Bee Convention Center, Room 24, 2nd Floor.

The room is small, but quiet, and you can clearly hear the clicking sound of the laptop keyboard.

With long hair coiled up and a skirt, Chen Xi was dressed as a secretary, sitting in front of the computer, checking the speech PPT frame by frame.

At the end of the month, the BDC Game Developers Conference is gradually coming to an end, but Liu Haiyang of Digital Tiger received an invitation from the organizing committee at this time to come here to communicate with developers from all over the world, and a special speech will be held later, and this PPT is prepared for him.

DigiTiger has always been committed to promoting the intelligence and interactivity of adult toys, and has a series of game linkage toys, which are warmly welcomed by players and users. This is also reflected in this PPT, where all kinds of handsome guys and beauties are their high-end toys, and her task is to check the pictures to make sure there are no content problems.

In addition to her job as assistant to the general manager, Chen Xi is also the CVO chief visual officer of Digital Tiger Company, fully responsible for reviewing the visual effects of its product graphics, and the boss's speech PPT, upcoming online advertising, the company's official website and e-commerce flagship store are all under her control, with a penalty of 100 for a mistake and a fine of 1000 for revealing a little. She is not so much the chief assistant and CVO, but the reviewer editor and yellow critic with the title of assistant.

As an unmarried girl who had just walked out of school, Chen Xi was originally resistant, but the new job she was looking for privately was lost, so she had to reluctantly continue this strange job. Fortunately, there is a fairly generous bonus for this job, in addition to the salary of 3K after tax, finding a typo and finding a dew point can also bring her a lot of extra bonuses, so she naturally has to go all out.

The power of time is really strong, last year's Chen Xi was embarrassed and resistant, but now Chen Xi has become a qualified fault-picker and yellow critic, not only to find the bright spot skills to level 3, but also to further develop the Virgo sorting control, perfect complex, as soon as I have free time, I can't help but polish my work.

After carefully examining the slide in front of her, she clicked her fingers to switch to the next one, her beautiful eyes shrank suddenly, and a smile quickly bloomed on her face: "Found it!"

In the seemingly tall training cabin, there was a young girl lying on her back.

The face is small, the eyes are big, the eyelashes are curved, the lips are red and the teeth are white, the skin is ruddy, and the appearance is simply breaking through the sky. What makes people feel even more blushing and heartbeat is her curvaceous body, peach breasts, bee waist, apple buttocks, slender arms and legs, slender fingers and rounded toes, and the tips are painted with red Kodan, and the color and size are just right, which perfectly meets the aesthetics of most Orientals.

The girl's body is soaked in a light blue culture liquid, her long hair ripples in the liquid, just enough to cover the vital point on her chest, and the water surface is shining with a little wave, which also covers the key parts below, and the half-concealment looks even more attractive.

"Mr. Wang's technique really doesn't say, I am a little moved to see it," muttered quietly, the girl picked up the folding mouse, right-clicked on the picture and marked it with "delete", and took a screenshot of the record.

This photo is very well taken, but unfortunately the benefits are a little obvious, and the key parts seem to be perfectly occluded, but if you look closely, there are hidden clues, and it is not suitable for public display on the big screen, and must be modified.

The photographers invited by the company are all professional portrait photographers, who are very good at capturing women's sexual moments, and are even better at hiding highlights in the composition. For their fans, these are all sincere surprise easter eggs and fan benefits, which are an important reason to attract them to buy sets of pictures and polaroids. But for Digital Tiger, these things are hidden dangerous mines - because of the dislike of mosaics to destroy the aesthetics of the picture and affect the product, the product pictures of Digital Tiger are not commonly covered by watermarks, and they are more inclined to use shooting angles and physical occlusion to solve problems, which is very easy to go wrong, and CVO Miss Chen's job is to check and fill in the gaps and make up for the shortcomings.

With the good mood of earning half a month's salary, the girl opened another folder of pictures and carefully selected them. Like most girls who are used to taking pictures and automatically beautifying, Chen Xi's PS technology is very average, as a perfect control, and he doesn't want to use mosaics to cover the picture and destroy the master's hard work, so he has to find another one and replace it.

Fortunately, there are many more photos in this series, and she quickly found one with a lid, clicked to replace it and repeatedly modified and debugged it, and then nodded with satisfaction.

