However, some of the types of positions where the mainland is short on qualified people cannot be filled by professionals from Taiwan. In such areas as art, props, and costumes, for example, the mainland already has decades of experience in the making of television dramas, while specialists from Korea and Thailand are hired to fill positions that have been created more recently, such as computer graphics and special-effect makeup.
但有些大陸缺的人才，台灣還是補不上，例如美術、道具、服裝等，大陸製作電視劇的經驗已有幾十年，但頂尖的設計人才，還是要找香港的張叔平（代表作《花樣年華》）、奚仲文（代表作《甜蜜蜜》）和葉錦添。而後期電腦特效、特效化妝，都只能到韓國、泰國進行後製。