The uncanny valley just got uncannier. Or vallier. [link]
Take a trip with us down into uncanny valley, where animated human faces look almost real. Studio Pendulum's AlterEgo division pasted tiny sensors on actors’ faces and ran that data through their latest facial performance software, and this is the result. They’ve certainly come a long way since Disney-owned ImageMovers created Polar Express.
This is the closest yet to the real thing, but it’s still not exact enough to get beyond the creepy zone. Our familiarity with the human face is just too precise for animated artistry to be completely convincing thus far. Can’t wait to see what the next generation of animation will bring. Two or three more revs and on-screen human actors will be rendered obsolete.
The woman's skin looks too... plastic? She's the least realistic, IMO.
The human brain has a large chunk devoted to reading the faces of other humans, so it's no wonder that animating a realistic human face is so difficult.
Huh. Coworker just told me the Olympic opening ceremony fireworks were CGI. Dude.
I hear the next Olympics are going to be completely CGI.
At least 38 Venezuelans have died as a result of a suspected outbreak of rabies spread by bites from vampire bats.
Jesus. It really is the apocalypse, isn't it?
What kind of President can we expect Obama to be if he puts visiting relatives over poll results of where the majority of Americans think he should go on vacation?
What's Cokie's position on the sitting President galavanting over to a foreign place like China to watch athletes compete against foreigners who don't even speak American? (Mind you, it's one of vanishingly few things Bush has done that I actually think is nice and genuinely patriotic rather than jingoistic or malevolent.)
It really is the apocalypse, isn't it?
We just need to wait for the final sign - a dog giving birth to kittens.
More important, why does Cokie Roberts hate American families and senior citizens?
We just need to wait for the final sign - a dog giving birth to kittens.
t waits for someone to link to this story on Yahoo's Odd News page
Nothing says unamerican like visiting your grandmother.
Well, she isn't even an American. *I* heard she's actually a C.H.U.D. Do we want a president who would visit his non-American C.H.U.D. grandmother in some foreign country like Hawaii?!?
It really is the apocalypse, isn't it?
I didn't expect Scola to get to Venezuela so quickly...
