"Black Myth: Wukong": Are domestic game visual effects ahead of the movie?


1905 movie network news On August 20, the domestic role-playing game "Black Myth: Wukong" released a 6-minute real-world plot clip, which triggered heated discussions among netizens in terms of plot speculation and scene details. In recent years, the plot, clothing, and picture presentation of ancient costume mythology-themed movies have also attracted much attention from netizens, and the hot topics triggered by games and movies are highly overlapping. Why can this game video cause a heated debate? It is also a mythological adaptation. Are domestic games ahead of movies?



Regarding this video clip, Jin Yuxuan, a teacher at the Communication University of China, commented: The video is of high quality, with a cinematic texture, good rhythm control, and a strong sense of film. Secondly, the theme of this time is the theme of Pansidong in "Journey to the West". The place where the spider spirit enters is called Ruoxian Temple, and where does Ruoxian Temple come from? It is the 72nd chapter of "Journey to the West", "Seven Love Mystery Books in Pansidong, and the Eight Precautions of the Spring are Forgotten", so it has a very clear text source.



The video also uses the suspense skills of film creation to fully arouse the curiosity of the audience. The identity of the protagonist is deliberately hidden in the video, showing the audience a first perspective. The spider spirit is in front and leads the protagonist inside. Many netizens speculate that the old spider spirit is Chang’e, and the person who is led is Pigsy. These guesses are also based. There are judgments in the background sound of the video. The direction of these judgments makes it easy for the audience to direct the suspense of the protagonist of the whole story to Pigsy and Chang’e. When the old spider spirit appears, her entire character shape is very similar to the Chang’e shape of the 86 version of "Journey to the West", which also makes players and audiences curious about the direction behind the plot.



In this six-minute short film, the image of each character is so realistic that Mr. Xu Jingqing, who served as the chief composer of the 86 version of "Journey to the West", also gave a high evaluation after watching the video.


"It’s more terrifying than the monster in the TV series, and it’s more realistic."


@Communication University of China Teacher Jin Yuxuan:In fact, in the literary description of the original work, whether it is the protagonist team or the monster team, they present a hideous and terrifying appearance. So I think that in this "Black Myth: Wukong", it is really good to give us some clear presentation of some of the textures and images in the original work.



The cultural relics and ancient buildings involved in the short film have also become the object of research and popular science among netizens. Even though "Black Myth: Wukong" is an overhead world, the creators scanned the cultural relics and ancient buildings in reality in order to allow players to find a sense of commonality between the game and reality, and then put them in equal proportions into the game scene, which once again enhanced the authenticity of the experience. The production team of "Black Myth: Wukong" released a demo video a year ago, and some cultural relics appeared in the video, including a model of the twenty-eight constellations. The historical source of this model is in Shanxi, and even the local media in Shanxi used this video when promoting places of interest.



In recent years, many film creations have chosen the direction of mythological adaptations, including the "Journey to the West" series, the "New God List" series, etc. When these mythological elements continue to impact the audience’s mind, more or less aesthetic fatigue will occur. And this time, "Black Myth: Wukong" is also a work of mythological adaptations. Why is its situation so different?


@Communication University of China Teacher Jin Yuxuan:Our aesthetic fatigue is based on the fact that they are all telling similar stories, for example, they are focusing on a story about emotions. In fact, this is a very common way to deal with it. "Dark Myth: Wukong" I think captures something that has been less presented in previous adaptations and presentations, and that is the battle to defeat the Buddha and the Monkey King.



Sun Wukong used to be the unparalleled Great Sage of Monkey Heaven, but in fact, most of the time we see him, he is like a disobedient student in the class during the period of protecting Tang Sanzang to go to the West to learn scriptures, unable to hold up the class teacher’s mantra every day. In "Black Myth: Wukong", the creative team directly did one thing to make him return to the unparalleled world and regain the title of fighting and defeating Buddha. Although this spirit of resistance about Sun Wukong is reflected in many film and television works, the advantages of game videos and animations are greater than that of live-action movies. The sense of hypothesis it brings to us is completely different from the sense of hypothesis we watch live-action movies. "Black Myth: Wukong" and "The emotional impact it brings to us will be higher than that of live-action movies."



In addition, "Black Myth: Wukong" uses the Unreal Engine to improve the realism of the picture, and there are also many special effects in the movie that also use the Unreal Engine. In the post-visual effects processing, the Unreal Engine is used, which can restore the realism to the audience with the greatest appearance.


