"Is this the expression capture technology?" Li Xiuxiu asked as if she didn't understand.

"This is not, this is motion capture technology used to design the way a gorilla moves. Capturing real facial expressions requires a complex technique, not only to mark the reflective points, but also to put a lot of miniature cameras on the mask to record the actor's muscle movements. ”

Shao Shuaijun saw that Li Xiuxiu was confused, and immediately waved his hand to signal a director's assistant to come over: "Go and bring the mask of the expression capture equipment, and by the way, call an engineer from the CG team to come over and demonstrate the expression capture procedure." ”

"Don't bother." Li Xiuxiu shook her head.

"What's the trouble, I'm the boss of this crew, and whatever I say is what it is. Wife, you don't want to change careers to become producers, and we will be like Christopher in the future. Nolan is the same as husband and wife, Nolan makes a movie and her wife helps him produce it, and after I make a movie, my wife will produce it. Shao Shuaijun said shyly, why he likes to be a director, on the one hand, he can let the audience dream with him, and on the other hand, he is also a director.

"How could I?"

"Learn, my wife is so smart, it's not more than enough to be a producer."

As he spoke, the assistant director came over with an expression capture mask, which was a thin veil with many miniature cameras the size of soybeans evenly distributed. Shao Shuaijun immediately put the mask on his face, and then motioned for the engineer to turn on the device.

On the computer screen, the software of the capture system running immediately presented Shao Shuaijun's facial expressions on the computer one by one. This software is specially designed for Chimpanzee Caesar. After the processing of the server, the trajectory of the captured face can be directly converted to the face module of the chimpanzee.

Shao Shuaijun made a grimace, and the three-dimensional head of the chimpanzee on the computer also grimaced. Shao Shuaijun made a flying kiss, and the chimpanzee also pouted and made a flying kiss.

"Haha, that's interesting, it's fun." Li Xiuxiu clapped her hands and said.

Shao Shuaijun took off the mask and shook it in front of Li Xiuxiu: "Do you want to try?" ”

"Nope." Li Xiuxiu has a slight cleanliness habit, for this kind of thing that I don't know how many people have touched. It has always been a matter of respect.

"It's still a simple indoor expression capture headgear. We also have more complex outdoor expression capture jumpsuits and headgear, which need to be handled by professionals. ”

took half a day to let the curious Li Xiuxiu understand how "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" was filmed, and the two returned to Shao Shuaijun's temporary residence. In fact, make this kind of science fiction movie. Looks like a lot of novelty equipment. High-tech aids. It's fun. But when you really understand it, making movies is quite boring.

Take the mask headgear, for example, it was a lot of fun when I first played it. Wearing it every day is torturous. Andy. Serkis and the others, almost as soon as the director shouted to stop, immediately threw away the headgear and didn't want to wear it for a second.

And Li Xiuxiu's interest is even less than Shao Shuaijun imagined, and he is not very interested in these high-tech equipment.

When he arrived at Shao Shuaijun's temporary residence, after opening the door, Li Xiuxiu immediately grew his mouth.

The whole room, piled up in a mess, was full of various copies, videotapes, photographic equipment, living rooms and corridors, all stained. There were also some dirty clothes, casually thrown aside.

"Oh my God, husband, is this where you live, I remember you love to be clean?" Li Xiuxiu said in surprise.

Shao Shuaijun laughed embarrassedly: "This is only temporary, a studio has been built here recently, and many props can't be placed, so they are placed on my side, anyway, I live alone, and I don't need much space." These tapes and copies, of course, are all Discovery Channel tapes, and some original copies of the Planet of the Apes series, which I took and looked at. ”

Li Xiuxiu touched Shao Shuaijun's face and said distressedly: "Husband, it's so hard to be a director." ”

"It's not bitter at all because of my wife's distress." Feeling Li Xiuxiu's gentleness, Shao Shuaijun said beautifully.

Who knew that Li Xiuxiu's face changed, and she immediately snorted and said: "Since it's not hard, why don't you send these dirty clothes to be washed, can't you afford to hire a housekeeper?" Look at you, you've only been in the U.S. for a long time, and you've become so sloppy. Did you know that at the Oscars, your hair is like a hairy bear, and your beard can't be shaved clean, and the whole world is watching, really? If I leave you in one step, you won't take care of yourself! ”

Shao Shuaijun said aggrievedly: "My wife is angry, don't I have no time." ”

"Why don't you have time, don't you have time to change clothes?"

"Well, my house is a level 1 security state, and no one is allowed to enter without permission. The laundry worker here came to collect the clothes once every two days, and when I came, I was often busy filming and didn't have time for him to pick up the clothes, so I piled up more and more. ”

"You, you!" Li Xiuxiu couldn't cry or laugh, "Forget it, I'll sort it out for you." ”

"Don't tidy up, we'll go to San Francisco after getting our stuff, there's a Taylor in San Francisco tonight. Swift's concert, just go to listen to it together, don't you like her songs? ”

"I like it, but she can listen to her songs anytime, so let's go to Silicon Valley and have fun. Obvious, a subsidiary of Summit Entertainment, recently set up an R&D center in Silicon Valley to specialize in smartphone projects, and I haven't found time to inspect it yet, right? ”

"Hey, hey, wife, are you here for a date, or are you here to talk about work? Don't go to Silicon Valley, find a place to eat, and open a room in a hotel after eating! Shao Shuaijun made a decision, and he didn't care about Li Xiuxiu's objections, so he pulled her into the car and asked the driver to drive to San Francisco's Chinatown.

