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  • Thumbs up if you got here through TV Tropes!

  • thats too good

  • omg thats cg emily

    how the hell....

  • The lips are wonky, the cheeks need more movement, and the eyes sometimes creeped me out .___.

  • the humour/comedy on this video is so boring that it makes the whole thing look stupid.

  • I wonder what happens if she looks at the camera? It must look pretty bad (otherwise they wouldn't have avoided it.)

  • Very impressive, but not quite out of the valley yet. Everytime she closes her mouth it stretches and moves in an unnatural way that's rather unnerving. Also, the texture of her skin just seems... off. Aside from that though, it really is quite amazing. It's interesting to see how advanced computer animation is becoming.

  • needs more work, but my has technology grown.

  • I'm willing to bet it's not animation but facial capture, similar to LA Noire.

  • Cheek's tipped me off, no movement near the eyes. Other than that bloody amazing

  • Wait was that lady an animation?

  • @69sico96 Yep

  • whoooa, scary!!!

  • If you can't tell that's a 3d model, I have bad news for you. Mainly that you're a retarded fuck.

  • well dammit i fell in love with a computer generated image.

  • Ummm. "Real Emily" at the end of the video looks just like the CGI Emily throughout this video. I was expecting to see that the actor/actress looked entirely different to the CGI lady seated in the chair, but I could not see any difference. And the monster faces part didn't look much better than the Video Mask function that came with my Logitech webcam.

  • @djkerton they're not monster faces lol they are maps(diffuse to show main color, specular is a grayscale map to show where highlights and light bounces)

  • the lips and the area around the eyes is off, but thats all pretty minor

  • it would be more impressive it it wasn't a forced performance from a video source. When they can make a 3D character perform from, say, typed text, or from a source that isn't the actual actor being portrayed, that will be something to behold.

  • Would have been significantly more convincing if the CGI face was different to the actress'. Otherwise on it's (apolgies for the pun) face value, some folks could easily dismiss it as a flea circus.

  • holy shit, i didnt even notice that the women was fake, i watched this video on a diff site, so i didnt see the description so i got to be shocked at the end :D

  • The hair looks perfect, but

    her skin is uber smooth

    the subsurface scattering is too strong (EVERYONE does it too strong)

    her face is too red compared to the rest of her.

    other than that, this is absolutely amazing.

  • she did not look real to me. the colours were all wrong.

  • her face is too red

  • Oh god. Well that's gonna give me nightmares.

  • 0:14 - 0:15 - lol!

  • The best way to compare is in 720, full screen. Pause, compare 0:25 to 1:23. The angles of the head are relatively close. The difference mostly comes down to the shading. Her forehead is almost just one color in the CG version, and the shadow her nose casts on the left side of her face is gone, too. Also, the mouth just didn't look right to me. Amazing stuff, though.

  • Waow, one of the most impressive CG i ever seen.

    I love how she moves her hands from 0:21 to 0:40 It just looks fucking real !

  • AHHHH!! 1:25

  • All they really need much improvement on yet are the eyes. I think this is a superimposed CGI face - it looks almost like the has 2 sets of eyes if you're not looking directly at them. It's like her "real" eyes are "blurred" beneath the CGI superimposition.

    Very good work just the same. "New benchmark", as someone else said. :-)

  • Mouth isn't quite right, but the whole thing is pretty good.

  • Watch it in 720p and in full screen - looks real to me. Perhaps the skin is a tad too smooth but this is the current benchmark for CGI faces. The personality of the real Emily is recreated by the CGI model - that's the great achievement. People can argue about the mouth but the essence of the real Emily is captured. :)

    I don't think the recent trailer for the CGI Tintin film showed anything this real.

  • The teeth of computer people!

  • immediately i thought she looked like a cg girl

  • @longfootbuddy Because you were expecting a CG girl. If you weren't even thinking about CG, you would think she was real.

  • @longfootbuddy She's far enough out of the uncanny valley for you to notice nothing. She looks like she has heavy makeup on, not like she's plastic.

  • @WarlordFred2010 you need to replace "you", with "me" and "i" in your comments...i noticed immediately that she was cg...im not saying it didnt fool other people...and im certainly not saying its not very close to being realistic...just not close enough to fool me

  • @longfootbuddy I'm saying you're not that observant. You were already told she would be CG before the video started, not explicitly, but there was no reason for you to think she was real, because it's a video about realistic CG.

