Chapter 1696 The Emoji Pack Revolution

After the basic image of panda bear was designed, Li Mu immediately asked the designer team to design more poses and expressions based on its basic image, so as to improve the material library of panda bear as quickly as possible.

At the same time, Yiwu's foundry is also working overtime to make panda bear dolls.

In addition to the real dolls, Li Mu also asked them to introduce ordinary dolls of 15cm, 30cm and 50cm, and these dolls will become the first wave of souvenirs on the panda tourist route in the future.

Among them, the 30cm-level dolls will be sent directly to the United States, and then Lin Qingya will arrange for people from the US branch to set up collection points in Los Angeles and San Francisco airports in California.

At that time, all tourists who purchase panda tourism products through Taobao, can receive a 30-centimeter doll before departing from these two airports.

Thirty centimeters is a very interesting size, not too big or too small, not too big to get in the way, and not too small to be easily stuffed into an alley or bag, so after tourists get it at the airport, it is very big. The probability is to hold it, or take it on the plane.

In this way, tourists have not left the United States, they have already started to promote the Chinese panda tourism.

The factories that accept OEM customization also attach great importance to this cooperation. They keep improving in the process of design and production, and Li Mu also gives them enough profit margins in terms of price.

To cut off the bear bear in advance, Li Mu is ready to use it to provoke a war of emojis.

Eoji expressions have been popular on the Internet for many years, and now most users feel boring and insipid, but there is no social software to lead a revolution in eoji expressions, because everyone thinks that chat expressions are nothing more than cartoons. Human expressions, smiling, depressed, angry, sad, embarrassed, sweating, helpless, are basically enough.

However, no one thought that gif animations could be used to lead a brand-new expression revolution. It has a wide range of materials, whether it is film and television dramas, games, TV program clips, or short films shot by users themselves. Make a set of emojis.

In the last life, the gif animation expression was the first to become popular. It allowed users to experience the unique charm of rich expression interaction, and then the runaway expressions and ghost expressions with various pictures and text began to become popular.

Li Mu's current thinking is to start from the beginning, start with gif, and directly make it the core battlefield of the new generation of expression wars, or even the only battlefield.

At present, Makino Technology's technology research and development strength is second to none in the Internet industry.

Whether it is Yanjing or Silicon Valley, there are software and hardware R&D centers of Muye Technology, not to mention the Apple team that has been completely digested.

With such a strong technical support, it is really too simple to develop an emoji function.

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A few days later, Taobao Logistics delivered several huge packages to Taobao's office.

Li Mu personally unpacked the package, and when he saw the real "Panda Bear" doll that he "designed", he immediately couldn't stop laughing.

Immediately, he asked Master Lei to find seven or eight young and strong young men, and specially invited a small filming team who had cooperated with each other to start recording the source of all evil emoji for "Panda Bear".

Since "Panda Bear" is Li Mu's own "original", he not only made seven or eight young people wear panda bear dolls, but also put on a set himself.

Although this thing is a bit bulky after the upper body, but looking in the mirror, the workmanship, demeanor, and body shape are exactly the same as the Kumamon Bear, especially the cheap appearance, which is simply divine.

Li Mu was very playful. He personally demonstrated and said to the filming team, "I'm going to run and jump in front of the camera later. You follow me in front of you, remember to keep the same speed as me and step back."

The shooting team immediately picked up the camera and prepared in front.

Immediately, Li Mu wore a panda bear puppet and staged a famous scene in which the Kumamon bear was running and jumping while exaggeratingly swinging his arms.

Interestingly, everyone at the scene thought the panda bear was ugly, but when Li Mu ran and jumped up, everyone couldn't help laughing, and some young girls even covered their mouths and laughed.

No one dared to imagine that, as the boss of Muye Technology and Taobao, Li Mu could wear a puppet and make such an indecent action, not to mention, it was really interesting...

After Li Mu finished the action, he ran to the monitor in a puppet suit to see the effect. He had indeed achieved a god restoration of over 95, which was perfect.

Afterwards, he did several classic actions of Kumamon in memory, such as:

The action of turning back to the camera and waving suddenly;

Standing still, suddenly spread legs, two hands do the action of chicken wings;

The action of riding a bicycle, a tricycle, or a motorcycle in a doll costume;

The action of running a few steps in a doll suit and kicking a young boy;

Afterwards, several other young people wearing panda bears also tried to do all kinds of exaggerated, cute and even cheap actions under his command, each of which made people laugh.

After the shooting, Li Mu immediately asked people to make gifs of the classic clips in these videos, and then added Chinese, English, German, French, Japanese and other languages ​​on them.

