Emily Is Not Real !
Posted by Shruti in 'Emily' Is Not Real on Tuesday, May 19, 2009
'Emily' the woman in the above image is an extraordinary animated woman created using a new modeling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial movements to be captured and recreated.
What you see above is a wholly computer generated animation.
She is considered to be one of the first animations to have overleapt a long-standing barrier known as ‘uncanny valley’ - which refers to the perception that animation looks less realistic as it approaches human likeness.
The University Of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies made a computer generated replica of Emily.
What you see above is a wholly computer generated animation.
She is considered to be one of the first animations to have overleapt a long-standing barrier known as ‘uncanny valley’ - which refers to the perception that animation looks less realistic as it approaches human likeness.
The actress Emily O’Brien sat inside a sphere of LED lights while she was photographed making 35 different poses.The light patterns allowed the shine of her skin to be captured independently from her main skin tone, with hundreds of measurements taken for each millimeter
First, Image Metrics scanned actor Emily O’Brien to develop a custom template for her computer generated model. Then, eight animation artists built a custom rigging for her character in software. They captured O’Brien’s performance with video, motion tracked her facial movements, and then applied those tracked movements to the computer model. Because this process is more efficient than traditional methods
Previous methods for animating faces have involved putting dots on a face and observing the way the dots move, but Image Metrics analyses facial movements at the level of individual pixels in a video, meaning that the subtlest variations - such as the way the skin creases around the eyes, can be tracked.
Facial animation reaches new heights with Emily.
AMD has released a new chip with a billion transistors that will be able to show off creations such as Emily by allowing a much greater number of computations per second.
Image Metrics, a company that makes computer-generated imagery for Hollywood films and computer games has created new levels of believability in facial animation by making ‘Emily’ the most realistic computer generated character so far.
First, Image Metrics scanned actor Emily O’Brien to develop a custom template for her computer generated model. Then, eight animation artists built a custom rigging for her character in software. They captured O’Brien’s performance with video, motion tracked her facial movements, and then applied those tracked movements to the computer model. Because this process is more efficient than traditional methods
Previous methods for animating faces have involved putting dots on a face and observing the way the dots move, but Image Metrics analyses facial movements at the level of individual pixels in a video, meaning that the subtlest variations - such as the way the skin creases around the eyes, can be tracked.
Facial animation reaches new heights with Emily.AMD has released a new chip with a billion transistors that will be able to show off creations such as Emily by allowing a much greater number of computations per second.
Image Metrics, a company that makes computer-generated imagery for Hollywood films and computer games has created new levels of believability in facial animation by making ‘Emily’ the most realistic computer generated character so far.
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