Image Metrics: How-To Video

[EliaForce1984ita]

Uncanny Valley

[TenshihanQuinn]

Aha! I knew that voice instantly! That cool-ass black dude was the main bad guy in the "The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena" Video-game! Great performance, ...made you want to kill him as soon as possible! (Which I did!) He needs credit in this video - dammit!

[jsymons1985]

Dear Image Metrics, observe from 2:15 to 2:17 (also 1:31)... the mouth moves by resizing the wireframe, the problem with this is that real skin never resizes (so smoothly, anyway), only the muscles change size (they also change their topological features when they contract and relax), and skin stretches or scrunches on top of the muscles (also changing topology). In other words, you will have to model the dynamics of muscular/dermal interaction rather than just shifting surface wireframes.

[MakeupUniversity]

Lovely animation-keep up the great work!

[aaronsloman]

The graphical and information-processing technology displayed is impressive, but why do so many producers think it necessary to add constant auditory clutter (ear-candy?) to their video presentations, which is not only distracting but for people with very common forms of hearing disability (incurable, and associated with aging) makes it hard to discriminate speech from background noises. Background noises can be very irritating even when their volume is low. It shows incredibly poor judgement.

[trecool9992]

Ahah

That's pretty awesome :D

[dcent2]

Now we need to know one thing.

Is this a good step or a bad one...?

[the22game]

is that the bad guy the prisoner from chronicles of riddick assault on dark athena

[PlayTilTheyBleed]

That actor is SOOOOO hot!!!! :)

[accd1d]

nobody has beaten the uncanny valley problem

[bobdole9696]

@accd1d

Uncanny valley is simply a conjecture.

[TruthSerum101]

@accd1d

Uh...uncanny valley is not exactly a scientific theory.

...and if it were, it still would not mean that people or some people could not become accustomed to it after awhile.

[minxamo]

1:29 just looks racist...

[bodyboarder3452]

no? how is it "racist" we're in the year 2010, racism is so primitive and we need to stop being so sensitive about it seriously... it's getting really old lol

[minxamo]

calm down i was just joking

[danger7x7]

omg that is freaky but cool

[letmeinyoumorons]

It's often said that the eyes are the windows to the soul. This statement is so true. Pause at 2:18 for example and look at the difference. Until they get the eyes and teeth right, it will always look like animation.

[savecharles]

zackhanscom: what the fuck is wrong with you..? keep acting tough through the safety of you PC. Child.

[podtech115]

I want that black guy in all my games! He's so cool!

[oasiac]

cover the head on the right and just watch the one on the left its so amazing!

[Penguin400cc]

i think they did a great job on this i like this method rather than the one with all the little moniters on the face

[bodyboarder3452]

2:22 right when he's on the word "do" they missed a detail where his right eye closes a little more on the edge while the CG doesn't do that at all only towards the nose

[nick53182]

They didnt miss it. If you listen, they say that they can go in and tweak parts if they like it more a different way.

[filhadaputa123]

Man imagine what bad things they can do with this...

They can use it to make false acusations against people

[McPfoot]

They can do that with photoshop.

People will be able to tell the difference.

[BrezHurley]

downer

[cannoir]

88% perfect. the eyes are always a dead give away. we have alwasy had that problem in 3d . I am glad the "wax figure" look is a thing of the past. I'd love to know how much it cost to produde that facial animation.I mean complete with raw 3d files.

[daedalusx360]

You should research lightstage. I highly recommend it.

[zecle]

eyes and smiles.

[cyphi1]

That's freaking AMAZING!!!

[lotuone]

OMG! Games come in 3D now! :O

[prodigy0123456789]

If I had this software...

[Good360player]

if you had this software you wouldnt no how to use it

[prodigy0123456789]

if I had that software I wouldn't need to mark the face.Just capture it.

[ronniepage]

if i had this software i would sell it on ebay. i bet its expensive! lol

[prodigy0123456789]

oh yeah.But it must be their own plugin or script.

[shotojojo2005]

Whatever, it's still really good imagery. You can't hate on that.

[100GPing100]

@Good360player If you are talking about MAX and Maya you will find tutorials everywere, if you are talking about the program that only they have(this if they have a program made by them) then it would bring a book in the box wich would tell you how to use it :p

[Claytons91]

3ds max!! w000!

[GnosticDjinn]

To think they'd support 3ds Max. Next thing you know they'll start making games only for Windows... 3.1.

[aidalmohammad]

how about the body reaction and body movements?

[Daethaqt3000]

The Black Guy Is fine. I guess im a Huge Faggot,

[CrossinX]

sick..the actor's voice is misleading, but also just sick

[Kaffeebohnson]

It's like 3D Rotoscoping

[MyLAAG]

It doesnt matter what head they mapped it to...its the facial animation thats realistic...

[littlec916]

you wont find anything better than this. that is pretty much the definition of realistic.

[gesto21]

look up "emily video".

[shotojojo2005]

I suppose you can do better? That's pretty damn close to me.

[TatsuJay]

it is in gaming...

[mlee92907]

FREAKY

[InOrganic0621]

ok... for up and coming "Joe Blow"s like me, how much will this cost /cry

[ILoveStarcraftII]

i freekin cant wait for this in gaming

[jaquescott]

thats impressive and i guess it would work great for video games but it just seems lame to have this kinda tech for stuff like movies when you can just use REAL people. very cool though.

