Video showing MotionPortrait’s new photo-to-animated CG program.  Basically it takes a 2D headshot and turns it into a blinking, smiling, talking 3D animation.

High uncanny valley* probability.  Brr. 

*The name captures the idea that a robot which is “almost human” will seem overly “strange” to a human being and thus will fail to evoke the empathetic response required for productive human-robot interaction.

posted : Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

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