http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4557935.ece
‘Emily’ will set a new precedent for photo-realistic characters in video games and films, says her creator, Image Metrics
http://animationmagazine.net/article/8720
Image Metrics Animates “Emily” for SIGGRAPH
http://www.image-metrics.com/
Image Metrics : Performance-Driven Facial Animation Solutions for the Digital World
只看影片會嚇到;不過一年以前其實NVIDIA也做過類似的東西:
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_humanhead_downloads.html
NVIDIA Demo: Human Head-Downloads
NVIDIA比較拼的是他們有realtime的要求、而且沒有做precomputation。
當然,Image Metrics的Emily應該也做到這一點了,所以明年要是有強力的GPU可以套來用就會很驚人也說不定。
感嘆:雖說是靠scanner,不過終於可以跨越恐怖谷了嗎?