Creating realistic characters with CGI just requires a nice glass of milk. Since the dawn of computer graphics, we've been trying to master the way to create characters that look and feel human. Movies like Rogue One and the original Final Fantasy have full CGI characters with varying degrees of realness. Over the last few decades, leaps and bounds have been made to make these characters look like actual people we can talk to and interact with. And the secret is creating skin that looks like it belongs to an actual person. It turns out, realistic-looking skin isn’t all that different from realistic-looking skim milk, when you take everything into account. So why is realistic CGI skin so hard for visual effects artists to master? Check out this video from Vox and let's talk after the jump. Why Is It So Hard to Make CGI Skin Look Real? It was incredible listening to the insight that Weta Digital’s Nick Epstein and Luxion’s Henrik Wann Jensen gave in terms of how CGI took the next steps in making characters and their skin look so realistic. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 6 August, 2021