We've All Seen Digital Special Effects, But These Researchers Have Created Digital Actors
by N/A, 10 years ago |
2 min read
So many of the special effects we see in movies today were created digitally. But, what if it were the actors, and not the explosions or otherworldly landscapes, that were created with a computer. Researchers at ICT were profiled by  The Creator's Project about their work to develop photo realistic digital humans using 3-D scanning technology. With 3-D scanners, researchers and digital artists are able to capture emotion and expression from every angle in order to create a digital actor that looks as close to the human form as possible.
The USC Institute for Creative Technologies uses 3-D face and body scanners to digitally recreate the human form for film, television, video games and holograms.
Actors sit in the ICT Light Stage so that 3-D scanners can capture a 360 degree recreation of their likeness.
This is Digital Ira. He's a digital version of Ari Shapiro, a researcher at USC's ICT. He asked that his doppelgangers name be an inverted version of his to create some separation between the two.
Digital Emily, modeled after actress Emily O'Brien, was the follow up to Digital Ira.
Watch this video to see the digital actors and learn more about The Creator's Project.
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