"I’ll write you an exciting one."

I hope this six-minute short film can inspire our filmmakers to learn from this "Black Myth: Wukong" when creating, how to attract the audience, how to impress the audience, and how to improve the realism of the picture. I believe that there will be more films in the future that can move the audience and give the audience a different visual experience.


Will be listed in the third quarter, Geely Galaxy L6 real car exposure

  [Autohome News] A few days ago, a group of Geely (|) real car pictures were exposed on domestic social media. The car will be built based on the CMA architecture, positioned as a compact sedan, and will carry a new generation of Raytheon plug-in hybrid system. It is planned to be launched and delivered in the third quarter. Competitors are targeting Changan Yida and others.

Autohome

Autohome

  Looking at the new car, its appearance adopts Geely Galaxy’s latest family-style design language. Although it uses a plug-in hybrid system, the front face is still equipped with a closed grille treatment. In addition, popular design styles such as split headlights and through-type light strips have also been applied.

Autohome

Autohome

  From the side, the new car has a slip-back shape and is equipped with hidden door handles and low-drag wheels. The rear is still equipped with a through taillight design, and the lower enclosure creates a two-way exhaust layout and is equipped with a diffuser.

  In terms of power, the new car will be equipped with a new generation of Raytheon plug-in hybrid system, composed of a Raytheon 1.5T hybrid special engine and P1 + P2 dual motors, and will also be equipped with a 3-speed DHT Pro gearbox. For more information on the new car, we will continue to pay attention to reports. (Photo source @Gaozhuan Youth – Painted Car Wei sir; text/Autohome Guo Chen)

The stills of Peng Yuyan’s "First Incense" are exposed, and the uninhibited unicorn arm is eye-catching

Peng Yuyan’s firstThe stills were exposed at the Berlin International Film Festival

1905 movie network news Peng Yuyan’s first "Incense of the First Furnace" stills were exposed at the Berlin International Film Festival. He was seen wearing a white sleeveless jumpsuit, showing off the perfect arm muscles and uninhibited expression. In the film, Peng Yuyan will challenge the playboy Qiao Qiqiao to stage a love-hate relationship with Ge Weilong played by Ma Sichun.


"First Incense" boot photo

The movie "First Incense" is based on Zhang Ailing’s novella "Agarwood Crumbs · First Incense". It tells the story of Ge Weilong, a female student from Shanghai, who goes to study in Hong Kong and lives in the home of his aunt, Mrs. Liang, but is trained by Mrs. Liang as a social bait. Finally, Ge Weilong marries his son-in-law brother, Qiao Qiqiao, and becomes a tool for making money. The film is directed by Xu Anhua, and this is her third time shooting Zhang Ailing’s novel after and after.


Yin Fang’s "First Incense" finishing photo

It is reported that "The First Incense" also brings together actors such as Yu Feihong, Zhang Junjun, Fan Wei, Liang Luoshi, Zhang Jianing, Yin Fang, Qin Pei, and Bai Bing, and the film will be released in China in 2020.

Jiang Yiyan’s "Sword Rain" is the most tender female knight, recognized by John Woo


Jiang Yiyan stills


Jiang Yiyan’s "Sword Rain" modeling

    Produced by John Woo and directed by Su Zhaobin, the ancient martial arts romance "Sword Rain" starring twelve stars including Michelle Yeoh, Zheng Yusheng, Wang Xueqi, Guo Xiaodong, Jiang Yiyan and Yu Wenle has landed in national theaters since September 28, officially leading the 11th Golden Week.

    Jiang Yiyan, a talented woman from the mainland, joined "Sword Rain", which undoubtedly gave the audience the greatest surprise. This literary girl, who had always shown her gentle and quiet image, actually took up weapons to practice kung fu and transform into a female warrior Tian Qingtong, but the director still pitied her gentle and calm, and finally let her fade away and restore her original clean temperament. But in the end, what was presented made Jiang Yiyan’s fans disappointed. Due to the length of the film, some of Jiang Yiyan’s scenes were cut off.

    Jiang Yiyan is famous for her unique literary and artistic talents in the entertainment industry. When there are many people, she will be unnatural, and she will not show off herself, so she will express herself with words and songs, such as the song dedication at the premiere of "Sword Rain", such as the small text of the stills of the blog "Sword Rain". Jiang Yiyan wrote in the blog: "Movies are the art of regret. For example, time and length. So director John Woo said: Xiao Jiang, I will definitely compensate you next time. In fact, standing in his position, such apologies can be said but not said. But he is such a person. An elder who is as warm as a father. This is what I got. I believe that" Sword Rain "will be a martial arts movie with love."

