Emily is Not Real: The End of "Real" Actors?

PC World writes "I have seen the future of computer-generated video game animation, her name is Emily, and Emily is not real -- or is she?"

[xtreampro_REVENGE!]

after a few seconds i relized its fake, i dont know how, but something felt strange about her movements, but its pretty good, and its the most realistic i've seen

[Kleptic]

yeah, at first I thought it was just wierd make-up or something, but then her eyes gave it away for me....even before they made it obvious...

still undeniably goo though...and that 'uncanny valley' stuff seems to shrink even more every year or so...

[Tobias123]

It wasn't so much the eyes that stuck out, it was the mouth and lips and teeth that really looked weird, to me at least. But still, this is quite impressive.

[FreeMonk]

That was pretty impressive. The most realistic so far.

I'd love to see it in HD rather than a poor quality YouTube video, to see it crystal clear, just incase there were any textures that look off in HD.

Sweet overall, but I wonder how much it would all cost for a feature length 90 minute movie!!? Maybe a lot more than hiring actors!

[StephanieBBB]

I don't think that the end of real actors will come for a long time. wanna know why? It's virtually impossible to create natural flaws like grass growing beneeth pavement making it un-even and such like that.

Computer made humans and worlds are too perfect to look real.

[jerethdagryphon]

yea there were some off moments but if you saw that on screen and it wasnt tigtly focuses=d you may think twice
very impresive

[Leathersoup]

It does look like the face is stuck on there crooked. As for the whole "no need for actors" bit. Um... If you're just sticking a different face on an actor it sort of defeats the purpose.

[Halo3Mgs4]

ps1 graphics

[pp]

This makes Heavy Rain look like ps2 graphics

[Halo3Mgs4]

if this game makes heavy rain look like ps2 graphics then i guess that video makes gears2 look like game boy advance graphics

[badz149]

what? and any other games look like PS1 graphics now? seriously?

[OgTheClever]

Well it must make the next Banjo Kazooie look like pre PS1 graphics.

[SpaZaA]

Open Zone is thattaway --->
Go post there, you do not belong in this section. I've seen your posts, troll with the other trolls.

[Timesplitter14]

then what graphics would Pong be compared to this?

That is the question

[Zerodin]

Yawn...

[jay2]

No, her face was too flawless and her mouth and teeth were wrong.

[wrshredder]

Like my girlfriend..

[rickyjb23]

looks good but face is wrong proportion to the real actors head and it looked a little wonky as if it was leaning to the right . but if i saw it in a game i would be very impressed.

[GodGinrai]

Dont matter how realistic it looks .Talent cant be made on a computer.A souless AI cant hope to compete with the pacinos,bernie macs(RIP) and uma thurmans of this world .EVER.

[Cajun Chicken]

Have done the facial animation and lipsynch in the cutscenes for Killzone 2.

[specialguest]

http://www.n4g.com/tech/New...

[tplarkin7]

She looks real.

[jXales]

This was amazing.

My only gripe is that the mouth at 2 points where a little off etc.

The title is also a little lame.
Real actors are used to make this, why would they hire real actors to act something to place it on another actor... just defeats the purpose. but otherwise the actual tech being used is very impressive. I sure hope that this will come this gen to console games. I very much dislike the current state of lips during realtime cutscenes. Even MGS4 which is an awesome and beautiful game had lots of bad lip movement.

Anyhow i'm impressed, down with the haters.. :P