Chapter 222： [World's top animation special effects]

, The latest chapter in the latest global monopoly of technology!

"Mr. Luo, we sent a few samples of Hatsune Miku's sound source data at our office in Sapporo, Hokkaido. You can decide which one you choose."

He Chao, the person in charge of the virtual idol project, came to Luo Sheng's office. After speaking, he took a mobile data disk from his body and handed it to the table.

Bluestar Technology confirmed the formal project of the virtual idol, and soon acquired the company's electronic music production voice synthesis software VOCALOID from Yamaha, and based on this, Luo Sheng led an engineering team of the company from the bottom to further Optimization.

In fact, Luo Sheng can start completely from scratch, because after buying VOCALOID, he almost overturned the redevelopment and gave Yamaha a sum of money.

But this is not the point. The purpose of Luo Sheng's purchase of this software is to stifle the Japanese pioneering in the field of virtual idols. Basically set up the operating department of Blue Star Technology's virtual idol in Japan.

There is a flaw in the country that Luo Sheng has to accept, and that is the environment.

In the current 2007s, there is no such market as virtual idols at home, unlike foreign countries, especially Japanese books.

In China, most young people can't accept the existence of virtual singers, let alone the elderly.

Due to the circumstances, Luo Sheng can't reverse it, and pushing it will only pay a heavy price and an expensive cost.

Of course, Luo Sheng does not take the lead, and he must adapt to local conditions.

Therefore, in the early stage of the company's "virtual idol" launch, the focus was on overseas markets, and this area had to play a routine of "export first and then domestic sales".

Let's do it overseas first.

The point is that the Japanese market is the easiest to get up.

And the domestic market is slowly following up. People need a process of acceptance. After a few years, they will naturally be invincible.

Luo Sheng took the U disk handed over by He Chao to connect to the port of the working computer, opened the internal file, played a few samples of the sound source, and listened to it. A few minutes later, he decided: "Then, let's do this. , Folder six. "

The sampled sound source sent to the headquarters from Japan this time is 20%, all of which are female voice actors. I have to say that the voice actors of the small books are all monsters. Here, the "monster" is not a derogation, but an expression of marvel. the meaning of.

The sampled sound source of the No. 6 file is a female singer and voice actress from Japan, whose real name is Fujita Ayako.

Luo Sheng unplugged the USB flash drive and gave it to He Chao, and asked, "Yes, what's the progress of the promotional video by Takino Hideaki? Didn't mess it up, messed up you to do it, Takino is going to return to the original I'm not kidding to get some local people to buy him. "

He Chao: "..."

This is what he is more concerned about. With a budget of 450 million U.S. dollars, if converted at real-time exchange rate, it is ￥ 3.4 billion. If Tengye dare to mess up this film, Luo Sheng will definitely buy him hands and feet.

Money is a trivial matter. The cost of time is unacceptable to Luo Sheng. If there is an error here, the entire project will be delayed, and it will even affect the WRPO.

The strong linkage properties of the major sectors also mean that they move the whole body at one stroke, step by step, step by step, and step by step.

When He Chao heard Luo Sheng's words, his heart was sweating. The boss said the words were light and light. If Takino was here, he heard the rhythm that the whole person would be silly.

Too cruel!

Immediately replied: "I did n’t hit it. Fortunately, the director of Hideo Takino is really good. The project has reached 70%. The sample has been completed, but the post-editing and dubbing are still intensified. Everything was done in the later stages and everything went according to plan. "

After hearing the words, Luo Sheng nodded with satisfaction, and said casually, "That's good, Takino's hands and feet are kept. I will go to see how the samples look in the afternoon."

"Okay!" He Chao immediately responded, secretly relieved Takino, and now he finally understood why Takino Hideaki worked so hard, often staying up to midnight, thinking he was for the name, now it seems, not only for the name, Also to keep hands and feet.

The boss definitely threatened him and was scared. Since taking on this project, Takino Hideaki's **** was indifferent.

For Takino, he took the guide of this promotional film, which is definitely the most difficult project in his career, and the production is extremely difficult. To a certain extent, he is also the first time to make a pure CG movie, and has two-dimensional animation. big difference.

However, in the end is the talented director, coupled with the threat of buying hands and feet, this time almost released his talent to the extreme, all squeezed out without reservation.

No drop is left.

Just kidding, do you hear yourself being bought and tried?

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In the afternoon, Luo Sheng, who had nothing to do, came to the production department to take a lap. At this moment, the scene of the studio was full of green cloth and was performed indoors. The filming team was working in an orderly manner.

There was a slender girl actor on the set, but she was not a front-stage actor. She was wearing tight-fitting clothes, her features were intensive, and her body was also carrying some special electronic equipment.

This special effects team is the top motion capture team that Takino has invited from Hollywood. The "Guru" of the "Lord of the Rings" series is the work from this team.

At this moment, the shooting is a few unsatisfactory shots that Takino Hideaki asked to re-shoot. It is truly improving. Anyway, the funds are sufficient, and the budget can be increased.