    Because of her indisputability and tranquility, director Woo would say such words to her. In fact, for Jiang Yiyan, no matter how many scenes in "Sword Rain", it doesn’t matter. What matters is that her temperament and acting skills have been recognized by director Woo. I believe that this girl full of literary atmosphere will walk out of her own world.

ChatGPT is on fire, and the Chinese version is coming too?

  ◎ Science and Technology Daily reporter, Liu Yuanyuan

  During this time, an artificial intelligence chat system called ChatGPT was like a spring thunder on the ground, suddenly exploding the network.

  "Judging from the current general conversation experience, the biggest highlight of ChatGPT is its excellent intention recognition and language understanding ability, which makes people realize that the interaction ability of artificial intelligence has achieved leapfrog progress."Analysys wisdom institute senior analyst Chen Chen evaluation.

  This magical human-computer interaction experience has aroused people’s enthusiasm for racking their brains to ask questions to ChatGPT, and brought it an amazing number of users: the system was launched by the American artificial intelligence research company OpenAI more than two months ago, and it has reached 100 million monthly active users in January this year. The user growth rate is unprecedented.

  This product is very popular, and its important behind-the-scenes contributor is the technology known as the pre-trained model in the industry. In the face of the explosion of ChatGPT, domestic technology institutions and enterprises have "shined their swords".According to the latest news, the Chinese version of ChatGPT will be available to the public next month.

  ChatGPT answers questions about itself.

  The scale of parameters skyrockets from millions to hundreds of billions

  "At present, pre-training technology is an important breakthrough in artificial intelligence research," explained Su Zhong, head of the Future Technology Center of Ali Research Institute.In traditional research methods, the cost of labeling has been an obstacle preventing artificial intelligence algorithms from pushing towards larger data sets, while pre-training techniques can train a large-scale deep learning model without relying on data annotations.

  The Science and Technology Daily reporter learned that because data annotation is not required, pre-trained models can often use larger datasets, so they can choose larger model sizes – which has given rise to pre-trained large models.

  "Compared with the previous artificial neural networks, the biggest difference of the pre-trained large model is that it is large enough, and the deep learning network has many layers, many connections, and many parameters." Zhang Jiaxing, a lecturer at the Cognitive Computing and Natural Language Research Center of IDEA Research Institute (Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Digital Economy Research Institute), introduced in an interview with reporters that the deep learning network around 2012 has only a few million parameters; the mainstream pre-trained model around 2018 reached 100 million parameters; the large-scale pre-trained model that has been proved to be very effective has hundreds of billions of parameters, which have been improved thousands of times in just a few years.

  ChatGPT answers questions about itself.

  Quantitative change leads to qualitative change. Su Zhong analyzed that in the evaluation of various techniques of the pre-trained model, the performance of the algorithm showed a rule:The larger the data size and the more parameters of the pre-trained model, the higher the output accuracy of the algorithm.

  In addition to the large scale, Zhang Jiaxing said that the current pre-trained large model is very suitable for parallel training due to the use of new structural models. At the same time, in terms of training methods, the pre-training tasks of artificial neural networks are similar to "problem solving", such as removing a word or the first half of a sentence and letting the pre-trained model use massive big data to recover the sentence. In this way, the pre-trained model’s "problem solving" ability will get better and better. Moreover, on the basis of large language models, the introduction of instruction learning can far exceed the benefits of model fine-tuning. On this basis, human feedback can help the model better understand human intentions and receive information, and the human-machine dialogue will become more and more smooth.

  ChatGPT answers questions about itself.

  "ChatGPT can be said to be a landmark artificial intelligence product in terms of underlying data, core technology, user experience, etc." Zhang Xiangyu, head of basic research at Megvii Research Institute, said,The core technology of ChatGPT is the artificial intelligence language model, the key is how to make the artificial intelligence model have logical reasoning ability, and how to make artificial intelligence learn the knowledge of the whole Internet.These ChatGPTs are basically achieved, thus making great breakthroughs in decision-making and knowledge.

  Many domestic science and technology institutions have established a presence in related fields

  According to foreign media reports, a number of foreign tech giants are investing heavily in pre-training models and artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) track. The reporter learned that many domestic science and technology institutions and enterprises have laid out related fields.

