**The virtual idol “Juli” sends blessings on the Dragon Boat Festival to light up the big screen of Shanghai’s Bund landmark**
On June 3, 2022, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, on the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival, the four traditional Chinese festivals, a Dragon Boat Festival blessing video about the virtual idol “Jiuli” was played repeatedly on the big screen of Shanghai’s Bund landmark in “City Window”. Pedestrians stopped to watch and take pictures, and the live broadcast room of “City Window” attracted many online netizens to like and pray for blessings.
According to the editor’s understanding, this is the first time that the avatar image has appeared on the big screen of the landmark of the Bund, and it is a leap-forward milestone in the dissemination of avatar content . Netizens can see in the video on the big screen that the virtual idol “Jiuli” is wearing a sassy red robe, standing in the green forest of fragrant rice dumplings. I want to share the zongzi with everyone outside the screen, and spend the festival with everyone by the Huangpu River.
It is reported that this is the second time that the virtual idol “Jiuli” has met with you. As early as May 17, 2022, the video of the new force’s virtual idol “Jiuli” was born, which has been watched online by millions of people all over the Internet , and gained tens of thousands of likes and fans in one fell swoop . In the birth video, with her lovable national style red image, she gave the audience a kind of sassy and perseverance that is more divine than contemporary Hua Mulan from the inside out. In the background like a bronze mirror, the red satin slowly rises like a whirlwind, and the sound outside the screen sounds: Carrying the wind and the moon, floating white three lives, Kyushu mountains and rivers, all passing by… The strong sense of substitution makes people feel like walking through the universe tunnel and being with her Completed a time span.
From the two videos of the virtual idol “Jiuli”, it can be found that the content of her stories contains important elements of Chinese culture with a long history, and the theme elements give the entire video a strong traditional aesthetic heritage. Some netizens also expressed great concern about the production process of “Jiuli” and raised many questions.
The creative team of the virtual idol “Jiuli” is Nanjing 8.8 Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “8.8 Digital”). The company is the developer of X-Men, a code-free intelligent virtual human content creation and sharing platform, self-developed virtual human full-link technology solutions, its own motion capture studio and XR real-time synthesis studio.
Geng Guangxing, founder and CEO of 8.8 Digital, said that “Jiuli” was actually created by the company’s self-developed X-Men platform . According to Mr. Geng, the X-Men platform supports the creation and sharing of virtual human 3D content and activity space. Standardized and large-scale services, providing full-link technology solutions for virtual humans, promoting the application scenarios of virtual humans in the metaverse space to a diversified upgrade, and truly creating a new way of future-oriented immersive entertainment work. The X-Men platform will be officially launched at the end of June this year.
Being able to get on the big screen of Shanghai’s landmark on the Bund and get the love and attention of fans all over the Internet, Mr. Geng said that of course, it is inseparable from the ingenuity and pursuit of the 8.8 digital production team. In order to create an ultra-realistic and high-precision avatar “Jiu Li”, the team spent two months in the initial design, and carefully sculpted and iterated on the high-realistic rendering effect of the character, so that its appearance was extremely close to that of humans.
Lin, the person in charge of City Window, pointed out that it is precisely because the image of “Jiuli” is eye-catching, well-made, and the content has the significance of traditional cultural dissemination that they will support and witness the virtual human being on the big screen of Shanghai’s Bund landmark for the first time. The development trend of the virtual human industry is intensifying.
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