Sunday, August 10, 2008

Alter Ego - Unbelievable 3D Facial Animation

3Dwalkthroughs.com found this wild 3D technology that was created by the facial animation division of Pendulum, a company based in San Diego.

The division called alterego is focused on developing solutions and providing services that facilitate the highest caliber of facial performance animation for the film, broadcast, and interactive entertainment markets. AlterEgo is also the name of the studio's proprietary facial performance software... and part of a leading-edge turn-key solution for character development, motion-capture, and full performance character animation.

Source: Pendulum Website

The demonstration which can be found here is quite impressive and also pretty humorous. Perhaps in a few years this type of advanced 3D facial animation will be integrated into 3D virtual world avatar functionality. It would certainly make things a lot more interesting...although perhaps a bit creepy.

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