  Zhang Jiaxing told reporters that the IDEA Research Institute’s Cognitive Computing and Natural Language Research Center has been in this direction for a long time, and the center has the largest open-source model system in China – the list of gods. The 98 models that have been open-sourced are fully supporting the development of China’s AIGC, exploring the development of personalized and customizable models adapted to various fields, and supporting all natural language processing (NLP) tasks.

  "It’s great to see the emergence of AIGC and ChatGPT in the tenth year of the rapid development of deep learning. Today, all these natural language processing tasks are being unified into the ChatGPT model. We are also integrating previous models and technologies to launch our ChatGPT-like model." Zhang Jiaxing said.

  Source: Visual China

  The reporter learned from Baidu that Baidu has invested in the development of related technologies similar to ChatGPT. The name of the project is determined to be ERNIE Bot. The English name is ERNIE Bot. It will be open to the public after the closed beta is completed in March. At present, ERNIE Bot is sprinting before going online.

  "ChatGPT mainly involves natural language processing related technologies, which is one of the applications in the field of cognitive intelligence. iFLYTEK has a long-term and profound accumulation of technologies and applications in this direction." On the evening of February 8, iFLYTEK responded on the investor interaction platform that the company has open sourced a series of Chinese pre-trained language models in 6 categories and more than 40 general fields for the field of cognitive intelligence, and launched a generative pre-trained large model task in December last year. Artificial intelligence learning machine will become the first product to land this technology, and will be released at the product level in May this year.

  In addition, 360 said on its investor interaction platform on February 7 that the company also plans to launch a prototype version of ChatGPT-like technology as soon as possible. "AIGC technology can assist in the improvement of digital security capabilities in addition to its application in search engines," 360 said.

  (Science and Technology Daily reporters Cao Xiuying and Liu Yan also contributed to this article.)

  Source: Science and Technology Daily, the pictures in the text are provided by the author unless indicated

  Editor: Shen Wei (Internship)

  Review: Yue Liang

  Final Review: Wang Tingting

This is the second best movie of Hu Ge’s career

Hu Ge is a first-rate TV actor and a second-rate movie actor.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s coffee or acting.

From "The Legend of Immortals and Swords" to "Langya Ranking" to "Flowering Flowers", Hu Ge has had a hit drama at every stage of his acting career.

But compared with TV dramas, Hu Ge starred in fewer movies, and even fewer masterpieces were produced.

So far, the best film of Hu Ge’s career is probably "The Wild Goose Lake" directed by Diao Yinan.

Recently, he starred in the theater film "Stop and Go" was released, and I thought that this movie starring Hu Ge could be ranked second.

Compared to "The Wild Goose Lake", there is no way, and there is a gap in grades between directors. But compared to "It’s Worth It", which won the Best Actor of the Shanghai Film Festival for Hu Ge before, "Stop and Go" has similarities in genre and theme, but the overall is much better.

More importantly, "The Wild Goose Lake" is more significant to Diao Yinan than Hu Ge, and Hu Ge’s performance in it can be regarded as futile at best, but "Stop and Go" has opened up a new track for Hu Ge.

Let’s talk about the movie itself first.

"Stop and Go" is a very "small" movie.

It had nothing to do with grandeur. It was about the little things that happened to the little people, and the director didn’t have much ambition. He didn’t want his movie to be linked to the big word "era".

The key word for the film is two words, go home. To put it more bluntly, it is the other two words, lie flat.

Wu Di, the protagonist played by Hu Ge, belongs to the North Drift Return crowd.

He worked as a screenwriter in Beijing, but he repeatedly hit a wall, and eventually failed in his emotional career and couldn’t get along, so he returned to his hometown of Sichuan.

In crime movies, this kind of person is most likely to have a big vote, but in literary movies, the trash will of course continue to live in a way that is heartbroken but free on the surface.

After Wu Di returned to his hometown, he immediately entered a state of mixed eating and waiting to die. A scene that reflects his state is that he is mixed in a group of the elderly queuing up to get eggs.

This scene also formed a connection with the main storyline, Gao Yuanyuan played the heroine Feng Liuliu appeared, as the host of the TV station, she was shooting this group of eggs for the elderly, but accidentally found high school classmate Wu Di mixed in.

Therefore, she came up with an idea to make a documentary with Wu Di as the protagonist.

Feng Liuliu’s behavior of shooting whatever he wants is very inconsistent with the tonality of local TV stations. The local stations in our impression, in addition to broadcasting painless advertisements and selling drugs for the elderly, will at most provide local leaders with a platform to show their self-charm. A host casually catches an old classmate and wants to shoot a documentary. This is nonsense among nonsense.

