Advanced VFX webinar: How to create photorealistic digital humans?
Digital Humans aka Digital Doubles are one of the niche technologies of the Visual Effects and Animation industry. From Dobby (Harry Potter series) to Caesar (Planet of the Apes series) and from Ava (Ex Machina) to Junior (Will Smith as Jackson Brogan in Gemini Man), we had done an enormous journey in the arena of digital characters. It is a huge list that covers Avengers series, The Beauty and the Beast, Furious 7, Maleficent, Lord Of The Rings (LOTR) trilogy, TRON: Legacy, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other movies.
Creation of photorealistic digital humans uses many advanced technologies including AI (Artificial Intelligence), Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Real time rendering and Motion capturing (MoCap). The ‘digital skin’ technology has gone through so many iterations and experiments for the next level of perfection. The goal is to make surreal digital humans that resembles the real human character, with all possible emotions and feelings. It has gone beyond the amateur ‘deepfake’ (deep learning + fake) and evolved as a serious business.
Many high-end VFX movies require to bring back the ‘dead people‘ as per the script demand. The CGI takes a deep dive to make photorealistic digital humans. It is blended with Motion capture technology, one of the essential VFX techniques, to produce seamless integration and interaction with live actors. The digital de-ageing is also evolving in better and more polished manner with every new movie and R&D. It is surely a new quest of Hollywood for perfecting the art of digital human.
Complete details of the VES (Visual Effects Society) webinar are as follows.
Topic: Creating Realistic Digital Humans in Film and Television – The Frontier of Visual Effects!
Speakers:
- John Canning (Executive Producer, New Media of Digital Domain)
- Remington Scott (CEO of Hyperreal Digital)
- Christina Heller (CEO of Metastage)
Date: 9th May, Saturday, 2020
Time: 11 am to 12 pm PDT (Change timezone to your country during the registration)
Price: Free
Webinar registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_g_RZ7tOWQ6W7034kySt49w
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