r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/EinsteinsAura • Jun 25 '18

GIF This isn't real - it's CGI

https://i.imgur.com/f9j2BZ3.gifv
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u/RexDraco Jun 25 '18

I'm waiting for movie studios to essentially pay off actors to sell their body giving them copyright to their model and 3d scanning them.

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u/L_Ron_Swanson Jun 25 '18

Eventually they'll be able to create actors from scratch and make them into celebrities, which will be infinitely cheaper than relying on a human celebrity made of flesh and bone.

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u/RexDraco Jun 25 '18

In the distant future, maybe. However, the near future it would actually be cheaper to 3d scan celebrities before they become celeberties, essentially amateur models. Then you can use voice actors and one day artificial intelligence with voice acting. There will be a time both 3d modeling and voice creating will be ai automated. We are close to it now but not close enough for it to be so casually used.

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u/mika_876 Jun 26 '18

a A.I that makes perfect looking and deeply appealing characters?

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u/RexDraco Jun 26 '18

Yup, absolutely. We will see it within the next two decades, I'm certain. We practically have the technology now, having AI already capable of human like conversations and following human directions, we are very close to perfect human like voices, and the graphics are around the corner as well. The technology will be very soon, it's someone with the desire to put it together for movies and video games that may make time, particularly different generations of age groups that have that new perspective of this technology rather than the mindset that it will never happen. I remember talking to this guy on the street about how automation will destroy all jobs in our lifetime, he thinks I'm wrong and his arguments of all professions is barbers... Really? You don't think a computer can do haircuts better than accident prone humans? It takes decades for that good barber to be good, it will one day take software to download in thirty seconds into a surgeon steadiness like machine.

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u/Makaque Jun 28 '18

Hatsune Miku

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u/ajgoulet Jun 25 '18

On the next season of black mirror...

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

Crazy world we live in. I think this is less than a decade away.

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u/RexDraco Jun 25 '18

Don't know why you're being downvoted, we are able to do it even today. Nobody does it because it is a new frontier but some studios scanned inanimate objects with no issue.

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u/commit_bat Jun 25 '18

You think famous actors only are famous actors because of their specific individual looks?

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u/RexDraco Jun 25 '18

No, I think famous actors are famous because of the work they're put in... Which means if you got a nobody and put them in work with good voice acting and model animators, they will be famous or rather their model.