[rrroba]

mann.. I LOOVES DIS

[idiotcaboose]

The dude sorta looks like Tay Zonday...

[NatanaelDread]

Fucking ownage!

[oneeyehippy]

Holy cow. Now that's damn revolutionary.

Never seen anything like it. It's scary, cause when this is improved and overpopulated, we won't be able to differentiate reality from fiction.

But not looking too much into the future... simply WOW.

[Odonus2]

I can't wait for the industry to adopt this method and drop the dot-based facial capture.

Dots are good for whole bodies, but even that might just go away one day.

Every year we're going to see some movie coming out, having this technology being polished more and more.

I can't wait for the films that will come out of this.

One I'm looking forward to is "Avatar" by James Cameron.

[mobyfreerunner]

the CG smile at the end was creepy other than tht AMAZING

[youutubestinks]

afro asiatic? but he gets personality, good voice and performance

[pfeil]

Oh my god, an afro-asiatic guy.

[funtube99999]

amazing... 8-)

[bobcunk]

one day we wont even need motion capture. it will all be computerised voses and all,.

[LukeLovesRose]

This is going to be used in James Cameron's Avatar. Jim will make this technology a regular part of filmmaking.

[snakezleco]

hubab thir cudel'p mituri siens capturer facial amb el miuyt portyuf grottenher. Missfurfh.

[longaika]

An the Oscar goes to....Cristian65 y su puta madre!!

[00DSaint00]

Seems like AFRONINJA found himself a new JOB...

[Dirkaios]

haha true

[paultube]

fake

[SlumberPartyTheater]

Who is that actor? I want him for my next film. Does anyone know who he is?

[joancatala]

Stupid people, firstly, cry against technologies.

After, they love it because everyone loves it.

Stupid people allways are stupid people, for the years of the years.

[longaika]

A ver chavalote. en el momento que capten las expresiones de decenas de actores. Doy por hecho que el software se irá desarrollando más y más hasta llegar a un punto que no será necesario traer a más actores para captar expresiones. tendrá una base de datos lo bastante extensa como para crear un actor de la nada.

[rsmaniak]

what what?

[robertocarlos2006]

Why fucking people are even here talking about franco and catalanes and spanish¿?¿?¿ they r sick with this topic they do not have nothing else to talk about

[navarroesesoyyo]

Because they're fucking idiots, fascists and brainless.

[polocu23]

it doesnt tell us good about yourself.. most of spanish comments in this page are from a videolink page from Spain. There's one single guy who systematically start to comment fucking shit just to confront people and make a pointless and offensive debate hete or there, thats the reason, we are far from being fucking idiots, fascists and brainless.

[chingvang559]

the guy is wearing a GTA 4 sweat shirt

[zebaxtn]

that's so interesting

[hotsinglegirl]

it is

[navarroesesoyyo]

sorry, I'm not sure I understand. I was answering to robertocarlos who asked:Why fucking people are even here talking about franco and catalanes and spanish¿?¿?¿

Thus my answer. The people who I'm referring to as idiots, fascists and brainless are those who, as you well say, systematically engage in fucking shit and confronting comments about catalans and spanish, especially those who do it in places where it's inappropriate like this vid. I'm sick of them!

Don't you think they're dickheads?

[polocu23]

yea, indeed you're right mate. I'm sick of them too. I've probably missed part of the debate here and missunderstood some of your words. have a good day

[FrankTinsley]

The last thing that will stop us from getting believable motion capture is the fact that stupid actors, when told they're doing motion capture, actually move all weird, moronically imitating bad animation!

[quesadillaap]

I think that's what makes this technology great because the actors aren't put in the confines of a suit or markers on their faces. As long as they're cool on camera the action should be so much better. And an animator can always go in and touch it up.

[doni05111982]

Image Metrics FTW

[myguedes]

Programinha animal!!! Jogos animais!!!

[willy1986tralara]

gilipollas

traduccion=asshole

[HardieMary]

definitivamente, tu padre que es catalán te viola y sodomiza cada noche... donde vendría tanto odio sino? xDD

pobrecillo prosociall!

[longaika]

en unos años los actores se van al paro y les sustituirán por esto.

Es lo más perfecto que he visto.

[cristian65]

claro... y si se van al paro los actores... quien va a poner la cara para utilizar esto?? xDD la gente, que manía de postear sin pensar las cosas...

[longaika]

Pues quién va a ser? Pues tu puta madre chaval! Desde luego, que manía de escribir cosas sin pensar...

[slottejea]

jajjajaj este tio es el de what what in the butt.

[lilaino]

este actor no será pariente del que canta lo de "chocolate rain" ???????????

[VonFixxxer]

They're shwoing different packages of software, like Maya, 3d Max, or Softimage|XSI.

[Pitt1127]

Maya 3D 2008

[xuseonceanddestroyx]

ImageMetrics is not a software itself, but a plugin that integrates into the most common CADs outthere, he even says it in the video.

[ToadsWarts]

What software are they using??

[SuperCGpro]

Simone

[diogeneslaertius666]

win