Extraordinarily lifelike characters are to begin appearing in films and computer games thanks to a new type of animation technology. Emily - the woman in the above animation - was produced using a new modelling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated. - Zee. from Bookmarklet

Not really revolutionary though is it. Just an increase in 'resolution'. - mattpovey

are u kidding? Look at the detail in expressions and movement -it is unbelievable. - Zee.

uncanny :) - MLx

Great-great-great! It's insanely detailed. Of course it has a lot of quirks (and if you try to look at this head as a person you notice instantly that she's abusing her botox injections and cosmetic surgery didn't do much good for her), but at the same time there're enough details to make her look believable. Strange, yes, but alive, not “generated”. Great times of emotional and live AI-characters being all around us are ahead. Thanks for the link! - Urbansheep

No I'm not kidding. They have just increased the number of data points in movement detection - congrats for the advance, but not revolutionary. Bear in mind, that it was necessary to video an actress in order to generate this - in other words, you still need the human. The 'revolution' comes when you can generate CGI of this quality without having to video a human first. - mattpovey

but surely things such as eye movement have little to do with 'resolution' - Zee.

Resolution of motion capture. i.e. the number of points on the face and eye whose motion is being monitored and replicated in CGI. If you're only capturing the movement of one point on the eyeball, it's not very impressive. Capture twenty points around the eye as well as the eyeball itself and life gets a lot less botoxy :). - mattpovey

Right, i get cha...but i didn't realise you could add motion sensors to eyeballs! :) - Zee.

LOL. Would be painful, - mattpovey

holy. shit. - jeneane sessum