At TEDxUSC, computer graphics trailblazer Paul Debevec explains the scene-stealing technology behind Digital Emily, a digitally constructed human face so realistic it stands up to multiple takes.
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It's still super creepy to me.
Actually when they solve the facial animation it will be much closer. All animations seem smoothed out, you know, like they're bezier'd, and I think that facial microexpressions are more stepped, or linear with some tension. Like "Ed" from Chris Jones, I don't link it because Youtube doesn't let me 🙁
not a cheap process but it's work very well, maybe he should used HDR RED Camera or Blackmagic Design Cinema camera for making animated stuff, instead of Nikon or Canon photo stuff.
i think that speech was underappreciated
that's not the point.
Anyone thinking AVATAR?
8.14 two and a half men Charlie copy.
It's kind of alarming. Now we won't be able to tell the difference between special effects & reality. Video can no longer be considered as proof of anything.
I concur.
you're
You know who is really going to hate this? George Lucas. NOT!
They weren't trying to make a realistic crowd. Just the one guy. They just for the sake of interest had two lines of them walking crossing though each other. Not a crowd sim.
You have no idea what you're talking about and confuse corporatism (made possible by socialists like yourself) with capitalism.
i'm sorry, my what?
your their target customer
great animation… but i also loved the new bmw at the end.
The running at the end is too smooth.
That indeed is photorealism. She was nearly perfect. I'm not sure why they added the guy walking at the end because the combined images did not look remotely real. The put so much engery into the fine and gross detail of her face, yet did not consider the nuances of multiple people walking in the same space. Realistically, they could not all be the same height, moving exact body parts at same pace, etc.
wow.
Those are pretty amazing diffuse and specular maps they get with that. 😮 Very nice results.
I am so looking forward to playing my game console at my retirement home in a few decades.
Should be better than real life. 🙂
the future of computer graphics looks great.
Kind of a MRI of light surfaces combined with animations.
Shadowshorts, study some economics and stfu while you're at it.
Videogame designers should watch this vid high.
i knwo which one you are rferring to but it nowhere near as realistic as this technology.they plant to recreate Winston Churcl and Hitler for historic purposes those characters will be animated. I like this clip bu the fella whos is doing the presentation thinks everyone works in the 3d industry "shader, texture, colour matrices" WTF! can't those people adapt their lingo to the audience? not everyone uses Maya and Mocap.this video is boring for people outside of the industry.
this technology could be used with another piece of software that is showcased on the Science Channel's "Future Of…" that is a database of sorts that is meant to render a real person and can be used to recreate a conversation with the real person it is trying to emulate, cool stuff!
wtf is bmw doing at the end!!!
Sponsors are a necessary evil. They allow TED to keep running at the high quality we've all come to enjoy.
Sad to see something as wonderful as TED hijacked by BMW…
Can't we ever get away from the greasy fingers of business? Seems anything can be bought or sold these days, including integrity.
seen it before.
we still fall short but this is a step closer
wow. I love living in the future.
cool!
Wow, impressive. The only thing that really gives it away in that video is the blink.
Yes.
hmmm, so they created a photoreal digital image by….photographing a model.
They can barley afford decent cameras these days with all the piracy…
nice!
This technology could be used to hoax news reports and interviews.
I don't see why people are so hostile to CG being improved upon. It's already used in so many ways, but we should stop advancing because your all too xenophobic? Special effects have been around since the beggining of movie making as one form or another, CG is an art in itself, and properly used is very effective…so get over yourselves. Lots of good intelligent and entertaining movies would not have been the same without it, and more will benefit from this.
Yes, we are. 😉
it may not be as important but it is still a contributing factor. pushing only one boundary isn't gonna get u to perfection or similiar