Chapter 125: Seize the Day, Friends

"Director, we have tested..." Pex was just about to introduce the recent research on Wit-Sharpening Potion to Murphy, but Murphy raised his hand to interrupt him. "How many bottles of Wit-Sharpening Potion do you have here?"

He had made quite a few of these when he was in school and knew what the effect was, so he didn't listen to the other party's report.

"Uh... ten bottles arrived last week, of which three bottles, oh no, five bottles were used for experiments, so there are five bottles left."

"Good, bring them all to me."

Murphy got the Wit-Sharpening Potion, drank a bottle in one gulp, and felt a cool sensation surging into his brain, as if in an instant, his brain had expanded twice, able to hold more things.

At the same time, the headache and sleepiness that had plagued him for several days also disappeared immediately.

"It works!" Murphy was very happy. "Omid, I think it is necessary to let Pex join your Mind Magic Research Group."

"Pex, from now on, you can communicate your research results with Mr. Omid." Murphy said, patting the other party on the shoulder. "Come on, Pex, I look forward to the day when Wit-Sharpening Potion can be permanently effective."

After speaking, he left Omid behind and prepared to leave.

Having obtained the Wit-Sharpening Potion and temporarily solving the aftereffects of Holographic Recall, he prepared to return to the medical laboratory and give himself another shot.

A mere Lion King can't be considered a treasure. He actually has quite a few things in his brain that can play a greater role.

For example, memories related to instruction sets that can speed up chip IP core design.

As a coder, he remembers that he had watched a course on assembly language based on the ARM 64-bit instruction set.

Although it was just to understand some basic knowledge at the time, basically he went through it at double speed, and now he has basically forgotten it all.

But if he could remember it all, he could submit the design ideas of assembly instructions to ARM's designers, let them reverse-engineer the instruction set architecture, and then reverse-engineer the CPU functional circuit design.

Although it would still take a lot of time, doing problems by comparing with the answers is always much faster.

In addition, for the system development part, he also has some knowledge that can be used. Although he won't be able to manually create a usable computer system, accelerating the R&D progress in this area should be no problem.

"Director," but before Murphy walked a few steps, a researcher chased after him. "Director, I discovered a use for the Development Potion..."

"Development Potion?"

Murphy wasn't very interested. It's just a potion that makes pictures move automatically. He felt the application range wasn't large and hadn't paid attention to this aspect. "You can publish it directly in the institute's journal, come on..."

"Director..."

The researcher still followed behind him. "Director, the Development Potion can complete the scene changes before and after the photo is taken. This information..."

"Hmm..." Murphy listened, his brain still thinking about extracting those memories later, and said casually, "If you think of any application direction, you can go to Laura..."

The elevator had arrived, and Murphy walked in, but out of respect for his researchers, he tried his best to finish listening to the other party.

"I have already found the application direction!"

"Director, the Development Potion can automatically complete frames for film!"

"It can complete scenes directionally. If two images are taken continuously, the Development Potion can automatically display the changes between the two images naturally..."

"This can, Director..."

The elevator door closed, but Murphy pressed the open button at the last moment.

"Wait, say it again, what can it do?"

"Uh," the researcher paused, then was overjoyed. "In order to study the principle of the Development Potion, I took two photos of a PuluRongRong with an interval of a few seconds..."

"It can complete frames for film?" Murphy asked before the latter finished speaking.

"Yes, yes."

"Then can it complete frames for animation?"

"This..." the researcher paused for a while, thinking carefully. "It should be possible."

"Go do an experiment, and then report to me. By the way, what is your name?"

There are more and more people in the research institute, and Murphy didn't remember everyone.

"Georgie Tabares, Director."

"Very good Georgie, how long do you need to complete this experiment?"

"Very fast, maybe... ten minutes will be enough..."

Five minutes later, Georgie came to Murphy with two pieces of paper. "Success, Director!"

He handed the two pieces of paper to Murphy, pointing to a puppy on the picture: "I let Costas—he is a painter, draw two cartoon pictures of a puppy, one with the puppy at the intersection, and one with the puppy already appearing in the distance."

"I put the two pictures together and used the Development Potion at the same time, and the puppy acted according to the path we drew for it. Look!"

I saw the puppies in both pictures cycling. In the first picture, the puppy walked from the intersection to the edge of the screen, and in the second picture, the puppy walked from the edge of the screen to the distance.

"When wizards use the Development Potion, they can manipulate the scenes in these pictures more freely, but when we Muggles use the Development Potion, we need some special settings to make it exert the effect we want."

"For example, this frame-completing phenomenon, if we don't constrain the starting point and ending point of the puppy through the picture, the puppy will only walk aimlessly in the picture."

"Good! Very good!" Murphy happily patted Georgie on the shoulder. "Thanks to you, we have money to continue burning."

April.

Umbrella Company acquired a local film company "Pict." That month, Murphy met with several senior executives of the company and threw out a script outline directly.

"A little lion cub, his uncle killed his father and usurped the throne, the little lion cub was forced to wander away to seek self, and finally took revenge and regained the throne..."

"This... Prince's Revenge? Hamlet?" someone said.

"Not bad, but the protagonists are all animals. It needs to be made into an animation, the kind suitable for all ages."

The producers discussed it and felt that this idea was really good.

Hamlet's story has been enduring for thousands of years, and its dramatic charm has been verified by time, but on one hand, there have been many adaptations, and on the other hand, modern people don't have feelings for stories about so-called princes and kings.

But, changing the story to animals and the form to animation, the viewing experience suddenly became much fresher.

Even the strong symbolism and allegorical nature contained in the animal images themselves are extremely suitable for the characters of such classical works.

"This is really a genius idea." someone praised.

I thought it was a rich man coming to play, but I didn't expect that as soon as he made a move, it would be such an idea.

"With Hamlet's story as a foundation, the script isn't hard to write, and the animation's style is also easy to grasp," said a veteran animation director.

"If we find some screenwriters and polish it for a month or two, we should be able to produce a draft. Drawing takes the most time, but if we recruit more artists, we should be able to complete most of the visual production in a year. In about a year and a half, there should be hope for a release."

"A year? That's too long!" Murphy shook his head. "We must seize the day, my friends."

(End of chapter)