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This should win them an Oscar for visual effects. Unlike what they did with Paul Walker in F&F7, Tarkin not only looked and spoke almost exactly like the 1977 P
by joeax 10y ago
This should win them an Oscar for visual effects. Unlike what they did with Paul Walker in F&F7, Tarkin not only looked and spoke almost exactly like the 1977 Peter Cushing, the character had a substantial role in the movie. (note: surprised there's no credit to Cushing at all on IMDB)
This is truly groundbreaking, and I would expect a new era in movies where they bring back actors from the dead and/or sign actors to contracts to license their likeness beyond a single movie.
- Keyframe 10y agoExpect more of this. Facial scans of full FACS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_Action_Coding_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_Action_Coding_System have already been and are done. I expect more comprehensive scans as well as some advancement in audio synthesis (probably based on scans? I'm not knowledgable about audio). On top of that, some legal and you will get full-fledged synthespians soon enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_actor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_actor Animators, to an extent, already are actors. You have to be in order to be an animator.
- Esau 10y agoIn the 80's, the was a comic by Howard Chaykin called America Flagg. In the comic, the main character Ruben Flagg loses his job in a TV series because he is replaced by computer generated version of himself. Seems to me that we are getting nearer to that being possible.