The office area of the New Media Video Animation Competition Organizing Committee is located in the cultural and creative industrial park provided by the Qingshan Municipal Government. The industrial park is mainly constructed with antique buildings. It is antique and has no shortage of living water pavilions. In the flower season, there are also blue flowers.
The couplets and cherry blossoms are so beautiful that this place is about to become an internet celebrity.
The entire building A in the Cultural and Creative Park is used as the office location for this competition.
The review meeting started on time at ten o'clock. At this time, fifteen preliminary judges were already sitting at the circular table, waiting for the empty boss in the center to arrive.
Judging meetings will be held every day. The judges will submit some works that they think are excellent, discuss them at the judging meeting, and then determine the shortlisted places for the preliminary evaluation.
The judges present looked at the huge whiteboard behind the main seat, on which many work names had been marked with markers. Each circled name was a work shortlisted for the preliminary evaluation.
Not long after, the signature shuffling footsteps came from the porch, and everyone involuntarily straightened their spines. Although the preliminary judges present were all elites selected by three industry media, but this person was about to come in. Normally, the other party would look at themselves.
One glance may make them proud.
A slightly fat figure walked in with slippers on. Under his curly hair was a face that looked down on the autumn moon and spring breeze.
Seeing him, everyone couldn't help but get excited.
Liu Qirong. His native place is Qingshan City. He is an animation and film director. There are several award-winning masterpiece-level animated films in China, all of which are produced by him. In addition, his literary films are still among the top few in the country.
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Last year, he also served as the general director of the Northland Animation Festival, which is one of the five major animation festivals in the world, together with the Annecy Animation Film Festival in France, the Ottawa Animation Festival in Canada, the Zagreb Animation Festival in Croatia, and the East Animation Festival.
The island country’s animation festival is equally famous.
Liu Qirong has previously designed image projects for Qingshan City and participated in the construction of Qingshan City's "Sacred Painting" theme park. Therefore, when the Qingshan City Government Propaganda Department was preparing for the Qingshan College Student Video Animation Competition, it invited him to be the final judge.
Member of the expert group.
Under other circumstances, Liu Qirong would not necessarily participate. No matter how big the stage was, he would have refused even the New Year's Eve party and variety show hosted by one of the top two TV stations in the country. However, he was very enthusiastic about Qingshan City Government's publicity and Qingshan's public welfare undertakings.
This time, it was also because of the title of Qingshan's College Student Animation Video Contest. He was willing to serve as an expert panel judge and also the general judge of the contest. This was also a highlight of the contest's widespread publicity.
In other words, in the entire competition, his words are currently the imperial edict, and he is the only one who dares to walk around in slippers under such circumstances.
Liu Qirong held a tablet notebook under his arm and walked up to the main seat. Faced with everyone's standing greetings, he nodded casually, waved his hand for everyone to sit down, then took out a marker pen, turned around and brushed it.
A few words were written on the whiteboard.
"The Adventures of Chen Dachui".
Looking at this name, the judges looked at each other and thought about it.
When this animation was first handed over to the judges, it was circulated by everyone, and many people laughed out loud after watching it. However, some judges thought it was a spoof and did not conform to the spirit of the competition, so they put it in the controversial area.
An expert review team will make the final assessment, but so far, no results have been given for this work.
Liu Qirong wrote this work on the whiteboard of the jury meeting today. What happened?
"At today's review meeting, I will focus on this work." Liu Qirong said, "Have you read it all?"
Everyone nodded.
"Okay," Liu Qirong said, "Next, I will show you the tools my team usually uses to make movies."
Well, what's going on? The context doesn't match up, but everyone immediately became energetic. Liu Qirong is a first-class director in China, and the software tools used by his production team must be the best in the industry.
Sure enough, when Liu Qirong took out his tablet, started the cloud computer, and then projected the software loading screen in the darkened room, everyone saw the big word "Maya" on it and their breathing became tight.
Maya software is one of the top AI intelligent software in the film industry. It is owned by Maya company and has very powerful performance. It is a professional software only provided for high-level producers.
Many people only hear its name but don’t see its form. After all, this kind of professional software is used by top producers. The various internal parameters are confidential and cannot be shown to outsiders. And ordinary people have no way of seeing this kind of software.
interior view.
Although there were many experienced judges present, it was probably the first time they had seen the internal conditions of this software.
Liu Qirong probably guessed how everyone was feeling at this time. He wrote a script casually, which was a script for a martial arts competition between a man and a woman. A library of character models instantly appeared on the screen. Various characters were lifelike, and some were even real-life movie stars.
For the authorization of the software, Liu Qirong is one of the top directors in China and has the right to use the virtual identities of many celebrities, so he can see the templates of many celebrities.
Just looking at these, many people swallowed their saliva, it was a top model library.
Everyone watched Liu Qirong quickly operate parameters, character models, scene rendering, special effects, sound effects, camera matching, background subtraction, and then he clicked "Generate"!
Soon, two famous domestic male and female celebrities in ancient costumes appeared in a bamboo forest. The two danced through the bamboo forest and competed with each other with swords.
The beautiful scenes, lifelike character details, smoke waves and water mist effects of the bamboo forest make people feel like they are in a fairyland.
Everyone was a little lost in the sight.
