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981: Chapter 954: Furious to the Point of Vomiting Blood!

Magical Face Swap!_2 981: Chapter 954: Furious to the Point of Vomiting Blood!

Magical Face Swap!_2 “I’ve collected their facial features,” Wu Jie said, “now let’s see if we can use image recognition and replacement technology to switch out those two, and remember, it has to be in ultra-high definition!”

Bai Fengling hummed in acknowledgment twice.

“Alright, I’ll send them to you right now.

If you can pull this off, I’ll save a lot of trouble and money!”

Wu Jie offered a few more words of comfort before hanging up the phone.

He opened his laptop and logged into the PC client of the Super Shoot software.

With its new algorithms and data compression transmission technology, the software had long since evolved beyond entertainment features, also offering file transferring and sharing capabilities, something any savvy user would understand.

Speaking of which.

Bai Fengling sent several videos, at least 30GB in total, which were quickly received.

Wu Jie unplugged the network cable, connected the laptop with the intelligent center’s high-speed optical fiber network, and imported everything into the large data center.

The artificial intelligence program Blue Planet, which had just completed its fourth simulation analysis, was conveniently available.

He opened two video files named after the ‘substitute’ actors, both seasoned veterans.

It’s just that these days, no matter how good the acting or how long the experience, nothing compared to the appeal of online celebrities.

They had more fans and higher visibility; a simple post from them would gather many comments, likes, and shares, often becoming a trending topic.

Advertisers favored them because of their popularity, ensuring higher viewership and box office returns for TV series, movies, and variety shows they were in.

This had led to a situation where veteran actors struggled to find roles, while online celebrities had back-to-back movie contracts and shot countless films each year.

When Bai Fengling was casting, the alternative actors she considered had been famous many years ago with notable works, but now…

their fame had faded like yesterday’s flowers, barely known anymore.

Wu Jie started image data analyses and collection from videos of all four actors.

For example, capturing their expressions under different emotions such as happiness, anger, sorrow, worry, etc., as well as their gaze, lip shape, and minute changes in facial details when speaking.

Then he’d proceed to a one-to-one replacement, akin to swapping faces in a texture mapping process.

To achieve the necessary level of precision and realism, a large amount of detail collection, data analysis, and rendering was required for substitution.

Especially for a film’s release in 3D and on a giant screen, viewers could not be fooled; they were not blind.

If the ‘face swapping’ resulted in shadows, double images, or blurs, it would be a real joke.

The workload was overwhelming, and with the current film special effects technology, it was simply impossible to finish.

To achieve high realism without detectable mistakes, it would necessitate frame-by-frame, manual Photoshop editing.

How long would it take to Photoshop a single frame?

The expressions needed to be accurate, and the emotions convincingly natural and consistent with the plot…

Such Photoshop work would require at least half a day for a single frame of image modification.

Films nowadays were becoming increasingly high-definition.

Although 24-frames-per-second was sufficient for human eyes to perceive motion as continuous, for higher clarity, smoothness, and lifelike detail, movies typically used 60 to 120 frames-per-second filming techniques, acquiring 4K ultra-high-definition quality.

The movie Bai Fengling produced employed high-speed, 120-frames-per-second filming.

Such technology allowed even the reflection on a blade, dust on clothing, and fine freckles or wrinkles on an actor’s face to be seen clearly, bringing a highly authentic and realistic effect to the scenes.

However, this also presented an insurmountable task for traditional film special effects technology.

At 120 frames per second, the combined screen time of the two main actors exceeded one hundred minutes.

This meant that if detailed Photoshop-like editing was necessary, around eighty thousand images would need to be processed.

Eighty thousand!

What kind of concept was that?

The post-production special effects team for the film crew didn’t even have twenty people.

Even if one person could expertly retouch five images a day, it would still take over seven hundred days, which is roughly equal to two years’ worth of work.

In reality.

Those Hollywood blockbusters often take years to produce precisely because of the labor-intensive nature of the effects, relying on a brute force approach of constant modeling, retouching, masking, rendering, optimization…

Hundreds of effects artists working for years to produce a high-quality special effects film that, if successful at the box office, could earn billions in Gold Coin revenue, made it all worthwhile.

At present.

What Wu Jie was attempting wasn’t as complicated; after all, he was only face swapping.

But with so much screen time, lengthy total duration, numerous emotional changes, and plenty of dialogues…

The complexity of such face swapping was very high.

After the one-to-one replacement, the expressions and speech of the actors needed to fit seamlessly.

You couldn’t have the original actor furiously glaring while the newly swapped actor had a playful smile.

In such a case, it would be better not to swap at all but to reshoot entirely.

Of course.

Although the difficulty was off the charts, Wu Jie had the artificial intelligence program Blue Planet and Blue Planet had a supercomputer.

Wasn’t this akin to cheating?

Wu Jie made specific demands, instructing it to observe, retouch, and perfect from the perspective of an ‘audience’.

The two actors used for replacement were veteran actors too.

Having played many roles with a wide range of emotional expressions provided Blue Planet with ample material to work with.

After thorough preparation, Wu Jie had Blue Planet start with replacing a few seconds of the movie footage.

Even so, the computational demand was still staggering.

The supercomputer reached a peak speed of two quintillion operations per second and ran wildly for several minutes before the modifications were complete.

Wu Jie watched the original and new footage, comparing them side by side.

The face-swapped performance of the new actor seemed more in tune.

The emotions were more precisely conveyed, with expressive brows and compelling facial expressions.

Following this, Wu Jie selected other segments for Blue Planet to work on the replacement.

After multiple trials and connecting various clips into a coherent five-minute film segment, he sent it back to Bai Fengling.

After all, not being a professional in the film industry, he thought it was pretty good as long as the expressions were on point and the lines were accurate.

To judge whether it was ready for release, he left it to professionals to assess.

Shortly after sending the video, Bai Fengling called.

Wu Jie didn’t need to guess; she was certainly excited, curious, amazed…

“Okay, calm down a bit, I did this with a supercomputer worth billions, so naturally, the efficiency is high!”

“But fake is fake after all, you should still get an expert to verify whether it can be released!”

Wu Jie advised her before hanging up and immediately turned to the monitoring terminal.

Chu Yunxuan had changed into new clothes and makeup and was back…