Digital Actors Go Beyond the Uncanny Valley Computer-generated humans in movies and video games are paving the way for new forms of entertainment Tekla S. Perry 27 May 2014 11 min read Illustration: Ben Wiseman Say hello to Ira. His head is visible on a screen as though he's in a videoconference.

While actors in re-enactments resemble the original only to some degree, completely digital characters can become convincing counterparts down to the smallest wrinkle. However, the project does not aim at substituting the actors, but tries to define pipelines to conserve their unique performance, including voice and gestures to create natural ...

Digital Actors Will Star in New Movies in the Future In 2029, Julia Roberts, Humphrey Bogart, and Bette Davis Will Still Be Starring in New Movies By Lane Brown This article is part of New York...

Lead roles for digital actors certainly provide the lure for visual-effects artists, and are seen as the sexiest part of synthespian creation - and many cite Gollum as a prime example of a lead CG character. "We've three main types of virtual actor at Weta Digital," explains Eric Saindon, a CG supervisor with the company.

They look like real actors, they walk like real actors, they talk like real actors. But with these stars there are no contentious contract negotiations or on-set meltdowns. They do exactly what the director tells them, down to curling a lip just so or flaring a nostril to the perfect degree, no questions asked.

Digital entertainment also allows the voices to be recreated, used for Top Gun: Maverick by actor Val Kilmer, who lost the ability to speak in 2014 due to treatment for throat cancer. To bring his character to life again, the actor provided hours of footage to recreate his voice by artificial intelligence.

There are also countless examples of digital-doubles of actors standing in for action scenes, or of cg face replacements, many of which audiences may not even be aware of. Now a new film,...

More than a hundred famous actors have stood on this spot to be scanned for movies, including Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Sigourney Weaver and Duane Johnson. Once an actor has been...

Digital actors — movie characters created entirely via photo-realistic computer animation. They're appearing in Hollywood films with greater frequency, from "The Lord of the Rings" and "The...

Since then, we've seen the digital "de-aging" of Michael Douglas, Robert Downey Jr., and Samuel L. Jackson in assorted Marvel movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator Genisys, Orlando Bloom in...

In the 1990s, Robert Zemeckis incorporated several major historical figures into his film Forrest Gump without any permission other than paying for the use of archival footage. A few years later,...

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By Daniel Witkin in the September-October 2019 Issue. In Ari Folman's endearingly bonkers 2013 curio The Congress, Robin Wright (playing herself) signs over her publicity rights to an unscrupulous studio boss—and becomes legally obligated to languish in obscurity as her digital avatar achieves monumental fame.The full extent of that film's dystopia is yet to materialize, but the ...

As Digital Ira affirms, graphics specialists are closing in on one of their field's longest-standing and most sought-after prizes: an interactive and photo-realistically lifelike digital human. Such a digital double will change the way we think about actors, acting, entertainment, and computer games.

Actors are digitally preserving themselves to continue their careers beyond the grave Improvements in CGI mean neither age nor death need stop some performers from working. By Erin Winick October...

March 2022: Technical showcase: Current Digital Actor on a challenging surface animated in realtime Features By using a suite of custom scripts, standard Genesis 8 Daz 3D characters are exported from Daz3D, passed through an extended production pipeline (Maya, Motionbuilder) to Unreal Engine in a highly customised format optimised for animation.

Digital actors are an emerging field of study, with applications to video games, movies, simulation and training, manufacturing, animated web pages, etc. This course will introduce this new field and will present a number of computational techniques

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And John Wayne and Fred Astaire, or at least the computer-enhanced images of the deceased stars, are starring in commercials. The new technology -- called digital cloning -- has Hollywood...

22 Actors Digitally De-Aged on Film, From Brad Pitt to Robert De Niro (Photos) Will Smith is the latest actor to go under the digital knife in the sci-fi "Gemini Man" Brian Welk | October...

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A virtual human, virtual persona, or digital clone is the creation or re-creation of a human being in image and voice using computer-generated imagery and sound, that is often indistinguishable from the real actor. The idea of a virtual actor was first portrayed in the 1981 film Looker, wherein models had their bodies scanned digitally to ...

Darren Hendler, head of VFX house Digital Domain's digital human group, estimates that this could cost from $500,000 to $1 million to create. Then, he suggests, producers could expect to pay...

Ahead, check out five more movies that famously used digital technology to re-create an actor (or two!), and read all about how they pulled it off. (And stay tuned for Netflix's The Irishman ...

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That's why actors will still have plenty of job security in the years ahead. Digital performances are possible because directors can meticulously control every single frame of a motion picture.

From Rogue One to Gemini Man, the rules around digital actor replacements are changing. Legal precedents set in the 1990s ensure actors will be paid when artificial versions of themselves are used ...