Chapter 17 Camera and Stick Figure Animation

God damn it, how many of those questions will be asked of me? What the hell am I? Who am I?

I answered, “I am a human…I have said it many times, and you are still asking that question again.”

Varania said, “PROVE IT!!”

“What do you mean by proving it?”

“SHOW ME YOUR STATUS!!”
I looked at the jester. If I show my status, it means I need to deactivate the magic, and that jester can cast his magic. I sent a signal with my eyes about the jester towards Chis…But…She just didn’t get it…Fine then..I deactivated the magic…and I showed my status to everyone..

Both of them were surprised, except Chis,

Varania was the one who said first, “WHERE’S THE REST?”

“If you are talking about the rest, it means atrributes; I don’t have it..” I said to her.

Suddenly, like what I feared, the jester cast the same spell again.

“LANUAE!”

Immediately, his body became a mist, and he was gone…Yet…shockingly, I saw both of them didn’t care much about it. I asked them,

“Do you not worry that he is gone?”

Chis answered with casual tone and sipping the jester’s latte, “*slurp* I don’t care about the clown; what I care about is the owner of the circus…”

“JUST FORGET HIM; I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT YOU, DARYA…” Varania suddenly said and pointed at the status, especially the job’s section, “THIS!! WHAT IS BARISTA? IS IT BARBARIAN OR SOMETHING?”

I answered it, “It’s not barbarian; it’s the job of someone who makes coffee."

“BUT THAT’S NOT A REALLY JOB THEN, AS YOU CAN SEE, I AM A DRAGON..” Varania started to point at everyone. “SHE IS A VAMPIRE LORD, SHE IS A SAINT, SHE IS AN ARCH-MAGE, HE IS A PARAGON…” and she pointed at me, “NOW WHAT ARE YOU?”

“Like it said on the status screen, I am a barista…”

Chis started to ask, “I am more curious about your magic tool that does ‘pic-what’...”

“You mean picture..."

"Yeah, whatever, just explain it!!”

I pulled out my smartphone from them, pointed at the camera lens, and said, “This tiny thing is the one who does the magic.”

Chis showed a disbelief face and said, “That tiny thing? How can that tiny thing paint in a finger of a snap?”

I explained while pointing at the camera lens, “There are three magic phases in this tiny thing…”

“Three phases?”

"Yes, the first phase is when the magic tries to capture a light that comes from outside this tiny thing. The second phase is that this light will be changed to pho—” Wait a minute, if I tell them about photon light or anything science stuff, they will surely ask it…”this light will be changed to small magic flow, not just small, but very small, or the smallest magic ever seen. The third phase is all of this magic flow gathered together to recreate the paint as the light captured.”

Chis asked, “Why does this tiny thing need light?”

I answered, “How do your eyes work? Can your eyes see without light?”

Chis and Varania looked at each other. Chis asked me, “Do your eyes not do that?”

Ah yes, nocturnal eyes… I asked them again, “So your eyes can see in the dark?”

Varania answered, “Sort off..”
This is fantasy world, surely there is creatures who can do that, even some animals have nocturnal eyes…Does nocturnal eyes need some light too?

I said to them, "Well, I can’t see anything in the dark, so does this tiny thing…it needs light to gain da–” Data is another forbidden word.. “To gain material image…”

Chis said, “I don’t quite understand with your explanation of this tiny thing…”

“Just think it’s magic, then, if you don’t understand…”

Next, Varania asked a question, “What about this vidio?”

“Like I said earlier, it’s like moving paintings…”

“WHAT DOES THAT SUPPOSED MEAN?”

Let's make an example of it…How about some stick figures, where some kids drew them in the corner of their book pages after pages and then flipped them. I said, “I will give you an example of it…” I stood up, went to the counter, and took some papers and a pen. I came back to them with papers and a pen.

I started to draw a stick figure, standing and doing nothing.

“Without magic tool, surely your draw is hideous…” Chis said.

“Everything is now magic…” AI OF COURSE, THAT’S MAGIC nowadays, but not for me, who is trapped in this fantasy world. I continued to draw several stick figures with different pose, in every papers, I put numbers at the corner of the paper…After I was done, I put all the papers side by side on the table…

Varania asked me, “WHY DO YOU DRAW MORE HIDEOUS DRAWING?”

“You want the explanation of the video or not?”

“OF COURSE I WANT TO KNOW…”

“So shut your mouth…let me explain…” I pointed at the numbers on every page and said, “As you can see, there is number in every pages…the purpose of the numbers is to indicate the order of the papers…number one means the paper must be on top, and number ten means the paper will be on bottom…Before I stack the papers…you two take a look at 'my hideous drawings’.”

They looked all my hideous drawings, and I explained to them, “The first picture is a person standing, the second picture is a person wanting to raise his hand, the third picture is a person trying to wave his hand, and so on...All of these hideous drawings make a motion…Now…I will stack it in order of numbers.”

I stacked all the papers…After it got stacked, I said, “You need to see from above, so you two need to stand up and watch from behind me.”

They stood up and walked to behind me…

I said, “Look closely; I will remove the paper one by one as the orders…”

I removed the paper one by one, fast…I hope they see what I want to tell to them…After the last paper, I said, “What have you two watched?”

Immediately I felt my shoulder being grabbed, and the two pushed me back and forth. Chis said, “HOW DO YOU MAKE THAT FIGURE MOVING?”

“I CAN EXPLAIN IT TO YOU IF YOU STOP IT…”

Chis stopped it, and I continued to explain it to them, “It’s motion…” I pointed to Varania and said, “You, Varania, how about you demonstrate what the figure does in all these pictures? When I said number one, you demonstrated the number one paper.”

Varania stood up in front of us, and I kept saying to her as the order of the papers…I looked at Chis and said, “That’s motion I was talking about, all of these ten papers is a motion of a person waving to someone, like Varania has demonstrated, she was waving to us…But Video is much more complicated; it takes thousands, even millions, of like these papers to make a video like I showed it to you…The papers is called frames…”

Chis continued ask another question where it would be bad, “How your tool can make a painting of that woman?” That’s AI… ​​​​​​​