    If you were video chatting, however, and you expected her to be real, you wouldn't be asking "Are you CG?". You wouldn't be thinking about CG, you would be thinking about the conversation.

  • @WarlordFred2010 dream on idiot...stop projecting your lack of observation on me

  • Wait...that's CGI? *cries*

  • Thats how they produced most of the Bin Laden stuff over the years.

  • @Duphe Not even. they used real actors. hell... they look very similar to each other anyway.

  • Honestly, this isn't as creepy as the TV Tropes article brought me to expect.

    Well, until 1:18. That was disturbing.

    The skin appears a bit off after close inspection, but if you didn't tell me beforehand that this was CG, I'd mostly be fooled.

    Everyone is mentioning the mouth being rather off, but I don't see it.

  • Oh hai TV Tropers.

  • anyway... it dont work if the movie its a piece of crap... like batlle of la, wasted technology.. maybe they should work more on human stories.. to apply this even in a videogame, with emotional feedbacks, but nooo... all the 99 % of movies and games consist in kill everibody.. and you still wonder why this kids go insane and shoot their pals in the schools,

  • Anyone seen the film Looker? (1981) Well, it's now come true!!

  • The main issue I see it that the lips are slightly slanted on the face, they need some repositioning.

  • This is the same program they used to fake Osama Bin Ladin fake meeting

    that they said he was talking about his plan to hit the two towers in New York city!

    This software must be a Zionist product !!

    for they are well known to cause trouble and then claim it on Muslims!

  • @extremelypolite remenber, military science are 50 years way ahead of civil science... black mesa stuff...

  • I saw her lips reshape unnaturally just after the 10 second mark, when she says films. Otherwise this is probably as advanced as I'v seen.

  • Interesting, something I just noticed. The eyes move like eyes do, but there's no way to mimic how the iris reacts to subtle differences in position; anyone who's been in a staring contest has seen when someone shifts their focus - it's like this twitch in the other person's eye that you just know is there. You can't replicate something that subtle with wireframe. It's like what jsymons1985 said with muscle/skin interaction

  • its weird i knew something was wrong witrh her face, just didnt know what

  • Still looks fake, but I suppose this is 3 years old, so they must have gotten better. BTW, all the fakeness I see is in the mouth, although the coloration is weird too.

  • The human eye can tell. I can't say what exactly does it... it just does.

  • Dear Image Metrics, observe 0:13... 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.

  • Very nice animation

  • Cyborgs are here... how many of you are able to live nowadays without being attached to their smartphone?

  • Cyborgs cooming soon

  • Cyborgs are near

  • when I didn't know what I was looking at I thought something about her seemed off, but I have to admit I was fooled for a split second, I don't think it was the motion that was the problem. I think it was the lighting texturing and shadowing that messed things up. all though near the end there was some bad eye motion that looked very wrong.

  • lol at what the mouth does @ 0:14

  • I don't care what you guys think. This is fucking awesome.

  • her face is too... i dunno... its like her eyes and teeth are way too shiny

  • They only paid attention to the face. When you clench or unclench your jaw, temporal muscles contract and expand. That isn't happening here. That and the cheek muscles and forehead aren't doing what they normally do. And they eyes, they never get the eyes right. But it's still pretty good. I probably would've been fooled if I hadn't paid close attention.

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  • i can see its fake couse of the mouth. We cant mimic it perfectly yet.

  • This better be what Xbox 720 graphics will be like.

  • @StateCCM only PC graphics can pull that kind of detail

  • @daswada9

    yes but game developers only develop games now a days specifically for xbox 360 and ps3 and port them later to the PC. We're stuck with shitty 2005 graphics until the next generation of consoles.

  • @StateCCM My only hope is for Crytek : /

  • @daswada9

    Crysis 2 will have worse graphics because its going to be designed to run on consoles :(

  • @StateCCM yes :(

  • put this exact level of graffix in video games!!!

  • ITT: people who think they are experts because they knew it was CGI before it started playing

  • looks like a lizard person

  • @gk3og Reptillian?

  • WOW! I didn't realize that it wasn't an actual person until they showed the "real emily" Thats some tech.

