News tagged with digital actors
Probing Question: Will digital actors replace humans in Hollywood?
Sep 25, 2008 |
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They look like real actors, they walk like real actors, they talk like real actors. But with these stars there are no contentious contract negotiations or on-set meltdowns. They do exactly what the director ...
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Walking, talking and memory
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How easy is it to walk, talk and remember what was said? Dr Dee Way studied how actors learn a script and whether walking affects their memory performance.
Giant alien robots start life as sketches
Jun 26, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Giant alien robots don't actually exist. So the dozens featured in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" had to be built from the ground up.
Robots perform Shakespeare to learn how to save people
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Flying robot fairies are joining human actors in Texas A&M University?s production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which runs through Sunday (Nov. 15) in the Rudder Forum.
Stolen 'X-Men' flick leaps onto Internet
Apr 02, 2009 |
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A stolen copy of the film "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" has leapt around the Internet being downloaded from file sharing websites.
Scientists create program to calculate body shape
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 27, 2008 |
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Imagine you are a police detective trying to identify a suspect wearing a trench coat, baggy pants and a baseball cap pulled low. Or imagine you are a fashion industry executive who wants to market virtual ...
New animated films challenge false representation of Native Americans in the media
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Popular film and television shows have shaped the way Americans view American history - especially the frontier encounters between settlers and Native Americans. Examining the ways Native Americans are portrayed negatively ...
High court won't block remote storage DVR system
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Cable TV operators won a key legal battle against Hollywood studios and television networks on Monday as the Supreme Court declined to block a new digital video recording system that could make it even easier for ...
Enter the semantic grid
Jan 31, 2006 |
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Working under the IST programme-funded OntoGrid project, they are catalysing the evolution of the Grid from a distributed network of computers in which the meaning of information is implicit and hidden into ...
Hollywood Hair is Captured at Last
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego computer scientists presented a new method this week for accurately capturing the shape and appearance of a person’s hairstyle for use in animated films and video games.
Digital Life: Celebrities take to Twitter, but for most, it's a one-way tweet
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Stars -- they're just like us!
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