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Maybe the movie S1m0ne wasn’t that far off.
For the new Tron film SFX shop, Digital Domain recorded the Jeff Bridges’ facial movements in minute detail and then superimposed them onto a digital model of his younger self. Which made hiring another (potentially less believable) actor for the role, but it also gave him some ideas about avoiding work:
“This technology means I’d never have to work again in my life and I could still make films. I can say, “I’ll lease you my image.” In a few years they’ll be able to take aspects of three different actors and make a fourth character. It’s getting weird. They can say, “Let’s put Bridges in here, but I want a little Al Pacino in there – what the heck. Let’s see what kind of guy we come up with.” I think they’ll have this ability to go, “We’re going to give you lots of money; you just come in and do all your expressions, be real, sad, happy… and that’s it.”
Digital effects technology is getting pretty crazy these days, to the point where it really is hard to tell what’s real and what’s not. I’ll be looking for the differences in the new Tron film, but I have a feeling that they will be seamless.
So then you have to ask, when will Hatsune Miko be cast in a film?
(via Jeff Bridges on TRON: Legacy: ‘This technology means I’d never have to work again’ | Mail Online)
