Projects with a deadline under 7 days
× Pure execution work that needs outsourcing
× Industries unrelated to anime / creativity / brand
× Projects below a defined minimum scope
× Clients who haven’t fixed direction after 3 rounds
× “Influencer traffic” deliverables
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