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

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

After confirming the official establishment of the virtual idol project, Bluestar Technology soon acquired the company's electronic music production speech synthesis software VOCALOID from Yamaha, and on this basis, Luo Sheng led a team of engineers to further optimize from the bottom.

In fact, Luo Sheng can start from scratch completely by himself, because after buying VOCALOID, he almost overturned and redeveloped it, and gave Yamaha a sum of money for nothing.

But that's not the point, Luo Sheng bought this software to stifle the development of the virtual idol field to a certain extent, and also acquired a sound production company called Crypton in Sapporo City, Hokkaido, and based on this, the operation department of the virtual idol of Bluestar Technology was established in the company.

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

In the 2007s, there is no such market for virtual idols in China, unlike foreign countries, especially this one.

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

Due to the general environment, Luo Sheng can't reverse it, and forcing it will only pay a heavy price and expensive cost.

Of course, Luo Sheng will not be iron-headed, and he must also take advantage of the situation according to local conditions.

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

Let's do it overseas first.

The focus is on the easiest market to get up, and let's talk about it after picking a simple one.

And the domestic market will follow up slowly, people need a process of acceptance, and after a few years, they will naturally be invincible.

Luo Sheng took the USB flash drive handed by He Chao and connected it to the port of the work computer, opened the internal file, played a few sampled audio sources and listened to them, and immediately made a decision after a few minutes: "Then this one, folder six." ”

This time, there are twenty copies of the sampled sound source sent to the headquarters over there.,It's all female voice actors over there.,I have to say that,The voice actors of the small book are all monsters.,Here, "monster" is not a derogatory meaning.,But to express the meaning of amazement.。

The sampled sound source of Document No. 6 is a female singer and voice actor from Yumoto, whose real name is Saki Fujita.

Luo Sheng unplugged the USB flash drive and gave it to He Chao again, and asked, "By the way, what is the progress of the promotional film filmed by Hideaki Anno?" It's not messed up, if it's messed up, you can do it, Anno is going back to his book and get through some ruthless people in the local area to buy his hands and feet, I'm not kidding. ”

He Chao: "......"

This is what he is more concerned about, with a budget of 450 million US dollars, it is ¥34 billion at the real-time exchange rate, if Anye dares to mess up this film, Luo Sheng will definitely buy his hands and feet.

Money is a trivial matter, and the time cost is unbearable for Luo Sheng, if there is a mistake here, the entire project will be delayed, and it will even affect the WRPO.

The linkage attribute of the major plates is strong, which also means that the whole body is moved, step by step, step by step, step by step, step by step.

He Chao was sweating wildly when he heard Luo Sheng's words, the boss's words were light and light, if Anye was here, he might be stupid when he heard the rhythm.

It's so ruthless!

Immediately replied: "I didn't smash it, I didn't smash it, it's okay, the director Hideaki Anno is really good, the progress of the project has reached 70%, and the sample has been completed, but the post-editing and dubbing are still intensifying, and the post-production can be completed in the next two months, and everything is going according to plan." ”

Hearing this, Luo Sheng nodded with satisfaction, and said casually: "That's good, Anye's hands and feet are saved, I'll go to see how the samples are in the afternoon." ”

"Okay!" He Chao immediately responded, secretly relieved for Anye, he now finally understands why Anno Hideaki works so hard, often stays up until the early hours of the morning, he thought he was for fame, but now it seems that not only for fame, but also for the sake of keeping his hands and feet.

The boss must have threatened him, and he was scared a lot, since taking over this project, Anno Hideaki's ruffian spirit has not been at all.

For Anno, it was definitely the most difficult project in his career to take over the promotional film, and it was extremely difficult to make, and to some extent, it was also his first time making a pure CG film, which is very different from 2D anime.

However, in the end, it was a talented director, coupled with the threat of being bought, this time almost unleashed his talent to the extreme, and all of them were squeezed out without reservation.

Not a drop left.

Just kidding, try it when you hear you've been bought?

……

In the afternoon, Luo Sheng, who had nothing to do, came to the production department to take a walk, and at this moment, the set of the set was full of green cloth, which was carried out in an indoor venue, and the shooting team was working in an intense and orderly manner.

There is a slender girl actor on the set, but she is not an actor in front of the scene, she is wearing a tight suit, her facial features are all kinds of dense dots, and she is also wearing some special electronic devices.

This special effects team is a top motion capture team hired by Anno from Hollywood, and the "Lord of the Rings" series "Gollum" is from this team.

What is being done at this moment is the shooting of a few unsatisfactory shots that Hideaki Anno asked to reshoot, and it is really improving, anyway, the funds are sufficient, and if it is not enough, you can add a budget.

