Emily is not real

[ursangnome]

The film clip here isn't a real person - she's a computer animation. Simply astounding.

Story here: http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/007483.html

Comments

[gmkieran.livejournal.com]

wow! VERY impressive, though the blur around her facial features (even before they started playing with her face) was somewhat distracting, especially as everything else about her is sharp and clearly-focused. Still, Simone anyone? *g*

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Well, notice that her shoulders are in good focus? The blur is around things in motion - you see that even on my TiVo if I'm using a low recording quality. It may be an artifact not of their rendering, but of the video compression used to put in on YouTube.

[gmkieran.livejournal.com]

Possibly, but then her hands would soften as she begins moving them and they don't, at least not to the degree that her face does. Also, the hair above her right shoulder is essentially stationary throughout, but is completely out of focus. I think they just have some refining of their process to do - no disrespect of their accomplishment intended!

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Watching again, I think it may be *only* her face they rendered, so that her hair and hands are actually hers. Then, if her hair is blurry, it is not a matter of their rendering.

Her hands are relatively large and devoid of relative detail - you will normally see compression artifacts more around regions where there's lots of important and delicate detail over small areas.

[madamruppy.livejournal.com]

whoa

[antoniseb.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed. Though this now means most video clips I see from now on will be more in doubt as to their depiction of real events.

[laurion]

Still a little valley, but excellent quality. Now, given that it is still modeled on an actor, and not fully computer generated, it's not to the point where I'm floored yet. Also given that the generated model is a near identical replica of the actual actor (making things a _lot_ easier, especially with nuanced expressions), I'm not blown away. Now, if you can get that level of nuance and character when you replace the face with a different human face (and not a goofy color or chroma overlay that hides things), I'll be sufficiently impressed. This just strikes me as every other idealized product demo, where the variables are constrained to put the product in the best light.