But nonsense is nonsense, the scene where Wu Di and Feng Liuliu met for the first time was really good.

Fortunately, the description of the characters.

The highlight is in the conversation between the two.

Wu Di met Feng Liuliu and was a little embarrassed, saying that he was "Gap". This reaction was very accurate. He bluntly said that he was unemployed and went home. Although he was honest, he was too sad, which would make the temperament of the film dim all of a sudden. He pretended to say that he actually had a job and just went home for vacation, and it was too hypocritical, which made the character unpleasant. He said that he was in "Gap", which was in line with the characteristics of the character as a literary youth.

Feng Liuliu is the character of an idealist in the film, and her ideas are relatively simple, which is also in line with the appearance of the actor. After all, if she grows into Gao Yuanyuan, she will not be beaten too much in reality. The characteristics of idealists are that they are easy to fake and empty, like to talk useless big words, and are especially willing to pretend to be very realistic. When she met Wu Di, she wanted to make a documentary, and she also said this sentence:

Middle-aged people like you often face a double burden.

Note that it’s not just middle-aged male characters who have fatherhood.

Wu Di’s reaction was very good. He didn’t think he was a middle-aged man, so he was stunned. He repeated the words "middle-aged man", but it became a question.

You look at Wu Di as if he should have eaten and slept when he returned home, but in fact, he didn’t. At this moment, he was stunned and exposed everything. Wu Di was just running away from his failure like a child.

Feng Liuliu took it well, saying that you are two months older than me, why are you not middle-aged?

Wu Di took it better. He didn’t follow the topic and turned a corner. What he said was:

You still remember my birthday.

The oppressive atmosphere caused by Feng Liuliu not speaking human words was instantly reversed, and Wu Di’s personality characteristics were once again highlighted. More importantly, the relationship between the two people was brought closer by this line.

In the film, Feng Liuliu may not really take Wu Di’s birthday seriously. Wu Di is very surprised. It is probably a reaction at that time. It does not mean that he will rekindle love because of this information point, but in the eyes of the audience, they will naturally look forward to something happening between them.

This made the movie look good. Many viewers would subconsciously shy away from literary films because some directors of literary films were too boring to film. Whether or not the artistry was put aside for the time being, and the audience could not see it, it would be difficult to find your artistic exploration and ideological expression.

The advantages and disadvantages of "Stop and Go" are symbiotic. His advantages are that the details are handled humanely, the characters are fresh enough, the lines are well written, and the rhythm is properly arranged. The disadvantage is that the living environment provided to the protagonist Wu Di in the film is a purified ideal world, as if as long as he returns home, everything will really be quiet, and even the opportunity to realize his ideal will appear.

Feng Liuliu made a documentary for Wu Di, saw the script written by Wu Di, and suggested that he make a movie. As a result, Wu Di really started filming.

This matter is no longer science fiction, and can basically be included in the category of magic.

Wu Di, who failed in Beipiao, should understand what the three words of making a movie mean. Don’t look at the Apple advertisement saying that you need a mobile phone to make a movie. Although Xu Lei used his father to make "Sherlock on the Plain", it also cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Of course, Wu Di had no money, so Wu Di’s mother gave Wu Di his father’s private money, but it was not much, 10,000 yuan.

What if there are no actors? His mother, Jiang Meiling, is the female lead, and the male lead? Call Lao Li, the pillar of the drama troupe. Lao Li also cooperated very much, and he was so idle that he agreed immediately.

Wu Di could be both a director and a screenwriter, so where could he find a photographer? Feng Liuliu didn’t want to make a documentary, but the TV station had a photographer. Coincidentally, this photographer liked Ozu as much as Wu Di, and also had the dream of making movies, so he was willing to volunteer labor, so he didn’t have to worry about the equipment, so he just appropriated it.

All the idealists in Sichuan surrounded Wu Di.

It has to be said that when these "golden fingers" accumulate to a certain extent, the reality of the film has been stripped away. In a sense, it is no different from a martial arts film. The difference is that martial arts may really exist, but the vacuum environment Wu Di is in is absolutely impossible to exist.

But what’s great about "Stop and Go" is that it held me back with characters and details.

I knew that the movie was a nonsense, but I was still attracted by it. I knew that there wasn’t much left in the movie’s reality, but I was still moved by the characters in the movie.

