Motion Portrait: Instant 3D Animation From Photos
The Japanese company Motion Portrait Inc. has developed a remarkable program capable of taking still photos of peoples faces and rapidly animating them in 3D. The software is called Motion Portrait and was on display at GDC 2007 this year, where it dazzled onlookers as it animated their photos with real time lip-syncing to a foreign Japanese voice.
Notice that the animated faces have a listless, stoned quality . . . as if, on some impossible level, they realize their own soullessness.
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Let me try this again...I have such problems putting links into comments.
Anyway, as I said, that's cool. But even if you don't like Microsoft, you should check out their new "coffee table".
Microsoft Surface: Behind-the-Scenes First Look
Minority Report, here we come. I see a future of billboards taking your picture and generating impromptu ads starring your likeness. No, that's even too good; far more likely, all faces fit into about five ad templates recycled from now.
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