CG Facial Animation Indistinguishable from Reality

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:56 pm

The Emily Project by Image Metrics:

The woman's face in this video is completely CG:
http://www.image-metrics.com/node/330

Discuss.

By the way, have a look at their projects page: http://www.image-metrics.com/projects

Necronopticous · Post by **Necronopticous** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:38 pm

Pretty impressive. Looks like she got bukkake'd with artificial tanner, though.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:44 pm

Necronopticous wrote:Looks like she got bukkake'd with artificial tanner, though.

Huh? Did you watch the video? Her face in the entire video is CG. I think it looks completely natural. The brown mask-like thing in the picture just shows a step in the process.

Here's how it was made: http://www.image-metrics.com/node/361

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:47 pm

Ceph wrote:
Necronopticous wrote:Looks like she got bukkake'd with artificial tanner, though.
Huh? Did you watch the video? Her face in the entire video is CG. I think it looks completely natural.

Here's how it was made: http://www.image-metrics.com/node/361

I don't know, it looks damn good, but I could tell right away that it wasn't real... and I'm confident that I also would have without prior knowledge.

Momijitsuki · Post by **Momijitsuki** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:00 am

captpain wrote:
Ceph wrote:
Necronopticous wrote:Looks like she got bukkake'd with artificial tanner, though.
Huh? Did you watch the video? Her face in the entire video is CG. I think it looks completely natural.

Here's how it was made: http://www.image-metrics.com/node/361
I don't know, it looks damn good, but I could tell right away that it wasn't real... and I'm confident that I also would have without prior knowledge.

Same here. Her eyes are the giveaway.

Very impressive though.

Necronopticous · Post by **Necronopticous** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:02 am

Ceph wrote:Huh? Did you watch the video? Her face in the entire video is CG. I think it looks completely natural. The brown mask-like thing in the picture just shows a step in the process.

I watched the video. I can clearly see where real stops and the CG begins, and the CG is slightly darker than the rest of her skin tone. The tone is pretty much all that's off, though. It's very impressive and natural, movement-wise.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:17 am

The entire video is CG.

Top is CG, Bottom is from the video shoot

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:04 am

Why isn't it blowing me yet? [/GP]

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:05 am

JoshF wrote:Why isn't it blowing me yet? [/GP]

Here we have proof that computers distort your sense of reality...

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:39 am

Can anyone get video that's not a tiny ass box? Even when selecting all the fit-to options I can't get anything other than a dinky little box. From what I saw it looked like really bad makeup combined with bad encoding. I'd be interested to see what it looks like full-screen.

worstplayer · Post by **worstplayer** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:06 am

Excellent. I honestly thought it's a real person.
But it's a video of real face mapped on a mesh. I'll be more impressed when they make something similar manually.

moonblood · Post by **moonblood** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:23 am

Impressive stuff!

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:12 am

It's very good, but looks like it still has a way to go. The eyes' movement still doesn't seem natural, and CG artifacts like that will be far more noticeable with a higher picture quality and resolution, as well as a more physiognomically emotional actress.

In other words, don't get excited too soon. :)

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:38 am

I thought this quote was funny:

Image Metrics has proven that reality in facial animation is not only achievable[...]

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:06 am

Lol, uncanny valley. I'm pretty sure my mum would fall for it though.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:56 pm

ATTACK OF THE DOOM 3 UPSIDE DOWN SPIDER MONKEY BABY FACES (lost soulz actually o well)

p.s. I expect to see this lady on Al-Jazeera a lot now crying over dead babies and shit