San Francisco's Chinatown can be said to be the largest Chinatown in the United States, Shao Shuaijun has been famous here for a long time, but he doesn't have time to play, today Li Xiuxiu came over, just went to Chinatown together.

To go to San Francisco's Chinatown, you must first pass through an archway, which has Sun Yat-sen's "The world is for."

Gong" four big characters, there are a few dragons around, very vivid. Entered Chinatown. Everywhere you can see the name and logo of the store in Chinese and English, find a parking lot to park the car, Shao Shuaijun and Li Xiuxiu walk through Chinatown holding hands.

Several bodyguards guarded vigilantly around, so that Shao Shuaijun and Li Xiuxiu could play with confidence.

The first Chinatown to visit is called Duban Street, there are many gift shops, antique shops, Chinese medicine stores, Chinese restaurants, and many signs hanging with the townspeople's association and a certain guild, which seems to be a Chinese street. Of course, many of the Chinese speeches here are in Cantonese, which sounds weird and awkward.

For shopping. Lee so-so's interest has always been great. Shao Shuaijun felt bored, but it was not good to relieve Li Xiuxiu's interest, when Li Xiuxiu was choosing goods, he was standing on the side in a daze.

Always panning. It's time for the lights to come on. Just next door to a Chinese restaurant on Stapon Street. Ordered a few dishes. Chatting happily while eating, talking about interesting things that happened during this time, or sketching the future.

The owner of the Chinese restaurant is a bald uncle with a slightly chubby body. When serving the food, he suddenly pointed at Shao Shuaijun.

Shao Shuaijun hurriedly made a silent gesture, and the bald uncle understood, and asked in a low voice, "Can I sit down?" ”

"Okay."

The uncle rubbed his hands with a smile: "Hehe, hehe, hello Director Shao, I really didn't expect to meet you here." You and Mrs. Shaw came to San Francisco? ”

"Yes, I heard that Chinatown here is very famous, so I came and walked around."

"Oh, you guys are here right, the world's Chinatown is the biggest and most lively in our San Francisco, and there are a lot of fun places......" The uncle gushed about the introduction, and the runners have come to urge him several times, and the bald uncle waved his hand to let him go away, and then he really had no choice, so he said stupidly, "Director Shao, can I ask you for an autograph, I, my wife and my son, all like to watch your movies, especially "Old Boy", and I burst into tears." ”

"Yes." Shao Shuaijun did not refuse, "Where is the sign?" ”

"This ...... You eat slowly, I'll go get paper and pen. The uncle couldn't wait to run away, and ran over again after a few minutes, "Just sign here, I like you very much, win glory for us Chinese, good job." ”

The uncle brought a poster of "Old Boy", which was the poster of Shao Shuaijun playing the guitar and Huang Bo posing. And the signature pen turned out to be a soft pen, Shao Shuaijun rarely wrote by hand in recent years, and the pen words were almost bad, but he didn't expect the boss to give a difficult soft pen.

Blinking her eyes, she saw Li Xiuxiu covering her mouth and snickering, she knew that Shao Shuaijun's words were very sloppy.

The uncle not only didn't notice Shao Shuaijun's embarrassment, but also said happily: "Director Shao, can you write 'I wish Li Ji Lao Yutou's business is booming'?" ”

"Hehe, of course." Shao Shuaijun's heart was crossed, and he was embarrassed, and he was embarrassed, and he wrote it overnight. After signing, take a closer look, although the writing is not good-looking, but it is not ugly, horizontal and vertical turns, all like decent, I didn't expect to not write for many years, the words written have improved.

"Hey, Director Shao's handwriting is so good, can you sign another one for my son? Just say, 'Li Chunxin, study hard, and make progress every day'? After the uncle finished speaking, he took out another poster, which turned out to be the poster of Master Liu's school flower.

"Well, isn't this the time to ask Master Liu to sign it."

"It's okay, I want Director Shao to do you, your good, my son admires you." After signing it, the uncle conjured up another poster, which was the group poster of "Old Boy", "This, this is signed to my wife, just write a few sentences, hehe." ”

Shao Shuaijun had no choice but to continue to sign, and then put the pen on the cover: "It's gone now, right?" ”

"It's gone, hehe, Director Shao, we really like you! Just order food tonight, I'll get your order free! "I got the autograph," the bald uncle said proudly.

"Haha, then we have to have a good meal, uncle, you are in pain."

"Don't worry, you just eat with open arms, and you can't exaggerate your uncle's food, Director Shao, Mrs. Shao, you enjoy it slowly, I won't bother, it's annoying you so much, eat and drink well."

"This uncle, it's really interesting......" Shao Shuaijun was just about to sigh a few words, his eyelids raised, and his face suddenly collapsed, because he signed the sign for the bald uncle, which attracted the attention of other people in the hotel, and now they all recognized Shao Shuaijun coming, and they all smiled and took the paper and pen they got out of nowhere, and surrounded them. (To be continued......)