Ultra-realistic CGI skin

After researching and simulating light reflection from skin engineers from University of Southern California now increase the level of detail. Using a specially developed lighting system and camera, they photographed samples of skin from people's chins, cheeks and foreheads at a resolution of about 10 micrometres, so that each skin cell was spread across roughly three pixels. They then used the images to create a 3D model of skin and applied their light reflection technique to it. The result was CGI skin complete with minute structures like pores and microscopic wrinkles. Finally, they fed the CGI images to an algorithm that extended them to fill in an entire CGI face.

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+13 1. fmohiy commented 11 years ago

the renderings actually look more "real" than the original scan.
Amazing.
Expect this technology to appear in the next CGI movies in no time.
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+2 2. funkyging commented 11 years ago

I know my minds gonna be blown when i watch a movie just to be told later it was all CGI!
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+4 3. irishgek commented 11 years ago

#1 its similar to what games can do now with tesselation and also if you have a nvidia card check out there faceworks demo its something else.

http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/7415/toth.jpg

As you can see thats about the limit of live rendering on a average gaming pc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation_(computer_graphics)

Read that to know a little more on how it works , I'm not sure if its the same thing but to me it sounds very similar to this.
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+4 4. MindTrick commented 11 years ago

#1
I don't think i would say that it looks more real. If you look at your own skin, you'll notice that it's not really that shiny. It looks great tho considering it's CGI, that's for sure.
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0 5. buckleg08 commented 6 years ago

hhmmmm....VR plus this tech...the "entertainment" industry is going to change...
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0 6. Judge-Jake commented 6 years ago

#4 Speak for yourself, my skin is very shiny, I polish it everyday. <3