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High Definition Video for Independent Filmmakers
A How To Guide for Digital Filmmakers
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Monday, January 15, 2007
YouTube - 3D morphable model face animation
YouTube - 3D morphable model face animation
WOW. I'm usually pretty jaded about what can be done with 3D technology, but this is damned impressive on a variety of fronts - the ability to recreate a 3D face from a single photograph - it has been presumed all too often on CSI or in movies, but it is not easy and here they've done it.
Watch the 5 minute video and I dare you to not be impressed.
-mike
WOW. I'm usually pretty jaded about what can be done with 3D technology, but this is damned impressive on a variety of fronts - the ability to recreate a 3D face from a single photograph - it has been presumed all too often on CSI or in movies, but it is not easy and here they've done it.
Watch the 5 minute video and I dare you to not be impressed.
-mike
Comments:
Original source material here:
http://mi.informatik.uni-siegen.de/html/projects_01.htm
http://mi.informatik.uni-siegen.de/html/projects_01.htm
# posted by 
: Mon Jan 15, 07:18:00 PM CST
: Mon Jan 15, 07:18:00 PM CST
The web page said this was presented at SIGGRAPH in 1999! Wonder why it hasn't been commercialized. Or has it?
# posted by : Tue Jan 16, 12:49:00 PM CST
: Tue Jan 16, 12:49:00 PM CST
Try doing that on a moving picture and having to track it. Funny how all these demos are one still frame
# posted by : Tue Jan 16, 04:32:00 PM CST
: Tue Jan 16, 04:32:00 PM CST
Awesome and scary at the same time... I can see how this can get easily abused - now you can't trust the good ol' "see is believing" anymore.
They can also do it on a moving picture, not just one frame. Have a look at this:
http://mi.informatik.uni-siegen.de/html/projects_02.htm
Not quite as convincing as the stills, but then that dates from 2003.
http://mi.informatik.uni-siegen.de/html/projects_02.htm
Not quite as convincing as the stills, but then that dates from 2003.
# posted by : Thu Jan 18, 05:39:00 PM CST
: Thu Jan 18, 05:39:00 PM CST
unfortunately there is indeed a great gap between the quality of still and motion footage. fincher has tried out such a technique for a commercial (anyone know which one? i just read him say the following) and wasnt really happy with the result i remember. it was in preparation for BENJAMIN BUTTON where we ll see brad pitt age backwards, so somehow theyre up for projecting his facial features on a child - im very much looking forward to see the results, and i reckon it will be the most reliable indicator as to how far the process really is at the moment.
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