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.