The New Future of CGI

[chaseter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiX5d3rC6o
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Quite impressive I must say. This sensation has been on youtube for a bit and I just recently ran across it from this month's Game Informer magazine which has quite a good read on the company and what movies and games you have seen their work in. Some say this has crossed the Uncanny Valley and that this work is the future in realistic computer graphics for digital media.

 

[black_dust]

Been posted in the Avatar thread seeing as Jim Cameron is using it

 

[luke1234]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiX5d3rC6o


Quite impressive I must say. This sensation has been on youtube for a bit and I just recently ran across it from this month's Game Informer magazine which has quite a good read on the company and what movies and games you have seen their work in. Some say this has crossed the Uncanny Valley and that this work is the future in realistic computer graphics for digital media.

I saw this video earlier, its amazing ive stumped so many people on it hahah

 

[chaseter]

^I was reading my GI and they had pictures of her and I said no...this isn't CGI. Looked it up on youtube and to be honest, I would never have guessed she was CGI. It is simply amazing. IMO the Uncanny Valley has been crossed with this and if future films and games have this technology in it then they will be amazing.

 

[chaseter]

Been posted in the Avatar thread seeing as Jim Cameron is using it

I don't go in there But this just looks extremely promising for every digital media outlet! It is the best close up representation of a human I have ever seen.

 

[luke1234]

^I was reading my GI and they had pictures of her and I said no...this isn't CGI. Looked it up on youtube and to be honest, I would never have guessed she was CGI. It is simply amazing. IMO the Uncanny Valley has been crossed with this and if future films and games have this technology in it then they will be amazing.

i know right no more of sloppy superhero graphics

 

[chaseter]

i know right no more of sloppy superhero graphics

No more Peter Parker looking like he has a chromosome disorder But that may just be T-Mags

 

[SuBe]

I don't get it. Is she all CG?

 

[luke1234]

No more Peter Parker looking like he has a chromosome disorder But that may just be T-Mags

ahhaha

 

[WeaponXProject]

I don't get it. Is she all CG?

I don't get it either...Is the person suppossed to be rendered after motion capture or do they just design the individual on their own?

 

[chaseter]

I don't get it either...Is the person suppossed to be rendered after motion capture or do they just design the individual on their own?

Did you not pay attention to the video The actor acts, no special cameras or devices. A program then makes that person entirely CGI for digital media like games. This technology can also be applied to movies, especially super hero movies as luke mentioned. Instead of making an entire CGI character from scratch, you can make an ultra realistic character from an actor's in house performance. Not everything can be shot practical and now the stuff that cannot will look real

 

[BlueLightning]

Wow. I am totally spechless. Technology never ceases to amaze me. Looking forward to see this applicated in some media form, any.

 

[GL1]

Great way to intro it too. I can kinda see the edges of the CGI face when she turns her head too far earlier in the video, but that's obviously something that can be fixed with a little polish. Well done.

Also, while great for video games and special effects characters, its not necessarily all that helpful for special effects action sequences, which require the CGI character to do things that cannot be captured in a real performance.

 

[xwolverine2]

I don't get it. Is she all CG?

just her face

 

[Gold Samurai]

They need to lighten up the blush then it can be near perfect

 

[dark_b]

and here we are again. please watch this video .
http://media.fxguide.com/fxguidetv/fxguidetv-ep030.mov
http://media.fxguide.com/fxguidetv/fxguidetv-ep030.m4v

only her face is CGI . its not about how she looks. its about how she moves. they didnt need a special enviorment and tracking markers(dots) on the face. she was jus there and a second camera in fron of her was tracking her face,eyes,......

paul debevec helped them very much with hes old and new technology.
http://media.fxguide.com/fxguidetv/fxguidetv-ep029.m4v

 

[dark_b]

Great way to intro it too. I can kinda see the edges of the CGI face when she turns her head too far earlier in the video, but that's obviously something that can be fixed with a little polish. Well done.

Also, while great for video games and special effects characters, its not necessarily all that helpful for special effects action sequences, which require the CGI character to do things that cannot be captured in a real performance.

did you first watch the vdeo and knew tha tthe edges were not real?

experts at CGI and people at siggraph didnt notice it

 

[SuBe]

Did you not pay attention to the video The actor acts, no special cameras or devices. A program then makes that person entirely CGI for digital media like games. This technology can also be applied to movies, especially super hero movies as luke mentioned. Instead of making an entire CGI character from scratch, you can make an ultra realistic character from an actor's in house performance. Not everything can be shot practical and now the stuff that cannot will look real

I didn't watch it was sound, so I was confused (at work). Yes, very impressive.

 

[dark_b]

the guy from the company said that for example if WB would want more scenes for the joker in TDK they would use a body double and hen add a CGI heath ledger head.

 

[Untilteld]

new future? shouldn't it just be future?

 

[chaseter]

new future? shouldn't it just be future?

Hiro Nakamura went into the bad future and we changed the present The future of CGI was seen and rationalized by the Uncanny Valley. This has caused that mode of thought to change. Hence a new future

 

[chaseter]

did you first watch the vdeo and knew tha tthe edges were not real?

experts at CGI and people at siggraph didnt notice it

Yeah the experts at the conference were utterly perplexed and amazed was what was said in my GI.

 

[Nathan]

Noticed she was CGI from the beginning. There was something about her lips that bugged me. But most impressive nontheless.

 

[dark_b]

sorry dont buy it.

 

[Nathan]

What? That I noticed she was CGI?