The eyes have it

[bmd]

"Ninety per cent of the work is convincing people that the eyes are real," Mike Starkenburg, chief operating officer of Image Metrics, said.

Computer animation, looks like a real person No, really.

 

[Idaho]

It's impressive. Obviously not real - but very good.

 

[bmd]

It's impressive. Obviously not real - but very good.

What was it that gave it away?

I mean apart from it saying "this isn't real".

 

[skyscraper101]

I agree its very impressive. Definitely a leap forward from anything I've ever seen.

 

[The Groke]

What was it that gave it away?

I mean apart from it saying "this isn't real".

Uncanny valley......

Thought she is pretty damn close - just a few of the transitions between facial animations weren't quite right and the eyes/skin around the eyes looked slightly off once or twice.

Would like to see a high quality, bigger video to really look at it.

 

[Idaho]

What was it that gave it away?

I mean apart from it saying "this isn't real".

The shape of the face - it looks a bit flattened round the bridge of the nose when it moves. Also the size of the eyes is a bit odd at times. There is one point when it looks to it's left in a thinking position and the pupils zoom round in an exaggerated cartoonish fashion.

 

[Wintermute]

It's bloody uncanny.

 

[bmd]

The shape of the face - it looks a bit flattened round the bridge of the nose when it moves. Also the size of the eyes is a bit odd at times. There is one point when it looks to it's left in a thinking position and the pupils zoom round in an exaggerated cartoonish fashion.

I think it's amazing how this shows us how much effort our brains put into face recognition. It does look slightly off and in the article they go into how much attention they've given to the details that our eyes search out when looking at a face. Pretty interesting stuff, it can't be too long before we have an animation that is indistinguishable from a real person.