The Creator of the Second Dimension

Xu Rui, who returned to Fantastic Animation after lunch, quickly received a call from Li Zhen from Suoren Huyu.

He brought Xu Rui the set of facial expression capture equipment, which has been moved to the third floor of the Hatsune game.

Xu Rui immediately put down what he was doing and went to the next building.

Speaking of equipment, it is actually a set of software plus a camera, and the camera is nothing special. The main reason is that the driver program has not been debugged well, and the software cannot adapt to ordinary cameras.

After setting it up, Xu Rui immediately experienced it.

He found that this capture device can capture the facial expressions of people who are close by without setting up sensors or positioning points, and reproduce them in the computer within an acceptable range. It is difficult to express subtle eyes and the like, but Ordinary micro-expressions such as tilting the corners of the mouth and surprise can be better presented.

As for the movement, it must exceed a certain range to be captured. The movement capture of the finger part is good, even the slightest operation such as snapping the fingers can be included.

It can be said that this motion capture device has basically met Xu Rui's needs.

He intends to apply it in two ways.

The first is naturally the concerts and performances of virtual singers like Hatsune Miku, as well as CG animations.

Although the technology of Hatsune Games is now enough to produce lifelike CG animations, the expressions are still lacking. For example, during the concert, there is no way to capture the expressions, and manual debugging is time-consuming and laborious. The effect is not good. If this equipment is popularized, Then not only the performances of virtual singers, but also the LIVE of audio games can go a step further.

The second purpose is the anchor.

At present, there are tens of thousands of anchors registered in the live broadcast area of ​​Hatsune Video Network. According to statistics, there are less than a thousand people, only one-tenth of them. Among the fifty most famous anchors, they turn on their cameras to show themselves There were no more than 20 real-looking anchors, such as Yi Qianqian, who basically turned off the camera the whole time.

Xu Rui can understand this situation very well. After all, most of them are not really handsome men and women, and they don't want to expose their appearance to cause inconvenience to life, so it is normal to turn off the camera.

But in the experience of watching the live broadcast, the anchor’s reaction is also a very interesting part. If there is only sound, to be honest, it will lose some fun. Xu Rui plans to promote this facial recognition to the anchor circle, and then use it with some 3D facial pinching software , to create a virtual anchor.

Of course, the initial demonstration started from inside the Hatsune game.

In the evening of mid-January, Wang Ze returned home after a day's work.

He was eating takeaway, and clicked on the page of Chuyin Video Network, just in time to see the reminder that [Qian] started the live broadcast.

Wang Ze, who was looking for a video of serving meals, immediately clicked on this page and found that [Shallow] was playing the zombie mode of "Call of the Battlefield". In this mode, several players will fight together to meet waves of zombies. A PVE mode.

The operation of [Shallow] is still exquisite, but this time, Wang Ze noticed that there is a CG model in the lower right corner of the screen.

This is a white-haired girl with a pair of furry ears and blue eyes, wearing a sailor suit, moving slightly, with a serious and focused expression on her face.

"Is this a new avatar?"

Seeing the "awsl" swiping screen in the bullet screen, Wang Ze didn't understand it at first, until he saw the CG model move with the screen of the game, he realized that this is the avatar of [Shallow] .

Soon Wang Ze's attention was attracted by the avatar. This CG model is very delicate, and the expression on his face will change with the game. ]'s lines, Wang Ze finds them cuter the more he looks at them.

"Ah, I'm dead."

He couldn't help but said.

[awsl! Unexpectedly, [Qian]'s body turned out to be a girl with cat ears! 】

Wang Ze also posted a barrage.

"This is not a cat, it's fox ears."

Perhaps seeing some speeches in the barrage, [Qian] actually spoke back.

"So it's a fox???"

Wang Ze couldn't believe it. He looked at the pair of ears with white hair and moved them by himself.

This is obviously cat ears!

The live broadcast is still going on, [Shallow] While playing the game, you can still watch the barrage, answer some questions or chat with the audience, although the attitude is still a bit cold, but compared to before, I can only see the game screen and I don’t know how high it is Where did it go.

In the past, the audience who could only listen to the sound to make up the picture, now, can directly see the expression of "shallow", what is better than this?

[What is this animation model of the anchor? Is it a self-portrait? 】

A barrage asked.

"Well, you can take her as my appearance, this is the image of the virtual world."

【Shallow】Take out a huge zombie casually, while answering, the head is bit by bit, looking very lively.

I don't know if it's Wang Ze's illusion, but she seems to be a little more cheerful.

This is not surprising, with such a cute girl in front of him, Wang Ze is willing to be insulted and trampled by the other party, and now he can see the other party's expression through a layer of models, so naturally he is happier.

The live broadcast lasted until eight o'clock, and Wang Ze still had a lot to say, so he could only wait for the aftertaste of the recording.

Several groups he was in were discussing [shallow] things, and all kinds of expressions in the live broadcast were screenshotted and made into emoticons.

At the same time, Chuyin Video Network also posted a Weibo to show everyone the function of this virtual live broadcast software. Because of the [shallow] live broadcast in front, this software immediately became popular.

Wang Ze was also curious and downloaded one. This software only sold for 50 yuan, just like free money. After he bought it, he downloaded it and found that the functions of the software are divided into two parts. One is to select avatars, and the software comes with some animals. and animated avatars, among which are Wang Ze's familiar character images of fantasy animation.

Another function is virtual live broadcast, which requires a computer with a camera to collect movements and expressions.

Wang Ze randomly chose a panda head to collect. He found that this software can basically restore his expressions, but some special expressions cannot be captured.

But the designer of the software seems to have considered this problem, and can set certain shortcut keys to switch expressions, such as star eyes or blushing.

Wang Ze also discovered some complex operations, such as the movement of cat ears seen today, but all of these require the use of custom shortcut keys.

Of course, it is impossible for human beings to have cat ears, so it is impossible to capture the movement of the ears. In other words, today's [Shallow] is playing live broadcasts while fighting zombies while quickly operating shortcut keys. This technology is really amazing .

Wang Ze also found that this software can not only capture facial expressions, but also capture a certain degree of movement, but there is no demonstration of this aspect yet.

Of course, about two weeks later, before the Spring Festival, among the virtual anchors that appeared one after another, someone showed off the motion capture function of this software, and became famous because of it.

It's just that the behind-the-scenes person of this virtual anchor is still hiding in his room, drinking Coke, and just watched the recorded video of [Shallow].