The high-fidelity digital double of Tencent Senior Vice President Steven Ma was developed in-house by NExT Studios. We've established the first successful film-grade production process and are constantly striving to create high-fidelity 3D content that "blurs the line between virtual and real worlds."
To make a convincing digital double of an existing human, it would require great technical capacity and superb correction ability. We performed LookDev at every step of the production process to ensure high-fidelity results. With the help of NExT's own xFaceBuilder® digital character production pipeline,we produced high-quality digital human skin and garments.
It is immensely difficult to make a digital human that "imitates a real person" into someone that "is the exact replication of the actor himself." The team did a lot of research on Steven's daily expressions and movements from a library of photos and videos. Personal traits, small movements, and micro-expressions are all used to add details to the digital human. We made over 700 facial expressions to make the digital human look even more realistic and used motion capture and manual editing to create the character movements. HDR restoration and shot-by-shot lighting fine-tuning enabled us to achieve a complete integration of the real scene and virtual character. While we are producing digital humans, we can vaguely glance at the shape of the future. The co-existence of virtual and real worlds may be just around the corner.
