For this weeks class we were set up into small groups to talk about our research topics. As for my topic I’ve had a difficult time to refine my topic so it was good to discuss this in our groups. as for my topic so far was: how we show emotions through animation.
This is still a very broad subject and I wanted to narrow it down to a specific source. So I thought about different techniques I found interesting in the industries. 3 things came to mind
- uncanny valley
- Facial motion capture
- Deep fake
This was in a little bit of a different direction from when I started but it made me think of Paul Walker from the fast and the furious movie (specifically movie 7). As he died during the making and the FX crew had to use CGI him for the rest of the movie. I want to research how they been able to do this with the different techniques and why they choose to ‘animate’ him. And how they made it to where it has a feel of realism to it.
The studio did not want any mistakes they worked hard to get the digital copy to look as close to real as possible.
‘Even a small mistake could cause the audience to feel like an “ominous valley”, and they could not allow it.’
(Filatov, A. (n.d.))
They made it as convincing as possible even though it was imperfect. The movie went down in the history books as the first film where they had a digitally made computer double working as a lead role.
Reference:
Filatov, A. (n.d.). Digital Immortality. [online] Available at: https://rep.bntu.by/bitstream/handle/data/112722/101-104.pdf?sequence=1.