DailyDirt: You Can't Believe Everything You See

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We've mentioned some interesting CGI work before, but the field of advanced video processing just continues to be amazing. Big Hollywood budgets won't be necessary if CGI software keeps getting better and better. Here are some cool clips we've seen. By the way, StumbleUpon can recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.
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Filed Under: animation, cgi, hdr, john malkovich, siggraph, video
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  • identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 24 Aug 2011 @ 5:43pm

    Virtualdub already can do that too.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCoaJDIrmCM

    And so is another tone of software out there.
    http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=libmv+image+stabilization

    Are those results better than the others somehow?

    For HDR photography there is actually something good and open source called Hugin.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55TRvfy_eUk

    The face recognition things are cool though. Even though some people have been tinkering with that stuff using the kinect, but they are crude in comparison.
    http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3d+face+mapping+using+kinect

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    Rekrul, 24 Aug 2011 @ 6:14pm

    Disney and Carnegie Mellon researchers are working on software to make animated faces look more realistic. And actors will eventually need to be Andy Serkis.

    Out of all the CGI movies I've seen, I think the Shrek movies had the best facial animations. I could easily tell the mood of a character by their faces. The faces of characters in other animated films look fairly wooden in comparison. Of course the Shrek characters weren't exactly realistic, but I don't see why they can't apply the same techniques to more realistic character models.

    For body movements, I think that the Starship Troopers TV show had the best animation. The first time I ever saw the show, without knowing anything about it, they were showing several characters moving around in space suits. I actually thought they were live actors until it showed their faces.

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      Michael Ho (profile), 24 Aug 2011 @ 11:36pm

      Re:

      I seriously think that CGI will get to the point where actors will basically be "voice actors" -- and their physical appearance will be almost always modified by graphic artists (like most magazine covers nowadays)....

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    Transbot9, 24 Aug 2011 @ 8:33pm

    Shakycam is how you know it is real!

    And thanks to the Shakycam(TM) patent pending software, you're now steady footage can look just like the Hollywood movies!

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