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- makeaprettycake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+82I want to see mona lisa frown.
- btattersall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+65Paris Hilton put out an album
I'm sure they can make you sound like whatever they want you to sound like - gerry87, on 10/12/2007, -4/+68I wanna see them do Brian Peppers.
- bwjacket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+61Beyond that a new genre of movies could appear - "The Long Since Dead Actor Revival." Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's 2. Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times 2000.
- glasgowm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+60I think they should work on the "frown" feature a bit more.
It looks more like.."suck all life out of face' - WavyLayz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+46When can I put my face on my video game character or online avatar? Thats what I wanna know.
- bwjacket, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39Hire one of those goofs that does the "100 impressions in 5 minutes"
- NiGHTSChao, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Simply amazing.
Since Beowulf is going to be done the same way as "The Polar Express" I wonder if they will use this kind of technology - inkubux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32This is going to be useful for sports video games where you see all the faces of theses athletes :)
- gregdigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30I didn't know who that was, so I googled the name. Holy crap.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30My brain just exploded.
- Llanowar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29Sorry for comment abuse...
But just imagine rpg-ing with that technology. You could play anyone you want, some celeb you like, or just yourself. Or maybe even tweak yourself a bit so you look just a bit better. - geodescent, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25And it already acts better
- blastin311, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24How does this get over 1,000 diggs and I submitted it 110 days ago and have only 20. Oh yeah, I only have 2 friends on Digg. *Cry*
http://www.digg.com/software/Insane_3D_Face_Model_Video - geuisteses, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Wow, the porn applications are LIMITLESS.
Ok, so that other story the other day about the judge that dismissed the porn charges against the guy because there was no way to tell if they were legal-age actors because his defense argued they could have been "photoshopped";
So, in a couple years we can easily take some porn(or other video) and morph different people into. Umm, while this is cool I don't want some sicko driving by a school yard taking pictures of kids, who then goes home and morphs their little faces and bodies onto some other crazy *****. I suppose that's better than hurting real kids, but still disturbing. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24This technology kick ass:
http://video.on.nytimes.com/ifr_main.jsp?nsid=a-5fdd9dea:110088f5c20:49f6&rf=bm&fr_story=650ff1e00d0677c95caaad8c9938664384ba9652&st=1168376724453&mp=FLV&cpf=false&fvn=9&fr=010907_035823_w5fdd9deax110088f5c20x2428&rdm=431307.6478531022
More info @:
http://www.image-metrics.com - NiGHTSChao, on 10/12/2007, -1/+180_o whoa, that'd be really weird
but what about the voice acting? - Axim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17or characters that look remotely different, seriously you could mess around for an hour in the creator and you would still end up looking like some ukrainian grandmother
- Propapanda, on 10/12/2007, -14/+30The Polar Express never should have existed...
- danknerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16NEXT UP: Video Evidence being skewed, anyone can be easily inserted into a video as if they were there.... as Master Shake would say, "Clearly, that is not me!"
- NoBullet2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Polar Express wasnt trying to be realistic. It was trying to mimic the same art style from the book it was based on.
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Yes, like Oblivion, only the faces aren't hideously ugly. Bethesda hates attractive characters, evidently.
- geodescent, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Two words: Natalie Portman
- FoxFaction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Wow, the Tom Hanks face matching was incredible, and then the texture matching to top it was just icing on the cake. I can't believe they've automated something so incredibly complex. Video game faces are going to be pretty sweet in the future.
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13or
"ate 10 WarHeads at once" - dawgma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"This technology kick ass:
http://video.on.nytimes.com/ifr_main.jsp?nsid=a-5fdd9dea:110088f5c20:49f6&rf=bm&fr_story=650ff1e00d0677c95caaad8c9938664384ba9652&st=1168376724453&mp=FLV&cpf=false&fvn=9&fr=010907_035823_w5fdd9deax110088f5c20x2428&rdm=431307.6478531022"
At the end of that video... around 3.30... you see a clip of the very first Killzone footage show for the PS3. Now we know what was used to make those models... PS3 dev kit my ass. - schlongmeister, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Did anyone else think of the 1987 Schwarzenegger movie "The Running Man"? Similar technology was used by the evil network execs to change the (apparent) outcome of the final fight sequence between the Governers Schwarzenegger and Ventura.