Not long after Luo Sheng came here, the motion capture shot of this reshoot was completed, and it finally met Hideaki Anno's expectations. After a while, he also noticed Luo Sheng, and after being stunned for a while, he hurriedly greeted him and said, "Your Excellency the President (Chairman), why didn't you notify me when you came in advance?" ”

"I'll just come over and see how the project is going?" Luo Sheng said with a smile, as long as he doesn't talk about buying hands and feet, he is still a harmless, sunny and easy-going EVA fan.

Hearing Luo's question, Hideaki Anno led Luo Sheng to another office hall with an excited mood and even a show-off, where more than 100 animators were distributed in the lattice, all busy with their work, some of them were from Yuben, some from Hollywood, and some from Blizzard's CG department.

All in all, that's a lavish lineup with a $450 million budget.

"Look, Your Excellency, President. The animators on the team continue to take Hatsune's hair animation to a whole new level, and I can guarantee that this is the best in the world, and without one, it will definitely shock the entire industry. Anno Hideaki said with an oath, and then motioned to Luo Sheng to look at the animation on the screen.

Anno gushed out, "The animator fulfilled my request to make 470,000 hairs for Hatsune, which required a completely new animation program, and 'Tonic' is what we call this animation program. A single image added up to 30 total hours of time spent by each team, and the longest design took 132 hours of work. ”

"You know, in an animated film, a second can be a few weeks of work, and of course because of your support, we have a good budget and the team can scale up to an exaggerated point where money buys time. If you look at this shot, it took a total of 132 hours of work. ”

"To provide more context, the whole scene is 218 frames, so 1/128 of a frame would take 132 hours, which is incredible, including Hatsune's 470,000 strands of hair, her movements, and the reactions of her surroundings......"

Although it is indeed terrifying to be threatened to buy hands and feet, but Hideaki Anno, who took over this task, is extremely excited until now, and he is selfless to devote himself to this project.

Because he realized that there might only be one chance in his life, and this work will forever go down in the history of cinema, and his name will be recorded in film history along with this work.

In the area of visual effects, the industry's leading industrial light and magic provided technical support, and the entire promotional video was produced by nearly 20,000 computers with a total of 300 million hours.

In the film, Hatsune Miku made more than 1,500 versions of a short scene of eating snacks, and the heat emitted by 20,000 computers is quite exaggerated.

It's no exaggeration to say that the behind-the-scenes production of this promotional video is a thick manual about how Hatsune Miku was born out of modern digital technology.

Some of the data is the most intuitive.

The film uses motion capture, performance capture, and CGI techniques, and is shot using a fusion camera system, facial motion capture instruments, and a collaborative camera.

The entire production team is as high as an exaggerated scale of 5,700 people, which is seven or eight times more than all Hollywood blockbusters so far, of course, mainly for time, Luo Sheng, who does not treat money as money, uses money to buy time.

There are a lot of close-ups of Hatsune's eyes in the film, and one iris is made with 5 million pixels, while "The Lord of the Rings" only uses 150,000 pixels, and the details of the eyes alone are unmatched; Hatsune has 470,000 strands of hair, 1,500 eyebrows, and 335 eyelashes on her head.

In terms of character creation, Hatsune made 42 types of hair styles, including eyebrows and eyelashes, and nearly 600,000 "peach-colored fuzzes" on the face and ears, and the engineers realized a new pore growth technology that placed individual hairs in each pore, making Hatsune's skin more delicate and firm, even under close-ups, it looks very stunning.

In addition, the production team designed 77 digital effects costumes for Hatsune, using a total of 139 different ways to wear them.

The production cycle of this promotional film is only half a year, but the total work hours of the entire team are equivalent to the production time of a Hollywood A-level production team in five years.

This is 450 million US dollars all used on promotional films, unlike the traditional commercial film budget, a Hollywood A-level production usually has a budget of about 100 million US dollars, and the actual budget for film shooting is about 60%, because the actors have to be paid.

Because the positioning of this promotional film is not to make money, it is just an advertising film, but because of Luo Sheng's divine operation, he insisted on making a big movie as an advertisement, anyway, every team still can't figure it out, Anno can't figure it out, and the cooperative industrial light and magic can't figure it out.

"Yes, yes, hard work."

Luo Sheng watched a few sample shots and praised him again and again, and the complete story still needs to complete the post-editing and other work, which will only be known later, but as far as the technical pictures he sees so far, Luo Sheng is already very satisfied.

In terms of the visual effects of the film, even after fifteen years, there are few steps that Hollywood animated films can surpass, and Luo Sheng did not interfere too much in the shooting of the film, but he still intervened in part of it, that is, the embedding of advertising elements, just to highlight Bluestar technology and the future, after all, this is a theatrical version of an advertising film dressed in movie skin.

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

Luo Sheng's request is actually very simple, that is, to embed these elements into the film, whether it is a flash or a background board, how to show it gives director Hideaki Anno a lot of freedom to play.

Luo Sheng has only one request, just let these elements appear in the film.

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