Project Number

232

Title

Digital Cloning System

Description

Interactive real-time character animation through tracked live actors.

Contact

Barnabas Takacs

Affiliation

Virtual Celebrity Productions LLC

Address

3679 Motor Avenue, Suite 200 
Los Angeles, California 90034

E-mail

takacsb@virtualceleb.com

WWW

Year

1999

Reference

SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Abstracts and Applications

Project Details

"The Digital Clone is a 3D, realistic 'human' digital character that appears on screen with the look and feel of a live actor. A state-of-the-art facial tracking and animation system tracks the motion of an actor on a live set (without a cumbersome motion capture suit) and drives the movements of a 3D digital character. The Digital Clone is then composited into the live action."

Sight

graphics workstation

Sound

amplified sound

Touch

motion capture and tracking system

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

3 - Functional, Reproducable, Adoption

Intent

1 - Technology (innovation, machine)

Primary

106 - autonomous character, synthetic life

Secondary

208 - animation

Remarks

Implementation details undocumented.

 


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