- xudakai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12This video was actually presented at SIGGRAPH 1999.... believe it or not this video is 8 years old.
http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~blanz/
Interesting video on motion capture without markers:
http://video.on.nytimes.com/index.jsp?auto_band=x&rf=sv&fr_story=650ff1e00d0677c95caaad8c9938664384ba9652 - Doghound, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12The Mona Lisa was 3D face was awesome. Now mix that with the other software that turns regular photo into 3D worlds and then you can have a full Mona Lisa painting in 3D... how cool would that be?
- imikedaman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Anyone else see Keanu Reeves when they started demonstrating the caricature slider at the 1 minute mark?
- TomFrost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10The Polar Express was a book, which was beautifully illustrated (and written) by Chris Van Allsburg. The intent of the movie was to mimick these illustrations, with such accuracy that certain frames in the movie would appear to be near-exact replicas of some of the book's pages. The graphics weren't supposed to be photorealistic, or match modern games. Pretty sure the illustrator of a children's book wasn't concerned about how it might compare to futuristic war video games in.. when was it published? 1985?
- shadekeiko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I was in Nagoya studying abroad during the Aichi Expo, and one of the pavilions was like this. Basically what you did was you got a bunch of pictures of your face taken from all sides in this little booth. If you stayed really still, your face could be chosen among others in your group to be digitally rendered and put in a specially made 3D sci-fi movie. My Japanese host mother and I made brief cameos, actually. It was pretty cool.
- Ramtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Holy Crap... They'll be able to bring back Bruce Lee!!! :)
- krakkinem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Now if they can figure out how to perfectly emulate a person's voice we'll be all set.
...or can they do it already? - MasterFunk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@bwjacket (first comment)
Metropolis in 3D!!! - rholloway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I'm scared.
- lexbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8EA Sports had their "Face-in-the-Game" feature a few years ago for a few of their games.
- realyst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The above comment being awesome and all, the truth is they really can.
I can't seem to dig it up at the moment, but I do remember a presentation by a TTS company that took a speech from Bill Clinton. They then ran it through their software and used text to speech to make Bill say whatever they wanted. And the sound was uncannily precise.
Remember that the Stephen Hawking voice machine is over 30 years old:) And that the TTS samples you get in Windows(also used in UT2K3 etc...) are samples from ATT from over a decade ago. The really pricey stuff is the stuff that sounds awesome.
Hawking was actually approached to have his TTS voice updated. He declined due to the fact that the robot sounding voice is his voice now and that he wouldn't care to be disassociated with it. - corneliusroot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7When they slimmed down Tom Hanks didn't it look freakishly like Michael Stipe of REM fame? Creepy.
- pexor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7No, you all have it wrong. If I could do 3D, it would be Audrey Hepburn starring in "Obligatory Morning-After Breakfast At My Place".
Alriight. - docsimmons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Now we can start making movies with Chris Farley in them.
- GlitchEnzo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/peppers.asp
Just to save people the time of A) Googling the name, and then B) Verifying that is is not a photoshopped picture. - zanvann, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I can't stop gawping, this soft is qute impressive!
I really hope that application is as easy as demonstrated, it would be revolutionary. - michaelb1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Renders the phrase "video or it didn't happen" obsolete.
- DiggCommando, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Reminds me of the many hours wasted on the Oblivion face generator. This is much much cooler.
- matthewplante, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I am spending $57k on an animation degree and I have to say ... i'm *****
- jeremedia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Amazing work.
And, its refreshing to see simple, honest appreciation of technological innovation in digg comments after endless days of fanboy wars. - retral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You must have some serious hax if you managed to type that message after your brain exploded.
- ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Indeed...
If they can do that with a face (what we're most adept at recognizing details in, and noticing when something is wrong)... this could easily be applied to the entire body with full body scans instead of just face.
And instead of parameters like smile/frown... we'd get to adjust boob size, height, weight, leg length, etc.
I hadn't considered porn, but it certainly is one of the many possibly applications of this - Fragalishus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Reminded me of this...thought it was cool.
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23646
Brando in Superman Returns. ^ ^ -
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