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Digital Replicas May Change Games and Film

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-editor-version-of-star-trek dept.

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Steve Perlman is touting technology that he says can create animated digital reproductions of the human body that are as accurate as photographs, the Wall Street Journal reports. From the article: 'Game makers could use the system, called Contour, to create very realistic animated characters in videogames with fully controllable movements and facial expressions. Film makers could use the technology as a kind of digital makeup, changing an actor's looks or words or switch camera angles without costly retakes. The technology can even substitute one actor's face for another's and create exact replicas of long-dead historical figures.'"

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  1. gnaa by Demosthenes+X · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. Gollum! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How about the awful CG in the Lord of the Rings--Gollum in particular. I could have forgiven the terrible pacing. I could have forgiven the endless fake Frodokills (come on--we know he survives to the third movie so don't give us a poorly acted, terribly directed fake death scene every 45 minutes). I could have forgiven the bad casting. I could have forgiven the mood-killing dwarf/elf humor. I could have forgiven the terrible final battle. I could have forgiven the 9+ hours stolen from my life. But I simply could not forgive the endless shitty CG and terrible greenscreen shots. Gollum in particular looked like a fucking cartoon and rarely matched the tone of the surrounding shots.