Luo Sheng came here for a while, and this re-shooting motion capture lens was completed and finally met Takino Hideaki's expectations. After a while, he noticed Luo Sheng, and he quickly greeted him, saying, "Her President (Chairman), why didn't you tell me if you came earlier?"

"I'll come and see, how is the project going?" Luo Sheng said with a smile. As long as he doesn't talk about buying things, he is still an innocent, sunny and easy-going EVA fan.

Listening to Luo's question, Takino Hideaki led Luo Sheng to another office hall with an uplifting mood and even show off. There are more than a hundred animators distributed in the grid, all busy with their work. They came from Japan, from Hollywood, and from the Blizzard CG department.

In short, this is a luxury lineup with a budget of $ 450 million.

"Look, sir. The team's animator has continuously raised Hatsune's hair animation to a whole new level. I can guarantee it with my hands and feet. This is the highest level in the world. Without one, it will certainly shock the entire industry. "Takino Hideyoshi vowed, and then signaled Luo Sheng to watch the animation on the screen.

Takino also eloquently introduced: "The animator fulfilled my requirements and must make 470,000 hairs for Hatsune. This requires a brand new animation program. 'Jin Bu' is our name for this animation program. Just one The screen is rendered according to the total time spent by each team is 30 total hours, and the longest design took 132 hours of work. "

"You know, in an animated movie, one second can be a few weeks of work. Of course, because of your strong support, we have ample budget and the team can expand to an exaggerated level to get time with funds. You Looking at this lens, it took a total of 132 hours of work time. "

"In order to provide more background, the entire scene is a 218-frame field, so it takes 132 hours for 1/128 frame, which is incredible, including the 470,000 strands of Hatsune, her actions and the response of the surrounding environment, etc ... ... "

Although being threatened to buy hands and feet is really scary, but Takino Hideaki who took over this task, he is so excited now that the whole person has forgotten to invest in this project.

Because he realized that there may be only one such opportunity in this life, and this work will be permanently recorded in the history of film, and his name will be included in the history of film like this work.

In the field of visual effects, the industry's leading industrial light and magic provide technical support. The entire promotional film was produced by nearly 20,000 computers and spent 300 million hours.

In the film, Hatsune Miku, a short shot of snacks, has produced more than 1,500 versions, and the heat emitted by 20,000 computer renderings is also quite exaggerated.

It is no exaggeration to say that behind-the-scenes production of this promotional video can use a thick manual to introduce how Hatsune Miku was born in modern digital technology.

Some data are the most intuitive.

This film uses motion capture, performance capture, and CGI technology. It uses a fusion camera system, facial motion capture equipment, and collaborative work cameras to shoot.

The entire production team is up to an exaggerated size of 5,700 people. This number is more than seven or eight times that of all Hollywood blockbusters so far. Of course, it is mainly to hurry. Luo Sheng, who does not take money as money, uses money to buy time.

There are a lot of close-ups of Hatsune's eyes in the film. One iris is made with 5 million pixels, and the whole part of "The Lord of the Rings" uses 150,000 pixels. No one can match the details of the eyes alone; Hatsune's head has 470,000 hair strands, 1,500 eyebrows, and 335 eyelashes.

In terms of character modeling, Hatsune produced 42 types of hair shapes including eyebrows and eyelashes. There were nearly 600,000 "peach-colored fluffs" on the face and ears. Engineers implemented a new pore growth technology. The placement of individual hairs in each pore makes Hatsune's skin more delicate and firm, even under close-up shots.

In addition, the production team also designed 77 digital special effects clothing for Hatsune, using a total of 139 different ways of wearing.

The production cycle of this promotional film is only half a year, but the total working time of the entire team is equivalent to a five-year production time of a major Hollywood A-level production team.

This is all $ 450 million spent on promotional videos. Unlike traditional commercial film budgets, a Hollywood A-Class production usually has a budget of about $ 100 million, and the actual budget for filming is about 60%, because Pay the film actor.

Because the positioning of this promotional film is not to make money, it is just an advertising film, but because of the operation of Luo Sheng, he just engaged in a big movie to be an advertisement. Anyway, to this day, every team still can't figure it out. And the cooperating Industrial Light and Magic can't figure it out.

"It's good ~ www.novelhall.com ~ It's hard."

Luo Sheng watched a few sample lenses and was praised again and again. The complete story has to be completed and edited later. This point will be known later. However, Luo Sheng is very satisfied with the pictures of these technologies. Already.

In terms of the visual effects of the film, even after 15 years, there are no steps to surpass the Hollywood animated film. Luo Sheng did not interfere too much, but he still intervened in part, that is, the embedding of advertising elements In order to highlight Bluestar technology and the future, after all, this is a theatrical version of a commercial film covered in film.

There are many elusive eggs in it, which are predictions for the future, such as full-screen mobile phones, the prosperity of virtual gaming, virtual reality VR technology, and other technological elements.

Luo Sheng's request is actually very simple, that is, to embed these elements in the film, whether it is a flash or a background board, how to show the director how to show the great freedom of Hideo Takino.

Luo Sheng has only one requirement, so that these elements must appear in the film.

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