You are a black technology boss, you didn't say it sooner!

"Brother Jingshen, what's wrong with you, Brother Jingshen!!"

"Damn it stamped? Fuck you wake up??"

"I suddenly realized the ancient minister's hatred for the evil concubine who harmed the country..."

Looking at the reply, which is no different from stamping, to yell, or not to yell, that is a question.

Let's go, I'm afraid of getting hurt again if something happens, and Lou Qingyan's current public image is really not flattering.

Don’t eat it...the steaming is like this...

You can't take off the powder, and you can't take off the powder for a lifetime.

Cooking is a fool who is obsessed with sex, fans are really hard.

After finishing the odds and ends, Lou Qingyan came to Los Angeles again in early July.

The SIGGRAPH conference is not only an exhibition, but also a competition. There are various competition units, such as art, technology, 2d3d, interactive products, VRAR, papers, research results... Lou Qingyan did not participate, but still won an award, so Let's take care of the awards and show layout.

When he came to the old place, he first met with Jason Jerry and others.

The Deep Space Gazing America division is in full swing.

The company has undergone a restructuring, splitting the former technical team into two, half of which is dedicated to the research of high-quality movies, and the other half is devoted to the production of network animation.At the same time, taking advantage of the overall downturn in Hollywood animation, the English version of Fanxing Audiovisual was launched.

Because the English version of Echo Dubbing has not yet been released, the content of the audio station is not much, which is equivalent to decoration.The video site is quite rich, and all popular works in China have been translated.

Jason thought that Chinese works would be unacceptable when they came to the United States, but he didn't expect that the animations adapted from online novels were all very popular, making more money than the local animations they produced themselves.

Netizens in North America said one after another: “I really like Chinese online novels, but I can’t understand many of them. It’s much easier to understand when they are adapted into animations, and it’s also comfortable to read.”

Jason simply made the animation adaptation of web texts a characteristic brand.He bought several Western fantasy works from Wenyue Group through Lou Qingyan, and asked the technical team of the American department to produce "Oriental adaptations with Western characteristics".

The North American animation industry was always looking for a breakthrough. When they saw that the Chinese had come to the United States to do streaming media, they immediately slapped their thighs. Yes, animation can also be used as streaming media, so they followed suit.

This incident was reported back to the country, and it was ridiculed that it was rare in history, and it turned out that it was the turn of the crooked nuts to follow us.

It is worth mentioning that Penguin also took the opportunity to get a foot in the external network.They have built a website that is exactly the same as Fanxing Audiovisual, and they also make online animations and big movies, and also export animations adapted from Chinese novels...

Although the idea was copied, they held Wenyue Group in their hands, possessed unique IP advantages, and with the help of strong capital, they did it in full swing, and shared the market with Fanxing Audiovisual.

Overseas export is very profitable, and there is no policy control, so the animation copyright market of online articles suddenly became very prosperous. Many themes that cannot be launched in China can be obtained overseas and earn a lot of money. A kind of miracle was born for a while——We To watch my own animation, I have to go over the wall to watch it.

This situation has been discussed within the National Manga Industry Alliance.Some people think this is a good thing, which shows that Chinese culture has begun to vigorously export.Some people also say that this is not cultural export at all. The quality of online novels is uneven, and rashly exporting them abroad will affect our image.

Finally, I went to ask Lou Qingyan, and Lou Qingyan explained the matter to them from another angle.

"In order to complete the so-called cultural export, foreign audiences must first get used to our culture. Just as Western culture is sent to China, we get used to it through aggression. Japan first let us get used to animation, and then let us get used to Japanese culture. Fortunately, South Korea does not have any distinctive culture, otherwise, according to our habit of Hallyu, we would have already gotten used to Korean culture by now.”

"Traditional Chinese culture needs a vanguard force, rushing out to tear a hole, let foreigners form a habit, cultivate their ability to appreciate Chinese works, so that culture can be exported. This vanguard force must meet a standard, that is, vulgar, the more The vulgar is better. Throughout China, only online novels can be so vulgar.”

