Motion capture has set off a technological frenzy in the movie metaverse. Surprises are revealed!

Applications: Motion Capture, Metaverse, Virtual Reality, Film and Television Animation.

The "The Wandering Earth 2" effect has brought in a box office revenue of 2.6 billion yuan, making this Chinese hardcore science fiction blockbuster continuously a box office legend. A series of scientific fantasies such as space elevators, quantum computers, planetary engines, and digital life have been presented with an extremely immersive science fiction atmosphere through Chinese heavy industries and CG special effects.

There are 3,300 regular special effects shots and over 1,000 facial special effects in "The Wandering Earth 2". Compared with the shooting of "The Wandering Earth 1", the use of motion capture and facial capture in "The Wandering Earth 2" also made Xu Jian, the visual effects supervisor, greatly amazed! The youthful appearances of Andy Lau and Wu Jing in the film, which intrigued the audience the most, were also achieved through facial special effects. And the most crucial part was the facial capture technology. It was used to capture the subtle facial expressions, and then the "rejuvenation" process was carried out with AI technology to restore their youthful looks at the age of 20. Apart from the iterative updates in visual technology, through the combination of virtual pre-visualization and motion capture technology, the visualization of the script was also accomplished. This enabled the filming crew to have more precise positioning and to execute the filming tasks more regularly, thus realizing the orderly progress of the filming process and saving time costs.

MoreVFX was responsible for the visual effects production of "The Wandering Earth 2". More than 800 special effects shots were completed in the whole film. Thanks to years of industry experience, the final presentation of the film's special effects lived up to everyone's expectations. Qingtong, as a service provider cooperating with MoreVFX, provided self-developed systems and technical support for its optical motion capture applications. In the future, it will continue to be committed to technological innovation and work together with its cooperative customers to add new impetus to the development of Chinese cinema! Besides being able to support hardcore science fiction epic blockbusters, motion capture technology can also contribute to heartwarming family comedies. The New Year's film "Look Up and See the Joy", in which Qingtong participated in the production, demonstrated the heartwarming technology of the metaverse to the audience.

In the themed short film "Grandpa's Adventure in the Metaverse", the "Metaverse" action team composed of Wang Hedi and Wei Wei, in order to help the grandpa played by Luo Jingmin fulfill his wish to reunite with grandma again, utilized digital human, motion capture and facial capture technologies to "resurrect" the "grandma" in the metaverse, allowing grandpa and grandma to be reunited once more.

Movies have also expanded the audience's understanding of the metaverse. The metaverse is not just a space for entertainment and socializing, but also a parallel and diverse space, and more importantly, a digital space that breaks through the dimension of life. The concept of digital life here coincides with that in "The Wandering Earth 2". With the booming of the metaverse, digital humans seem to have become a mature concept in this era of rapid development. With continuous technological breakthroughs and iterations, digital humans have become an accessible image for everyone.

In the film, the 84-year-old grandpa taught himself how to create digital humans, and the grandson used the Qingtong MC series motion capture system to endow the "grandma" with the vitality of movement. "Coco" has a different interpretation of death, while the virtual-real interaction that transcends space and time in "Look Up and See the Joy" may present another imagination about life and death.

This kind of imagination is based on the scientific strength of software and hardware technologies. Qingtong keeps innovating through its own technological research and development. It not only has a full-stack solution for digital human systems but also has launched enterprise-level motion capture systems and consumer-level motion capture systems for different usage scenarios.

With its strong practical operation capabilities and excellent self-developed technologies, since the establishment of the brand, its enterprise-level motion capture has been recognized by numerous first-tier brands. It has cooperated with more than 1,000 enterprise and research institutions such as Baidu, Bilibili, Huawei, ByteDance, and Shanghai Theatre Academy. It provides in-depth technical solutions for brands to layout the metaverse, digital entertainment, and digital cultural tourism, realizing the implementation of innovative and diversified application scenarios, endowing brands with a first-mover advantage, and enhancing the soft power of interactive technology by using cost-reducing and efficiency-increasing technologies and content tools.

The original intention of developing the consumer-level motion capture system under Qingtong was to create a platform leading to the metaverse for everyone, lower the threshold for creating and using digital humans, and build virtual images with high efficiency at a low cost. It is believed that as more and more individuals join the metaverse, the applications of virtual digital humans will continuously expand their boundaries. They will no longer be limited to professional identities such as virtual anchors, virtual idols, and virtual employees. Instead, humanistic social cultures such as those of parents, teachers, friends, and lovers are needed to enrich this small universe that should be people-oriented. As a pioneer in technology, Qingtong Vision adheres to a benevolent view of digital life and will continue to contribute to the warm metaverse.