Disaster Artist

Chapter 94 Imitation fails

"Emily, Emily! Don't sleep, there's a new job!"

Paul patted his colleague next to him.You've been asleep for 48 minutes and it's time to get up and go to work.

Emily opened her eyes and almost thought Paul next to her was a zombie.His face was blue, his eye sockets were sunken, he was full of energy, and his electronic eyes were shining with a strange light.

1:48 am.The two rubbed their swollen faces, drank half a bottle of energy drinks, and continued to work overtime with four other colleagues.

After the company arranged for Xikora to carry out random challenges on Red Flash, the technical team fell into endless overtime hell.

In the past, for performing arts activities, the operations team would write a planning plan one to two weeks in advance.Then they will conduct targeted training and debugging, and if there are no problems, they will be handed over to the supervisor and Ms. Shalan for review.

Random challenges are a dead end, and the project team only has 6 to 12 hours left for them.

After debugging, there was no problem, and Xikora was immediately brought to the set for filming.

During the filming process, the logistics department will send the Sikora backup machine over so that they can start debugging the next dance.

Although it was not difficult for Xikora to recreate the dance on the red flash, their prosthetic bodies would overheat if they kept spinning like this.

"Let me see what weird thing the guys from the operations team chose to torture us."

After watching the video, the programmers from the technology R&D team checked the electronic eyes in unison.Watch it again.

The programmers watched the excerpts of "Hua Sheng" twice in a row and couldn't move after watching them.They couldn't understand it, but they were shocked.

Are the operations team serious about choosing such an alien dance?
"Is this a huge difference from Xikora's usual style?"

"The above intention is to use this event to enrich the image of Xikora. They have made the choice, let's get started."

Paul imported the video into a motion capture modeling program, and the data came out soon.

On the other side, colleagues made a comparison of the appearance of the dancers in the original video and Sikora.Very good, the body shapes of the two are relatively close, which can save a lot of time during debugging.

"The action fitting rate came out, uh, the data is a bit strange."

Emily said something, then immediately took it back and retested the fitting rate.

They generally refer to the data sources with the top three fitting rates and determine the general adjustment direction based on those three dancers.

The fitting model simplifies the human body into multiple moving particles, divides the dance movements into dozens or hundreds of segments, and then conducts cross comparisons.

For most dances on Red Flash, you can find reference objects with a fitting rate of over 90.For less popular dances, you can usually find references that are over 70 years old.

The database used to train Sikora is very large and similar ones can always be found.

Emily re-exported the fitting results, which were very different from the first time.

"Come and see, there's something really wrong with the fitting results. None of them exceed 20."

"what?"

"Huh?"*4
The first place with a fitting rate of only 18.9% is a Nuo dancer.

None of them knew what Nuo dance was.After searching, I found that it is an ancient traditional dance with masks of gods and ghosts.

Is the fitting rate high because she is wearing a fish headgear? It is reasonable.

Looking down, the reference targets with fitting rates of 1 to 5 do not have much in common.Maybe it's a little weird.

If they continue to scroll down, they will find that the 14th highest fitting rate is an employee who left the company.

Zhuang Xi dismantled his prosthetic body, and under the influence of Ashinma, his dancing posture was completely different from before.

“This is really original dance, it’s so fucking original.”

Paul looked at the four characters "original dance" in the original video copy, and the gold content in them was extraordinary.

Below a fitting rate of 20, the reference value is close to zero.

Even with the assistance of prosthetics, the actions that the human body can perform are limited.This fitting rate is appallingly low.

"Import the action data directly and adjust as you go."

A colleague nodded, woke up the sleeping Xikora, and began to receive data.

Sikora has many neural interfaces and auxiliary prostheses implanted in her body, but in fact they are all superfluous disguises.The electronic interaction of the bionic human is too convenient, and it is essentially an intelligent machine. "Sikora, dance for us."

The bionic girl bowed slightly, paused for a few seconds, and began to imitate the dance sequence.

Xikora imitated it very well, recreating the fragments of "Metamorphosis" with a sweet smile on her lips.
As he watched, Paul shuddered violently.

The same dance, the Silly Fish version makes people feel crazy and weird, while the Xikora imitation version makes him feel unexplained fear and nausea.

He looked at Xikora's empty eyes for a moment, and he felt something strange surging deep in its pupils.

vomit--

A colleague retched twice and quickly drank water to suppress it.

"Am I the only one who finds it scary?"

Emily muttered submissively.

No, you are not alone.

Paul's heart was filled with panic, his chest was clogged, and his body was overwhelmed by a sense of fear of unknown origin.

It felt like taking a boat and straying into unknown waters, with unknown shadows looming under the dark water.

"Oh, it's probably because he's not wearing a hood. The original hood was sent here. Help Xikora put it on."

After putting on the funny headgear, Sikora dances again.

As it turns out, it wasn't the headgear at all.This dance seems to be incompatible with Sikora, and the combination of the two creates a devastating look.

After reading it twice in a row, my colleagues were a little overwhelmed.

"Reduce the range of motion by 10%, change the soundtrack, and do it again."

Paul bit the bullet and started debugging.

Ten minutes later, Sikora danced for the third time.This time they stopped midway.

“Movements are softened, pauses are reduced, and obviously uncoordinated movements are removed.”

It's finally not scary anymore.The problem is that it is no longer the same thing as the original version.

The dance, which has been greatly adjusted, has returned to the normal aesthetic range, is generally pleasing to the eye, and has nothing in common with the original version in terms of temperament.

After several rounds of mental contamination, when Sikora stood still, the programmers also developed an instinctive fear of the androids they participated in the development.

They have long been accustomed to Xikora's appearance, so there shouldn't be an uncanny valley effect.

The technical team chose to surrender collectively.It's miserable enough to work overtime until the early hours of the morning, and you also have to suffer psychological torture.

Paul: [We couldn’t train this dance well in a short period of time, and there are major technical obstacles]

He sent two versions of the demo effects to the operations team.I'm numb, let's open up.

Significant hurdle?Isn't it just imitating a live dance?

The operation staff started a demonstration video for no apparent reason, which was not accurate at all.When he clicked on another page, he fell silent.

It seemed like I saw something dirty, and I felt panicked.

【What caused it? 】

Paul: [Unclear.You guys please change it, this one cannot be posted]

really.If this paragraph were released, it would definitely trigger a huge amount of heat, but none of them would be able to survive.

【Change as soon as possible.You will be free if you hold on for a few more days. The company has new important arrangements for Xikora]

New arrangement?Paul didn't hold out much hope, as long as he didn't die suddenly, it would be considered a victory.

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(End of this chapter)