So no one objected to the overseas export of animation adapted from web texts.

Somehow, Lou Qingyan's words were spread, and they reached Heaven.Not long after, the literary and art circles issued a document, which was a regulation on the overseas export of domestic literary and artistic works, which supported Fanxing's series of practices from a policy perspective.

In this big shock to the global animation industry, domestic animation has taken advantage of the trend and is the biggest winner.Deep Space Gazing took advantage of Guoman's shareholder style to rise again. There are Jason Jerry abroad and Shao Yiming in China. Both sides have done impressively.

However, not every deep space project has been a success.

Tom filmed the animation for more than half a year. Although it was not released together with many works, and even though the situation of animation in North America had improved a little when it was released, it still made his father deny it and almost lost it.

When Lou Qingyan saw Tom, he was in a very bad state of mind, and he just sat beside him without saying a word after a hasty greeting.

Later, Jason told Lou Qingyan alone that Tom was under a lot of pressure now, and there were countless gossips about him in the company.

"Then what are his plans for the future?"

"He's working on several big projects now," Jason said.

In fact, Tom could join the group as an assistant director, but he refused.

Lou Qingyan could imagine Tom's dejection, and knew how he was unwilling to face himself - when we parted last time, this guy stood at the boarding gate and shouted "I will definitely prove it to you".

"Then let him do odd jobs," Lou Qingyan said, "If he's done doing odd jobs and wants to come back and continue making animations, that's up to him."

Jason looked at him suspiciously: "Jerry doesn't treat him that well, you don't have a crush on Tom, do you?"

"..." Lou Qingyan said, "Don't talk nonsense."

Jason seemed completely convinced, "Don't worry, I'll keep it a secret for you."

A year ago, Lou Qingyan probably wouldn't have cared about this kind of thing, but now, he didn't want Jason to misunderstand, so he explained to him: "Have you seen Tom's works, did you notice a feature?"

"What characteristics?"

"Other animation directors want to tell a good story, but he wants to show a world." He said, "Others love animation, and most of them love the story characters in animation, but what he loves is... the immersive Dreamy."

When Lou Qingyan was speaking, Tom happened to pass by the glass window, carrying a stack of documents in a hurry, when suddenly he was bumped head-on, and the documents scattered all over the floor.Instead of apologizing, the person who hit him yelled at him.

This is Tom's embarrassing position in the company: he is the lover of the vice president, the good friend of the president, and even the fire friend, but at the same time he is a loser who wastes resources and a small field worker.People were both jealous and disdainful of him, and finally all turned into ridicule.

The two watched this scene and did not go out to help him.

Jason said, "Do you think Tom is worth cultivating?"

"That depends on whether he can persist."

For Tom, it was wiser to give up than to hold on.

In mid-July, the world-renowned SIGGRAPH conference was officially held in Los Angeles.

This is the top event for graphic workers around the world, where creators exchange inspirations and researchers share results. Here is the pinnacle of art, the ultimate technology, the collision of sensibility and rationality, and the blending of humanities and technology.

In the past decade, it has become a closely watched event in the artificial intelligence industry.Graphics is the most widely used direction of artificial intelligence, and all signs show that the next development of graphics must be combined with deep learning. More and more AI projects are appearing on SIGGRAPH, and the connection between AI and graphics is getting closer.

This year's SIGGRAPH has attracted special attention, not only from inside the circle, but also from outside the circle.Because there was a fire this year.

From the legendary movie last year, the cg world knew that this year's SIGGRAPH conference must have a place for deep space. However, with the exposure of special effects plug-ins, the application of AI assistants, the spread of the new animation industry, and the animation industry ushered in great turmoil... people found , this place is too big.

It is no exaggeration to say that the products of Deep Space can influence all artistic creations in the field of cg.At this year's SIGGRAPH conference, all projects related to artistic creation should have a copy of Deep Space in the results.