This is a very contradictory point, but it also reflects a certain dilemma faced by domestic film creators. Some of them are really good at making movies, especially writing single scenes, and know how to impress audiences, but the subject matter they have to deal with is likely to be either as distorted as air or as tasteless as water.

The scenes in the main plot of "Stop and Go" were shot with a high degree of completion, vividly portraying the Wu Di family and Lao Li and other characters, completing each single scene with great fun, and also making the emotional concentration become higher and higher in the development of the film’s plot. Finally, Wu Di’s father made up the shots for his deceased wife, which reached the peak of the moving level.

As far as the temperament of the film is concerned, there is a bit of Woody Allen’s taste. The director not only pays tribute to Woody Allen with the name of the male lead and the poster on the wall, but also has a touch of humor and sadness.

What really made me like the movie more than disappointed was the director’s handling of the ending.

If something really happened to Wu Di and Feng Liuliu in the film, then the film would be completely deflated. The director is very smart, and at the end of the film, Wu Di took over his sister’s class and became a taxi driver. The driving encountered congestion, and as a result, he met Feng Liuliu’s family who had been reunited with his ex-husband. Two lanes, two people and two cars stopped and stopped, the cars did not intersect, and there was no conversation. Everything was just right, with a little regret, but isn’t life like this?

This ending is ingenious enough, designed and natural. It is the point of the full score composition, but it is not so contrived, which is in line with the overall life flow of the film.

The director will arrange for Wu Di to become a taxi driver at the end, indicating that he knows what reality is like, and that he can make Wu Di and the others’ filming process interesting, indicating that he knows what life is like, but unfortunately, he still failed to find the perfect balance between realism and literary temperament. Inevitably, there will be distortion, but since the completion is high enough, many audiences, including me, can tolerate its shortcomings.

In other words, this is indeed a movie with a good sentence but no good chapter, but compared to many domestic films that don’t even have a good sentence, it is already a general among the shorts.

For Hu Ge, the significance of this film is that it allows Hu Ge to meet a particularly suitable role for him, that is, a dejected Wenqing boy with a bit of optimism.

In addition, although it is a bit far-fetched to classify "Stop and Go" as a comedy, if Hu Ge can use this film to realize that he can do comedy, and other directors can also see Hu Ge’s potential in comedy films, it will open up a few new possibilities for Hu Ge’s acting career.

END

The sapphire screen has been completed, and the Huawei P7 has become the first model to be equipped

  [PConline Information]The mobile phone industry supply chain is gradually maturing and complete, and large manufacturers such as Huawei mobile phones have higher bargaining power in the selection of raw materials and accessories. And in the recently hyped sapphire screen, Huawei P7 has already used sapphire screen, becoming the first independent sapphire screen mass production model in the Chinese domestic market. The production process of such high-strength materials is not simple.

  Known by the media as "never wear" sapphire screen, it has a hardness second only to diamond, and its production and processing difficulty and high price have made it used in high-end watches and precision optical instrument lenses. With technological breakthroughs, sapphire can finally be applied to mobile phones. And Huawei has brought a new upgrade to the Huawei P7 mobile phone that has been put into mass production with the help of sapphire technology. This 4G mobile phone released in Paris, France won the Best Consumer Smartphone Award in Europe for its good shape design and user experience. After getting the configuration of the new sapphire screen, it will become stronger and more perfect.

  The bubble production method, the most important technology in the production of sapphire raw materials, not only determines the output of sapphire, but also determines the final quality of the material. Due to the complex process and long production cycle, the production of sapphire materials suitable for industrial fields places strict requirements on equipment and production environment. Because of this, as of today, only a few companies can produce sapphire materials for screens.

  In 2013, Apple invested a huge amount of 578 million US dollars in cooperation with GTAT, the world’s largest crystal manufacturer, to buy out GTAT’s future production of sapphire long-crystal furnace equipment. Faced with the situation of "blockade" of raw materials in a short period of time, Huawei, which has the ability to regulate the industry chain, actively deploys resources to promote the improvement of the domestic sapphire industry chain. While the media is paying attention to the expansion of production capacity of Apple’s sapphire production plant in the United States, China’s local sapphire suppliers have taken the lead in releasing 150 kilograms of sapphire crystals in the world.

  While obtaining scarce raw materials, Huawei has not relaxed its control over product quality. Since sapphire itself is a brittle material, the industry has always questioned its tolerance. Huawei and suppliers have conducted many tests to optimize the quality of the material. After the in-situ annealing of the long crystal rear section, crystal brick cutting, wafer grinding, and re-annealing after polishing, Huawei’s production of sapphire screens has not only eliminated the internal stress of sapphire, but also significantly improved the strength of sapphire. This meticulous attitude towards quality requirements may be more important than the more important use of high-end configurations.

