No, not that Emily. This one:
That’s uncanny! They can create people. PEOPLE!!
3D wiremesh is only on the face… so only the facial expressions are computer generated. Hair, body and hands are still from the real person video.
Still, it’s pretty amazing.
Does that mean we are are gonna get Virtual Soylent Green now
If you need an actor what is the benefit to the animation?
Virtual Soylent Green would leave people with a bad taste in their mouths?
If they can make her, can they also make her naked?
Why are you thinking of getting into computer animation? IYKWIM
Wow. that’s pretty amazing. the only thing that twigs off to me is the lack of eyebrow movement and something weird about her mouth - which, honestly, could be attributed to Botox, if Emily were real.
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DON’T TELL GEORGE LUCAS!!! :eek:
Its ok. George Lucas wouldn’t make people. He would make strange, kinda offensive to certain nationalities, and very annoying aliens.
Well, don’t be so sure. If this “virtual person” technology were to be perfected, George Lucas will be remaking and re-releasing a new Star Wars film every year, featuring virtual Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill. Everything we knew and loved about Han Solo, Leia and Luke will be diluted to oblivion over a thousand re-tellings.
Maybe he would create a virtual Spielberg that he could use as his puppet.
Can i use this for a rant? this looks cool , but 3d actors will never replace the real actors.
Were you a bit worried when you read the thread name that someone might want to replace you? 
LOL, Emily…you didn’t work up much of a head of steam there. That was more a statement than a rant. 
Still, I agree with you. I don’t like the idea of virtual actors. I believe that the negative feeling we get when we know someone/thing is cgi but it looks too real is called “The Uncanny Valley” in “the industry.”
The reason this is so interesting is that it almost gets across that valley. (There IS still something odd about the mouth, though.)
Rant away! Yes, it’s a cool bit of technology, but it’s not acting. To get acting you need another real human being to be involved- and, in fact, they did need another human to be involved in order to get Emily to seem realistic (the person whose image was originally filmed to create the animation.
Also, I love animation. I love different styles and different textures. But this level of verisimilitude does nothing for me because I feel like it’s just imitating rather than expressing.
i was watching it. And it looks really good. Probably the best i have ever seen but there is still something just not quite right. i can point it out but i dunno. Its kinda creepy