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Perfect Digital Skin
ILMfan writes "BBC Technology is describing a new graphics algorithm for creating perfect virtual skin. This technique by graphics wizard Henrik Jensen (the guy who invented photon mapping) is already being used in movies (it was used on Gollum in Lord of the Rings, and it will be used in the soon-to-be-released van Helsing movie). And perhaps more exciting is that several game companies are planning on using it for their next generation games. So John Carmack are you listening? Any chance this can be included in DOOM3? Of course there are endless other opportunities for virtual humans with perfect skin :-)"
> the soon-to-be-released van Helsing movie.
Not out in the states yet?
If you ever needed an argument that perfectly rendered skin can't rescue an amazingly crap film, Van Helsing will give it to you.
It is so amazingly bad that you end up cringing for the actors forced to deliver such bad performances. Yes, its worse that Episode I, dare I say it, that the even numbered StarTrek movies.
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They'll be able to render new skin on Ron Jeremy rather than having to shave his shoulders and back every couple of days?
There's something just plain wrong with knowing the names of various porn stars, and then throwing them out as if you "should know". Rather than knowing the finer details of Ron Jeremy's shoulders, you should know the finer details of your partner's shoulders!
Wrong. Just plain wrong.
Wrong in the same way as the fact that the "Lifestyle" section in USA Today is mostly about what's on TV.
Is your lifestyle dictated by the TV? If you unplug the TV for a week do you get antsy, not knowing what to do?
Most people here listen to music, how many have struggled, worked, and practiced a song enough that they've experienced the exhileration of performing in a band or choir and feeling the music flow through? The euphoric high of that?
Instead, we bootleg mp3s, and call it "music appreciation".
Wrong. Just plain wrong.
(sigh) - goes back to work updating shell scripts on servers while listening to (legal) MP3s....
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.