  • Her lips were a little "stretched" looking, but other wise, that was amazing!

  • @Windows7kicksass yeah I think that's just how the actual acctress looked. everyone moves their mouth in different ways when they talk ... she seems to have this awkward side smile

  • Lips were too wide at certain points but very very impressive.

  • the mouth moves strange.

  • @boxcutter916 I understand what you mean.

    Her cgi eyes didn't register enough color 'depth', and the highlights/reflectiveness of her eyes seemed to not accurately reflect the environment.

  • Her mouth gave it away. Impressive though.

  • @tiredofphailspelling

    Ah yes, the good ol' days of FMV.

  • Still uncanny.

  • Looks really off. Not very convincing.

  • Her teeth are different colors in different scenes

  • Like moths to a flame technology is increasingly trying to achieve a frighting new reality. If something like this becomes perfected video evidence of any event may no longer be considered a viable means of proof. Events may one day be easily fabricated. But Conspiracy theory fears aside this is Awesome...

  • Am I the only one freaked out by this? With such advances in CGI, what happens to real human actors? What happens to real humans?

  • @midnightXpixie We'll transcend the flesh and become thought entities?

    Or, in laymans terms, we will be the robots.

  • @midnightXpixie

    you'll always need a real person to play the role of an actor. it's recreating dead actors which makes this so interesting.

  • @midnightXpixie I think the same... what happens with real humans? Maybe someday we will not be able to distinguish robots & real humans and in my opinion that's worse than the uncanny valley:P I don't understand why do we need robots that look like people... are we replacing ourselves or what? Those robots are pretty impressive, but I don't think they are necessary:/

  • @RosySuperBeatleFan Because some of us would prefer to be in far more control of "human" interaction than is currently possible and palatable. There will come a time when we will get to choose exactly the types of "people" interact with, and whether or not they are artificial or organic. I can think of many reasons for this being a positive, none of which I will list here, for many reasons.

  • Her mouth is angled weird. It isn't that noticeable until she does her closed-lipped smile

  • her mouth

  • You can still tell. It's something either about either the way the head moves, or the eyes--maybe a little bit of both, but definitely the eyes.

  • Yeah, humans are quite good at recognizing non-human features... Well, at least awaken ones! :)

  • I knew something wasn't quite right....

  • Awesome!

  • Her lopsided lips tipped me off.

  • @NewAngel4eva ya sure it did, not the fact that it says "cg" in the link you clicked 

  • @eventheinnocent

    Well, not only that. XD

  • @NewAngel4eva What if the actresses lips are really lopsided like that in real life?

  • Whoa, dunno about anyone else but that looks really impressive.

  • the format is immediately suspicious of course so it gets greater scrutiny. for me it was subtleties in the mouth that gave it away. probably a bit in the eyes too. skin is probably a bit too CG matte too.

    but very good. best I've seen.

    does it work as well on other faces that the actor's own?

    would be cool to see some TNG fan fiction use this to revive the cast : )

  • @DanFrederiksen the mouth is what tipped me off too, the eyes as well.... regardless that was awesome...... can't wait till video games can pull this off smoothly.....

  • Its stunning piece of work, but you have to realize everything else besides the face, is real. Basically the CGI face was imposed onto a real human backdrop.

  • i was having a doubt that it was 3d.... but when i saw the render passes OMG!!!!!!!!!

  • I agree with most of the comments. i idea to make it better is that rather than using a black charkol face as the fun way of revealing that she is actually a computer generated person. i thought it would have been cooler for her to transform into other things like open her face like a door and look inside her brain and see like a window into a fantasy world or maybe all her skin eyes and hair change colors.

  • specular is scary :O

  • Amazing. Even knowing that this is a CGI face doesn't diminish the fact that it looks 100% real to me. Perhaps a bit too red, but still, 95% realistic.

  • 1:14 pupils went a lil too far there :)

  • I can't think of a better way to present this amazing tool. Great!

  • Still in the uncanny valley. But its a smaller valley every 6 months.

  • its 100% the mouth that gives it away, due to the amount of muscles we use just to smile and make our mouth move it is very difficult to map that perfectly, watch it again and just stare at her mouth, occasionally it will look to big or slightly in the wrong position, but thats just being picky its still brilliant work.

  • She blinks too slowly.

