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There's a nifty interview with a supervisor at Zoic Studios on Rendernode magazine, and a smaller interview with the CG supervisor.

And it's all done with Lightwave 7.5... Now I have no excuse for not producing better stuff myself.

Not a lot of relation. Endorphine is a "virtual ragdoll". It means that if you pick up the character and throw it into a wall, it will bounce and move in a realistic way. They have even perfected their software and now you can even detach members from the ragdoll.

Here's a review made by profesionals.

Endorphin characters can have certain behaviours, but it cannot match Massive's crowd controls. What I would see possible, however, is to atach animations generated with endorphin to individuals from that crowd. (BTW, Alias/Softimage also has a software similar to Massive, called Behaviour.)

You can also do ragdoll type animations with reactor in 3dsmax and you might be able to reconstruct the ragdoll contraints using RBD systems in any other highend 3d software that has them (Maya, XSI, etc) (real body dynamics)

but the navel is ok :)

You are right. Here is the second image which looks fake.

Computer generated images and animations are improving all the time, however, they are not quite there yet.

Look for example at this image : it is almost natural, like a real photo. No CGI hints there.

However, look at that other image, and although the hair is done OK, the eyes and hands still look fake.

That same eery feeling

Computer generated images and animations are improving all the time, however, they are not quite there yet.

Look for example at this image : it is almost natural, like a real photo. No CGI hints there.

However, look at that other image, and although the hair is done OK, the eyes and hands still look fake.

That same eery feeling