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"Symphony Group, big money..."

Lou Qingyan was sitting on the sofa, answering the phone with his neck tilted, while reading the news on the tablet, sighing.

It was Xia Huai who made the call, specifically telling him the news about the merger of the three major companies into the Symphony Group—as expected, Lou Qingyan didn't know about it at all.

Xia Huai complained to him, "What kind of tone are you talking about, as if you are just a melon-eating crowd?"

"Am I not a melon eater?"

Lou Qingyan is really innocent, he didn't do anything these days except eating, drinking and having fun, it's obviously Echo who has been making trouble.

"All right, all right." Xia Huai said, "Xie Jin's 2D plug-ins and unrealistic renderings have all been made, when will you come and have a look?"

Lou Qingyan became more serious, and after thinking about it, he said, "This matter is not in a hurry, let's talk about it when I go back to work."

"Okay." Xia Huai said after finishing her official business, "Are you watching the New Year's Eve party at home? Do you need to come and play with you?"

"Why do you suddenly want to play with me?" Lou Qingyan didn't have this consciousness at all, "Of course, the party is really ugly?"

"Aren't you lonely at home?" Xia Huai was very surprised, "And you have been alone all the time, and you didn't consider finding a companion or anything?"

Lou Qingyan paused, and joked, "What is loneliness?"

After hanging up the phone, he came to the floor-to-ceiling windows and quietly watched the night view of Beijing.On the TV, the sound of the New Year's Eve party was playing all the time, giving the empty room a hint of vitality.

Suddenly, the phone vibrated, and an unfamiliar account sent a WeChat message.

Jiang Fu: "Happy New Year's Day."

Lou Qingyan glanced at it, and couldn't help but said, "Sent in a group?"

Jiang Fu replied in seconds: "No."

After a while, he said again: "What are you busy with recently? Are you still so tired from work?"

Although Lou Qingyan added Jiang Fu's WeChat account, he never chatted with him.The two are very plastic "Zanyou", keen to like each other's circle of friends.

But because each of them doesn't like to post on Moments, there are actually very few likes.

Lou Qingyan nestled on the sofa, listened to the sound of the party on the TV for a while, and then made a WeChat call to Jiang Fu.

When the phone was connected, he lazily said, "Why, there is no job in this world that is not tiring."

After so long of no contact, Jiang Fu's voice was not alienated, "Then give yourself a vacation, you are the boss, you can have some privileges."

"Really?" Lou Qingyan smiled, "Can I have some privileges?"

Jiang Fu was silent for a moment, then said, "Yes, there are."

Lou Qingyan lay on the sofa, closed his eyes, put the phone beside him and turned on the speakerphone.The sound of the TV inevitably leaked a few words.

"Watching the party at home alone," Jiang Fu hadn't finished.

Lou Qingyan suddenly asked softly, "When are you going back to China?"

Jiang Fu paused.

"If all goes well, after a year."

"What do you do when you come back? Continue to study for a Ph. D.?"

"Well. Take the exam at your alma mater in March and enter school in September."

"Are you going back to your alma mater? Why don't you go to the Chinese Academy of Sciences if you want to do a PhD?"

Jiang Fu said slowly: "I may have to walk a different path from others..."

"Ok?"

"Does it make you feel unreliable if you don't enter the research institute for scientific research and insist on doing your own projects?"

Lou Qingyan smiled, "No, it's good to have your own ideas."

Jiang Fu tried to explain his future plans to him.

His unhurried voice was not pyrotechnic, yet full of pyrotechnics.

It was mixed with the laughter of thousands of lights on the TV.

Lou Qingyan was fascinated by the sound, and gradually drooped his eyelids, feeling drowsy.

Jiang Fu wanted to control himself not to talk too much, but in the end he still talked for a long time. He is usually not such a person who wants to express.

After he finished speaking, he asked again: "What about you, what is your plan for the future?"

After waiting for a long time, there was only a steady breathing sound from the other side of the phone.

Jiang Fu put the phone beside his pillow and fell asleep himself.

The next morning, he was directly awakened by Lou Qingyan's devilish roar.

"Damn it, Jiang Fu, why don't you hang up the phone when you sleep at night???"

Jiang Fu: "..."

Jiang Fu: "Forgot."

Lou Qingyan: "I believe you idiot!"

Just because he forgot to turn on the wifi for a while, Lou Qingyan's data for a month was so fast. Fortunately, he recharged in time before the data limit, otherwise he would be killed by Jiang Fu and become an Internet 2G user.

Then, the next night, when he saw Jiang Fu calling back, he still answered it in the "rejection" in his heart.

On the third night, he picked up the car with ease.

In fact, he always wanted to refuse to answer, but Jiang Fu's call made him seem to return to the small garden under the sunset, that kind of loose and free life.

