Tony Mingacci's List: 2.0 Professional Spotlight

• Animate characters by evolving them
• TED2003  ·  18:20  ·  Filmed Mar 2003 
• Torsten Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking animated people — by building a human from the inside out, with bones, muscles and a nervous system. He spoke at TED in 2003; see his work now in GTA4.
• By coding computer simulations with biologically modeled nervous systems, Torsten Reil and his company NaturalMotion breathe life into the animated characters inhabiting the most eye-poppingly realistic games and movies around

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• Breaking into the industry

• Mexopolis, Animation Studio

  with Jorge Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua
• Jorge Gutierrez: While I was at CalArts, I kept exploring Mexican culture.

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• Paul Debevec: 

   

   Animating a photo-real digital face
• TEDxUSC  ·  6:06  ·  Filmed Mar 2009 
• Computer graphics trailblazer Paul Debevec explains the scene-stealing technology behind Digital Emily, a digitally constructed human face so realistic it stands up to multiple takes.
• Paul Debevec's digital inventions have powered the breathtaking visual effects in films like The Matrix, Superman Returns, King Kong and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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