Digital Domain3.0, an Oscar-winning special effects production company, is the main creator of Virtual Teresa Teng. According to its management representative, the appearance of "Virtual Teresa Teng" in Taipei is only the first step of the experiment, which will present a more perfect image and performance for the audience in the future.
As one of the world's leading special effects production companies, Digital Domain3.0, which won many Oscars, is the main creator of Virtual Teresa Teng. The company has created eye-popping visual effects for more than 65,438+000 Hollywood blockbusters, such as Titanic, Transformers and Iron Man 3. For many years, the special effects masters who have delivered the top film technology to Hollywood have used the unique virtual human technology in the world to generate images as real as photos through computers, thus "recreating" Teresa Teng and allowing him to perform brand-new content. This process is described by the special effects artists in the digital kingdom as "the perfect combination of technology, art and technology".
Behind the scenes: Teresa Teng's brother personally supervised the Oscar special effects master for nearly three months.
Making a virtual human has to go through a series of complicated processes. In order to make the "virtual Teresa Teng" infinitely close to the real prototype, 45 special effects artists of the late American rapper tupac shakur successfully "recreated" at the Coachella Music Festival in California on 20 12 to form a "golden team". In the production process of more than two months, Virtual Teresa Teng has been revised by 100 times in order to overcome the three major production problems of form, spirit, language and development.
In 2008, with Benjamin? Steve Preeg, who won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects in The Wonders of Barton, is the animation director of the project and the production director of visual effects in the later period. He once led the team to create a large number of virtual animations of characters, but it was the first time to "reproduce" an oriental idol. For them, "virtual Teresa Teng" means an unprecedented challenge: "First of all, Chinese is a completely strange language to us, which makes it more difficult to synchronize and compare mouth movements. Making full-face real hair is also challenging, about 7000 images need to be drawn, and the hair needs to imitate the dynamics of the characters. Generally speaking, it is difficult to make a character's face beautiful or technical. "
"Virtual human performance is a groundbreaking art project that requires a lot of time and energy. It takes more than two months to complete the production, which is a great challenge for us. Judging from the current effect, we think there is still a lot of room for improvement, and it also provides very valuable experience for the future' virtual human performance' plan. According to the management representative of Digital Kingdom, the "Virtual Teresa Teng" project plans to launch a complete concert at the end of 20 14, and its early appearance in Taipei is due to the efforts of many parties and unanimous determination: "At the beginning of this year, Mr. Yang Junrong, the general manager of Jewell (Jay Chou's company), especially hoped to" reproduce "Miss Teresa Teng through scientific and technological means after watching Tupac's performance. We know that Jay Chou and his company have been fond of Miss Deng's heavenly singing for many years. At the same time, we also hope that through this top-notch special effects technology, Teresa Teng can return to his hometown and realize the cross-world interpretation of two generations of music idols. This matter is of great significance in itself. So we decided to do this 5-minute performance to match Jay Chou's performance. "
Mr. Deng Changfu, President of Teresa Teng Cultural and Educational Foundation, played an important role in it. As the initiator of the project, President Deng promoted the cooperation with Digital Kingdom. At the same time, as a member of the Teresa Teng family, he also served as a special consultant for the production team of Digital Kingdom, and went overseas to visit the headquarters of Digital Kingdom in Los Angeles, working side by side with the front-line special effects artists to ensure that the final effect can be both physical and mental.
Personally, I don't think P.S. did very well, and the overall feeling of Teresa Teng seems to be unaffected by the gravity of the earth. But thank them all the same.
Miss Teresa Teng!