It was at this time that the Light Chaser descended from the sky, covering the technical aspects as well.I don’t know how many technical teams have studied the code of the key engine and then went back to modify their own projects... In other words, about half of the projects related to technology should be counted as light chasers.

People thought that this year's conference would be a PK arena for two giant monsters, and they could just stay below and watch them fight. Unexpectedly, the two monsters merged into Godzilla!

Oh, since you are a family, why didn't you say it earlier?

Therefore, this year's SIGGRAPH conference has another name called "Deep Space Developer Conference".

On the eve of the conference, some provocative media interviewed everywhere, asking the exhibitors their views on the "Deep Space Developer Conference".

Some people don't like to answer, some appreciate it, and some answer very smartly, such as Nvidia, one of the protagonists of SIGGRAPH over the years.

Before the advent of deep space, Nvidia was the global leader in graphics development.

In 1998, they first invented the world's first GPU, leading the world's first graphics revolution. In 2018, when graphics as a whole fell into a bottleneck, a new GPU architecture supporting real-time ray tracing was invented, and the holy grail of graphics was regained.

20 years of ups and downs, 20 years of undefeated peak, 20 years of leading the development of the industry, Envida has already become a great existence admirable by future generations just like its name in the field of graphics.

Fortunately, today, 20 years later, this giant that has already stood at the pinnacle of the industry has ushered in a new round of opportunities-artificial intelligence.

There is a magical bond between artificial intelligence and graphics.

Not only because graphics is the most widely used field of artificial intelligence, but also because GPU, which has always been regarded as a graphics chip, has been found to be the most suitable chip for running deep learning.

There is such a thing as pie in the sky. It took Nvidia 20 years to reach the top of the graphics field. It was already impossible to advance. God suddenly opened another door for it-the GPU has changed from a graphics chip to a graphics chip. into an AI chip.

At present, the AI ​​chips that major giants are competing to develop, one of its earliest products is the GPU.

In this case, if Nvidia does not study AI, it is simply a gift from God.

Therefore, facing the question of the provocative reporter, the president of Envida said politely: "Deep space technology is a predecessor in the field of AI. We have a lot to learn from them. I hope that the two sides can reach friendly exchanges and cooperation."

"So you are admitting that Nvidia's limelight this year is destined to be suppressed by deep space?"

the reporter asked slyly.

"I don't think there is such a thing as being in the limelight. At this conference, Nvidia also released new products." Although the president's tone was light, the meaning was not light. "The new GPU positioned for general computing is used to run deep There will be incredible speed of learning. I believe our breakthrough is as good as anyone's."

"Do you mean that Nvidia's main research and development will be transferred to AI chips in the future?" The reporter is pervasive, "We have seen that, except for RTX, which shocked the world in 2018, Nvidia has made no breakthroughs in graphics chips these years. Does it mean that you have given up on graphics rendering?"

The president was not afraid of the thorns in his words, and boldly said: "In 2018, we added ray tracing and artificial intelligence modules to the GPU architecture. I don't think this architecture will change in the next ten years."

He paused, and then said, "Although I don't want to admit it, but... yes."

"In the next ten years, the glory of the GPU lies in general computing, not graphics rendering."

……

In the noisy discussion, people finally ushered in the opening ceremony of this SIGGRAPH conference.

After the leader's speech was over, round after round of programs went on.

The last part of the opening ceremony is the highlight, and it is also the most anticipated by everyone - the awards ceremony.

SIGGRAPH has multiple competition units, such as the computer animation competition.

But there are six awards, which are presented at the opening ceremony.

These six awards are also the most important and meaningful awards of SIGGRAPH over the years.

The first thing to be awarded is the Outstanding Achievement Award in Computer Graphics, which is awarded to the person who has made the greatest contribution to graphics this year.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the list of winners is already in my hands, let's get to know this year's Outstanding Achievement Award—" the host announced loudly on the stage.

The auditorium applauded casually twice, and it was just a scene.

No wonder they are not enthusiastic, this award is too suspenseful, everyone knows that this year's Outstanding Achievement Award belongs to only one person.

