Digital Dunhuang: Technical Laboratory to Build Authentic Digital Replica of the Scripture Cave and Dunhuang Digital Human
腾讯游戏 2022-08-01 13:43
I believe that players, even if they have never been to Dunhuang, often meet the elements of Dunhuang in games. What do you see when Dunhuang is mentioned? Is it a memory of Yang Yuhuan's lute music "Meet Flying Apsaras"? Is it Diao Chan's dancing postures which have been circulated for thousands of years? Is it the Craz3 game accompanied by the four famous beasts in Dunhuang? Or, is it the "Dunhuang Animation Drama" with the collective incarnation of Dunhuang murals? I heard that many friends still feel unfinished and want to meet more Dunhuang elements by chance? No problem! Today, Tencent and Dunhuang Academy set up the "Digital Dunhuang & Tencent Interactive Entertainment Cultural Heritage Digital Creative Technology Union Laboratory" to help Dunhuang digital innovation with game technologies, inherit and carry forward Dunhuang culture, and especially announced the first batch of projects – Digital Replica of the Scripture Cavee and Digital Human Jiayao.
Jiayao: From a fairy on Dunhuang Murals to a "cultural ambassador"
Let's invite Jiayao to the stage first. She is a fairy who comes out of Dunhuang murals. Her prototype is the beautiful bird "Jialing Pinjia" with a melodious voice. Today, thousands of years later, she has a new title – the first official cultural ambassador of digital Dunhuang.
Jiayao's costume design is inspired by the image of the sponsor of buddha cave in "Governor's Lady's Ritual to Buddha", and we also finely polish the dark lines, materials and even hair sideburns for her, adding classical charms. Isn't she beautiful? Besides beauty, Jiayao has more advantages. Let's get ready to enjoy her dance performance in the front row: Jiayao gets full marks in expression management and dancing skills. All of these are realized by the technologies of facial underlying algorithm optimization, motion capture, real-time driving and rendering, and real-time calculation of hair and cloth, so that she can not only make expressions in real time, but also make her hair, clothes and accessories move with the wind ...
This dance music is complex, incorporating the representative music such as lute, konghou and guzheng in the murals of Mogao Grottoes, and adding the timbre of instruments such as sheng, drum and string bell, which not only retains the exotic customs of the fairy birds in Jialing, but also highlights the agility of girls. Accompanied by the contrasting lute music, Jiayao performs Dunhuang dance movements such as holding the lute and playing the flute, and then another playing-lute-behind posture which pushes the level of difficulty and artistic value to the most!
Not only is she a good dancer, Jiayao is also a model worker, who will be the first digital narrator of the applet [Cloud Tour of Dunhuang]. As a narrator, she will highly recommend the [Digital Replica of the Scripture Cave] to tourists. Let's follow Jiayao to learn about the Sutra Cave first ...
There are more than than 700 caves in Mogao Grottoes. Why is the Sutra Cave so popular?
In fact, the Scripture Cave is the 17th cave of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, with an area of less than 7 square meters. It was once filled with more than 60,000 pieces of scriptures, documents, embroidery and silk paintings from the 4th century to the 11th century. Although it is only a few square meters physically, it is a huge "library" in the abstract sense. Each piece of the cultural relics has very rich cultural and academic value, so it is called "the key to the medieval history of the world". Unfortunately, due to historical reasons, most precious cultural relics have been scattered in foreign countries, and now there are only more than 8,000 cultural relics left. It is difficult to see the grand occasion of the Sutra Cave with thousands of books physically. Most of the cultural relics in Sutra Cave are in text nature, containing huge historical information and academic value. However, there are fewer tourists who can visit the Sutra Cave every year, and it is difficult to really feel the information and value behind these cultural relics ... The good news is that, in the digital world, this dream may come true
* Day-to day Liquor Consumption Account of Local Government of Dunhuang
The Digital Replica of the Scripture Cave mentioned earlier is a brand-new digital cultural content product created by Tencent Mutual Entertainment and Dunhuang Academy (DA) with digital technology. We are about to break the usual way of cultural exhibition and let the thousands of books and exquisite murals in the Sutra Cave be reborn in the digital world. Come and follow the footsteps of Jiayao and walk into the Digital Sutra Cave with "ten thousand volumes of books". With the DA 001 Cultural Relic,?"Day-to day Liquor Consumption Account of Local Government of Dunhuang", as a clue, players can interact with historical NPC in an immersive way, experience the whole historical context of the Sutra Cave from the excavation of the cave, the collection of thousands of books in the room to their appearance in the world and their dispersion, and learn more about Dunhuang culture through interactive experience design of interesting games.
To make everyone have a better viewing experience, we use laser scanning and photo reconstruction technology to restore the details of cultural relics with millimeter-level accuracy, which better presents the valuable information in cultural relics! PCG and PBR technologies of the game engine are also used to digitally reproduce the grand occasion before the cultural relics in the Scripture Cave are dispersed, as if you are "talking from a distance" with 10,000 cultural relics. Powered by cloud gaming technologies, the problem of too large scanning and photo assets are solved. You don't need any high-end processors and graphics cards, but only a smart phone to see the cultural heritage that is no different from the scene and feel the shock of Dunhuang culture at close range.
With the introduction above, let's look forward to the wonderful appearance of the Digital Replica of the Scripture Cave! In the future, the "Digital Sutra Cave" will become an important window to open the world of Dunhuang cultural relics. By combining cloud gaming technology, we will break through the performance constraints of mobile phones, so that users can feel the vast beauty of Dunhuang culture as if they were in the field, and travel through time and space, enter history and feel history through their fingertips. Taking digital Dunhuang as the beginning of cooperation, Tencent Games hopes that more cultural heritages can be preserved and passed down through the new way of digital cultural protection, so that young people can meet "China in Cultural Relics" on their fingertips and Chinese cultural heritage can shine more brightly. With game technologies, infinite possibilities can be realized.