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  • suspected something at the hands. too smooth and had no veins but also i would've just shrugged it off it not for the title.

  • her mouth was too slanted. but if the title didnt say it i would not expect it

  • You were all had god dammit. Just admit it.

  • I think what really gave it away were not the eyes but her mouth. It moved like she had something in it, don't know...but....I can't even complain, it's an amazing job, absolutely oustanding

  • I seriously couldn't tell until the end.

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  • The eyes gave it away for me. CG eyes are always kinda blank and lifeless. But this is still pretty awesome.

  • Let me just say... FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU....... I wanna play some 2020' games :O

  • probably the most realistique CG face in the world ^^ but it's just a complete scan with reflex camera and polarized filter with light, not a face made start from the scratch.

  • Pretty nice, athough her mouth slants awkwardly... like it misaligns with the rest of her face at points.

  • Her eyes look definitely CGI, the rest of the face is very convincing though.

  • her face seems seems slanted. I could tell it was cgi from the get-go, but this shit is good, im hoping that in couple years like 3, this will be considered blah for video games, unless 2012 comes and fucks us all.

  • God, I want to bang her so bad.

  • 1.22 MAMMMMMMMY!

  • I watched too many animations to not know it was fake. I knew it from the first second.

  • I AM STUNNED, when u look at the begging at the CGI Emily and at the end at the Plate (real Emily), u can't really tell the difference

  • The only bad thing was her skin seemed to perfectly smooth.

  • very nice

  • Looked real to me.

  • Wow I only realised halfway through that that was the actual CGI character. I thought they were going to have like a comparison between the actor and the character, then when I saw the wireframes and specular maps superimposed on her face I did a double-take.

    This is fucking incredible.

    Actually looking back you can see the clothing gives it away slightly. If you look closely the fabric deforms in a slightly strange way.

  • how can you say the clothing gives it away when its real?

    only the face i reconstructed via cgi, everything else is just a movie

  • lolseriously guys there must be some nice men out there i am so lonely

  • the real one looks better

  • Wow, nice work!

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  • Halo Reach

  • yep

  • yup

  • btw if they gonna keep creating cute chicks like this one only virtualy the will have me on their doors so think twice CGI hahahha:D

  • @coldfusion131 - LOL

    sh1t my azz i still dont belive this is actually a software :D

    nice girl for a nightout though ;)

  • You can easily see the CG flaws in the face, it doesn't look right, at the end it looks amazing but I believe the CG is taken away.

    Benjamin button is still the benchmark and that's the whole head!

  • @IndrasBlade77 It's still pretty awesome though!

  • Bengamin button is a movie, this is real time for video games. Avatar is the new benchmark for movies.

  • wow I agree.

  • *watches video*

    boring

    *finally gets around to reading description*

    :O

  • fuckin amazing.... and a little scary haha

  • id still bum her

  • 5 for the fantastic technology. -1 for calling it 'too real.'

  • they probably used this in avatar

  • Pretty damn good. Looks like Blair from GG

  • Without knowing it was CG I could probably figure it out, her eyes are too... I dunno, glaringly unhuman. But regardless, really awesome work.

  • Holy Sh*t that just blew my mind. O_O

  • It took me half the video to figure out she was CG. It's like a plot twist haha!

  • All of you are correct, but if you didn't know beforehand that it was a CG image, you would have thought it was real.

  • the eyes and the mouth at some points still dips in the uncanny valley, but on the whole it's amazing, they still have a long way to go though

  • She does look like something is wrong with her face.

  • yes, the eyes are not that real, but look at the skin, facial expressions and even hair! everything is made not to be that perfect, just real! technology is getting so amazing each day

  • Crazy stuff. Someting about her eyes, isn't very real. That's what gave it off to me. Amazing stuff though. :P

  • @boxcutter916 Yeah man, you're right, something about the eyes.

  • What a hot bitch. I want to have sex with her.

  • Wow, graphix like this make Uncharted look primative.

  • fuck the playstaion 4, these r xbox 720 shit

  • I want a girlfirend, thanks.I'm virgin

  • imagine if a future playstation 4 has these kind of graphics! cool.

  • WOW, i thought she was real the whole time lol. i soiled myself when i found out.

  • wow...

  • To me, the teeth gave it away.

  • pretty good, but the eyes give it away.