Huawei

  Over the past decade or so, Huawei’s pursuit of leading technology and cutting-edge quality has never been slack. In 2013, Huawei’s investment in research and development reached 30.70 billion yuan, equivalent to about 5.10 billion US dollars, accounting for 12.8% of the annual sales revenue. This is the tenth consecutive year that Huawei has maintained its R & D investment at a high level of no less than 10% of revenue, far exceeding the average level of 6-8% prevailing in the "Global Top 500". As China gradually becomes the world’s largest consumer market for smartphones, to break the monopoly of imported brands in the high-end market, only through continuous investment in R & D and continuous innovation of product technology.

Huawei

     In the manufacturing process of Huawei P7 sapphire screen. Due to the existence of sapphire material is hard, high surface energy, poor adhesion of the special finger, the screen processing process is slightly careless can lead to complete destruction of the material. How does the edge processing of sapphire not produce collapse? How to punch holes in the cover plate? Nowadays, the CNC numerical control machine tool hyped by many mobile phone brands can no longer meet the production and processing of sapphire screens. For this reason, Huawei has specially selected a supplier with processing patented technology, using the world’s leading laser non-destructive cutting and precision edge polishing process to solve the problems in the production process.

    In the ink silk screen printing and AF coating process, Huawei has conducted more in-depth and detailed research. Through the adjustment of ink formula and composition, after testing dozens of ink schemes and adjusting the ink baking process, Huawei finally found an ink suitable for sapphire; in the process of developing new AF materials, in order to obtain an ultra-silky and highly wear-resistant anti-fingerprint AF film, Huawei adjusted the coating process according to the actual production experiment. During the production process, it also conducted a steel wool wear resistance test, which reached 5,000 cycles, and finally passed the material improvement and process optimization. It is the adherence to the quality-focused strategy over the years that has allowed Huawei’s rigorous and pragmatic attitude to be integrated into every detail of the mobile phone.

  For the vast majority of Chinese consumers, simply having the best configuration is not enough to be called the best product, because the high-end configuration may not match the daily usage habits of consumers; for Huawei, there are always some steps that must be taken to transform cutting-edge manufacturing technology into a satisfactory product experience for Chinese consumers.

  An internal confidential material with version number V1.0 clearly records Huawei’s rigorous product testing content, involving dozens of tests such as stress, drop, temperature, electromagnetism, and saline-alkali corrosion. In order to test the reliability of the mobile phone, a variety of scene modes such as free fall, low temperature controlled drop, and roller drop are set up in the drop process alone, and the test qualification standard is even set as many as 4,000 times for common micro-drops. For the huge environmental differences between northern and southern China, Huawei even specially set artificial sweat to test whether the mobile phone can maintain normal mechanical and electrical performance under complex use conditions after being immersed in saline-alkali corrosive liquid.

Huawei

  The production of Huawei Sapphire P7 in 2014 also went through dozens of complex tests such as four-point bend test, ball drop test, extrusion test, transmittance test, hardness test, coating test, TP/LCD test, drum test, drop test, high temperature and humidity test, etc., which proved the excellent product quality of Huawei P7 and verified the leading industry standard of Huawei mobile phone in hardness, temperature, signal and other performance indicators.

The new M5 will be released soon, with a completely blackened body and a closed front face, and the price is expected to be lowered again.

A few days ago, the official released a new official map. As an annual redesigned model, the car has added a car paint color scheme, and blackened the LOGO, wheels, window trims and other places. As the time to market approaches, the new real car has also been exposed.



From the design point of view, the new model M5 has made a series of adjustments to the front face and details, among whichThe extended range version also adopts a closed front face design, and the air inlet is reserved below. At the same time, the Logo and wheels of the car head are blackened and equipped with red brake calipers.Everywhere caters to younger consumers.

However, at present, the car has not exposed specific power parameters. It is reported that the new car will be officially released at the auto show, and the price should be adjusted accordingly. What do you think of the comparison? How much do you think the new M5 should cost? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss. See you next time.