After more than ten minutes of minor repairs, Chen Xi once again finished the entire PPT. Click to play from the beginning, confirm that everything is normal, nothing should be missing, and confirm that it has been saved and backed up, the girl finally breathed a sigh of relief, peeked at Boss Liu, who was still snoring next to her, raised her arm and stretched her waist to yawn, twisted her waist and stretched her legs to move her somewhat stiff body.

"Woo!"

At this moment, the mobile phone placed on the table suddenly turned on the screen and shook from side to side on the table, making a slight vibration sound.

Grabbing the phone and unlocking it casually, Chen Xi's gaze moved down and quickly swept across the screen, "So fast?"

Changing into black leather shoes with stiletto heels, and carefully wrapping the slippers, she stood up and straightened her skirt and walked across the table.

Liu Haiyang leaned back on the back of the chair, and his mouth made a continuous "wheeze" sound between exhaling and inhaling.

Chen Xi walked up to the boss and stretched out his hand to nudge: "Boss!

Being woken up from a sweet dream, Lao Liu was stunned for a few seconds before he woke up, shook his somewhat sore neck, and looked at the female assistant next to him, "What time is it?"

"Half past seven!" Chen Xi replied briskly, and at the same time thoughtfully handed over a pack of wet wipes.

Reaching out to take it, tearing it open and spreading it on his face, Lao Liu wiped the corners of his eyes and mouth, and then wiped his face vigorously to regain his consciousness.

"Alas, the years are not forgiving, I can still go to the examination room in good spirits the next day after all-night endorsement, and now I ......"

"If your blood sugar rises after eating, it's easy to get sleepy, and it's normal for you to do this. ”

Liu Haiyang shook his head and threw the tissue into the paper basket, "Don't talk about this, the PPT is ready, right?"

"Ready!" Chen Xi walked to the edge of his seat, took the notebook and put it in front of the boss with both hands, and invited credit: "I found a total of 7 typos and 1 problematic picture, all of which have been modified and replaced." ”

"Hmm!" Lao Liu nodded, casually encouraged, and then stopped talking and looked down at the film.

Looking over page by page, he suddenly asked, "Xiao Chen?"

"Huh, yes!"

Pointing to the screen, Lao Liu asked: "In addition to correcting typos and punctuation, you also changed the font and font size by the way?"

"Uh," the latter was stunned, his face flushed slightly, and explained in a low voice, "It's just a little fine-tuned, so it's much more comfortable to change." ”

"It's very comfortable. Teacher Xu's class was really not in vain, and the money was worth it, and the company will reimburse you when you go back. ”

Without waiting for Chen Xi to express his gratitude, he said, "But it's ......"

The latter blinked wide-eyed and stared at the boss excitedly, "But what?"

"Don't you think the overall vibe is a little too feminine?"

Similarly, the style of beauty and fashion ads and game car ads is very different. Although DigiTiger has a large number of female users, the consumers who contribute the most to turnover and profits are young men, and the overall art style should naturally be considered by the latter.

Being able to successfully graduate from a prestigious school, Chen Xi is naturally not a fool, and as soon as his mind turned to figure out what the boss meant, he hurriedly said: "Don't worry, boss, I'll change it!"

"Hmm," Boss Liu bowed slightly, raised his feet and left the lounge.

The sigh of the years just now is not untargeted, overtime and tobacco and alcohol have damaged his body, and as a result, the kidney has failed before he is old, and he has to go to the bathroom quickly, and he can't hold it back.

20 minutes later, Conference Center Complex Hall 3.

The host exhaled and said, "Mr. Liu Haiyang, founder and general manager of Digital Tiger Company, please!"

Lao Liu took a deep breath, pressed the headset next to his ear, rubbed his face and made a warm smile, and walked quickly onto the stage.

The white light from the spotlight shone on him, illuminating the custom-made suit of the famous artist and the pink bow tie around his neck. The pink silk bow tie and the black and white dress are the biggest highlight of this outfit, reminding people that they are not stockbrokers, but entertainment businessmen who sell happiness.

In fact, company bosses are very particular about how they dress in public, stockbrokers wear suits to make themselves look professional and reliable, so as to impress customers to receive more commissions, and IT company bosses like to wear sweaters, jeans and sneakers to draw a line with B2B technology companies such as IBM and Cisco, and highlight the "approachability and necessities" of themselves and their products.