When the host saw the following situation, he simply put down the award speech and said directly: "It seems that you already know who this person is."

"Of course." Someone in the front row cooperated, "Everyone knows who he is."

The host laughed and said, "I have to say, this is really the strangest awards ceremony I've ever hosted. Since that's the case, let's call out his name together."

He pointed the microphone at the audience, and opened his other hand to his ear, as if listening carefully.

Everyone in the venue shouted in unison: "Fire!"

Although there is no suspense about the winner of the award, whether fire will show up or not is a suspense.

"Then let's welcome the winners to the stage!" shouted the host.

Jiang Fu and Lou Qingyan were sitting under the stage.They all got tickets for the guest seats, but instead of going to the guest seats, they spent money to buy ordinary seats.

Jiang Fu thought that Lou Qingyan had already communicated with the organizer about how to accept the award, but he didn't expect the latter to encourage him: "Get up, get up."

"What?" He didn't know why.

"Go and help me receive the award."

As soon as he finished speaking, the camera moved over and clearly projected the faces of the two people on the big screen.

There are not a few people watching the live broadcast outside the venue, because fire mentioned that there will be surprises in July, so his fans are very concerned about this conference.

When the faces of the two people appeared on the screen, the domestic friends watching the live broadcast were all shocked, "I'll go, why are the two of them here?"

"It's easy for Jiang Fu to explain here. He and Fire are in a cooperative relationship, although I don't know how they hooked up."

"Can you stop using such an ugly word as hookup?"

"What's so ugly? Don't you think that Jiang Fu and fire are actually a good match? Two strong geniuses, evenly matched and IQ colliding, complement each other in career, and sympathize with each other in soul..."

"Sorrowful ghosts, wake up, you are still, the righteous master has stamped it, and Jiang Fu even brought Lou Qingyan to this kind of occasion, how precious can you not understand?"

"You cp parties are enough, what's there to show off about homosexuality..."

"Straight man upstairs?"

"Most of the people who like fire are straight male technical geeks."

"Shut up the Jianglou party, shut up the water and fire party, and watch the opening ceremony carefully. Today is to add fire, so treat me like a dog."

"Speaking of which, why did the camera find these two people?"

Lou Qingyan put his head close to Jiang Fu's ear and whispered to him, the latter showed hesitation.

Lou Qingyan tugged at his arm, "I've already made an agreement with the organizing committee. You see, they even remember your seat number clearly. You don't want to accept the award for me."

Jiang Fu had no choice but to go up.

The host had been notified a long time ago, and when he saw him get up, he smiled and said, "It's a pity that Fire couldn't come to the scene in person, and asked his friend Mr. Jiang Fu to deliver his acceptance speech for him."

"Mr. Jiang also has superb attainments in the field of graphics, and is the second author of the paper on fire ray tracing. Then Jiang Fu..." The host said his name with a particularly weird tone.

Jiang Fu said directly: "You can call me César."

"Sizer, okay, it's much more comfortable this way, with extensive and profound Chinese." The host said, "Can you share, how was this theory created in the first place? What work did you and fire accomplish?"

"Fire had an initial idea, and asked me to design an optimal lighting model. Simply put, I provided him with a little mathematical support, which is trivial."

The host asked a few more questions before saying: "Let us remember the genius fire and his genius partner!"

Jiang Fu walked down amidst the attention of everyone.

The fire fans in front of the screen called their friends and called Jiang Fu fans. After being informed about the significance of the popular science SIGGRAPH conference, the latter looked at their brother Jing Shen fascinatedly, and called out, "What kind of fairy idol is this? !"

"Bie's idol's business methods: singing, dancing, rehearsals, CP speculation.

Our business model of Depth of Field: go to school, write papers, win awards... Hehe, I will make up for one less thought. "

"Why think about it again, let me fill you in: Jiang Fu's business methods, going to school, writing papers, winning awards, favoring the concubine Yao."

"??? Are you a devil?"

The camera followed Jiang Fu back to his seat. .