Tencent Holdings bought back 2.63 million shares on June 17 at a cost of 1.003 billion Hong Kong dollars

  On June 17, Tencent Holdings announced that the company repurchased 2.63 million shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on June 17, 2024, at a cost of 1.003 billion Hong Kong dollars, and the average repurchase price was about 381.44 Hong Kong dollars based on the number of repurchases and the cost; according to the disclosure, the highest repurchase price was 385.60 Hong Kong dollars, and the lowest repurchase price was 374.80 Hong Kong dollars.

  It is understood that Tencent Holdings has repurchased 96.90 million shares in the past three months, accounting for 1.02% of the company’s issued share capital.

(Data source: iFinD)

Produced by Samike Samike, he came to China for the first time to shoot an action comedy

Group photo of the production team


1905 movie network news A few days ago, Japanese film master Takashi Miike officially announced that he will direct a mainland action comedy for the first time. The film is produced by Sambo Hung. This is the first collaboration between two veteran filmmakers. It can be described as a collision, two heroes and infinite possibilities.

"When I was in elementary school, I was already exposed to many of his excellent film and television works. At first, I was just a spectator, but after I became a creator, I felt it was a great honor to have such a cooperation opportunity."

The former producer Sheng Yubin promoted the cooperation between Hong Jinbao and Miike Takashi, and revealed that the cast of the film will be mainly Chinese, and Japanese actors Kotori Shun and Kimura Takuya are also under consideration. The project is currently in the script polishing stage and is expected to start production in April and May next year.

Takashi Miike


Samike Takashi: Samike Hung gave me the urge to be a newcomer


Miike Takashi is a Japanese geek director, with masterpieces such as "Killer Aichi", series, etc. His works are diverse in style, with a unique violent aesthetic in action scenes, and a black humor that is as imaginative as Kitano Takeshi. He is a Japanese film master as famous as Kitano Takeshi.

Samike, who has always regarded Hong Jinbao as his film enlightenment teacher, said that this collaboration has given him an urge to be a newcomer and a new stimulus. As for whether his violent style will affect the creation in China, Samike admits that this is not a problem: "I usually don’t do meaningless violence, or this kind of shooting method of violence only for violence. I still want to show the character in the work, how can he escape and resist from the environment, to show the rationality of the story while showing the beauty of violence." As for the cultural nuance of China and Japan, Samike believes that as long as you spend some time to understand it slowly, this difference will give birth to some very interesting works.

Tomoshi Miike, Sambo Hung


Samuel Hung: Visually not too violent


Brother Hong Jinbao is the film supervisor this time. The eldest brother revealed that after seeing the first draft of the script, he and producer Sheng Yubin started looking for a good director who could control the film. It was only after repeated communication, two visits to Japan and many visits that the filmmakers finally confirmed the cooperation. It is reported that a large part of the reason for being able to invite Miike Takashi is because of the eldest brother’s producer status and the brilliance of the first draft of the script.

When it comes to this cooperation, Big Brother said that everyone is still in the further running-in and development stage of the script. On the one hand, he hopes to be as close to Chinese culture as possible, so that domestic audiences can accept it and gain resonance. On the other hand, he wants good directors to play their own style and characteristics.

Regarding the overall style of the film, Big Brother believes that it can give the audience a feeling of violence, but it cannot visually make people feel too violent, which is a hindrance to comedy. How to be creative in action scenes is also crucial. Making a movie is based on audience acceptance and approval.


Samike Chongshi, Sheng Yubin, Hong Jinbao

Sheng Yubin: The cast is mainly Chinese


Sheng Yubin, the producer behind Mr. Samike’s move to China, previously produced Twin Cities and Kuaishou Shooters, two works of wit and black humor in Chinese-language action films. "One is an international director and the other represents traditional Chinese martial arts," Mr. Sheng said of the joint creation between Mr. Samike and Mr. Hung. "Put these two together and there will definitely be some sparks. And the director of Samike has a great appreciation for Chinese kung fu, saying he likes China very muchThree people: Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and Hong Jinbao, have always wanted to cooperate with representatives of Chinese Kung Fu, and this opportunity makes him very excited. "

Seung Yubin finally revealed that the film is still in the in-depth polishing stage of the script, and it is expected to start in April and May next year. The cast is mainly Chinese, and Japanese big-name actors such as Shun Kotori, who has worked with Mitsuke Takashi on "Hot Blood High School", and Takuya Kimura on "Infinite Residence" are also under consideration. However, whether it is small fresh meat or old drama bones, the actors will be selected based on the needs of the script. "The director has very strict requirements for filming, and the actors must be given sufficient time and cooperation. If you can’t understand the lines and script, it is unacceptable to memorize the lines on the spot."