Walking to the reserved speech position, Liu Haiyang greeted the air with a smile: "Good evening, everyone!"

"To be honest, I was a little nervous to have so many people come to listen to my speech," said the LED screen behind his fingers, "after all, I usually face all kinds of robots." ”

There was a good-natured laughter from the audience, and the handsome guys and beauties on the screen were all robots produced by Digital Tiger, which proved that what Liu Haiyang said was true.

When the laughter stopped, Lao Liu continued to speak, pointing sideways at the various toys hanging behind the two rows of shelves, "In the beginning, we were just an ordinary toy company, selling some pleasant gadgets. Later, he gradually embarked on the road of 'human trafficking'. That's the topic of my talk today, about how to design avatars to weaken the uncanny valley effect. ”

Under the distribution and promotion of Bee Games, Tiger Games' "Brave New World OL" has been launched in more than 70 countries, and game linkage robots have also been sold to these countries, allowing the world to see their new routine of "talking about feelings first and then selling bodies", which is also the reason why BDC specially invited Lao Liu to come over to give a speech.

As far as Liu Haiyang is concerned, the "TigerPT Tiger Host" that they developed on the basis of PT2016 has just been released, and they are short of developers. Of course, thinking so in his heart, what he said was: "To be honest, everyone here is more professional than me in designing fictional characters, writing stories for them, and matching costumes." When I received the invitation from the BDC organizing committee, my first reaction was to refuse, thinking that I should not show off my shallowness in front of the experts. But Atletico persuaded me, he said that the ruler is short and the inch is long, and only by communicating with each other can we make progress together, so I came here to introduce our products to you. ”

The applause fell, and the "girl in the cabin" behind Liu Haiyang's finger talked eloquently and introduced the development experience summarized by Tiger Company.

"The uncanny valley effect has long plagued film and television producers and game developers, as have anthropomorphic robot developers. Bee Digital Creatures and Yikuai Special Effects have done a lot of work in this regard, and the expression simulation system they developed gives robots and digital humans more vivid and diverse facial expressions, effectively alleviating the fear of some users. However, the cost of these systems is too high, resulting in the high cost of the products equipped with them, which seriously hinders the expansion of the market. ”

"Our technology can't be compared to bees, so in the face of this terrifying valley, we had to choose to take a detour and learn from anime and doll manufacturers, but fortunately we achieved some results......"

Speaking of which, the reason for the uncanny valley effect is inseparable from the identity of human beings as social animals. In face-to-face communication, people will form psychological expectations about other people's looks and facial expressions, and if the other person looks ugly and has a stiff and strange expression, the disappointment of expectations will cause psychological shock to people and then cause fear.

There are two solutions, the formal way is to break it by force and make "fake more real", a typical example of this is the 150,000 virtual actors in "The Wandering Earth", it is difficult for the audience to find that these people with vivid expressions and free movement are not real people. Unfortunately, the cost of doing so is too high, and specialized systems need to be developed to simulate human skin tones, expressions, and movements, all of which are not cheap, and for the time being, digital actors simply cannot shake the mainstream status of live actors.

Another way is to take a step back, make the "fake more fake", and weaken or even distort the psychological expectations of the viewer by deliberately emphasizing the "inhuman attributes" of the characters.

Most 3D games have a special art style, and the ones with a real art style are often horror games, and the reason is this: because it is technically impossible to cross the uncanny valley, the real art style makes the characters look a little scary, so they can only break the jar and break it to make a horror game, or appropriately add special art styles such as cartoon, wild, magic, etc., to make the character "inhuman".

The solution of digital tiger is also "moderate cartoonization", although they invite real beauties to act as product models, the actual product does not restore the real appearance of the real person one to one, the eyes are much larger than the model, and the body proportion is more unscientific, making it have a kind of "two-dimensional beauty". These cartoon-style products are generally welcomed by the market, indicating the success of this strategy, Liu Haiyang and they continue to make persistent efforts, simply create two-dimensional animations and games with independent copyrights, and carry out data linkage with their own puppet products, and finally develop into "Brave New World OL" that "sells people" for a living.

(End of chapter)