Before he sat down, he immediately handed the trophy to Lou Qingyan, who naturally held it in his arms, as if the trophy belonged to him in the first place.By the way, he smiled brightly at Jiang Fu.

Barrage: "??? Goblin stop, the trophy is not for you."

"My God, Jiang Fu took the fire trophy and handed it over to the goblin. Is this plot a bit cruel?"

The technical geek brother was speechless, "What is your brain so long, can you get someone to help you get the trophy if you are tired?"

The second award that will be awarded next is the Distinguished Service Award, which is awarded to the outstanding volunteers of the conference. The winner is a professor from Stanford University.

The third award is called the Emerging Researcher Award, which is awarded to new researchers who have recently made significant contributions to graphics.

As for the ownership of this award, everyone has speculated again.

Since all major achievements in graphics in the past year have been occupied by deep space, no one can find a suitable candidate.

Someone whispered: "Fire seems to be very suitable for this award."

"How come?" Someone immediately retorted, "He already has an award."

"Think about it, isn't fire new? Isn't it sharp? A new researcher, a recent major contribution, which one doesn't match?"

Thinking about it this way, everyone found out that it seemed to be true.

On the stage, the host just pronounced the name: "Let's congratulate the winner of this year's Emerging Researcher Award, yes, it's him again, fire!"

The exclamation was instantly set off.

Although he guessed that the award was likely to be awarded to him, he was still a little powerless when faced with the facts.

Technology awards are different from literary awards. It is rare for one person to win multiple awards in one awards ceremony, because each award is aimed at different groups of people in different fields.

For example, young researchers are usually relatively young, and it is difficult to achieve the most outstanding contribution. These two awards have never crashed.

Lou Qingyan smiled and poked Jiang Fu's waist. Jiang Fu felt something, and suddenly reached out and pressed his hand down.Sure enough, the camera came back the next second.

Although the waist stabbing was not photographed, the moment of holding hands was photographed.

"Dog man man." The fire and water cp party couldn't bear it anymore.

"Dog man man." The technical brother couldn't help it.

"Aww, it's getting real!" Only Jiang Lou was celebrating the New Year.

Jiang Fu quickly let go, stood up without looking sideways, and went on stage again.

The second time receiving the award was a little dull. He came down quickly and sat down until the camera left. Then he said helplessly, "Why do you want me to go up to receive the award?"

"Isn't the result the two of us?" Lou Qingyan said.

He put the new researcher into his hands, "This is mine," and put the Outstanding Contribution Award into Jiang Fu's hands, "This is yours."

Jiang Fu didn't want his award, "Both are yours."

"That won't work, you have to pick one." Lou Qingyan's tone was like a child picking a toy.

Jiang Fu thought for a while, and pointed to the new researcher on his right hand.

Lou Qingyan held the trophy and handed it over.

Halfway through the delivery, he was suddenly caught by Jiang Fu.The latter held his hand, held the trophy with him, and put it on the armrest of the seat.

"I want this." Jiang Fu looked straight ahead.

Lou Qingyan cocked the corners of his mouth, but did not speak.

The fourth award, Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art Creation, is given to the artist, and the winner is a well-known interaction designer.

The fifth outstanding doctoral thesis was awarded to a doctoral student at Harvard University.

The sixth award is called the Special Award for Graphics Practitioners, which was added in recent years. It is a bit similar to the Lifetime Achievement Award, and it is quite heavy.

There were whispers among the crowd again.

"This should not be given to fire again."

"There are a lot of candidates for this award. There are so many great talents, which one can't be selected for the award? I don't think it's fire."

"He has already won two awards, so he can't lose half of the six awards."

There are only six personal awards, the most important ones, so it would be unbelievable for Fire to get half of them alone.

Just when everyone thought it was impossible to give this award to fire again, the host read aloud: "Let's congratulate again——"

Everyone: "..."

This long sound is unnecessary, because when everyone hears again, they will know who has won the prize.

Damn it, it's that broken fire again.

There are a total of six top individual prizes at the top graphics event, and he took half of it alone? ?

