New technology for animation film experts: Movie heroes to be transferred to virtual worlds more easily, realistically

Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 11:00 in Mathematics & Economics

Hollywood devotes great effort to chasing monsters through realistic-looking environments. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken have now developed a technology that greatly simplifies the production of such scenes. Actors' movements are captured with a few cameras in a real scene and then transferred extremely realistically to virtual characters. This will not only simplify the work of cartoon makers, but also assist doctors and sportsmen with motion analysis.

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