Computers Now Making Human Faces More Realistic

Recently, Paul Devebec, a graphics designer at the University of Southern California presented his project, Digital Emily. This name pretty much sums the project up. It produces digitally created human faces that are extremely realistic. Everything is done with the computer. First, the individual who’s face is to be made is photographed a few hundred times to accurately capture his or her face.

The individual is then photographed some more using special techniques. This allows designers like Paul the ability to actually make faces with many different expressions.

This is definitely pretty awesome, especially for designers. I know that it’s a very tedious process to actually make 3d images, let alone an accurate human face to use in projects. Now with this technology, students or those going into the field can use this to make their jobs a whole lot easier.

“When you showed this to me, I was just in awe,” said Michael Fleming, a design student. “I used to use programs like Cinema4D or even 3dsMax to do what these guys are having the computer to automatically, with much more realistic results. Once I get out of school and get more into the industry I’m sure that this technology will be key in some of my work.”

Here’s the video of the Digital Emily project presentation below: