Chapter 652 AI Changes the Future: Your Competitors May Not Be the One to Defeat You
"So-called CG animation is essentially the same as the 2D and 3D animations you see every day. They're all created with technology. Watch this work first, and then I'll introduce you to a killer..."
Su Yang's words made Tang Qing full of doubts, but she didn't ask any more questions. Instead, she started watching the animation directly. As she watched the animation, Tang Qing was also shocked.
This animation was incredible, it was completely at the level of top-tier CG animation. Although Tang Qing didn't know much about it, she knew the production cost of such an animation. Such animations were usually funded by the second, and such animations could sometimes cost millions of RMB or even more per minute.
The first episode of "Transformers" is only a little over 20 minutes long, but it is very shocking. The spectacular and cool planet Cybertron, the various Transformers, and the cool battles are simply too shocking.
In just twenty minutes, Tang Qing still felt unsatisfied.
“How does the quality feel?”
Su Yang asked with a smile.
"As a woman, I like it very much, so the quality goes without saying."
Tang Qing thought it was great. She rarely watched animation, but after watching the Transformers show for over 20 minutes, she was still not satisfied.
"Let's go, let me show you our animation company's real killer. With this killer, even Disney will bow down to us..."
After Su Yang said this, Tang Qing became even more curious. What kind of killer weapon was this? She didn't even know it.
Leaving the screening room and walking into the innermost part of Department X, Tang Qing saw another security door. After entering, the first thing she saw was a dense network of servers.
This is a huge computer room with servers arranged neatly in rows. In addition to these, there are also numerous screens.
"What is this place?"
Tang Qing asked curiously.
"This is our technology center. When Department X was first established, it was actually for this technology center. The department's original research direction was to use artificial intelligence technology to reduce our production costs. This technology only achieved a complete breakthrough over a month ago..."
Su Yang smiled and said that the breakthrough in this technology was entirely due to Su Yang's contribution. Su Yang exchanged a lot of things from the system, plus the technology he mastered.
It took two years to develop this technology, which uses AI algorithms to replace manual post-rendering work for animations.
In the future, the development of this artificial intelligence technology, technicians and Su Yang have overcome many algorithms. Now with this system, not only can we greatly save costs, but also increase the speed of animation production.
“Is there any video you just shot?”
Su Yang asked directly.
"Boss Su, this is the video we shot yesterday, but it hasn't been rendered yet."
A technician showed Su Yang and Tang Qing a video. Su Yang opened the video, and Tang Qing also watched it curiously.
Tang Qing was completely bewildered by the video, which was shot with a camera. In it, several people were wearing specially made clothes that had many red dots visible under the camera.
These people were chatting and even fighting there. The whole video was more than 20 minutes long, and Tang Qing was completely confused.
"This is a preliminary production sample of Transformers. During the production of Transformers, we used a combination of motion capture technology and AI rendering technology. Now it's time to witness the miracle..."
Su Yang said with a smile, and directly opened a software, and then uploaded the video to the software. Then Su Yang skillfully began to adjust various parameters on the software. After the adjustment, Su Yang clicked the start button.
Then, Tang Qing noticed that the scene on the large screen in front of her had changed. The video she had just watched was directly distributed across these computers, being broken down into frames.
Then, a scene that left Tang Qing dumbfounded occurred. The simple screen began to adjust automatically, as if it were accelerating. The originally monotonous background slowly transformed into a cool one, and those people just now slowly transformed into Transformers.
It was as if there were countless staff members working behind the scenes. Tang Qing could see many professional software programs constantly opening and closing on the computer screen, and various data constantly being adjusted.
This speed may be hundreds or even thousands of times faster than that of ordinary people.
Artificial intelligence—that's the power of AI. As long as there's enough computing power, the speed can be infinitely increased. Through this system, AI breaks down the video into frames and then renders them based on its own algorithms.
At the same time, it automatically identifies some of the sensitive information above and produces videos based on relevant algorithms.
"This is our AI intelligent rendering technology. This technology, combined with motion capture technology, can significantly reduce our production costs and greatly increase production speed. Just look at the Transformers we just saw. Based on the quality we saw, guess how much each episode cost?"
Su Yang asked with a smile.
"3 million"
Tang Qing reported a number, saying that the quality of the Transformers just now was too high.
"It's high. Let me tell you, with the help of new technologies, animations of that quality cost us less than 30,000 RMB per minute. That episode only cost a little over 500,000 RMB. Compared to our domestic counterparts, our costs are less than one-twentieth of theirs, and even lower than those abroad. And the production speed is incredibly fast. Now, we can produce cartoons at the speed of shooting short dramas. For example, for Transformers, we can basically produce one episode a day..."
Tang Qing was shocked. Truly shocked. As the chairwoman of Qingyao Group, she certainly understood the true significance of this system.
The real significance of this system is that it saves a lot of labor costs and time costs, greatly reducing the production cost of animation and significantly reducing the production time.
Because artificial intelligence is like countless post-production personnel. With this system, the staff only need to do the preliminary work, and the subsequent matters can be left to artificial intelligence.
It's like you used to need to draw an exquisite mural, but now you only need to draw a simple stick figure. The difficulty is simply not on the same level.
With this kind of technology and this kind of budget, Tang Qing looked at Su Yang and finally understood why he was so confident. With this kind of technology, even if they reduced the number of productions, they could still completely overwhelm Disney. And this kind of technology isn't just for animation companies; it can be used by special effects companies as well, and there are many other places where it can be used.
This is the real killer. With such a killer, the animation company's works can not only be of high quality, but also high production and low cost. This fully explains the saying: science and technology are the primary productive forces!
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