For outstanding contributions and cutting-edge researchers, everyone is convinced, but the special award for practitioners, why?

Someone asked in the barrage: "Three of the six prizes were taken away by the same person. It's too embarrassing. What would other people think?"

"So what's the matter with embarrassment? Tell me, why isn't fire worthy of this award?"

After thinking about it, Fire is indeed worthy of this award. Everyone just thought, "You can not give it this year, and give it to him next year. Otherwise, it would be too strange for one person to take half of the award. It's like child's play."

"It's not strange, let alone a joke, it's a legend."

The barrage was fiercely contested, and the host who dragged on for a long time finally said the name: "——fire!"

Unexpectedly, he changed the topic and added a sentence: "and—"

What?Everyone was shocked, what does and mean?Is there another person who won the award?

Since the emergence of the Practitioner Special Award, it has always been a single award, and there has never been an example of it being awarded to two people.

The host did not draw a long note this time, but said passionately: "Jiang Fu!"

"Yes, you heard me right, this year's Practitioner Special Award is a double award, and it belongs to Fire and Jiang Fu!"

All the insiders, the audience in the venue, and the netizens in the barrage were all taken aback.

"What!? Really two people!"

"Who is Jiang Fu? Wait, isn't he the one who took the stage to win the award for Fire just now?"

"How could he win this award?? It can't be because of ray tracing. Although that achievement is also shocking, it shouldn't make the organizing committee make an exception to award the double award."

"The Practitioner's Special Award needs to evaluate influence. It's no problem that Fire's influence is enough to win the award, but Jiang Fu is an unfamiliar name."

"The organizing committee made an exception and issued a double award, and also awarded it to a person with almost zero influence. There is only one explanation - Jiang Fu has other achievements that we don't know about."

"I'm sorry, what results can make the organizing committee break such an exception?"

"No way... That must be a revolutionary project... I don't believe it."

"We will know at the exhibition tomorrow, let's wait and see."

Jiang Fu turned his head to look at Lou Qingyan.

Lou Qingyan shrugged and said: "This year's special award was originally vacant, but when setting up the venue, a judge saw our new product, and I told him that the two of us developed it together... and that's it."

Chasing light called again, Jiang Fu got up helplessly.

Fire held three trophies tonight, and one person won half of the awards, which can be called a miracle in the history of SIGGRAPH.

But at least, at this moment, at the scene, the person who is honored is Jiang Fu.

Countless people all over the world came to know him, this rising talent star.

He may have the best temperament among scientific research practitioners. He used to be a star and was exposed to the spotlight for a long time, which allowed him to develop a natural camera sense.

Tall and straight figure, straight back, smooth pace.The facial expression is reserved and calm, and the eyes are indifferent, as if they are very cold, but also seem to be very transparent.

Lou Qingyan once thought of a word to describe Jiang Fu, Cangshan Mountain covered with snow, bright candle sky south.He is like a silent and majestic mountain, with a thick and interesting soul inside, but covered with snow on the surface.The snow light is bright and atmospheric, capable of illuminating the entire sky.

When he walked up step by step, he had an insurmountable attitude that overwhelmed people.But Lou Qingyan knew that he could do whatever he wanted on his hilltop.

Standing on the stage, Jiang Fu looked at the trophies and found that the double award was really a double award—there was only one trophy with their names engraved on it.

When delivering his acceptance speech, he said: "It's a pleasure to write my name here with you."

"...Hopefully in the future, we can write our names in more places together."

The host smiled heartily, "So, you two will continue to cooperate in the future?"

"Of course," Jiang Fu immediately added, "We will continue to cooperate and strive to engrave our names on other trophies."

The author has something to say:

Lou: Pick one.

Jiang: This.

Lou: (pass)

Jiang: (holding hands suddenly) This is what I want.

——"The prize is yours, you are mine"

Author: I can day million!

(Day [-])

Author: Immediately write the plot!

(Ma Shangjiu wrote it, but you didn’t)

——"Withered"