Torsten Reil: Using biology to make better animation

http://www.ted.com Torsten Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking animated people -- by building a human from the inside out, with bones, muscles and a nervous system. He spoke at TED in 2003; see his work now in GTA4.

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[Funkypotat0]

I can't wait until they have this technology in all games.

[EddyBergman]

Yeah, that's a very cool idea. I'd love to see that. :)

[crudhousefull]

Add the five senses. Give it needs to survive or abilities will diminish and you have a primitive functional AI of a person. I hope other people start thinking this way and we'll have a virtual person in 50 years

[crudhousefull]

This is so far from trivia it's not even funnyl. The is the end objective of all programming. I remember thinking about whether this would be done 15 years ago programming in turbo pascal. Honestly I thought that it would have progressed much more than it has these few years. Why do all the work yourself when you can have the computer do it for you!?

[Cssaarr]

@RIMESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS man i was absolutly stunned asking my self exactly the same !

[Shadowstray]

@RIMESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

The problem with robots is that sensing the environment is the hard part. The famous Asimo can't do anything unless it's given a full 3D map of everything it's going to encounter. Besides, you don't want to actually drop a robot that costs more than you'd make in the next 20-30 years :)

[RIMESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS]

Why haven't they taken this tech and put it in an actual robot?

[007Thiago]

@lygophile programmers are gods !

[UnluckyGambler]

i wouldnt be surprised if someone made a game called beat your wife.

[towdow3]

this is what NEXT GEN SHOULD BE in gaming. can u imagine 2k11 or fifa/ pes with this tech?

[thatguy4m711]

@atypicalguy then there will be human right ppl who will come and stop that too