This is the top film tool, is this the work of a top boss?
A random paragraph, isn’t it just a blockbuster scene!?
Liu Qirong adjusted the parameters again. The background was quickly replaced by a modern city. The male and female protagonists put on modern costumes and parkoured, chased and had gun battles in the urban forest.
When Liu Qirong operated the software again, the background changed to a space science fiction, with the male and female protagonists wearing power suits and shuttling between buildings hundreds of meters high.
After a demonstration, all the judges couldn't help but applaud.
"This is the Maya software my team uses to make things. The professional version costs 7 million and does not include celebrity avatars and virtual star copyrights. In fact, the latter is more expensive."
Liu Qirong said, and then he closed the software and opened another software.
Everyone is familiar with this software. "Fuxing" software is an AI video production tool produced by Fuxing Group. Its advantage lies in dynamic rendering, which is especially suitable for motion effects. The price is 170,000.
After Liu Qirong opened it, everyone saw that the internal resource library was not rich. They had just seen Liu Qirong's professional director-level Maya software before, and then looked at Fuxing, a mid-to-high-end market software, and immediately saw the comparisons and gaps in the materials.
Library, scene selection, camera position advancement, and various parameters were suddenly greatly reduced.
Liu Qirong introduced the previous script again, saw the AI scenes produced by the previous top tools, and then looked at the current Fuxing software to make a judgment. Although it was still a fairyland scene, if they had not experienced the baptism of "Maya" software, they would have
It seemed OK, but after seeing the previous scenes, and looking at this one again, the contrast suddenly emerged.
The details of the bamboo forest have been reduced by at least a quarter, and the rendering of the fog in the fairyland has also become clumsy, losing the ethereal feeling. There is actually a smear in the character's movements, but the human eye cannot distinguish it, but after the fight, the picture will appear
It is darker and the outline of the characters is not so bright. This is the dark area caused by smearing.
Then change the scene, city, or space, and you can obviously see that the scene shrinks a lot.
Compared with the previous Maya, the Lucky Star software in front of me is like eating an extremely sweet strawberry and now eating a green apple. Maybe eating the apple alone will be sour and sweet, but eating it after eating the strawberry,
It's just a sour taste in your mouth.
"You just saw the difference between the effects of 7 million-level software and the effects of 170,000-level software. Not to mention those cheaper software. We have to admit that the more expensive software, whether it is characters, picture performance, scene rendering
, is indeed better, which also makes our industry pursue investment in equipment more and more. If the shooting is not good, it means that the funds are not in place, and the equipment and software are not good enough. But in reality?"
"Chen Dachui's work uses one dollar of 'intelligent manufacturing' software, telling us that even with cheap software, even as cheap as one dollar, you can still create excellent videos for free! The pursuit of pictures has
Pursuing the gameplay of the picture, but this is not the only thing. The most important and core thing about a video or a movie is to tell a story. The work reflects the inner expression of the author. Even the most recognized software can be saved by people who know how to use it.
Here, you will also turn waste into treasure and create unique usage and style!"
Everyone was stunned.
"This author deliberately used a one-dollar software to enter the competition." Liu Qirong turned around and glanced at the name written on the whiteboard, "He used a one-dollar software and the simplest pictures to make people laugh. What is
Gao Ming, this is Gao Ming. To be honest, I recognized this work when I saw it.
It used a comedy shell to wrap up the mockery and metaphor of reality, so I could conclude at that time that such a work would never be buried, and we could even test it!"
Everyone reacted. Liu Qirong knew that they were commentators in the media. He knew that what happened today would be communicated in detail through their mouths and pens afterwards. Therefore, Liu Qirong was teaching them a lesson.
Through them, we will teach more people in related industries.
"As you can see, I deliberately did not let this work pass the preliminary review!" Liu Qirong turned around and put a few dots under "The Adventures of Chen Dachui" with a pen, "I just want everyone to see, even if the picture is the simplest,
Among all works, the picture is the worst, even if such a work does not have recommendations and traffic! It can still break through by virtue of its own core excellence!"
After speaking concisely and to the point, Liu Qirong dropped his pen, turned around and walked out of the judging room with his tablet in his arms.
The judges were left looking at each other in confusion.
Many people looked at the six characters "The Adventures of Chen Dachui" written on his whiteboard...
It turns out that this is the case. No wonder this work is placed in the controversial area, but there has been no follow-up status.
It turns out that it was stuck by the boss.
…
Is what the boss said true?
I don't give it the label of being shortlisted in the preliminary evaluation because I believe that...it doesn't need any recommendation, and it can come up on its own?
He wants to teach everyone a good lesson in this way? Even teach the industry a good lesson?
is that true?
Don’t know?
The judges were actually confused.
Although Liu Qirong's resume is scary and everyone bows down when they see him, although you are a big boss and everyone recognizes your achievements, these words...
A little too arbitrary?
…
Then, the fourth day of the preliminary evaluation.
The reviewers who arrived at the review room early in the morning received news. In fact, someone had already discovered the anomaly on the official website the night before, but they only got confirmation when they went to work the next day.
Overnight, the official website of the organizing committee encountered a surge in visits.
The technicians were in a panic at first, but after troubleshooting, they figured out the source.
Throughout the official website, abnormal access traffic rushed to only one target highland——