{"id":2809,"date":"2015-08-24T09:17:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T16:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2015-08-24T09:17:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T16:17:38","slug":"new-research-improves-cgi-skin-rendering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/24\/new-research-improves-cgi-skin-rendering\/","title":{"rendered":"New research improves CGI skin rendering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting work from USC &amp; the\u00a0Imperial College London. As Gizmodo <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/a-graphics-breakthrough-makes-perfect-cgi-skin-1723675920\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The team of researcher has come up with a new way to capture the tiny details on the surface of various skin patches on an actor\u2019s face at a resolution of 10 microns as they\u2019re being stretched and deformed by a specially-designed rig. At that resolution the exact deformations of even individual skin pores is captured, and using custom software, the captured data can be mapped to the artificial skin of a CG character, making the emotions of the face so realistic you can\u2019t tell human from computer human.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FXXdypEuR_M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \u2028<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FXXdypEuR_M\">YouTube<\/a>] [Via Bruce Bullis]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting work from USC &amp; the\u00a0Imperial College London. As Gizmodo writes, The team of researcher has come up with a new way to capture the tiny details on the surface of various skin patches on an actor\u2019s face at a resolution of 10 microns as they\u2019re being stretched and deformed by a specially-designed rig. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2810,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}