In this our first netcast from Siggraph we follow up on last week’s netcast with Paul Debevec. We speak to the team at Image Metrics about the facial animation of Emily. In an interview with the real actress she herself did not believe the animation was not just footage of her. This could represent the bridge to the other side of the uncanny divide of unnatural facial animation.
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Very Very nice podcast again..Love the tech detail conversation Mike
Thanks
Comment by michael — August 15, 2008 @ 1:51 pm
The clip from image metrics was too short. Is there a longer clip that shows more of what they did? The camera didn’t move at all in the clip shown.
I was expecting to be blown away, but … the clip was just too short to really see what they had done.
Comment by jim — August 15, 2008 @ 7:36 pm
On the booth they showed about 90 seconds of animation in an interview style Q&A with Emily. The entire video I am sure can be gotten from Image Metrics, I am surprised to not see it on their website but I’m sure they are still in Siggraph wrap up mode.
Comment by Jeff Heusser — August 16, 2008 @ 11:37 am
Download it from: https://rcpt.yousendit.com/597062893/ff259d714d1f7ea391d5d53818760382
Comment by bbb — August 16, 2008 @ 2:09 pm
Thanks for the podcast ..really interesting story
Comment by jose — August 16, 2008 @ 5:39 pm
Thank you..really good, great detail and good detail information.
Comment by James Price — August 16, 2008 @ 9:00 pm
so glad you guess liked it - and we love it when you guys post comments here !
Mike
Comment by Mike Seymour — August 16, 2008 @ 10:58 pm
So, just to be clear, the only CG part is the face. The hair, clothing, arms, environment, etc were taken from the original video and the CG face was composited over the original face, right?
Sorry to be dense, just making sure I understand what was done here.
Comment by jim — August 18, 2008 @ 3:10 pm
yousendit link is broken - download limit exceeded
please reupload video to megaupload for example
Comment by add — August 24, 2008 @ 12:50 pm