He can choose to sneak in while he is busy, relying on being the boss to give himself a vacation to his heart's content, eating and drinking, spreading out or going out for a while.However, only Jiang Fu can bring a unique kind of comfort, that kind of authentic life, the days that flow quietly, and the beauty overflowing from every small detail, which cannot be found elsewhere.

Since New Year's Day, every night, Lou Qingyan went through the process of "trying to refuse the call - trying to fail - answering the phone - slowly falling asleep".

After waking up from the sofa many times with backache and back pain, he later developed the habit of washing up and getting under the covers before answering the phone.

I don't know if it will be three days or five days, the New Year's Day holiday is over, Lou Qingyan has had enough of drunkenness, and finally returns to the company to visit Mr. Xie and Mr. Xia.

Xia Huai has been forced to become half of the operator, and now she is in charge of everything about Fanxing.com.Xie Jin didn't feel much easier either, because Lou Qingyan arranged a package of research and development tasks for them.

"This is the finalized graphic animation coloring plug-in. You are right, this is indeed much more difficult than live-action film and television." Xie Jin demonstrated the results for him to accept.

"This is a non-realistic rendering algorithm. We are completing the next work, combining the two sets of algorithms for realistic rendering and non-realistic rendering to make a tool dedicated to rendering. Our software is more powerful than V-ray in function. Much, but it's cloud-based and may not be available in the market for a while."

V-ray is the most popular rendering tool on the market.

"It's enough if you can use it yourself." Lou Qingyan didn't care, selling rendering software didn't make much money. On the contrary, the monopoly of cloud rendering technology makes money.

The plane coloring plug-in, non-realistic rendering, is the last two pieces missing on Lou Qingyan's animation layout.

The special effect plug-in can quickly create 3D animation, but it cannot generate plane animation out of thin air, and its function in this area is blank.

Some people may ask, isn't this set of plugins that can read actions and replace them with real people?For example, Lou Dayuan's dancing video, isn't it generated out of thin air?

The difference here is that generating live-action videos and animations out of thin air is not the same.

When making live-action videos, AI learns Lou Dayuan’s past video data. Based on these data, it first uses the confrontational network model to directly generate videos, then uses Lou Qingyan’s original real-time texture algorithm to fill in the gaps, and finally uses edge computing to outline the characters clearly. .

The above are all deep learning algorithms, that is, the generation of live-action videos is based on data.

Plane animation is different. It has no data to learn, and those deep learning algorithms can’t be used. Its generation is based on the model, and there is only one three-rendering two-way.That is to create a [-]D model first, and then render it into [-]D.

The current three-rendering and two-rendering technology is actually quite mature, and the style of painting can completely simulate the celluloid style. However, due to the difference in 3D and 2D production, when the characters change angles, they will bring out a touch of three-dimensionality, and some movements will be stiff and inflexible. question.The two-dimensional animation produced in this way has no problem on the screen, but its artistic value will be greatly reduced.

The three-rendering-two technology in Lou Qingyan's mind can directly render the [-]D model into Hayao Miyazaki.

is it possible?

Xie Jin handed in a perfect answer sheet.

The function of the plane coloring plug-in is to take out the view of the [-]D model facing the camera, color it through artificial intelligence, and turn it into a flat screen in celluloid style.

Non-photorealistic rendering means literally, rendering the model into an unreal style, such as the watercolor style of the Japanese animation background.

The combination of these two sets of plug-ins can synthesize traditional Japanese animation of pure celluloid, reducing the three-dimensional feeling brought out by character movements.

It's not up to Miyazaki, but it's above average, and the animation has a frighteningly high frame rate.It is extremely complicated to make a smooth combat action in traditional two-dimensional animation, and the artist has to draw doubts about life. If this new three-rendering and two-rendering technology is used, everything will be simple.

The final vacancy has been filled in tools. In terms of animation competitions, the script audition stage has also been fully completed.

Lou Qingyan serves as one of the program producers in the capacity of fire. Although he is not in charge, he has the decision-making power in major matters.At the same time, he is the chairman of the National Manga Industry Alliance and has control over the competition organizing committee.

Therefore, when encountering troubles that could not be solved, the director of the reality show and the organizing committee decisively came to him.

"God fire, look at these two scripts, aren't they very good? They can be included in the seed contestants! It's just...these contestants can't be contacted. Wow, can you help us find someone?"

The author has something to say:

Regarding the generation of video, the principle has been changed a bit.The principle written in the previous article is three renderings and two combined with deep learning. I made it up by myself. I didn’t expect to find out a few days ago that this technology has already appeared. There is no three renderings and two but deep learning.

I didn't want to change it at first, but since other people's technology already exists, it seems very low that I am still making up random things here, so I changed it.

If you want to see the effect of Lou Dayuan's dancing, you can search for the dancing video of Yang Chaoyue Programming Contest