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Step 2 of 2 How did you buy your ticket? Reflecting on the literary works of futurist author William Gibson such as Mona Lisa Overdrive and Idoru in which virtual stars are a kind of cultural phenomenon, Eric set out to bring a psychedelic pop-culture dystopian virtuality to the look of the film elements. Eric worked directly with the director and created a streamlined visual effects pipeline in order to achieve the animation and rendering of over shots over the course of 7 months of production.
Seeking to highlight the dystopic virtual universe that the online stars inhabit, the director relied on Eric to create a highly stylised digital 3D version of the online streaming chat rooms. Each showroom was then animated in 3D space, in synchronicity with the film narrative, including dialogue and chat-room action in order to move the story forward.
In order to demonstrate the bleeding of the digital universe over into reality, Eric also developed a series of augmented reality AR shots that track synthetically projected elements over particular footage plates. As an entire generation has come of age on social media, virtual relationships are slowly replacing real-life human connections. And China has taken it to an extreme. Here, live streaming has become the most popular online entertainment for hundreds of millions.
The film follows three young characters - a singer, a comedian, and a migrant worker - as they search for fame, fortune and human connection in live streaming. We also meet their families, those managing the online talents, and those with money who control the fate of these talents, behind the scenes much like the Wizard of Oz.
The story culminates in the bizarre annual online idol competition, in which the rich can buy unlimited amount of votes for their favorite performers. There our characters realize that money alone pulls the strings in this virtual universe, and human connection and personal happiness remain as illusive online as-perhaps even more so than- in our real and broken world.
Add content advisory. User reviews 2 Review. Top review. The film follows the lives of a young male comedian and a young female singer who have become stars in China's world of live streaming where people are making immense amounts of money by marketing their often-meagre talents in ways that get thousands of fans to send them gifts and pay money to vote for them in competitions.
It is a bizarre pay-to-play form of online American Idol competition. It is kind of like a type of mostly not sexual prostitution where people are selling dreams and fantasies to those who are willing to pay.
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