For example, for the action of running and jumping all the way, subtitles are added in various languages: "I'm coming!"

Suddenly, the cute expression is matched with a cartoon heart shape, and then "I love you" in various languages;

Animated pictures of kicking other people, with "Go to hell!";

A moving picture of rushing to the restaurant, accompanied by "It's time to eat!";

Walking and walking, suddenly cheating on the moving picture lying on the ground, accompanied by "This baby can't walk!";

Suddenly pulling back the curtains, sticking out his head and looking left and right, the animation is accompanied by "I just look and don't talk..."

Rotating 360 degrees and showing a thumbs up, accompanied by: "You're amazing!"

He dragged his head with his hands and swayed from side to side, accompanied by a series of animations with special effects of stars, with the words: "I miss you so much..."

Soon, the entire Taobao designer team was immediately immersed in this unprecedented funny atmosphere and could not extricate themselves.

The joy of making emojis made them immersed in it, and they had a lot of fun.

Li Mu asked them to select 20 different moving pictures from many materials, and then made them into squares with uniform specifications. These are the official dynamic expressions of the first issue of Panda Bear!

It just so happened that Fang Xudong and his team also developed a GIF function while waiting for the puppets and making animations in the past few days.

It didn't take long for Li Mu to be invited by Fang Xudong to participate in the internal demonstration of the beta function.

According to Li Mu's request, Fang Xudong added a gif expression option next to the eoji expression option in the dialog box. The click icon of this option is based on the eoji expression icon, adding some small dynamic luminous visual effects. Eye-catching, on the one hand, is also to highlight the dynamic function.

Fang Xudong showed Li Mu how to add GIFs on the spot with projection. When the user clicks the add button, a path selection window will pop up, and the user can directly add the gif file.

While demonstrating, Fang Xudong introduced: "Theoretically, all the gif animations of the user can be added, but in order to ensure that the bandwidth usage does not exceed the standard, and to ensure the user's experience of launching images, we have added a function, which is Automatically compress gif images, the default is to compress to less than 1b."

Li Mu nodded approvingly and said, "Xudong has done a good job at this point. He can consider additional problems on the basis of product requirements and come up with solutions."

Fang Xudong smiled slightly and said: "Mr. Li, to be honest, gif animations are not very popular at present, and to make a gif animation, for ordinary users, the technical threshold is still very high, and it is estimated that there are at least 95 or more. of users won’t be able to operate it, so I wonder, will this feature be nowhere to be used by users in the future?”

Li Mu smiled and said, "That's what I'm going to tell you today."

With that said, Li Mu pointed at the function added by the gif animation on the screen with a laser pointer, and said, "In the first stage, you need to block this self-added function for me."

"Blocked?" Fang Xudong looked surprised.

It's hard to make a function, but you need to block the entrance added by the user. What is this operation?

Fang Xudong said inexplicably: "Mr. Li, take the liberty to say that if you block the entrance, it is like building a building, but there is no door for users to enter and exit."

Li Mu shook his finger and said with a smile, "It's not that we built a building without opening a door for users, but we built a building without giving users permission to live in and decorate themselves."

Fang Xudong was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do you mean the kind of routine that developers collectively decorate?"

Li Mu nodded and said with a smile, "That's right! It's a collective decoration!"

With that said, Li Mu threw a USB flash drive to Fang Xudong and said, "Open it and take a look."

Fang Xudong suspiciously plugged the USB flash drive into the computer. After opening it, he found that there were twelve gifs in it. Judging from the thumbnails, all of them were cartoon pictures, and they were all of an ugly panda.

Fang Xudong said in surprise: "Mr. Li...this...is this the panda bear you designed by yourself..."

Li Mu nodded: "Yes, that's it!"

Speaking, Li Mu asked curiously, "I asked Taobao designers to do it for me. How do you know about this?"

Fang Xudong said embarrassedly: "The whole company knows it... To be honest, this panda bear made everyone doubt your aesthetics for the first time..."

Li Mu laughed, pointed at the screen and said, "Open it first and have a look."

Fang Xudong opened the first picture, and the panda bear jumped and ran over: "I'm here!"

This picture was projected on the big screen, and everyone burst into laughter.

Fang Xudong was also surprised and asked, "Mr. Li, this... is this a real person?"

Li Mu nodded and smiled: "It's me, how is it, is it interesting?"

Fang Xudong said with surprise and joy: "Do you mean to treat this as a kind of chat content and provide it for everyone to use?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "Yes, think about it, you have this gif, you can chat with your friends, or you can send such an emoji in the first sentence of a chat in a group, don't you think it's very interesting?"