Lifelike animation heralds new era for computer games

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	Lifelike animation heralds new era for computer games

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Extraordinarily lifelike characters are to begin appearing in films and
computer games thanks to a new type of animation technology.
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Emily - the woman in the above animation - was produced using a new modelling
technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be
captured and recreated.
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Researchers at a Californian company which makes computer-generated imagery
for Hollywood films started with a video of an employee talking. They then
broke down down the facial movements down into dozens of smaller movements,
each of which was given a 'control system'.
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She is considered to be one of the first animations to have overleapt a
long-standing barrier known as 'uncanny valley' - which refers to the
perception that animation looks less realistic as it approaches human
likeness.
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