Monster Factory

Chapter 458: There are good things

This concert was not just Xu Ninggong’s own business it was also Ding Yin’s business. In fact, in the original her tour schedule, Four Commons was not in it. It was at the invitation of director Ding Yin that she agreed to place the first stop in the Four Commons.

Before the concert started, the hotel chains in Sikong City had had an occupancy rate of 80%, almost all of them were coming to the Xu Ninggong concert. In their minds, the Crab Festival was just a free visit without any expectations. If the concert was messed up, they would be in a bad mood to visit Sikong City.

This concert should be used to publicize the good wishes of the Sikong City Crab Festival, and they could also have to bathe in it. This was a matter of the art circle, and Tong Xuanqiang, the deputy director of the Tourism Bureau, obviously couldn’t help.

Director Ding Yin first greeted Xu Ninggong and asked her to go back to the office and didn’t stand outside in the cold. When he arrived at the office, Director Ding kept rubbing his chin’s beard, thinking quickly in his mind. The news of the concert was publicized through various channels as early as last month. The audience has formed huge expectations, and they all knew the mysterious guest was Lang Han.

Now... The only way to save the concert is to make up for the huge sense of expectation from the audience.

Xu Ninggong was sat in the chair without saying a word, while her assistant kept sighing there. About two minutes later, Director Ding suddenly stood up with a pat on his thigh.

"Yes!"

Director Ding hurriedly picked up the phone and shouted after being connected: "Xiao Liu, get the video that was shot by Lang Han half a month ago."

Five minutes later, a young man came in with a USB flash drive, and Xu Ninggong looked at Director Ding with a puzzled face. Director Ding played the video directly on the computer. The three-minute and fifty-second video were of Lang Han standing in the exercise room and dancing solo to the camera. The dance was exactly the one Lang Han arranged for her new finale song.

"I’ve seen this video. The dance moves of the song and the dance troupe were all based on this video." Xu Ninggong was even more puzzled: "Lang Han can’t come. We can’t show the video to the audience. Damn it."

"This is not a normal video."

Director Ding made a pause of the scene, pointed at the dance suit on Lang Han, and said with a smile:

"Did you notice any difference in this suit?... This is a black tight-fitting dance suit. The difference is probably there are some small white dots on the top of the dance suit. This is the mark of motion capture." Director Ding smiled more and more happily: "Originally shooting this motion-capture video, I just left post-processing special effects to help you make concert highlights. We can use the dream monitor of Monster Heavy Industries to show it out. It couldn’t be Lang Han, and we use technical means to replace this set of actions with a holographic cartoon character."

"Similar to Hatsune Miku?" Xu Ninggong also knew a little about film technology, knowing that with motion capture video, it was very simple to change to cartoon characters, and Director Ding was also good at this technology.

Dream display, with cartoon character with Lang Han’s dancing talent.

The great success of Hatsune Miku proves this model was indeed feasible. Lang Han’s dance also ensured the appreciation of cartoon characters, and the theme of Lang Han and the mysterious guest was too undetached. In the absence of other good solutions, perhaps this was the only way to try. Lang Han won’t say anything, and she had bought the exclusive rights to this dance.

"Which cartoon character would it be replaced?" Xu Ninggong had no time to hesitate.

Deputy Director Tong Xuanqiang felt he could finally be able to intervene: "Can we use cartoon crabs?"

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Of course, cartoon characters couldn’t be crabs. If ten-legged crustaceans go dancing, the concert would be made into a fun concert. Director Ding had a lot of material for anime characters at hand, but if he wanted to perform the holographic dance effect perfectly, he should have technical assistance from Monster Heavy Industries.

When Ye Qing received a call from Director Ding and Xu Ninggong, he was discussing the interior decoration design of the Gulfstream G 750 with the chief designer Xiao Jun of the Chronicle Studio. The interior decoration of Gulfstream’s flagship business jet was luxurious enough, but this decoration was the same for all flagship models. So he invited chief designer Xiao Jun to redesign the layout of the cabin and pursue low-key luxury, just make changes to the living facilities. The frame structure of the aircraft remains the same, and the design is strictly in accordance with the center of gravity of the aircraft.

"Do you plan to let a holographic cartoon character come as a mysterious guest?" Ye Qing raised his eyebrows when he heard it, admiring Lang Han’s recklessness, and admiring Director Ding’s thoughts even more.

"Euh~ we are also forced to do it, and we only have two days left, there is no way to find a replacement." Xu Ninggong’s voice was a little disappointed.

"I’ll let the technician send you the parameters of the display right away." Ye Qing nodded, and then thought of something: "With only Lang Han’s video, there is no way to transfer his body movements to the virtual character, right?"

"This is a motion capture video." Director Ding originally planned to do post-production special effects for Lang Han: "Because he was wearing a wonderful dance costume and it affects the coordination of the body."

"Motion capture?" Ye Qing is somewhat interested. This technology had been unpopular in China a few years ago. At present, Tianjin was also studying this aspect of video technology which was the kind of unmarked motion capture.

"Then send me a copy of the video and dynamic files. Let me refer to it. We are also working on similar technologies here."

After finishing the call, Xiao Jun, the designer who came from Shanghai, waved his hand and asked Ye Qing to work with him first. He had to study the cabin layout drawings for a while.

It was just a trivial matter. Ye Qing called the technician and forwarded the information passed by Director Ding to Tianjin.

Tomorrow afternoon, China’s first Gulfstream G750 will arrive at the Capital Airport. Compared to the Crab Festival, Ye Qing cared more about this.

"Old Xiao, do you say a bathtub cannot be installed on the plane?" Ye Qing couldn’t help being unconstrained, and interrupted Xiao Jun’s thinking: "It’s best to have a two-person bathtub."

"You can’t install it?" Xiao Jun looked up and smiled meaningfully: "Looking at the parameters, this aircraft can only store up to 300 liters of domestic water. If you want to add the water tank by yourself, trimming is probably impossible."

"The internal trim of the aircraft is simple, and the current flight control system has a trim function. By controlling the fuel flow in the aircraft, it is automatically trimmed."

"I’ll just do it for a while, don’t know where to put the bathtub."

"Since the trimming is okay, leave it to me about the bathtub space." Xiao Jun’s smile turned sly.

Ye Qing showed the same smile. He had planned to add two more suggestions, but the phone rang.

The number indicated it was Tianjin. Ye Qing answered the phone. Tianjin happily shouted over there, "Boss, come and have a look, there are good things."